Chapter 368: Chrysanthemum War II (9)
“We will win against the Duke of Milano but lose against the Grand Duke of Florence.”
This was the plan that Laura devised.
We were dealing with the Duke of Milano and the Grand Duke of Florence in opposite ways.
The two high nobles were going through an internal dispute. However, they probably weren’t so foolish that they would completely divide with an enemy in front of them. We have to scheme more meticulously to deepen their divide.
First, the Duke of Milano.
This old aristocrat has been trickling out detached units every now and then. He was probably trying to keep us in check after hearing that the Grand Duke of Florence was advancing northward.
We crushed these detached units.
Every time a detached unit of a hundred fifty or three hundred came running out, we crushed them underneath our feet without any hesitation. We struck their detached units like a cat catching mice.
Once this unfortunate event happened about five times, the Duke of Milano threw his hands up. He flat-out locked his gates and refused to come out. He most likely felt that the cavalrymen that barely made it out alive from the Battle of Ticinus would simply end up dying here instead if he continued to send them out.