Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 565 Occupying the City of Florence

As the second largest city in Italy, the city of Milan can be regarded as an important grain production base in Italy because it is located on the Lombardy Plain.

And Florence is an important transportation hub in the central part of Italy. As the hometown of Galileo, a foreign academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty, it can also be regarded as the cultural center of Italy.

The transportation of food and materials from Milan to Rome had to be transferred in Florence.

Therefore, before attacking Milan, Florence, and Rome, the Ming Army formulated the policy of attacking Florence first, so as to interrupt the connection between Milan and Rome.

However, in terms of specific actions, Jiao Lian's troops still used the cavalry to quickly surround the city of Milan, and continued to attack the city of Milan with artillery fire day and night.

The Roman authorities mistakenly believed that the Ming Army’s combat method was still a radish, so they immediately mobilized reinforcements to Milan, and set up multiple obstacles and lines of defense along the line from Florence to Milan, in an attempt to resist the attack of the Ming Army in layers.

In fact, the main force of Ming's army and air force had already rushed to Florence under the leadership of Italian surrenderers and Jin Yiwei spies.

The Roman authorities did not have aircraft or professional scouts in this era. On the contrary, Ming Yiwei already had complete military scouting functions, so the secret operations of hundreds of thousands of troops in the Ming Dynasty did not attract the attention of the Roman authorities.

On the contrary, Jiao Lian's campaign under the city of Milan further attracted the attention of Pope Alexander VII. He did not dare to transfer the soldiers of Rome any more, while the original troops of Florence were continuously transferred to Milan.

When the main force of the Ming Army arrived near Florence, there was hardly any military force around Florence that could resist.

At this time, the gliders and airships of the Ming Air Force had gathered over Florence.

The defenders of Florence were very surprised that there were so many iron boxes like wild geese and fish maws in the sky. In addition to drawing bows and arrows and lighting firearms in an attempt to attack these monsters in vain, they could only watch as Ming's air force moved them one by one. Bombs were dropped on the city of Florence.

When the first shell fell into the city of Florence from above the city of Florence and exploded on a church of the cross, the entire spire of the church of the cross exploded into countless debris.

Only then did the officials and citizens in Florence recover from their astonishment, realizing that these wonderful things could bring danger.

The next few explosions exploded in the market, and countless people were directly killed and injured by the explosion. Looking at the people around them who were intact at first, they were bloody and bloody in a blink of an eye, and the originally dazed city of Florence The officials and people in the city immediately panicked and ran around in a hurry.

The Italian sub-defenders stationed in Florence were also stunned. They never thought that there would be air strikes in military warfare.

Therefore, when the Ming Air Force flew a large number of bombs over the city of Florence, these defenders didn't know how to counterattack, and could only watch helplessly as these bombs randomly blew up the peaceful city of Florence into chaos.

The grain depots, barracks, and gunpowder depots in the entire city of Florence were taken care of by the Daming Air Force. Within a quarter of an hour, many barracks and grain depots were on fire.

Numerous soldiers roared and ran out of the barracks, and countless explosions rang out from the gunpowder depots everywhere.

Not only that, some eye-catching powerful buildings were also directly bombed, and many Western fans were directly blown out of the house.

After the first round of bombing, the entire city of Florence had turned into a sea of ​​flames, and there was not a single street that did not emit flames and thick smoke.

And the defenders in Florence who survived the bombing did not have time to take care of the guards outside the city, but had to devote themselves to fighting the fire in the city.

However, at this moment, the main artillery of the Ming Army had already moved into place. Thousands of artillery arrived raised their metal barrels from various commanding heights. It gushed out, rushed directly into the sky, and landed directly on the city wall of Florence with a parabola.

With a bang!
The walls of the city of Florence were covered in continuous thick smoke in an instant, and after the smoke cleared, the entire city of Florence appeared naked in front of the Ming Dynasty's 60 troops like a woman without clothes.

The 60 army of the Ming Dynasty rushed towards the city of Florence like a tide. At this time, the unsheltered city of Florence only had the meat in the mouth of the 60 army, and it was a piece of meat without any bones.

There were not many defenders left in the city of Florence, and the first thing that came to mind after seeing the main force of the Ming army was to drop their weapons and run away.

The residents of Florence looked blankly at everything in front of them. They had never seen so many yellow people, and all of them seemed to be full of fangs.

The Ming Army at this time is indeed a wolf with fangs. Before the end of the war is sounded, according to regulations, during this period, anyone in the city is an enemy. Therefore, these people will suffer. To the brutal attack of the Ming Army.

Countless Italians were shot to the ground in an instant, and some Italians who tried to run were directly bombarded into powder.

After the residents of the entire Italian city of Florence fell into a pool of blood and gave up any means of resistance, the call to suspend the killing sounded, and some Italians who were lucky enough not to be shot were directly driven together. At the same time, the Ming Army was divided into Numerous teams entered various churches, villas, manors, and buildings to arrest all the upper-level personnel in Florence and search for all documents and paintings.

After all, Florence, the center of the Renaissance, has made great achievements in the fields of natural science and humanities, as well as in painting. Although the Ming Dynasty wants to abolish the writing and culture of these areas, these crystallizations of human art and technology must be preserved, and they must be in As the Ming Dynasty flourished, the talents related to this aspect would naturally have to be escorted back without fail.

After the occupation of Florence, the Italian metropolis with a population of nearly one million, the entire Papal State has lost its last chance of survival, and its cities of Milan and Rome have become isolated cities.

In addition to sending some troops to assist Jiao Lian's troops in capturing Milan, the main force of the Ming army rested in Florence for three days before heading directly towards Rome.

At this time, the city of Rome did not know the news of Florence's fall, and the upper-class nobles of the entire Papal State were still enjoying their last glamorous life.

(End of this chapter)