Milanesi

History
Milanesi was originally founded by people fleeing Leon after the death of Aruseus during the subsequent rule of Briskos. However like many members of The Eastern West the population unanimously objected, along with most of the government, when the leaders of The Eastern West joined Aruseus's land in the year 500, shortly before Aruseus's land cahnged it's name to The Confederation of Achthal.

The first war agianst Fredrick Barborosa
In 695 the most big headed and incompetent of the acthalian leaders, Fredrick Barborosa, was crowned in Orion before martching down and being crowned by the ever loyal Pavanians as king of Ilia which imediatly anoyed the Milanesi who promptly funded an attack by crema against the pro-Acthalian city Cremona.

However with the help of Fredrick the Cremona defeated Creme and was granted the right to make coins.

In 698 Milanesi decided it was ready to march noth first they razed the city of Lodi which had long been alide with the Acthalians then they destroyed the mint in Cremona finnaly stormed Pavia and executed the entire goverment of The Eastern West which was now little more then a pupet of the confederation.

This was probably a bad move as the goverment at Pavia was the only thing standing between Fredrick Barborosa and sacking Milanesi which after it's destruction he did along with burning the food suply to a crisp and he resettled Lodi for good mesure.

The second war against Fredrick Barborosa
and that would have been that save for the fact that the leader of Milanesi arived at Romula along with his remaining people and demanded that The Holy did something about Fredrick Barborosa.

The Holy was already scared of the power of Fredrick Barborosa, emphesized in 706 when he suffered a defeat just outside of rome agreed to found the Lombard League with the aim of crating a buffer zone between The Confederation of Achthal in 707.

Many of the Ilian cities thought that with the burning of Milanesi's food suply Fredrick Barborosa had gone too far and promptly signed up esentialy destroying all effective control Fredrick had over the area.

The third war against Fredrick Barborosa
In 714 Fredrick decided to get his revenge. He crossed the alps with a force of 8000 knights, a force the size of which has never been seen in Ilia before or since, and sacked Susa on the 30th day of the 7th month he captured Susa and burnt it to the ground.

Asti was sacked next, sometime in the 8th month, after which Fredrick rode straight for romula.

The seige of Romula did not go quite as well as Fredrick had expected and he could no breach it's almost impregnible walls but after Alexander's defeat in 706 he did not have any army save for a small cavalry force, unsuited to seige warfare.

the stalemate persisted through winter until Fredrick managed to dig a tunnel under the walls. The tunnel emerged into a tempory camp inhabited by Milanesi refuges who angerly repulsed the invaiding Achthalians.

Having losted 4000 of his knights Fredrick made his way towards the age old redout of the emporers in italy, Pavia.

On 14.4.715 Fredrick met with Alexander at Montebello to discuss a treaty but fundimentaly both sides belived they could win and so the peace talks came to nothing. Fredrick also finally recived some good news when he was goined by 1000 gernam foot soldiers and knights and another 1000 Ilian knights and 2000 foot soldiers.

The Ilians knew they had to fight against the force before they became any stronger and so they hasterly gathered together a force of 2550 and 950 foot soldiers