He battered the walls and made breaches; but, by the vigilance of Leyva, new retrenchments were instantly thrown up behind the breaches: he attempted to divert the course of the Tesin, which ran by one side of the city and defended it; but an inundation of the river destroyed in one night all the mounds which the soldiers during a long time, and with infinite labor, had been erecting.
* Guicciard.lib.xv.Du Bellai, lib.

ii.
{1525.} Fatigue and the bad season (for it was the depth of winter) had wasted the French army.

The imperial generals meanwhile were not inactive.

Pescara, and Lannoy, viceroy of Naples, assembled forces from all quarters.

Bourbon, having pawned his jewels, went into Germany, and with the money, aided by his personal interest, levied a body of twelve thousand Lansquenets, with which he joined the imperialists.