`` even if micheletto failed to keep the remains of cesare 's forces together , and i admit that seems likely , since none of our spies out in the countryside have reported any troop movements at all- '' `` look , ezio , when the news reached them of della rovere 's elevation to the papacy and then , on top of that , cesare 's arrest , the old borgia army probably scattered like ants from a nest when you pour boiling water into it . ''