After the end of the Battle of Baishan, Zhou Ming, who had won countless battles in his life, and this time it can be said that he almost capsized in the gutter, found that his opponent, in addition to the army that would have as many undead disasters as there would be every year after the issuance of the "Heresy Crusade Order" to crusade against his own church, as well as within the Gangduo Kingdom, the aristocratic class that lacked thorough transformation and still had the old concept of feudal feudalism in his mind. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

These aristocratic classes, no matter how many rewards and favors they have given them before, once they have given them a fief, the landlord's old-fashioned concept of wealth makes them extremely sensitive and conservative to everything in their territory, and they would rather live in a closed paradise than others to move a single plant or tree in their territory.

Reform.

There must be a thorough reform!

Therefore, after quelling all the rebellions in the country, Zhou Ming spent three years almost by means of a great purge, implemented centralized power, recovered the control of all lords over the people of the territory, changed the lord system to the county system, changed the rule of the aristocratic council to the rule of civilian officials, established a professional military academy, allowed middle and lower-class officers and soldiers to enroll, broke the monopoly of the military aristocracy on the army, established a modern national defense force system and a retirement system for officials, and popularized education for all...... After a series of reforms, the kingdom of Gangduo has undergone earth-shaking changes.

In the process of these changes, the miserable situation of 90% of the aristocratic class in the Kingdom of Steel Duo who were either cut down, beheaded or exiled, and the upper-class nobles of the surrounding kingdoms were full of cold hairs and cold all over their bodies, and they were full of vigilance and fear for this noble hell, while the dozens of vassal states next to it, although they were still obedient on the surface, they were privately moving closer to the Holy Religion Alliance, for fear that this kind of reform would also occur within their own kingdom.

At this time, in order to eliminate "heresy", in 20 years, the church spent billions of gold coins, mobilized hundreds of kingdoms, launched thirteen large-scale crusades, successively requisitioned nearly 20 million troops, fought thousands of battles, and almost never won a battle (the Battle of Baishan can still be seen in the past, but the battle loss ratio of 1.6 million to 300,000 is really ugly), and more than half of the casualties, With hundreds of kings killed in battle, their appeal and prestige have long since fallen to the bottom in the fiascos, and the assets of the church that have accumulated for thousands of years have also been spilled, and there are few responders to the heretical crusade issued by the church since then.

Therefore, after the Battle of White Mountain, at the Holy See Council, he appealed to hundreds of kings, asking him to give him another 2 million troops, and in one fell swoop to wipe out the generalissimo Franstein of the Gangdo Kingdom, he found that none of the hundreds of kings who were extremely indifferent at the Holy See Council expressed their intention to continue to contribute money and goods.

After all, after all the brave people died in battle, in front of firearms and artillery, after the frenzy in their minds faded, they found that the gods were only like this, and what they were most interested in and concerned about at this moment was the question of how to distribute the tens of thousands of breech muskets and hundreds of terrifying cannons captured by the alliance army from the battlefield after the Battle of Baishan……

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Years later.

Gangduo Kingdom, the royal capital of Oss City (the original royal capital of the Copper Mountain Kingdom, next to the meteorite lake, Os, has the meaning of 'pearl').

On the parade ground, which covers a vast area and is paved with stone slabs, there is a large military formation.

On the 100-meter-high review stand, the guests who were invited to participate in the military parade before the expedition all took a deep breath after seeing the military formation below.

However, I saw that there were 100,000 ant-like soldiers armed with firearms, tens of thousands of war horses with broad beans and big nostrils, and tens of thousands of huge monsters with two brass cannons on their backs and long tails swinging from time to time.

Kodomon!

Tens of thousands of adult Kodo beasts with a body length of ten meters, a weight of five tons, and a weight of 1-2 tons!

This kind of giant Kodo beast shaped like a rhinoceros, with horns on its head and a broadsword on its back, as early as in the exploration of the New World, when he saw them for the first time, Zhou Ming was interested, because this giant beast exists in the kingdoms of many indigenous peoples, just like the cattle and horses in the western continent, it is extremely common and numerous.

Moreover, unlike the cattle and horses of viviparous animals, Kodomon is an oviparous animal left over from the ancient biological era, and the female Kodomon can produce 5-8 Kodomon eggs every year during the reproductive period, but these eggs have a long incubation period and a low hatching rate, and it is good to hatch one or two in a litter.

Before opening up the trench communication in the Gale Pass of the Ural Snow Mountain, although Zhou Ming wanted to send a few expeditions to the indigenous kingdom and get a batch of Kodo beast eggs, but the conditions were not mature at that time, tens of thousands of kilometers away and the cold environment of the snow-capped mountain plateau, the incubation period was as long as 8 months, and the Kodo beast eggs that were easy to freeze to death at low temperatures were also dead eggs.

Therefore, it was not until the trench communication channel was opened for many years, Zhou Ming, who sent a number of caravans and successfully established commercial relations with the indigenous kingdom, in the past ten years, used ceramics, cotton cloth, ironware and other commodities to exchange for tens of thousands of Keduo eggs, using constant temperature incubator technology, the success rate of hatching is close to sixty percent of the Koduo eggs, hatching young beasts, carefully raised for more than ten years, this is the tens of thousands of hideous beasts.

On the review stand.

"Your Majesty, can you not participate in this expedition, you are over seventy years old, thousands of miles of expedition, if you have a little accident in your body, what can the kingdom do?"

Alice's son Alan persuaded hard, this child's personality is a little weak, and filial piety is indeed the most sincere among the dozen sons, and among the sons present, he is the only one who dares to say such an unlucky thing as "in case of an accident".

"Yes, Your Majesty, you should send a capable general over, General Eric has a rich battle formation, and has fought with you for decades, just send him to the Church on an expedition and capture the Temple of Light. ”

Fanny's son, Alexander, made a suggestion that was well received by many.

Zhou Ming smiled slightly, stared at the military array below, stroked the thick white beard on his chin and said: "Yes, I am already in my 70s, and most of my life has passed, if I don't fight a war that is famous in the annals of history, and leave the title of an emperor, I am afraid that I can only die of old age, rather than this, it is better to let me burn again in this twilight of my life!"

These impassioned words made the sons fall into deep thought.

After speaking, Zhou Ming held the scepter in his hand, took a step forward, faced the behemoth military formation under the review stage, held the scepter in his hand, and shouted loudly:

"Loyal and brave soldiers, go on an expedition with your emperors! Walk together over the mountains, cross the plains together, conquer miracles together, stand together at the top of that high temple, and look at the sea to the west!"

"Long live Your Majesty!"

"Long live His Majesty!!"

"Long live His Majesty the King!!"

Looking at His Majesty the King on the review stand, the 100,000 soldiers under the parade ground raised their arms and shouted, letting out a fanatical shout.

……

After swearing to go on the expedition, Zhou Ming took 100,000 of the most elite conquest legions, planned the route according to the [World Map], and headed towards the majestic building that stood on the shore of the extreme west coast - the center of church rule, the Temple of Holy Light.

After a long journey of tens of thousands of kilometers, passing through hundreds of countries, defeating hundreds of cities that dared to resist, and adopting the strategy of fighting to nourish the war, in just ten months, Zhou Ming's conquest army reached a place less than 300 kilometers away from the Temple of Holy Light.

The church's top brass panicked and desperately asked for help from the surrounding kingdoms, but they conquered all the way, and it had long been rumored that countless kingdoms had already rumored that this conquering army "conquered everything and crushed everything", "had countless hell monsters", "devils, impossible devils!", and other exaggerated but close to the facts, the surrounding kingdoms, that dared to send troops to send them to death.

In desperation, the top of the church had no choice but to make a desperate bet and send out the only remaining Knights Templar with a number of 100,000 people at the bottom of the box, hoping that this knight order, which is composed of strong knights in martial arts, extremely devout to the Holy Father, and extremely elite equipment, can defeat the devilish army that dares to provoke the church under the blessing of the Holy Father.

However, when the 100,000 knights of the Templar Order, at the end of the horizon, saw the true face of the devil's legion in a tremor of the ground, the legion of 100,000 people was in a collective commotion, and some Templars with resolute faces, at this moment, almost shook and collapsed, and had the idea of turning around and running.

"Kodomon, attack!"

Under the bombardment of nearly 20,000 bronze cannons, countless raindrops of cannons fell into the Templar Order, and those Templars with heavy armor and silver glittering silver were like snow poured with boiling water, and a large area melted at once.

"Cavalry charge!"

"Rush!"

Even though they were ashamed to speak out of fear, out of devotion to the Holy Father and the glory of the knights, the knights of the Knights Templar still bravely charged, but these knights, who weighed no more than a ton with men and horses and armor, were in front of the "double-cannon tank" Kodomon, which weighed nearly eight tons after wearing battle armor and mounting copper cannons, but the sharp impact horns covered by the Kodomon were lightly bumped, like paper paste, and after piercing several people, they couldn't make a splash.

Coupled with the musketeers and artillery on the back of the Kodomon, the constant bombardment of firearms ended the battle like a slaughter in just two hours, and also erased the traces of the existence of the Knights Templar, which had thousands of years of war history and had caused countless "heretics" to tremble in terror.

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A few days later.

In the manager's tent.

"Franstein, my old friend, didn't expect us to meet this way?"

Looking at Franstein who was standing in front of him in a rope binding posture, Zhou Ming couldn't help but smile, he didn't expect that after he sent a messenger to deliver a letter with two conditions to the hands of the church's top brass, but in two days, Franstan, who was tied up by several disciples, was escorted to him.

"Phew, despicable villain, kill me if you want to! Why bother acting here? I just hate those incompetent people who are blind and incompetent, and don't give me another chance, otherwise—"

Franstein spat out, scolded indignantly, and glared at Zhou Ming fiercely.

Zhou Ming shook his head: "It's useless to give you another ten chances, but it's great to be able to do this, go to my Steel Duo King...... No, it's going to be the Gang Empire soon, go to my Gang Empire...... It's a pity to kill you like this. ”

Franstein in front of him was only in his early fifties, looking depressed, obviously, after the end of the Battle of Baishan, which almost became the name of his generation of famous generals, he was hidden by the snow and could no longer be reused, and he lost the stage to show his talent and the opportunity to continue to fight with Zhou Ming.

"To your empire?"

Franstein was stunned, a little surprised that the old rival not only did not kill him, but also expressed his intention to solicit.

I thought that when he just walked into the barracks, he saw the group of monsters that made him so frightened that he despaired, and instantly cooled his frozen ambition, and when he heard this, it seemed that he was beginning to thaw again.

Yes, he longs for victory, he has lost countless battles, he dreams of victory, although he cannot fight this majestic monarch, but standing in the camp of this monarch, it seems that it is also very good to fight together to win battles that cannot be counted.

……

Temple of Light.

Inside the resplendent cathedral, the coronation of the throne begins.

The new Pope San Marnot III trembled and trembled, and gently put a nine-legged gold-edged, surrounded by jade agate, and a lotus-shaped arched gold edge embroidered with a sparkling colored gemstone on the top of Zhou Ming's head, and then handed the golden scepter in his hand to Zhou Ming.

"Kneel before my crown. ”

After making a gesture of the Holy Father's blessing, Pope San Marno III was just about to recite the words "This is the divine right given to you by the Holy Father, and you should follow the teachings of the Holy Father and benefit the world in the name of God...... these words that the Emperor must recite during the coronation ceremony, but this sentence came to his ears.

"Kneel before my crown!"

When he was stunned, this thunderous voice shook his whole body, and when he looked up, a compelling gaze full of supreme majesty and endless oppression, like a nightmare, was deeply imprinted in his mind, and he couldn't help but weaken his knees and knelt on one knee.

A day later, St. Marnot III, who had just taken over the papal throne, was assassinated in a toilet by several fanatics, inside the Temple of Light, without mercy.

And that heroic sentence that shook the world came from the mouth of the king who was called the "conquering emperor" by later generations, and the era of imperial power above divine power was officially announced......