Chapter 949: Second Combined European Fleet (3)
The Pope positioned the Ming Dynasty as the 'axis of evil' in a word, which was quite hateful. Heavenly sound.' 2
The Pope's greatest wish is to spread the brilliance of 'God' to all corners of the world, and over the past hundred years, with the colonization of the world by the five major European sea powers, the glory of God has also been brought to all parts of the world. The Pope seems to have seen the day when the splendor of God will spread to all corners of the world.
However, the intervention of the Eastern Empire of the Ming Dynasty interrupted this step and made the Pope's wish from the foreseeable arrival to a distant future, so how could the Pope not hate the pagan country of the Ming Dynasty!
As the pope, the spokesman of God recognized in Europe, the prestige and status of the Vatican pope in Europe is definitely higher than that of any European king.
Even the emperor of the Spanish Empire, who had always been arrogant, had to be respectful to the pope.
Not to mention the nine crusades further afield, let's just say that when the Ottoman Turkish Empire rose and conquered the Balkan Peninsula, it continued to invade European countries, bringing great disasters to Europe, and it was the pope at that time who came forward and positioned the Ottoman Turkish Empire as the axis of evil, and also organized the alliance armies of various countries, so as to finally resist the invasion of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and gradually turned from defense to offense, and defeated the elite army of Ottoman Turkey several times, As a result, the power of the Ottoman Turkish Empire had to stop at the Balkans.
"I think we should form a second combined fleet and go out to that evil country and defeat them! And this is God's call, and God will bless us in the process! Finally, Pope Vatican said this!
The kings of the countries were shaken, but the kings of the five sea powers, mainly Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal, laughed, and they waited for the Pope's words.
The last time the combined fleet of the eight countries was not presided over by the Pope, so it could not really unite the forces of the whole of Europe, and many small countries, city-states, etc., which also had some warships, did not participate.
And this time, with the Pope coming forward and the five sea powers responding first, they will definitely be able to truly unite the forces of the whole of Europe.
"The Pope is right, we all should respond to God's call to defeat that evil Eastern Empire!" The Emperor of Spain was the most impatient to stand up and respond.
"The evil Eastern Empire must be defeated!" The British, French, Dutch, and Portuguese kingdoms, and the Holy Roman Emperor also followed suit and stepped in to respond.
Poland, Austria, Sweden, etc., major European powers have stood up to respond, and nearly 100 other small European countries, city-states, etc., have also all stood up in response.
Although some of the six small countries or city-states do not have any maritime power, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that they must stand up and respond and become a member of this alliance.
"Down with the evil Eastern Empire!"
"Eradicate all evil and proclaim the glory of God!"
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The entire alliance venue, at this time, under the leadership of the kings of various countries, burst out of bursts of chanting, shouting and shouting, the momentum was shocking, and the murderous aura was strong!
At this moment, the whole of Europe, under the leadership of the Pope and the five sea powers, truly united and reached a consensus to defeat the 'axis of evil' of the Eastern Ming Empire!
Looking at such a huge scene, the Pope smiled!
The reason why he came forward and called on the whole of Europe, in addition to defeating the Ming Dynasty, so that Europe can continue to colonize the world, and expand the glory of God with the colony, he also has his own ambition, that is, to take advantage of the defeat of the Ming Empire and sprinkle the glory of God to the Ming Empire!
The Eastern Empire is the most mysterious in history, and the popes of all generations have the desire to sprinkle the glory of God on the mysterious Eastern Empire, but unfortunately it has never been realized, and if it can be realized by the popes of his generation, then his contribution to God will be unprecedented.
In the twenty-fifth year of the Ming Dynasty, on June 19, the Pope of the Vatican personally started the letter of alliance and the kings of various countries signed! The European Union, with the ultimate goal of defeating the Ming Empire, the axis of evil, officially came into force.
The kings of all countries have returned to their own kingdoms, preparing all kinds of materials, and will form a joint fleet first, and take the initiative to attack the Ming Dynasty for the second time.
There is no doubt that the five major sea powers of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal are the strongest in Europe's maritime power, so the European Combined Fleet, like the last eight-nation combined fleet, is dominated by the five major sea powers of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal.
Thirteen years ago, the combined fleet of the eight countries set out for the Ming Dynasty this time, and returned from a disastrous defeat, and the huge warship group of 641 warships of the eight countries went out, but only returned to the Netherlands 30 'empty ships' that lost all their artillery, and the warships of the other seven countries were all wiped out, shocking the whole of Europe!
Because of the fear of Daming's revenge, and also in order to have the strength to fight against Daming.
After the kings of the Anglo-Spanish-Dutch, French-Portuguese kingdoms learned about the characteristics of the Ming warship from the Duke of Havelan, who had fled, they immediately built a new type of warship according to the characteristics of the Ming warship.
Although after ten years, all countries have not ushered in the retaliation of the Ming Dynasty, but the countries have never given up the goal of constantly targeting the characteristics of the Ming warship and opening a new ship, so far 13 years, the warships of all countries have undergone at least three rounds of transformation, and the combat effectiveness of a single ship has been greatly improved, from the range of more than 1,000 and 2,000 meters to the current range of 3,000 meters, and the range of the Ming Dynasty is equal to that of the Ming Dynasty's Shenwei-class warships.
Even, England and the Netherlands, is even more crazy, their warships have been renovated five times, the Dutch not only maintained their 5,000-meter range of the year-class battleships, but the Dutch-class battleships reached the longest range of 5,000 meters, but also because the cannon is too heavy, the shooting and hit rate is pitifully low, after thirteen years of continuous upgrading, the Dutch 5,000-meter class battleships on the cannon, not only the weight of the gun body is much lighter, and the hit rate has greatly increased, The combat effectiveness of the class warships of the year has increased several times.
On the English side, the British were ambitious, not to mention that in order to fight against the Ming Dynasty, even if they were to be able to defeat the Dutch one day in the future, they would not allow themselves to be worse than the Dutch, so the British also showed their own 5,000-meter class warships in the past thirteen years, and the range and hit rate of the cannon were not inferior to the Dutch, and the combat effectiveness of the single room was half a catty.
As for the French, Spaniards, and Portuguese, although they also built their own 5,000-meter-class warships to fight against Britain and the Netherlands, due to the lack of ship-building technology and development and upgrading capabilities, the combat effectiveness of their three-way 5,000-meter-class warships is far from being comparable with that of Britain and the Netherlands, and the number is much less than that of Britain and the Netherlands.
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