Chapter 590: The Death of the Holy City

When Pang Lingming and Li San'er converged, the part of the army of the Great Eclipse Heavenly Fang Sect had been completely dispersed by this battalion of the Anxi Corps, and Pang Lingming benefited from Li San'er's desperate resistance to defeat this group of Great Eclipse Army almost effortlessly, and he himself personally led the Chinese army straight to the location of the third brigade.

"I'll go, you're too slow, and if I'm any longer, my third brigade will be scrapped in this damn desert." Li San'er looked at the wounded and killed Flying Eagle Brigade soldiers around him, and his face was gloomy. You must know that the soldiers of the Flying Eagle Brigade are all elites selected from the whole army of the Tiance Army, and they belong to the unique king of soldiers, almost every soldier of the Flying Eagle Brigade has their own unique specialties, and the technical and tactical level is stronger than the grassroots officers of the Tiance Army.

"General Li, please rest assured, my military doctors are all here, and I also brought medicine that can treat the wounds of Mini's bullet, and I will definitely not give up a brother of the Flying Eagle Brigade." The tragedy of the battlefield made Pang Lingming, a general who was not very familiar with the Flying Eagle Brigade, feel numb, more than 1,000 people actually resisted the attack of nearly 20,000 people from the other side for more than half an hour, and only hundreds of casualties were killed.

"General, you better immediately divide your troops and chase back to protect the caravan, after all, it is the wealth that the brothers of the secret guard have been lurking for more than half a year plus the lives of my hundreds of brothers, and there is absolutely no room for loss." After Li San'er cleaned up his mood at this time, he immediately asked Pang Lingming to divide his troops to go back to protect the caravan, and the secret guard spent so much money, plus the deaths and injuries of the hundreds of brothers in his hands, if he lost again at this time, then he was really sorry for his hard work. Although Pang Lingming was already the deputy commander of the Anxi Corps, and Li San'er was only the captain of the Flying Eagle Brigade, he himself had the authorization from the General Staff from Qin Kong, plus Pang Lingming's respect for Li San'er, so Pang Lingming urgently sent people back along the way to escort the caravan back to the imperial border.

"I don't know what the city of Jerusalem will be like at this time." Pang Lingming divided half of his troops and returned urgently, and after returning urgently, he stood with Li San'er and sighed. He is the leader of the army, so he naturally knows how the General Staff and the command are planning in Jerusalem, so he will sigh with emotion at this time.

"No matter how chaotic it is, it won't have anything to do with us. There are too many schemes and calculations on the Jerusalem side, not only involving the struggle between the two empires, but also the open and covert struggle between the Catholic Church and the Celestial Sect. Even if we don't encourage the Crusaders to come, this explosive package will be detonated sooner or later, and the effect will be the same, and maybe even bigger. "The Flying Eagle Brigade was involved in this matter with the Secret Guard, and even because he was sent by Qin Kong to carry out the mission, Li San'er knew more about it, so he shook his head when he heard this.

However, although Li San'er was prepared, when Li San'er and Pang Lingming were preparing to go back, the city of Jerusalem really became a hell on earth, and the Crusaders began to loot the whole city after defeating the resistance in the city. Countless shops and castles were forcibly smashed, gold and silver treasures were looted, hundreds of people were directly killed by the rebels, and those women became the biggest victims in the troubled times. The ugliness of human nature was at this moment to the greatest bloom, and the Crusaders themselves later estimated that tens of thousands of people died under their butcher's knives in the first battle of Jerusalem, and countless women were raped. The billowing smoke and thick flames were not extinguished even after a few days, and the essence of Jerusalem for nearly a thousand years was burned to the ground. The red-eyed Crusader soldiers did not even spare the Holy See and the Church of the Catholic Church, two of the city's three cathedrals were burned, and countless works of art that had not yet been moved into the underground treasury were burned.

In fact, if the Crusaders were doing evil, Jerusalem would not have suffered so much, and it was not only the Crusaders who were harming the people in the city during the chaos. Relying on the tens of thousands of troops of the Crusader family alone, even if all the robberies can be scourged, in fact, when it is broken, the chaos in the city is greater than the disaster brought by the foreign enemy, and the Catholic forces in the city originally thought that the Crusaders would at least not spread fire to their own Holy See and congregation, so they directly led the people to attack the forces of the Heavenly Sect and Judaism in the city, and the two sides fought in a melee and suffered heavy casualties at the same time, which weakened the garrison of the city of Jerusalem itself in vain, and the degree of their scourge was better than that of the CrusadersNo one knows the situation in the city better than them, those nobles and bishops who are usually superior have become the biggest victims in this chaos, countless noble members have been killed, a large amount of property has been robbed, and even at the very beginning, the crusaders have not touched these hidden forces and have been turned over by these leading parties, so that the degree of the scourge has been rapidly magnified, and the crusaders have robbed people when they see them, Therefore, when the rebels rushed into the Catholic quarters and churches, this killing force could no longer be controlled, especially the towering churches and countless golden decorations were countless treasures in the eyes of the gang, so there was no safe place under the catastrophe. And because most of the Catholic Church itself was called to suppress Celestial Christianity and Judaism, it meant that the entire settlement was empty, and the Crusaders did not encounter any resistance after entering, and the extent of the spread of the disaster was even more uncontrollable, and by the time the Crusaders entered the city later, the two cathedrals, which were even more magnificent than the Pope's residence, were already billowing with smoke and could no longer be controlled.

In the midst of this turmoil, Judaism was almost wiped out in the first time by the combined efforts of the Celestial Church and the Catholic Church. Judaism itself originated in Jerusalem, so its roots were also in this place, and after this turmoil, the vitality of the Jews was greatly damaged, and the rest of the Jews scattered in other places have since lost their roots and become a complete wandering people.

According to later records, the concept of the Jewish nation at this time has not yet been formed, and even Judaism is only in the embryonic state, and it has not formed a clear religious concept like the other two major religions, and this time because of its own appearance, the crusade appeared hundreds of years in advance and captured the holy city of Jerusalem, which can be regarded as completely forcing the Jews into a corner, and even the nation of this later world may not have lost its national identity. However, Li Xuanqing learned about it afterwards and he didn't take it to heart, Jews or Judaism did not have much status and room for struggle in this national competition thousands of years in advance, and without them, they would not be able to change the general trend of the entire Taixi. The big strategy that I formulated by myself is now at the moment of blooming, and no one can stop this Taotao trend all the way forward.

However, at this time, the terrible howl of Jerusalem continued, and the tragedy continued to permeate one after another, whether it was the Crusaders or the Tianfang Christians who were accidentally repelled by Li San'er and others because of the follow-up reinforcements, they were no longer able to withdraw from the world at this time, and while desperately resisting the impact of the Crusaders on the Tianfang Christians' settlements and mosques, these people also needed to spare their manpower to speed up the transportation of the people and treasures in the city to the outside of the city and the basement. At this time, the Heavenly Fang Sect was the first to react, the originally extremely secret basement was actually stolen, and the accumulation of the Heavenly Fang Sect for a hundred years inside actually disappeared without a trace. Such a big news even made the Heavenly Pope who resisted the impact of the crusaders on the front line almost collapsed, and someone actually played the trick of catching cicadas and yellow finches with one hand, and it was still in full view of all forces. This news caused an uproar within the Celestial Sect and spread to other places as quickly as possible, and then in a short time the news also came from the Catholic side, and their basement was also stolen, and it was empty, leaving nothing behind.

The terrifying news spread faster in Jerusalem, which was full of blood and fire, crime and punishment, and even the high-ranking members of the crusaders quickly learned of the news, which made them feel angry and faintly began to feel that they were being used as pawns. But then they couldn't take care of that feeling anymore. Because this news is not only known to the high-level of them, but even the soldiers at the lowest level, this time it has aroused the anger of these soldiers even more, and the city that they have worked so hard to fight down has actually been robbed of the fattest piece of fat, how can this be endured? It turned out that these things that I grabbed after making trouble for a long time were just a drop in the bucket. When most of the soldiers were furious and began to turn their fingers on the other people, an even greater calamity and fighting befell the city of Jerusalem, and countless Crusader soldiers began to slaughter the people in a frenzy to loot money, and this time almost all the soldiers no longer distinguished which were Catholics and which were infidels, and before them were men to be slaughtered and treasures to be seen.

When the massacre befell Jerusalem again, the popes of the Celestial Church and the Catholic Church in the city, who had already reacted and even sobered up, began to order a counterattack, and countless believers began to take up arms to fight back against the slaughter of the Crusaders, and the two sides even fought each other in the city. In fact, in the days that followed, when Catholic reinforcements entered the city and forcibly drove the Crusaders out of the city, the entire city of Jerusalem was immersed in bloodshed, and countless corpses were scattered all over the city, and rivers of blood flowed down the city, and the entire population of the city was decimated.

The entire Jerusalem rebellion lasted for five days, and when the second reinforcement of the Heavenly Sect, the regular army of the Great Food Empire, came over, they forcibly drove the crusaders out of the city, and a confrontation broke out outside the city, and a major battle ensued. Although the Crusaders slaughtered civilians in the city like wolves, they did not have much combat effectiveness in front of the regular army of the Great Food Empire, and completely collapsed after repeated attacks by the cavalry legions, and most of the men and horses were killed on the spot. Only some of Polo's men retreated all the way north to the edge of the Central Asia Peninsula according to the route planned for him by Qin Kong before. However, to Polo's surprise, there were several archbishops of Gaul who escaped with him. However, at this time, Polo looked at the less than a thousand of his subordinates who were depressed, and secretly worried about how to complete the next plan explained by Qin Kong, and temporarily lost contact with Qin Kong and other secret guards, so he could only temporarily suspend the army, and began to inquire about the news from Jerusalem, and at the same time sent people to Byzantium to report the news.

After the army of the Great Food Empire recovered Jerusalem, they wanted to cry without tears, not only did the thousand-year savings of the various popes in the city disappear, but the people in the city were also slaughtered, and countless people were killed, which overshadowed the rear hand of the Great Food Empire. Originally, according to the plan of the Great Food Empire, when the Crusaders entered Jerusalem, the Celestial Sect could justifiably ask for help from the Heavenly City and Baghdad, and then the regular army disguised as a member of the Church could take advantage of this to drive into the city, taking advantage of the Crusaders to clear the obstacles in front of them, and clean up the situation by themselves, so as to control this holy city in the hands of the Great Diet Empire in one fell swoop, and control the popes in the city under the command of the Celestial Sect, so that the Catholic forces in the holy city of Jerusalem can become their vassals. In the subsequent battle with the Great Qin Empire, it has an absolute advantage one step ahead. But what he didn't expect was that the first reinforcement he sent was inexplicably defeated, and the result was that the forces of the Heavenly Fang Sect in the city could not control the situation, and the Crusader's behavior was simply unexpected, and after learning that the treasure was gone, the Crusader became ferocious, which caused today's embarrassing situation.

On the surface, this martyrdom of the Holy City seems to be the boundless slaughter caused by the Crusaders' eastward advance, but at the deeper level, both Catholicism and Celestial Religion have their own considerations and back-ups. The Heavenly Fang Sect was naturally Li Dai Taozhuang, and was ready to take control of the Holy City in one fell swoop. As long as the Crusaders can stand on their feet, then the Holy See in the rear can call on the entire Catholics of Ctessi to come and carry out the holy war, so as to expand the influence of the Pope in Ctessy. You must know that although the influence of the Holy See is great on the side of Great Qin, the divine power has never been as great as the monarch's power, unlike the scattered kingdoms in the western part of Taixi before, where the divine power can pass through all countries, which is stronger than the monarchy. Even in the minds of the highest echelons of the Holy See, this crusade was the best opportunity to take advantage of this opportunity to form an ecclesiastical armament. But what I didn't expect was that in the end, the tragedy of the destruction of the holy city finally happened.

In this chaos and disaster, Datang naturally took advantage of the fire, relying on the layout of Qin Kong and Xuan Yingwei and the strong combat effectiveness of the Flying Eagle Brigade, becoming the biggest winner, a large amount of wealth to replenish the imperial treasury will inevitably bring about a rapid rise in national strength, and Li Xuanqing's plan will also take a big step forward.

And the only biggest losers are the people at the bottom and Judaism, this budding religion and those helpless people have no way to protect themselves in this chaos that will occur frequently, not to mention the killing started by the Crusaders from the beginning to the end of the battle has not stopped at all. This disaster also triggered a shocking change in the entire Taixi situation, and countless changes that had been planned or not planned began to burst out suddenly.