Section 97 The Pope
The crusade of the Holy See in Rome has carried out a total of nine crusades in history, and the war has been fought intermittently for more than 200 years. The original purpose of the Crusades was simply to recover the Holy Land of Jerusalem, which had been ruled by ***.
However, in the future, it evolved into a war for political and economic purposes, with plundering attached. But on the whole, the Holy See's crusade was a failure. As a result, the Holy See was never able to organize a crusade after that, let alone conquer the Holy Land of Jerusalem from the east.
After receiving a request for help from Tsar Alexei of the Rakshasa Kingdom, Pope Innocent X, the Holy Curia of the Holy See, immediately had a thought. It's just that today's European Holy See is not as strong as before. The royal families of European countries have long been obedient to the Holy See and no longer have theocratic supremacy.
As Alexei's empress, princess, and prince went in and out of European royal families, they lobbied and asked countries to send elite troops to rescue the Rakshasa country. Innocent X once again saw hope of organizing a crusade.
Moreover, with the skyrocketing aura of heaven and earth during that period of time, a group of ascetics with various supernatural abilities emerged in the Holy See. Although it is said that later, the aura of heaven and earth gradually faded for unknown reasons. But the supernatural powers of the ascetics have not disappeared. Even Pope Innocent X himself has supernatural powers.
It was this group of ascetics who poured out of the Holy See that gave Innocent X a plan to revive the prestige of the Holy See. It's just that he was still in the process of strategizing before, looking for and waiting for the right time.
And now, the Rakshasa Kingdom has once again encountered the invasion from the Eastern civilization, and the iron hooves of the yellow race may wreak havoc on the whole of Europe. Innocent X immediately realized that the time he had been waiting for had come.
The ascetics who had been lurking all along, with the order of Pope Innocent X, walked out of the place of asceticism one after another, appeared in front of the royal families of Europe, or intentionally or unintentionally showed a miraculous ability, claiming to be the gospel and miracle of God, and then in the surprised or panicked expressions of the royal families, or persuaded or secretly asked the royal families to organize armies to join the crusade.
Pope Innocent X already had a plan, and after helping the Rakshasa to resist the invasion of Eastern civilizations, the Crusaders turned south, and in addition to recovering the Holy Land of Jerusalem, they also wanted to wipe out some principalities that disrespected the Holy See.
The Pope's plan is now going quite smoothly, and the royal families of various European countries are indeed frightened by the strength shown by the Holy See, believing that God is once again on earth and has shown his miracles.
Under the persuasion or secret pressure of the ascetics, they organized an army and handed it over to the ascetics to rebuild the crusaders. In addition, in order to resist the invasion of Eastern civilizations, the royal families organized another army, led by the Holy See, rushed to Moscow to guard the gates of Europe.
Hundreds of years ago, the iron hooves of Mongolia were trampled on the banks of the Rhine. If it weren't for God's blessing, all of Europe would have been enslaved for more than two hundred years, like the principalities of Eastern Europe, prostrate at the feet of the Mongols.
No royal family is willing to lose their scepter. There is no royal family that is willing to prostrate at the feet of the Orientals. In their eyes, those who do not believe in God are heretics and should be burned to the death, not become their masters.
In this age of great exploration, Europeans have conquered the African continent, discovered new continents, and are in the process of conquering new continents. In the eyes of Europeans, they are the noblest people in the world, the people of God.
Who would have thought that the Far East, that ancient civilization, would now brazenly step into the land of Europe, which is something that the Europeans will never allow and will never allow.
After sending their respective armies to Moscow, the royal families of various European countries have set their eyes on Moscow, nervously observing the battle situation ahead, so as to decide the next move.
It's just that what the royal families didn't expect was that after the army they sent arrived in Moscow, the war did not come. The army of that ancient civilization of the East has been stuck in the small city of Kazan, which is still more than a thousand miles from Moscow, and is still busy building a road across the Urals!
The royal families did not understand why, after the armies of various countries gathered in Moscow, His Majesty the Tsar Alexei of the Rakshasa State, did not immediately attack.
Until a month later, the army from France, unable to endure the boring wait, marched alone towards Kazan. But halfway through, he encountered a reconnaissance company of the Ming Imperial Army.
The commander of the French army, who had an army of 5,000 people, rushed forward without much thought, preparing to kill the reconnaissance company of the Ming Empire with more than 100 people.
Something desperate happened, and the army of five thousand French surrounded the army of the Ming Empire in the East, which had only about a hundred men. Numerically speaking, there is no doubt that the French army will win.
But in fact, when the reconnaissance company of the Ming Empire hid in a rudimentary position and put out a few heavy machine guns, the army of 5,000 French ushered in a nightmare that had never been seen in a lifetime.
The sniper found their commander in the midst of the chaos of the French army, and sent him to his God, with a yellow bullet.
Then, a bullet sent an officer away, until no one dared to come out and command the army. At this time, the 5,000 French army was already three pavilions and one pavilion was missing.
France, armed with a horse spear and a rudimentary musket, could no longer have the courage to confront without the command of an officer, and even the courage to flee disappeared without a trace after the death of many of his fast-running companions.
The commander of the Ming Empire's reconnaissance company of more than 100 people is Dolgon's clansman, and he happily took more than 100 people to escort nearly 3,000 prisoners, waiting for Dolgon to send someone to receive him. These 3,000 captives can relieve the manpower for building roads and railways in the rear.
After a few French people who fled back to Moscow, crying about what happened to them, the royal families of European countries, only then did they understand why Moscow had so many troops, and why Alexei Tsar still did not dare to take the initiative.