When Friedrich II saw the letter, the entire kingdom of Portugal had been lost, and Porto had fallen just two days before the letter was delivered, and the entire city had been burned to the ground, not extinguished after two days and two nights. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the kingdom of Castille and the kingdom of Aragon are not much better, the two have joined forces to stabilize the battle line near Zaragoza, but no one knows how long they can hold out. Because the Berber army was moving north from the south through the strait, they had almost emptied their homeland, and had no intention of defending at all, but were going to attack desperately.

Karl behaved very unexpectedly in this emergency, when Friedrich II convened a royal council and called on all Christians to take up arms to defend their homeland from the infidels, he immediately returned to Karlburg from the royal palace in Naples, and three days later he blocked the port of Ceuta with Karlburg's convoy, and declared the waters near Karlburg and Baron's Castle to be off-limits, and no non-Christian ships were allowed to approach it, otherwise they would be sunk.

Of course, this 100% Christian devotion of Count Karl was discovered two days in advance by a Greek merchant ship passing by near Karlburg, and it reached the port of Ceuta, and the Berbers were on guard and no longer crossed the strait from the port of Ceuta, but moved to several ports along the river farther west. Eventually, Count Karl's fleet sank several supposedly Berber troop carriers, effectively preventing the Berbers from crossing the strait from the port of Ceuta and gaining valuable reaction time for the Christian nations.

Of course, this war cannot be counted on by Count Karl and his ships, Karl does not think so, Friedrich II does not think so, and the entire European aristocracy and the Pope do not think so. Battleships can only be used as a means of war, not the most important, if you want to block the invasion of the Berbers, you can only mobilize all the troops that can be mobilized, and gather in the Bilian Mountains as quickly as possible, and be sure to block the Berber army in the south of the mountains, once they have crossed the mountains, then the land of France can really be regarded as unsafe.

But Karl was not in vain, his name was praised by most European nobles at this time, and everywhere, worshipping heroes is always people's choice, and Karl's behavior is very much in line with the conditions of heroes. Also fame was Karl's cousin, the Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich II, who was the first to stand up for the pagan invasion and the fastest to mobilize his army to the front. Just after Karl sent out his fleet, there was also a convoy of convoys from the port of Rena. This fleet was all Baron Jiang's cargo ships, which were transported by Friedrich II's Praetorian Guard. This is the most elite army in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and no one can say that the emperor is acting in a coy manner, he is really going to play with the Berbers.

On the other hand, the Pope and King Louis of France were a little slow to react to this matter. When the ships and armies of the Emperor brothers began to move, the Church and Louis were still in a state of bewilderment, and they could not figure out why God had repeatedly favored the Neurotic Emperor who had grown up in the Sicilian palace, and whenever he was in a passive position, there would be a respite for him.

The timing of this attack on the Apennine Peninsula is once in a lifetime, and it seems that the emperor is about to be ousted from power, who would have thought that the Berbers would take the initiative to jump out and use this emperor as a shield, although this matter is certainly not controlled by Friedrich II, but anyone has to look to the sky, by the way, greetings to God, are you old man blind?

Unfortunately, it was too late to say anything, the Berbers were advancing northward every day, and even the best opportunity had to be given up, and Louis and the Pope hated Friedrich II, but they were even less happy to see the infidels invade the heart of Europe. What is the internal contradiction and what is the external contradiction, which one is more fatal, they can still calculate it.

In fact, the person who knew the news earlier should be Hong Tao, and the day after the explosion of Seville, the news was transmitted to Fort Carl by Cixi's intelligence network. After receiving the information, the Atlantic Fleet, which had been stationed here, immediately took advantage of the high speed of the Americas to rush westward, and returned to Sun City with Wennan in only ten days.

When Hong Tao knew that his plan was successful, the first thing he did was to ask Joseph to help him select 500 believers of the Divine Religion who were fluent in Chinese, educated, and had strong organizational skills, and then gathered them in a few places, and Wen Nan took the lead in giving them the relevant knowledge of the Great Song Kingdom, and these people were the grassroots forces he was going to bring back.

The second thing to do was to build a miniature version of the castle out of wood on the west side of the Castle del Soleil range, near the river. It is completely modeled after the southeast corner of Lin'an City and the Imperial City of the Great Song Dynasty, the Sun River is like the Qiantang River, and the Gulf of Mexico is like Hangzhou Bay. Hong Tao called this wooden prop a training ground, and he wanted to imitate the scenes in later movies, so that the Marines could come and go as if they were their homes.

The 1,000 Marines Swann trained were also involved in the construction of the city, familiarizing themselves with every gate, street, river, bridge, and hillside as they built it. After the wooden city was built, they had to follow the battle plan jointly designed by Hong Tao and Swan, and conduct actual combat exercises over and over again in this miniature version of the imperial city, striving to experience all the problems that might be encountered, and then find out the omissions in the plan and come up with ways to solve them.

The last thing was Hong Tao's own mission, he used all the time he had to get his followers together to talk about the Spring Alliance, the Great Song Dynasty, the Jinhe Empire, and Europe, and even sent a special ship to pick up Cixi and Martini to talk together. The purpose is to let everyone not be blindly optimistic or pessimistic after they are gone, and develop how they should develop. As soon as the canal is dug up, Luo Mei and Hong Salamander will follow their fleet and take people to Midway, which will soon become a springboard between the two continents.

In addition, Hong Tao also asked Qi Zu, Wen Xiaoqi, and Bush to compile statistics on their research results, work experience, and technical data over the years, form detailed written materials, and then hand them over to himself. It is also necessary to select some apprentices who are more comprehensive in skills and are not too old, and also go to Wennan's training class. These materials and personnel Hong Tao are ready to be brought back to the Great Song Dynasty, once he successfully controls the Great Song Dynasty, he can no longer start from scratch, these people and materials are prepared for the future of the Great Song Dynasty.

In addition to these forging, machinery, shipbuilding, chemical materials and talents, Hong Tao also made the clergy do something that no one could understand, he transformed a Virginia-class battleship into a large garden filled with all kinds of crops and vegetables and the like, and even a few small trees and a special animal feeding area. Originally, Hong Tao wanted to catch a few North American bison and load them on the boat, but unfortunately the thing was too heavy and his temper was too short-tempered.

Since April, Hong Tao has become the most talkative person on the North American continent, talking non-stop every day, and when he goes home and lies down, he feels that there are more things that he has not said. Most people can understand Hong Tao's mood, even Swan is no longer annoyed by Hong Tao's broken mouth, and he can't be annoyed for a few months, as the canal project is nearing completion day by day, His Majesty, the smartest and most annoying emperor in the world, should get out.

Maybe he won't see it again in his life, he didn't go back to enjoy Qingfu, but went back to fight with eighty percent of the armed forces of the Spring Alliance, the opponent was the powerful Jinhe Empire, and no one was sure what the result would be.

Hong Tao was also really calm, except for Wen Nan and Luo Youde, he and no one had said in detail how he was going to save Da Song when he went back, but only vaguely said that if he couldn't do anything, he would flee back. Everyone agrees with what he said, if there is an emperor who is the best at running away in the world, then Hong Tao will definitely take the lead. It's not that he has a lot of former subjects, but before every battle, he thinks about the way to retreat the most, and if he doesn't design two or three retreat plans, he will definitely not go to the battlefield.

(To be continued.) )