Albert and a few knights rode their camels through the desert, all of them with dry lips and tiredness, wrapped in a ragged white cloth, whose eyes peeked out only through the gaps in the white cloth, dressed as Berbers living in the desert. At least from the outside, it is completely impossible to see his identity as a descendant of the noble Hohenzollern family.

Fleeing from Egypt in embarrassment to Jean Albert? Baron William had lost almost all of the servants his family had assigned to him, and he never expected that he would be so devastated by just carrying out a mission to destroy the enemy's territory. This was a disappointment to his determination to revive the Teutonic Order.

He was too impressed by the sight of the elite knights around him, who had been raised at home since childhood, and who were proficient in all kinds of weapons and killing methods, to be defeated in this operation.

The power of those who knew at a glance that it was just ordinary people organized and lined up in a horizontal formation with muskets in hand was really terrifying, and the steel battle array of the knights was almost vulnerable to the enemy's iron and fire exchanges, especially the enemy's extremely fast and extremely light artillery strikes, which almost instantly crushed the battle formation composed of the most elite knights under his command, and the few minutes of battle left were simply a slaughter.

On the battlefield, the enemy left a deep impression on Albert, and the expressions on the faces of the enemy soldiers who had achieved such results were so calm, and there was not even a little excitement and excitement, meticulously loading, aiming, and advancing...... Everything was so cold, cold-blooded killing, puppeteer-like machinery and indifference!

Makes Albert feel extremely powerless!

The enemy's use of muskets was beyond Albert's imagination, and this demonic weapon was even more powerful in the hands of the Easterners than the terrible Swedish legions, and its power was simply exerted.

And the most frightening thing is that, as far as Albert knows about his own spies lurking in Egypt, such an enemy is only the enemy's militia force, only responsible for local security, and they are not even in the enemy's huge army sequence, far from the main army of the conqueror, the Marquis of Heaven, who they are about to attack.

So, in this case, how terrible is the legendary Marquis's Flying Heroes?

Albert didn't even dare to think about it now.

The legendary Eastern Empire is as powerful as the legend suggests.

He had the feeling that he had stepped into the vortex again with his family this time, and that this rare alliance between His Majesty the Great Pope and His Holiness the Emperor would probably have been a tragedy.

After the defeat of the matter, they fled almost for their lives, escaping from the enemy's sphere of influence and fleeing along the coastline of the Mediterranean to the west.

Fortunately, Albert's squires were all experienced knights, and they finally came out after a month of walking in the desert.

The loyal Ludwig knight followed from behind and asked in his ear:

"We have an opportunity to go to Benghazi, which is still in the hands of the Berber Uhad, where we should be able to find ships to Venice and Genoa, with which the Vulhard family has always had good commercial connections. From there we can turn again to the Aegean Sea, where the coalition forces should already be waiting for us. ”

As the representative of the Hohenzollern family in the coalition army, Albert is also considered a high-ranking member of the coalition army.

Albert's return there should be able to take command of the Teutonic Knights again and join the war as part of the Teutonic Knights.

Albert's eyes looked at the seaside as if he could see Alexander on the coastline from there.

It was a great city, but it is a pity that it is now in the hands of the great Marquis of Heaven.

"No," replied Albert, "we are not going to the Aegean, we are going to Italy, and we are looking for an opportunity to go back to Brandenburg." ”

"What, go back?"

Knight Ludwig wondered.

The war has not yet begun, and you want to go back?

"Yes," replied Albert, "I think I have received a revelation in these few days that Hohenzollern should not have joined this war. ”

Ludwig looked at the little master with complicated eyes, and was very puzzled by the master's answer, they thought that their little master would not be scared by those damn Eastern demons! Is this an escape?

Of course, with Albert's position in the coalition forces, there was no such thing as an escape.

But it is quite possible that the entire Hohenzollern family will be disgraced for this.

This is a holy war!

This time the family gave a lot to help the Holy See reorganize the Teutonic Knights, and the whole West, even the king Louis XIII in Paris who hid in the Palace of Fontainebleau, knew about it.

At this time, Europe was in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, which was the first war in history in which all Europeans participated, and the cause was the religious war between the old and new German princes, Austria on the Catholic side, the Habsburg dynasty and the Pope in Spain, and the Netherlands, Britain, Denmark, Sweden and other countries on the Protestant side, all of which contributed to a large-scale chaos in Germany.

France, on the other hand, believed in the Old Church at this time, but chose Protestantism in this war out of national interests.

So this is ostensibly a religious war, but in fact it is a war between nations competing for interests.

Although the Hohenzollerns converted to Protestantism and chose the Protestant side in this war, they chose to participate in the crusade organized by the Pope in this operation.

This made the Hohenzollerns controversial in the Protestant camp, and in this year's march, the commander of the Protestant coalition, King Gustav of Sweden, the god of war, even refused to join the Hohenzollern army.

"He betrayed us!"

Gustav put it this way.

The Protestant countries did not have much affection for this so-called crusade organized by the Catholic camp of the Mediterranean countries.

"They have blasphemed the holy! They are trying to disguise their dirty purposes in the name of the divine. ”

On the contrary, the king of France did not say anything to Hohenzollern, perhaps he felt that his France, as a Catholic country, joined the Protestant coalition in the same way as Hohenzollern's move. After all, the Hohenzollern family was only a small prince in Germany in the eyes of the King of France at this time, but it was just more famous.

Only a direct descendant of the family, such as Albert, knows why Hohenzollern made this choice.

"Interests, we need interests. The Hohenzollerns need to make their voice heard in this war. ”

Head of the family, Elector of Brandenburg, Duke Georg of Prussia? William said.