Central Asia, Jizzak. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Or its name on the map of Daming, Shicheng Prefecture, Zhongcao County, Green Ridge Province.

This is the only way to Samarkand, a river valley stretches for dozens of miles to the south of this small city, and it is also the gate of the Bukharas, because further south, there is the core part of the Bukhara Khanate, the two ancient cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, both on the vast plains behind this river valley. Of course, their stubborn defense is useless, in fact, at this time Jizzakh has been captured by the Ming army, and the Bukhara army and the Russian army retreated to the southern mountains, they are ready to use this river valley as a decisive battle between them and the Ming army, anyway, the Ming army has no other way, otherwise if you want to attack south, you have to cross the mountains or go around hundreds of miles through this mountainous area.

"Ma, so many dead?"

Fang Hong, the commander of the 45th Brigade of the Ming Army, looked out the window and said impatiently.

His brigade is newly formed, subordinate to the 16th Infantry Army, the Ming Army's establishment is somewhat similar to the modern US Army, although the standing army is the infantry with cavalry 17 corps, plus a corps of marines, but in fact there are many zombies, that is, empty shell brigades. In normal times, these brigades maintain some necessary personnel at the brigade headquarters, of course, including the brigade commander, as for the soldiers, there are basically none, and once the time comes to war mobilization, those reserves will instantly resurrect these zombies.

This is also the reason why the Ming army expanded so rapidly.

At this time, he was in Zhongcao City.

During the day, the 45th Brigade and a heavy artillery battalion poured tens of thousands of shells on the small city, and then completely annihilated the defenders of the city, and the last stubbornly resisting Bukhara soldier had been killed only half an hour earlier, and the smell of blood and gunpowder was still in the air. Some of the surviving women and children outside were rummaging through the ruins to check useful things, as for the adult men, there were no more than any women at this time, and at this time those women were too lazy to veil themselves, anyway, no one cared about them now, in fact, these women did not have any resistance to the Ming army, even if these Ming soldiers had just killed their father, brother and husband and destroyed their home. Not only here, but all the land of the lord is almost like this, women are at the same level as cattle in these places, for them this war is a man's business, if they fight each other between tribes, it is basically the same to kill all the adult men of the failed tribe, if their men lose, they also have to accompany the conqueror to bed, since this is the case the Ming army is no different from other tribesmen being their new masters. Even these Ming soldiers are younger, more handsome and considerate, and they don't need to wear black robes to cover their faces every day, and they can bring them all kinds of unheard of good things, so what reason do they have to resist? Instead, they are trying to put on the most bewildering posture, trying to impress the patrolling Ming soldiers in exchange for the necessities they need.

In fact, quite a few of them have succeeded.

Central Asian women are not ugly, of course, those Ming soldiers are willing to use a few canned food that can't be eaten, soap trinkets and the like for a spring supper, and even really look at the right eye, simply find a mail truck to mail back to their hometown, the Ming military post office is to provide postman services.

With an emperor like Yang Feng, the discipline of the Ming army cannot be good, this kind of thing is an official who turns a blind eye, after all, the soldier is on the waist of his head and pants, so they have to relax appropriately, so in many dilapidated rooms in this city, there are women who are happy to groan, as for their men, at this time they are crackling outside the city, the smell of burnt seriously affects the appetite of the brigade elder, and when eating barbecue, this taste is indeed a bit out of place.

"You've been enjoying the mainland for too long, haven't you?"

The deputy brigade commander, who was holding a roast leg of lamb and eating with relish, said with disdain.

"Happiness?"

Fang Hong said angrily: "You guy, who has doubled his family property tenfold in the Western Regions in ten years, and the light girl nu robbed half of the wagon, actually has the face to say that I, who received a fortune in the mainland, is enjoying happiness?" ”

"Ugh!"

His deputy brigade commander shut up in embarrassment.

In other words, this has always been the resentment of those mainland officers, especially Fang Hong, who has no chance to go abroad to fight, and can only watch those officers who are outside keep pulling treasures and women to their homes, although as a brigade commander, his salary is not low, and he can still maintain a superior life at home, but after all, he can't compare with these bastards who rob houses outside!

"Why don't I give you half of those girls in the house?"

said the deputy brigade commander.

"Give me the rest of your play? I won't snatch a woman myself! ”

Fang Hong said speechlessly.

"Go, find one for our brigade commander, no, find two beauties, you must be the youngest and most beautiful, but I'm afraid it's very difficult to ****, women in this ghost place can't go to elementary school and have to have a hole with a man, it's just that he is a Qin beast, it's really not good, you find a few small ones, go home and raise them for a few years!"

The deputy brigade commander said with a regretful face.

Then Fang Hong didn't hesitate to smash the gnawed bones on him.

In the entire Zhongcao City, when the Ming army was in a relaxed state, in a barren ravine outside the city, thousands of soldiers were quietly marching in the dark, unlike the Bukharans, these guys in brown clothes were almost all blonde hair and blue eyes under the brown hood, and the brown clothes on their bodies were actually monks' robes, and each of them had a striking red cross on the chest of their robes, representing their special status......

Templars.

Rebuilt by Pope order.

This time the Knights Templar sent a total of 5,000 men to Central Asia, because the Russians and Bukharans were defeated one after another, and were beaten back step by step by the Ming army, almost to the point of no return, and a cardinal who led the Knights Templar and the Teutonic Knights finally decided to let God show his strength, and by the way, let the Orthodox and Yislanite wastes see how the Catholic warriors turned the tide.

And so this scene appeared.

Fifteen hundred Templars in the moonlight, like their predecessors hundreds of years ago, carried their cross-swords behind their backs, and quickly passed through the mountains under the guidance of their guides, and when they crossed the last hill, the ruined Zhongcao City appeared in front of them, and also appeared in their field of vision, as well as the huge fire formed by the burning of tens of thousands of dead bodies, where all the defenders of Jizzak's city were piled up, and it was estimated that this fire would burn for a few days.

"God's will!"

Knight Frank, who led the team, pulled out the sword behind his back, exchanged blows with his deputy, Knight Johnson, and whispered at the same time with a solemn face.

"God's will."

All the knights behind them drew their swords one after another, and then struck each other with their blades, whispering in the same solemn voice.

Then the army walked silently down the mountain, in order to avoid the reflection of the sword body, everyone hid the sword in the brown monk's robe, lowered their heads like a shadow on the barren hillside, and quickly rushed towards Zhongcao City, they must be very careful at this time, because above this castle, there is also an airship monitoring the ground, but fortunately, just when they rushed to Zhongcao City, a large cloud obscured the moonlight, and it was difficult to detect them from the sky just by relying on the fire outside the city to burn the dead bodies.

In short, they arrived in Zhongcao City smoothly.

At this time, it was close to midnight, and the entire city of Zhongcao was silent, and the city wall that had been destroyed during the daytime battle was horizontally ahead, and through those huge openings, you could see the patrol soldiers who walked through the city from time to time.

The Frank knight beckoned, and the black shadow approached the wall as fast as it could.

It's close.

It's close!

"God's will!"

Knight Frank muttered excitedly as he drew his sword from under his brown monk's robes, but it was then that he vaguely felt as if he had tripped over something.

A stalk of grass, perhaps?

A thought crossed his mind.

Suddenly, the earth under his feet turned into flames like a volcanic eruption, his body flew up like a cannonball, and at the moment of flying, he was torn apart, and at the last moment of his life, he saw countless of the same flames spraying into the sky......

He stepped on a mine.

And it's a chain of thunder.

The heroic Templars, because of a careless move by their commander, tripped over a group of twenty mines, and then this unlucky team instantly flew flesh and blood, in the sudden eruption of flames underground, turned into countless fragmented wreckage, of course, this is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that this earth-shattering explosion announced the failure of their sneak attack, and then in Zhongcao City, the terrible sirens sounded wildly, and the entire brigade of Ming troops was awakened in their sleep.

"Kill, O will of God, for the glory of God, kill, kill the infidels!"

Knight Johnson drew his sword and roared like madness.

At this time, there was no way back, they were the most fanatical believers, and their loyalty to God was no less than that of those Musling warriors to the lord of Zhen, who were able to face the Ming artillery fire without flinching, and of course they could, besides, as long as they rushed into the city, it was a melee of hand-to-hand combat, and at that time their swords were much stronger than bayonets.

The Johnson knight ran towards the gap in the wall with all his might, and all the remaining Templars behind him drew their swords, just as their predecessors had rushed to Jerusalem, and began to run towards the city of Zhongcao, with a short distance of less than 100 meters in front of them, and as long as they rushed into the city, they could rely on their bravery to cut off the heads of the infidels, let the glory of God shine on the land of Central Asia, and let the blood of the infidels stain their swords.

But it didn't help.

God can't do machine guns.

Just as they were charging, several flares suddenly exploded in the sky, illuminating the ground white, and the black figures of the Templars and the swords that reflected the cold light in their hands could no longer be hidden, and on the wreckage of the Zhongcao City Wall, more than a dozen tongues of fire suddenly erupted, and the dense bullets dragged the tracer line of fire, hitting the Templars like a storm, and they trembled weakly like grass in a rainstorm, and then fell in a pool of blood one by one.

"God's will!"

Knight Johnson roared.

Then he felt a blow to his right knee, his right leg fell to his knees as soon as he was weak, he struggled to stand up with his ancestral sword, but then he was hit in the chest one after another, and at the same time his lungs seemed to be pierced by a red-hot soldering iron, he screamed, and endured the sharp pain to make a final effort, but at the same time he was hit hard in the abdomen, and he trembled with his sword and finally couldn't stand up again.

"God's will!"

He muttered weakly.

Then a bullet instantly drilled into his forehead, with the force of nearly a kilometer per second, ruffled his brain with a terrifying cavity effect, and flew out with his brain and almost half of the back of his head.

His sword-wielding body collapsed weakly less than twenty meters from the wall, while behind him, the corpses of fifteen hundred Templars stretched out.

"This is, what is this?"

Fang Hong, who ran out in a hurry, pulled the body of Knight Johnson with his saber, and said somewhat blankly.

"This is a monk of the white ghost, right?"

The deputy brigade commander was equally stunned.

"Are you sure?"

Fang Hong asked.

"Yes, when I was stationed in Jerusalem, those Medicary Knights used to wear it like this, but their crosses were different, they were the kind with forked horns, and they didn't see them wear this red one."

said the deputy brigade commander.

"Report to the military department immediately, Ma, how stupid do you have to be to play with cold weapons night attack, blind with such a good sword."

Fang Hong said speechlessly.

At the same time he picked up the heirloom sword of Knight Johnson, admired it there, then drew his saber and handed it to the deputy brigade commander, and the two of them took up a posture with great interest and slashed each other with a loud roar, followed by a crisp sound, and the good-looking sword was broken.

"Ma's, it's useless!"

Fang Hong threw the broken sword speechlessly.

Immediately after that, the news of this battle was transmitted by radio waves to the headquarters of the 16th Army of Dongcao, and the commander of the 16th Army, who was shocked by the enemy's rich imagination, immediately found out the meaning of this red cross, and then the news of the Templar appearance on the battlefield was also quickly sent to Dragon City by radio waves. His Majesty the Emperor, who had been waiting for this news for a long time, of course would not be hypocritical, and soon he issued an edict with strong and righteous words, accusing the Vatican of aiding and abusive, frantically making enemies of the Ming Empire, and at the same time enumerating all kinds of evil deeds of the Vatican, including personal attacks on himself, as well as supporting slavery and rebellion, instructing the Netherlands to invade the Ming Dynasty, etc., in short, he wanted to settle accounts with the Vatican, and at the same time announced that the Vatican and the three major knights as its minions would be classified as heretics, and officially launched a crusade.

Then immediately after that, the Ming army began to attack Jerusalem.