"Boom Boom~" Rows of artillery let out a thunderous roar, countless cannonballs bombarded the Roman city wall, Maurice on the head of the city was frightened at this time, just now he saw Condra on the city wall was caught by this sudden appearance of the eastern army, there was a feeling of schadenfreude in his heart, but soon he felt extremely frightened, the other party not only launched an attack on them, but also used a weapon like thunder, this weapon is like the thunder and lightning of Zeus, it is not like a mortal can have.

The city wall of Rome began to tremble slightly under the bombardment of artillery, and it seemed that it could collapse at any time, but Rome was a thousand-year-old city, and after countless foreign invasions, the city wall was built very strongly, so it was obviously unrealistic to want to collapse with artillery, so the artillery of the Great Song Dynasty focused the artillery on the city gate, after all, no matter how strong the city gate was, it could not be compared with the city wall, and the Romans had no preparation at all, so the city gate withstood dozens of shells after the continuous bombardment, It was quickly beaten into a sieve and finally collapsed with a bang.

"Kill!" With Hu Yanqing's order, the vanguard army that had already been prepared immediately entered the city gate, this vanguard army is very distinctive, the front is the shield army steadily forward, and the back is the grenade ignited by the grenades, and kept throwing forward, which can kill and injure the defenders of Rome and create chaos.

Maurice at the head of the city did not expect this eastern army to enter the city so quickly, and in the face of those explosive weapons, he did not know how to defend, as a result, in the blink of an eye, those orientals rushed to the city, captured him, and then the Roman army on the city wall was quickly occupied by the other party, and then began to advance into the city.

Pascal II had just sent Condra away, and was thinking about finding evidence of Maurice's betrayal in the future. When how to uproot the opponent's forces at the lowest cost, he suddenly heard a thunderous sound from the north side of the city, and then there was a great chaos in the city, as if there was some kind of commotion.

"What happened?" Pascal II was also interrupted from thinking, and asked in a loud voice to the outside with some dissatisfaction, as the Pope. Naturally, there is no shortage of people around him to take care of life, but the pope can't get married or have children, of course, if you really want to get married, it's not impossible, then you must step down from the pope's position, and there have been many popes in history who have given up the pope in order to get married.

With Pascal II's questioning, someone from outside immediately came in, but the people in the Lateran Palace also didn't know what was going on outside, so they couldn't answer Pascal II's question, which made Pascal II also very annoyed. Immediately sent someone to check, but before the people sent out returned, they saw someone running in in a panic and shouting: "Your Excellency Priest, the army of the Orientals outside has come in!" ”

"What?" Pascal II also stood up at once when he heard this, and then he listened carefully to the noise outside, among which there was indeed the shouting of the army and the screams of the people before they died, which made him also frightened, and hurriedly gathered all the guards of the Lateran Palace to prepare for defense.

The Lateran Palace is where the Pope resides and councils. It is equivalent to the imperial palace of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Lateran Palace is not only very tall and strong. In addition, there is also an elite knight of 5,000 people stationed in the palace, so that even if the Roman city is invaded, the Lateran Palace can be defended by tall walls and elite cavalry, plus a large amount of food is stored in the palace, even if it is guarded for a year, there is no problem.

Just as Pascal II had just prepared for the defense, the Great Song army that had entered the city had already arrived outside the Lateran Palace. After all, the Great Song army did not have military discipline like those barbarian armies, and after they entered the city, they would not do anything to ordinary people, but immediately split up to find valuable targets in the city to occupy, and the Lateran Palace, as the political center of the city, was naturally the first target of the Song army.

"Artillery ready!" The Song general, who led the army to the outside of the Lateran Palace, barely hesitated. Immediately ordered the subordinate artillery to push out the artillery, and then began to bombard the palace gate, although the palace gate is stronger than the Roman city gate, but also can not withstand the continuous bombardment of artillery, so the palace gate was soon blasted open, and then the Song army outside the palace swarmed in, the knights in the palace originally wanted to resist, but when the grenade and other gunpowder weapons flew in the palace, many knights' horses were frightened, did not listen to the command at all, and were easily defeated by the Song army.

At this time, the other Song troops also rushed to the Lateran Palace, and at the moment several armies combined together, it was very easy to occupy the Lateran Palace, Pope Pascal II originally wanted to escape from other directions, but was caught up by the Song army in the rear, and as a result, he was also captured by the Song army like Maurice and Condra, and their intrigue in the city of Rome also lost its meaning.

With the fall of the Lateran Palace, other important institutions in the city of Rome were also conquered by the Song army one by one, and the entire Roman city fell into the hands of the Song army. As a result, he was captured and beheaded by the Eastern army that had entered the city, and no one dared to make any moves again.

With Rome being controlled by the Song army, Hu Yanqing finally entered the city to inspect, and finally determined that the city of Rome was completely under their control, and there was no danger anymore, Zhao Jia and Agnes in the rear entered the city, and also held a grand ceremony to enter the city, so that all Romans knew that Princess Agnes, who had fled from Europe, had returned, and led a powerful army to regain his own throne.

If Zhao Jia directly announced that they came on behalf of the Great Song Dynasty, it would definitely provoke the Romans to revolt, after all, they are not only foreigners, but also not even Europeans, even if their strength is strong, but it is difficult to get the recognition of the Romans in a short time, but now it is different, Agnes was originally the princess of the Holy Roman Empire, although Rome is the capital of the Papal States, but the Papal States are also part of the Holy Roman Empire, and the emperor of the Roman Empire has led troops to attack the city of Rome many times. Therefore, the Romans also identified with the Holy Roman Empire, and now they got that the missing princess had returned, which made this war an internal struggle within the empire, and no matter who wins, it will have little impact on ordinary people.

It is also in the name of Agnes, coupled with the fact that the Great Song army did not rob and kill people after entering the city, and the military discipline is better than the army of the Holy See itself, which also makes ordinary people even less interested in this war, how most people should live or how to live, and the city of Rome quickly settled down.

In the Lateran Palace, Agnes quietly looked at the two people in front of her, one of these two is her eldest brother Condra, and the other is the current Pope Pascal II, it was the two of them who secretly colluded together to launch the first coup d'état in the empire, although it was not successful, but it created conditions for Agnes's second brother Henry Jr., but after Henry Jr. launched a coup d'état, her father Henry IV finally lost everything and finally died on the way to regain the throne.

"Agnes, my dear sister, I am so glad I didn't expect you to be alive!" Kondra looked at Agnes in front of him, the expression on his face changed several times, and finally showed a warm expression on his face, and it seemed that he was really happy about Agnes' return.

However, Agnes is no longer the innocent little girl she was back then, she can see her eldest brother's false face very clearly, but she is still a little uncomfortable in her heart, after all, she still has some feelings for her eldest brother, I remember that when she was a child, Condela also cared for her very much, and usually she caused any trouble, and Condela took it for her, but she never expected that now they can't even do the most basic honesty between their brothers and sisters.

"Big brother, I didn't expect us to meet again in this situation." Thinking of the former brother-sister relationship, Agnes suddenly sighed and said softly, although she resented her eldest brother for betraying her father, she was a soft-hearted woman after all, and she really couldn't be ruthless to treat Condra as an enemy.

"Agnes, I didn't expect to see you in this situation, but although I betrayed my father at the beginning, I just wanted to take back something that belonged to me, after all, you also know that my father doesn't like me, but likes your second brother Henry Jr., and even decided to pass the throne to your second brother, I decided to rebel in desperation, but I never wanted to hurt my father and you, and then I heard that my father suddenly died of illness and you didn't know where to go, I was also very sad, and I sent someone to look for you for a long time but couldn't find it." Kondra also showed a sad expression at this time, he knew his sister, knew that Agnes was a person with heavy feelings, as long as he said some soft words at this time, maybe Agnes could let him go.

But just as Condra's words fell, I suddenly saw a young oriental man walking in outside the door, holding a lovely child in his hand, and came to Agnes' side with a somewhat confident smile on his handsome face, and then glanced at Condela and said: "Presumably this is the eldest brother, hello, I am Agnes's husband, this is our child Zhao Hua." Hua'er, call uncle! (To be continued.) )