At that time a year ago, when the Church learned that the Spanish Empire was being attacked by Portugal and France, and that the capital Madrid was in danger, it immediately asked the Holy Roman Empire to send troops to attack France.

The Church also knew very well at that time that the Spanish thugs could not be defeated.

Because if Spain were defeated, it would be very bad for the Church.

After all, the Spanish royal family is still relatively loyal to the church, and such a country can be described as a gold medal fighter.

If Spain loses its support, will the church still be convinced to speak in the future?

Nowadays, it is no longer the time of the foolishness of the Middle Ages, and it is not up to the church to say everything.

After hundreds of years of development, the European continent has now begun to understand the enlightenment of science and technology, and people's thinking has begun to change.

This is something that worries and fears the church very much.

Although the Church still has some say in Europe at this time, and can still fool some people.

But compared to the Middle Ages, the church has much less say today.

It is for this reason that the church needs a thug who is strong in force and who is still very loyal and obedient to itself.

Only with the existence of such a thug can the church continue to be powerful.

Therefore, Spain must not afford to lose.

This is something that is very clear to the church.

It was for this reason that the Church was able to come up with a sum of money at that time and persuade the Holy Roman Empire to send troops.

This was done only to help the obedient thug of Spain, and at the same time to help the church itself.

And after helping Spain, the church did not lose at all.

As long as the Spanish colonies existed, the Church could continue to expand its power through the Spanish colonies.

It was also thanks to the rise of the Spaniards during the Age of Discovery, that the power of the Church was once again expanded.

Although there were always problems with missionary matters in the Americas and Africa. But it finally made the church stand, didn't it?

The Church believes that if it is done well, then those indigenous people can definitely become the lambs of God, another object that they can deceive.

It's just that the expansion of the church's power in the east is not very successful, and it is really nerve-wracking to think that the people in the East do not believe in God, and people believe in the Buddha and the Three Qings.

Since the Portuguese discovered the East and opened the shipping routes, the Church has been infiltrating the East again, but with the Portuguese being annexed by the Spaniards. Then the Dutch also arrived in the East, and in the more than 100 years since the Church had not developed much in the East at all.

However, as long as the Spaniards were able to maintain this momentum, the Church believed that it would be possible to develop believers in the East, and to defraud them of a great deal of wealth from the East.

Unfortunately, the Church's relief of Spain was destroyed by the American Volunteers. Eventually, the Spaniards were defeated by the Portuguese, and even the capital city of Madrid was conquered.

That's not all, even the Spanish royal family is nowhere to be found, and they don't know where to go.

You say how could the church swallow that?

That's the Spanish brother who has always been deferential to him.

Defeated like this?

If the Spaniards just disappeared into history. Where do you ask the church to find such an obedient and obedient thug brother again?

Therefore, Spain must be restored.

Only in this way can the church maintain its current status and right to speak.

Regardless of the fact that the Church is now at war with the princes of the Habsburgs, they have united against the Protestant coalition.

But both the Church and the Habsburgs knew it. Everybody is just taking advantage of each other.

The Habsburgs took advantage of the prestige of the Church and its ability to deceive the people, as well as some financial support that the Church could give from time to time.

The Church, on the other hand, used the armed might of the Habsburg vassal states.

It's all about taking what you need.

But if the Protestant coalition is defeated, then what awaits the Habsburgs and the Church will definitely be the end of parting ways.

The reason is simple. The Habsburgs knew the people of the church too well to know what they were.

Some films, just perverted.

These people. In addition to the God they deduced, it is definitely a great scourge for the rule of secular emperors and princes.

Therefore, it is impossible for those in the Habsburg princely states to be ignorant of the truth.

And the church knows exactly what they are in the eyes of these people.

Now, the Spanish brother has been defeated like this.

The church is already in a hurry.

Fortunately, they and the Habsburgs are now in their honeymoon period, and we still have deep cooperation.

Therefore, the Church immediately decided to use the military power of the Habsburgs to restore the Spanish nation.

And for this reason, the church also took out a large sum of money, which really changed the image of the iron rooster in the past.

As if that were not enough, the Church sent a large number of supplies to the Holy Roman Empire, helping them to reassemble a legion of 50,000 men.

After the completion of this 50,000-strong legion, it immediately left for the border area where the American Volunteer Army was stationed.

The Church was confident that this time the Holy Roman Empire would be able to defeat the hateful Americans, and let them know that Europe was not a place where they could run amok.

But to the Church's surprise, the legions of the Holy Roman Empire, after leaving for the border, stopped and never moved again.

According to the other general's statement, we must be careful and careful in dealing with the American Volunteer Army, after all, the conflict left a deep impression on the generals of the Holy Roman Empire a few years ago.

An army of only eight or nine thousand people defeated the 60,000-strong legion of the Holy Roman Empire at that time, which made the generals of the Holy Roman Empire suddenly lose their courage.

Especially the barbarians of the Americas, after defeating them, do not take prisoners at all.

They beheaded captured Holy Roman Empire soldiers and piled them up on the border as a warning.

How could such a barbaric contingent not make the Holy Roman Empire, those who were accustomed to the knightly manners of Europe, feel fearful and frightened.

In the past, even if everyone was defeated, they could survive, and the most they could do was pay a little ransom.

But fighting the Americans is different. They don't know what chivalry is, and they don't want a ransom at all.

It can be said that as long as the battle is defeated and captured, then there is only one end 'death', which is what no one wants.

How good it is to be alive.

You can enjoy food, enjoy the warmth of your mistress, and the taste of oppressing the people.

But if you die, you're really nothing.

It is precisely for this reason that the reconstituted legions of the Holy Roman Empire will not go forward after being killed.

It's very weird and the American Corps. Confrontation across the border.

If you don't come anyway, I won't come.

Everybody's here to watch.

Most of the high-ranking generals and non-commissioned officers in the Holy Roman Empire's army had fought against the American armies in previous conflicts.

They are all too aware of the power of the Legion of America, and the strange fighting styles that emerge one after another.

Not to mention the musket, the Americans invented a powerful tactic that Europeans are still learning to this day.

And the other side also has a small weapon that can explode, this thing is too powerful.

Yes, the battle of the year ago. In addition to the muskets that gave them a glimpse of what it means to slaughter and send them to death, there was also a bottle bomb that gave them a taste of power.

During this time, the Holy Roman Empire also began to study this bottle bomb, but they did not have the ability to do it like the Americans. Very good control of gunpowder.

As a result, their bottle bombs often explode on their own, injuring or maiming their own people for no apparent reason.

In the end, they had to give up the development.

And years ago the conflict. There were also many low-level soldiers who retreated in defeat, and with their return to the Americans, the fierceness and cruelty of the Americans spread with their big mouths.

Let the populace of the Holy Roman Empire. Zhilu explained the strength of the enemy they were facing.

Among them, the most affected are the newly recruited soldiers.

From the moment they entered the barracks, they were instilled with this kind of thing and philosophy by the veterans from time to time.

The Americans are cruel, they don't need to be captured, so when you face them in the future, you must be careful not to be caught by the other party, otherwise you will die.

They will torture people and then cut off your head.

Not even if you plead.

The Americans are powerful, their weapons are sharp, you can't get close to their queue at all, and you'll only be greeted by countless buckshots.

Hey, it's useless even if you rush over, as long as you get closer, you'll encounter more powerful weapons.

The kind of bombs that are thrown all over the place, and if they explode, the companions in a large area around you, and even yourself, will die no more.

Even those who survived were crippled.

Often, when talking about this, the veterans would point to some handless beggars outside the barracks for the recruits to see.

See, those people used to be soldiers, they were crippled in the battle with the Americans years ago, and now you look at what they look like, so death is not terrible, what is terrible is that you are better off than dead.

Yes, there is no guarantee for wounded soldiers in this era, and those guys who have lost their ability to fight and become crippled are kicked out of the barracks early in the morning and left to fend for themselves.

For a soldier, this is quite a terrible thing.

Because they have become crippled, they are still wounded, and the state does not care about them, and they are not even compensated when they leave the army, so these crippled soldiers live in great hardship.

Begging has become the only way they can live now.

However, a large proportion of disabled soldiers died in pain without receiving effective treatment.

Even those who survived ended up being filthy beggars, who wandered back outside the barracks all day long, and if they were lucky, they could get a little charity from their former comrades-in-arms so that they would not starve to death.

That's the brutal truth that the recruits see and feel.

They don't want to be like this, they don't want to be crippled, they don't want to be beggars.

Therefore, the newly formed corps, from the bottom to the top, did not have the will to fight.

Everyone tried their best to avoid a head-on conflict with the Americans, because they were really scared.

The priests who accompanied the army kept persuading or threatening.

However, the commander of the corps, who commanded it, was just indifferent.

Faced with such a situation, the church had no choice but to report the matter to the Vatican and the top of the Holy Roman Dynasty for them to deal with.

For such a situation, the American Corps is of course willing to see it.

As long as the other party does not take the initiative to attack them, then they are happy to maintain a confrontation with the other party like this.

After all, they were only volunteers, and the main command guaranteed that the place where they were stationed would not be conquered by the enemy.

As for the rest, that's not something they can care about.

It is precisely because of this that the war in the western part of France is in full swing, but the American volunteers here are not affected at all.

The French could not command them, they just obeyed orders from the Americas.

And because of the existence of the Legion of America, the border in the southeast of France has actually remained stable.

Although Mary complained about this, the war did not expand too much anyway, and the Holy Roman Empire was frightened.

This is also a good thing for the French.

It's a pity that some people don't want to continue to see such a good thing.

The Vatican, on the other hand, received news that the Holy Roman Empire was facing off with the Legion of America on the southeastern border of France, and at the same time did not take the initiative to attack at all, and at the same time, it also received news from secret channels that priests and priests were slaughtered again in Manhattan in the Song Empire on the American continent.

The process of this news is very detailed and objective, and how the pastors slowly developed and then expanded the number of believers are described in great detail.

Even those priests and priests, because of a momentary dizziness, instigated the believers to riot and sent troops to the empire to ruthlessly suppress them, and then those priests and priests were caught and publicly interrogated and hanged.

In particular, during the public trial of the priests and priests, the words spoken in public by the people of the Song Empire, as well as the words that revealed the most secret facts of the Church, shook the Vatican's upper echelons.

To be honest, Zhao Hongyu and the others actually guessed some things about the church by themselves.

But they knew there that these YY and random speculations happened to run into dead rats.

In particular, the 'confession' in the church seems to be for people to achieve spiritual liberation, but in fact it is a matter of obtaining the secrets of the hearts of the people and even the nobles, and then sorting them out for the sake of benefit.

These things were poked out by the Song Empire in the Americas, how could the Vatican just ignore them.

Bastard!

How did they know this secret? (To be continued......)