Chapter 583: Bitter Battle

Kuhn's face was so ugly that it almost dripped!

As a survivor of the Battle of Andorra, the horrors of that night are once again unfolding before your eyes, and it will inevitably evoke terrifying memories that are hidden deep in your heart but never faded.

Unlike the Pope, who had a fluke mentality, Kuhn was very sober, he knew that the survival of the whole of Europe was at stake, and that there was no retreat for the whole of Europe.

Only by defeating the military country head-on on the banks of the Rhine can it be possible to usher in a respite for the European countries!

Because the high-level nobles all know that behind Dawu, there is a stronger, more desperate kingdom Daming!

The idea that Clement still wants to go through a big war like last time, and then get Wu and Western Europe to a negotiating table seems extremely ridiculous in Kuhn's eyes, with the terrifying power of the Ming Dynasty at sea, if Wu Guo wins, he will not worry about immigrants to occupy the land, and Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of Wu State, only needs to fight steadily, at most two years, it is enough to completely penetrate the whole of Europe and annihilate all the kingdoms on the land of Europe, and there is no suspense!

A tiger can negotiate with a lion, but never with an ant that can be easily trampled to death, there is no doubt about that!

Kuhn also wanted to force Wu Guo to the negotiating table, because he knew that even if he could defeat the Wu Dynasty, he would definitely not be the opponent of Dongfang Daming.

This kind of news did not spread in Europe, but Kuhn knew that the current Ming Dynasty was at least two or three hundred years ahead of Western Europe!

And this gap will only get bigger and bigger as time goes on!

And the one who created it all was the greatest monarch of the East in thousands of years!

Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houwei!

So Kuhn knew that even if he defeated Dawu, it would be useless, but the battle of the Rhine could never be defeated, and it must be won, only by victoriously capturing Emperor Jiajing's brother, that is, Emperor Zhu Houzhao of Wuguo, and then holding the lives of millions of Han people in his hands, can he return to the negotiating table and force Daming to compromise!

This is the only way out in Europe!

But Kuhn never dreamed that the military industry, which had been prepared for several years and had almost exhausted the vitality of the Holy See, would be so vulnerable!

The war began with a one-sided situation, with the brave and fearless Crusaders rushing at the enemy with a devout belief in the Lord, and then falling in droves, countless warriors screaming in the flames, and the burning men scurrying wildly, eventually falling and being burned to the ground.

From the beginning of the war to the present, half a day has passed, and the number of Crusaders has reached tens of thousands, and the number is still increasing rapidly, according to the current situation...... Kuhn didn't dare to think about it, but he had no way out, so he could only gamble!

This is a holy war, there is no oracle, as long as the faith in the Lord is not shaken, then it is impossible for any warrior to retreat because of fear, but anyone who retreats is questioning his own faith, and after the war, he will also be sent to the Inquisition for ruling!

Zhu Houzhao's brows became tighter and tighter, the sea of fire in the distance covered a large area, and it was initially estimated that at least twenty or thirty thousand crusader warriors were trapped in the sea of fire, waiting for the final orders of these warriors, and nine times out of ten they would be burned to death.

The heavy casualties did not make the crusaders flinch, and now the sound of artillery in the artillery positions seemed to be becoming more and more sparse.

There is indeed a lot of ammunition, but the high-intensity artillery shooting has already turned the barrel dark red, and if it continues, the artillery will probably explode in large areas!

Although the crusaders were bombed on their backs, but the number of soldiers was too large, a million troops, not afraid of death, if the enemy army did not have an overwhelming advantage, then no matter who faced this force, the final outcome would inevitably be torn apart!

Reorganized again and again, scattered again and again, the crusader warriors who were wrapped in the power of faith at this moment took firm and fearless steps, stepping on the corpse of the robe and continuing to advance towards the Ming army's position!

In the end, it was within a mile of the artillery camp!

"The biography will be ordered, bazooka, shoot!"

Three hundred rockets erupted, and the simple design of the war killing weapon that represents the latest achievements of the Ming military industry has no place in the East, but for the first time on the banks of the Rhine, it has bloomed its unique edge!

At the same time, the Flying Army, which had returned to the camp to replenish its fuel and oil tanks, had already controlled the fireball and flew into the air again.

The use of rocket artillery is like opening Pandora's box!

The Wu Dynasty army, which had almost no casualties, several armies from the middle army, began to attack from both flanks, and in an instant, the gunfire was loud and connected.

Rows and rows of crusaders were shot over, and after being completely freed, they had a painful smile on their faces, as if they had truly returned to the arms of the Lord.

The crusaders' fearlessness of death was beyond Zhu Houzhao's imagination, which also made him really begin to face up to the faith of the Europeans.

The entire battlefield was completely shrouded in gunpowder smoke, and the range of the Crusaders' muskets was indeed not as long as the range of the armed muskets, but the Crusader impact entered the range of the armed muskets, which meant that the distance between the two armies had been stretched to a very short time!

Although the platoon shooting of the armed army caused heavy casualties to the Crusaders, the Crusaders who rushed to the front finally had the capital to go head-to-head!

War! Zhu Houzhao's understanding of war is very comprehensive, and in his inherent cognition, the casualties that can be caused by the killing moments on the battlefield are actually very limited compared to the overall military strength.

For example, the crusaders now have millions of enemy troops on the battlefield, but it does not mean that they will win the war by slaughtering these million enemy troops.

In fact, when the casualties reach a certain base, people will be afraid, such as 100,000 corpses, then the living warriors will naturally rise to fear the battlefield, so that they will retreat, rout, and then be chased by the tail until slaughter!

The Battle of Changping in Chinese history is a typical example, 600,000 Qin troops faced 450,000 Zhao troops, and after defeating, besieging, calculating and other means, the 450,000 Zhao troops who finally collapsed their psychology chose to surrender after paying the price of tens of thousands of dead and wounded, and the final result was that they were buried alive by the killing god Bai Qi.

It's the same this time, Zhu Houzhao plans to rely on the advantage of sharp firearms to inflict terror on the crusaders, and then destroy the psychological defense line of the crusader soldiers, let the defeated army flee, and then cover up the killing!

But the crusaders are now almost wiped out as a formation, but there is no sign of the slightest rout, these crazy attacking enemy troops are like their father-killing enemies, and they would rather die themselves than fall on the way to charge, opening a bloody passage for the comrades behind!

The battlefield suddenly became extremely stale, the various formations of the armed army were running at great speed, and the two armies were completely caught in a bitter battle!

Eastern civilization and Western civilization collide fiercely on the banks of the Rhine, no one has a way out, no one can lose, no one can bear the price of defeat, then the only choice is to fight to the death!

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