Chapter 584: Europe is over
On May 23, the 14th year of Jiajing, the battle of the Rhine, which can be said to be the largest number of participants in the history of the world and the most tragic in history, came to an end.
In this war, the military state invested 340,000 troops, the Holy See launched a holy war, and the regular army and reserve army invested nearly 3 million before and after!
The scale is simply outrageous!
For ten days, ten days and nights, the war on the Rhine never stopped for a minute!
The corpses were piled up into hills, and the battlefield land within a radius of more than ten miles was dyed dark red, and even digging down three feet, you could see dark red blood water!
Countless severed limbs and stumps, shattered corpses from the explosion, and charred corpses emitting black smoke everywhere.
This is a real purgatory on earth, and for Western Europeans, this is a hell shrouded in the shadow of Satan!
In this battle, the Wuguo army paid 80,000 casualties, of which more than 50,000 were killed on the spot!
The seven defensive formations of the martial army were broken through six ways, if it weren't for the complete defeat of the crusaders, perhaps the final outcome of the entire war would have been completely rewritten!
More than half of the Flying Army was lost, the heavy armor was almost non-existent, and the 16,700 artillery pieces of the Wu Army were not destroyed by the enemy, but more than half of them were blown up, and with the explosion of the artillery, more than 2,000 artillery were taken away!
Tragic...... The ultimate tragedy!
Daming ...... Even since the establishment of the new army of the Wu Dynasty, it has never experienced such a large battle loss, you must know that the emperor of the Wu Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao, led 3,000 musket cavalry to crisscross the grassland, killing the south and the north of the desert without a royal court!
On the seventh day, when the firearms of both sides could not be used in a large area, the war once again returned to its original taste, the hot military ended, and cold weapons became the mainstream of the war.
Zhu Houzhao, who personally went into battle, picked up the war knife that he hadn't picked up for a long time, came to the battle array, and killed the Quartet, the dignified Taiwu Emperor went to the battlefield like a tiger out of the cage, and there was almost no enemy in his hands!
The delicate armor was full of marks of swords and axes, and the guards beside Zhu Houzhao were desperately guarding them, and the casualties were almost exhausted!
In this Western Europe, in this dog-like land beaten by the Mongols, the mighty Ming army experienced such battle losses, which is shocking!
If it were any other war, then the battle loss would be as high as 80,000, which would be a fiasco, but in this great battle on the banks of the Rhine, in the earth-shattering collision of these two civilizations, the results were enough to be called a great victory and a wild victory!
In this battle, the Holy See launched a holy war in the name of God, with a million troops, two or three million reservists, and a total of more than three million troops put into the battlefield, and finally died on the battlefield, and more than 500,000 crusaders could be found with their whole corpses!
It is impossible to count the fragments, but there are at least 100,000!
There is also the rout of the crusaders, who could no longer bear the casualties and could not bear the fear on the eve of the end of the war, and the defeated armies trampled on each other, and even rushed across the rear of the reserves, and the ranks of the armed forces pursued and killed, capturing more than 700,000 Crusader soldiers, of which more than 100,000 were killed due to serious injuries!
This war was almost completely finished for the military personnel of Western European countries, and this war completely broke the backbone of European countries and completely swept away the prestige of the Holy See.
Pope Clement VII, who started the holy war, fled in panic and disappeared, but it is conceivable that the Holy See launched the holy war under his leadership, which is a double-edged sword, and if he wins, he will become the greatest pope in the history of the Holy See, and in the same way, if he loses, he will be a sinner of the Holy See, a sinner of the whole of Europe.
Because jihad means all-or-nothing, it means gambling everything, and if the gambler loses, he may just go bankrupt, and if he loses, Europe is finished......
Kuhn, who took over the command from Clement, drew his sword from his waist between defeats, and then wiped his neck, he lost, he could only die, kill himself, or at least be a hero.
Versailles.
The energetic Zhu Houzhao sat on the throne, he had indeed abdicated, but the prince ...... Nobody cares about that.
"Your Majesty......" Yang Ping came out of the ranks, with a bright light on his face, and said with a smile: "The battlefield has been cleared, the remains and stumps of all the crusaders have been dug and buried deeply, and a huge grave has been erected. Dare to ask Your Majesty, when will you wave into the north and conquer the whole of Europe! ”
The crowd in the hall was excited, and the Battle of the Rhine was victorious, and from now on, the military army will have no opponents in the land of Europe!
The army of the Wu Kingdom only needs to march to seize a large area of the territory of European countries without bloodshed!
That's the bonus of the battle!
Zhu Houzhao rarely sat on the top seriously, listened to Yang Pingzhi's question, but did not answer, but said: "War is never just military, do you know why in the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of troops are unbreakable loyal to Emperor Jiajing?"
Yang Ping smiled bitterly, as a Confucian, he didn't look down on being a soldier from his bones, but no one dared to put this kind of idea on the surface now, otherwise whether it was in Daming or Dawu, he would definitely die an extremely ugly death!
"His Majesty Jiajing loves soldiers like sons, and the military regulations and military laws formulated by him personally cover wartime, non-wartime, as well as such as aftermath, pension, etc., so that all soldiers have no worries, so dare to fight, willing to fight! And all this was given by His Majesty Jiajing, so he won the loyalty of the soldiers of the world. ”
Zhu Houzhao sneered: "That's right, but I didn't talk about the key!" In my opinion, it is because Daming gave the soldiers dignity and honor! Let every soldier know the meaning and value of his existence, this is the so-called centripetal force and cohesion! As for what kind of pension and aftermath, it is completely due, if a country can't even guarantee the soldiers, then dare to expect the army to fight to the death for the country? ”
"Your Majesty is talking about ......" Yang Ping silently retreated to the court.
"What Da Ming can do, I can also do, Da Ming can give the honor to the soldiers, I can also give, pass on the decree!"
All the ministers bowed down, even if they knew what Emperor Taiwu was going to do, but no one had the intention of opening their mouths to stop them, to be honest, the officials who had experienced the Jiajing Dynasty had been scared, cold fear, and fear from the bottom of their hearts.
Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Houwei, two brothers, one is a scholar and the other is martial arts, complementing each other, which can be called a model of kings for thousands of years......
"Build a monument on the site of the Battle of the Rhine, and engrave the name of every soldier who died in this battle on it, for future generations to pay homage to and pay homage to!"
"Ministers obey ......"
"The army invaded the Vatican, completely changed the largest church in the Vatican, changed it into the Dawu Heroes Memorial Hall, and erected the Dawu Heroes Monument in front of the museum, how to do it, refer to Daming's!"
"Ministers obey ......"
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