"Euro, what are you going to do?!" The middle-aged mercenary also had the strength and experience to be on the Battle Spirit List, and he did not have any surprise in the face of the threat of death, his face sank like water, and he lowered his voice and asked fiercely, and his left hand was given a small gesture to his cronies behind him.

"Sorry! Your Excellency. Between the two of my homeland and professional loyalty, I had no choice. As to why, you should ask the Holy See......"

The two guards behind Temugoral took advantage of the moment's slight hesitation and threw their swords at Oro's face.

No matter how good a soldier is, as long as he hits the middle of his face, there will be an illusion of distance, Euro subconsciously leaned back, instantly knew that he had made a mistake, and the bowstring in his hand immediately loosened, Temugoral immediately drew his sword and filed his body in the moment just now, and the light blue arrow feathers shot from the shoulders of the heavily armored ones, and they did not stop at all and went out directly, and then through the body of another soldier and finally shot into the battlements on the wall.

"Elven archers rebel...... Fast...... Crack down on ...... immediately"

Such shouts of killing reached the ears of the two extremely tired brave men, Iron Hand Railing and Han Han, and their hearts sank at the same time, and their faces turned to ashes...... Finished...... The same thought came to the minds of the two men.

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In many cases, people have to believe that there are gods three feet above the ground, and even more so, they have to believe that there is an invisible hand of fate that controls everything in the dark.

The battle of Rhodes City, logically, should not have any suspense. A city with a population of more than 100,000, with more than 15,000 soldiers and mercenaries, and two dragon knights to help it, there is no possibility of losing. In fact, it is almost the case, at four o'clock in the morning on January 4, the summer of the 6th year of the magic calendar, although the walls of Rhodes City were broken by catapults in many places, and thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the battle, but there was still an elite reserve of 1,000 people in the hands of the Grand Duke of the Iron Hand Barricade that had not been put into the war, and 50% of the people who had been organized had not yet been put into the front-line war.

At this moment, the Thousand Warriors of the Prairie Elves, who were relied on by the Sweat and Blood Mercenary Group to defend the Great Wall, suddenly betrayed on all fronts.

In the early days of the War of the Gods, the Holy See did a few things that the world (only referring to the Eminole Continent) could not understand at all, such as the former suddenly claiming that the orcs of the dirty and even uncivilized Fanos Continent were one of the chosen people of the gods, and why did they not stand on the side of the Amy Empire in the War of the Gods, this series of seemingly unreasonable things was called the four mysteries of the Holy See. These four mysteries are called the "Twelve Mysteries of the War of the Gods", along with several mysteries such as Regg's prophecy that Amy cannot and will not become a Phantom Beast Knight.

The third of the four mysteries of the Holy See is that after the fall of Qifu City, the headquarters of the Holy See carried out a series of "revenge" acts against southern Xinjiang.

January of the 6th year of the Magic Calendar. The two cardinal archbishops were given carte blanche to deal with the aftermath of Gifu City, and considering the heavy casualties that would inevitably take place after the war, the two archbishops also made a special trip with a chaplaincy of 500 people in the hope of saving the lives as quickly as possible. However, the tragic situation of Gifu Castle slashed through the eyes of all the priests like a knife. According to the data in the Holy See system, there are more than 6,730 boys under the age of 13 in the whole city of Gifu Castle alone, and in stark contrast to this number, tens of thousands of charred-shaped corpses that fell near the four gates of Gifu Castle - the iron-fisted methods of the Black Dragon Knights threw the priests to the ice and snow continent and froze their hearts. The vast majority of priests are so good-hearted that they could not imagine that an army could do such a unconscionable thing.

Maybe it's really a mistake, not long after, the incident of the secret massacre of the regular army in Delhi City was also exposed, and after that, the news that some villages and towns bowed to the Black Dragon Knights and provided strong labor with the army also reached Ulu, for the Holy See, news like this is a bit hard-won...... Yes, it needs to be used to describe the word "hard".

Chi Aotian swept the southern frontier of the Huayu Plain with 5,000 partial divisions, won many battles, and captured the city, which is completely a challenge to the dignity of the Holy See, which is known as the closest to God, and after the bloody night in the imperial capital, the Holy See has been trying its best to belittle the combat power of hostile countries such as the Amy Empire to boost the morale of the people, and the Black Dragon Knights Expeditionary Force undoubtedly gave His Majesty the Pope a shining slap in the face. Now, the Holy See finally has a fig leaf - it's not the invincibility of the Black Dragon Knights at all, it's some shameless apostate people who collude with foreign countries, murder clergy, and so on.

For the vanity and exasperation of the Holy See, this news was enough. In Ulu, after His Majesty the Pope made the decision to severely punish traitors and traitors, it is not difficult to imagine that on the front line of Gifu City, the angry priests will definitely escalate this order infinitely.

In a short period of more than 10 days, all villages and towns that Chi Aotian's army might pass through on the way to the expedition were investigated, and all villages and towns that showed signs of supporting the expeditionary force were sentenced to capital punishment -- although the instructors in white robes did not have the courage to compete with Chi Aotian's army, they were not slow at all to slaughter their own people. The innocent people who had just escaped Chi Aotian's killing ended up lying under their own knives. Under the deliberate propaganda of the Holy See, the news quickly spread to the interior, and the meaning of the Holy See was very simple - to prevent the recurrence of similar things with boundless killing, and to trap the murderous army in the steppe.

At this time, there was reliable information that a foreign village had received the Chi Aotian Northern Expedition and provided them with sufficient supplies such as bows and arrows. The two cardinal archbishops took this matter very seriously. Out of prudence, the two bishops sent two envoys to this beautiful little village to find out - and the results speak for themselves. The steppe elves did not expect that the guests who had come from afar had hidden bad intentions, especially the children, and answered almost all the questions with great honesty, and what was even more interesting to the secret envoys was that a large number of weapons and equipment that should have belonged to the priests were found in this small village, and there were even many items of the clergy.

Both human and physical evidence are plural.

All this was enough to make anyone decide—the two archbishops, in keeping with the Pope's will, did not take the small village too seriously, let alone report the matter to Ulu, but gave the order for the massacre—and the two archbishops did not understand what kind of people this alien village was made up of until the time of the order, and they did not want to understand such frivolous things as a noble status of dedication to God.

A large caravan disguised by priests suddenly attacked the steppe elf village, holy words, condemnations, thunder spells, and immobilization...... The priests were echoed by the divine magic elves to the maximum in the bright sun, and countless white magic rays of light shrouded the entire small village like a tsunami. The elves did not expect such a dirty attack to be hidden under the holy robes, and before they could organize any resistance, the village had been razed to the ground. According to incomplete statistics after the incident, more than 700 grassland elves were stained with blood.

All this happened to be seen by the elven lookout in the distance, and the pale blue wind system long arrow shot quickly towards the highest power organization of the steppe elves, the Elder Body.

The result of such an evil * thing is self-evident, plus I already know the position of the forest elves. Of the 17 elders, only one of the oldest elders still wanted to negotiate with the Holy See again, and the other 16 elders all agreed that war should be waged against the Holy See, and at the very least, the people who were fighting on the side of the Holy See must be withdrawn.

Finally, at the end of January of the 6th year of the Magic Calendar, the steppe elves declared the whole clan in a state of war for the first time in the name of the kingdom. The officially declared enemy is the Holy See, which kills innocents, and the allies are the forest elves, the suzerains who have not yet made a timely statement.

On the same day, all clergy in the steppe elves' sphere of influence were expelled from the country.

On the same day, the news of the war officially entered the Mercenary Guild and the Mage's Guild, and on the same day, hundreds of the strongest elves rode the best horses in the prairie to spread the news to all the prairie elves and half-elves with steppe elf blood.

Seeing the chaos on the city wall, Su Wen was startled at first, and then thought that this would not be a trap, but the old soldier still made a winning decision in an instant - to attack the city! More than a dozen cyan swift dragon flags were raised high at the same time, each flag represented a squadron, and the snare drum beat instantly. The cyan Allied forces moved on all fronts, and in the shouts of killing, nearly a thousand ladders swept towards Rhodes City like huge waves.

"Quick! shouted together: 'The steppe elf is Neiying, and the iron hand blocking the river has been shot to death!'" After saying this, Su Wen had time to look back at Chi Aotian's order.

The galloping knight turned his horse's head and rushed directly to the Aotian army, and several forest elves were afraid of unnecessary conflicts between the two, so they fell down with the vultures. The steppe elf knight handed a long arrow to the forest elf, and the shaft of the arrow was engraved with words, oh...... It was the next elf language, and the long arrow was then sent to the hands of the deputy captain of the forest elf, Qing Bula, and the good news was only learned by Chi Aotian after two transfers.

"Attack on all fronts!" There was no reason for the steppe elves to set a trap, and without any hesitation, Chi Aotian immediately gave an order, and then summoned to leave the dragon.

"Rush-rush-"

At this moment of the war, there is no suspense at all, and when I learned the news that the entire village of the clan was slaughtered, and I was still here to work for the executioner, the angry steppe elves all took the mercenary group cadres and the officers of the swordsman battalion as their targets, such a short distance, calculated from the moment of rebellion, in less than 1 minute, except for the two arrow towers on the entire southern city wall, all the officers were removed by the lightning arrow feathers.

The mercenaries and swordsmen woke up from their shock, and then they saw the black pressure on the entire line of the legion outside the city wall, without the command of the officer, and they had to face the cold arrows shot by the robes around them, and the city wall was in chaos.

Han Han and the Iron Hand Barrier River stepped on the dragon at the same time, and at the same moment, Qingluo and Chi Aotian rushed up like lightning with their mounts, there was no threat from the grassland elves under the city, and behind the two people were hundreds of wild vulture elf knights, the distance of two or three hundred meters was simply wonderful for the forest elves, and the green short arrow seemed to directly ignore the distance, and the time from leaving the string to entering the body was so short that it could be ignored.

The two fire-type dragon knights suddenly felt the boundless pressure.

Chi Aotian's blood-like inch Yan dragon spear followed after the rain of arrows broke through the air, of course, the iron hand blocked the river already knew the power of this rumored dragon spear from the divine realm, and the shield in his hand pushed out obliquely, at this critical moment, the Grand Duke's brave instinctively felt a death-like threat approaching silently from a distance, and in the green arrow rain suddenly flashed two bows and arrows with arcs, one after the other, the Grand Duke swung his sword and cut off one with all his might, and was just about to cut off the second, but he didn't expect that this short arrow suddenly changed direction at a distance of less than one meter, and crossed a 70The small bend of the ° shot in from under the armpit of the shield's left arm, and the powerful force of the fire brought a cloud of blood mist from the shoulder. Ahh Legend has it that this is a short arrow blessed with powerful magic, which can suddenly change direction in a very small range with the will, and there are quite a few brave people who are planted under this skill.

"Hanhan! Organize a breakthrough! I will take the heavy knight to break the rear! Quickly!" Having lost the best weapon to restrain the forest elves, the iron hand blocked the river and immediately made a decision, and gave the order to retreat without hesitation.

The defeat was like a mountain, in the enemy's heartfelt shouts, there was no officer to command, the entire Rhodes City defense circle collapsed instantly, and the warriors who were still fighting bravely just now immediately became the deserters who did not hesitate to wave the long arrow in their hands at themselves in order to escape for their lives, and they were defeated, and at this time, no one could turn the tide.

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The second attack and defense battle of Rhodes City lasted 19 hours, and finally ended in a crushing defeat for the bloody mercenary group. In this battle, the Iron and Blood Mercenary Regiment participated in the battle into 5 thousand-man teams and the knight squad directly under the regiment commander, with a total of 5,323 people. After this battle, in addition to the 1,000-strong team of steppe elf archers who rebelled, a total of 1,310 mercenaries left Rhodes City alive, and more than 1,200 mercenaries from other mercenary groups, more than 1,500 swordsmen and more than 3,000 residents escaped from the city. Also in the battle, the Black Dragon Knights participated in the main force of 5,057 people, 19,830 allied troops, 62,845 innocent people, after the battle, the Black Dragon Knights, the small mercenary group killed a total of 238 people, more than 100 seriously injured, 8,932 allied troops were killed, and only more than 13,000 people came to see the morning sun the next day.

On the day of the conquest of the city, all the more than 100,000 residents of Rhodes were slaughtered on the spot, except for more than 10,000 young women. Seeing the fruits of victory, the allies, including the people who were coerced, had long forgotten their position and participated in the two-day victory and plunder. Chi Aotian fulfilled his promise, and the city was not burned by fire, but was handed over relatively intact to the residents who came from the coercion, allowing them to empty everything here at will. This is the effect of Chi Aotian, resistance, whoever resists, there is no way out.

The 1,000-strong steppe elves fought here, suffering equally heavy casualties, with only 368 people surviving. The elves refused Chi Aotian and Qingluo's retention-there were too many reasons, as elves, if it weren't for the slaughter of their clansmen, they would never shoot their own robes, and in this battle, both the grassland elves and the forest elves had people die under each other's arrows, which the elves couldn't face. On the afternoon of the break, the elves supported each other to return to the tribe where the Elders were located.

After two days of repairs, the Black Dragon Knights Expeditionary Force continued to advance northward, starting from Rhodes City, the expeditionary force had already set foot on the continental road, and from here, it really entered the hinterland of the Holy See, and in front, a series of cities were dotted ......

During the two days of repair, Su Wen, as the spokesperson of Chi Aotian, canonized 11 outstanding military achievements as lifelong nobles in the fief of the Grand Duke of Huayu and enjoyed a considerable fief. It is as simple as that to maintain the motivation of military warfare, on the one hand, boundless hatred, and on the other hand, infinite glorious rewards.

When the news reached Ulu and Scambrai, the Holy See and the Western Emperor's headquarters were shocked. Originally, he didn't expect the Sweat and Blood Iron Cavalry to defeat the Black Dragon Knights, but he definitely didn't expect that he wouldn't last 24 hours in a frontal siege battle. In this case, the base camp once again increased the importance of the Black Dragon Knights, and ordered the Norton Third Legion to immediately end the repair, and the starry night rushed to the Flower Language Plain through the boundary forest, in order to increase the chances of victory, the base camp transferred two new legions from the mercenary empire to participate in the hunt in the Flower Language Plain.

In order to raise the morale of the people of the diocese and to commemorate the first city to truly resist the invaders, His Holiness the Pope made a special decision - to build an incomparable cathedral. The scale of this church is unmatched, she will be built on the basis of the original site of Rhodes City, with the original city wall as the church wall, hundreds of huge stone pillars erected inside, between the stone pillars to erect beams to build houses, the largest chanting hall area of more than 20,000 square meters. According to the proposal of the Mianyang Empire, in this cathedral, two supreme gods were enshrined at the same time. The eastern church is dedicated to the god of light, and the western church is dedicated to the god of war.

The most special thing about this cathedral is its material. In order to commemorate the innocent parishioners who were martyred in the holy war, His Majesty the Pope sent an envoy to transport the skulls of all the soldiers and civilians killed in the invasion of the Black Dragon Knights from all over the country to Rhodes City, and put them neatly in the ground at the groundbreaking ceremony, hoping that these innocent victims could enjoy God's protection in heaven. In the cathedral, all the utensils are made of human bones, the first thing you see when you enter the cathedral is 12 giant chandeliers with a diameter of six meters that symbolize the 12 main gods, each of which is made of 89 skulls, the center hangs the lamp, the light shines to the ground through the eyes of the skull, and in any part of the lamp you look up, you will see a skeleton looking at you like a torch; in each hall, there is a cross made of human leg bones; on every interior door hangs a hanging curtain made of human finger bones; in the largest baptistery there is even a human forehead with the hardest of the foreheadsThe papal crown made of "nian bones", the milky white gas lamp in the church is made of human skin, and on both sides of all the corridors, there are lifelike sculptures that are so realistic that people can't tell them, for the simple reason that these sculptures are made entirely of real human bones, and the more than 1,200 burly knights in gold armor in the church are also molded from the bones of the nobles killed in this war...... By the time the cathedral was actually completed, the victims were all shrouded in the light of God.

Similarly, in order to show the majesty of the main god, the Holy See erected a full 100,000 black crosses in front of the cathedral, and the Holy See dug up all the bones of all the soldiers of the expeditionary force who died in the battle of Rhodes, and transported the bones of more than 10,000 soldiers who had been crucified on the frozen continent from the mainland road, wrapped them in black dead steps, and nailed them to the cross.

His Majesty the Pope said that he hoped that on the day of the completion of the cathedral, Chi Aotian would be nailed to the cross in front of the cathedral.

The cathedral under construction, which attracted worldwide attention, was named the "Basilica" by the Holy See.