Imperial Free City Bremen.

In this era, the speed of message delivery is the fastest, and there is no way to compare the speed of transportation of people and materials, because the transmission of news can be delivered day and night by one person and one ride, changing horses without changing people.

But people and materials can't.

And the speed of people and materials was already much slower, so when Zhu Zhan Yan had just arrived in Zagreb, the news had already been delivered to Jian Xiao, who was far away on the front line.

"What to do? Do you want to wait? ”

When Jian Xiao received the news that Zhu Zhanyan had returned, he immediately handed it to Qian Yong, who had just met him for two days.

"Can't wait!" Qian Yong's answer did not hesitate at all.

"Will be outside, the king's order will not be affected."

"Right now it's a war, we've been fighting with the Holy Roman Empire for almost three years, we've been waiting for it today, and now the opportunity is in front of us, it's better to hold the results in our hands as soon as possible."

"Besides, if we choose to wait for His Royal Highness the Prince to arrive before attacking, it will be troublesome for the important people and generals of the enemy to take this opportunity to escape."

"This Europe is no less big than our Ming Dynasty, and if you want to find a few people in this land when the time comes, it will be tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and it is difficult to reach the sky."

"Besides, I don't think His Royal Highness wants us to cause a change because of waiting for him."

"That's fine." Jian Xiao threw the secret letter into the brazier and nodded in agreement.

In fact, his thoughts were the same as Qian Yong's, and he also wanted to take down the war as soon as possible, but because they were all Zhu Zhanyan's most trusted people, they knew how much Zhu Zhanyan attached importance to Europe and the Holy Roman Empire, so they thought about whether they could wait.

After all, Zhu Zhanyan has been in Europe for more than two years, and what he is waiting for is such a final result.

Moreover, when he was in Constantinople, once Zhu Zhanqi talked to Jian Xiaoye about the situation in Europe, and Zhu Zhanqi said that he wanted to hold two festivals in Europe.

One of them is to hold a ceremony on the Alps, a representative mountain range in Western Europe, with the head of the Holy Roman Emperor.

Moreover, Jian Xiao also knew that unlike last time, Zhu Zhanyan attached great importance to this time.

Zhu Zhan Yan had done this before, but that time was when he was in the Wa Kingdom, and he used the heads of Emperor Kosong and the shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori on the top of Mt. Fuji to seal the heavens.

However, that time was actually not a ceremony to seal the heavens, because Zhu Zhan Yan only sacrificed with the heads of the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom and the shogun on the top of Mount Fuji, and did not worship the heavens and the earth, because he felt that kneeling and worshipping at the top of Mount Fuji was a little disgusting.

But Europe is different.

Europe is a land where the whole people believe in religion, and they all believe in the same religion, if the heads of the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope can be used to hold a grand ceremony on the sacred mountain Alps in western Europe......

Not to mention anything else, the status of Catholicism will completely collapse, which will allow Zhu Zhan to better rule the land of Europe.

However, there is no way at the moment, after all, if Sigismund and Pope Eugene IV escape because of the delay in waiting for Zhu Zhan to arrive, it will not be possible to seal the heavens.

At the moment, they can only settle for the next best thing, to see if they can directly use their heads to hold the Heaven Sealing Ceremony, or leave the lives of these two people as much as possible.

……

Vienna.

Today's Vienna is no longer the Vienna of the past, and although the main body of the city is still there, Vienna has been completely destroyed.

Although relatively speaking, this is already a city on the way of the Ming army, and the degree of preservation of Vienna is relatively high, but it is still a ruin.

"Xing Kun greets His Royal Highness!"

After Zhu Zhanyan arrived in Vienna, Xing Kun ran out to meet him as soon as possible.

"Hmm." Zhu Zhanyan nodded, and then beckoned back.

"Wu Kezhong, you stay here for the time being, follow Xing Kun."

"Yes!" Wu Kezhong bowed his head and said yes, but his tone was not high.

No matter how Wu Kezhong says, he is also a member of a family of military generals, and their Wu family has two generations of four people guarding Liangzhou, and has made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, but now he has to follow the guards of a family, and he is just behind the ass of a hundred households.

This strong sense of disparity made him very uncomfortable.

Zhu Zhanyan also seemed to see Wu Kezhong's emotion, and turned his head to look at Xing Kun.

"Xing Kun, this is our Ming general, although he is a Warat person, but as early as the Hongwu period, he abandoned the darkness and surrendered to the Ming, followed his father to guard Liangzhou, and repeatedly made military exploits, which is an indispensable talent for my Ming Dynasty."

"When I return to Beijing this time, it is one thing for the princess to give birth, but it is also very important to select excellent and credible generals for the European battlefield."

"However, this place is different from our Central Plains, Kezhong has just arrived, and he doesn't know much about this place, so you tell him about the differences in Europe as soon as possible."

"At the latest, if he can't learn, I will not only punish him, but also you!"

"Yes!" ×2。

Xing Kun is not a family, although his father is already the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, and with the implementation of the Ministry of Works, this position of the Ministry of Industry is much more important than before, but the reason why his father was able to become the Ministry of Industry is a lot of things to do with Xing Kun.

Therefore, without the education and insight of the family, Xing Kuan does not know Wu Kezhong very well, but Zhu Zhanyan's words made him pay a little more attention to Wu Kezhong in his heart.

At the very least, from Zhu Zhanyan's words, this Wu Kezhong is likely to become a person in the line of King Wu in the future, and his position may not be low.

You know, picking peaches is not something that can be picked casually, you have to have connections, you have to have the ability, and you have to have eyesight.

At the earliest, because of trust problems, Zhu Zhanyan didn't bring many generals over, and now the European battlefield has basically entered the middle and late stages, and at this time Wu Kezhong came, obviously asking him to mix his qualifications.

This shows that this Wu Kezhong is likely to be reused in the future.

Similarly, Zhu Zhan's words also gave Wu Kezhong a great encouragement.

Originally, he felt that there was a gap because he had to follow Xing Kun, the son of the world, to protect hundreds of households, but with Zhu Zhanyan's words, the gap in his heart disappeared in an instant, and he even had a feeling of gratitude.

"Alright, you can do the familiar things later." Seeing that Xing Kun and Wu Kezhong had already begun to look at each other, Zhu Zhan Yan interrupted them.

"Now, Xing Kun, you send someone to find a place for these two to live, it's not early today, just spend the night here first, and I'll leave for Braunschweig tomorrow."

"Yes!" Xing Kun lowered his head to accept the order, but then raised his head to look at Zhu Zhanyan.

"His Royal Highness, the villain still has a battle report that has not been sent out, can you see if you want to read this battle report before making a decision?"

"Huh?" Zhu Zhanyan frowned, and took the secret letter that Xing Kun had just taken out.

(End of chapter)