"Heretics, these spokesmen of the devil, heretics who deserve to go to hell, listen to my call, all kingdoms, all believers, all armies, all men go against them, and exterminate these heretics, and deprive them of their lives and riches, until death."

"The word of the Lord shall not be tampered with, the dignity of the gods shall not be profaned, and the Lambs of the earth shall conquer and destroy, and these heresies shall be erased from the world."

Innocent III angrily issued a summons order.

The Pope's charisma is quite powerful, and his voice has affected the whole world, forming a holy religious alliance and launching a "crusade", vowing to exterminate Li Feng and wipe out the heretical country of Tuya Kingdom.

Heresy Crusade.

In the thousands of years of the church's existence, it has only been published three times, and each time it has brought about a massive mass extinction.

During this period, two large religions and several giant empires were destroyed, and now the Holy See has become the biggest winner, and it has become an absolute authority that no one can challenge, and two kingdoms in history have been destroyed just because they changed a few doctrines.

Now, Li Feng VS Pope.

The incomparably bloody and incomparably tragic battle for supremacy began.

No one would have imagined that this war would be fought for thirty years as soon as it was fought.

The first ten years.

On the vast and continuous battlefield, the Holy Religion Alliance has organized a million army and more than 600,000 Tuya conquest legions to fight continuously, eight general battles, and hundreds of small and medium-sized battles.

With superb battlefield command technology and crushing weapons and equipment, Li Feng won a complete victory, and his army became stronger and stronger, while the losses of the crusaders reached nearly 5 million.

After each big victory, Li Feng was rewarded for his military merits, and in the end, the commanders and lieutenants of the major legions could not be promoted, and Li Feng directly used the land he had laid as a reward.

Thousands of households, thousands of households waited for wave after wave of closures, which further increased the desire of the generals to expand their territory.

In more than ten years, the territory controlled by Li Feng has expanded to more than 12 million square kilometers, and the population has reached more than 500 million, accounting for one-third of the entire continent.

In the third year of the war, Innocent III, who was still wise, got rid of a large number of rice bucket generals who relied on hereditary titles, and promoted a group of brave and resourceful generals from among the lower-level officers, regardless of their background, and fought in a hundred battles.

And modeled on Li Feng's conquest legion, he also made a corresponding military merit reward system.

If you can kill more than 10 Tuya soldiers in a battle, you can become a general commanding 1,000 people, and you can become a general commanding 10,000 people by killing more than 100 Tuya soldiers.

Killing more than 1,000 Tuya soldiers would be a sensation in the entire Holy Religion Alliance, and the reward for such a general would inevitably be the position of a king and the position of a legion marshal commanding more than 100,000 people.

If the battle record is a little more dazzling and the Tuya army of more than 10,000 people is wiped out, then it is the generalissimo who commands the million-dollar crusader army.

Rubis, a low-level officer in his forties who was born as the son of a baron, rose all the way under this system of military merit and stood out, growing from a knight captain with only a dozen knights to a million-dollar crusader in just seven years.

Through battlefield observation, Rubis found that the Legion of Conquest's musketeers had a dense lineup and great lethality, but it was not without shortcomings, that is, after the shooting time was too long, the barrel was heated and the shooter was fatigued, the shooting speed and accuracy would be greatly reduced, and even the chamber would explode, resulting in non-combat attrition and short-term panic.

In plain terrain, if you can withstand up to five volleys at a distance of 300 meters, the knight will be able to rush in front of the Tuya spearmen, and they will be able to engage them in close combat.

Even if they had cavalry, at least they could achieve a relatively fair fight.

Yes, Rubis has calculated so much, and what he wants is just a relatively fair competition environment, and it is still unknown whether he can win or not.

But he is playing the tactics of crowds, and if he can replace 1 Tuya soldier with 10 soldiers, he thinks it is worth it, if he is lucky, he captures some muskets and artillery and goes back to study, maybe he can catch up with the opponent's weapons and equipment.

Therefore, in a later battle, Rubis formulated tactics against Tom's First Army, luring it to the plains and downhill terrain conducive to heavy cavalry charges, Tom, who was carried away by successive victories, was really fooled, and the highly mobile forces broke through, and hit a surprise, and the two-second gap in firepower was the casualties of 500 soldiers.

Li Feng was furious and punished Tom for two years, making him guilty of meritorious service.

I didn't expect the bad news to come again.

On a thunderstormy night, Rubis seized on the defect that firearms were easily damp in rainy days and the rate of dumb fire skyrocketed, and personally led the cavalry to assault Jerry's Second Army, killing thousands of people in a battle.

After finally capturing thousands of muskets and cannons in this battle, and handing them over to craftsmen for dismantling, he finally learned the three formulas of black powder, and then Rubis secretly bought several musket craftsmen through some greedy wandering merchants, and after some exploration, it took three years to get his own 20,000 firearms troops.

One night, the Third Legion, which used 20,000 firearms to surprise the rabbi (Kurim was over seventy years old and had returned to his hometown), was taken by surprise, but fortunately Oris arrived in time, otherwise Kurim would have been beheaded.

When the defeat was reported back to Milan City, Li Feng was both angry and worried, and had to raise his spirits.

He knew very well that the land, population, and resources of the Holy Religion Alliance were currently at least ten times that of the Tuya Empire, and if they were given the same equipment, the war between the two sides would become a war of attrition.

If this kind of war of attrition continues, as long as the Holy Religion Alliance can achieve a 10:1 battle loss ratio, the Tuya Empire will be consumed.

Not allowed, absolutely not.

"I'm going to go on a personal expedition."

Perhaps out of a belligerent heart, or out of curiosity about Rubis, a rising star, Li Feng, who is already in his sixties, made the decision to go into the army.

The ministers vigorously opposed, among which Herbert Smith, Tony, O'Neill and other entrepreneurial veterans were particularly fierce, and the eldest son William and the second son Chad also strongly opposed.

Of course, I don't know how sincere the opposition of these two boys is, he hasn't decided on the candidate for the prince yet, and the two of them are fighting fiercely.

But Smith, Tony and other old guys must be sincere.

So, the night before the expedition, he called several old brothers together and explained a series of matters. ”、

"Tom and Jerry are still waiting for me on the front lines, and I want to fight with them in the last few years."

"Father Paul left last year, and he still didn't make it to the time I caught Innocent in front of him, but I couldn't fail to keep that promise."