The defense minister sent by the empire was no longer able to stop the Black Death. He watched his subordinates die in large numbers, but there was no way.

"How is it possible! How can it be useless!" Standing on the high city wall, the Defense Minister cried in despair.

This famous imperial general who was in his prime led his army to resist more than tens of millions of French people and had fought against Turkish Sultans. Under his command, the strong Turks never stepped into the land of the Holy Roman Empire.

However, at this moment, facing this invisible enemy, the Black Death, the Defense Minister felt a sense of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart.

At the beginning, most of his methods were used. Eugen's set was left aside by him. However, after losing the Cosenza defense line, the Minister of Defense was awakened and soon invited Dimit to his side and copied all the methods used by Eugen, hoping to play some role.

Unfortunately, things went against my wishes. In less than half a month, the Roman defense line he carefully arranged was broken by the Black Death, and the disease began to spread to the mainland in an uncontrollable terrifying situation.

Once the disease is allowed to break out of the Italian Peninsula, it is almost impossible to establish a line of defense to block the disease.

"Sir, please retreat quickly. There are such a terrible disease everywhere here. It has swallowed Rome. You must pay attention to your safety!"

Next to him, a servant came here with great painstaking advice.

"Safe, haha, I lost Rome. I am a sinner. I should die with Rome!" The defense minister roared. He was a devout Christian. Rome had extraordinary significance to him. The current situation made him heartbroken.

In fact, this is exactly the biggest difference between him and Eugen and the real reason for his failure.

If Eugen had been allowed to establish a line of defense, he would not have chosen to establish a line of defense in Rome, even if the city was extremely important.

In fact, with the current conditions, it is almost impossible to resist disease in such a large city.

The population here is too dense. Even if some of them are evacuated, a considerable number of residents still have not left. At the same time, there is another creature here that is more than humans, and it is also the main carrier of the Black Death transmission - mice.

Rome seemed to have a tall and indestructible wall, but in the face of disease, it was like a sieve, full of holes and could be broken by attack.

One of the important reasons Eugen chose to build his defense line in Cosenza was that there was a Cosenza River that ran across the east and west.

Rivers are natural barriers to diseases and can be used more effectively. Whether it is used to block small organisms such as mice or to clean and hygienic, they are all favorable conditions.

Eugen would not pay attention to any large cities. In his opinion, once the disease spreads to Rome, the entire city should be abandoned directly without any need to guard it.

Under such extremely unfavorable conditions, the Minister of Defense was able to delay the disease for a week. It can be seen that he really put in a harsh effort. However, due to the inherent limitations of the Christian consciousness, his actions of not giving up on Roman have become the ultimate cause of his failure.

Unfortunately, the Minister of Defense could not understand this until his death. He now only wanted to destroy his holy city. One of the reasons was that this was one of the most sacred places in his mind, the Holy See was here, God was here, and his death was here, and it was considered a place to die.

Another reason is that he can clearly feel the weakness of his body, just like countless worms hiking around in his body, absorbing the power in his body and devouring his life.

If you touch his forehead, you will find that he is having a high fever.

He was infected.

Having seen too many examples of diseases, the Defense Minister was very clear about the signs of infection, and he was also very clear that once infected, it means death.

His life has entered the countdown stage and there is no luck.

"You go quickly." The Minister of Defense grabbed the attendant's arm and supported himself, took out the golden seal of the commander of the Disaster Resistance Army from his arms, and placed it solemnly in the hands of the attendant.

"Hurry, go and find the intelligence officer Dimit, ask him to ask the royal family, and invite Mr. Eugen, hurry up! If it's late, it's really too late!"

The Defense Minister was like a dying mad lion, making the last roar, and his voice was deafening, but if he listened for a long time, he would find that there was a sense of weakness behind his words that was unconcealable.

The attendant looked at the Minister of Defense blankly, and finally nodded and accepted the order.

Seeing the servant accepting the order, the Minister of Defense showed a gratitude on his face. He pointed to a seat specially set for him on the city wall and said, "Okay, you are a good young man. Now, help me over and sit on that chair, you can leave quickly, and you will announce to the outside world that Rome, fall!"

The attendant could no longer speak, tears were rolling around the corner of his eyes, and Rome fell, and every Christian felt the deepest sorrow, but he still didn't cry after all. The little attendant also knew that it was not the time to cry.

He helped the Minister of Defense to sit down on the chair, he took two steps back, respectfully performed a knight salute, and then walked down the city wall without looking back and walked out of the city.

The Minister of Defense sat alone at the highest point of the city wall. Behind him was the bleak Roman city. The streets in the city were covered with corpses, blood and pus mixed together, covering the entire street. Rats the size of feet were creeping around in the mixture, gnawing on the patient's corpses.

The few living people in the city either locked themselves in the dark cellar, tremblingly waiting for the arrival of death, or could not bear the blow, and cried and roared in the city in a mad manner.

There were no fanatical believers holding indulgences on the street. When the disease arrived, they were the first to die, and they were the stupidest and most pitiful people.

After the disease crossed Rome, it rushed into the inland without stopping, and its spread was even faster than the spread of news. When Vienna received the news three days later, even San Marino began to appear infected with the Black Death.

San Marino and most inland cities have business roads. Once the disease begins to spread from there, the whole of Europe will probably be in danger.

As soon as the Duke of Gian, who was in Vienna learned the news from Dimit, he immediately walked towards Prince Eugen's office in Schonbrunn Palace. He wanted to talk directly with the prince and activate Eugen.

When things developed to this point, the only idea of ​​the Duke of Ji'an at the moment was to send Eugen over as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!