Empire Era April 24, 999. The Empire's East China Sea Province Wanghai Prefecture.

Wanghai Prefecture was built in the first year of the Empire. It was built by Taizu to strengthen its control over the Bohai Bay and the East China Sea Peninsula. It is located at the bay in the center of the East China Sea Peninsula, backed by Laoshan, and facing the Empire's Bohai Sea in the northeast. It is a good port in the northern part of the Empire and an important trade center in the Empire.

In mid-April 999, the Wanghai Province was captured by the Western coalition led by Jose, the fox of the West 6. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city were killed, and most of the rest were captured as slaves.

At this point, the empire began to set up defenses on the border between Zhili Province and the East China Sea Province, and even urgently dispatched the Imperial Navy, which was fighting fiercely with the East Japanese pirates in Zhenhai Prefecture, to return to the country and defend Kyoto.

However, late at night on April 22, 999, the empire's Age, the army from the Western 6th Holy See suddenly looked at Hayden 6th, completely cutting off the passage between the north and south lines of the empire.

Moreover, the Eastern Japanese pirates even joined forces with the navy of the Blue Kingdom of the West 6, dragging the imperial navy of Zhenhai, making it unable to go north to support the imperial capital.

In the waters near Wanghai, there are 300,000 troops, thousands of ships, and cloud sails covering the sky and the sun, covering the harbor of Wanghai City.

The one who led this army to the 6th Empire was Pope Urban II, the supreme spiritual leader of the Western 6th and the ruler of the Holy See.

Urban II was not only the leader of the Holy See, but also the controller of the Holy See's Divine Army. During this expedition, not only the remaining Divine Army Second Corps and the Third Corps were brought by their side, but also brought 30,000 Gaul light infantry from the Kingdom of Falls, 20,000 Gaul light cavalry, 20,000 Teutonic heavy infantry from the Principal of Teutonic, 20,000 heavy knights from the Knights of the Guards, 10,000 light infantry from the Kingdom of Saxon, 20,000 Saxons

The longbowman, a 200,000 swordsman brigade from the Sishley Kingdom Swordsman Order, 70,000 naval forces from the Sishley Kingdom, the Rheed Kingdom and the Sea Blue Kingdom (of which 30,000 people from the Sea Blue Kingdom restrained the Imperial Navy in Zhenhai, 10,000 navies from the Sishley Kingdom and 30,000 navies from the Rheed Kingdom came to Zhenhai), and nearly 60,000 people from other countries, a total of nearly 300,000 troops have brought the total strength of the Western coalition to more than 500,000.

This does not include the entourages brought by the noble knights, a group of self-cultivated farmers and tenants who wanted wealth and followed them, and even thousands of teenage children.

As soon as the vast crowd entered Zhenhai Mansion, they filled the huge city belonging to the empire.

The millions of high-quality rice transported from Central and Southern Province to Wanghai Prefecture a few days ago have made the Western coalition more powerful. Of course, these military supplies will only be enjoyed by regular soldiers. As for the entourages and peasants, the Holy See has told them: the land of the empire is full of gold and treasures, and the food of these pagans is their food, the women of pagans are their women, and the land of pagans is their land.

Driven by the madness of interests, these people became the first cannon fodder for the Western coalition's war. With their arrival, the Han people in Wanghai Mansion and nearby towns fell into a new round of disaster.

At this moment, the commander of the Western coalition, the Duke of the Kingdom of Falls, and the General Jose was sitting upright in the city of Wanghai, and one of the ones above him was Pope Urban, the supreme ruler of Nasi 6.

Urban was dressed in a black robe and dressed simply. She only hung an oak cross on her chest. You should know that in Si 6, even the crosses hung by ordinary sacrifices were mostly gold and silver. Urban was so simple, and she was thin and kind, as gentle as an elder, and was better at speaking and preaching. She naturally had supreme prestige among believers. Everyone called him the greatest pope in history.

Although Urban sat there with a smile on his face, the Western Allied Generals, no matter the commander, the duke and the count, were all frightened, and no one dared to underestimate the seemingly gentle pope. The always arrogant Archbishop Rembrandt stood behind the pope like a dog, passing on various documents to him.

The several knights in full armor standing behind Urban were evenly exuding a bloody aura of pressure. These people were among the top ten guardian knights in the Holy See. They were specifically responsible for protecting the safety of the Pope and commanding the First Legion of the Shenwei Army. Except for the leader of the First Legion, each person's position was just a commander of a thousand men, but no one dared to underestimate the bloody and lofty status.

Urban read the documents silently, and the people in the room were silently accompanying each other.

Only Jose was still calm and looked at Urban with a bright look.

This situation fell in the eyes of the Duke of Teutonic and the Deputy Commander of the Alliance, Bergman, who secretly admired his fellow disciple's heart, who was better than everyone's mentality.

"Cough--" Suddenly, Pope Urban coughed, and everyone in the room suddenly became shaking.

Urban looked at the reactions of the people with satisfaction and said slowly: "During these times, all lords have tried their best to win the glory for our Lord. All the Lord God has seen everything you have done. The Lord God will surely obtain supreme glory on the day when the soul returns to heaven in the future. Here I only bless you in the name of our Lord, let us thank the Lord God for the gifts."

After saying that, Urban got up, drew a cross on his chest, held the cross on his chest with both hands, and prayed.

The people present quickly stood up and bowed their heads to pray with Urban.

After praying, Urban raised his head, his sky blue eyes glanced at everyone, and a clear voice sounded again in the room: "I heard that the Han soldiers had just recovered their Zhongdu Longyang recently, so some people here questioned the command of Your Excellency Jose. This is nothing, now I have come to this, and some things can be revealed to everyone. Zhongnan was deliberately given up. As for the next step, as long as you can work together to control the entire empire in our hands, and let the Lord God's infinite glory shine on the entire earth, it is not difficult. You should obey Your Excellency Jose's dispatch and continue to work hard for our teachings."

"It's true..." Among the senior coalition forces, such as Bergman, when he heard Urban say this, immediately woke up and secretly thought about the Pope's true purpose.

"It depends entirely on the Pope." Urban supported himself like this, and Jose immediately took the lead in getting up to thank him.

"Well, by the way, Lord Jose, where is my Moon Knight now?" Urban asked casually.

"I'm still in the Central and Southern Province..." Jose hesitated.

"Why haven't you let him come back? Since the food and grass are in place, how can he still put him in danger?" Urban's face finally showed a trace of worry.

The Western General of the General of the General of the General of the Central and Southern Provinces, then, showed that the Moon Knight Ars had such a heavy position in the Pope's heart. Fortunately, a few days ago, when Jose restored the position of 1000 lord Ars and promoted him to the commander of the Central and Southern Provinces, no one stood up to oppose it, otherwise he would have to worry that the Pope would vent his anger on him.

"Dear Pope, I have sent someone to ask Als to come to Wanghai Mansion immediately. The envoy should have arrived at Anyang Mansion. Als wants to come and is already on the way." Jose quickly explained.

"That's good. The moon knight is a symbol of the Holy See and must not be hurt by pagans! Your Excellency Jose, please send another team of people to pick up Ars." Urban said.

"Well, for the sake of safety, let my guards pick him up... Marcus, you lead three thousand-person brigades to pick up the moon Knight. You must ensure his safety, do you understand!" Urban ordered a tall man behind him.

"Yes, Marcus will definitely bring the Lord the Moon Knight intact to the Lord!" Marcus gave a knightly salute and strode out of the house.

Jose glanced at Marcus who walked out and his face remained unchanged; but the Archbishop Rembrandt in the Red Chapel had a slightly moved face. As the top executive of the Holy See, he naturally knew that Marcus was the commander of the most mysterious and powerful Third Legion of the Shenwei Army, and was also one of the ten personal knights of the Pope. Although he was only ranked last, the Pope could send him to support Ars, which shows how high Als' status was in the Pope's mind.

At least, before this, the first army of the Shenwei Army had never dispatched a single person except for serving the Pope.

Although Rembrandt was greedy, he was not a fool. He naturally knew his status in Ars' eyes, and he was not interested in Ars on weekdays. With the bad relationship between the two, if Ars said a few bad words in front of the pope after he came back, the things he did were not allowed by the Holy See, and the Pope might not offend the Knight of the Moon because of him, and he would probably rub himself to the end.

Moreover, there is another more important and urgent matter. Before Rembrandt and Jose had time to report to Pope Urban, Princess Emily, who was with the army, was revealed after hearing their plans for the Holy See's army to board 6 and some secret discussions on the Holy See's arrangements in West 6. He actually escaped from the sea of ​​Wanghai. According to Jose's inference, he went to join Als. Although Als had known these things for a long time, with Als' temperament, it was difficult to guarantee that he would not have any intention. Once Als had abnormal movements, the Pope would probably take his anger on himself.

When Rembrandt thought of this, a cold sweat broke out from the fat meat behind him, thinking secretly about how to make up for it so that his position would not be affected.
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