Chapter 67: The collision between imperial power and divine power
"Heretics, these devil's spokesmen, heretics who deserve to go to hell, listen to my call, all kingdoms, all believers, all armies, all people to attack them, kill these heretics to death, deprive them of their lives and wealth, until
Death is the end of the world."
"The holy word of the Lord cannot be tampered with, and the dignity of the gods cannot be blasphemed. Lambs of men, go and conquer, go and destroy, and wipe out these heretics from the world."
Innocent III angrily issued an edict of inspiration.
The pope's charisma is very powerful. His voice has affected the whole world, forming the Holy Alliance and launching a "crusade", vowing to annihilate Li Feng and wipe out the heretical country of Tuya Kingdom.
Order for the Punishment of Heretics.
In the thousands of years since its establishment, the church has only released three times, and each time it brought about a huge mass extinction of the population.
During this period, two large religions and multiple giant empires were destroyed, but now the Holy See has become the biggest winner and the absolute authority that cannot be challenged by anyone. In history, two kingdoms were destroyed just because they changed a few doctrines.
Destroyed the country.
Now, Li Feng vs. the Pope.
The extremely bloody and brutal battle for hegemony begins.
No one would have thought that this war would last for thirty years.
the first ten years.
On the vast and stretching battlefield, the Holy Alliance organized a million-strong army and more than 600,000 Tuya conquering legions to fight against each other many times. There were eight major battles and hundreds of small and medium-sized battles.
With superb battlefield command skills and crushing weapons and equipment, Li Feng achieved complete victories. His army became stronger and stronger as he fought, while the Crusaders suffered losses of nearly 5 million troops.
After every major victory, Li Feng rewarded him with heavy military merits. In the end, the commanders and lieutenants of each major legion were unable to be promoted, and Li Feng directly used the land he conquered as a reward.
The successive enfeoffments of thousands of households and tens of thousands of households further increased the generals' desire to expand their territories.
In more than ten years, the territory controlled by Li Feng expanded to more than 12 million square kilometers, and the population reached more than 500 million, occupying one-third of the entire continent.
When the war reached this point, the higher-ups of the Holy Alliance finally paid great attention to it. In the third year of the war, the wise Innocent III got rid of a large number of generals who had earned their way through hereditary titles and promoted them from lower-level officers.
A group of outstanding generals were formed who were brave and resourceful, regardless of their origins, and who could compete in hundreds of battles.
A corresponding military merit reward system was also modeled on Li Feng's conquest legion.
If you can kill more than 10 Tuya soldiers in a battle, you can become a general commanding a thousand people; if you kill more than 100 Tuya soldiers, you can become a general commanding ten thousand people.
Killing more than 1,000 Tuya soldiers would be a feat that shocked the entire Holy Alliance. The rewards waiting for such a general must be the position of king and the position of marshal of a legion commanding more than 100,000 people.
If the performance is more dazzling and the Tuya Corps with more than ten thousand people is wiped out, then he will be the generalissimo commanding millions of crusaders.
Rubis, a low-level officer in his forties and the son of a baron, rose to prominence under this military merit system. In just seven years, he grew from a knight captain with only a dozen knights under his command to a millionaire knight.
Generalissimo of the army.
Through battlefield observation, Rubis found that the musketeers of the Conquering Legion had a dense lineup and high lethality, but they were not without shortcomings. That is, the shooting time was too long, the barrel was heated and the shooter was tired, the shooting speed and accuracy would be greatly reduced.
There may even be explosions in the chamber, causing non-combat attrition and temporary panic.
In plain terrain, if you can withstand up to five rounds of volleys within a distance of 300 meters and let the knights rush in front of the Tuya spearmen, you can engage them hand-to-hand.
Even if they also have cavalry, at least they can achieve a relatively fair battle.
Yes, Rubis has so many calculations, and all he wants is a relatively fair competition environment. As for whether he can win, it is still unknown.
But what he played was the human wave tactic. If he could replace 1 Tuya soldier with 10 soldiers, he felt it was worth it. If he was lucky and could capture some muskets and artillery and go back to study, he might be able to catch up with the opponent's weapons and equipment.
Therefore, in a subsequent battle, Rubis formulated tactics for Tom's First Army, luring them to plains and downhill terrain that were conducive to heavy cavalry charges. Tom, who was dazzled by successive victories, was indeed fooled. High mobility
The troops broke through and were caught off guard. The two seconds of firepower gap resulted in the casualties of 500 soldiers.
Li Feng was so angry that he fined Tom two years' salary and asked him to make meritorious service.
Unexpectedly, bad news came again.
On a thunderstorm night, Rubis took advantage of the fact that firearms are susceptible to moisture in rainy weather and the misfire rate rises sharply. He personally led the cavalry to attack Jerry's Second Army, killing thousands of people in one battle.
In this battle, thousands of muskets and artillery were finally seized. After being dismantled by craftsmen, Rubis finally learned the three formulas of black powder. Then Rubis secretly bribed several musket-making craftsmen through some greedy businessmen.
After some exploration, it took three years to build his own 20,000 firearms force.
One night, they worked step by step and used 20,000 firearms troops to surprise Rabbi (Kulimu was over seventy years old and had returned to his hometown)'s third legion by surprise. Fortunately, Oris arrived in time, otherwise Kulimu would have
They will all be beheaded.
When news of the defeat returned to Milan, Li Feng was angry and worried, and had to brace himself.
He knew very well that the land, population, and resources of the Holy Alliance were currently at least ten times that of the Tuya Empire. If they had the same equipment, the war between the two sides would become a war of attrition.
If this war of attrition continues, as long as the Holy Alliance can achieve a battle loss ratio of 10:1, the Tuya Empire will be exhausted.
Not allowed, absolutely not allowed.
"I want to lead the expedition myself."
Perhaps out of a warlike spirit, or perhaps out of curiosity about Rubis, a rising star, Li Feng, who was already in his sixties, made the decision to fight in person.
The ministers strongly opposed it, especially veteran entrepreneurs such as Smith, Tony, and O'Neill, and the eldest son William and the second son Chad also strongly opposed it.
Of course, it is not known how sincere the objections of these two boys are. He has not decided on the candidate for the crown prince yet, and the two men are fighting fiercely.
But there is no doubt that Smith, Tony and other old friends are sincere.
So, the night before the expedition, he called a few old brothers together to explain a series of matters.",
"Tom and Jerry are still waiting for me on the front line. I want to fight side by side with them in the last few years."
"Father Paul left last year. He still couldn't hold on until I caught Innocent in front of him, but I had to keep this promise."