Arthur frowned and said: "Your Majesty, the charge of blasphemy against doctrine cannot be said nonsense. To me, this is a great insult. I am a servant of the Lord, and I especially cannot accept such slander from you."
Zhang Yanling chuckled, leaned forward and whispered: "Is it your Lord's will to hide a few little boys under the covers?"
Mrs. Belen, who acted as the translator, had a blood-red face. She didn't know whether she should translate this sentence. But Bishop Arthur asked Mrs. Belen: "What did this barbarian from the Ming Dynasty say?"
Mrs. Bellen had no choice but to translate Zhang Yanling's words to him. Bishop Arthur's face turned red instantly and his expression was extremely angry.
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "That's all, Mr. Bishop, I don't care about your affairs, and I have no interest in your private life or special hobbies. I came to see you to discuss the current affairs with you."
Bishop Arthur coughed, wiped the sweat on his face with a handkerchief, regained his mood, and said in a deep voice: "Dear Duke, I have done what I can. I also followed your instructions. I also
What can I do for you?”
Zhang Yanling said: "Mr. Bishop, you have also seen that the fighting here was fierce yesterday. It seems that your soldiers and horses of the Franco Kingdom are not going to give up. Tonight, they also fired several heavy artillery into the castle. The shells were not
Long Eye, if this were bombed into the church, wouldn't it kill you too? Wouldn't the bishop be angry? They don't even care about your lives."
Arthur shrugged and said: "Dear Duke, we people in the Franco Kingdom are like this. We are never coerced by others. Even if I am captured by you, they will not care about my life or death. Don't say that.
It’s me, Arthur, even my Majesty Manuel of France, or His Majesty Pope Francis, the same will happen if they are captured by the enemy.”
Zhang Yanling laughed and said: "I see. In other words, my detention of you has no deterrent effect at all. You are actually useless. In this case, why should I be polite to you? After dawn, I will take you
All of them will be put on the city wall and executed in public. I don’t care for idlers here.”
Mrs. Belen's face turned pale as she translated this sentence, her legs trembled violently, and her voice trembled violently.
Bishop Arthur's expression changed drastically after hearing this. He originally wanted to play a trick and did not want to cooperate with Zhang Yanling. But the other party was so direct and wanted to kill him if he was no longer useful, which frightened him.
"My Lord Duke, how could you do this? You promised me that as long as I cooperate, you will ensure our safety. I did what you said, and you can't break your promise. I didn't do anything you said.
?You want me to shout, and I will shout. You want me to write a letter to inform Mr. Alfonso of this.
We were attacked everywhere and asked him to come back to help immediately, so I did. You can't do this to us. Your Ming Empire is also an ancient empire in the East, a country with a long history of etiquette. What you do is ruining the reputation of your Ming Empire. With bandits and
They are no different from barbarians." Bishop Arthur shouted excitedly.
The letter he mentioned to Alfonso happened at noon yesterday. Zhang Yanling was worried that Alfonso would not turn around to rescue him, so he asked Bishop Arthur to write a letter to ask for help from Alfonso. The letter said that the enemy was approaching.
Attack Guli, saying that he fell into the trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain, and asked him to come back immediately for rescue.
Arthur did as he was told. Zhang Yanling took out the letter, separated it sentence by sentence, and transcribed it out of order for Mrs. Bellen to translate. There was no personal information included. Bishop Arthur was still very cooperative.
"Mr. Bishop, you are right. I am a bandit and a barbarian. Hahaha. What are the benefits of being a country of etiquette? It is more comfortable to be a bandit or barbarian. You can kill if you want. There is no psychological burden and no need to be morally bound.
I am the Ming Dynasty.
I don't care what other people think, but I am determined to act according to my own ideas like you. Why can't I do what you can do? If you don't help me find a way to retreat from the enemy, I will kill you.
So simple." Zhang Yanling laughed.
Arthur stared blankly at the Duke of the Eastern Empire in front of him, and suddenly felt powerless. Morality is the shackles that kidnap others. As a senior figure in the Holy See, he knows this very well. This is the high-sounding reason for their actions. Ignore them.
Moral kidnapping, people who call themselves robbers and barbarians are terrifying because they have no weaknesses.
"Tell me, what do you want me to do for you?" Bishop Arthur sighed.
"After daybreak, go up to the city wall and shout a message to persuade those guys to retreat and leave. Don't launch any more attacks," Zhang Yanling said.
"They won't listen to me, I can only try my best." Bishop Arthur said.
"Then I don't care, you have to find a way on your own. My Ming Dynasty has a saying: There are always more ways than difficulties. You must persuade them to retreat and leave, otherwise once the castle is broken, I will kill you prisoners first. As for how to persuade them
, that is your business. I have full confidence in the Bishop." Zhang Yanling said with a smile.
Bishop Arthur almost wanted to vomit blood. He had never seen such a shameless person. But apart from viciously cursing Zhang Yanling in his heart and sending him to hell, Arthur had no choice but to do it. He didn't want to die yet. The archbishop was already over eighty years old.
He is about to go see God. He is the one among the cardinals who has the most claim to become an archbishop. He doesn't want to save someone like this. He really needs to think carefully about how to persuade the soldiers outside to retreat.
"Don't worry, Lord Bishop. I swear to God, as long as you persuade them not to attack anymore and evacuate this city immediately, I will ensure your personal safety. After the incident here, I will send a ship to take you to your port to keep you safe.
Return to the country. If you can't do that, just say a long prayer for yourself before you die." Zhang Yanling dropped a word, cupped her hands, turned around and left with the others.
"I curse you to hell, a damn heretic, a shameless villain, a maggot in a filthy dunghill, a guinea pig in a dark hole, a stinking snake..."
After Zhang Yanling and others left the church, Arthur jumped on his feet and burst out a series of vicious and unpleasant curses.
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On the sea at dawn, dozens of warships of the Eastern Fleet had turned north and entered the Gulf of Mannar. After a day and night of sailing, Alfonso led the main warships of the Eastern Fleet back along the original route.
It is expected that by noon, they will reach the narrow deep water channel between Panben Island and Mannar Island. After crossing the channel, they can reach Guri Port in less than half a day.
The news has been confirmed because Alfonso received a personal letter from Cardinal Arthur. In the letter, Bishop Arthur asked Alfonso to return urgent aid, saying that Ming Dynasty troops had sneaked into the city and wreaked havoc. Now the city is in chaos.
, the grain and grass supplies were burned. Although there are many soldiers and horses in the city, there is no one to command them, and they are in chaos.
Arthur also said in the letter that Guri Port was the foundation of the empire in South Asia and must not be captured by the enemy. If Alfonso did not return immediately to defend Guri, he would have Alfonso deceived by the Ming Dynasty into leaving Guri, causing Guri to
Report the attack to the Holy See and His Majesty the Emperor. All consequences will be borne by Alfonso.
The cardinal's words were very harsh, but the status of the Vatican was respected. The cardinal's status was equivalent to that of Prince William. Although Alfonso was not under the control of the Vatican, he was incomparable to him in terms of status. Therefore, Alfonso
He didn't care about the words and attitude in Arthur's letter. He was concerned about the current situation in the city.
According to the content of the letter, the number of Ming troops who attacked the city was not large. It was just that the attack was a bit sudden, so that the defenders in the city did not react for a while. This is a bit reassuring and consistent with my expectations. After all, a large number of Ming troops were attacked.
The military fleet arrived at the port of Goa and pretended to attack. They could not allocate many troops to attack Guri. So from the beginning, he judged that there were not many enemies in Guri.
The strange thing is that Arthur said that there is no one to command the soldiers and horses in the city. What is going on? Where is DeSantis? Where is Governor Guri? Are they unable to command the army?
Alfonso couldn't understand, but he didn't intend to waste energy on it. In short, Guli must be saved, and it must not be lost here. Although the Ming army carried out a sneak attack and may have caused damage, he only had to return to the army to rescue
, defeating their plot would be a great victory. It would be enough to relieve the huge pressure on him.
Moreover, the Ming Dynasty people did not have many troops to begin with, so they divided their troops to attack, which actually gave themselves an opportunity. Annihilating their sneak attack troops would be absolutely beneficial to the follow-up. Alfonso believed that his response was timely.
The people of the Ming Dynasty must have thought that they were still on their way to Goa, but they did not expect that they would return reinforcements so soon. Long before Arthur's letter arrived, he had already judged the situation and ordered reinforcements.
Everything is still under control, and everything is not that bad. Although the people of the Ming Dynasty pushed the tiger away from the mountain, who knows if this is not a blessing in disguise?
The rising sun in the east burst out from the sea and illuminated the sea. Alfonso cheered up and ordered the fleet to sail towards the strait at full speed and rush back to Guri as quickly as possible.