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The continuous sound of cannons outside the city continued to enter St. Peter's Basilica, and the glazed decorations in the hall trembled slightly from time to time due to the sound of cannons. The priests in the temple all looked pale, and some young priests were even more frightened.
He kept his ears open to listen for the movement outside the window, as if he was ready to escape at any moment.
Pope Alexander VII stood in front of the statue of Jesus, his body trembling.
It is now the end of March 1657. After the Huben army defeated the European coalition forces in Lisbon at the end of last year, they pursued the victory and regained the entire territory of Portugal in just one and a half months, defeating all one million European coalition forces. In February, the Huben army occupied
All of Spain. In early March, the Tiger Army invaded France.
Under the attack of the Tiger and Ben troops, the European army was defeated. Spain even organized two reluctant resistances, but the only result was that the army was massacred by the Tiger and Ben troops. More than 500,000 Spanish troops were killed like chickens by a hundred thousand Tiger troops.
During the massacre, the Voneti River in the southern suburbs of Madrid was choked with corpses killed by machine guns.
After news of the war in Spain reached France, the French completely lost their will to fight and were completely unable to fight back.
The nobles fled, and the common people opened the city to surrender.
At the end of March, just two days ago, 20,000 tiger soldiers landed in Rome, Italy from the Mediterranean Sea, and captured the Catholic Church in the city of Rome. The mercenaries of the Holy See and the aristocratic private army under its command totaled 70,000 people, but they were completely destroyed within an hour.
Defeated, the troops defending the Holy See had to withdraw to the inner city for street fighting.
The artillery of the Huben Army was set up outside the city of Rome and began to bombard the Holy See troops in the city.
The Huben army is very ferocious.
Facing the European civilians, the Huben Army had no sympathy at all. The remnants of the Holy See's troops hid in the streets of civilians and fought in the streets. The Huben Army's shrapnel breech-loading cannons were fired into the houses to greet the shells. Those shrapnel shells even directly hit the houses of civilians.
If it explodes, one shell can destroy a residential building.
The city of Rome in this era did not pay as much attention to tourism as the Rome of later generations, and did not restore various ancient buildings in ancient times. In fact, although the city of Rome is the seat of the Holy See, under the rule of the Holy See for hundreds of years, Rome was relatively poor in Italy.
It is a backward area. The people in the city are very poor and the houses are simple and dilapidated.
Therefore, in Li Zhi's eyes, Rome in this era had no artistic and cultural value. His order to the Tiger Army was to minimize the casualties of the Tiger Army. If the Holy See did not surrender, the inner city of Rome would be bombed.
Two hundred breech-loaded heavy cannons rained shells on the streets of Rome. After three rounds of bombings, the civilians understood the cruelty of the yellow people, took their valuables and fled out of the city. After a while, the Tiger cannon exploded
, there are basically no civilians in the city.
The Holy See defenders hiding in the streets soon discovered that they were the only ones left in the entire inner city of Rome.
Liu Jun followed an infantry fighting vehicle and invaded the core area of the Holy See.
Liu Jun is holding a shotgun in his hand. This kind of gun has been modified and equipped with a magazine. Therefore, this shotgun can complete a shot every three seconds, and its firepower is very powerful in street fighting. Liu Jun also has
Thirteen infantrymen, Liu Jun believed that his fourteen shotguns could defeat hundreds of Holy See defenders.
Of course, it would be too bloody if the street fighting relied on infantry to shoot at close range. The real main attack tasks were fifteen heavy infantry fighting vehicles. The infantry fighting vehicles slowly moved forward in the narrow Roman streets, and the terrifying Gatling
The machine guns were pointed at any Italian soldiers who tried to resist.
After walking for a while, Liu Jun suddenly noticed someone in front of him. It seemed that some Italians were hiding in the alley in front.
He frowned and tightened his grip on the shotgun.
In fact, Liu Jun didn't want to die now. After the victory in Lisbon, he found the blond girl who gave him the dagger. The girl was so enthusiastic about the Han hero who defended Lisbon that she directly pulled Liu Jun onto her bed. Liu Jun has been in bed recently.
Consider staying in Lisbon and marrying this blonde girl.
There are rumors in the army that every Tiger Soldier who is willing to stay in Europe can be made a knight and assigned a large farm to manage about fifty European farmers.
Liu Jun swallowed his saliva, a little worried that the Italians in front of him would shoot cold shots from the alleyway. After all, Liu Jun was about to have everything now, and he didn't want to fight these European whites who were about to lose everything. Liu Jun was a man wearing shoes, where?
Are you willing to fight these barefoot people?
But things went smoother than Liu Jun expected.
The Gatling gun fired violently, spewing out regular flames, and fired at the area where the Italians were hiding in front. The large-caliber machine gun bullets directly penetrated the thin Roman residences. Liu Jun heard a scream, and then there
All Italians raised white flags.
The fighting will of the soldiers of the Holy See is not as strong as imagined. These soldiers are obviously afraid of death.
Liu Jun smiled and went up to collect the weapons of the Holy See soldiers.
After tying up the hands and feet of more than forty Roman soldiers, Liu's army continued to advance in the direction of St. Peter's Basilica. The Italians along the way chose to surrender, and only sporadic fighting occurred in a few areas. In the afternoon, the Tiger Army
Successfully took control of St. Peter's Basilica.
The moment the soldiers of the Huben Army entered the church, the priests in the church screamed in great panic and ran away in all directions. The soldiers of the Huben Army were not polite and aimed and shot at the fleeing priests.
The situation was quickly brought under control.
Pope Alexander VII was shaking all over and was controlled by two Han soldiers. The soldiers did not hold down the European religious leader, but pointed their guns at him to tell him not to move.
After an hour, after the area near the main hall was completely controlled, Li Zhi entered the main hall in the center of Rome.
The emperor of the Han people was sitting on a military four-wheel-drive jeep, escorted by two jeeps at the front and rear. The convoy of five vehicles slowly drove into the originally sacred St. Peter's Basilica. Zhong Feng sat in front of Li Zhi.
In the car, he opened the way for Li Zhi.
In order to allow the jeep to enter the church smoothly, many statues and seats in the church were violently kicked and moved away by the Tiger Soldiers, and a path of sufficient width was forcibly opened in the middle of the church.
When a senior priest saw the jeep entering the temple, he shouted with red eyes: "This is St. Peter's Basilica, and pagan witchcraft vehicles cannot enter."
The other priests looked at the priest in horror, wondering why he was so brave.
They were responded to by the gunshots of the Tiger Army soldiers, and with just a snap, the "brave" priest's head exploded. The shotgun fired at close range directly hit the priest's head, and he groaned.
He fell down on the marble floor.
The other priests suddenly fell silent.
The dense and complex religious decoration inside St. Peter's Basilica attracted Li Zhi's attention. The reason why Li Zhi came to Rome in person was to see with his own eyes what the Holy See was like and what Catholicism, which had been conveyed for more than 1,600 years, was like.
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The car drove forward slowly. Li Zhi kept looking around all the way, but his face was expressionless.
If he were an ordinary person, he might be shocked by the grandeur and solemnity of St. Peter's Basilica, but after all, Li Zhi was a time traveler from later generations. He was used to seeing high-rise buildings with more than ten or dozens of floors in later generations, so he wouldn't
As for being scared by this church.
When the Pope saw the jeep getting closer and closer, his body was shaking like chaff. He never thought that Asians would enter St. Peter's Basilica in such a way.
The jeep drove to the middle of the hall. Zhong Feng jumped out of the car and looked around at the furnishings. Li Zhi did not get out of the car, but only glanced at the Pope lightly from the car.
The pope's legs weakened under Li Zhi's gaze, and he fell to the ground with a plop.
Zhong Feng raised his chin, looked down at the Pope on the ground, and said coldly: "When you meet the Emperor of China, why don't you kneel down and worship?"
Alexander VII fell softly to the ground, his body shaking constantly. He moved a little, but couldn't control his body at all, and he remained paralyzed there in the end.
Li Zhi got out of the car and walked to a marble sculpture by Michelangelo in the middle of the hall to take a look.
After looking at it for a long time, Li Zhi nodded and praised: "It's a good carving."
After looking around, Li Zhi turned around and walked to the Pope.
Zhong Feng looked at Li Zhi's face and said loudly to the Pope: "Barbarians! If you are wise, you can call on all civilians in Europe to give up resistance."
The Portuguese soldier who knew Latin immediately told the Pope what Zhong Feng said.
The Pope collapsed on the ground and asked weakly: "Catholicism...can Catholicism continue to preach?"
Zhong Feng smiled and said: "Catholicism can exist, but the number of priests in Europe must be limited to fifteen people, and there can only be one church. All excess priests will take off their robes and become farmers. Churches everywhere will be renovated immediately.
It is a Chinese Taoist temple that preaches ancient Chinese myths and Taoist classics from Lao and Zhuang."
Hearing these words, all the priests in the hall opened their mouths. No one could speak, and no one dared to speak. They secretly looked at the Chinese emperor, but saw that Li Zhi had no trace of emotion on his face.
Expressionless, with his hands behind his back, he looked calmly at the statue of Jesus in front of the hall.
Alexander VII felt his vision go dark and fainted on the spot in the center of the hall.
