Chapter 360 The Beginning of the Holy War

Obviously, the hottest topic on the mainland is undoubtedly the jihad. After a month of careful preparation for the first jihad expeditionary force, the navy has nearly 500,000 troops, and has been ready to set off. The military supplies and food supported by various countries are still continually concentrated in various quay cities along the coast. One-third of the warships set out this time were provided by Carter, a major navigator, so in this jihad, they undoubtedly play a crucial role.

And they did not waste this rare opportunity and tactfully asked the Holy See for protection from the Holy See to avoid being attacked by the great man when the military was empty. When the orcs invaded, this poor country was so poor that it could not send any master of the magician level, so it was not qualified to be protected, so it was so shameless that it was at this time!

The Pope attached great importance to Carter's request. He formally made a request to the Kingdom of Han that he must not use force against Carter during the jihad, otherwise it would be regarded as disrespect for God! The King of Han of course repeatedly stated that he would not do any military operations against Carter during the jihad.

But he saw that it was strange. In fact, even if Carter didn't say it, the great man would definitely not dare to take action. That would be the public enemy of the mainland? But why did Carter still have to do this? Is it just a peace of mind? I don't think so. If I were King Carter, I would still hope that the great man would fight. As long as the great man takes action, the Holy See immediately has an excuse to use troops against the great man. Why do you have to make such a stalemate in advance? There must be a shameful conspiracy here!

But I couldn't see what it was for a while, so I had to wait and see for a while. Among the 500,000 people who went to the expedition this time, there were people from the three empires and the Holy See. The great man was not able to enter the list of the first wave of offensives, and was completely dragged down by the Ishihara family. The three empires had to guard against the Ishihara family. If they were spies, the safety of the expeditionary army would be no longer safe! The Pope obviously had similar concerns. After all, the matter this time was too big, so they were bothering to squeeze the great man out of the first echelon! The Ishihara family was scolded by the great man for this and could hardly raise his head! Haha, it's so cool!

What's strange is that the Seventh Princess did not lead the Vana army to participate in the first wave of offensives. It seems that he personally advised Makina and Feiyan Zhantianxiejue, the two commanders and deputy commanders of the coalition forces, and demanded independent action. Makina and Feiyan Zhantianxiejue agreed happily. They knew that they could not command Vana's troops anyway. Although the first wave of attacks was difficult, they made a lot of contributions. It would be better if Vana did not participate! So the Seventh Princess brought the supplies sent by the Holy See back to China and went to rest and recuperate.

After hearing this news, I felt extremely unbalanced! Why did I have to donate money to the Holy See when I left, but when the Seventh Princess left, the Holy See gave her money? Everyone is nominally going to participate in the holy war, why is the gap so big?

The Holy See's army was depressed in early October, and I officially set out and went smoothly. In mid-November, we arrived at the outer island of Japan. Although it started to snow in my territory in November, it was in the tropical area, and it was a good time for the warm climate.

There were not many people on the small islands outside the Japanese pirates. None of the troops were left, and most of the water sources of Tamsui were poisoned. After all, the holy war was a big fuss on the mainland. Can they have no news at all? Obviously, the Japanese were prepared for it.

Unfortunately, we missed it. The priests of the Holy See may not be able to do other things. However, detoxification and curse are definitely at the level of expert level. Under their purification spell, the poison that is not influx in the freshwater source is easily removed. So just poisoning a few ordinary soldiers with a more anxious temperament did not play the role of the scorched earth policy, but instead aroused the anger of the coalition forces!

The coalition forces of various countries said it was good, and they carried out jihad wars to fight against pagans. To put it bluntly, they came to rob. Now, it was good. Before the robbers could take action, they were knocked down by several of them. But they were so angry that they immediately showed their hideous faces and launched crazy revenge against the indigenous people on the island. Screaming screams came one after another, and the rolling smoke almost enveloped the entire island.

There were only a few hundred people on the outer islands, but most of them were withdrawn, and dozens were left, and there were no value for occupation. However, an unexpected discovery almost made the entire hundreds of thousands of coalition forces go crazy.

Because while the soldiers searched on these small islands, they occasionally found a few magic crystal stones!

These islands are volcanic islands. After hundreds of thousands of years of earth deposition, the rich earth fire element energy inside has formed a large number of fire magic crystals. After countless years of geologic changes, they have scattered on the surface of these small islands. Although the quality has declined due to the long exposure outside, the things are really valuable. Just a few pieces found on the island have been found, and after estimating, they have no less than 100,000 gold coins.

This is just on the surface, what about the underground? There is almost certainly a magic crystal mine. And what about other islands? If it is all, this is a very terrifying number! In addition, the professionals among these robbers have not forgotten to search carefully for the empty houses there. Although ordinary people have no gold or silver at home, they have found a lot of rare seafood.

The colorful shells are very popular in inland countries and are not low in price. The large pearls and the entire coral are a little stunned even if the nobles in the coalition forces look at them. These two things are beautiful and fragile. After thousands of years of picking them on the mainland, it is difficult to find such a large and whole thing now, and they can only be seen in such a sparsely populated place. Any of them can be taken back to the mainland, which can be said to be priceless!

For robbers, is there anything that can mobilize enthusiasm more than money? It is absolutely nothing. For the sake of ownership of these small islands, several countries almost broke the trend. Then Makina came up with a good idea, "No ownership will be allocated for the time being, and after the holy war is over, we will reward you according to the merits!"

Seeing the meat, a group of evil wolves immediately burst out with unprecedented fighting spirit. No matter what battle, they fought bravely, and soon they were unstoppable along the way, and basically did not encounter decent resistance. However, the coalition forces made a lot of money on the island, and there were few islands where magic crystal stones appeared. Obviously, they were not everywhere here, but there were no fewer pearl corals. The beautiful shells were captured in large quantities. These wealth undoubtedly stimulated the coalition forces' fighting spirit again, and the ease along the way also made them full of confidence in future victory.

The coalition fleet easily reached the front of the four largest islands in Japan. These four large islands occupied more than half of the land area of ​​the Japanese pirates. The four of them formed a square similarly, and they had a voyage of about a few days between them.

Then the next thing is how to attack and occupy these four islands. Obviously, it is impossible to completely occupy this little person alone. But it should be possible to occupy a foothold first and then wait for reinforcements. So it seems that it is the most critical battle in this holy war.

However, credit is related to the huge distribution of interests. For endless wealth, they still take tactics and other things seriously? They all said that the Heavenly King is not afraid of coming. Just their own troops can capture an island. So, the guys with ulterior motives almost decided on the war strategy in an instant, four large islands. The three empires and the Holy See are one by one!

There were few people and had to divide troops, a group of typical idiots! If my grandmother led the army, she would definitely not do it, but Makina did not have the prestige of grandmother, and he could not command the troops of the three empires. Besides, the three empires were all dead. No matter what Mackina did, he just wanted to ensure the safety of his subordinates, and he was still very confident in his subordinates! That was why he agreed to this almost idiot-like strategy.

The Holy See's most people came this time. Makina brought a total of 200,000 people, and chose the largest island in Sizhou. The three empires each brought 100,000 people to launch an offensive against another island. Since they had not encountered other people's naval forces along the way, they all thought that Japan did not have this army. At least there was no professional and powerful naval forces.

As a result, as soon as they approached the four large islands, they were shocked by the black warships! Although the shipbuilding level in Japan is not as good as that of the mainland countries, their largest warships are about the same size as the medium-sized ships of the Carter Navy, but this place is their homeland after all. The small fishing boats have also been converted into warships and participated in the first battle between the two sides!

Naturally, the Japanese pirates have an absolute advantage in quantity. Whether it is the number of warships or the number of people, they are not comparable to those of the mainland coalition. However, the quality is too bad. Especially the warships of the Carter Navy, when equipped with heavy crossbows, they can almost shoot the Japanese pirates' boats into transparent holes, and the special catapult cart can directly smash the small fishing boats.

Alas, it is worth mentioning that these heavy crossbows and special catapults were all produced in the newly occupied areas of the Han Dynasty. The Holy See bought it at a low price in his name, and then equipped it with the newly built naval army for Carter. The sun is now. Isn’t this a disguised way for the Han Dynasty to invest in the enemy? In the future, the Han Dynasty and Carter are almost inevitable in the fight. The Holy See is really unauthorized to play this trick now!

The Japanese pirates' tactics were very simple. They wanted to raise the advantage of many people after they took the strings and fight hand-to-hand combat. But how smart the Carter navy was. He was the master of water war. He could see at a glance that the Japanese pirates' tricks were coming. He used the tricks and relied on the advantage of the large ships to hit the most densely populated places of the Japanese pirates. He went all the way and knocked over countless ships of all sizes.

When the Japanese pirates finally got to take the strings after making great sacrifices, all the mages of various countries loaded on the ship took action. Because this time it was a naval battle, all the countries sent water-based mages, each of them rubbing their fists and palming their hands, and were in high spirits. They were almost forgotten mages who usually fought on land and rarely had the opportunity to directly participate in the war. Now they can show their skills and have all cast their best water-based spells.

The mages were like the competition, setting off huge waves around the battleship, overturning all the boats close to each other, and all the people on the boat fell to the sea to feed the fish! Obviously, with the addition of the mage, the navy was almost invincible. But the Japanese pirates were definitely not completely unable to fight back!

At this time, people in strange costumes came out of their large warships, all of which were white robes and long hats about two feet high on their heads. They held a stick in their hands, and some white flowers were tied to the stick. They were lyrics while waving the stick.

After a while, some huge sea beasts suddenly appeared on the sea surface. These guys were dozens of meters in size. Some were big octopus, some were whales, and some were giant crabs. In short, all kinds of strange things. After they appeared, they immediately began to launch crazy attacks on all fleets.

These guys are very fierce. The huge power and body allow them to sink a small boat in a few moments. Even medium-sized warships cannot stand it and will sink. The troops of the three empires cannot fight, so they have to flee in a panic. Only the Holy See's troops won them. After all, they were elites of the Holy See. The mage led a total of 3,000 people, and the Silver Pegasus Knight who was specially seconded.

As soon as the strange guys of the Japanese pirates were looking, Makina immediately knew that these guys were mages, so he quickly sent a silver Pegasus troops to intercept them. Therefore, most of the white robes were killed without completing the spells, while the few who completed the spells ended in failure because the number of sea beasts was too small.

That's all, Maqina was still scared into a cold sweat. He secretly called luck in his heart. If all the sea beasts came out, no matter how powerful he was, he would have to escape in a panic! However, the Silver Pegasus land suffered a lot, which made him a headache. Although it was not his troops, these were all treasures of the Holy See. If the loss was too great, the Pope would be punished!

However, after this battle, only the Holy See won the Japanese pirates in the naval battle, losing only more than a thousand people, while the three empires lost more than ten thousand people and were beaten away in a panic. Seeing the strength of the Japanese pirates, especially their cruelty, the three empires were also a little frustrated. The sea beasts summoned just now killed people regardless of the enemy and our place. If you count them seriously, the Japanese pirates who died at their hands were no less than those of the three empires. Who wouldn’t have any headaches when you see such a vicious opponent?

In addition, there were quite a lot of Japanese pirates dispatched just now, so no one of the three empires could rely on 90,000 troops to hold on for two months until reinforcements arrived, so they decided to merge and attack an island. In order to make it easier, they even asked Maqina to persuade him and asked for some silver Pegasus troops.

With the experience of the last failure, this time the attack went much smoother. It was easy to attack a large island closer to the Holy See, so that the two sides could take care of each other. Leave a small fleet to help them convey messages and support each other. The rest of the fleets came back to welcome the second jihad army. It was already more than December, which means that the naval battle lasted for more than half a month!

It was February when I received the above news in my territory. Almost at the same time as me, the news from kings of various countries was also received. The news that Japan produced a lot of magic crystals and precious seafood quickly spread throughout the mainland under the intentional indulgence of the Pope and immediately became the only hot topic on the mainland. It can be imagined how generous the three empires and the Holy See would receive as the first wave of offensive forces!

The whole continent was crazy about this news, and the craziest one was definitely not the Han Dynasty. Just because the surname of a large aristocratic family was suspected of being spies, the Han Dynasty lost such a precious opportunity. The king was so angry that he almost went crazy. After hearing the news, several other families almost regretted it.

If the Long family were allowed to participate, I would be the well-deserved deputy commander of the coalition army. With my command ability and the strength of the Qinglong Legion and the Crazy Dragon Army, it would be impossible to occupy a large island. If that were the case, even if they followed me to drink soup, they would be able to carry Jinshan home. How could they not be able to make anything like now?

The great man clearly made the most contributions in the Orcs Battle and received the most quota of troops. However, because of the Ishihara family, the king and the people from several major families almost hated the Ishihara family to death! When I saw Ishihara Xiong Er every day, the first thing he said to him was, "Your family is really not a spy, right?"

Ishihara Xiong Er is so depressed now that he is willing to die, but the public is angry. Although he is so angry that he dares not turn against him, he almost becomes schizophrenia. He heard that the ministers were having a meeting and the king wanted to ask him something. As soon as he opened his mouth, he was still not talking. Ishihara Xiong Er was so scared that he knelt down and cried, and shouted loudly, "I am really not a spy!" A group of people laughed and lay down on the spot!

Although Ishihara Bear II was so pitiful, and the king and the others only gave him a few words of comfort, they gave him a hard blow in actual actions. After the final discussion between several big bosses and the king, the Ishihara family was disqualified from participating in the sacred war, and the Dragon family should be the leader, and everything was decided by me. The king and the others mean that I could mobilize any army of the great man at will, as long as I could occupy any of the four major islands in the end!

It was almost March when the king and grandfather handed over the letter from me, and the second batch of the Holy See had already set off for quite some time. Even if I used the covers, I couldn't catch up? Besides, I didn't have the interest to just tide on this mess now.

There are four large islands, the smallest one is as big as eight or nine provinces, with a population of millions and a complex terrain. I don’t know the situation inside at all, so I brought more than 100,000 people and touched them in with black eyes. Isn’t that different from seeking death? Why is the Seventh Princess still unable to move her troops? It’s because she doesn’t have reliable information in her hands!
Chapter completed!