amaotonovel Chapter 1122: The Army Forces Kangju
Chapter 1122: The Army Forces Kangju
Chapter 1122: The Army Forces Kangju
The Byzantine emperor, together with his nobles, held banquets frequently to comfort the main force of the Crusaders who were on the westward expedition. He even incited them from time to time, causing the Crusaders' knights to sharpen their knives even more to eradicate the "pagans" of the three sultanates.
Of course, they are definitely not coveting the property of the three sultanates. All the knights have noble sentiments and simply want to spread the glory of the Lord.
In this atmosphere, Crusader noble knights continued to head to the three major sultanates and launched tentative attacks. The Khalil Sultanate on the westernmost side was the first to bear the brunt.
The main force of the Timurid Empire had been destroyed by the Ming army before, and then it was divided into three parts, and it has not recovered yet. The European Crusaders came with victory, and the Muslims of the Khalil Sultanate were unable to stop them, so they could only ask for help from the Ming garrison in Kangju City (Samarkand).
The Ming garrison in Kangju City had more than enough to protect itself and less to send out troops, so they remained inactive. After probing, the Crusaders found that the Sultanate of Khalil was vulnerable, so they completely let go and intensified the massacres and looting in the name of "holy war".
In the Sultanate of Khalil, Muslims were slaughtered wantonly and faced a miserable situation.
At this moment, a piece of news reached Constantinople.
"What! Those Ming people actually claim that we are heretics who blaspheme God?" Earl John was still at the banquet. When he heard the news, he felt as if he had heard some huge joke.
"Yes. That's right." The one who came to report the news was a crusader knight from France. These lower-level crusader knights were devout believers who deeply believed in the holy light of God. Perhaps because he was slandered as a heretic, the young knight's face was filled with indignation that was difficult to conceal.
"Let me see it!" Earl John snatched the "letter of reprimand" from the knight's hand and read it with his eyes wide open.
This was Yao Guangxiao's strategy. Although the black-robed monk, who was good at understanding people's hearts, could not send troops to help the three sultanates, he could find ways to attract hatred and draw these crusaders with fanatical beliefs.
The teachings of Islam were a natural target for the Crusaders.
It is impossible for Yao Guangxiao to just spread those meaningless words. In order to attract hatred, the black-robed monk used all his verbal cannon to criticize Western Catholicism to pieces, and he was just short of declaring that "the authentic Catholicism is in the East."
When it comes to culture and education at that time, the West was far inferior to China. In later generations, a failed scholar named Hong Xiuquan, who studied the Bible by picking out sentences from it, was able to portray himself as Jesus' brother in an extremely outrageous way, and even won a debate with a Western missionary.
Not to mention, Huang Guan was a top scholar, and the religion he established from those flawed Western classics was absolutely impeccable.
Yao Guangxiao was also a talented person. With a deliberately provocative mindset, he wrote a brilliant manifesto denouncing the Crusaders. The writing habits of the East and the West are already very different. The translation of the Eastern manifesto into Western language has an inexplicable textual impact.
After reading the denunciation, Earl John's face turned red with anger, and with a "bang", he threw the jewel-encrusted wine glass in his hand to the ground.
"Your Excellency the Count?" The Byzantine Emperor stood up curiously and leaned over to read the manifesto.
Earl John handed the manifesto directly to him, but he was still very angry.
“Those damned Ming people created a new pagan religion, claiming that Heavenly Father, Buddha, Allah, and even Odin and Zeus are all gods under their God, and that believers in God should not slaughter believers in Allah. They said that His Holiness the Pope is a despicable blasphemer and a liar who used the name of God to seek money and power…”
The Byzantine emperor took the manifesto. Although he had his own plans, he actually considered himself loyal to God. When he saw this sharply worded manifesto, his expression changed.
The other Crusader nobles also circulated the manifesto, and none of them was free from indignation.
"These Ming people blasphemed our Lord and His Holiness the Pope. Your Excellency the Count, we should impose sanctions on them." The Byzantine Emperor said solemnly.
"These despicable Ming people are infidels more hateful than Muslims!" John said with his eyes wide open.
One of the reasons they stayed in the city was because they were afraid of the Ming army in Kangju City, so they rested and prepared here. Now that the Ming people dared to blaspheme their gods and churches, they had to attack even if they didn't want to.
Five days later, the main force of the Crusaders who defeated the Ottoman emperor left Byzantium and marched towards Kangju City in a mighty force.
In Kangju City, Yao Guangxiao had already received the news and was holding a military meeting in the city.
"Your Highness Prince of Yan is leading the cavalry to advance by land. Your Highness Prince of Zhou is also leading the Fengmingzhou navy and is rushing to our aid by sea." Yao Guangxiao had already received the news that the Ming Dynasty had already dispatched troops, and announced it to everyone at the military meeting.
Upon learning that the imperial court had sent troops to help, and that those who came were the Prince of Yan and the Prince of Zhou, who were very famous in Central Asia, all the civil and military officials in Kangju City were delighted and inexplicably excited.
"This city of Kangju is the foundation of our Chinese people's management of this part of Central Asia."
"Since the Tang Dynasty, this place has been lost to the barbarians for hundreds of years. Your Highnesses King Yan and King Zhou worked hard to defeat the powerful enemy and restore this place to China."
"We have been ordered to do this, and we will not let your efforts go to waste and make China weak again. Now that the Western Barbarians are coming here, we must hold our ground and wait for help."
"When the two princes arrive, we will turn all these Western barbarians into dust."
"When the time comes, you will follow the two princes and march west. Who knows if there will be a time to divide the land and establish new borders?"
These words made the generals in the city excited, and both Han and foreign generals were ready to fight.
Yao Guangxiao turned his head again and bowed to a person in the hall, saying: "I will have to trouble you to take care of the defense."
The man had Buddhist beads hanging from his neck and was wearing a monk's robe. He had a leopard head and round eyes. Although his hair and beard were all white, his aura was still as fierce as a tiger.
It was Zhang Dingbian, an old Han Chinese general who was unwilling to accept official positions in the Ming Dynasty but volunteered to guard the borders outside the territory for China!
Although Zhang Dingbian is old, he is still strong. Not to mention whether he can fight in the battlefield himself, just the ability to deploy troops and battle array that he has trained in his lifetime is enough to make him unbeatable even in the Ming Dynasty, where many famous generals are born.
At this moment, the Zen stick was slammed, and the iron rings on the stick collided, like the sound of a chime. Zhang Dingbian sneered and said, "Don't worry."
"With the old monk here, I will definitely teach these arrogant Western barbarians a lesson, and they will never return!"
A few days later, the main force of the Crusaders that set out from Constantinople had joined forces with other troops that were looting everywhere, and together they marched towards the city of Kangju!
(End of this chapter)