Chapter 1593: Treatment

After wiping out the bandits.

Ling Chen ordered a count of the battlefield.

During this attack on the Prussian bandits, the Longyan Light Cavalry did not suffer any casualties; under the crushing weight of absolute military power, these bandits could be said to have had no ability to fight back at all.

Although muskets and cannons are the most powerful weapons at present.

But when handed to these bandit troops who did not understand war to begin with, these things were no different from fire pokers in their hands.

These bandits were facing Ling Chen, and under the Light Cavalry he led, beating a troop of bandits with no combat experience to a pulp.

Was simply as easy as could be.

The Longyan Army cleared the battlefield, and in the bandits' camp, Ling Chen discovered too much trash equipment manufactured in France.

These pieces of equipment they manufactured could be considered the earliest versions of muskets and cannons.

Their range and power were almost negligible.

However, even so, these bandits still relied on these muskets to plunder a large amount of money.

Ling Chen even rescued a group of Prussian villagers.

Ling Chen let them take back the stolen money to divide it up; as for the trash equipment manufactured in France, all that was useful was kept, and all that was useless was dismantled.

Ling Chen did not have time to stay here for too long.

He had other matters that needed to be handled.

There were still too many bandits within Prussia, and he had to suppress the bandits as quickly as possible to restore supplies to the Prussian factories.

For some reason, in this calm winter, Ling Chen always had a sense of urgency.

Europe after the start of winter was calm to an abnormal degree.

The major belligerent nations—France, Austria, Britain, Prussia, and Tsarist Russia—seemed to have vanished without a trace.

The armies had absolutely no movement.

But it was precisely because it was too calm that Ling Chen felt something was wrong.

His troops had solved their food supply issues, but their weapons and ammunition had not been replenished; if a war were to break out now, the Longyan Army would be very passive.

Ling Chen had to speed up.

……

At this time, the troops led by Prince Soubise launched an attack on Prussia from the streets of Saxony.

The horn of war for this winter was sounded in an instant.

The Holy Cross Army led by Prince Soubise took three cities within a week, and Frederick II, realizing it too late, immediately sent troops to intercept them.

But it had little effect.

The Holy Cross Army led by Prince Soubise was unstoppable.

But they stopped at the Prussian city-states.

Facing this war situation, Frederick II frowned deeply, revealing a look of lingering fear; he never imagined that the Holy Cross Army would launch a crusade at this time.

Fortunately, he held them off, but because Frederick II was exhausted from dealing with the enemy, he overlooked many things.

He concentrated all his forces near Saxony to prevent the Holy Cross Army led by Prince Soubise from launching another sneak attack.

But what he did not know was that, at this moment, Douglas, far away in Prague, received a stern warning from the Pope.

He was ordered to launch an attack on Prussia, this Protestant country.

Facing the Pope's order, Douglas dared not have any doubts.

He immediately led his great army to set off from Prague, entered Hanover, and attacked Berlin from the south of Hanover.

However, before this, Douglas had one more thing to do.

Regarding Teresa!

Because of this woman, he had been scolded by the Pope.

If not for her, there would not be a large number of heretics appearing in Prague now.

She must pay the price for this!

Fortunately, however, because of the Pope's speech, this incident of the Holy Cross Army slaughtering believers had already taken on a different appearance.

The Holy Cross Army was rescuing these believers who had been bewitched by sinners, allowing them to return to the embrace of the Lord.

This narrative was accepted by most people.

Refugees were now labeled as "bewitched believers."

The Holy See in Prague took the opportunity to issue the latest order: "We have a responsibility to send all bewitched refugees back to the embrace of the Lord."

Under a campaign of terror and bloody suppression, these refugees truly became believers in need of rescue.

The Holy Cross Army's attitude toward this slaughter was indifferent.

The Holy See was even more so; the Archbishop even publicly stated: "The Lord will grant these bewitched believers the greatest tolerance."

Hearing such shameless news, Teresa tore the newspaper into shreds on the spot.

"Hateful Holy See!" Teresa, this once-devout Catholic, shouted coldly.

Liu Zheng looked at her, his face silent.

Now their situation was precarious.

Those Holy Cross Army soldiers operated on the principle of "better to kill the wrong ones than to let one go."

On the streets throughout Prague, the number of refugees decreased immediately; these refugees were either dead or on the way to death.

As if overnight, these refugees had all become the original sin of the people.

The refugees who had recognized the true face of the Holy See were filled with despair.

Teresa was even more despairing than them; she had no idea how to handle these matters anymore.

Although the Holy Cross Army had withdrawn, the pressure now was even greater.

Liu Zheng looked at the helpless Teresa and said nothing.

Teresa was silent for a long time; she stared at Liu Zheng's face and said in a deep voice, "Liu Zheng, I have decided to form a resistance army; we cannot let Catholicism continue like this."

"If this continues, Austria will be plunged into even greater turmoil."

Liu Zheng supported her decision, but there was now a problem: "We have no guns and no soldiers in our hands, Teresa; we cannot rely on them to fight a war."

"Moreover, the situation has now reversed, and we are now the devils in the eyes of the majority."

"If we don't wash away this label, Teresa, can you launch a war?"

Teresa was stunned by Liu Zhen's question; she had originally intended to use her status as a Grand Duke to gather the troops of Austria to attack the Holy Cross Army.

To drive these Crusaders out.

But now, that idea was stuck and completely unrealistic.

Teresa sighed; the root of everything came from the Divine Right of Kings.

She could not do this, or they would fall into an even greater crisis.

Liu Zheng said earnestly, "Teresa, for now, we can only continue to organize the refugees and tell the whole world the ugly truth about Catholicism."

"That is all we can do."

Just at this moment, the door of this Small Tavern, which had gathered many refugees, was kicked open with a bang.

Liangduo was holding a child covered in blood.

Daniel was clutching his arm, and fresh blood dripped from his arm.

Liangduo swept his gaze over everyone here and asked urgently, "Is there a doctor here? We need a doctor."

The crowd looked at the little girl in Liangduo's arms and turned their heads away numbly; they completely did not want to get involved in any more trouble.

Teresa heard the sound and looked over.

She saw the little girl who still had a faint breath.

Teresa pushed through the crowd, ran over anxiously, looked at the little girl who was bleeding non-stop, and tore a piece of relatively clean cotton cloth from her own clothes.

She helped her stop the bleeding.