Chapter 1607: Operations

Liangduo was dazed for a moment, watching the back of Liu Zheng as he walked away.

He shook his head and caught up with Teresa.

Just now he had been thinking: if that Longyan man was Liu Zheng, then who was the Austrian woman with Liu Zheng, and why did Liu Zheng call her Teresa?

Teresa, this name was so familiar.

It felt like he had heard it somewhere before.

Liangduo caught up to Teresa and asked, "The letter he left behind—are you really not going to look at it?"

Teresa glanced at him, her gaze piercingly cold, and snatched the letter from his hand.

Looking at the envelope, the letter written by Liu Zheng, Teresa was stunned, and tears immediately began to stream down uncontrollably.

"I have thought about this song for a long time, but I still want to give it to you."

"I believe..."

"Meeting you was not a coincidence."

"It is as if bestowed by the heavens."

"Creating a meeting of two hearts."

"I say you are my Princess..."

Teresa's heart collapsed in an instant; she chased out, wanting to grasp the tenderness that was slipping away from her side.

Watching Liu Zheng, who had already vanished from sight, she chased after him.

"Liu Zheng, you bastard!"

However, outside the church, apart from the refugees who had already been subdued, there was nothing.

Teresa's nose twitched, and her heart suddenly felt sour.

Only at this moment did she understand Liu Zheng's true feelings.

It was just like the content Liu Zheng had written in the song: "Turns out, as long as I can live with you for one day..."

But now, he was gone.

Teresa sang softly: "Turns out, as long as I can live with you for one day, everything in the mortal world can be forgotten..."

After Liu Zheng left, he gathered his thoughts.

He was a man who could pick things up and put them down; he would not let personal emotions delay the overall situation.

From the mouths of the Longyan army who rescued him, he learned that Li Hongtian had sent 50,000 men to secretly protect their safety all along.

Furthermore, the leading general, Chu Huai, told Liu Zheng: "According to our observations, the Holy Cross Army seems to have split into two routes; one route attacked Berlin from Saxony, but was defeated by Frederick II."

"As for the subsequent situation, they are not very clear either."

Liu Zheng was shocked and immediately said: "Gather intelligence at once. I need more. The entire army is to withdraw from the main city of Prague; I do not want our whereabouts to be exposed."

"Yes!"

Under Liu Zheng's command, the 50,000 elite troops of the Longyan army withdrew from the main city of Prague and arrived in the outskirts of Prague.

Because there were more and more refugees, many places in the outskirts of Prague were desolate and uninhabited.

In some places, there was not a single living person left in an entire town.

The Longyan army led by Liu Zheng took up residence in those places where there were very few refugees.

In the temporary command room he had set up, Liu Zheng looked at the map of Europe brought along with the army.

He analyzed the current situation.

Now, the whereabouts of the Holy Cross Army led by Douglas were unknown, and the other faction of the Holy Cross Army in Saxony had unclear movements.

But one thing was certain: these Crusaders wanted to destroy Berlin.

Liu Zheng absolutely could not stand by and watch Berlin be destroyed.

"Sir, I have already made contact with our spies in Saxony. According to what they know, there have been no signs of combat in Saxony recently, but the Crusaders have been stationed on the border of Saxony, confronting Prussia."

Liu Zheng nodded, squinting his eyes as he stared at the map; this winter was not peaceful.

No matter what the Crusaders intended to do.

Liu Zheng could not let them succeed.

At this time, in Hamburg.

The Longyan army led by Ling Chen was exhausted from dealing with the Crusaders led by Douglas.

Hamburg had previously been seized from the Swedish Army by Ling Chen through various means.

However, the Swedish Army was now taking advantage of the gap while the Longyan army was exhausted to quietly land from the coastline.

They captured Hamburg in one fell swoop.

Hamburg had returned to the hands of the Swedish Army.

This news also reached Ling Chen's ears very quickly.

The capture of Hamburg was within his expectations; ever since the Crusaders began their attack, their defenses had become much weaker.

This was what gave the Swedish Army an opportunity.

"General, are we really not going to do anything about Hamburg?" the Strategist asked.

"No need to worry about it. What we need to do now is contract our battle lines; fighting on two fronts is too strenuous. Leave the Swedish Army to the British to handle."

The Strategist was stunned: "The British?"

Ling Chen did not answer. The territories of Sweden and Britain were closely connected. Long before Douglas's Crusaders attacked, Ling Chen had written to Frederick II to drag the British into the water.

Although the British were allies of Prussia, the war had lasted so long that, apart from providing minimal capital support to Prussia, the British had provided no other substantial support.

Now that the Swedish Army was attacking Hamburg, it was naturally necessary to drag the British into the water.

"Britain? General, you don't actually believe those treacherous people will send troops, do you?"

Ling Chen grinned: "Of course not, which is why I told Frederick II a Method."

Before supporting the Longyan Army, Frederick II first dispatched troops disguised as Swedish to rob Merchant Ships that were originally intended to be delivered to Britain.

And he cruelly slaughtered all the British on the Merchant Ships.

He hung their heads on the British Flag.

After the King of Britain, George III, learned of this, he was instantly enraged.

He launched an attack against the Swedish Army.

Hamburg, occupied by the Swedish Army, naturally also suffered an assault from the British army.

And while the Swedish Army and the British army were fighting.

The thirty thousand Prussian Army led by Frederick arrived at Hanover; according to Ling Chen's deployment, Frederick II would engage in a head-on conflict with Douglas.

Although Douglas's Holy Cross Army was corrupt, and had even hollowed out their bodies for the sake of Prussian women.

Their superior equipment still gave them considerable combat power.

The French Cavalry had always claimed to have no rivals on the European continent.

The French Cavalry initiated an attack on the Prussian Army from a high ground.

The high ground where the Prussian Army was originally located was lower than the French high ground, so they withdrew to another high ground.

However, the Cavalry commander of the Holy Cross Army was unaware of this.

They still launched a charge at the original high ground where the Prussian Army had been.

But when they arrived, they faced an empty high ground, and their expressions instantly stiffened.

Frederick II watched the Holy Cross Army charge into his previous high ground and also launched an attack on them.

Before the Holy Cross Army could react, the charge of the Prussian Army had already descended.

Under this wave of charges, the Holy Cross Army was caught off guard and slaughtered.

But because the Holy Cross Army cavalry were all Heavy Cavalry, they had sacrificed the speed of cavalry in exchange for stronger defensive power than ordinary cavalry.

However, the cavalry on the Prussian Army's side were all Light Cavalry.

Their speed was faster.

Yet in this wave of charges, the Light Cavalry could not inflict significant casualties on these Holy Cross Army Heavy Cavalry.

The situation on the battlefield suddenly fell into a stalemate.

Frederick II, however, was not worried in the slightest; he had long anticipated the current state of the battle.