The Youngest Prince Of The English Royalty House [EN]: Chapter 188

[188. Red Eagle (4)]

On the battlefield, there was a flow.

At least, at this moment when the Holy Roman Empire’s army joined, the momentum of the European forces was gradually strengthening.

Numerical superiority.

The Holy Roman Empire-Poland联合军 [Joint forces] far outnumbered the Mongol army. So now, all that was left was to counterattack.

The soldiers who had been trembling inside the castle were gone. They were filled with confidence. It felt like their blood was heating up.

It was time to change from prey to predator.

Since the reliable Catholic brothers were helping Poland, there was nothing to fear anymore.

“Waaaaaaa!”

The shouts from the front and rear.

The Slavs and Germans, who would normally ignore each other, felt a sense of camaraderie against the Mongols, thinking, ‘Ah, we are still Europeans after all.’

It was truly a magnificent moment.

“That’s right. As Catholic brothers.”

“We’re going into a full-scale offensive.”

“We’ll attack the Mongols from above and below!”

The Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Poland began to repel the Mongols who were struggling in front of the castle with a coordinated attack.

“Ugh!”

“Run away!”

“We’re surrounded!”

“Mary and the Holy Mother.”

“You crazy bastard, that’s a Catholic prayer!”

Soldiers in the Mongol camp began to express their emotions.

Even the ruthless Mongol army was just people with blood, not immortal Arang warriors from legends.

Kazimierz II couldn’t miss the fact that they were also getting tired.

“Attack!”

Repeating the shouts he had already made countless times.

– Swish.

King Kazimierz II, cutting down the enemies blocking his path, spoke in a loud voice even amidst the hardship and exhaustion.

“Charge!”

He ran as a knight.

“We’ll help our Polish friends too.”

The princes of the Holy Roman Empire, close to perfection, gripped their reins to charge towards the Mongol army in response to the Polish army.

They also knew.

‘Poland, a race that dared to ignore us as Slavs, but seeing them today, it was our prejudice. Yes, they are also devout sons of Catholicism.’

How fiercely the Polish army had fought until they arrived, and why they had to protect Poland.

“We can’t hold out any longer. Retreat!”

With the shout of the Mongol commander near the castle and the raising of the flag, the armies of the 신성몽골제국 [Holy Mongol Empire] began to retreat busily.

The fearsome Mongols they had shown so far were gone. There were only cowards retreating in surprise at the spears and swords of the Europeans.

“Your Majesty, they are retreating.”

Kazimierz II, hearing the report from his subordinate, expressed cold anger and said.

“I won’t let them go easily.”

You can’t just let the invaders go comfortably. They have to know the price. The price of invading another country’s territory.

“Let’s go. Warriors of Polska!”

Kazimierz II thought of Prince John, now King John I of the Safe Zone.

The Safe Zone that had helped him countless times for a long time.

‘John, I will protect the Kingdom of Poland. So, Poland will not fall as you feared.’

Kazimierz II listened to John’s words with Noah’s heart and prepared for the Mongol invasion, so he was confident that the Kingdom of Poland would not collapse.

But the King of Poland had not anticipated something.

Poland. More precisely, the fact that there are not only righteous people in this country that has just been rebuilt as one kingdom.

“We… do not follow tyrants.”

Suddenly, half of the Polish cavalry turned their spears upside down.

‘Jan,’ the commander who had been talking to the king just a moment ago, stabbed the king’s chest with a large spear.

– Thud.

– Hiiing.

The King of Poland fell from his horse.

“This… this can’t be!”

The Polish side, watching this, was in chaos.

Of course. Their king was hit by a spear and fell from his horse, and the owner of the spear was an ally.

People were just making ‘blank’ expressions.

Because people can’t help but be flustered when they suddenly encounter something.

But they couldn’t catch the traitor right away.

“Poland is a country of nobles!”

“Kingdom of Poland? Why do we need such a thing?”

“There can be no monarchy!”

Half of the Polish cavalry had already turned their spears upside down. This was not just an assassination, but a rebellion.

But.

“The rightful emperor was Heinrich, not Otto!”

“We will show justice to the Germans who serve a fake emperor.”

There was one more tragedy.

There were also traitors in the Holy Roman Empire’s camp who turned their spears upside down.

Oh, my.

Spies disguised as white people were in the Polish army and the Holy Roman Empire.

Moreover, another group turned their spears upside down again.

“Why… why are you betraying us?”

“Betrayed? Wasn’t it you ‘嫡子’ [legitimate son] who deceived and used us!”

“The Mongols are better than you who can’t cherish bastards. At least they embrace bastards.”

They were knights from illegitimate children.

They also had a lot of dissatisfaction, so they betrayed their country.

Thanks to the sudden turning of spears by some knights, the Mongol army retreated easily.

A grueling fight that resembled a civil war began.

-Waaaaaaa.

“It’s a mess.”

Kazimierz II, covered in blood and collapsed on the floor, smiled bitterly, clutching his chest with blood flowing.

He thought of someone.

Not his wife or children.

He was thinking of a stranger in the west who had exchanged hundreds of letters.

[Poland is the shield of Europe. So I will save the Kingdom of Poland as much as possible.]

‘I’m thinking of you, Safe Zone, not anyone else.’

Kazimierz II listened to John’s words with all his heart and prepared for the Mongol invasion, so he had confidence that the Kingdom of Poland would not collapse.

But in front of Kazimierz II, who could not give a proper will.

– Hiiing.

A white horse was calmly approaching.

“Polska···.”

He lost his life.

“Your Majesty~~~~!”

The Polish army, who were worried about the king even while suppressing the rebellion, began to wail.

The people of the Holy Roman Empire, who were suddenly betrayed by their allies, were also dumbfounded.

“What’s going on?”

“What should we say to His Majesty the Emperor?”

“Did the remnants of the traitors survive like this?”

“Ah… damn it!”

Right then.

“We are liberated!”

The rebels who turned their spears upside down gathered together.

They began to retreat to the west.

But the wailing was from young people, and the experienced people regained their composure.

“Not now. Now is not the time to be sad. This itself may be a trap!”

– Dudududu.

Right then, the Mongol army popped out.

More troops than now, a number that could be called a ‘large army’.

* * *

“···!”

The death of the King of Poland was a great shock to all Europeans.

Moreover, the triple betrayal was enough to paralyze the reason of those who heard this news.

“Why··· why···.”

Someone muttered.

It was the cry of a Polish person.

Why should the king be ambushed?

Why do traitors come out at the same time?

The European army was really dizzy.

At this time.

The Mongol army, stationed 30km away, stormed into the collapsed European army camp.

“The time for hunting has ripened.”

“We hunted the white eagle. Now”

“Die!”

“It’s fun···.”

At that moment, Mukali thought of the words of his old benefactor.

‘Keep my words in mind. Humans are all the same.’

What he learned from General Jamukha was right.

Even if the appearance and culture are different, people are not different anywhere.

In Mongolia, it is a tradition for people of the same tribe to betray their relatives if they have the opportunity.

* * *

-Holy Roman Empire, Milan-

War is not just fought by people on the battlefield.

There are people who wage war in other ways.

The Italian princely states and Venice, which had been under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire half voluntarily and half involuntarily, agreed to the opinion of ‘Let’s not fight for the time being.’ Aren’t the Mongols invading and threatening us right now?

Of course, for a quick ‘reconciliation’, the hateful Genoa and Venice were showing the 모습 [appearance] of ‘We are close, hahaha’ for the sake of example, transporting the logistics of England in a friendly manner, but the problem was elsewhere.

Safe Zone, who is busy working as a supply commander in Anjou and experiencing domestic hell.

While many people were dying on the battlefields of Europe.

Another war was taking place. In the realm of political-diplomacy.

The historic city of Milan.

The most important people in Christianity were seen here.

Pope Innocent III, the head of the Vatican

Patriarch Leo III of Constantinople sent from the Eastern Roman Empire.

Leo III looked at the pope, who was too young compared to himself, and said kindly.

“I heard about the new Pope. The descendant of Peter who comes out once every 100 years?”

Innocent III said to the words that seemed like praise but not praise.

“I am still an insufficient person. Unlike the Patriarch.”

Both of them are the heads of religions leading the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Innocent III respected Patriarch Leo III of Constantinople, who had more experience than himself.

In the original history, he would have called him a heretic, but Innocent III is more polite because of the history changed by Safe Zone.

Leo III, looking at such a ‘junior’ clergyman, said to the Pope.

“If the Pope, who subdued the old foxes of the Vatican at a young age, is insufficient, there will be no one in this world who is insufficient.”

Even the Roman Orthodox Church knows everything. That the young Pope in front of him had already subjugated all other cardinals under him when he was a cardinal.

As I said before, the young Pope Anno Chencio III in front of him was not a figure who would come out once every 100 years, but a rare person in history.

So Leo III felt strange.

‘Such a person is not trying to strengthen the papacy, which a pope with strong power would usually try to do. Maybe it’s because of his relationship with Safe Zone?’

It was amazing that the Pope, who could break up with Safe Zone right away, was still living as a collaborator with Safe Zone.

“I just became Pope in a favorable situation.”

“So, did the precious descendant of Peter call the old Patriarch first?”

The contact between the Patriarch and the Pope was bound to happen anyway. However, the Pope’s side requested a meeting much earlier than the scheduled date.

That’s why Otto III asked the Pope, who was younger than himself.

Innocent III, hearing the question, thought of the previous Pope.

As a person who cherishes ‘John’ in the same way, he asked him for ‘the Church’ and ‘Europe’.

“It is to uphold the will of the previous Pope to make Europe peaceful.”

“The previous Pope···.”

Otto III recalled the person who had discussed the mutual revocation of excommunication at the Vatican before.

Former Pope Pius II. John’s teacher Thomas Becket and the Pope who worked for the success of the Third Crusade.

And he knew Pius II’s reverie well.

He also knew what Pius II wanted to create as a precedent and achieve as a 100-year project.

“East-West religious integration is difficult. In the first place, the church was divided even before the mutual excommunication.”

Leo III said with a regretful expression.

“Even though the Eastern and Western churches have dramatically reconciled, it is difficult to forget all the ‘history’ that has happened in the meantime.”

“Listen. Your Holiness. You know it well. The division of the Eastern and Western churches is not a matter of theology, but a matter of politics.”

“That’s what I’m saying because I know it well.”

“Hehe···.”

“Do you know the Travels of Marco Polo?”

“I know···.”

“The person who ordered the Travels of Marco Polo was Safe Zone, but I also participated in the event.”

“···What do you want to say?”

“The Mongol Nestorian Church has completely subjugated the East. This is not something to be taken lightly.”

“Hmm···.”

As Leo III paused for a moment, Innocent III continued.

“Safe Zone has already sent a letter. I agree with Pius II’s will. Isn’t now the time for our churches to reconcile?”

“It will be difficult.”

The East-West churches, which had become estranged after the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire, mutually excommunicated each other in 1054.

Although the Catholic and Orthodox churches, whose various interests coincided, revoked their mutual excommunication decades ago, the awkwardness and ‘differences’ that had lasted for more than 100 years will not easily disappear.

That’s why ‘great harmony’ is difficult.

“Pope, I want to tell you my thoughts···.”

But Leo III could not say all his opinions.

Because he heard the latest news that he did not want to hear.

“The King of Poland has died.”

“Traitors have emerged throughout Poland!”