Chapter 401: Heaven and the Holy City (Part 2)
Time flies, and time quickly comes to the thirteenth year of savagery.
In the past few years, there has been a small friction between the Condor Empire and the Eaglehoof Empire, but because of mutual jealousy, there has never been a large-scale conflict between them.
Not only here in Ningyuan, but also in the entire Huaxia District, there has not been much action in the past few years, and everyone seems to be silently accumulating strength, waiting for it to burst out with all their strength at some point.
The Huaxia area is peaceful, but there are several earth-shattering events in other game areas, the biggest of which is the Crusades.
In history, the Crusaders have carried out a total of nine crusades, and except for the first great victory, the other eight were thunderous and rainy.
At the time of the First Crusade, the Franks established the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the holy city of Jerusalem, and Christianity ruled the holy city ever since.
With Baldwin IV's death from leprosy, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was soon conquered by Saladin Ayyub Bento, the first Sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty, and the holy city of Jerusalem fell into the hands of the Christians.
Although the kings of European countries organized eight more crusades in a row, they were never able to regain the lost holy city.
In modern society, all nations in the world coexist peacefully, and when people talk about this period of history, they only judge the successes and failures from the perspective of a bystander.
Even in the game, the Crusader Guild has only been growing in Europe, and does not want to recreate this history in the game.
The Crusader Guild didn't think about this, but one organization began planning how to retake the Holy City of Jerusalem from the moment they entered the game.
The name of this organization is also called the Crusaders, but compared to the false name of the Crusader Guild, they are the real Crusaders, and players are used to calling them the Blue Crusaders.
The leader of this crusader was named Renaud Baldwin Flanders, who claimed to be a descendant of the Baldwin family.
During the Plane War, the Crusaders represented by Renault planned to invade the plane where the player lords of Israel and surrounding countries were located.
Unlike the invasion of the regular player lords, they invaded as dimensional wanderers with the aim of establishing roots there.
As soon as they took over the plane, they used the Plane Settlement Token to pull a large number of Crusaders over.
In the aftermath of the Age of Earth, Reynolds and his army quickly captured the Beersheba region of Israel, and then opened the way to the rest of the Crusaders.
After making peace with the other player lords under his command, Renault dispatched an army of 1.5 million and pounced directly on the holy city of Jerusalem.
At first, Renault and the others did not play the title of Crusader, so they did not arouse the alarm of Israeli players, they just thought that it was an army of player lords of their own country.
At that time, many of the Player Lords of Jerusalem were fighting with the surrounding Arab armies, and they thought that Renault's army was supposed to support a certain area, and no one would have thought that their goal was the holy city of Jerusalem.
Although Jerusalem had hundreds of thousands of troops at that time, many of them were confronting the Arab army outside the city.
Upon learning of this, Reynaud immediately sent an army to cut off the retreat of those troops outside the city, and then personally led the army to begin the siege.
Due to Renault's preparation, the Israeli players were caught off guard, and by the time they reacted, the city of Jerusalem had already fallen under the onslaught of the enemy.
It took only three days for Renault's army to capture the holy city of Jerusalem.
Immediately after entering the city, they unfurled the Crusader banner with gold letters and white background, proclaiming the restoration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Renaud Baldwin Flanders as the new King of Jerusalem, calling himself Baldwin VI.
Baldwin VI immediately announced the status of the holy city of Jerusalem and called on the Christians of Europe to immediately begin to form a crusade and carry out the Tenth Crusade to restore Constantinople (Istanbul) and restore the former glory of the Crusaders.
Jerusalem
The Holy City, with its own forbidden realm, has the Jewish Wailing Wall and the Temple Mount, the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Way of the Cross for Christians.
The Wailing Wall: The Wailing Wall, also known as the Western Wall and also known as the "Wall of Sighs", is a sacred place for devout Jews to pray in front of the Wailing Wall to be blessed by God, and their stamina and spiritual attributes will be permanently increased.
Temple Mount: A holy place for Judaism, where devout Jews pray to the gods on the Temple Mount, and the gods will give them the responsibility of guarding the temple, and the force value will be permanently increased by a little.
Dome of the Rock: Also known as the Dome of the Rock, located on the Temple Mount, it is the holy place of the *** religion, *** called the noble temple, and the pious *** believers who pray in the temple will be blessed by Allah, and the intellectual and spiritual attributes will be permanently increased a little.
Al-Aqsa Mosque: The Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third most holy mosque located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which is called the "Al-Haram Al-Sharif". Sincere followers praying in the temple will earn the title of Allah's Janissary, and the force value will be permanently increased by a little.
Stations of the Cross: The path of Jesus' martyrdom, after devout Christians have walked the Way of the Cross, their endurance and spiritual attributes permanently increase a little.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Also known as the "Church of the Resurrection", the site of Jesus' tomb, the holy place of Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the place where Jesus Christ was killed, buried and resurrected. Devout Christians who pray in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre will receive the title of Guardian of Christ, with a permanent increase in force by one point.
When Baldwin VI revealed the nature of the Holy City, it caused an immediate uproar in Christendom, and countless Christians began to respond to his call, and people began to call friends, pack their bags, and prepare for the Tenth Crusade.
Although Baldwin VI succeeded in arousing the enthusiasm of the Christians to go east, his actions also attracted the hatred of the world, and many *** players could no longer care about the strife at home, and they carried dry food and rode war horses on their backs, ready to retake their holy land.
Soon, the Tenth Crusade of the Crusaders and the Great Counteroffensive of *** began at the same time.
Millions of crusaders invaded Turkey and marched directly into Constantinople.
They did not show weakness, some *** chose to rush to the aid of Constantinople, and the other part *** directly attacked Jerusalem, they wanted to recover the holy city again.
After losing the Holy City, the Israeli players had no choice but to retreat to the Tel Aviv area.
They are ready to let the crusaders and the *** coalition fight first, and then move according to the situation.
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