Fei Laoer's resentment towards the church has increased day by day since the Dutch War.

During the process of Dutch independence, he repeatedly asked the church to use the Pope's influence to help him win the war, but this time it was like a rock sinking into the sea, which made him completely disappointed.

The Catholic cause in Europe should not be Spain's own responsibility, but the indifference of others made his kingdom bankrupt several times, and inevitably took a difficult journey of complete prosperity and decline.

This unfair treatment can deviate from the hearts of the most loyal people.

But until Chen Ju drove into Gibraltar, Philip repeatedly asked Chen Jiujing, Chen Ju and others to assure him that no matter what happened, they could not start a war in Italy.

Especially the Vatican in Rome.

For this reason, he assigned the Naples fleet to escort Chen Ju's Wanli fleet throughout the whole process, and in fact he also had the purpose of surveillance. It was very difficult for him to be sandwiched in the middle.

On the one hand, he had to protect the Wanli ship and not allow the Ming Emperor's ship to be damaged in his territory. On the other hand, he had to protect the Vatican, but in fact he could not protect either of these two sides.

If the Ottoman pagans suddenly decide to launch an attack on the ship of the Ming Emperor to blame him, he will not be able to launch a full-scale war with the Ottoman; similarly, if Chen Ju was not happy with the Pope's talks and the Pope, he would also be unable to bear the loss of going to war with the Ming Dynasty.

This is completely left to fate and doing everything.

As for the Pope's request to sink and annihilate the Wanli fleet, it would be completely outrageous.

If you can fight, the threat of the Ming army's closest threat is different. The biggest problem is that if Fei Laoer obeys the Pope's orders and goes to war with the Ming Dynasty for the third time, will the Pope use influence and help him?

I'm afraid it still won't. Unless Spain disappears, a weak Spain is more in line with the interests of the church.

As for the Pope's fear of the Wanli fleet, it also seemed very abnormal - why was he so afraid?

Even though he was sitting on a warship and possessed a cannon, Chen Ju was just an envoy.

Philip would not be afraid of this kind of thing. After all, Mr. Fei had seen the world, the Fu Yuan Fleet of the Eastern Military Palace and the Yang Ce Fleet of the Han Dynasty were all parked at his doorstep. He looked at Chen Ju's Wanli Fleet again, well, this is indeed a group of envoys.

And in the eyes of the Pope, it is another story.

The fleet had four huge warships, more than a dozen powerful warships, and two fleets of the Spanish and Moors escorted, slowly approaching Rome.

The most loyal Swiss mercenaries were reluctant to fight to the death in the Vatican and proposed that the pope take refuge in the inland kingdom under their protection.

Even if they were fighting against the Spanish Legion, they would not be so worried, but in the confrontation with the Ming army, they sacrificed many fellow villagers and paid a heavy price, but failed to stop the Ming army from taking a step.

The Spanish did not participate in the Battle of France, and the French did not participate in the Second War of Minxi, but the Swiss participated in all the battles of the Eastern Military Palace to the east. They died in the White Horse River in the New World, in Bordeaux, and in the nameless valley of Angoulem.

The entire Rome was guarding the death penalty. When Chen Ju sent a message to inform the port, the soldiers stationed at the port used more than a dozen artillery artillery of various caliber warnings.

Full of hostility.

This situation made the Spanish Naples fleet very worried, but Chen Ju had nothing to worry about - he looked down on the pope, and if it weren't for the mission left to him by Chen Mu, he would even want to skip Rome to continue his journey.

Among the information received by Chen Ju, Gregory Thirteen is a villain with unknown rewards and narrow minds.

He made great efforts to the Catholic Church and had the strongest power. He formed a coalition force many times. In order to defend the Catholic world, the most obedient Spanish King Philip asked Rome for help many times in times of crisis. Lao Thirteen was always indifferent.

In France, the Catholics used deception to launch a massacre against the Protestants. Nearly 100,000 victims were killed. Because the corpses piled up in France, no one dared to eat fish in the river. However, the Thirteenth Lao rang a Roman bell and specially made a special commemorative coin. He also made a mural to celebrate and sang hymns.

If this is a military victory, Chen Ju didn't think there was anything wrong with the celebration, but it was an indiscriminate massacre. With the status of the Thirteenth Old should have been respected, even if he didn't feel ashamed of it, he would just be happy in his heart.

Now, when they had already received the news of their upcoming visit, they asked the defenders to fire cannons at the sea, which made Chen Ju very unhappy.

Chen Fo shook his sleeves and rebuked: "Irregular!"

Under Chen Ju's order, the Naples fleet sailed fifteen miles to the left wing, and the Moroccan fleet sailed fifteen miles to the right wing. Twenty-seven warships on the left and right wing of the Wanli ship lined up six miles outside the port, illuminating the side strings of the ship towards the port.

Chen Ju, wearing a black veil and a scalloped silk python robe, clenched his fists and handed the Shangfang sword in his arms to the servants. He slowly tied his arms and sleeves tightly on the iron arm guards, and asked General Luo Shangzhong: "General Luo, how many side string cannons do we have?"

"The governor, twenty-four Chihai frigates, Taiyue, Nantang, and Shuanglin three ships, not counting Franchise and small cannons, there are 500 General Zhenshuo."

With the imperial gift armor hanging on his body, Chen Ju looked at the fort on the shore with a telescope, raised his hand and said, "Send a small boat to tell the Spaniards, let them send a boat into the port later, tell the defenders that I want to see the Roman priest, please, please, please, please welcome him to the port."

The eunuch quickly copied the message and took the sailing communication boat on the ship to the left wing. Chen Ju turned his head and said to Luo Shangzhong: "It's not polite to come but not go. General Luo ordered the ships to prepare for firing."

Luo Shangzhi took the order, took a step and turned his head and reminded him: "Du Gong, how many rounds are they outside the range?"

Of course, Chen Ju knew that this position was beyond the range. He just wanted to return the gift and didn't want to level the port. The momentum he had accumulated with great effort was suddenly broken by Luo Shangzhi's question, and he smiled and said, "One round is enough."

Since Luo Shangzhi came back from Beijing to the giant bull and the giant turtle, perhaps because the domestic situation is extremely optimistic, even he has become much more relaxed and interesting.

At least in terms of mentality, they are not like the first soldiers who came to Asia, and they are full of defense mentality that faces the unknown.

The commander of the Naples fleet was extremely anxious when he saw the confrontation between sea and land, but he did not dare to stop Chen Ju. He watched a sailboat with the Imperial Flag swaying towards his flagship in the waves, and breathed a sigh of relief.

He received someone and read the letter, relaxed and said to his left and right: "Don't worry about what the Pope is going to welcome. Fortunately, this envoy is not as irritable as General Chen. He will send the message to the Vatican first, and persuade the Pope to remove the defense and let the envoy come in..."

Before he could finish his words, the sound of artillery fire came from the central army.

They fired.

Not counting the Wanli ship, five hundred and four naval guns blew one after another, and earth-shaking artillery fire resounded across the sea.

The commander swallowed his saliva, took off his helmet, looked at the huge smoke rising from the sea with a dull face, and paused for a long time before continuing, "Prepare the boat, let's go by myself."
Chapter completed!