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Chapter 1633 Everyone has their own agenda

"But the holy weapon cannot be given up!"

The cardinal said that anything could be discussed as long as the holy relic was obtained.

"Archbishop, there's something under the box!"

A bishop spoke up, and they had just carefully taken out the gold plate from the box and found three iron plates under the box.

"This is……"

Everyone frowned as they looked at the three iron plates; these things had nothing to do with the Covenant.

"Holy Fire Order!"

Baldwin IV spoke, and he took out a similar iron plate from his arms, which he found in the treasure.

"The Holy Fire Token is the Manichean holy relic that the Emperor of Qi has been looking for?"

Everyone then realized that this thing seemed to be a sacred object of another religion.

"Your Majesty, what should we do with this thing?"

The bishops looked at the cardinal and asked.

The cardinal was a little hesitant at this time. According to his idea, the pagan holy relics should be destroyed, but Manichaeism had been completely destroyed long ago, and these holy relics were meaningless.

"Your Majesty, why don't you give all these to me!"

Baldwin IV spoke.

"You want these things?"

The Cardinal looked at Baldwin IV.

"Your Majesty, these things are meaningless to us, but the Emperor of Qi wants them, so we will give them to him in exchange for something!"

Baldwin IV spoke.

"Okay, I'll give it to you."

The cardinal waved his sleeves and said that he didn't want to take care of these matters anymore. Since Baldwin IV was willing to take charge of this matter, he was relieved.

"King, are you really colluding with the emperor?"

Conrad III looked at Baldwin IV with suspicion. The more he looked, the more he felt that there was something wrong with the King of Jerusalem. He received news that the king had met the Emperor of Qi twice, which in his opinion was already very suspicious. Now Baldwin IV still wanted these Holy Fire Orders, and his purpose was self-evident.

"Your Majesty, are you doubting me?"

Baldwin IV looked at Conrad III and asked coldly.

"I'm just curious as to what you want these things for? What do you want in exchange? As a devout follower of the Lord, you shouldn't touch these things."

Conrad III spoke.

"I am using these things only for the benefit of the army. You don't want to fight with Qi, nor do you want to communicate with Qi, but you still want the gold plate in the hands of the Arabs. Tell me what to do?"

Baldwin IV looked at Conrad III and asked.

"Humph!"

Conrad III snorted coldly and said nothing more.

"Okay, I already know about this matter, I'll leave it to him!"

The cardinal said that although it was not a good idea to go to the Qi people, there was no better choice in this situation. Compared with the strength of Qi and the local advantages of the Arabs, they really had nothing to show for it.

Baldwin IV didn't say anything to anyone else. He took his men back to the camp, and then took a small group of people to the Qi camp in the east.

Saladin, who was walking back, looked back at the Crusader camp with a sneer on his face.

"Lord Saladin, are these people going to play tricks?"

One person looked at Saladin and asked, there are many treacherous people in the desert, and the pagans are even more so.

"Of course they will. These Christians are the most cunning. We can never believe that they will try to please the Qi people after they get the Holy Fire Order!"

Saladin said firmly that he did not believe the cardinal and the Crusaders at all.

"Then why give them the Holy Fire Order!"

Everyone said in confusion, since the enemy is bound to betray, why did they offer the Holy Fire Order? Isn't this giving the enemy an easy advantage?

"It is not appropriate for us to test Qi, so we need someone to do it for us. These Crusaders are very good."

Saladin looked far into the desert.

“If the Crusaders unite with Qi, then won’t we…” everyone said with some concern.

"Qi State is willing to unite with the Crusaders. Do you think the Crusaders dare to do that? Only equally weak forces have ever united together. If the Crusaders and Qi State unite, they will just be courting death!"

Saladin narrowed his eyes and said that although he did not know the high-ranking officials of the Crusaders, they were not so stupid.

"You should pay attention to the movements of the Crusaders recently. We will start this battle from their side!"

Saladin spoke to the generals.

"Attack the Crusaders first!"

Everyone was excited, as they thought they would fight with Qi first.

"Yes, going to war with Qi will only benefit the Crusaders. Let's defeat the Crusaders first, and then have a decisive battle with Qi!"

Saladin said that if they went to war with Qi, their strength would be greatly damaged regardless of whether they won or lost. At this time, the Crusaders would take advantage of the situation and everything would be out of control.

"I gave them the golden plate and the Holy Fire Order just to paralyze them, to make them think that I wanted to join forces with them to deal with Qi State, so that they would let down their guard!"

Saladin said, looking at everyone.

"My lord, you are wise!"

"Great idea, sir!"

Everyone praised Saladin.

……

Persian Gulf.

"Your Majesty, this is the current situation!"

Li Zu pointed to the sand table in front of him and said, the center is the city of Baghdad, surrounded by four armies.

"This looks like playing mahjong!"

Sun Lei looked at the map with a smile.

"Tell me what you think!"

Sun Lei did not continue to joke, but asked everyone.

"Your Majesty, the Arabs did this on purpose. They and the Abbasids are originally one family. Now they are hiding in the west and setting up camp. It is obvious that they want to form a horn with each other."

"Now that we are surrounding the city from two directions, this pincer attack is not very effective. The most troublesome thing is these Crusaders in the north. These people are variables!"

Zhang Qing said.

"It's a trouble! But it's just a small trouble."

Sun Lei looked at the Crusader camp on the map.

"Your Majesty, there is news that Baldwin IV went to the eastern camp and delivered four Holy Fire Orders!"

Qin Ming came over to report.

"Four Holy Fire Tokens? Didn't they just find a treasure? Where did these four come from? Did someone give them to them?"

Sun Lei touched his chin and started thinking.

"Your Majesty, it could be those Arabs!"

Li Zhu said that the only people who still had the Holy Fire Order in this area were the Arabs.

"These people want to unite?"

The generals immediately came up with an idea, that is, the allied forces of Sun and Liu should join forces to fight against Cao.

"Can we unite with this mortal enemy? I'm afraid these people don't have such a broad mind."

Sun Lei shook his head slightly. He still didn't believe that the Arabs would unite with the Crusaders. Even if they did, they would only be in name only and might betray each other at any time.

"Where's Han Shizhong? Where's Yue Fei? These two guys are used to being wild now, and they like to hide in the crowds of foreign races when they have nothing to do."

Sun Lei said.

"They are now building a defensive offensive outside Baghdad. So far, they have not entered Baghdad. Those people are still very alert."

Li Assistant spoke.