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"Vicenza? This is too slow!"

Yue Fei said with a frown.

"The enemy seems to be planning to come back after they have assembled."

The general replied.

"Gathered. There are more than 200,000 soldiers. When will they gather?"

Yue Fei said impatiently.

"General Yue, this matter cannot be rushed!"

Lu Jiuyuan spoke.

"How can I not be anxious? I have been preparing for so long, but now the fish is in the nest and it won't bite for a long time!"

Yue Fei said that these were the last elite forces of the West. As long as they were defeated, the West would no longer have the power to resist, and there would be no resistance for them to annex the West.

"If the enemy doesn't come, we can attack them by surprise!"

Xin Qiji spoke.

"Sneak attack?"

Everyone looked at Xin Qiji and asked.

"Don't you understand what a sneak attack means? Just go over there and harass them, and provoke them. I don't believe these people can endure it!"

"If they send too few troops, I will kill them for a while. I am not afraid that their army will not move!"

Xin Qiji spoke.

"That's a good idea. I'll give you a thousand elite soldiers!"

Yue Fei looked at Xin Qiji and nodded.

"Yes, General."

Xin Qiji was overjoyed and immediately accepted the order.

"In addition, Lu You brought a thousand soldiers to support us!"

Yue Fei looked at Lu You again and said that he actually wanted to go by himself, but unfortunately he had no one on his side, so he had to go by himself to command the central army.

"Yes, General!"

Lu You also obeyed the order.

Xin Qiji and Lu You led their army on a boat and docked.

Seeing the Qi army approaching, everyone was cheered up.

"Qi has finally sent out its troops. There is hope!"

The frightened nobles and merchants breathed a sigh of relief.

But when they saw that there were only a few ships, they felt a chill in their hearts. This was far from what they had expected.

As the army landed, dissatisfaction arose among the nobles and merchants.

"There are only 2,000 people. What can they do with such a small number of people?"

Those nobles grumbled that they each had 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers under their command.

Xin Qiji and Yue Fei ignored those people, completely ignored all the glances cast at them, and rode away with their troops.

"What do you mean?"

The governor was also stunned when he saw the army leaving. He thought these people would come to him to discuss how to deal with the Crusaders, but he didn't expect these people to leave without even saying hello.

"The direction they are heading to is... Vicenza!"

Suddenly someone said in a trembling voice.

"Vicenza!"

Everyone's face changed, because that was the vanguard fortress of the Crusaders.

"They want to fight the Crusaders with such a small number of people? They are crazy!"

Someone said that the Crusaders' vanguard had nearly 30,000 troops. Wouldn't it be a waste of time for these two thousand people to go there?

"These Qi people are crazy!"

Everyone came to a conclusion in their hearts.

Coastside.

"The people of Qi have finally taken action!"

Baldwin IV said with a smile as he watched the Qi army march away.

"What can two thousand people do?" asked a soldier.

"Don't underestimate the fighting power of the Qi army. With only these two thousand soldiers, it is no problem for them to defeat an army of 20,000 in a battle on the plains!"

Baldwin IV said that he had seen the fighting power of the Qi army with his own eyes. It was a terrifying war machine that they could not contend with at all.

Xin Qiji and Lu You led the army quickly westward and reached the outskirts of Vicenza at dawn.

"The distance is still a bit far. It would be better if we could arrive a few hours earlier!"

Xin Qiji looked at the dim sky and said that they were still some distance away from the enemy's stronghold, and it would surely be noon by the time they arrived.

"We don't have to attack the city. We don't have enough people to attack the city! Let's attack the reinforcements!"

Lu You said.

"That's what I thought too! Just attack for help!"

Xin Qiji smiled and said that he certainly would not be stupid enough to attack the city.

The army moved on.

Vicenza.

This crusade was organized at short notice, with too many criminals and prisoners mixed in, and these people had no military discipline at all.

After the Crusaders entered the city, they started looting. Unfortunately, due to the spread of the Black Death, there were not many people left in Vicenza. The Crusaders did not rob anything from the civilians, so they turned their attention to the city lord and the nobles.

At first it was just extortion, but as more and more troops arrived, rape and looting began, and once the door was opened, it was out of control.

"These people are really something! Are they an army or bandits?"

Xin Qiji was looking at a scene in the distance with a telescope.

A group of Crusaders rushed into the fleeing refugees on the road. They grabbed the fleeing women with lewd smiles on their faces and tore their clothes wantonly.

When some refugees came forward to beg for mercy, the Crusaders drew their swords and slaughtered them.

"It doesn't matter what it is, these people deserve to die!"

Lu You said.

"Kill with me!"

Xin Qiji put away the telescope, shouted, and rushed out with his troops.

Lu You did not go with them, but led his troops to the flank, ready to kill any fish that had escaped the net. This time they wanted to kill all the enemies.

The soldier who was taking off his clothes with a lewd smile suddenly heard the sound of galloping horses and immediately looked around vigilantly.

"Enemy! Enemy!"

Someone shouted that the clothing and equipment of the Qi army were very different from those of the West and could be distinguished at a glance.

"Meet the enemy!"

These Crusaders reacted quickly. They didn't have that many war horses, but they had armor and swords. They quickly lined up in a row, swords in hand, ready to fight to the death.

"madness!"

Seeing the enemy like this, Xin Qiji raised his hand and shot.

"boom!"

As the gunshots rang out, a Crusader's head was shot through, his eyes widened, and then he fell straight down.

"Bang bang bang."

The Qi army also lined up in several rows and took turns firing while charging on horseback.

The Crusaders who were standing in a row with swords raised became living targets at this moment and fell down one after another.

"Witchcraft, it's witchcraft! Run! Run!"

As the people around them died or were injured, the Crusaders could no longer hold back and fled in all directions crying. They were used to life and death, and they were not afraid of any enemy, no matter how powerful it was.

But at this moment they were afraid. More than half of them had been killed or wounded before they even had a head-on confrontation with the enemy.

What they could not understand they agreed to classify as witchcraft, those symbols of evil, which they could not fight against.

"Want to run!"

Lu You led his troops to charge out, and there was another burst of gunfire. The fleeing Crusaders were all killed.

"Three thousand people, they are so vulnerable!"

Xin Qiji said with disdain as he looked at the corpses on the ground. At this moment, he really wanted to put on a mask and breathe smoothly, but when he thought of the Black Death, he waved his hand and led his troops away.

The Black Death still exists in the West, so combat also requires following regulations. Try not to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, mainly eliminate the enemy from a distance, do not clean up the battlefield, and do not touch the enemy's corpses.

The civilians who had just been bullied stared blankly at everything in front of them. In just a short while, all three thousand Crusaders were dead.

Lu You and Xin Qiji ignored the civilians. It was a wartime period and they would not be too compassionate. (End of this chapter)