After hearing Wanyan Xiebao's words, Wanyan Zonghan just smiled bitterly and looked at his son and said, "Xiebao, you are wrong! The few people we had when we started to fight against Liao back then were not the same as the few people now. The young people were the people from the Wanyan tribe of the Tiger Shui, not the Jurchens or the Bohai tribe. In the Liao territory, the Jurchens, the mature Jurchens and the Bohai people were added together, and the number of people was more than that of the Khitans and the Xi people! Moreover, the enemies of the Khitans were not only us, but the Shubu, Mengwu, Tatars and other tribes on the Mobei grassland were also their enemies, and the Han people in the Central Plains also joined forces with us. Many Han people in Yan under the rule of the Liao people also looked forward to the Song Kingdom of the Southern Dynasty. So the number that was dominated by the number was actually the anti-Liao side, not the Khitans and the Xi people!

On the West, the Saracen people, Turks, Romans, Rakshasa, Alan people, Huns, and people from all countries and ethnic groups in the west are not against us. Even the tribes on the Qincha grassland are not on the same route as us. So we fought along the way, although we grabbed a lot of wealth and women, we could not occupy the territory. Even a small Krim is now struggling to occupy it. Otherwise, we could also draw more troops to go south to fight Constellation..."

Wanyan Zonghan was right. When Aguda started his rebellion, the "few people" were just the first group of people who stood up to fight against Liao. It was not that there were few people who stood up to fight against Liao, nor that there were not Khitan and Xi tribes with the basic base of the Liao countries.

Now the "few people" of the West Road Jurchens are the total number! If it is not considered the old, weak, women and children who cannot join the army, the total number of the West Road Jurchens is only 75,000. According to one of the 2,500 soldiers (households), 30 Meng'an were divided. 20 of them were handed over to Wanyan Xibao and they will follow him south to Constellation.

These 20 Meng'ans plus Qinzhai, Alan, and Rakshasa servants of the Jinxi Road Army, there is no 100,000 troops, but there is still 80,000 people.

These armies are not a small number of knights and a large number of serf servants, but a full range of soldiers. This number of soldiers, placed in the Middle Ages, is definitely an invincible existence. I am afraid that only the Seljuk Turks can pull out the same number of troops! Therefore, the Jinxi Road Army has not had many troops, but their population is too small.

Moreover, as a wandering military group that came from the Far East, the difference between them and Westerners is too great. Whether it is appearance, language, belief, or living habits, they are so incompatible.

It can be said that if these Jurchens entered the Central Plains, as long as they picked up the imperial examination system, traitors would come in groups and their rule would be stable.

However, in the Rakshasa and the Alan Kingdom, the Jurchens could not do this. Because those countries practiced hierarchical feudalism, and all levels of feudal knights were all feudal knights. There was no bureaucratic landlord class at all... These knights would certainly surrender to the Jurchens, but the allegiance they could provide was different from the allegiance provided by unarmed feudal bureaucrats.

Their allegiance is just a contract, they are responsible for providing tributes and military service, while the Jinxi Road Army must ensure that their territory and beliefs remain unchanged.

And these Rakshasa and Alan Knights maintain their territory mean that they can maintain their military power that can resist the Jurchens!

And their faith... is even more terrifying. They all worship God! And there is also a powerful church (Oriental Orthodox Church) who presides over worshiping God and various other social activities, which has penetrated into almost all aspects and is impossible to remove.

In other words, the church worshipping the Gods of the Rakshasa and the Kingdom of Alan is not only deeply rooted, but also connected together, and receives the command of the Constellation's General Council of Gods!

As far as Zonghan and his son know, the loyalty of these Rakshasa knights to the sect leader was limited, while their faith in God was infinite... Worshiping God is related to whether they go to heaven or hell after death!

Sacrifice for God can ensure that you go to heaven and become a saint.

In theory, as long as Constellation worships God, he will always give orders, and the eighteen princes of the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Alan Kingdom will be rebelled.

Moreover, the eighteen princes of the Rakshasa and the knights of the Alan Kingdom also have a very strange characteristic: more soldiers will be chaotic, and fewer soldiers will be fierce!

Once they gather on a large scale, it will be very easy to deal with... because no one of the eighteen princes obeyed each other and had no unified command at all. The army of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people was in chaos, and it would only be "pig storm" when fighting, and there was no organization or discipline. It was even weaker than the Song army before Zhao Kai's rise and was vulnerable.

But once these people disperse, dozens or hundreds of knights fight guerrillas with you, and they are very powerful, and their combat effectiveness is almost comparable to that of the Jurchen warriors. In fact, this is the norm under hierarchical feudalism. Feudal lords who can afford to support dozens of knights are no longer small. These feudal lords command their own knights to defend their homes, of course, are very powerful. If you let hundreds of such feudal lords get together, and there is no strong monarch to command, it would be strange if you don’t have a mess.

So Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiebao did not take much effort to defeat the Allied Forces of the Eighteen Rakshasa princes, but when they were dispersing their troops to fight Caogu, they were beaten to heavy losses by the scattered Rakshasa knights...

After suffering losses, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiebao realized that they could not establish effective rule in the vast and desolate Rakshasa, so they could only choose the Crem Peninsula, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and has a small territory, as their foundation.

At the same time, he also signed a subordinate contract with the eighteen princes of Rakshasa to exchange for some tributes and warriors at the cost of protecting their territory and beliefs.

However, they also knew that hiding on the Crem Peninsula was not a long-term solution, so they turned the goal of conquest from the vast and desolate Rakshasa to the small and rich Eastern Rome... They had already inquired, Rome is a city and the world!

As long as Constellation was captured and the Black Sea Strait was controlled (the collective name of the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles and the Marmara Sea), the entire Roman Kingdom was in his pocket.

Moreover, there is a general church in Constellation City that worships God... If this church of worship can be controlled, then the Jinxilu Army will be stable to recharge the fortune of the Great Jin Kingdom.

"Dad," Wanyan Seibao pulled a chair and sat down in front of Wanyan Zonghan. "Eighty thousand people must have enough to capture Constellation... No matter how many of them, we don't have enough ships to transport them."

Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiebao still had many ships on hand. In addition to the 40 warships built by craftsmen from Venice and Genoa, there were also many merchant ships snatched from the port of Cesones. It was no problem to transport tens of thousands of people south, but no matter how many, it would not work.

"But how many people are there in Constellation City?" Wanyan Zonghan asked himself, and then replied, "There are always more than 100,000 people? How many people are there in the entire Roman Kingdom? There are always several millions? If they are all like the Rakshasa people, can we control it?"

Wanyan Xibao frowned, as if he was thinking hard, and seemed to want to say something but couldn't say it.

"Xiaobao," Wanyan Zonghan looked at his son, "Just say whatever you want... What else can you say between father and son?"

"Dad," Wanyan Xiebao breathed, as if he had made a great decision, "I want to worship God!"

"Worship, worship God?" Wanyan Zonghan was shocked, "Son, do you want to join the Romans' worship religion?"

"Must enter!" Wanyan Xiebao gritted his teeth, "If we don't enter the God worship religion, even if we build Constellation, we will not be able to manage the entire Roman Kingdom... My son has discovered these days that this God worship church is different from Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. These churches have too many things in charge, and the Roman court and government have too few things in charge.

Without the help of worshipping the Church of God, we would not be able to control much territory at all... and we would not be able to maintain it!"

Wanyan Xiebao was right. After the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, many affairs that were originally undertaken by the empire were gradually transferred to the hands of the church.

Therefore, this church not only manages the affairs of going to heaven and killing demons, but also involves education, medical care, disaster relief, adopting orphans, and reliance on the poor... and is even responsible for cultivating and educating a small number of bureaucrats to serve feudal lords. Sometimes the church will directly organize the crusaders to fight.

In addition, the order of the Christian world... that is, the God's version of "the king, the minister, the minister, the father, the son, the son" is also under the responsibility of the church.

It is the church that grants the monarchy power and the sacredness of various feudal contracts, which ensures that the obligations of the monarch and ministers and the spirit of the contract can be fulfilled.

It can be said that if the church forces within the jurisdiction of a feudal lord were wiped out in the Middle Ages, the feudal lord would probably not know how to rule the territory.

It is also for this reason that the "exclusion order" of the universal church in Rome could make the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire frighten.

If Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiebao want to rely on the support of 200,000 to 300,000 nations to seize the crown of Rome, they must be supported by the Orthodox Church... They cannot enter Constellation as pagan conquerors, but can only enter Constellation as protectors of the Orthodox Church.

Wanyan Zonghan frowned. He was not worried that he would be punished by immortality after entering the Church of God, but because he was worried that the Church of God would not cooperate.

"When we worship God, they can support us?"

Wanyan Xiebao nodded, "Yes! Daddy... My son has seen Leon, the special envoy of the Constellation God-worshiping Master Leon!"

"What do they say?" Wanyan Zonghan looked at his son.

"As long as we worship God with them and ensure that the property and various special rights of the church are not violated, Master Leon is happy to see the army of John, the king of the Eastern priest, enter Constellation!"

"Who is the priest King John?" Wanyan Zonghan asked.

Wanyan Xiebao smiled and said, "Dad, you are the priest King John! Isn't your name John Wanyan?"
Chapter completed!