Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 490 The End of the Betrayer and the Betrayed
The next day, early in the morning.

Zhu Zhanhe got up very early, and after a brief wash, he summoned Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping and set off for the next destination.

However, unlike when he was in Rome, Zhu Zhanhe changed his destination last night after reading the battle report that Xing Kun had not had time to send out.

The reason is simple. It turned out that his target was Brunswick, but according to the battle report Xing Kun received, Qian Yong and Jian Xiao had captured the free city of Bremen, and now they were approaching Aachen, the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.

Generally speaking, Zhu Zhanhe would not be at the forefront of the battlefield, because his safety determined the power structure of the entire Europe, and even the entire Eurasian continent. Once there was a problem with him, the entire Eurasian continent would be in chaos.

Therefore, he usually chooses the city behind the frontline battlefield.

For example, Qian Yong and Jian Xiao have already captured Brunswick before, and their next target is the Imperial Free City of Bremen. The main battlefield is near the Imperial Free City of Bremen, and his destination is Brunswick in the back. gram.

Now that Qian Yong and Jian Xiao have fully captured the Free City of Bremen, and the main battlefield has shifted to around Aachen, his destination will naturally advance accordingly.

However, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and no one knows which direction it will develop in the future.

The capital of the Holy Roman Empire, Aachen.

Today's Aachen is in chaos, because the Ming army has arrived, just [-] miles outside the city. Although Aachen has not received news from the free city of Bremen, the Ming army can reach Aachen. Chen's feet, it means that the imperial free city of Bremen has fallen.

The people of Aachen, who were still sitting firmly in the high hall, have already lost their minds, and escape is the only thought in their hearts.

However, what they don't know is that they have to face far more than this.

Strait of Dover.

This is the western end of the English Channel, and it is also the place where the British Isle is closest to the European continent, and now both sides of the Dover Strait are full of tension.

On both sides of the strait, the English were tensely on alert as if they were facing an enemy. The reason was that the Ming Dynasty's treasure fleet appeared at the mouth of the Rhine River.

When Wang Jinghong crossed the English Channel last time, the English tried to stop it. After all, the English Channel was the most important route for them to and from the Kingdom of France. Once blocked, the English who were far away in the Kingdom of France would be besieged.

However, facing Ming's treasure fleet, the result can be imagined.

Now, the fleet that has not been heard from for nearly a year after crossing the English Channel reappeared. Although they knew that the chance of victory was almost slim, they still had to work hard.

Because they already knew the agreement reached between the Ming army and Yolanda of Aragon, and they knew that this would be a problem that they would have to face sooner or later, otherwise their English expedition to the south would be in vain.

However, this time they were nervous in vain, because the target of the treasure fleet was not them, but the Rhine River where the treasure fleet docked.

Moreover, they only saw many large ships docked at the mouth of the Rhine, but they didn't know that this was just the remaining ships, and more than half of the ships were no longer here.

All of this is due to the particularity of the Rhine.

Although the Rhine River is the fifth largest river in terms of freight volume after the Yangtze River, Pearl River, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and Mississippi River, the depth of the river is not as deep as the four big brothers in front of it.

The normal water depth of the Rhine waterway is two to two and a half meters, but during droughts, this depth can drop to less than half a meter!

There are many kinds of ships in the treasure fleet of Ming Dynasty, which can be basically divided into handsome ships, war ships, riding ships and horse ships. Among them, there is one handsome ship, and the rest are war ships, riding ships and horse ships.

Among the remaining three types of ships, there are also different sizes. It doesn't matter if you take a boat, but the size of warships and horse boats is also far beyond the world average.

Because of the particularity of the Rhine River, Wang Jinghong did not dare to allow large warships and horse boats to enter the Rhine River, so a large number of ships remained at the mouth of the Rhine River, which brought wrong judgments to the English.

At this time, Wang Jinghong had already arrived in the south of Aachen, and he had already gained something.

Most importantly, this gain is not small.

"Tsk tsk, it's really strange."

Because the handsome boat was too big to enter the Rhine River, Wang Jinghong sat on the horse boat that was temporarily used as the handsome boat, and looked at the several people tied up in front of him in amazement.

"In the face of national disaster, the experience you think about is not how to unite as one to tide over the difficulties, but how to fly separately when the disaster is imminent?"

Although he couldn't understand Wang Jinghong's words, the translator beside him faithfully relayed these words to Leopold and other members of the Habsburg dynasty.

Hearing such words in such a situation, the faces of these Habsburgs were full of humiliation.

However, the situation is stronger than people, and there is nothing they can do.

Seeing the humiliated but silent captives in front of him, Wang Jinghong didn't have the time to argue with them any longer. He got up and waved his hands, signaling the guards to deal with these people.

Wang Jinghong didn't know what Zhu Zhanhe was thinking, but he knew that these people were definitely not Sigismund, and he didn't know as much as Jane Xiao, so if he wanted to keep them, he would definitely keep prisoners of Sigismund's level.

As for people like Leopold...

It's too troublesome to carry, just carry your head, it's convenient, and you don't have to worry about it.

However, as soon as Wang Jinghong turned around, Leopold realized something was wrong.

It took him a lifetime to reach his current height. He didn't want his efforts to be ruined here, let alone let the Habsburg Dynasty decline in his own generation.

Hearing Leopold's shout, Wang Jinghong didn't intend to pay attention, but the translation made him stop.

"Commander Wang, this person said that they have a prisoner who can satisfy you enough."

"Ask!" Wang Jinghong didn't turn around, but turned his head and said something.

He didn't want to ink with Leopold. If the other party didn't tell him, he wouldn't show mercy, so he didn't give Leopold any room to bargain.

Soon, the translator got what Wang Jinghong wanted to know.

"Return to the king's commander, this person said that he has a prisoner in his hand, who is the son-in-law of Sigismund, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and Sigismund has no son, only one daughter. According to the customs here, the son-in-law is also able to inherit the family business."

"So, the person they're talking about is actually the next Holy Roman Emperor."

"Where's the person?" Wang Jinghong turned around.

After a chatter, the translator looked at Wang Jinghong with a troubled expression: "Commander Wang, he said to let them go first, and then they would bring him here. Otherwise, they would rather go to see their God with this person."

Hearing this, Wang Jinghong frowned, took two steps forward, and raised his hand.

Buzz... blah...

There was a sound that made people's ears numb and trembling, followed by the sound of dripping water.

The head of a member of the Habsburg Dynasty rolled onto the deck, adding a dazzling scarlet to the deck.

"Where's the person?" Wang Jinghong's tone and expression did not change, as if everything that happened just now had become commonplace.

……

From the start of the questioning to the raising of the hand again, within three breaths, the head of another Habsburg member rolled down onto the deck.

"Where's the person?" Wang Jinghong asked again.

Until then, Leopold turned his neck mechanically as if he had just woken up, his eyes widened, and he looked at Wang Jinghong with a face full of disbelief.

It's not that Leopold's mental quality is poor, let alone how unbearable he is. As a member of the Habsburg dynasty, as the duke of the Duchy of Austria, and as a ruler who is plotting for the throne of the Holy Roman Empire, Leo Pod had seen much more than the average person.

And the reason why he was stunned was entirely because Wang Jinghong played cards unreasonably.

He sacrificed the card of Albrecht in order to negotiate with Wang Jinghong in order to preserve the vitality of the Habsburg dynasty as much as possible.

However, Wang Jinghong didn't give him a chance at all. He was just a routine delay in the negotiation stage. One member of the Habsburg dynasty died, and before he could react, another person's head fell to the ground.

"and many more!"

Seeing that the guard next to Wang Jinghong raised his saber again, Leopold quickly shouted that he had already regretted it.

However, it was too late for him to regret it.

Another head rolled on the deck, but Wang Jinghong seemed to have not seen it at all, still looking directly at Leopold, repeating the words without the slightest emotion in his mouth.

"What about people?"

Leopold's head hammered down weakly, he knelt up slowly, and turned his direction.

"Untie him." Wang Jinghong raised his hand.

Soon, Wang Jinghong's guards untied Leopold and forced him to stand up, asking him to identify the successor of the Holy Roman Emperor he said.

Soon, Albrecht was brought out.

"Are you the heir to the Holy Roman Emperor?" Wang Jinghong looked at Albrecht and said slowly.

Albrecht looked straight at Wang Jinghong, without fear, anger, or even emotion, almost like a log.

Still, the look of hatred in his eyes when he turned to look at Leopold proved he wasn't a piece of wood.

"Yes..." After an unknown amount of time, Albrecht said slowly, as if resigned to his fate.

Wang Jinghong raised his hand when he heard the words, and the guards around him moved quickly, and ten more members of the Habsburg dynasty fell to the ground.

Completely ignoring Leopold's heart-piercing shouts, Wang Jinghong still looked straight at Albrecht.

"Are you the heir to the Holy Roman Emperor he said?"

"Yes..." Albrecht's voice gained a little strength, and there was a bit of pleasure in his eyes.

Wang Jinghong raised his hand again.

This time, Leopold had no strength to cry anymore, because all the members of the Habsburg dynasty, including him, were decapitated this time.

Looking at Albrecht, who was full of joy and almost going crazy, Wang Jinghong finally confirmed one thing.

Leopold did not lie, and neither did Albrecht.

This was not temporarily dragged out as a delay for the dead. Even though Albrecht was not the heir to the Holy Roman Emperor as Leopold said, he was definitely not a member of the Habsburg Dynasty.

However, this is all speculation, and judging by Leopold's reaction and Albrecht's reaction when the members of the Habsburg dynasty were killed, what they said should be true.

(End of this chapter)