This Qing is wrong

Chapter 228 Knights Templar

"Who the hell are we fighting?!

Who can tell me where the enemies of France come from? ! "

There was continuous gunfire outside the city, and Louis XIV in the Paris Royal Palace angrily questioned the nobles and ministers.

At this time, the Palace of Versailles had not yet been built, so Louis XIV still lived in Paris.

Louis XIV looked at the silent hall with anger and fear.

What is angry is that these noble ministers are so idiots that they don't even know that the enemy has hit the door of their house.

The fear comes from the continuous gunfire outside the city.

With such dense gunfire, how many musketeers are needed to fight this formation?

However, the people below clearly reported that there were not many enemy troops outside the city!
In other words, the enemy outside the city has a musket that he has never seen before, which can fire in rapid succession?

Doesn't this mean that the opponent's firepower can easily crush one's own army?
At this time, Louis XIV was not a military novice who knew nothing. On the contrary, he had suppressed several domestic peasant uprisings and Protestant rebellions. He knew very well that in the wars of this era, firepower is a more important factor than courage. .

Unless, it's the perverts of the Knights Templar...

Thinking of this, Louis XIV shifted his gaze to the only serious middle-aged man in the hall whose face remained unchanged.

"Paris is being attacked by enemies, the glory of France is being threatened, and the glory of God is being trampled by foreign enemies. Are the Knights Templar ready to fight?"

"Your Majesty, to defend the unshirkable mission of all God believers in Paris, as long as Your Majesty is willing to open up the supply of armaments and supplies to the Knights Templar in the city, the [-] soldiers of God in the city will fight for you to the last man! "

Louis XIV frowned slightly, but nodded in consideration of the difference in individual combat quality between the Paris defenders in the city and the Knights Templar.

The end of the Knights Templar in this world is completely opposite to that of the Knights Templar in the history of the world in Li Changqing's previous life.

The Knights Templar in this world not only was not suppressed by the King of France in the Middle Ages, but instead received strong support from the Church, and it seemed to be the military force of the Church stationed in Catholic countries.

However, why are the monarchs of those Catholic countries willing to tolerate the existence of the Knights Templar, an armed force that is separated from the regime?

Even if the Knights Templar's finances are accounted for by the church and do not need to be directly spent by the state, the church's income is not taken from the nobles and civilians of the country?

This is actually a plunder of national wealth!
It is intolerable to any centralized monarch.

After Louis XIV came to power, he naturally felt uncomfortable with the Knights Templar in France, and completely separated the armed forces of the Knights Templar from the military logistics system of the Kingdom of France.

The church has money, but many armaments are controlled by the Kingdom of France, and you can't buy them with money.

This is also one of the few places where Louis XIV can check and balance the Knights Templar.

As for falling out with the Knights Templar, Louis XIV never dared to, for no other reason—this world has extraordinary power!

The Knights Templar is different from the standing army and mercenaries of the Kingdom of France. The Knights Templar recruits a set of strict individual review standards.

From the lowest knight servant to the knight commander, the status and command power in the knight order are strictly divided according to personal strength.

Even the lowest level of knight attendant is equivalent to a veteran who can master at least two kinds of weapon killing skills, or the level of a professional killer among ordinary people.

When a knight attendant perceives the fighting spirit seeds in his body, he can be promoted to a trainee knight.

When the grudge can be stimulated to the surface of the body, it is an official knight of the Knights Templar!

This is not a unique standard of the Knights Templar, under the belief system of God, all knights have this standard.

Knight attendant-apprentice knight-formal knight-big knight-head knight!

The knight commander is not divided into specific positions according to personal strength, but needs to fight for network background and command ability.

In the Knights Templar in the Kingdom of France, due to the various restrictions of King Louis XIV of France, the Knights Templar lacked firearms.

This is why the head of the Knights Templar branch stationed in Paris took the initiative to make a request to Louis XIV.

Although Louis XIV disliked the Knights Templar in various ways, their combat effectiveness is still worthy of recognition.

This is not only because of the high individual strength of the Knights Templar, but more importantly, all members of the Knights Templar practice 'practice' and training in an ascetic way.

On weekdays, the members of the Knights Templar, down to the knight squires and up to the knight commander, all wear a set of coarse linen robes, eat the most common food, and prohibit alcohol!
Even women are strictly controlled, and the men of the Knights Templar are only allowed to marry one wife...

Well, this is the most basic moral conduct of a devout Catholic.

This is not the point, the point is that the men of the Knights Templar are forbidden to prostitute!
Prohibition of alcohol, prostitution, and gambling are very famous among the Knights Templar.

The servants of the church who are also Catholic believers are simply two extremes compared with the knights of the Templars.

Compared with the Knights Templar, which pays attention to hard work, puts an end to all kinds of human enjoyment, and concentrates on honing itself, the top leaders of the church are even more corrupt than noble bureaucrats.

They even created a one-stop service for nuns in private...

The nuns are all selected from young girls, and the nuns who enter the church only need to stay for one year, and there will be no more virgins...

In the name of nuns losing their virginity, it is because they served God!
In fact, the nuns are served by the bad old men in the upper echelons of the church.

Because of this, the reputation of nuns among the people is very bad. Even if the nuns who entered the church "returned to the vulgar", they would not be able to marry out...

Of course, the priests and servants of the church generally don't need to go to the battlefield, and the practitioners among them are often of the "legal system", so they don't need to treat their physical training as harshly as the Knights Templar.

The Knights Templar were more of an army than a group of believers.

The church also knows the virtues of its own teaching staff. It is no problem to rely on them to spread the glory of the Lord. One can fool each other more than the other, but let them fight and go to sleep...

Unless it is to let them go to bed to fight!
Therefore, the role of the Knights Templar is highlighted in the church. The Pope of the Vatican even said that every country that serves God must have a branch of the Knights Templar stationed there.

They are the strongest shield to ensure that the belief in God is not polluted.

It is precisely because of the protection of the church that there is still such a deformed military organization as the Knights Templar in the centralized French kingdom.

The number of members of the Knights Templar stationed in Paris may not be many, but the quality is definitely the highest.

The head of the Paris branch who made a request to King Louis XIV of France said that all of the figures mentioned were members of formal knights and above.

Like knight servants and apprentice knights, they are not qualified to appear in his narrative at all.

In the Knights Templar, trainee knights can only be counted as reserves, and knight attendants are more like servants who do odd jobs...

Only by being promoted to an official knight can one be recognized by the Knights Templar branch.

"Report!!!

Your Majesty, the enemies outside the city have climbed over the city wall and opened the city gate. They have already entered the city! "

A French herald, with his helmet and armor removed, rushed into the hall with a mournful face to report.

Louis XIV looked shocked, looking at the list of heralds kneeling in front of him.

Louis XIV, who had a good memory, instantly recognized him as a baron, a mid-level officer on the front line.

"A total of [-] defenders fought against the enemy, why did the city gate fall so quickly!"

"Your Majesty, the enemy has a musket that can shoot continuously, and it can shoot very far. The soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and they can't stand it..."

At this time, the head of the Paris branch of the Knights Templar stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the warriors of God will regain everything you lost."

When Louis XIV saw the head of the Knights Templar branch who volunteered, his face softened a little, and he happily issued a warrant.

The armory in Paris is open for the Knights Templar!
At the gate of Paris City, after General Patton walked in, he suddenly felt that something was wrong with his feet. When he raised his feet, he immediately covered his mouth and nose.

Stepping on shit right after entering the door, is my luck so good?
General Patton suppressed the anger in his heart, glanced forward, and finally realized that it was not his own bad luck, but the streets in Paris, which were full of human and animal excrement!
The smell of gunpowder smoke and blood on the battlefield covered up my sense of smell before, so I didn't notice it for a while. I didn't expect a capital city to be so filthy!
"Do these backward natives live on shit?"

General Patton said with a look of disgust.

"General, the indigenous humans in this world are too ignorant, and urgently need the great and wise leadership of the general to lead them to a civilized society."

After hearing his adjutant's answer, General Patton nodded approvingly and said, "Indeed.

How can civilized people live on shit?
Damn!

my boots! ! ! "

Patton himself entered the gate of Paris, which naturally means that the Allied soldiers have controlled all the blocks near the gate of the city.

Throughout the battle, only two Allied soldiers were unlucky and were hit by solid projectiles shot from the city of Paris.

This is also the only weapon of the French army stationed in Paris that can compare with the general-purpose machine guns in the hands of Allied soldiers in terms of range.

It's a pity that the accuracy is too bad.

Moreover, after firing the cannon to expose the position, it was quickly concentrated fire by Allied soldiers, and there was no chance of firing a second time.

The Allied soldiers who entered the city obviously did not care about their boots as much as General Patton, and they even had the courage to crawl on the streets of Paris full of excrement!
As a result, some Allied soldiers had more feces than blood on their bodies...

However, this group of soldiers from the enemy's army fully explained the combat ethics of an elite soldier.

Not to mention letting them roll in shit, it's not too hard to swallow shit raw if necessary.

Only victory is their eternal belief.

In fact, the main force of the French army stationed in Paris completely collapsed after being defeated by the Allied soldiers. They could no longer organize an effective resistance, so the Allied soldiers entered very smoothly.

Fortunately, as the capital of the Kingdom of France, Paris still occupies a relatively large area. When the Allied soldiers advanced forward, a group of Knights Templars wearing full-body plate armor, covering their heads and faces, carried With a big sword, holding an iron shield as big as a door panel, and a flintlock pistol hanging from his waist, he rushed forward.

The weight of the equipment on the official knights of the Knights Templar is enough to press a grown man on the ground and cannot move!
Only this group of formal knights who have developed the seeds of fighting energy to a certain extent and can use fighting energy to enhance various physical qualities can fight flexibly with a weight of nearly two hundred catties.

The iron shield with the large door panel is not an ordinary shield, it is all made of steel, and the price is even more expensive than the plate armor worn by the Knights Templar!
So, this is a bulletproof iron shield!
At least, it can prevent the close-range shooting of the flintlock.

Of course, artillery cannot be prevented.

In the era of Li Changqing's last life, people have always been puzzled. Why didn't the soldiers in the front row wear a bulletproof iron shield when they were queuing up to be shot?

the reason is simple.

Firstly, it is difficult for infantry with iron shields to move, and it is easy to be kited...

Secondly, infantry with iron shields are easy to be focused by artillery because they move slowly. No matter how hard your shield is, it can't hold the shells!
And if you put on a light wooden shield, it can't stop the direct fire of the musket. This is why the musket can eliminate the shield, but the bow and arrow can't.

However, the knights of the Knights Templar did not plan to fight their opponents with firepower. They were not that stupid. They could vividly remember how miserable the Paris garrison was defeated.

The knights of the Knights Templar had only one goal, they rushed forward with their shields on their shoulders, and then used their rich experience in close combat to eliminate their opponents.

Rows of large shields came up, and it was naturally impossible for the Allied soldiers not to see them.

Soon, Allied soldiers set up a general-purpose machine gun and aimed it at the large shields.

The next moment, gunshots like popping beans sounded in the city of Paris.

I have to mention that the quality of the bulletproof shields that the rich church equips the Knights Templar is awesome, not to mention that there is a second layer of protection behind the shield, a fine iron plate armor!
The general-purpose machine guns installed by the Allied soldiers tended to be of the small-caliber light machine gun type, and were not equipped with armor-piercing warheads.

However, the Allied soldiers did not feel threatened. The bullet may not have penetrated, but their tactical target had been hit.

Every large shield that was hit was either blown out or knocked down the shield-bearers behind. Among them were knights of the Knights Templar whose bones were dislocated due to the kinetic energy of the bullets!

Therefore, although the Allied soldiers did not break through the defense, none of the knights of the Knights Templar who pressed forward in the shield array could stand up under the machine gun fire!

(End of this chapter)