Chapter 435 Attacking Rome (Part 2)

"Tell the soldiers in front to be careful, and the artillery fire of each team should be covered!" Peter said to the messenger, who hurried out. After a while, the infantry in front retreated a little, temporarily breaking contact with the defenders on the city, and the Romanian army's artillery continued to suppress the defenders on the city. In addition, the main artillery fire of the new army artillery regiment was extremely fierce, so that they couldn't even raise their heads.

"My God! What is this? How can it be so powerful?" A defender on the top of the city was holding a matchlock gun in his hand. He just leaned out and fired a shot outside the city, but only God knew where the shot hit and whether it hit.

At this time, the matchlock gun was a treasure. It was not easy to show its skills, but the opponent's weapons were more powerful than theirs. Especially the artillery, which directly took away many brothers.

Soon the walls of Rome could not hold up, and a section of the wall in the south collapsed. Along with the tremor of the ground, a cloud of dust rose, accompanied by the screams of the defenders.

"The city has been breached, attack, for the glory of God!" The infantry rushed in directly, and the defenders also reacted and quickly had people block the gap. A moment later, when the dust and fog dissipated, a large gap in the city wall suddenly appeared in front of everyone: it was an inverted trapezoid, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. After the stones and sand collapsed, a slope naturally formed on both sides of the gap.

"Fight back, drive them out." When the city wall was breached, they knew that Rome could not be defended, but the remaining fanatical religious emotions made them make a final dying struggle, just in case God appeared.

But God didn't seem to be on his side. Their loyalty to God was worthy of recognition, but God really didn't intend to stand on his side, but gave luck to the legitimate heir of Rome.

A Benedictine monk shouted loudly and rushed over with hundreds of people, trying to reorganize the defense and repel the Romanian army that rushed into the city. But at this time, more and more Romanian troops entered the city, and the Romanian troops were well-trained. After rushing into the city, they did not blindly chase into the city, but formed combat units based on squads, and then formed large squads or even whole battalions of troops with squads, covering each other and rolling forward to the left and right sides and the front, and soon occupied the area around the gap.

Two hours later, all the defenders of the city gates were lost, and the monks who retreated in the city could only move to the Castel Sant'Angelo under the organization of the leader. The Benedictine monks and some religious fanatics resisted with St. Peter's Basilica as the center and several streets around it.

In the evening of the same day, the Romanian army basically cleared the remaining defenders in the city and surrounded the Castel Sant'Angelo and the Basilica. After a night of fierce fighting, when the next day dawned, the Basilica of St. Peter was completely solved, and the defenders of the Castel Sant'Angelo could only fight desperately, and the entire city of Rome fell completely into Peter's hands.

"Rome, do you miss me?"

Peter shouted as he looked at the city of Rome, which was already in his pocket. This eternal city finally belonged to him and the Roman Empire forever. The dream of the Great Roman Empire was back. Although the possibility of realization was slim, the territory of Justinian the Great at that time did not seem to be a dream.

"Your Highness, the city is ready. You can enter the city."

When Peter rode into the city of Rome, there was a tsunami of cheers from all directions.

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There was no such cheering when Belisarius recaptured the city of Rome, because it didn't take long for the Ostrogoths to fight back, and Peter had no doubts. Unless the opponents dared to fight with the whole country, he was sure that they would never return.

Peter entered St. Peter's Basilica again. According to the idea that Catholicism and Orthodoxy are of the same origin, Catholicism is Orthodoxy, and it is reasonable for him, an Orthodox Christian, to come here.

Peter came to the tomb of St. Peter, that is, St. Peter. And his name was also taken from the name of Jesus' chief disciple.

Peter looked at the tomb and had the urge to dig him out. But he resisted, clasped his hands together, and prayed.

"Although I don't belong here, I hope you can bless the empire. I also want to fulfill the dream of those Eastern supporters and prevent them from crying."

After that, a ray of sunlight fell on Peter through it. When everyone saw this scene, they called God's presence. They all knelt down beside Peter.

"In this case, I will take it as your agreement. Go to see Jesus another day to help me talk. Although I can't fire at you, I can blow it up quietly."

Peter said it twice silently and left with his people. Of course, he also pretended to take a manuscript from the basement and spread the content above.

According to the above content, it is said that Constantine did dedicate the Lateran Palace to the church at the beginning, but there was another condition at the time, that is, after the Roman Church showed heresy, Constantinople had the right to take back his land.

This directly exploded in Rome. Neither the stubborn resistance nor the civilians believed it was true. But the other party's reasons are still so sufficient, for example, this is hidden in the basement of the church, and it was sealed with bricks, so they couldn't find it when they looted last time.

Don't talk about looting. After the fall of Rome, all other defenders went to Rome to rescue, but more than 30,000 regular troops faced less than 10,000 civilians. But what puzzled the commander was that there were hundreds of thousands of mercenaries in the Apennines, where did they go?

In fact, after Rome entered northern Italy, their life became difficult. After all, they could not fight Rome. They had not lived long enough.

In order to survive, they changed their place of residence and went to France or the Holy Roman Empire to become mercenaries. The war demand here was high, so it was easy to find an employer. Even if there was no employer, they could go to the countryside to rob.

But some of them did not escape because they were hired by Florence and Siena to defend the border. They were afraid that Rome would go north to unify the Tuscany region in a fit of anger, so they asked the other party to calm down.

In less than a week, the Castel Sant'Angelo was also breached, and other strongholds of the Papal States also surrendered one after another. The entire territory of the Papal States was occupied. Pope Gregory XII fled to Siena and then took a boat to Sardinia to be protected by Aragon. Other bishops also fled to various places. The Vatican should change its name.

Romania also knew that the consequences might be great, so it made preparations in advance. Romagna and Hungary were on high alert. It depended on whether the six electors would continue to send troops. They represented most of the Holy Roman princes, and there might be a European war.