"Your Majesty, Rome has been surrounded by the Chinese! I ordered the 5th infantry to attack, but was defeated by the Chinese! We have no way to leave Rome!" Petro.

Admiral Bardoglio said in great frustration. If Vittorio.

If Emmanuele III could agree to evacuate Rome earlier, they might be able to escape from here before the Chinese surrounded Rome. But now, everything they said was over and they could not get anything!

"General Bardoglio, can't we think of any more solutions? The Chinese encirclement has just been formed, and maybe we still have a chance!" Giovanni.

Prime Minister Gioliti said: If Rome cannot be evacuated, the Italian royal family and senior government officials will be considered to have been taken down by the Chinese! This will be a devastating blow to Italy, and the war can be said to be over!

"Your Excellency, it's impossible! The 5th Infantry Division was bombed by the Chinese, suffered heavy losses and had collapsed. We no longer have enough troops to break through the Chinese encirclement! In addition, now the continuous Chinese are moving towards Rome, and their encirclement will become more and more stable. We have lost the best time to evacuate Rome!" Petro.

Admiral Bardoglio said.

"It's over, we can't leave. Those Chinese will kill us all!" Vittorio.

Emmanuele II had no monarch at this moment, just like a dying old man.

Giovanni.

Prime Minister Gioliti and Petro.

Admiral Bardoglio was also silent. They all knew that this time it was probably doomed. The Chinese built an encirclement outside the city of Rome, and the Italians in Rome did not want to leave. Once the large Chinese troops arrived in Rome, they might march towards Rome. At that time, they might fall into the hands of the Chinese. Even if the Chinese would not really kill them, they would probably be forced to sign a treaty that would be humiliated, and even the entire Italy would fall apart.

This is a disaster for the whole of Italy!

After a brief silence, Giovanni.

Prime Minister Gioliti suddenly said: "Your Majesty, General Badoglio, maybe there is a place that will allow us to escape this disaster!"

"Where?" Vittorio.

Emmanuele II and Petro.

Admiral Bardoglio looked at Giovanni.

Prime Minister Jolitti's eyes were full of hope. They never want to fall into the hands of the Chinese!

"Vatican! We can go to the Vatican to take refuge! Although the Chinese are arrogant, if they don't want to be enemies with the whole world, they will not be able to attack the Vatican! We have enough time to arrange! When our army in the north and south arrives in Rome, we can treat it calmly whether it is war or harmony!" Giovanni.

Prime Minister Jolitti said.

"Vatican? But will Pius X let us take refuge? This seems unlikely, right?" Petro.

Admiral Bardoglio looked disbelief, Vittorio.

Emmanuele III was also full of gloom. The relationship between the Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican was very bad. They wanted to take refuge in the Vatican, and it was almost impossible!

"Your Majesty, we have no other way now! Although there is a conflict between us and the Vatican, this is a conflict between us white people! Pius X will definitely not watch us slaughtered by those pagans!" Giovanni.

Prime Minister Jolitti said.

Vittorio.

Emmanuele II hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, Lord Prime Minister, you have a contact with the Vatican to see if they agree to our asylum!"

"Okay, your majesty!" Giovanni.

Prime Minister Jolitti immediately left the palace, and now they have no time.

Looking at Giovanni.

Prime Minister Gioliti's back as he left, Vittorio.

Emmanuele II shook his head speechlessly. He thought, Giovanni.

Prime Minister Gioliti will definitely make a trip in vain. The Vatican Baba was unable to defeat the Italian Kingdom, so how could he agree to save their lives?

The Vatican means "the land of the prophets" in Latin. The Vatican was originally the center of the medieval pope. As early as the 4th century AD, the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great established the Constantine Cathedral at the martyrdom of St. Peter, a disciple of Jesus’ disciple in the northwest corner of Rome to commemorate it. By the 15th to 16th century, the Constantine Cathedral was converted into the Basilica of St. Peter today, becoming the most solemn place for the Catholic Church to hold the most solemn rituals.

In the first year, King Pippin of the Frankish Kingdom gave the city of Rome and its surrounding areas to the Pope (called "Pipin's land offering" in the church history), and later became the center of church and political life in Western Europe. The Pope's state with Rome as its capital was established in Italy, with a territory of more than 40,000 square kilometers. In the 19th century, nationalism in Europe emerged, and the national unity movement in Italy made the Holy See less and less territory in Italy. After the Kingdom of Sardinia in the north of the peninsula became the leader of the unification movement, it led the establishment of Italy.

Kingdom of Italy.! The city of Rome, the capital of the Pope, is facing unification. French emperor Napoleon III sent troops to protect the city of Rome in the name of "protector of the church". In 1870, the French-Prussian War broke out, and Napoleon III transferred the army stationed in Rome back to his own country, allowing the army of the Kingdom of Italy to move into Rome smoothly. The unification of Italy was officially completed, and the Pope was forced to retreat to the Vatican Palace in the northwest corner of Rome. After that, all the popes were hostile to the new Italian kingdom, and even did not allow believers to participate in the public office of the Kingdom of Italy.

For these reasons, the relationship between the Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican is very bad. Now the Italian royal family and government are at a desperate situation. If you want to take refuge in the Vatican, you don’t have to think about it, and those church members will definitely not agree!

The Vatican, the top of St. Peter's Basilica can overlook the entire Rome. The current Pope Pius X (China and Japan and South Korea called the Pope) is standing in a room on the top of the tower, looking at the smoke of smoke. As early as when the Chinese army landed on the western coast of Rome, the Vatican learned that the Chinese began to attack Rome. However, none of these church members took the Chinese attack seriously. As the spiritual center of Catholic believers, even if the Chinese are pagans in their eyes, they believe that the Chinese dare not do anything to the Vatican. If the Chinese dare to attack the Vatican, it would be an enemy of the entire Western world! Although the Vatican has only 044 square kilometers left, their status is still transcendent!

The current pope is Pius X, whose original name is Giuseppe.

Melchioré.

Sarto. On August 9, 1903, Salto was crowned the 258th Pope of Catholicism in the Basilica of St. Peter (Battle of St. Peter) in Rome, and named it "Pius X" to express his admiration for the traditionalism of the former Pope Pius IX and his strong and indomitable character of the world.

The full title of the Pope is: "Biography of Rome, representative of Jesus Christ, heir of the apostles, the highest minister of the universal church, the chief bishop of Italy, the archbishop of the Roman province and the head of the Vatican city-state and the servants of the servants of the Lord"

On 20th of 1903, Pope Leo XIII passed away; the Cardinals immediately held a secret election ceremony at the Sistine Chapel at the end of July; the Holy See's Secretary of State Mariano was the one who called the most.

Cardinal Rambolla; he promoted the improvement of the relationship between the Holy See and France. He was far ahead of other candidates in the first two rounds of voting.

At this time, the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz, who obtained election information through illegal channels.

Joseph I was against France, publicly expressed his opposition to Cardinal Rambolah's election and exercised his veto power; soon, the French government also intervened in the election, making the election difficult.

Although the Holy See Cardinals then protested strongly, under this influence, the situation began to change; on August 4, 1903, from the end of the fifth round of elections, Cardinal Salto was elected as the new Roman pope.

At this time, Salto was deeply saddened by the frequent interference of European monarchs in church affairs since the 10th century, and refused to accept the Holy See of Peter, and strongly demanded the inventory and severe punishment of leakers in the Election Conference. Later, in the Cardinals and Mariano.

Cardinal Rambora barely accepted the Pope's position with great persuasion.

After ascending to the throne as Pope, Pius X wanted to revive the Pope, go out from the small Vatican and expand the Vatican territory. However, the hostility and vigilance of the Italian Kingdom towards the Vatican made the Vatican have no chance. This made Pius X always resentful!

"The Chinese have too strong military strength. It seems that the Italian Kingdom is over this time. Unfortunately, the Chinese are not the people of the Lord. Otherwise, the Vatican could have achieved rapid development with the strength of the Chinese!" Pius X said with some regret.

"Your Majesty, the Chinese are all pagans. They have destroyed the United States in this war and killed many of the Lord's people!" Holy See Secretary of State Mariano.

Rambora said with disgust. He was full of disgust towards China, a country that killed many white people.

Pius X nodded, and he had no good impression of China. In China, imperial power is high and far from comparable to the divine power. The Holy See has declined in the West, let alone the East, so there is no market for them at all!
Chapter completed!