"Heresy! Blasphemy!" The cardinal who came to negotiate with the Anglo-Egyptian forces cursed and left the military camp. Although he was very angry, the palm prints on his face and the blood spilling from the corners of his mouth were clearly visible, as well as the obvious expression of his anger.
The fearful look in his eyes was enough to show that he was looking fierce and angry at the moment.
With the character of Chen Mohe and Cunningham as the representative of the British army, it was obvious that he would not slap a cardinal in the face at the negotiation table.
However, although this cardinal has a certain political acumen and his speech and behavior are quite decent, he never forgets to praise God and promote some religious remarks.
To him, these are just professional habits. After all, he has a daily habit of preaching to believers. He must address God in words and address himself in deeds. These are things that have been engraved in the bones of these clergy since their childhood.
Regardless of whether they believe in the existence of God or not, at least they have done enough work on these things.
These remarks are just normal speech habits for Chen Mo and Cunningham. After all, neither of them care much about religious beliefs.
It’s just that Littorio disliked the cardinal very much, especially when he mentioned that he could mobilize believers in the Italian Navy to help the Anglo-Egyptian coalition seize the remaining two Veneto-class ships in the Italian Navy. Littorio
Ao's dissatisfaction with him has reached its limit.
However, Littorio also knew that this was a negotiation, and had no intention of taking the cardinal too seriously. He just thought he was farting.
However, when the cardinal's words related to Chen Mo, and showed a great degree of disrespect for him, and even fiercely mentioned that he would be tried for heresy, Littorio was really hard to find.
After enduring his nonsense, I raised my hand and slapped him.
Of course, Littorio must have restrained his strength with this slap, otherwise what would have flew out would not have been the cardinal's teeth, but his head.
After all, even a Space Marine wouldn't dare say that he dares to be slapped by a ship girl, which can really blow someone's head away.
But many times, what a slap does is not hurt, but face.
The damage done by Littorio's slap was actually very low, it only knocked out a tooth of an old man.
But there is no doubt about the humiliation involved. For a powerful and respected cardinal, if it were an era when the church still controlled secular power, not even a king would dare to be so shameless.
present.
There might even be a war over the slap, requiring a king to give up his crown.
But now the situation is stronger than anyone else. Although the cardinal can still speak harsh words and show a stern appearance, he doesn't have many means to manipulate or even threaten Littorio.
The church that has lost its secular rights has no way of doing anything to the British and Egyptians.
If Littorio hadn't hit the Cardinal on the negotiating table, the slap would have been a slap, and he could only bear it by himself.
But this humiliating behavior at the negotiation table undoubtedly closed the door to negotiations, even though Chen Mo had no intention of talking to the church from the beginning.
What the church seeks is to restore their secular rights and maintain the church's declining influence.
For this purpose, the previous Pope Pius XI could support Mussolini’s dictatorship of Italy and mobilize German priests to support Hitler and his party in coming to power, just to get Mussolini to recognize the Holy See.
Sovereignty in the Vatican allowed Germany to stand up against Bolshevism and liberalism.
Although Pius XI finally recognized the true colors of Mussolini and Hitler as extreme racists, and after they announced the passage of the anti-Semitic bill, he wanted to use the influence of the church to expose their crimes through speeches
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But sadly and doubtfully, the pope died of illness the day before his speech.
Even more coincidentally, the Pope's most trusted aide took over as Pope on the third day after his death and burned all the speeches prepared by Pius XI to attack Mussolini and Hitler.
This was certainly a compromise made by the new pope who was afraid of angering Mussolini and sending troops to attack the church, just like the church's current compromise with the Anglo-Egyptian forces.
But for Chen Mo, it was obviously impossible for him to accept that a church that still wanted to get involved in secular power would continue to make trouble.
In the international structure he planned after World War II, the church had no place.
If the church can be obedient and cooperate with their actions and propaganda, then it is not impossible to give the church some preferential treatment so that they can continue to maintain their religious status. After all, Europe is still the territory of Christianity, and leaving a spiritual leader in the Christian world will also help maintain the region.
peace and social stability.
But now the church is obviously unwilling to be just a religious symbol, so Chen Mo has nothing to talk about with them.
"Littorio, I leave the troops to you, march to Rome." The silver-faced lich possessed by Chen Mo took off the mask on his face, revealing the same face as Chen Mo. In Cunningham's surprised expression
, gave the order to Littorio.
"Even I don't think there is eternal glory in this world. The era of church rule has come to an end. Their biggest mistake was to stand on the opposite side of me, Littorio." Littorio stood up and shook his head lightly.
She touched her green cloak, and her gorgeous and arrogant temperament made the British officers on the side widen their eyes, thinking that they saw a powerful empress.
Even Cunningham on the side felt that compared to Chen Mo, a king who looked like a king, the Italian woman in front of him who called himself Littorio was more regal.
But obviously, Littorio was just Chen Mo's subordinate, and she took action immediately after receiving Chen Mo's order.
After delivering the order, the silver-faced mage put on the mask again and turned into an ordinary lich.
Cunningham was a little surprised by this, but after the silver-faced mage's proactive explanation, he finally understood the situation.
Although he regretted that he could not reach peace and cooperation with the church, Cunningham did not say that he had given up on the strategy he had formulated because of this incident. He still ordered the British Mediterranean Fleet to fully cooperate with the Egyptian army in attacking Italy.
What's more, even if he wanted to intervene, Britain only dispatched the Mediterranean Fleet in Italy this time and no army troops participated in the war. Even if he wanted to intervene, there was no way he could intervene.
As a result, just the day after the negotiations broke down, the Egyptian army was ready to attack Rome.
Although the morale of the Italian defenders had been greatly reduced, they still held on to their position, and the church revealed their first trump card. A holy light that shot straight into the sky rose in the city of Rome, and an angel descended.
