Chapter 48: The Gate Seizure (3)

When Horn heard the news about Townley and Madeleine, he was very surprised and shocked.

Two cardinals, these are two cardinals, who are just one step away from becoming Pope.

In ancient times in Horn's hometown, it would be two cabinet ministers, each bringing their troops to fight in front of the Pope's Palace.

Is the Gulag Monastery a mafia lair?
Regarding the news brought by Futseva, Horn believed that it was most likely an outbreak of personal grudges between the two bishops rather than believing that it was an assassination attempt by Townley or Madeleine.

They are just using their own excuses to attack each other.

But no matter what, when things got to this point, even when Townley shouted "Rush into the Pope's Palace and demand justice", it was already too late to end the situation.

After quickly going over the whole thing in his mind, Horn finally decided to strike hard!
Anyway, Grampven and Chilvis are both members of the secret party. Although asking them to make the contact is not as safe as Townley, the arrow is on the string and has to be shot.

Horn immediately summoned the Boys' Army, woke up Jeanne and Carrie, and began to eliminate Townley's thugs and men who were guarding him one by one.

I promised before that I would send all of you to heaven with electricity, and I will never break my promise.

Just as Madeleine, Townley and Jessica were fighting in front of the door, countless flashes of lightning flashed in the monastery.

A lot of people in the monastery had been transferred away by Tang Li, and with the witch Jeanna by their side, it was very easy to deal with these people.

The Boys' Army only had time to assassinate two or three thugs guarding the monastery gate, and the rest were electrocuted to death by Jeanne.

Horn's original intention was to stop the fight between Townley and others, but when he opened the gate of the monastery, he was surprised to find that -

To some extent, this shocking coup is over.

Surrounded by countless pitchforks, although Townley was still surrounded by a dozen of his men, they were completely surrounded and it was only a matter of time before they were captured.

It was indeed a bloody battle, with casualties on both sides reaching thirty-three, including twenty-nine minor injuries, one serious injury, and three deaths.

Most of those slightly injured were papal guards, public bookkeepers, and armed farmers, while the dead were three of Tang Li's thugs.

The only person seriously injured was Madeleine.

According to people who were present, when he was attacking the enemy with a nail-headed club, he accidentally fell and the club flew out of his hand and hit the back of his head.

At present, the monks in the herbal medicine shop are giving him an enema to save him.

Pulling his eyes away from the eye-catching scene, Horn asked Tang Li again: "Tang Li, do you admit your guilt?"

"Sin? My sin is that I have made too many contributions!" Tang Li's face was covered in blood, but his anger remained unabated.

In fact, he knew that he had isolated the inside and outside and placed Horn under house arrest, but as more and more people came to watch from the camp, he certainly had to seize the moral high ground.

"You led your troops to attack the Papal Palace. If the Apostolic Guards and Archbishop Madeleine had not tried their best to stop you, I'm afraid you would have succeeded!"

Busak shouted at Townley. These words should actually have been said by Jeshka, but Jeshka was not good at speaking, and Busak spoke first.

Horn cast an admiring look at Busak.

Compared to the somewhat dull Jeshka, Busak is much smarter. There are some things that people below him can say but people above him cannot.

If the people below made mistakes, Horn could lift them up and put them down gently, but if Horn made a mistake, then only the Holy Father could help.

This Holy Father card and the Witch card are both king bombs, and Horn will not use them unless it is absolutely necessary.

"I led the troops to attack the Papal Palace. Madeleine was trying to bring back and control the Saint and control the political situation. I came to rescue him."

Townley shouted to the crowd, "Does the Pope want to kill the prey and cook the hounds because he thinks I have done such a great service?"

"Your Majesty is kind and wise, magnanimous, and your words and deeds are as pure as water, and your every move is as pious as light. How dare you slander Your Majesty like this!" Busak pointed a finger at Townley fiercely, then turned around and said respectfully to Horn: "Your Majesty, Archbishop Townley slandered the saint and was disrespectful to God. If we don't behead him, the majesty of the Pope cannot be displayed."

"Alright, alright." Seeing more and more people coming, Horn also put on a kind and peaceful face, "Just sentence him to reflect for 15 days and suspend all his affairs."

"Bah!" Tang Li was completely angry. "This is a false order. I won't obey it!"

He looked hatefully at Horn who was standing on the hillside, stepped on the back of a thug, and stood up tall.

The moonlight splashed ink, painting white sand in front of the colorful hillside.

The smell of burning rosin was blown to everyone's nose by the night wind, and Tang Li's voice fell into everyone's ears along the night wind.

“Your Holiness, there is one thing I really cannot understand. Those so-called resurrections and reunions were only seen by people in Moulin Rouge Village, not to mention the Holy Father descending to earth.

If the Holy Father really came down to earth, why didn't he just change everything and make us all rich and powerful?"

The originally noisy scene suddenly became quiet, but soon the quiet was drowned out by even louder noise.

The refugees began to whisper to each other, and they began to look at Horn with strange eyes. Behind their original respect, there was actually a layer of faint scrutiny.

"How dare you!" Busak cursed. "We, the Apostolic Guard, saw all this with our own eyes. How could it be fake?"

"Ha, you are from the same village and the same hometown, who knows what you saw?" Tang Li replied viciously.

Horn's Holy Father's descent to the earth was actually the Emperor's New Clothes, and anyone with a little common sense could have figured it out. The refugees in the Gulag Monastery were simply dazzled by the legend of the Chosen One.

After all, unlike the Apostolic Guard, they had never witnessed Horn's sudden death with their own eyes, but had only heard of the legend.

Townley, hiding in the crowd, began to set the rhythm.

"Yes, if he is the Holy Grandson, why doesn't the Holy Father come to save us?"

"Aren't you the Eye of God? Could it be that the Holy Father is indifferent to our suffering?"

"The Holy Father created us and is so merciful, how could he remain indifferent? I'm afraid this Eye of God is a fake eye!"

"Don't talk nonsense. I just have some doubts. Maybe the Holy Father sees that we are guilty and wants to atone our sins." Tang Li shouted hypocritically to those who were leading the rhythm.

Turning his head, Townley continued to face Horn proudly: "Your Majesty, as the Eye of God, the Holy Father must be watching you, right?
It was previously written in the Gulag Treaty, and it was proven in black and white that for the Pope to punish a cardinal, the consent of more than half of the cardinals was needed, and the Pope did not have the power to punish directly.

How about calling all the cardinals here and then seeing who is guilty?"

Townley took out the Gulag Treaty and held it high, even though no one could see what was written on it, let alone know what was written on it.

But since it's all written in black and white, and there are fingerprints and signatures, the possibility of forgery is extremely low.

Looking at the silent Horn, Townley smiled triumphantly.

General!

Standing opposite Townley, Horn sighed softly.

He glanced at the noisy crowd, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, only the whites of his eyes were left.

“Hmmmm…”

　p.s. sorry, I was a few minutes late because I went to eat crazy Thursday. There will be another chapter later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)