The sea was burning.

Half of the sea surface was red. Rolling smoke rushed straight into the sky, and from time to time, there would be a roar of black gunpowder that had not been burned completely exploded again. The dozens of second-hand broken ships used as target ships sank without any suspense. The unburned paradise turtle oil floated on the sea surface and continued to burn. Looking from a distance, it seemed as if the sea surface was burning.

Hellfire Sea.

"God...what is this?!"

The Italian nobles who were watching exclaimed like this. Such an unimaginable terrifying scene made these people think of the legendary hell. When did the same terrifying fire and the same terrifying weapons begin? These Normans actually mastered such terrifying weapons?!

Meanwhile, some people who had something shouted loudly: "Greek fire! This is Greek fire! It is the secret weapon of the group of Greeks!"

But someone shouted: "No, the attack distance of the Greek fire is not that far, and there will be no such violent explosion. Such tincture oil is probably even more powerful than the Greek fire!"

Indeed, although compared with such violent explosions and the grand occasion of burning on the sea, the so-called "attack distance" and more professional words are usually ignored. But some people who are interested will see it.

"Their ships are close to... two miles away, but they can destroy ships that are far away at once and the hit rate is very high! Oh my God, this, this... this is simply incredible!" Some people who know how to do things about the navy said this. At the same time, they also thought: If such a navy attacks their port, the consequences will probably be difficult to accept. They do not need to land and fight as people imagine. They can only burn the entire port area by means of long-range attacks.

After that, the Norman Offshore Fleet wandered around the entire port area for a long time. It performed the fleet's T-character array, the zigzag array, butterfly array and other formations. The giant ships on the sea broke through the waves and the canvas covered the sky and the sun. The Norman sailors were extremely vicious. Although they knew that most of these guys would not attack him, they did not dare to go out of the sea no matter what. Hundreds of merchant ships of all sizes were blocked in the port and could not get out. Many merchants rushed to the wall in a hurry, but were helpless. "It's so rude!"

That afternoon, in the Pope Hall, Pope Innocent III was so angry that his face turned pale after receiving the news. He was the cardinal in the Pope Hall, and roared loudly: "The Holy See, the center of the Catholic world, was finally blocked in the port by a fleet of barbarians from the northern region for a whole day! You are shameless, I am shameless! Why don't you expel them?! What are you afraid of?! What are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? What are you afraid of?! What are you really dare to attack you?! They don't dare! They just bluff!!!"

Innocent III was worthy of being a pope, and at this moment he had figured out the means of the Norman Empire. At that time, the Norman Empire just wanted to scare. Egil's order strictly ordered the offshore fleet to be strictly controlled, so that the Italians would not be injured at all, so as not to be used as an excuse by the other party. If the small broken ships of the Pope were driven out at that time, then the Norman Empire's offshore fleet would have no choice.

But who dares?!

Even if it is the Pope, don’t look at this guy calling fiercely now, but you’re just shouting. Afterwards, Zhuge Liang was waiting for the giant ship, the flames, and the power. It would be good if this guy in his seventies and eighties could avoid incontinence. He could also analyze what the Norman Empire meant? A joke!

So Innocent III is just a saying, a person as smart as a Holy See, facing such an obvious prompt from the Norman Empire, there is no point in understanding.

"If you want to touch me, I will send a fleet to smash the dog's nest first."

That's what it means.

So, Innocent III thought about what would happen if the Pope Really Confronted the Norman Empire in a comprehensive confrontation, then the outcome should not be ignored. The Norman Offshore Fleet would inevitably attack the Pope, and even the ports and docks of various Italian city-states. Through the previous report by the port area officials, such a terrifying fleet could burn the entire port to ashes with a fire even if it did not land.

"Even if the Crusaders are really launched, the odds of victory are not very high. The northern Italian city-states have a lot of trade with the Normans, and these merchants who are tempted of money will not be able to do anything. Although France has a grudge against the Normans, it is restrained by Burgundy and cannot be trusted. Burgundy and they have a certain degree of covenant with the Normans.

It is also unreliable. The countries of Spain are too far away, weak and have no navy. So they ignore it. Hungary, which has just recovered, has only a few soldiers and is afraid that they will not participate in this war.........

The only reliable one is the Holy Roman Empire.

However, the North German region of the Holy Roman Empire was infiltrated by the Normans very well. There are even rumors that the two electorate Hesse and Brandenburg had secretly defected to the Normans... If they were not counted, there would be only Henry of Swabian, Henry of Bavaria, and Albert II of the Holy Roman Empire in Austria and Bo Simea."

It would be fine if he didn't plan. After such a plan, Innocent III discovered that many countries in the continent have become the dominant trend of the Norman Empire. If we look at other factors and simply comment from a military perspective, even if he launched the crusades and fought against the Norman Empire, then there would be no chance of victory. Unless he made up his mind to pull all 50,000 new troops to the battlefield, then opened up the reserves of the Holy Cuban, recruited mercenaries from all over Europe to fight for him. In addition, because of his deprived of church, the Norman Empire itself was unstable and the rebellion of ambitious people, the winner should be 50,000.

Innocent III's previous plan was like this~ He was sure that Egil's plan was like this. With such deterrence, if the Norman Empire dared to fight, he would dare to fight. If the Norman Empire dared not fight, he would have to suffer a loss. Let the Holy See's power penetrate Eastern Europe. Then, in three or five years, ten or eight years, it may not be whose world.

However, Innocent III missed the Norman navy.

The performance of the Norman Offshore Fleet this time made Innocent III re-estimate that if the war with the Normans was set on, in order to prevent this huge navy from threatening Rome, it would be necessary to leave at least one new army with 10,000 troops to defend the Holy See. And even so, the entire Italian coast would probably be swept by the opponent. Now that the naval force has not recovered much, Venice, Milan, and these two city-states may even turn against each other and join the Norman alliance. Because the front line lacks a 10,000 troops, and then facing the Norman army, the chance of winning is even lower. Once the inside and outside, the original five-point chance of winning was only three points left.

"It's really damn... If I had known, the group of Bolans had come before, they should have agreed to intervene." Innocent III was quite regretful at this moment. This year, the Normans raided Eastern Europe. At that time, he felt that such a large piece of land in Eastern Europe would have to choke to death. His new army had not yet been trained, so he refused the Bolans' request. Who knew that when Egil came, he was like a god's help, three battles, one victory over Lithuania, another victory over Bolan, and three victory over Eastern Rome. The rest of the people fell in hopes. In less than a year, they took such a large piece of land in Eastern Europe.

"Can't fight." Innocent III shook his head and thought to himself: "At least, you can't fight again until the Pope has a navy that can protect itself."

Thinking of this, Innocent III felt very unwilling to accept it. Why did the Normans develop so fast? The army is invincible in the world, the navy is invincible in the world, the agricultural and commercial arts industry are developing so well, the politics is clear and the laws are perfect, and the Norman Empire has the terrifying hope of conquering and the crazy killing hope of killing. This Europe, this world...

"It's a disaster." Innocent III sighed for a moment, then opened his eyes and looked at the bishops of his pope who were staring blankly below. He couldn't help but feel angry again: "If you fools are a little brainy and use a little bit, how could I work so hard?!"

Innocent III couldn't help but feel a little angry when he thought of this. He stood up suddenly and wanted to curse a few more words to relieve his anger. However, he felt dizzy and his eyes turned black at that time, and his body leaned forward and rolled down the steps nearly one meter high.

"Holy See!"

Innocent III frightened the cardinals and others at this moment. Although these cardinals usually think that the Pope died sooner and I would be the Pope. However, in so much trouble, the Cardinals asked themselves that their abilities were really inferior to Innocent III. Only under the leadership of such an iron-fisted pope, would everyone have some confidence when fighting against the Norman Empire. If the Pope's Holy See was dead at this moment, who would be the pillar of such a huge Holy See?!
Chapter completed!