novelaction Chapter 1217 Lin Zhen Returns
Chapter 1217 Lin Zhen Returns
The news of Lin Zhen's awakening was like a spring breeze, instantly dispelling all the gloom that had shrouded the entire Daqian Dynasty.
The entire empire was revitalized and filled with renewed confidence because of the awakening of this "God of War"!
After a long period of careful recuperation, he recovered.
Lin Zhen's health has finally recovered to about 70-80%.
Although I can't use my internal energy yet, I can no longer have any problems with normal actions and thinking.
Thus, unexpectedly, it happened to everyone.
His Highness the Regent, who had just escaped death, reappeared in the court of Zichen Palace in an even more powerful and frenzied manner!
The first thing he did was to present the Ottoman "Desert Fox"—Prince Mehmed—whom he had captured alive, in front of the entire court and Marco Polo, the Byzantine envoy who had come upon hearing the news.
He was executed by slow slicing!
The scene was extremely bloody!
It was absolutely shocking!
Prince Muhammad, a prominent royal in the Western world, was stabbed 3,600 times before finally breathing his last in endless pain and despair.
Lin Zhen, however, remained expressionless throughout, sitting atop the high steps, coldly watching.
There wasn't a single ripple in his deep eyes.
It was as if he wasn't witnessing a horrific torture.
Instead, it was just an ordinary chicken-killing performance.
When the executioner raised Prince Muhammad's head, which was already mangled and unrecognizable, high into the air...
The entire Zichen Palace was completely silent.
All the officials, including Marco Polo, who thought he had seen all kinds of big scenes, were completely terrified by Lin Zhen's ruthless, merciless, and even extremely brutal iron-fisted methods!
They looked at the young prince sitting beside the dragon throne. Although his face was still somewhat pale, the terrifying aura emanating from him, the power to rule the world and decide life and death, was stronger than ever before.
Besides awe, all that remained in my heart was fear.
They knew that His Highness the Regent was using this most direct and bloody method to declare to the world.
He, Lin Zhen, is back!
Moreover, they returned with boundless rage and endless killing intent!
“Mr. Marco Polo,” Lin Zhen spoke slowly, his voice not loud, yet clearly carrying to every corner of the hall, “this is how our Great Qian treats invaders.”
"We do not need prisoners."
"All we need are the enemy's corpses and their heads, which are filled with fear and regret."
"Now you can go back and tell your great Emperor Constantine XI."
"I'm telling you, my Great Qian's 200,000-strong army for the western expedition will soon set off."
“Make him wash his neck clean and prepare plenty of gold and beautiful women.”
"In Constantinople, we respectfully welcome the arrival of our Great Qian Army!"
Lin Zhen's bloody, domineering, and blatant declaration of war sent chills down Marco Polo's spine and made his scalp tingle.
He looked at the man before him, an Eastern prince who had a face more handsome than Apollo, but whose behavior was more cruel and insane than Satan in hell.
Those blue eyes held nothing but deep fear.
He had no doubt.
If His Majesty the Emperor dares to show the slightest negligence or disrespect.
Then this man in front of him would definitely not hesitate to turn his 200,000-strong western expeditionary army from the Ottoman Turks directly towards their Constantinople!
Then, they completely erased their ancient empire, which had been passed down for thousands of years, from the map!
"Yes...yes! Your Highness!"
Marco Polo dared not hesitate any longer. He knelt heavily on the ground with a thud, and in a trembling voice filled with awe and fear, he answered loudly:
"This humble servant...this humble servant will certainly convey your words to our great Emperor without missing a single one!"
"I assure you in the name of the Holy Emperor of Rome!"
"When your army arrives in Constantinople, we will greet you with the utmost solemnity and humility!"
"Very good." Lin Zhen nodded in satisfaction.
He knew that his swift and decisive actions today, making an example of someone to deter others, had successfully intimidated this "clever" man from the West.
This also cleared away the first and most unstable obstacle for his upcoming westward expedition.
"Step down." He waved his hand dismissively.
Marco Polo felt as if he had been granted a pardon and fled the Eastern palace, which had filled him with suffocation and fear, as if he were scrambling and crawling away.
All he wanted now was to leave this city filled with demons as quickly as possible and return to his distant hometown.
Then tell his Emperor, and all the self-important Westerners.
Absolutely not! Absolutely not! Do not provoke the ancient dragon in the East, which has now fully awakened!
Otherwise, all that awaits them is destruction!
……
After dealing with Prince Muhammad and the envoy from the Byzantine Empire.
Lin Zhen did not stop his frenzied pace.
He then announced a decision in front of the entire court, one that was more shocking and exciting than any he had ever made before!
"Issue my order!"
His voice was loud and clear, filled with an unquestionable and absolute authority!
"Starting today, we will split into two groups!"
"The Western Route Army, personally commanded by me, will lead 300,000 troops from the capital garrison and 200,000 elite cavalry from the northern steppes under Huhanye, totaling 500,000 troops, on an immediate westward expedition! Our target: Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire!"
"The Eastern Route Army will be led by Her Majesty the Empress herself! She will lead the Imperial Navy Admiral Elizabeth, Vice Admiral Yue Fei, and 50,000 soldiers from the three provinces' naval forces, along with 100,000 'auxiliary troops' recently recruited from Japan, for a total of 150,000 troops, to continue the eastern expedition! The target is Oda Nobunaga's stronghold—Azuchi Castle!"
"I will show the whole world!"
"Our Great Qian Empire not only possesses an invincible army that is unparalleled in the world!"
"Even more so, there is the steel fleet that can roam the world and be invincible!"
"I will make every inch of land and every ocean on this star fly the dragon and phoenix battle flag of our Great Qian!"
"Start the war on both the eastern and western fronts simultaneously!"
"Your Majesty and I will split our forces into two groups!"
"We will not return to the capital until the enemy is defeated!"