Chapter 145 We need to face history
Leonard's army left, and the assembled militia began to disperse, but the company commanders of each militia company and half of the platoon commanders of the militia company were left behind.
In addition to them, there are also company commanders, platoon commanders and soldier representatives from the Kingdom of Jerusalem Army, plus those Paladin representatives.
Led by Gairis, these people walked into the classroom of Alhadi Town School.
Everyone sat down according to their respective affiliations.
Nowadays, as the territory expands and there are more people in the organization, the opportunities to hold company and platoon-level commanders and soldier representatives in person for meetings like this will only become less and less.
But since everyone is here, Garris will not miss this opportunity to teach everyone a lesson and hold a meeting to unify their thoughts.
Before the meeting, Garris scanned the entire classroom. Some of these people were familiar faces to Garris, while others were meeting him for the first time.
Especially on the militia side, quite a few platoon leaders were actually appointed by local constituency councils or village communities, and it was their first time meeting Garris.
The way they looked at Garris was particularly fanatical.
"Good morning, everyone!"
"Good morning, Prophet!"
With simple greetings, today's lecture began.
"Everyone knows that the war in the Holy Land is imminent, and there must be a battle between Saladin and the Kingdom. I rejected Leonard's invitation to participate in the war, because I feel that whether Saladin wins or the Kingdom wins, it will not matter to you. It makes no sense.”
"Of course, if you think participating in this war will be of any help to you, everyone here can actually stand up and say it."
In Garris's eyes, there were some people who hesitated to speak, but ultimately did not come forward.
"There must be a reason for war, for land, for wealth, for faith..."
"But whose faith is the faith? Whose land is the land? Whose wealth is the wealth?"
"Now that I have brought you the truth that was obscured by sinners in the past, do any of you still want to fight for the sinners' beliefs?"
"As for the land, the land never belongs to any one person. It is a gift given to us by my father. We are proud to be self-reliant. In Transjordan, there are large areas of wasteland waiting for people to develop. What we lack is the hands to explore the wealth of the land. Not to covet more land.”
"And what about wealth? Use swords to rob wealth?!"
"Joke! You who rob, you will be robbed; you who rob, others will rob you; when you stop robbing, others will punish you!"
"One man builds and another tears down. What good does it do you except hard work!"
"One person prays and another person curses. Whose voice will my father listen to?"
Garris' tone gradually became higher. He didn't want the students in front of him to forget why he took up arms.
In his design, the warriors of the Order are not soldiers at all, but must use virtue, knowledge, and swords to fight against all the things in the world that harm the people.
The Royal Army of Jerusalem should take up arms in response to the cry of the people. They only exist for liberation.
As for the militia, on the one hand, they are the reserves and supplements of the first two, but their biggest role is to protect themselves and their homeland from various "bandits". They must protect the food they produce and protect their homes. own wealth.
"I know that this world is like a dark tunnel, so long that it has no end. The ground under our feet is flowing with tears and blood, and it is a valley of tears."
"Thus there will be men who will become warriors, ready to fight against the flesh and blood, against the invisible, against the evil spirits in the air."
"But don't forget, our fight is to create peace, not to destroy the enemy and seize spoils."
"Put on armor in order to take off armor; take up weapons in order to put down weapons; forge plows into swords and sickles into spears in order to one day forge swords into plowshares and spears into sickles!"
"If one day you fight just to fight, to bully the weak and rob wealth, then the sword holder will become the slave of the sword, and the dragon slayer will turn into an evil dragon!"
"By then, my brother's words will come true."
"Remember: Anyone who holds a sword will die by the sword."
This was an ideological education, but Garris was particularly excited.
[What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is no new thing under the sun. 】Gellis has foreseen many things, but he still has to do his best to avoid and delay them.
He hoped that even if it was just a momentary sparkle, lighting the torch to light the way, he also hoped that the torch would burn longer, that it would last until the end of the long night and welcome the arrival of the real sun.
After that, Garris told the history to the people present.
Using copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; using ancient times as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs.
Garris needed to explain the ins and outs of the Crusades one by one so that the people present could understand what the Crusaders were all about, so as to achieve the purpose of disenchantment.
The story about Jerusalem begins in the 10th century BC,
At that time, David, the ancient king of Israel, was the same David who killed the giant Goliath with a sling.
He conquered Jebus, renamed the city Jerusalem, built a royal palace here, and established a unified kingdom with Jerusalem as its capital.
From that time on, Jerusalem had a sacred status in the hearts of the Jews.
Later, in the 1st century, Jesus, the brother of Gehris, became active and voluntarily was crucified in order to bear the sins of the world and redeem the world.
Since then, Christianity has also considered Jerusalem a holy site.
Later, in 621, the Prophet was taken to Jerusalem by angels. From there he ascended to heaven, visited the seventh heaven, met with the prophets, and finally met God.
Therefore, Jerusalem is also regarded as the third holiest place in Islam, followed by Mecca and Medina.
The subsequent Arab Conquest began. The Arabs conquered Jerusalem from the Eastern Roman Empire in 637, exactly 550 years ago.
However, the Holy See at that time was not concerned about the fall of Jerusalem.
It was not until 1095 that the Eastern Roman Emperor Alexius I Comnenus asked the Holy See for help.
At that time, Pope Urban II's power was unstable, and he urgently needed something that could inspire religious fervor in Western Europe to consolidate his power.
He responded to Alexios I and traveled to Clermont, France, where he gave a lecture.
Pope Urban II described the fall of Jerusalem as if it had just happened not long ago, described Muslims who also believed in the only true God as blasphemous heretics, and accused Muslims of massacring Christians and destroying churches.
Relying on this empty hand, Pope Urban II packaged the cross into a righteous party.
Then he said that Palestine was the land of Canaan, with infinite riches and beauty. He claimed that those who participated in the Crusades would receive complete pardon, emphasizing that this was a good opportunity to regain the Holy Land and fight for the Lord.
To put it simply, you can go to heaven by killing infidels, robbing infidels’ money is not considered robbing, and everyone deserves credit for taking back the Holy Land.
This started the prelude to disaster after disaster.
"The Crusades were a disaster from the beginning." Garris emphasized,
"Tens of thousands of people were inspired by the Pope's inexplicable reasons to march thousands of kilometers on foot without any logistics."
"Those people, those noble lords, before setting off for the Eastern Crusade, unscrupulously plundered their peasants. For those knights on the Eastern Crusade, since participating in the Crusades can wash away their sins, why not commit more sins? ”
"During that march, their only way to supply food was by robbery. The Crusaders robbed the Hungarians, Bulgarians, and Greeks..."
"The knights of Lorraine plundered all of Thrace, and the knights of southern Italy also included Macedonia and Epirus. The French knights attacked Dalmatia..."
"Many Crusaders suffered counterattacks and were defeated or even completely annihilated by the armies of the Christian world without even touching the edge of the Holy Land."
"According to historical records, the Crusaders suffered so many casualties in Europe that the water of the Danube River was stained with blood, turning it red, and the corpses flowing down the river were so densely covered in the river that no one could see the water..."
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"Is this the Lord's will? When did my father say such a thing? Let his soldiers plunder his people?! And then die in Europe?!"
"Get rid of those snake and scorpion lies, we need to face history."
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