In 1096, the Roman Catholic Pope, in retaliation for the Holy Land of Jerusalem, which was taken by Islam, launched a religious military war that lasted from 1096 to 1291, because everyone who participated in the expedition wore a "ten" mark on their chest, so they were also called "crusaders", and this war that lasted for nearly 200 years was also known as the Crusades.
Religious demagoguery had a huge impact on the lower classes of the common people, and basically there was no entertainment in the lives of ordinary people, and the only recreational activities were to listen to the prayers of priests in the church and admire the stained glass of the church. So up to the 80-year-old woman, down to the 8-year-old child, whether commoners or nobles, were brainwashed by religion.
There were also many poor monks in France and Germany at that time, who spread distorted ideas in the name of religion, such as their belief that the tainted adults could not accomplish the great cause of the Crusade, only pure children could, so the crusade procession began to bring children into battle.
On the battlefields of the city of Jerusalem, children from two camps can often be seen fighting with wooden shields and branches. Against the backdrop of such an era, a bigger farce was staged.
In 1212, a twelve-year-old boy named Stephen of Croix claimed to have received the oracle of Jesus to form a crusade of children to retake Jerusalem.
In order to gain support, he also wrote a letter to the King of France, but the King of France ignored it, and the boy went around advocating and lobbying.
Because it was said at that time that "the innocent and pure soul can conquer Jerusalem peacefully", everyone believed his words, and soon a boy scout army of 30,000 people gradually rose up in various places.
Stephen of Croix led the 30,000 Boy Scouts on a mighty march toward Jerusalem, and in order to show his authority, he claimed that once in the Mediterranean, the sea would be divided as it had been in Moses, and then open a passage for the army. However, because it was too the way, and there was not enough food and clothing to warm, a large number of children escaped and starved to death.
By marseille, fewer than 2,000 children remained. The 2,000 children followed Stephen of Croix in prayer at the seaside for half a month, the sea not only did not separate but even had an upward trend, the locals heard that the 2,000 children were going to fight, and they were laughed at, when two "well-meaning people" appeared.
Hugh and William were two local merchants who claimed to be able to provide 7 boats for the Boy Scouts to take them across the sea. The poor children did not yet know that the two Maasai merchants had taken them as goods and had found a buyer. They will be sold to the nearest Algeria as slaves!
During the voyage, two ships sank in the southwest of Sardinia, and the remaining five had just landed on the coast of North Africa, and the remaining Cub Scouts were surrounded by a large group of heavily armed Saracens, 18 of whom were martyred for the rebellion. Another 700 were bought off by the Governor of Cairo to work as laborers in manors in northern Egypt.
And the little prophet who led the procession, who has not been recorded again, may have absconded or may have been killed. It was not until 10 years later that the young men who had joined the expedition fled from Egypt, informing everyone of the tragic fate of the Boy Scouts.