After the battlefield was cleared, Xiao Xuan only felt a hint of excitement at first, but then he also knew that after the army crossed the Marne, it was likely to go deep into the core of Western Europe. His opponent is probably not only the remnants of the French army. It is likely that the British, the Dutch, and the Spaniards, who seemed to be the most powerful of the era, had an army of two or three hundred thousand alone. With hundreds of thousands of enemy troops studying and eyeing each other, it is obviously not enough to obtain only one force to annihilate about 100,000 enemy troops. The siege of the city of Paris must be launched as quickly as possible. If necessary, it is even possible to risk to a certain extent that the light cavalry assault units and the baggage and artillery units are properly disconnected, as long as the distance of the disconnection does not exceed thirty or forty kilometers and it is enough to barely maintain contact.

As for the large number of wagons that had been captured, there were many unused horses, and in order to prevent them from being used as military resources that the enemy was likely to use, the troops were completely destroyed when the sky was getting brighter. Destroyed all the vehicles and artillery that could not be taken away from the battle, and destroyed all the horses that could not be taken away. This time, instead of marching as covertly as possible at the pace of the past, the team marched as fast as they could. Therefore, in the daytime, after crossing the river, the whole team began to march at the rhythm of a forced march. In order to make the carriage march as fast as possible, not only the carriage was generally half loaded, but also the carriage was generally carried in a wasteful manner by three medium-sized horses. Of course, the carriages used by the 20,000-strong troops were not much, only about two or three thousand taels, and there were still some decent baggage horses that followed the troops. Coupled with the fact that the conditions of transportation in the hinterland of Western Europe seemed to be much better than in Asia, with its ravines and mountainous regions, it was sometimes as fast as a less skilled horse.

In the previous long-range assault, many of the horses Xiao Xuan carried had run out of horsepower, and after replenishing a lot of barely usable and tamable medium-sized horses, he was able to exert his fastest speed for at least a relatively short period of time.

In this way, on the first day of the entire Volunteer Left Army's march to Paris using the information obtained from the tortured prisoners, the advance distance of the whole army was estimated to be obviously more than 200 li, and perhaps even about 220 li. At the same time, the forced march with an overdrawn rhythm also eliminated many horses that did not seem to be very qualified during the day, and the ranks of the army were supplemented with some locally captured and forcibly plundered civilian horses.

When attacking the hinterland of Europe, the true richness of the hinterland of Europe, which had already had a lot of people at a very early age, was gradually manifested at this time. In many farmlands and villages in the heart of France, many of the horses that were collected at any time seemed to have horseshoes ready and even the blacksmiths associated with the villages. Cavalry legions of more than 20,000 men and horses often did not have to spend much effort to easily collect enough food and forage from the march. In the previous long journey, the team has experienced many places where people's eyes are thin. At this point, it seems shocking to think back to the past.

"It is said that during the Han Dynasty, it seems that no Chinese merchant ever went to Rome and returned. During the Tang and Song dynasties, few people came to this extreme west, right? Xiao Xuan couldn't help but sigh when he was resting. However, after thinking about it carefully, Xiao Xuan was actually somewhat glad that the core distance between Eastern and Western civilizations was so far away. To a large extent, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, the basic pattern of Chinese civilization should have been determined, that is, the pattern of great unification, the pattern of having a broad population base, and the pattern of developed agricultural exploitation potential. These, combined with some early philosophical spirits, led to the fact that China's modernization transformation actually faced many more difficulties than Europe at the beginning.

If the exchanges between the East and the West were closer in the ancient Roman era, it is likely that related technologies such as papermaking and even iron farming tools from the East would have been transmitted to Europe earlier, and it is also likely that Europe would have entered the era of modernization earlier. If the West in this era is still a unified whole, and there is no Russia, a civilization that is ultimately excluded, to rely on and rely on, then the road to China's rise may face more variables than the historical plane...

It was only a short rest of two or three hours, and before the sky was fully light, the whole army began to march in the direction of the north as fast as it could. It was at this time that the mighty team began to fall behind obviously, which made Xiao Xuan have to give up part of the burden when leading the team forward, and let the officers and soldiers in the cavalry team who fell behind join the baggage team, so as to barely ensure that there was no big crisis in the team when the next day was forced to march.

Of course, the more important reason seems to be that the news of the previous battle seems to have begun to spread faster than the team, and although the army has encountered some enemy soldiers who seem to be coming to chase after it in the process of advancing, they only dare to wait from a long distance, and do not dare to approach closer.

This made Xiao Xuan realize that no matter how fast the army launched a forced march, for this era of relay horse communication and pyrotechnic communication, it was actually difficult to make a surprise attack before the other party reacted. The only thing Xiao Xuan could seek was: I don't know if there was an enemy commander who died in the chaos and still seemed to have some level, and some remnants of the army, so as not to approach Paris before his own army.

Even if the French army in the area of Paris got the news in advance that some strong enemy from the east might be approaching, but they did not know enough about the troops they were leading, then they could still inflict heavy losses on the enemy army at a relatively low price, and try not to give the enemy too much time to react.

By the end of the march the next day, the whole team had completed a forced march of about 500 li in nearly two days and nights

The attitude of the United Nations: Some people say that ** will arouse the vigilance of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union may not be very enthusiastic about a unified red China. This misunderstood the state orientation of the USSR and the basic needs of the Far East. As a superpower, it needs to suppress other powers, and it also requires a lot of objective resources

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