The girl pointed to a rough strategic map on the table, marking the locations of Burgundy and Aquitaine.

"They're just grass on the wall, and whichever side is stronger, they'll follow, and as long as we can beat the Normans, there's a great chance they'll change their minds. However, the Burgundians may have a bit of a difficulty, since they have a strong tendency to be independent, but the Aquitaines are different, they are French all the time, and they will remain neutral even if they do not turn against us for a while. ”

"But the other party is a Norman! They are the strongest in numbers and combat effectiveness among the coalition forces, and their commander Artoria is also the strongest general in the coalition army. ”

It can be seen that the French noble generals may have the courage to fight if they faced the Bogundian or Aquitaine, if they faced the Normans...... Then the situation is different.

"It's okay, I can handle her!"

Although the girl swore an oath to bear the promise, but the others didn't seem to believe what she said, if you can't convince these guys, although the girl is the commander of this army, and the vast majority of this army is also inspired by the girl to come, but if there are not enough commanders, the combat effectiveness of this army will definitely drop a lot.

"Didn't you hear her?"

At this time, a fiery voice came from behind everyone, and before people could look back to see who was so bold, the owner of the voice couldn't wait to get away from everyone and stood up.

This guy has brown hair, an angular face, wears a full suit of heavy chain mail, and has a loud voice.

"Lahair, you are nothing but His Majesty's attendant, and it is not your turn to intervene in this matter." The offended aristocratic general, who seemed to feel insulted, said to the man with a frown.

"Now there is a discussion about the life and death of France, and every Frenchman, whether nobles or commoners, can join." The man known as Lahair defended loudly, not at all intimidated by the fact that the other party was a marquis of such and such a place.

"This fellow ......" Seeing that a lowly attendant dared to talk to him like this, the marquis angrily pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword, wondering whether to pull it out.

After all, Lahaire's strength is very strong, and he is one of the best warriors in the whole of France, although this marquis also has outstanding points, but against Lahair, there is definitely not much chance of winning.

"Okay guys, calm down."

Just when the scene was extremely tense, another person couldn't stand it and stopped him.

The people followed the sound and looked at the man who was none other than Baron Laval, Gilles de Ress, the young marshal of France.

Originally, if this girl had not appeared, then Baron Gilles should have been the commander of this army, and now Gilles is the girl's deputy.

But the baron does not seem to be dissatisfied, but very attentive to assist the maiden in all her work, the girl may be quite proficient in strategy, and the faith is extremely pious, and the charm is amazing, but for how to command an army, there is not enough experience, if it is not for the assistance of Gilles, maybe even this army can be brought to the front in good condition.

Although the baron's title was not large, and his hereditary domain Laval had been occupied by the Normans, Gilles had a high prestige among the upper echelons of the French army due to the prestige he had accumulated and his excellent character and character.

Baron Gilles came out to be a peacemaker, and the Marquis also got down the stairs, and withdrew his sword with a cold snort, so all eyes were on the Baron, waiting for him to speak.

Baron Gilles first nodded to his colleagues around him, and then showed his attitude!

"I support Joan of Arc's opinion,"

“…………………………………”

Just when Randy and Aurora are still arguing, where is it better to invest in Greenland and Iceland.

Randy insisted that he couldn't do it, so he sent his fleet south to occupy Madeira, and then set off directly from there to occupy the West Indies.

As a result, as soon as Randy's words came out, Aurora muttered, "You don't have such a strong navy at all, and you will be sent to death if you go there." ”

Randy thought about it for a while, and decided that it would be much better than going around in a big circle and then reaching a large isolated island in the snow. Moreover, the climate of the West Indies is quite suitable for the cultivation of cash crops such as sugar cane, cocoa and coffee, and although the territory is slightly smaller, it is barely a kingdom compared to the same small European countries.

After all, Randy didn't study geography professionally, and he really didn't know where Madeira was, but he remembered that there was such a place, which was owned by Portugal back then, and the location should be in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula to the north, all the way to the west, which may take more than ten days of sailing.

I just don't know who the ownership of this place belongs to now? Are there aborigines on it?

"Forget it, you have to give it a try, if it really doesn't work, just follow what the guy said, switch to Iceland, and wait until the sailing skills are strong before thinking of another way."

Randy gave another inexplicable order to General Carter, take out the latest 12 brigs that had just passed the experiment, and assemble a lean expedition to sail all the way west, then you should have an island.

"This ...... How do you know there's an island? ”

General Carter endured such a problem and carried out this order, twelve brigs for experiments, Carter originally wanted to be rationed with heavy ramming horns and scorpion crossbows as new ships for the fleet, and in recent times, Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean have become more and more rampant, warships are getting bigger and bigger, the number of pirates is increasing, and the navy that needs escort is also increasing, and General Carter is under great pressure.

Whether it is the merchant fleet that escorts the south, or the fleet that transports troops to Normandy to perform important tasks, the entire Norman navy goes up to himself, the commander-in-chief, down to the slaves who row boats and pedal the water wheel, all of them are tired like dead dogs, especially in recent times, the slaves who rowed boats have died a lot, and most of the territory along the North Sea and the Baltic Sea coast has been occupied by the Normans, or countries that are not hostile to the Normans, and cannot capture slaves casually, so they want to get enough manpower, The infidels had to be captured from the southern Mediterranean coast.

This may also be the reason why the heretics of the faith* religion are hostile to their own side, but who cares about them, don't they also take noble Christians into slavery?

It seems that the grievances and wars between Asia Minor, the Middle East, the Mediterranean,* and the Christians seem endless.

Therefore, General Carter very much wanted to get these ships, which did not require hard rowing, were propelled entirely by the wind, and because of the light hull, the well-designed sails, and the speed was no worse than that of the average improved ballista battleship.

Moreover, the hull of these clippers is about the same size as ballista warships, and they do not need to be equipped with so many slaves, which means that they can be equipped with more pirates and sailors for combat, so that their combat effectiveness can be further improved.

But Randy doesn't know the high cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt, doesn't wander on the sea, doesn't know the hard work of sailors, in a word, it's like playing, he takes these dozen boats in, and the route to Iberia is ready-made, and it doesn't take much effort at all, but the ocean is so vast, how easy is it to find an archipelago?

There was no way, the first step to open up a new continent was decided in this way, and Aurora seemed disappointed.

End of August......

Eight hours after the departure of the expedition fleet, the Norman army was prepared in Oslo and Gothenburg respectively, and the fleet sailed out of the Öresund channel and began to converge, a total of four or five hundred large ships, loaded with fifty or sixty thousand sea and land troops, sailing in the direction of Normandy.

If nothing else, after a month or two of sailing, the Norman army will land in France, and even if someone has the ability to penetrate the world, he will not be able to tamper with the overall situation.

But no one expected that in just over the past month, the situation in France would have changed dramatically, even if it could be called upside down.

Also at the end of August, with the support of Lahair and Gilles, the young girl, known as Joan of Arc, finally won the support of the French aristocratic officers, and the French army of 14,000 marched north, and the front of the army was directed towards Paris.

Along the way, very surprising things happened one after another......

Originally, the nobles who had defected to Artoria almost all accepted Joan of Arc's persuasion at the first time, and at the same time donated money, materials, soldiers and lives to help Joan of Arc, the number of the French army continued to grow like a snowball, and at the same time there was no problem with logistics and supplies, and all French farmers voluntarily donated their remaining food.

However, Joan of Arc's opponent, the Norman Blood Queen Artoria, is not a vegetarian either.

Between Paris and Orleans, she had many sentry posts and makeshift wooden forts.

The defense effect of these things is not good, the reason why Artoria did this is mainly to effectively control this area, she is not Randy, she can exchange qualified officials from Enides to deal with civil affairs, law and order affairs, new buildings, entertainment facilities to improve the satisfaction of the people.

She had to rely on the army, the force, and the French nobility who had surrendered to the battlefield to consolidate her rule.

In fact, this approach is not clever, today's Paris, Île-de-France region, is in a state of chaos, all kinds of bandits sign up for guerrillas, armed bandits, road rage rangers, in short, except for Paris and the suburbs of Paris, the rest of the 50 kilometers are in a state of chaos and anarchy!

Artoria was torn apart by this......

She is good at war, but governing the country is a mess, and being able to send an army to exercise military control is already the best Artoria can come up with.

Although this system does to some extent improve security in the occupied territories.

But Artoria did not lower the taxes on the people at the bottom. The Normans, without a clear order, were no different from the ordinary bandits, and they exploited the French even more because they were stronger and more organized, and some small protests could be settled by themselves without even consulting Artoria.

The French hated, hated, and cursed these invaders.

Although the natural situation has improved on the surface, but deep down, the French have thoroughly hated these Normans and Celts, and Artoria knows more or less about all this, but she doesn't care, like Randy, Artoria is also a ruler who likes the army extremely much, and can look at all the crimes of her army with the most forgiving eyes, robbery, rape, burning, abuse, torture, extortion, etc......

King Arthur doesn't care about these things at all.

Hope to rebel, hope to drive them away, hope for a better life, hope for a savior.

It was under these conditions that Joan of Arc led his army into the Île-de-France region!

She held aloft her own flag, a striking red, white and blue tricolor for freedom, while her two retinues, one of whom carried the traditional French fleur-de-lis flag with a blue background, and the other with a flag depicting the three archangels St. Michael, St. Margaret and St. Catherine, while rushing to be the first in every skirmish, inspired her soldiers with such actions.

Joan of Arc does not seem to be in a hurry to march into Paris, but is keen on skirmishes, using superior forces to annihilate Artoria's small troops scattered everywhere, which can not only kill and injure the opponent's living forces, but also have the effect of training troops and boosting morale, and it is also very beneficial to her own prestige, although there are many people who claim that she is just a small fight, like a game, but it is with such a game-like tactic, Joan of Arc's army is in the case of extremely dangerous losses, Killed and captured thousands of Normans.

Regardless of Artoria's performance, it's just a personal factor for her.

The Norman Legion is invincible!

Randy is also invincible!

The Norman Legion won every battle!

By the time Artoria came to her senses, the Norman army of 30,000 had been weakened by about 1/6, with a total of more than 5,000 soldiers, including Normans, Celts, Bretons, and Frenchmen......

The stragglers she had deployed at the southern tip to control the Île-de-France region were all gone.

All were ...... Killed!

Of course, for the dead enemy troops, Joan of Arc did not embarrass them too much, as was the most common practice of this era, cutting off their heads to make a landscape or something, but buried them all on the spot one by one, and erected tombstones, although these graves were soon opened and killed by angry French civilians who were bent on revenge.

But at least Joan of Arc has worked hard, and it's a matter of attitude.

There are very few armies capable of doing this in this era, and in fact it is the most merciful expression to leave the enemy's army alone, rather than put on a strange posture.

But all this is worthless to Artoria, the Celtic Queen, who believes in pragmatism like Randy, may have spoiled the living soldiers, but the dead ......

It's completely useless when you're dead......

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