"Where there is a will, there is a way, you represent that the Duchy of Savoy can do this, I have seen your sincerity, I think you also know the current situation, the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain they may still have the strength to fight, but you Duchy of Savoy......

To put it mildly, you may be just cannon fodder in front of you in the eyes of Louis XIV of the Kingdom of France.

Your dukes must have seen what the French soldiers were doing in the Duchy of Savoy, as if they had been stationed for a long time to help you defend your homeland? ”

Hong Tiancheng condescended, looking down at the representative of the Duchy of Savoy who was kneeling below.

"His Majesty is indeed wise and intelligent, the French in the Duchy of Savoy only care about looting for benefits, protecting those rebellious nobles from the Duchy of Savoy to escape from the Duchy of Savoy, and now the people of the Duchy of Savoy are withering, a large amount of wealth has been transferred to the territory of the Kingdom of France, and King Louis XIV of France does not care about the life or death of the Duchy of Savoy!

It's a pity that the troops of our Duchy of Savoy have suffered heavy losses, and the country is small and weak, and it is simply unable to confront the Kingdom of France. ”

The representative of the Duchy of Savoy, who came on his knees all the way, had already abandoned all his face, and at this time, he naturally lowered his posture very low, and almost complained to Hong Tiancheng in a begging tone.

"Of course, my Heavenly Dynasty will naturally not easily spare the enemy, but I have always maintained a tolerant side towards the 'friend' who has reformed his ways, as long as your Duke of Savoy surrenders his military power and is willing to be a vassal of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Duke of Savoy can sit in his place in peace and enjoy my protection of his rights and wealth.

The protection of the Kingdom of Heaven will not be given for nothing, and cooperating with the soldiers of the Taiping Army to expel the foreign troops in the Duchy of Savoy is the best gift for the Duke of Savoy to show his loyalty, and this kind of opportunity is only once, how about it? ”

After hearing this, the representative of the Duchy of Savoy couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, the Duke of Savoy's most basic bottom line guarantee that he had finally completed, the Duke of Savoy, who was an ally or something, naturally didn't care, whether the people of Savoy were enslaved by the Han people or not, the Duke of Savoy couldn't care so much, and the Duke of Savoy only wanted the reservation of his privileged class.

As long as the glory and prosperity of the Duke's family of Savoy can be guaranteed, everything can be sold, not to mention, being a vassal of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a military power, is not a bad thing for the weak Duchy of Savoy.

Until then, the Duchy of Savoy had been under the control of King Louis XIV of France, and although it was an independent sovereign state, it had to act according to the faces of the great powers.

Anyway, in the eyes of the Duke of Savoy, he can't defeat the Taiping army with military power, so it is better to simply express his 'sincerity'.

"Thank you for your kindness, all the people of the Duchy of Savoy will remember your act of kindness forever, and the Duchy of Savoy is willing to honor the Kingdom of Heaven as the Lord of life!"

"Well, I will send Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of the kingdom of heaven, to negotiate with you specifically, go down and take a good shower and have a meal, now, you are a friend of the kingdom of heaven rather than an enemy."

The humiliating scene of the Duchy of Savoy's representatives soon spread throughout the anti-Han allies, and when King Louis XIV heard the news, he angrily shouted in Versailles that the Duke of Savoy would pay for it.

It didn't take long for the French king Louis XIV to take Hong Tiancheng, but it was not a problem to deal with a mere Duke of Savoy, and it didn't take long, after the peace talks between the anti-Han allies and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom broke down again, the Kingdom of France suddenly mobilized an infantry division fully equipped with mini rifles, rushed into the Duchy of Savoy, and joined forces with the French army originally stationed in the Duchy of Savoy to launch an attack on the few guards in the Duchy of Savoy.

The Duchy of Savoy, which lacked troops and food, was defeated in an instant, and was beaten all the way to the capital of Turin, and the Duchy of Savoy was about to fall into the hands of the Kingdom of France!

Interestingly, because the scandal of the representative of the Duchy of Savoy spread throughout the people of the Duchy of Savoy under the deliberate propaganda of the anti-Han alliance, the commoners and even the nobles of the Duchy of Savoy thought that the Duke of Savoy had lost face by this act, and even if he did not openly support the French army that invaded his country, he began to maintain a neutral wait-and-see attitude, without the slightest intention of supporting the Duke of Savoy!

The Duke of Savoy's reputation among all classes of the Duchy of Savoy fell to a historical point because of the Berlin kneeling, and many of the soldiers guarding the city of Turin were disheartened and had no intention of working for this reviled master.

Thus, Turin, the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, resisted for less than a day, and after the rebels against the Duke of Savoy opened the gates, it fell completely, and the losses of the French army were minimal!

However, the army of the Kingdom of France did not capture the Dukes of Savoy and his main supporters as expected, and the Duke of Savoy fled the capital of Turin and went to the Milan region occupied by the Taipings as soon as the army of King Louis XIV of France entered the border of Savoy!

When the armies of the Kingdom of France successfully occupied the entire territory of Savoy, they finally encountered a fierce enemy.

The newly formed infantry division of the Kingdom of France, which was invincible in the territory of the Duchy of Savoy, armed with mini rifles, was routed in less than an hour after encountering an infantry division of the Taiping army.

After the two sides met in the field, they immediately started to fight in formation, however, the Taiping army armed with Hanyang-made rifles could lie on the ground and shoot a rain of bullets at the French soldiers standing upright on the opposite side, and the battle between the two sides was almost a one-sided slaughter, and the French army, which had no fortifications to protect it, suffered losses that were even higher than the previous Italian Peninsula troops!

In one shot, half of the French infantry division of tens of thousands of people was defeated, and the remaining half were all routed, and they were chased and killed by the Taiping army all the way!

The emergency support of other French troops staying in the Duchy of Savoy was routed one by one by the Taiping army, and even the newly formed French infantry divisions equipped with mini rifles were no match, let alone the 'old French army' with bayonets and flintlock pistols?

Tens of thousands of French field regulars, in just a few days, were completely defeated by the vanguard of the Taiping Army of less than two divisions in the Duchy of Savoy.

The one-sided field results in the Duchy of Savoy forced the anti-Han allies to painfully accept the reality that they had completely lost the ability to face the Taiping army in field battles.

The breech guns of the Taiping Army made the soldiers of the Anti-Han Alliance change their colors!