1 July 1997, Europe, Paris

Before flying to the New World, we made a short stopover on the European continent. When you're in London, you can feel the UK

People celebrate the festive atmosphere of the return, but the continent doesn't seem to react to it. One out of Northern Ireland, West

The smell of chaos and poverty in other cities of Europe came to their faces. Traffic is clogged with a torrent of bicycles,

The air is cloudy. As soon as we got out of the Paris customs, we were surrounded by a large group of young French people eager to exchange for RMB.

It was not easy to get rid of them. The rest of the people in the company were still suffering from the "Northern Ireland Syndrome", lying listless

I do not come out of an airport hotel. But my son dragged me to see the ancient battlefield.

The rising sun dispelled the morning mist, and the ancient battlefield was an intoxicating green. We don't know where we came from

How many times, especially in the last year, we have been taking the Channel Tunnel train almost every Sunday

Again, every time here my son has to do a routine torture on me, and now it's starting again. Like every

Again, he stood on the pedestal of the monument and recited the history textbook of the elementary school with great enthusiasm:

"In August 1421, the Ming fleet reached the coast of Western Europe, and Europe was terrified......"

"Okay, Daddy is tired, forget it this time." I interrupted him impatiently.

"No, there was a person beside the husband in the Spring and Autumn Period who always reminded him to avenge the murder of his father, you politicians

Rulers and diplomats also need a person. "

"We have no father-killing feud in Europe and Northern Ireland, and when the 100-year agreement expires, we will return Northern Ireland

To the British, this is a natural thing to do, not a mistake or a failure. "

My son didn't listen to me and continued his speech: "...... Europe was terrified. Zheng He originally imagined that he would be the same in the Nanyang countries, friendly with the Europeans, but all five of the envoys he sent to the European continent were killed, and there was only one war between the East and the West! Pope Martin V called for the united feudal princes to unite against the enemy, and issued a decree of pardon for all criminals who were conscripted into the army at this time. In order to raise funds for the war, the Church sold the clergy and even bought the Pope's Golden Crown to Florentine merchants. Britain and France hastily ended the Hundred Years' War and formed a military alliance. Taken by the strength of the Ming fleet, the navies of Western Europe did not dare to fight, and the Europeans pinned their hopes of victory on land battles. In December 1421, the Ming army landed in Calais and arrived at Paris ten days later. The two sides fought a decisive battle on the outskirts of Paris. At that time, the Europeans gathered an army of 100,000 troops, including 30,000 British troops under King Henry V, 40,000 French troops under the Duke of Burgundy and 30,000 Teutonic Knights from the German Holy Roman Empire. The Ming army had only 25,000 troops. In the early morning of December 20, the Battle of Paris began. The Western European Coalition High Command planned to attack the front of the Ming army with the heavy infantry of the French army and the Teutonic Knights, and use the English light cavalry as the right flank detour. At sunrise, the Western European coalition forces attacked first. The European infantry battle formations were well organized, and they advanced in countless neat formations. The armor of the hoplites shone in gold and silver in the morning sun, and from the Ming position, it seemed as if the metal earth was moving, and the countless spears were like wheat fields on the earth. The sound of war drums, Scottish bagpipes, and the rhythmic striking of soldiers striking their cuirasses with the hilts of their swords became clear......"

"If we continue like this, we're going to miss the plane."

"...... Zheng He saw the characteristics of the European army's dense and rigid offensive formation, and concentrated the artillery on the front. The Ming army did not attack for a long time, but fired an artillery salvo. In the first three heavy salvos, the Europeans suffered heavy casualties, but the attacking formation was not chaotic, and the square team continued to advance on the corpses. When the enemy's well-organized attacking column was close at hand, Zheng He calmly ordered a fourth, more intense artillery bombardment. The hundreds of cannons of the Ming army thundered and rained down on the dense columns of Europeans, and the shotguns hit the armor with a tidal sound. The formation of the European army was disorganized, first by the front row, and then as if dominoes had been toppled, the whole front was in chaos. Zheng He ordered the Ming army to attack at this time, and his small number of cavalry attacked the front of the European army in a wedge-shaped formation, and went deep into the enemy's formation**, quickly cutting the European infantry line in half, and concentrating on the right flank. At this time, the British cavalry was attacking from the right flank, but they were met by the scattered coalition infantry, and the men and horses were fighting each other, and countless ...... were killed and wounded. "

"It's really time to go, kid!"

"...... The battle lasted until dusk, and in the bloody sun, the Ming army sounded their poignant trumpet...... The Battle of Paris, the defeat of the Western European coalition forces, the annihilation of half of the 100,000 troops, the death of King Henry V of England, the death of hundreds of dukes, earls and royal generals...... After the Battle of Paris, it was difficult for Western Europe to assemble enough forces to deal with the Ming army in a short period of time, coupled with the blockade of the Ming fleet on the coast of Western Europe, especially the English Channel, and rumors that the follow-up fleet of the Ming Dynasty was sailing to help, the fragile anti-Ming alliance in Western Europe collapsed, and it ...... later" "I know all about it in the future, and I know it before, you're going to be endless, I'm going to go by myself, you're alone

It's better to stay here and be with Zheng He. "

We've finally left the Ancient Battlefield, and if we could come back, it's been a long time later.