After the two individuals of Egil and Aurora bargained whether it would be appropriate to put money in Greenland, Egil insisted that if it was really not possible, he would send a fleet south to occupy Madeira. After that, go directly from there, occupy the West Indies and forget it. As soon as Egil said this, Aurora was silent. muttered: You don't have that strong navy at all, and you go there to deliver food to others. However, after thinking about it for a while, Egil felt that it was much better than going around in a big circle and then reaching a large piece of ice and snow. The climate in the West Indies is quite suitable for growing cash crops such as sugar cane, cocoa and coffee, and although the territory is a little smaller, it is barely the size of a kingdom compared to the same small European countries.

However, think so. But Egil didn't study geography professionally. So I don't really know exactly where Madeira is, but I remember that there was such a place, which was owned by Portugal back then. The location should be northerly in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula, all the way west, in a few days...... It could also be more than ten days...... And then it came.

However, I don't know where this place belongs now. It is not clear whether this place is occupied or not. In fact, Egil wasn't even sure if there was a Madeira archipelago in the world - after all, Aurora was saying that "the world is very much the same as the one you lived in before, and if you had to convert it to a value, it would be almost 99 percent the same."

Egil was not sure whether such an island of 100 or a few dozen square kilometers was 99 percent or 1 percent.

"Forget it. Always give it a try. If it doesn't work, just switch to Iceland as the guy said, and wait until you're better at sailing before you think of something else. ”

In this way, Egil gave General Carter another inexplicable order to take out the latest twelve brigs that had just passed the experiment, and assemble a capable expedition and caravan to sail south to the Iberian Peninsula, and then sail westward, where there should be an island......

"This ...... How do you know there's an island?" General Carter forced himself to carry out the order. The twelve brigs used for experiments were originally intended to be rationed with heavy ramming horns and scorpion crossbows as new ships for the fleet. In recent times, Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean have become more and more rampant, with warships getting bigger and bigger, and the number of pirates increasing. The number of navies that need to be escorted is also constantly increasing. Therefore, the pressure on General Carter was great.

Whether it was to escort the merchant fleet to the south or to transport the army to Normandy, it was an important and urgent task, and the entire Norman navy, from him as a naval commander to the slaves who rowed boats and pedaled the water wheels, were as tired as dead dogs. Especially in recent times, the rowing slaves have died a lot. The vast majority of the North Sea and Baltic coasts were occupied by the Normans, or countries that were not hostile to the Normans could no longer capture slaves at will. In order to obtain enough manpower, it was necessary to capture the infidels from the south, the Mediterranean coast.

This may be one of the reasons why the infidels of Islam are hostile to their own side. But whatever, didn't they also take the noble Christians into slavery, for sure, for a moment.

Just like that, it looks like Asia Minor, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The grudges and wars between Muslims and Christians seem endless......

So General Carter very much wanted to get these ships, which did not require slave rowing, and relied entirely on the wind to move forward, and because of the light hull and the well-designed sails, the speed was no worse than that of the average improved ballista armor. And these clippers were about the same size as ballista battleships. Not having to load as many slaves means that you can load more pirates and sailors for combat. In this way, the combat effectiveness can also be further improved...... Of course, if there is no wind, this kind of ship will be miserable.

This tragedy shouldn't happen, right?

Probably.

However, the lord of his own family did not know the price of firewood and rice, and he did not know the hard work of sailors when he was not drifting on the sea. The route to Iberia was ready-made, and it took little effort—but the ocean was so vast, where could we find such an archipelago?

In this way, the first step in opening up a new continent was decided, and Aurora seemed to be disappointed, and she had not come to Egil for a few days to chat and push. As a result, Egil has been doing very well these days.

Thus, at the end of August, eight hours after the departure of the expedition fleet, the Norman armies were prepared in Oslo and Gothenburg, and the fleets, after having made use of the Öresund waterway, were assembled, and a total of four or five hundred large ships of all colors, loaded with fifty or sixty thousand troops by sea and land, sailed in the direction of Normandy. If nothing happens, after a month or two of sailing, the Norman army will land in France, and even if someone has the ability to understand the gods and gods, they will not be able to tamper with the overall situation.

However, no one expected that in a little more than a month, the situation in France would be turned so dramatically, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a sea overturn!

Also at the end of August, with the support of Lahair and Gilles, the maiden, revered as Joan of Arc, finally gained the support of the French aristocratic officers. At the same time, the 14,000-strong French army marched north, and the front of the army was directed towards Paris.

Along the way, very surprising things happened one after another. Originally, the noble castle owners who had defected to Artoria almost all accepted Joan of Arc's persuasion to surrender at the first time, and at the same time wept bitterly, donating money, materials, soldiers and lives to help Joan of Arc. In this way, the army continued to grow like a snowball. At the same time, there are no problems at all with logistical replenishment. All French farmers were willing to donate what little food they had left......

Of course, the girl's opponent, Norman's Blood Queen, is not an idle eater. She had a lot of mobile posts between Paris and Orleans, small armies, and makeshift wooden forts—all of which were not very well defended. Artoria did this mainly to effectively control the area, she was not Egil, she was able to exchange qualified political officials from the system to handle all civil affairs, law and order matters, and build all kinds of buildings and entertainment facilities to improve the satisfaction of the people. She had to rely on armies, force, and the French nobility who surrendered to the battlefield to consolidate her rule.

Of course, it's not actually clever to do that. Today's Paris, the Île-de-France region is in chaos. All kinds of bandits, mobs, guerrillas, militias, nobles, armed bandits, road tyrants, rangers...... In short, with the exception of Paris and the fifty kilometers of its suburbs, the rest of the country is in such a state of semi-chaos and apocamore......

Artoria was torn by this. As I said before, this woman is pretty good at war or something. But the words of governing the country are a complete mess. Being able to send an army to enforce military control is already the best thing this guy can think of in his head.

Although, to some extent, this system did make the security of the occupied territories a little better - no, it should be said, only a slight change of mode, before which it was the robber lords and the gangsters who collected exorbitant taxes from the people. And now, it has been replaced by the Normans and Celts.

These guys are no different from ordinary gangsters without explicit orders. They even played a more aggressive role against the French - because they were stronger and more organized. Some small-scale anti-tax activities can be flattened directly without consulting Paris. After that, the tax-resistant villages were used as an example to kill the heads of people......

In this way, the French hated, hated, cursed these invaders. Although the law and order situation has improved on the surface, the French people have completely and thoroughly hated these Normans and Celts deep down. Artoria knew a little bit about all of this—but she didn't care. Same as Egil. Artoria is also a ruler who is extremely fond of the army, and can see all the crimes of her army with the most forgiving eyes. Robbery, forcible annihilation, burning, abuse, beating, blackmail, etc., etc., etc......., etc., etc.

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

I want to rebel, I want to get rid of them, I want to live a better life...... So, hope for a savior.

It was under these conditions that Jeanne d'Arc entered the Île-de-France region.

She held aloft her flag, a striking red, white and blue tricolor that represented freedom. And two of her retinues, one of them carrying the flag of the blue-bottomed iris in the French tradition. The other holds up depicting the three archangels, St. Michael, St. Margaret and St. Catherine

of the flag. At the same time, in every skirmish, she rushed to be the first. Inspire your own soldiers with such actions.

Joan of Arc did not seem to be in a hurry to make its way into Paris. Instead, he was keen on skirmishes, annihilating Artoria's small forces scattered all over the place with superior forces. It can not only kill and injure the opponent's living forces, but also play a role in training troops and boosting morale. It's also very good for her own prestige. Although there are many who claim that she was merely a petty fight, like a game, it was by virtue of this so-called game-like tactic that Jeanne d'Arc's army killed and captured thousands of Normans with very little loss......

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