On the sea of ​​Calais were ships from Scotland and Ireland, and the 15,000 Scottish Legion. The Irish Legion followed the Queen's enlistment and set foot on the continental battlefield.

A team of Scottish soldiers and Irish soldiers came to Calais. They successfully met with the Chinese army led by Sun Chuanting and the English army led by Prince Rupert at the port of France.

Leading the Scottish Legion was Earl Levin, who served in the Swedish army; leading the Irish Legion was Earl Leicester, who served in the Netherlands.

In other words, the enemy these two Earls of the United Kingdom will face are their former comrades.

"Welcome to you, Count Levin and Count Leicester." Prince Rupert welcomed the Scots and Irish with a group of English generals.

The British Isles have only a few million people. With the war mobilization ability of this era, it is already a bet on the country's destiny to be able to send 25,000 expeditionary troops.

"I didn't expect that we would fight in the civil war and now we would fight side by side again. It was so exciting to think of marching towards Paris." Scotland's Earl of Levin once fought with Sun Chuanting and Prince Rupert in the civil war in the English, but he was a teammate at this time.

"It has been two hundred years since the last time I occupied Paris? That's the case of the Hundred Years of War in England and France. Later, Joan of Arc appeared, which allowed the French to unite and defeat our England. Will there be a second Joan of Arc appear in France this time?" said Count Leicester.

"Joan of Arc? Who?" Sun Chuanting did not know the contradiction between Britain and France.

"Three hundred years ago, England and France had a war that lasted hundreds of years. When our England was about to annex France, a woman who claimed to be Joan of Arc led the French army to resist. Although she was finally arrested and executed, she rescued the crisis at that time and made the resistance of French civilians even more intense. Otherwise, England would be likely to win the throne of France in the Hundred Years War." Earl Leicester said.

"If the civilians in a place are not awakened, then they are easy to occupy and the resistance is too fierce, then there is nothing we can do." Sun Chuanting also felt that the continental side was more difficult.

When the Jiuzhou Army expanded in Nanyang and other places, it rarely encountered a strong sense of identity between the kingdoms on the continent. It was difficult for such places to achieve rule. On the contrary, the indigenous kingdoms in Nanyang did not have any concept of state, and it was relatively easy to establish rule, but it was just a matter of management distance.

A strong sense of national identity will make it difficult for Sun Chuanting and his army to advance and retreat in France, and maintaining stability and replenishment will be even more difficult.

This is why Chu Yun does not want to occupy these places with strong resistance. Even the current English people must make Sophia as neutral as possible in state affairs.

"It will be useless to see Joan of Arc again. In front of the artillery, no one can help France win this time." Cao Bianjiao listened on the side, not feeling anything about the story of Joan of Arc.

Today is different from the past. During the Hundred Years of War in Britain and France, muskets and artillery were not so popular. English longbow soldiers were still shining, and heroism could still play a role. However, the popularization of muskets and artillery and personal heroism seemed to be limited.

"Don't underestimate the invisible thing like cohesion, especially if it attacks the enemy's territory, otherwise we will be frustrated here. Try to avoid unnecessary conflicts."

Sun Chuanting was already fifty years old and had gray hair. He had seen many wars and knew that personal heroism was less and less effective in this era. However, because a hero was shaped, the cohesion of the kingdom was very troublesome. Especially after civilization began to progress, the strategy of advancing westward with the previous Mongolian army to support war would be contradicted by many people and even their own local civilians.

"I will be careful and try not to provoke their civilians." Cao Bianjiao said.

Sun Chuanting and their Chinese Army, English Army, Scotland and Irish Army met in Calais. Except for leaving a few soldiers to defend the already occupied Dunkirk Fortress and Calais under the cover of the fleet, the rest continued to march south.

Prince Conde and the German princes tried to block the offensive of the Holy Allied Army with a superior force of 45,000. They set up defenses in villages near the town of Amiens on the Somme in northeastern France, intending to defeat the Holy Allied Army deep in France here.

The residents of France were full of defense against the foreign expeditionary forces. They provided information for the European Allied Army led by Prince Conde, so that Prince Conde always grasped the actions of the Holy Allied Army.

Prince Kong Dai learned his lesson this time, and he never easily fought with the Holy Allied Army again, but patiently waited for the Holy Allied Army to penetrate deep into France.

He knew that he might not be able to defeat the Holy Allies expedition to Paris head-on, and he could judge that the direction of the Holy Allies' march was Paris, the capital of his kingdom!

As the king of the French Kingdom, Louis XIII had a much higher reputation in France than Queen Christina in Sweden. If Louis XIII surrendered, France, as the leader of the continental alliance, would have to withdraw from the alliance first.

In order to make up for the disadvantages in equipment and discipline, Prince Kong Dai has been patiently asking Sun Chuanting and his army to attack and pull out several fortresses and advance to villages near Amiens.

During this period, Louis XIII and Archbishop Mazaran urged Prince Conde several times to fight as soon as possible and expel the Holy Allied Army, because France was also very difficult to provide supplies to the 45,000 European Allied Army.

The Continental Allies came from all over the continent, but they gathered and defended the French border within France, and almost all their food and ammunition were replenished by France.

Similarly, Sun Chuanting and his troops of about 30,000 were also facing difficulties in supply. If there were no fleets and the captured fortresses to provide logistics, they would have to withdraw from the battle due to difficulties in supplying.

Prince Kong Dai was unmoved and did not act according to the orders of the king and the archbishop in the cardinal. He was still waiting for the opportunity.

He sent several teams of French cavalry to attack the supply line of Sun Chuanting and their expeditionary army, and at the same time called on civilians from nearby villages and towns to fight against the invaders.

The Holy Allied Army, which was already at a moral disadvantage, had a more difficult action because Prince Kong Dai changed his strategy.

Generals such as Sun Chuanting were a little worried about the strategies implemented by Prince Conde, just as the Spanish defenders deliberately opened the sluice gate to release water and turned the surroundings of the fortress into swamps. The French also had their own defensive strategies, and their marching towards Paris was delayed.
Chapter completed!