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Chapter 24 The Battle of Paris II, Under the Light of the Holy Light

No matter how Artoria's performance is, it is her personal factor. Norman's army is invincible! Egil is also invincible! Win every battle!!!

When Artoria suddenly woke up, about one-sixth of the Norman army had been cut off, with a total of more than 5,000 soldiers - including the Normans, Celtics, Brittans and French... All, the straitors who were deployed by her at the southern end to control the Ile-de-France area disappeared.

Killed.

Of course, Joan of Arc's troops did not make too many embarrassments, cut their heads to Jingguan or something like the most common practice in this era. Instead, they were buried one by one and also erected tombstones - although these cemeteries were soon angry and French civilians who were determined to take revenge opened coffins and killed corpses...

However, at least Joan of Arc has worked hard - this is a question of attitude. In this era, there are extremely few troops who can do these. In fact, keeping the enemy army alone, instead of putting it in a strange posture, is already a manifestation of kindness.

However, all this is worthless to Artoria. The Celtic Queen, who believes in pragmatism like Egil, may be very doting on the alive army soldiers, but for the dead...

It's useless if you die.

So everything Joan of Arc did was meaningless to Artoria. She just knew that the French in the south not only did not surrender, but was so bold that they dared to attack their own army. They also achieved good results when they were careless.

"What a shame." After snorting like this, Artoria was furious. She originally wanted to see Egil with a perfect answer. Just as ordinary women like to show off their faces, figures, clothes and jewelry. Artoria wanted to show off her great achievements in conquering France.

But all this was destroyed by Joan of Arc. Although she still had an absolute advantage today, she lost thousands of troops and, without any defense, she allowed her to attack the outskirts of Paris. Such an answer could not be said anyway. She was even likely to be ridiculed by Egil.

Speaking of which, Artoria is still the extremely arrogant woman like a phoenix. The experience of being hunted by Egil in the past was regarded as the greatest shame in her life. She wanted to wash away all the time. But now, she conquered France with her own strength, and such great achievements are not inferior to Egil. Artoria can finally get rid of the deep inner feelings of inferiority when facing Egil...

But unfortunately, it was all over, and the girl who was respected as Joan of Arc was ruined.

Artoria's anger can be imagined.

"In one day! Gather all the troops in the city of Paris! Kill that woman!!!"

Artoria drew her sword and unsheathed it, then turned around and cut the throne under her seat, which was originally the King of France, and said with murderous intent.

"But... Your Highness, many of our troops are divided into newly occupied territories. In a day, we can't even pass the orders of assemblage..." a guard knight reminded.

"It doesn't matter - it's just a group of mobs. Can't the 17,000 troops in Paris still deal with them?" Artoria snorted coldly, and then asked: "Where is Your Majesty going, is there any news?"

"The fleet has already sailed out of the Ore Waterway from the Feige I received three days ago. If everything goes well, it will be possible to arrive in more than twenty days."

"Twenty days... are enough." So Artoria made up her mind to stop waiting for Egil to come before taking action. Instead, she would level Orleans, Anjou, and even the entire France within these twenty days...

The Battle of Paris's suburbs began under such circumstances.

It's a little strange - no, it should be said that it is extremely rare. The highest commanders of both sides are women. Although Artoria is much better than Joan of Arc in terms of origin, reputation, and record. However, Joan of Arc has also demonstrated excellent tactical talent in the continuous battles in the past ten days. This series of battles has also condensed the soldiers who were originally just a group of thugs into an army.

But the test really began.

"I won't say anything like justice will win, because there is no reason. All I have to do is hold my own banner and do my best."

"Winning is just!"

So, the two girls walked onto the battlefield with this awareness.

The battle that determined the fate of France began.

Artoria still has the advantage in combat power, especially the heavy cavalry units under her command - a total of more than 500 heavy cavalry, including one hundred heavy plate armored knight guards, and more than 130 Celtic guards. Such a gorgeous lineup cannot be compared with the French in any way. In addition, both the Norman regular army and the Celtic regular army have extremely strong combat power - such an army has tens of thousands of people in Artoria's hands.

However, in addition to this, there are many French soldiers under Artoria. These soldiers are from local French nobles who surrendered to Artoria, with a total of more than 3,000 people. This army is a little...

Not at ease.

If nothing is taken, there will be a riot.

So Artoria "invites" all the nobles' wives and children to Paris and puts them under house arrest as hostages. This does make the French nobles disunited, but it can also ensure that these guys will not turn against each other on the battlefield.

As for Joan of Arc, although a lot of troops have been added in recent times, expanding the number of troops to more than 20,000, the combat effectiveness is still not as strong as that of the regular army under Artoria. Moreover, the organizational discipline is still very poor.

In order to make up for such shortcomings, Joan of Arc had to adopt this method: group them together according to the origins of the soldiers, and then select the most prestigious person as the commander of this small army, and give them a certain degree of command rights. Although the orders are not enough, at least there is a rough idea.

Of course, her behavior once again aroused the dissatisfaction of the French nobles. Under their strong protests, Joan of Arc's system was only implemented in the Volunteers, and did not affect the most elite thousands of professional soldiers. These professional mercenaries, professional soldiers, knights, and knight entourages were still controlled by these nobles.

Almost, that's the situation.

On September 2, 1002, the battle outside London began.

When the war just started, Artoria still looked down on her opponent very much, so she directly arranged her formation into a cone formation, with heavy cavalry as the forefront, light cavalry protecting both wings, and infantry located in the center and behind. Such an assault formation.

On the other hand, Joan of Arc used a wide front and multiple array defensive formation for such a formation. Nearly 20,000 light infantry were arranged into eight lines. Among the latter three lines, there was a Swiss halberd army hired from Switzerland. Joan of Arc used this as a counterattack force. Heavy cavalry and professional troops were arranged on both sides to protect the flanks.

The battle officially began around nine o'clock in the morning. Artoria ordered the entire army to assault immediately, hoping to end the battle as quickly as possible.

In this way, the battle entered a white heat at the beginning. Unlike Egil, who was hiding behind the scenes, Artoria took the lead, cursed armor on her body and bounced all the bows and arrows away, and then led more than 500 heavy cavalry into the first line.

Although the volunteers, inspired by Joan of Arc's spirit, fought to the death, their strength was too poor. The Volunteers, who had no armor and only had farm tools and wooden sticks, could not compete with the well-equipped knights. After being hit, they directly crushed them, and the Norman Death Assault Warriors and Celtic Thunderbolt-handed swordsman rushed over again and slashed and slashed and killed the enemy with a scattered formation.

In this way, this front did not even play a role, and was shattered by Artoria's army in just over a dozen minutes.

Then there was the second, the third, the fourth... Like a black torrent, Artoria could not be blocked at all. In a blink of an eye, the Frenchman's front had been broken through halfway. However, Artoria did not feel like she was blocked at all.

If this continues, the final outcome of the war will end with her complete victory as Artoria expected.

However, things are not as simple as the Celtic Queen imagines.

Standing on the hill behind the array, Joan of Arc saw the opponent's army breaking the array of troops in the computer room like a shadow blade, easily cutting butter, but his face remained unchanged. He just quietly raised his battle flag, red, white and blue, a flag symbolizing the freedom of France.

"It's impossible to end so simply."

After saying this, Joan of Arc's special effects instantly covered the entire battlefield - all French soldiers on the battlefield recovered instantly, and their morale and defense increased significantly, making the French array as indestructible as copper cast iron.

For a moment, Artoria suddenly felt that the enemy's resistance became much more violent. She could easily pick the enemy's weapons, but then cut several of them with one sword and then no longer had any more power. It would take double the strength to do so.

"Damn—what the hell is going on?!"
Chapter completed!
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