However, there are always some things that cannot be settled by civilization, and some bloodshed and sacrifice are inevitable.

Ai Hayasaka believes that some things need to be said to the Pope face to face, so she must go to the Vatican as a guest.

Chapter 344 Surrender of the Kingdom of Sardinia

On the hillside, next to the village, it is enough to overlook the French flag flying.

The blond girl took sips of the ruby-like wine.She looked down with a playful smile, and saw that tens of thousands of Italian troops disarmed one after another, gave up resistance, and became prisoners of the French army.

When the [-] troops who drove straight into France arrived, the small country named San Marino surrendered immediately, together with the [-] Italian troops who came to support it.

After the Battle of Marengo, the Kingdom of Sardinia had no resistance at all, and it cobbled together a reinforcement army of 30,000 people, but it surrendered without a fight.Hayasaka Ai thinks that this is probably what the Italian army should look like.

"It is said that this wine is the wine that was cellared when San Marino was founded. It is about 50 years old, and it tastes really good." Joan of Arc shook the wine glass slowly, "However, I wonder why Italy allows San Marino to be a country like China, why? Come not to taste the wine of conquest."

"However, after seeing the performance of these defeated troops, I understand that they are incapable of unifying Italy, that's all."

Asuna held a bottle of wine, touched it with Ai Hayasaka, and then sipped the wine.

Her boozing posture is refreshing and sharp, and of course the general must celebrate his victory on the battlefield.

After drinking it in one gulp, the chestnut-haired girl cursed angrily:

"All 140,000 people are disarmed, and none of them are men."

Ai Hayasaka's eyes lit up.

"Jeanna, you may not have heard of this poem. This poem was written by a concubine of a fallen dynasty in a distant eastern country. Her fate was taken away by the enemy just like the fallen dynasty. It's ridiculous, don't they know As long as you resist, can it be turned into a bargaining chip after failure, stupid!"

"I heard that Marshal Stacia strictly punished the troops that surrendered, and that the defeated troops who were captured after resisting would still be treated well... Surrendering without a fight is not worthy of respect!"

"Hmph, after they fail, their wives, children, and relatives will all be insulted, and they will also face the same fears as themselves. Sometimes, I sympathize with the people behind those weak people, and they regret it."

Boom!

While the two were talking, they heard gunshots from down the hillside. It was the execution of old, weak, sick and disabled Italian prisoners who could only be dragged down.

In order to get a decent international image, it was not the French who did it, but the Italians who handed the guns to clean up the door.

Their guns aimed at the enemy trembled, but when they turned to their compatriots, they unswervingly pulled the trigger.Perhaps, the Kingdom of Sardinia cannot be said to have a "nation". This artificially cohesive body has neither a country nor a people, and has no sense of identity at all.

The land of the Apennine Peninsula once gave birth to the great Roman Empire, but now there are only the long-term divisions of the Kingdom of Sardinia, San Marino, and Naples. Italy, which has never been unified, has long lost its backbone and can only be beaten.

It is simply a luxury to expect them to fight a "Battle of Paris".

The world stage in the 18th century has become popular and tricks are emerging. Human beings need a united centripetal force to resist the tide of the times together, and those groups that are alienated from morality are destined to be eliminated.

The development of history is very strange, the more seemingly civilized the era, the more people need a larger scale of unity...

"Help, help—"

Suddenly, a girl's voice interrupted her thoughts.

who is it!

Asuna and Hayasaka Ai looked at each other, and they immediately got up and ran towards the direction where the voice came from.

It took only a few steps to arrive. This was originally a small village close to San Marino. Because of the war between the French army and the Italian army, they have closed their homes. How could the frightened villagers take the initiative to cause trouble?

As a result, the scene in front of her almost made Asuna draw her sword and march on the spot!

It was two French soldiers who were dragging a pretty girl. The girl lowered her head and cried, plowing blood and soil marks on the ground with her hands. Her messy hair was full of dirt, but she was still being dragged forward. There was no doubt about it. The strength of the soldiers will peel off the girl's scalp.Farther away, a dozen or so French soldiers watched silently, some with smiles, some with disdain, and some with indifference at all.

However, as long as these soldiers stand here, the villagers dare not take any action. They quietly peeped at the scene through the windows, with only deep fear and despair in their eyes.They are thinking that maybe the wife and daughter in the family will be the next unlucky ones, but there is no way...

"stop!"

Asuna yelled loudly, and the magical aura entangled in it immediately caused the two French soldiers to fall to pieces.

"marshal!"

"Your Excellency the Archon."

Seeing the presence of the two supreme commanders, the rest of the watching soldiers straightened their backs and saluted, thinking that they might not be able to escape punishment this time.

"Are you okay?" Asuna didn't bother to pay attention to the group of beasts, and ran over to pick up the poor girl. Her palms emitted green fluorescence to heal the wounds on the girl's body, and even the turned-up fingernails gradually closed.

Hayasaka loves not to be angry and arrogant, looking around makes all the soldiers present feel as if they have fallen into an ice cellar, and the two perpetrators even forgot to breathe, breaking out in cold sweat.

"You are not the guards of the Knights of the Blood Alliance, so our requirements are not strict, but the military law that prohibits looting of local people is also common. Stacia will not teach you, I will come!"

The force field was released with anger, the bones of the suppressed soldiers rattled, and their bodies ached.

"After the war, I don't care if you go to brothels, go on dates, or find women, but please be quiet at other people's houses. It is clearly stipulated that you are not allowed to disturb the people, hand in the spoils, and maintain peace. That is the iron law. I am too lazy Let me tell you the truth, military law is for enforcement, everyone goes to the military police in two lines to receive punishment.”

"You are limited to [-] seconds. If you exceed the time limit, you will be charged with a higher crime. Let's go—"

With an order, more than a dozen French soldiers ran desperately in formation, and disappeared before their eyes in a few breaths.

Ai Hayasaka thought that King Arthur's knights rarely had such a thing. The army was destined to decline in quality from being too elite to a standardized one. French soldiers still needed ideological work, and discipline was also the soft power of the army.

Joan of Arc used the Battle of Paris to give honor and pride to this army, but they still have traces of the colonial era, with the genes of robbers.

Only by treating it with an iron fist can it be eradicated.

"Jeanna, we should go back."

Asuna stood up slowly, ignoring the girl whose eyes were still terrified after being cured by her, and the terrified gaze from the windows, and the sound of children crying in her ears.

She knows that it is only natural to go to the rescue by herself and has nothing to do with changing the image of the army.In France, this red and white iris military uniform represents trust, but in Italy it only represents the footprints of the devil.

"Well, let's go." Ai Hayasaka nodded and left together.

In an episode, the two commanders of the French army agreed to a common answer, which is destined to have a profound impact in the future.

Chapter 345 Crusade

Along the way, the two had nothing to say.

Hayasaka Ai didn't take the initiative to break the atmosphere. She felt that Asuna's reaction seemed a little too aggressive. She seemed to have a killing intent towards those soldiers who violated military discipline just now, and she wished she could draw her sword and chop those two soldiers.

Of course, Ai Hayasaka would not blink even if someone died.Yu Li, the marshal has almost absolute judicial power over a soldier who violated discipline during the marching war.In love, how can the life of a mere stranger compare to Asuna!

She didn't ask the reason for the extreme, just waited, Hayasaka Ai thought the girl would tell herself the answer.

This is not a gut feeling, but a judgment of emotional intelligence.If a person's recalled actions are shown in front of a friend, she is likely to express an explanation spontaneously.

After a long time, as expected, it was Asuna who spoke first:

"There is a beautiful island in my friend's hometown, but it was occupied by the enemy. They robbed the local girls, and they blatantly knocked the girls unconscious while walking on the street and took them back. Forgive me. That's not soldiers, that's just bandits, they're not here to protect the island, they're stationed just to be wary of their enemies."

"Once when I was young, my friends and family went on a trip to the beautiful island where the most troops were stationed. I lived in a hotel and saw a few soldiers carry a girl away from an ordinary private room. She lived alone, and she cried. She struggled to no avail...my friend didn't finish it because her father covered her eyes."

"When I grew up, my friend went to the country of the army. The more I learned about it, the more I felt that the fate of the island was stagnant forever... So, the behavior of those soldiers I saw just now reminded me of the scene I witnessed when I was a child. I almost kill them..."

Hayasaka Ai listened silently.

Asuna regards her as an NPC who is secretly telling real stories, but she doesn't know that under the appearance of Joan of Arc is also a bright soul.

"Those enemies, I can help you drive them away."

"Hey, I'm talking about my friend's experience..."

"I'm not kidding."

The chestnut-haired girl smiled, and replied to Jeanne's domineering speech, "Jeanna, just because you are here now, can you still go to help such a distant place, that is comparable to a distance of a world."

Although Jeanne's character is unquestionable, her determination has never wavered and she can be trusted.But Rangna is just an NPC in Xingyue online games, a saint in a different world, an NPC can never touch the other side of the real world.

The New Century Game Company has conquered technology for so long, and the only way is to transform NPCs into character card players, so that they can go to reality in another way like rebirth.

However, in that case, my Rangna would no longer be that heroic country girl with a beautiful smile.Asuna thought to herself.

She nodded, "Anyway, I remember your words, thank you Jeanna."

Ai Hayasaka didn't make a sound anymore, of course she knew what Asuna was thinking, it was nothing more than Joan of Arc being an NPC who couldn't go to reality!

However, you wouldn't think that the person you knew from the beginning was "Ai Hayasaka" instead of Jeanne Darc.

But Ai Hayasaka will not explain further, otherwise it would not be self-destruction!She just gave Asuna a guarantee, and it will take a long time to reveal her identity.For example, Yuuki Asuna doesn't need to be used as a window to extract information from New Century Corporation... right?

This idea is too trivial!

Ai Hayasaka felt that it might be a bit too much for her to use it so clearly, but it would be better to have the opportunity to "responsible" the girl more, at least let her have a satisfactory game experience in the Europa Universalis dungeon.

The first in the whole server decided to take the fifth in the whole server.

Asuna and Hayasaka Ai had their own ideas, so they returned to the French garrison.

Here, [-] imposing soldiers have assembled.The flags cover the sky, the horses are galloping, and what is trampled on is the land of San Marino.

"Your Excellency the Consul, we have captured the head of San Marino."

Two heavily armed soldiers pushed and shoved a blue-faced, white-haired middle-aged man. His bright clothes were already torn, and he looked in a state of embarrassment. He didn't want the head of a country at all.

Seeing the majestic Joan of Arc, his terrified eyes didn't even dare to look at each other, and his submissive posture was very humble.

"In 1243, San Marino established a system of co-governance by two consuls, enacted written laws with a modern spirit, and became the first republic in history. You were once oppressed by invaders, and were appointed by the Holy See of the Vatican to rule for a long time. Recently, The first unification was also in 1740, it has been a long time..."

Ai Hayasaka spoke in a tone like an old friend. The white-haired middle-aged man raised his head with a look of surprise. He did not expect that the first ruler of France knew so much about the history of his small country.

What he didn't know was that Ai Hayasaka had always required herself to have a full understanding of the occupied territory, even if she was marching, she had to carry a thick stack of historical atlases.

I don't understand, how can we talk about governance?

"France is also a republic, and we have a close kinship!"

"Yes, yes, you are right, Your Excellency Joan of Arc."

"However, the French are hostile to the Italian invaders. They can't tell the justice of the Republic of San Marino. Maybe our soldiers will want to destroy your country without discipline. In fact, I just quelled such an incident. , it can be seen that the domestic pressure makes it difficult for me to do it..."

It was obvious that French soldiers were trying to rob civilian girls, but Ai Hayasaka became a political bargaining chip as soon as she opened her mouth, putting pressure on the other party.

The head of San Marino was sweating profusely, and he quickly asked, "Please hold your hands high and don't destroy this ancient republic."

"How can you speak to me, Your Excellency? The people of France have the final say on this matter." Ai Hayasaka's casual words almost scared the other party to death, but the next moment the conversation changed, "But I can make my own decisions. San Marino becomes a province of France. The merger of the republics is the best!"

"Yes, that's it, I will preside over the completion of the procedure."

Things are going well.Said the girl's heart.

I will destroy your country as soon as I open my mouth, but you refuse to agree.Let me say that it is better for everyone to join together and live together. It will be much easier for you to agree.

Joan clapped her hands and said loudly, "Guys, hurry up and you can still catch up with Christmas."

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like