The Rise of the European Emperor

In just one day, England's 20,000 troops landed extremely quickly. In fact, these 20,000 people were busy training to land on the beach with rafts some time ago. After practicing for so long, practice makes perfect in this actual combat.

After landing, the army quickly surrounded the fortress of Calais and cut off all roads leading to the interior of France. Even, the British army sent a large number of soldiers to destroy all the bridges leading to the interior of France, and also dug many roads, hindering the advance of the French reinforcements as much as possible.

Subsequently, the army began to attack the city of Calais. In order to divert the attention of the French defenders from the sewer in the northwest corner, the British army did not attack the northwest corner of Calais when launching a feint attack, but placed the direction of the feint attack on the four city gates to draw the enemy's attention. They are all attracted to the city gate tower.

Then, the British army feigned an attack while waiting for the rain...

Rain is possible near Calais in the next few days, according to projections by the London Court Astronomer. Once it rains, it's time to attack Calais together...

As for Paris, France, Francois I and the ministers quickly calmed down after the initial panic. Because, good news came from the direction of Calais-the British army did not capture the Calais fortress immediately!

For a very strong fortress like Fort Calais, the most dangerous time is actually at the beginning. Because, if there is no defense against a surprise attack, no matter how strong the fortress is, it is easy to fall.

In addition, the Parisian rulers and ministers were worried that there might be a secret passage left by the British in the Fortress of Calais, or that there were British troops lurking in the city, so they should help open the city gate.

However, two days later, the city of Calais still has not fallen. This shows that the British army has no backup, and the Calais fortress is still safe.

If there is no secret passage or if the inside should wait for a follower, the French ruling and opposition parties agree that the British will not be able to capture the fortress of Calais within a few months. So, they began to call up the army with confidence...

The French army is different from other countries. The German regional army has been mercenaryized, and the soldiers are full-time full-time soldiers. The French feudal enfeoffment system participated more heavily. The 15,000 French knights usually do not serve in Paris. The troops stationed in Paris at ordinary times are mainly mercenaries composed of civilians. And those knights who have fiefs are usually in their own manors. Only after receiving the summoning order from the royal family will they gather in Paris.

If they have nothing to do, they usually like to stay in a big city like Paris. But, now is the spring plowing period. Most of these knights with their own manors help or supervise the cultivation of the land at home, and they are basically not in Paris.

Therefore, it will take time for Francois I to summon reinforcements. As for using the Paris garrison to reinforce Calais? Impossible, the king's life is not important? Ten Calais fortresses are not worth the lives of the king and ministers in Paris...

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Francois I and the ministers generally judged that the Calais fortress could be held for at least a few months. Therefore, when the knights from all over the place were summoned, they were not required to come immediately, but a two-week assembly period was left.

In the eyes of the French ministers, the gang of English thieves are by no means opponents of the powerful French knights on land. Don't look at the English besieging Calais Huanshi, but as long as the French knight army arrives, they will be able to quickly defeat the gang of English gangsters.

The fact is true, if the English cannot capture the fortress of Calais before the French knights arrive, there is only one way to escape. Because the English army is indeed no match for the French knights in the wild. The advantage of longbowmen and so on was only a few decades ago. Since the pig iron ingot technology, the French knight's plate armor English longbow has been difficult to shoot through. After all, the strength of pig iron plate armor is much higher than that of sponge iron plate armor. Moreover, the French army is in Paris, and there are still dozens of artillery pieces that have not been drawn out for use...

However, that is generally the case. However, the current situation is unusual...

Three days later, the rainy day predicted by the British court astronomers finally arrived...

In the evening, it began to rain moderately in Calais. Most of the torches at the head of the city of Paris were extinguished. Only in buildings with a roof like the gatehouse, the torches were not extinguished by the heavy rain.

At this time, near the corner of the northwest city wall, several figures came...

They were the spies of the Beihai Kingdom who were responsible for corroding the iron gates of the sewer with aqua regia. They brought aqua regia that had just been prepared, and gas masks to prevent the release of poisonous gas during the aqua regia corrosion of the iron gates.

This is the second-generation gas mask. The first-generation gas mask is made of soft elephant skin. Although the effect is good, it is not particularly good. The second-generation gas mask is made of vulcanized natural rubber produced in Cuba, and the effect is better.

In the middle of the night, there was no person on duty on the wall of the barracks that supervised the iron gates of the sewer a few dozen yards away. After all, they couldn't even use torches.

But the French are still vigilant. About every half hour, the barracks will send people to climb the wall in the rain. Although you can't use a torch to look after it, you can use your ears to hear if there is any movement at the iron gate of the sewer. If someone smashes the door and picks the lock, there must be a loud noise...

However, they miscalculated...

There were four spies sent by Beihai this time, and two of them were responsible for corroding the large iron lock of the iron gate with aqua regia in glass bottles. As for the other two, one is responsible for holding a large black cloth umbrella, protecting the others from the rain, and at the same time, blocking the light...

After all, the two people responsible for corroding iron locks with aqua regia cannot discredit and corrode iron locks...

But they did not use torches or candles for lighting, so they could be easily spotted by the French army. They used a very precious lighting device - night pearl...

Although the luminous pearl is very expensive, Marin specially approved a luminous pearl for this operation in order to facilitate the spies' operations.

Before setting off, the four of them irradiated the night pearl by candlelight for an hour. Then, this luminous pearl can keep glowing for several hours.

Although the light was a bit weak, not as bright as candlelight, it was enough to deal with the big iron lock under the black cloth cover.

Covered in black cloth, in front of the sewer iron gate in the northwest corner of Calais, two Beihai spies were sitting on a small bench. Pour aqua regia on the iron lock...

What needs to be pointed out is that these four guys, whether they are pouring aqua regia, or holding an umbrella or holding a night pearl, are all wearing second-generation rubber gas masks...

Aqua regia poured on the iron lock, making a corroding sound of "chi chi". But the sound is very small, and it is raining at night, even if it is on the top of the city, it cannot be heard...

In the process, a group of French patrols patrolled the city wall in the rain. They were in case the English climbed the wall in the middle of the night, but they didn't hear the faint "chi chi" sound from the iron gate of the sewer below the city...

With the weak "chi chi" sound as weak as the bubbling of Coke, the large iron lock of the iron gate of the sewer gate in Calais was corroded little by little...