In the 7th century, the great Western Roman Empire had fallen for more than 200 years, and Europe was replaced by a series of small states and kingdoms established by the Germanic peoples. ｗ?ｗ?ｗ?．?

In fact, although the Germanic people are called a nation, they are also divided internally, divided into dozens of ethnic groups, such as the East and West Goths, the Franks, the Lombards, Saxony, and Burgund, but after hundreds of years of war, the only surviving large kingdoms are Visigothic, Frankish, Saracen and other powerful countries.

Nowadays, the most powerful country, the Germanic state, is only the Franks, because it is the most unified.

The Germanic people were somewhat similar to the Mongols, and had a tradition of dividing the kingdom between the old kings, and when the old king died, the territory of the kingdom was divided equally among his sons, and a large kingdom was divided into a number of small kingdoms, whether they were Franks, Lombards, Saxonys, etc., all of which were united by a number of small kingdoms of the same origin, and had no nominal co-lord.

This kind of political decentralization has kept the whole of Western Europe in dark wars all the year round, the lords and nobles are vying for territory with each other, the king will sometimes swallow up his vassals with black hands, and the king is still very hostile to each other, in order to compete for the dominance of the whole country, the bloody war within the kingdom is even more cruel than the foreign war.

Territorial wars and bloody political struggles combined to form the early darkness of the Middle Ages.

The situation in the Franks is still a little different, since the Frankish king Clovis occupied the Gallic provinces of the Roman Empire in 554 AD, that is, the future France, Belgium, Luxembourg and other countries, and established the Frankish Merovingian Dynasty, the successive kings who have repeatedly divided their families have had to reward a large number of nobles in order to compete for the dominance of the entire kingdom and win the hearts and minds of the people, and have cultivated a strong aristocratic group.

In the seventh century AD, the three major kingdoms of the Franks, Ostracia, Neustria, and Burgundy, the king has basically become an ornament, and has completely lost the will to rule.

Seven years ago, Pepin, the minister of the Ostracia Palace, formed an alliance with the Protectorate of the Great Min Expeditionary Force that entered Rome, and the Pope canonized him as the king of the Franks, completely replacing the Merovingian dynasty, and after getting the name of the Holy See, Pepin defeated and annexed Neustralia and Burgundi in succession over the years, and reunited the Franks.

If according to the normal historical trend, it should be his grandson Pepin III who unified the whole of Francia, it was Pepin III and the Pope, and then his great-grandson, the most famous emperor in Western history, Charlemagne, the circle of hearts occupied almost all of Europe in one fell swoop, and was crowned by the Pope as the emperor of the Romans, nominally Charlemagne was the founding emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

After his death, Charlemagne's empire was divided into three kingdoms, the Kingdom of Eastern, Central and Western Francia, which later became the origin of France, Italy and Germany.

However, in this time and space, with the unexpected arrival of the Oriental Lion of Damin, the whole situation has become completely different, and the potential of the Franks has been opened up in advance with the arrival of Wang Xuance.

The sophisticated weapons and armor produced in Damascus were quickly imported into Europe like flowing water, which not only strengthened the Frankish army, but also made the economy of Damascus, Antioch, Edessa and other famous cities in West Asia recover rapidly, and made this Frankish lion show its sharp claws to its neighbors more than a hundred years earlier.

At the end of the ninth year of the Great Min Dynasty, in the cold of December, in eastern Bavaria, the Pannonian Plain was near the banks of the Danube on a large flat steppe.

The heavy snow in Eastern Europe covered the area with a thick layer of snow, and the horse's hooves were sunk into it, and it was very difficult to pull it out, and the hot air exhaled by the livestock in the freezing weather quickly turned into a cloud of white smoke, and if people were stuck in the snow, they could not pull out their feet for half a day.

However, in such a harsh and difficult environment, human beings still can't stop each other.

Leaning in front of a small wooden fort by the river, the messy tents were connected into a large area, dressed in various colors, and the chaotic infantry of various races carried all kinds of strange birds and beast totems, and under the loud reprimand of the three languages, like a bee out of the nest, rushed out of the camp in a chaotic manner.

These people were the Saxons, the Bavarians, and the Alvas, another branch of the Huns, on which they relied on this humble wooden fort, which also had a resounding name in later generations.

The capital of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the later Republic of Austria, Vienna!

Now northern Italy is already the territory of the semi-independent Protectorate of the Great Min Expeditionary Force, the Protectorate is nominally to protect the Pope, they have replaced the position of the Papal State in history, as a firm ally, the Franks will naturally not cross the Alps to attack Italy, and the Visigoths through the alliance with the expeditionary force Protectorate, is also considered an ally of the Upper Franks, so at the beginning the direction of the expansion of the Frankish Empire was Alamani and Saxony, that is, the direction of Germany in later generations.

In three years, the Frankish heavy infantry equipped with the sophisticated weapons of the Great Min conquered the East three times, and successively defeated Alamania, Saracen and the Bavarian kingdoms, this battle was the Frankish king Pepin led the main Frankish army, and continued to pursue southward after the destruction of Bavaria, and the remnants of the eastern countries, as well as the overlord Alva on the Pannonian plain.

Thirty thousand Saracens, forty thousand Bavarians, and sixty thousand Alvar-Slavs were opposite, almost exactly 100,000 of the elite army of the Frankish kingdom.

Unlike the other side of the army, which is either wearing a leather jacket or simply a pair of coarse cloth, some nobles are better equipped and can be equipped with iron armor and look chaotic, the lineup of the Frankish legion is much more neat, and the neatly arranged eighteen legions are all holding round wooden shields painted blue and painted with the Frankish symbol swallow, and the body is also equipped with scale armor from Damascus, with cotton scales on a blue background, spears and axes of uniform length in their hands, and snowy long knives. The well-made steel weapons were exceptionally cold under the rising sun.

It is worth mentioning that whether it is a shield, armor or a weapon, three words are inscribed in a conspicuous place.

Made in Damin!

This is probably the earliest trademark.

And beside the Frank King Piping, who was wearing a cloak and a diamond, a middle-aged Tang man with goose feathers and a heroic posture was also riding on a war horse in high spirits, keeping pace with the Frank King.

His face was red from the cold wind, and his beard was floating on his face in a mess, but looking at the multinational heavy infantry who were jumping up and down for time on the other side, knocking weapons with shields, and shouting insults, Wang Xuance's face was still full of smiles.

On the one hand, he supported the Frankish kingdom, and on the other hand, he also had to safeguard the interests of Damin, in three years, he only returned to Damin twice, and worked hard to create such a Northern Alliance of Damin, and now there are thirteen days for the New Year, and today's war can be regarded as the end of the war, and the beginning of the war.

The end is the end of his promise to the King of Min, as long as this battle is won, the army of the Frankish Kingdom can echo the east and west of the Great Min, and flank the Eastern Roman Empire and its Hun allies, and the beginning is the same, after this battle, the Great Min can also have a second decisive battle with Constantinople to challenge the dazzling Western emperor throne!

At this time, Pepin was already in his fifties, and in the Middle Ages he was already considered to have entered old age, with a wrinkled face and two sharp goatees with a treacherous appearance.

However, for Wang Xuance, who was a lot younger than him, the old fox still didn't dare to slack off, and asked Wang Xuance in a very respectful tone.

"Wang Xiang, do you think you can go to war?"

"You are the king of the Franks, you can call the shots!" Wang Xuance's words were still very humble, and he was already fluent in Frankish at this time.

What Da Min gave to the Franks was not just weapons, food, cloth, wine, almost all the trade of the Frankish Kingdom was contracted by Wang Xuance, and the nobles who followed him were also rich, if it weren't for Wang Xuance being a Fujian, it is estimated that his influence would even compete with him for the throne!

Fortunately, he is a Min man.

The Min people from the East, who have great strength, are so humble and polite all the time, which makes Pi Ping feel very comfortable in his heart, and after bowing slightly to Wang Xuance, the old fox suddenly pulled out his sword and handed it to his eldest son Sharmat.

This Sharmat, who was not as thin and short as his father, was muscular and burly, with a beard on his face, typical of the Frankish warrior, took the sword, immediately turned his horse's head, galloped in front of the eighteen legions in a neat line, raised his sword and shouted.

"God is above! The heretics in front of you are at the end of their rope, defeat them! Kill their men and rob their women and children as your slaves! Let their blood melt the ice of the Danube, God has already made it all fate! Come on! ”

With his shouting, the eighteen Frankish warriors of the Legion struck their shields with their glittering weapons, and with the rumbling of the snare drums, the blue Frankish hoplites rushed like a huge wave at the provocative but disorganized multi-ethnic coalition army that lay in front of them.

For a moment, the Frank axe in front of the formation fell like a raindrop............