Beginning in 1428, the British besieged Orléans, France, which was the most important turning point in the Hundred Years' War between England and France. Using the word turn, it can be completely summarized that france has always lost in the first ninety years, and this time it is going to counterattack, and the key figure in the counterattack is Joan of Arc.
Orléans was in the center of France, when the north was already British territory and the south was the territory of Charles VII of France. Years of continuous failures have swept the prestige of the French king and the French nobles, and at this time, just when the peasant maiden Joan of Arc came to introduce herself, of course, they could not ask for it, and immediately gave her a set of knightly equipment, and the Orleans rescue team set off. Of course, Joan of Arc was not the leader of the ranks, and the nobles could not have come up with complete trust in this girl who had no military education.
What about the British side? Since Henry VI was too young to hold the titles of "double king" of both The King of England and The King of France, he had a regent in England and France to help him cook, both of whom were his uncles. The one who sat in England was the Duke of Gloucester, who led the LinkedIn army south to conquer all of France, the Duke of Bedford.
Bedford's tactics were very steady, and he knew how difficult Orleans was, after all, it was one of the two major forces in France at that time, the Duke of Burgundy and the Duke of Orléans. When the Duke of Burgundy chose to take Paris and hand it over to England for the sake of his family's dominance, the people of orléans are now hating the enemy outside the city with an unprecedented unity. They would not surrender easily, so the Duke of Bedford built numerous forts outside the city, intending to surround them until they were exhausted and unable to resist.
The people of the city are not unaware that the last time the important town of Rouen in northern France was besieged, more than 50,000 people starved to death at one time, and they were both desperate and hateful. At such a critical moment, a female knight dressed in shining silver armor, holding a large banner with Jesus written on it, a horse under her crotch, and a long sword in her hand arrived, and the reinforcements behind her arrived. The equipment of the other knights had been used for a while, even for a long time, but Joan of Arc's set was newly tailored for her, and with her appearance and the large flag in her hand, the real commander of the rescue team was also eclipsed.
Joan of Arc's first act in Orleans was to announce that when she was 12 years old, three angels came to her and asked her to lead the French to expel the English and help Charles VII to be crowned, such a "miracle" and "mission".
You know, for more than ninety years, the ordinary poor in France were not very interested in this "family affair" of the Loislu royal family, when the concept of lordship in France and The British was far greater than the concept of state and nation. In addition, in the Middle Ages, wars were generally the business of knights, and they did not have much to do with the peasant uncles in the manor, so the number of people in many battles was only a few thousand to tens of thousands. The arrival of Joan of Arc completely changed the nature of the war, and the previous defeat and retreat for the lords and nobles, now cloaked in a religious cloak, when almost everyone was a Christian, it was easy and willing to believe in Joan of Arc's "God-given mission".
In addition, the French, who had long been trampled by the British, had long suppressed the emotions of "local and foreign" for too long, and Joan of Arc was the one who led them to a concentrated outbreak. Why not "domestic and foreign"? Because the Middle Ages was the first criterion for the division of the territory of the lords, William I, Duke of Normandy, went to England to become king, Henry II, Earl of Anru, france, also went to England to become king, and his wife's Aquitaine also became the property of the King of England because of Henry II's personal succession. There are three large pieces of existence that are both French territory and British fiefdoms, plus other small places and the blood relations between the two royal families, you can't tell the difference, it is really messy.
The French felt that England had been occupied by the French nobility in the past, and the British felt that according to blood, they should inherit the French throne from the beginning of Edward III in English. Putting aside these subjective opinions, I think that England at that time was objectively, and indeed an island branch of French culture, and even England's own high-end language was French.
The two sides have been fighting for a century, and even the thickest "intimate" intersection is now time for complete tearing. Joan of Arc led his army to break the fortress of the Duke of Bedford one by one, and after the siege of Orleans was lifted, the Northern Expedition was successfully carried out, and a large area of northern territory was restored, becoming an eternal national hero in the eyes of the French.