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Chapter 1286 Weapon Expo

The siege north of Plymouth began.

To be precise, it was just a fight at the beginning of the battle. Since the Beiyang cavalry entered the city, even if there were only a few hundred cavalry, it still greatly contributed to the prestige of the merchant soldiers in the city.

Merchants and sailors need the army to strengthen their courage. They can do some big things by themselves, but if there are more professional talents, people will feel more at ease. Wang Jinzhong, the sumo instructor of the guard station, was elected as Captain Zhongxian based on his status.

As the so-called specialization in the art industry is like, although a takeaway boy who can't drive an excavator is not a good pentakill player, people still think it is very powerful when they hear the word power leveling.

In the past, soldiers from the besieged battalion came out to fetch water braggingly carrying buckets to the wells outside the city to fetch water carelessly.

The people outside the city were also very courageous. Although the siege weapons were insufficient, they felt that they could do it when they saw that the city did not dare to attack.

It's different now, there are regular troops in the city, and they're cavalry.

Although the cavalry guarding the city is a nonsense thing, but they really need professional soldiers to strengthen their courage. This city wall is actually a good-looking one despite its high build-a vertical city wall, not even a moat, just a small canal. Keep a chicken city.

In fact, we can’t blame the roughness of the city wall. Everything has its proper function. When the city wall was built, there was no shadow of artillery in the war. The sloped city wall can better defend against the attack of catapults. Guard against catapults?
It’s not an aristocratic castle. As the northern wall of a harbor city, the most likely enemies it faces are bandits, robbers, and peasant uprisings, so the enemies it needs to guard against are ladders and cloud ladders. Compared with the straight up and down walls, it is more difficult for ladders to climb up ——Ordinary peasant uprisings don't have any trebuchets.

Regardless of the slope of the city wall, the sailor grandfather who guards the city is now straight, can you watch your besieging soldiers wandering around with a wooden barrel?He stretched out his bow and flew over with an arrow. If one arrow missed, he fired another arrow to vent his annoyance that he had been cutting the shaft of the arrow day and night since the siege of the city.

The other party also understood, dropped the barrel and ran away. After a while, a knight lord sitting on horseback came, leading a dozen or so mobs with longbows under him, and pointed at the top of the wall to shoot. .

Thus began the English's first siege of Pooley County.

The longbows below the city shoot, and the hard bows above the city shoot together. The two sides come and fight, and the defenders inside the city also come up to the city, and the siege troops outside the city also march down the city. Pitchfork took the opportunity to watch the excitement, and under the orders of the knights and followers, they pushed the Fran's machine guns, catapults, and carried shells and freshly hewn boulders, and the entire camp immediately moved.

The siege troops were divided into two groups. The Earl of Plymouth believed that his troops were lured by the Ming army in the city to attack the city, but he had no ability to stop the battle. He imagined the Irish Ming army that had captured Newquay.

Except for those who had already fought in the city, all the rest of the troops knelt down under his leadership to pray and boost morale before the battle. The nobles selected veterans who had experienced battles under their command to form a siege team, and together with the ten troops who had fled from the west, Several knights mixed together to form a siege team, ready to deal with the most difficult battle.

The Earl hoped that this battle would go smoothly, but their Francois cannons were too small to pose a threat to the city walls. At most, they could only attack the crossbowmen on the wooden towers above the city. The task of blasting the city walls still fell to the camp On the two catapults that can throw fifty catties of boulders.

The biggest problem is that the siege period is still short, and the number of stone bullets carved by them with manpower is too small, and it may be difficult to blast through the city wall.

The city was also being mobilized urgently. Li Changlai mobilized Josepha and Alan Muming, and transferred [-] county Zhongyi soldiers from the city to defend the city with [-] sailors.

The shortage of troops in the city is just one of them. What Li Changlai is most afraid of is not the enemy army outside the city, but the people inside the city who take advantage of the enemy army to attack the city and rebel. In the city, the Beiyang cavalry Baihu, Alan Muming, and Joseph Hua jointly led the caravan sailors, and the Alan infantry guarded the main roads in the city-mainly the road from the city to the Mingshang Guild Hall.

In Li Changlai's eyes, the Mingshang Guild Hall is a more reliable place to defend than this broken city wall. The wall is not only strong, the surrounding buildings of the guild hall are covered with artillery, and there is also a small moat. You can also hide in the fort and hold on for ten days and a half months.

After all, it is difficult to put siege weapons in the city.

But that was just a bad way to save their lives. What they are fighting for now is to defend the city. Only by defending the city can they take a high look when the court distributes benefits in the future-no one wants to be a merchant. If you want to be a merchant, There was no need to instigate this rebellion.

At least for Li Changlai, this place is not bad. If the imperial court wants to set up a Xuanwei Department here, Xuanwei makes him more suitable for this position than anyone else.

This hope can bring him the belief to stick to the city.

However, the catapult outside the city threw the first huge stone bomb into the city in a parabola, and accurately smashed Wang Jinzhong's grass arrows that he usually shoots to pieces?Li Changlai on the city wall was just like those barbarian soldiers hiding around with all kinds of weapons, with no distracting thoughts.

On April 11, the [-]th year of Wanli, the North City Wall of Puli County was able to hold a four-dynasty Zhengde, Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli, and the World's Cold and Hot Weapons Expo.

The people carried all the weapons they could find.

European slaughtering knife, spear, spear halberd, blacksmith hammer, short sword, long sword, rapier, gauntlet sword, half-handed sword, two-handed greatsword, hook sickle, small axe, agricultural sickle, military sickle, two-handed battle axe.

Ming-style Jiewrist Knife, Short-handled Simple Knife, Fish Head Knife, Yanling Knife, Long-handled Simple Knife, Guan Knife, Spear, Beiyang Sailor Axe, Sailor Serrated Knife, Mongolian Scimitar, Guduo, Pumpkin.

There are also Japanese swords, Malay swords, and Korean ring swords.

English Shortbow, Longbow, Tannenberg Hook-Fire, Long-barreled Hussite, Matchlock with Stock, Matchlock without Stock, Matchlock with Old Crossbow Action, New Spanish Light and heavy arquebus.

Small shoot bow, big shoot bow, one-handed small crossbow, two-man crossbow, Hongwu firecracker, Yongle firecracker, fast gun, three-eyed gun, bird gun, Tanegashima, and even two sailors homemade hundred tigers running together, Firearms are mostly three-eyed guns and Tanegashima.

Whether it is the Yi Ding Baojia with their own weapons or the sailors who earn their living at sea, the long-prepared defense battle has finally begun. At this moment, everyone has no choice but to fight.

Li Changlai shouted and ordered the sailors to gather the four Francois machine guns on the city around him, passed the enemy infantry brigade pushing the ladder forward, and aimed at the huge catapult in the distance.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)