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Chapter 1402 Choice
Winchester fought intermittently until evening.

Both sides were red-eyed. Robert Dudley retreated three times and regrouped three times. Until the evening, none of the two Spanish legion-style formations under his command were wiped out by the Ming army.

The Puli Camp on the Ming side has been jumping between recklessness and collapse.

Since the two sides hadn't started fighting seriously, they wanted to flee when the shells hit the side of the army formation. Then they saw that their own side had more guns, and felt that they had the upper hand. They didn't need officers to form a team, so these longbowmen went back to stand on their own.

As soon as they stood up, the whole team of knight masters on the opposite side charged. It was no surprise that these free people still couldn't forget the fear of being dominated by the nobles, without any hesitation, they began to retreat again.

In the middle of the retreat, the soldiers of the Muye camp stabilized their positions and used the tiger squatting cannon to push the knight master to the ground until his legs were swinging. Pistols are not aimed at people.

Puli Ying became stiff again, one by one, like gods possessed, holding a small hunting knife and stabbing the downed knight to death, and then followed Mu Yeying to charge with blood on his face.

Mu Yeying is really brave. As early as the time when they were still playing with stone tools, they dared to fight hand-to-hand with Spanish legionaries with their longbows. Now the shotguns are replaced by cannons, and each of them carries a ring-shouldered steel knife and goes down the mountain like a tiger. escape.

The musketeers who fled in all directions did not forget to carry their heavy muskets to smash the Puli camp to pieces.

They were routed again.

This defeat became the reason why the battle, which could have ended at noon, continued until the evening.

Many people were overthrown by the musketeers with wounds all over their bodies, and the musketeers who were in a hurry to escape didn't care about killing them. In the end, many recruits who had never been on the battlefield before were frightened after being severely beaten. I was so dizzy that I got up and even forgot which direction my Chinese army camp was in.

After all, the Puli Camp soldiers looked the same as the British soldiers. They were in farm clothes, and many British soldiers were also in farm clothes. When they saw someone fleeing, they thought it was their own and ran away.

But at the beginning, no one on both sides felt that something was wrong.

The Muye camp was tired from fighting, they were carrying a lot of heavy loads, and they had big crossbows and tigers squatting. Seeing the enemy retreat and chasing them for two symbolic steps, the battalion commander who was worried about the soldiers' strength ordered them to regroup and take a short rest.

Ying Ming's cavalry horses were also tired. They basically changed horses during the battle. Now that they had won a battle and wiped out the enemy cavalry, they were too busy collecting the horses that were running around, and didn't bother to pursue them.

Not to mention the three Puli Battalions who have no sense of presence in the battle.

It wasn't until Lord Robert Dudley began to regroup that something was wrong—his troops lost a lot in battle, and everyone knew that.

But with a small number of people, it seems that there are more soldiers after fighting all morning.

Only when the tide ebbs can we know who is swimming naked, and only when the small company is separated can we know who has sneaked in.

A total of more than 700 people squatted and panted leisurely on the British army's position, and suddenly looked up and found that they had gone to the wrong place, and the atmosphere was extremely embarrassing for a while.

They were unprepared, neither were the remnants of England's defeated generals, and they fought in a mess. On the other side of the battlefield, they were thinking about whether to camp on the spot in the afternoon or retreat to the trenches for protection. Suddenly, they saw the carrot army fighting against themselves. Get up, and quickly mobilize the armed forces to persuade the fight.

It was only when they got closer that they realized that a troop that was being chased and beaten was running for their lives in their own direction, and the leader was running and turning his head while clutching his helmet.

Co-authored and broke into the enemy army, it seems that he underestimated his army in the past.

In this way, the new battle continued until the evening of the same day. In the end, Yingming’s troops were exhausted. Some soldiers seriously injured the enemy after an assassination or slashing, and at the same time they fell on the ground. The strength to get up again.

In the end, Ying Ming didn't know how many people from the defeated Winchester Army fled back to the city, but he estimated that the number was less than [-].

Of course, he was also very sure that his subordinates did not kill so many people. During the battle in the afternoon, many enemy soldiers threw away their weapons and armor, and ran away to other places.

There are still many people alive on the battlefield. After a battle, three of the tiger squatting cannons were damaged by high-intensity fire, and the other six were deformed. There are crooked wounded soldiers everywhere in the field.

Ying Ming's troops had neither the energy to make up for the wounds nor the energy to revive them. They must take care of their wounded men first, and wait for the wounded soldiers under their own troops to settle down before sending people to collect the wounded enemy soldiers on the battlefield.

Professional fighters such as knights and heavy infantry are not counted. Other soldiers can clearly make Ying Ming feel that many of them have not received decent military training at all, nor do they have a high will to fight.

The most likely reason why they stayed on the battlefield was not because they wanted to fight to the end, but because they hadn't had time to figure out where to run, or just started to run after thinking about where to run, and were injured by the Ming army's Sanzi Tiewan , can't run.

For people like this, Ying Ming asked the soldiers to tear off their clothes, and bandage the wounds as much as possible. Of course, no medicine was used. After that, he told them that as long as they were no longer against the Ming army, they would be free.

With the weapons and armor on, you can go wherever you want, and you can get some land to the west of Winchester, but more people choose to go to the east of Winchester, where their home is.

Before Ying Ming could decide whether to sleep in the camp of the Chinese army protected by the trenches or go to Portsmouth in the south, the city of Winchester sent him an invitation and declared its surrender.

It took some time to find out that Robert Dudley had fought life and death outside the city for a whole day, made three defeats and three whole armies, and won the respect of Ying Ming, but failed to win the respect of the Winchesters. sympathy.

When Mr. Carrot approached Winchester with hundreds of carrot troops he had lost, the defenders in the city closed the city gate and asked him to return to London, not allowing him to enter the city at all.

The people in the city were not prepared to stand with Robert and fight an extremely difficult battle for the queen.

They simply drove away Robert, who wanted to enter the city to rest, and turned their heads to surrender to the Ming army.

In fact, when Yingming and Robert were fighting outside the city, a small peasant uprising broke out inside the city.

The declaration of the Ming army’s commitment to the people of England has already spread to every corner of England with Puli’s printed newspapers, and even spread to Scotland in the north. Everyone knows that the enemies of the Ming army are the royal family, nobles and wealthy businessmen riding on people’s heads. not the people of England.

Not only are they not enemies with the people, but they will also reward them for not shooting at them. At least in the tabloids that spread everywhere, they should clearly promise that loyal people may be granted land or the status of hereditary nobles.

Of course, no one believes in newspapers, and even if people wanted to, there is no ground for them.

But Winchester is different. The main force of the army is defeated. When the lord returns to the city, he will definitely mobilize wealthy businessmen to invest and hire them to defend the city.

There are not many choices left for them.

Two options are obvious. Is the Ming army, which wiped out hundreds of nobles in one battle, more terrifying, or is it better to bully the nobles and wealthy businessmen in the city?
Even if they were lucky enough to win the Ming army, they would only get a few days' wages; but if they won the city's nobles and surrendered the city, if what the tabloids said was true—at least they would get much more than helping Robert .

People have a steelyard in their hearts, and they all know how to choose.

(End of this chapter)