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Chapter 1405
The queen made an inevitable concession to the war, but this concession was not to Ming, but to the Scottish neighbors in the north.

Earl Robert Dudley was defeated, and the remnants of the army were gathered all the way back to London, and the court immediately activated a backup plan.

That is to repair Scotland, which has deteriorated due to the Treaty of Edinburgh, and join forces with the two countries to fight against powerful enemies.

The way to repair the relationship is to release the imprisoned English throne disputer Mary Stuart, and in accordance with Elizabeth's wishes, 'consider' choosing Mary Stuart's son, the ninth King James of Scotland, as the heir to the throne.

Promote the union of England and Scotland.

Submitted with this proposal, the queen left dangerous London under the protection of the earl in the name of hunting, and went north.

London, the capital of England, houses the treasures preserved for hundreds of years since the establishment of the royal family, as well as countless urban heritages.

The person who submitted the two internal and external strategies was the queen's personal staff, Yang Gao from Ming Dynasty.

In view of the fact that he persuaded the nobles of the English court with the story of ancient Chinese lips and teeth, he was appointed by the queen as a diplomat and went to the north to persuade the Scottish nobles.

These two strategies, although unacceptable to England at the moment, are indeed the easiest and most effective plans to implement.

England is not without soldiers, but the troops are in the north, and the lack of finances cannot mobilize a large army to resist the Ming army. As for Mary Stuart, the disputer of the English throne, it is not so worrying.

Only when England exists, can the king of England exist. If England is gone, what is the so-called English throne?

In other words, as long as England exists, no matter how many contenders for the throne the queen has, at least it will be much better than the current situation.

Needless to say, the plan to persuade the queen to leave the city, the city of London has an impregnable city defense and a large number of town defenders, and citizens who are willing to participate in the defense of the city.

But this cannot guarantee that the Ming army will not break through the city. If the queen is still here, once the siege occurs, the Ming army will spare no effort to siege and attack the city. The country is destroyed.

The Queen stays in London, the country is in crisis, and London is also in crisis.

Fear of right and wrong at a time of crisis, just like the story of Chong Er who was born outside and Shen Sheng who died inside. If the queen goes north, London will be heavily fortified and the Ming army will not be able to attack for a long time. Will stay long.

People repeatedly speculated about possible problems with Yang Gao’s proposal, but in the end they found no problems—they trusted London’s city defense very much, and they really believed that Yang Gao’s analysis was correct.

London, which has a 200-year fortified history and has seven main city gates, several water gates, three bridge gates, three checkpoints, two bridge gates, and a fort gate, cannot be breached by the army from the outside.

Once the siege begins, the biggest confidant worry is the dissidents in the city, and they will really affect the queen's safety.

When the queen embarked on the "North Hunting" road, the Queen's cousin, the second Baron Howard, and the Minister of State Charles Howard stayed behind as the highest military officer in the city of London.

Baron Charles Howard gave the queen a grand send-off, trying to make it really look like the queen was off hunting in the north.

On the other hand, he has [-] city guards and [-] field noble guards who have experienced wars. At the same time, he also used the treasury property obtained from the sale of public bonds by the palace to recruit [-] conscripts who are willing to participate in guarding the capital.

They rushed to make defensive equipment, hoarded a large amount of food, moved all the people outside the city into the city, and blocked all the wells outside the city with stones.

He is going to use all means to block the Ming army's offensive, drag Ying Ming until he runs out of ammunition and food, and has no choice but to retreat.

This is not the first time Baron Charles Howard has been at war, having led his army north to suppress rebellious Catholic nobles 16 years ago.

After obtaining a lot of information about the Ming army from Earl Robert Dudley, he was very sure of holding London.

On March [-]th, small flags and red hats, which made England fearful, appeared in the western suburbs of London.

The two countries have different cultures and language barriers. The British army, which has been defeated repeatedly in previous wars, did not have the opportunity to obtain information from the captives. Most of the information comes from actual observation of combat and dictation of fleeing nobles, which is inevitably distorted.

The small flag and the red hat are both referring to the Beiyang Banner Army, to be precise, they refer to the helmet guns of the Banner Army.

The former is a small flag officer, and the latter is an ordinary Beiyang cavalry, but in the eyes of the British army, they are not so carefully divided. They often regard small flags as nobles, and the flag troops with red cotton armor, red iron helmets and black wreaths as soldiers. The name of the Ming army's elite scouts.

Once the red hat appears in people's field of vision, it often means that the main force of the Ming army will soon be ushered in this land.

In addition to these two types of people, there are also preachers called blue hats, but they don't know what these blue-armored and blue-helmeted people do. The figure of the blue hat is regarded as the deputy of the nobleman.

But some veterans who were lucky enough to withdraw from Winchester told that they tried to focus their muskets on a small flag during the battle, and the blue hat beside him was knocked off the horse.

As a result, dozens of red hats who had been advancing steadily in the phalanx launched a frantic charge, which in turn led to the destruction of their entire company organized according to the Western Army's phalanx.

It is doubtful that these blue hats may have a more important role in the army. This is a feature that can be exploited. For this reason, Charles Howard specifically ordered the musketeers in the city not to focus on attacking the blue hats without receiving orders.

Like the crappy titles of red hat and blue hat, they still don't know the full name of the commander of the Ming army in England. The English court documents unanimously refer to Ying Ming as Ying Daming.

They think it should be the name of Yingming, and Ming is the name of the country.

Similarly, Little Mo, the leader of the Third Pastoral Camp, is called Mo Daming by Londoners; Wei Si, a pimp who is widely praised by English prostitutes, is called Wei Ming IV.

The facts were indeed similar to what Charles Howard had learned. Soon there was a neat military formation on the outskirts of London, and the blue hats were assigned to dance, dance with knives, and curse while dancing.

Who is Charles Howard? He knows his responsibilities, and he also knows that the chief general of the Ming army 'Ying Daming' is trying to provoke him and lead him out of the city to fight... All the legions trained by Robert Dudd using the Spanish method lost, Can Charles win the field battle out of town?

He sent people to scold them in the city, and the two sides yelled "You fucking come down" and "You have the guts to come in" through the city wall for an hour, and the Ming army stopped.

As soon as the Ming army stopped, Charles Howard was also dumbfounded.

General Ying Daming did not set up camp, he led his troops around the western suburbs of London, and left...to the north.

That's where Queen Elizabeth left London.

　Good morning! Chapter 2 will be released at night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)