open sea

Chapter 1406
It should be clear but cloudy.

His troops were few.

After the great battle at Winchester, his uninjured elite Beiyang Army, Alan Restoration Army, and Alan Knights were less than [-], and the veterans of the Muye Third Battalion were less than [-].

These two groups of more than [-] people in total were all the people who followed him all the way to the city of London.

Following far behind, the San Puli camp slightly injured more than [-] people, and set up camp fifty miles away from them.

Ying Ming is going to do something big this time, if he succeeds in breaking into the city of London, he will transfer them to suppress the common people.

After General Ying's deliberation, they were still not allowed to get involved in the war.

Isn't it true that Ying Ming has a high vision and fights? It is human nature for an army that has not been strictly trained to retreat and be afraid when the situation is not good.

However, the friendly army has the advantage to defeat the enemy, and can follow the enemy army into an organized retreat to the enemy's rest camp. This is the first time General Ying has seen him in the army for five years. It is also an eye-opener for him.

As for the wounded soldiers from the previous battles, they were all left in Winchester, a hundred miles away, to take care of the seriously wounded and those who could be revived as much as possible. The ship returned to the Dongyang Military Mansion to receive a pension and go home.

With more than 700 people, Ying Ming dared to come to the city of London, just because Ding Linden, the Spanish vassal, brought him a money and goods.

As soon as Yingming gave the money, Linden immediately entered a very reliable working state, revealing all the British military dynamics, defensive deployment, and force composition of the British army that he knew when he left London.

The Westminster Orchard has the largest, best and most professional brothel in London, which won the heart of Wei Ming IV.

Lyndon was able to open a watergate under the walls of Westminster Abbey in the south west of London, guarded by a captain of the guard who had fought alongside him against the French and was impoverished and in debt from gambling.

Ying Ming doesn't even need to pay real money, he just needs to announce that the siege is successful and his debts will be exempted, and he will be able to open the water gate.

In addition, Linden, who had served as a military trainer, also mastered another water gate, the water gate of the Tower of London.

The Tower of London is a palace and defensive fortress that has been reinforced by the royal family in the city of London. In addition to the royal residence, there are treasures, prisons, observatories, churches, execution grounds, zoos, small docks and barracks. It is a comprehensive fortress defended by thirteen towers.

Once the Ming army invaded the city, it was almost foreseeable that the last battle would definitely take place there.

The Water Gate of the Tower of London is also known as the Traitor's Gate. It is used to escort the upper nobles and criminals. As the weak point of the castle, it is heavily guarded. Linden can't open the water gate, but he just knows where to get in.

Although Yingming has a lot of information, it is still difficult to attack London, because London is a strange place.

Not to mention that there is a small town on the east side of the bridge, it is strange to say that there is a blank area six miles outside the city.

This is because Elizabeth, in order to control the population of London, forbids anyone to build any houses or shops within six miles of the city gate. Even so, it cannot prevent the population of the city from continuing to expand. There are 15 people crowded inside and outside the city, and they are isolated by law. On both sides of the blank area inside and outside the city.

If you want to lead an army to attack the inner city, you have to pass through the rural residential areas outside the blank area, and then pass through the blank area to attack the city of London. This is almost impossible without alarming the people and not being discovered.

Even though most of the defenders were mobs recruited temporarily, they still had a huge strength of [-], and even the trained guards were more than Yingming's.

If he wants to attack the city, he must at least try to weaken and divide the defenders.

To achieve this goal, the best way is to lure the defenders out of the city to fight in the field.

After scolding the aggressive generals outside the city for failure, Ying Ming immediately changed his plan and led his army around the city for half a circle, marching northward, and set up an ambush circle after walking not far.

Dispatch the enemy's army in combat is a science, to lure the enemy, you must attack and save.

The Queen of England went north, and Ying Ming also went north, and the defenders would probably chase her out.

Of course, Ying Ming didn't think that the defender would definitely send troops out of the city.

If he was a general, he would probably not leave the city. What does the Queen of England have to do with my general of Puzhou?

But Baron Charles Howard didn't think so. He had to go out of the city to protect the queen from the pursuit of the Ming army, so it was him who was beaten.

First, the cavalry sent out for reconnaissance were annihilated one by one by the Beiyang cavalry in the rear, and then the main force was stunned by the tiger squatting guns and Frang machine gun positions set up by the Ming army during the pursuit.

Especially the heavy-duty General Zhenshuo unloaded from the battleship, the shells hit the ground several times with the power to sweep away thousands of troops, smashing everyone in the path to flesh and blood.

Before recovering from the bombardment, Mo Ming, the No. [-] Muye Battalion they were talking about, lined up to cover up and kill them. The leading nobles were about to yell to retreat hastily, but the cavalry of the Ming army had already circled around and attacked.

Sometimes it is not a good phenomenon to gather the defeated army. While the defeated army is reorganized into a new combat force, it will also bring old fears to the new army.

This is especially true of the army in London. They gathered the survivors of all the wars since the Battle of Puli. People spread the horror of the Ming army everywhere, especially the Oriental cavalry who made the final decision on the battlefield.

The shadow of the famous tree of people, now they are afraid when they see the red hat.

The front line and the two wings were killed and scattered. The front threw away their armor and armor, and the back pushed and shoved. More than 6000 people crowded together and trampled on each other. The lucky ones fled to the countryside, and the unlucky ones were seriously injured or even died on the spot. The cavalry of the Ming army pursued and slashed and surrendered all the way, and even the defenders who fled to the city wall did not dare to open the city gate.

You can only shoot with muskets and longbows indiscriminately to prevent the defeated army from breaking through.

In the end, only more than 300 people who fled to the west of the city secretly opened the city gate in the evening and fled back to the city.

After this battle, Charles Howard completely gave up on helping the North, and only wanted to defend the city of London.

Desperation and panic spread in the city. On the third day after the battle, Charles Howard sent a small team of cavalry to explore the north again. They traveled a long way north, but failed to track down the Ming army.

Let the city feel a little relieved, but they really can't care about the Queen's side.

For the present plan, we can only pray that the situation will be as Yang Gao said, if the Queen leaves London, both London and the Queen will be able to keep it.

But what he didn't expect was that Ying Ming didn't lead his army to pursue the queen northward.

His army just made a big circle in the northern outskirts of the city and returned to the west of the city. On the night of March [-], he selected fifty daredevils from the Alan and Muye armies, and followed Linden himself with light armor and sharp-edged crossbows. The green space outside the city touches the water gate of the west wall.

In the past half an hour, torches were set off on the spire of London's west wall.

For a time, terrifying trumpets sounded from the north and east of the city.

(End of this chapter)