open sea

Chapter 1413
Rarely has a siege been so relaxing.

So easy that Ying Ming fell asleep at Westminster Abbey while consulting a map of London.

He took a nap and slept for almost two hours before he was awakened by his own biological clock. He went down to the library to see that the large courtyard of Westminster Abbey was very quiet.

Banner soldiers who should be on duty at night, sleep when they should sleep, and those who have nothing to do gather around the campfire in units of small flags and talk quietly.

Only, Wei Jinzhong hasn't come back yet.

The outside of Westminster Abbey was actually not quiet. There were two gunshots from time to time in the distance from the street, and the intermittent barking of dogs could be faintly heard from a distant place.

But for the Ming army, these voices did not delay sleep at all, at most they could make people frown and curse inwardly while they were half asleep.

If this battle is fought for a few more years, there will be no more dogs barking while sleeping.

Because dogs in troubled times dare not bark.

Ying Ming looked at the erotic pictures on the wall while hanging them, and complained to the left and right: "Wei Si'er shouldn't be so clumsy, chasing out some stupid thieves, and you haven't come back after two hours, did you go to a brothel?"

In my impression, before Wei Si left Westminster Abbey, he stared at this picture of the exotic erotic palace for a long time, but Ying Ming laughed when he asked this sentence.

It is really too easy to enter the city. The huge city, vulnerable enemies and easy-to-get wealth are close at hand, but Wei Jinzhong has always been a very clear person, and his official duties have never been related to his personal hobbies.

What's more, although there is an English label below this picture, it is a painting from Southwark District - a free trade area where Westminster Abbey is two miles east of the bridge. Many theaters, brothels, dog fighting and bear fighting are not allowed in the royal city All activities can be carried out after crossing the bridge.

But Wei Jinzhong didn't know these characters.

It is impossible for him to know that just across the river, there are eighteen brothels licensed by the church and paying taxes for the church.

Under Ying Ming's pretended relaxed appearance, his heart was not relaxed, but he just didn't want to upset the troops.

This is the management of facial expressions of officers inherited from Chen Gong, the minister of the Ming Dynasty, in the battle of Jumahe. It is commonly known as pretentiousness.

On this occasion, Wei Jinzhong, the First Shepherd Camp, and the First London Battalion have not yet returned; and during the two full hours of his negligence, the English defenders have not launched an attack on Westminster Abbey.

The most possible association is that Wei Jinzhong and two more than a thousand troops restrained the main force of the defenders in the city so that they would not be harassed by troops.

At this time, news came from outside the city that the Miao Luokui sergeants of the No. [-] Mu camping camp drove the artillery team to the west of the city, and they could enter the city in a moment.

The slightly wounded sergeant and the two Puli Battalions farther to the west have also traveled ten miles outside the city. Many people were left behind during the night march. After a short rest, they are expected to enter the city in an hour.

The nuns of Westminster Abbey had just fallen asleep and were woken up by the Eastern cavalry in heavy armor, and immediately received orders to continue cooking.

The rice must be salty, because the firemen asked them to cook very easy rice, that is, knead dough and roll cakes and bake them on the fire, but the large amount of food means that more reinforcements from the Ming army will soon enter the city.

Someone tried to escape with the news, but was restrained by the high walled courtyard of Westminster Abbey. Before the wall was overturned, he was nailed to the wall by a crossbow arrow shot from behind, and the ravens on the branches flew away in shock.

Even for the well-informed Oriental scouts who have done enough reconnaissance missions, walking on the streets of London City in the thick morning fog still cannot avoid heart palpitations.

It was not too far to go north from Westminster Abbey. Within the blockade area garrisoned by the Ming army, the people had almost run away, and every house was as empty as a ghost town.

Going out of the blockade is like hell on earth.

The already filthy and terrifying streets were littered with corpses, and the corpses of rebels hanging from the wooden fences of the tall courtyard walls of noble mansions showed that they could still contain the chaos with superhuman force at the beginning.

But the messy footprints mixed with blood at the entrance of the mansion, and who knows who wrapped the precious tapestry on the tree, indicate that the story belonging to the head of the household is over.

The scouts used their spears to rummage through the corpses lying on the ground, trying to identify the unfortunate who died in last night's conflict.

They have traces of battlefield experience. When they travel far from Westminster Abbey and reach a certain place, the conflict becomes unprecedentedly intense in the eyes of the scouts.

The armor on the corpses on the ground was not removed, and sometimes they heard noises and followed the sound, and it was the ownerless cattle and horses full of goods that stopped by the well.

Want to drink water but can't get it.

Some scouts walked far away and found a large pot set up for a bonfire in the small courtyard of a wealthy mansion. The corpses of the dismembered war horses had already dried up all over the ground.

The more you go north, the more corpses there are, and the corpses at Houjiekou pave a way to guide the scouts to turn to the east.

Ying Ming racked his brains and couldn't remember that the order he gave Wei Jinzhong was to lead his troops to eliminate the enemy troops in the city. That order seemed to only require him to drive away the enemy troops approaching Westminster Abbey so that his subordinates could have a good rest. .

But in the four streets facing north right now, almost all the houses that could be burned have been burned, leaving only the coke after the fire was extinguished and the green smoke mixed into the morning mist.

Fortunately, there were still living people nearby, so the scouts continued to investigate towards the east, while Ying Ming sent out a banner army who was proficient in speech and led Alan soldiers to ask the people who were still here what happened last night.

Everything was so weird that Ying Ming didn't dare to continue marching rashly.

If Wei Jinzhong's troops had won, he would not have sent someone to inform Westminster Abbey; if the defenders wiped out Wei Jinzhong's troops, the carts and horses laden with goods should not have remained where they were, and the corpses on the ground It should be converged.

As long as Ying Ming has five more hundred households of the Eastern Banner Army in his hands, he will follow the road paved with corpses without saying a word.

But in fact, there are only 500 people in his hands including the Eastern Banner Army and the Alan Horseback Infantry.

Most of the corpses were defenders, and of course there would also be soldiers from the London Battalion who had just joined Ying Ming's command last night. They died before they even received the daily bread promised by the Ming army.

Westminster Abbey is still making little wooden signs for them, and these signs have not yet been handed out, so that there is no way to tell whether an England is a garrison or a London battalion.

The people who stayed here were mostly young women who had lost everything. They screamed and ran when they saw anyone, and everyone seemed to be terribly frightened.

"General, last night seemed to be a mess."

Ying Ming on the horseback glanced at his dry-talking subordinates, raised his chin slightly and said, "What did you find out?"

"Last night, the Mu camp was besieged on the street. Wei Si led his men to break the siege, and then fought northward; it seems that the London camp was defeated before, and then followed the Mu camp along the way, killing everyone and burning the house. These women were captured at that time Walk."

"Then the defenders came from the side, and they were taken away by the defenders. Before the assembly was over, the defenders were overwhelmed by the refugees, and then they headed east like a tide. There were also many sailors and hooligans on the south side of the Thames. people come over."

"So they hid near Westminster Abbey. It is said that there is a war at the Tower of London. It should be Wei Si."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)