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Chapter 1414 Chieftain
The weird situation is that these women and girls who were frightened during the war hoped that the Ming army could accept them and put them in a safe place temporarily.

Listening to the report by the little banner officer with the helmet on and the beard on his face, Ying Ming forced him to repeat it and bring up the military law, only to be sure that this was not the idea of ​​the banner army or the Alan soldiers just wanting to kidnap others just because of their lust.

"They saw me in armor and thought I was you, the general. They held me back and refused to let me go. It probably meant that they were all the wives, daughters and family members of the chief family. It's not safe out there."

Ying Ming frowned and wondered if there was any conspiracy here, then looked back and forth between the little banner officer and the women twice with his eyes, and finally he was relieved, and waved: "Find two people to take them back to Westminster Abbey, and urge the city The foreign artillery team quickly entered the city, and the others continued to march with me."

Brocade and gold velvet are rare fabrics in Europe, mainly from Italy, where textiles are developed, and spread to European countries from the royal family down.

The clothing characteristics of the English nobles in this period, men's clothing mixed with German-style cut-out clothing, and more Spanish-style square boxes; women's clothing is also influenced by Spanish-style filling, and the shape is also more exaggerated.

Both men and women have a great fondness for expensive furs, often wearing plain cloth and fur shawls filled with folds.

However, limited by the scarcity of dyes and technical difficulties, the clothes have few colors and are mostly plain linen. Even if there are rare brocades and velvets, there are not many fabric patterns.

Therefore, it is extremely easy to observe people by their clothes and evaluate whether they are rich or poor. The brighter the color of the cloth, the better the texture of the fabric, the softer the fur, and the warmer the overall wear in early spring, there is no doubt that the clothes The more expensive people are, the richer people will naturally be.

The Great Ming Banner Army who came from Asia had soft and thick fluff lining their helmets, and they were all covered in brightly colored red cotton armor, with dragon patterns embroidered on their chests, backs, and armor skirts.

Not to mention the padded collar of the regimental collar revealing the silk mid-sole collar.

Let alone a small banner officer, if he doesn't understand the military system of the Ming army, it is normal for an ordinary banner soldier to be mistaken for a general.

The same thing happened in Puli. The people and soldiers there rarely even have a piece of clothing to keep out the cold in winter. They don't look like the Eastern Banner Army.

This group of people stationed in the army Chang Sheng has sufficient food and wages, trains hard but everyone enjoys a little bit of leisure, Chang Sheng is very hot, and they don't like to be shirtless all day long, so there is no lack of sending letters to send money to ask family members to bring some sizes Appropriate underwear.

Therefore, almost everyone's mid laner under armor and ordinary clothes is plain silk and satin.

The clothes are good, the people are tall and strong, and their faces are pale and not like ordinary people. It is normal to be mistaken for nobles.

It's not that they were mistaken for military officers, England didn't have this kind of thing, and the soldiers who led the army were generally old nobles and rarely new nobles, anyway, they were all nobles.

However, in the eyes of the Eastern Banner Army today, their knowledge has expanded, and their eyes to understand the world are not limited to the influence that Chen Mu brought to them in the early days.

Once the influence of looking overseas is gone, in their eyes, there are no nobles in this world, there are only chiefs and chiefs of tribes and tribes.

In fact, the most important thing is to be hostile to each other. When the newspapers used by the English royal family for war mobilization fell into the hands of the Ming army, the flag army found themselves portrayed as devils, and their rebellious mentality became more and more profound, which became the current mentality.

"The Legend of the Huns" says that "the noble is the strong, the cheap is the old and the weak". Almost all tribes that have not yet entered a stable life have this characteristic. Daming has seen too many such things in the past few years.

Selfishness, ignorance and backwardness, how precious is it.

Yingming was not delayed by these women for too long. The goods on the street were still on the street. His troops quickly approached the Tower of London along the road paved with corpses. Reach the commanding heights to observe the whole situation of the battlefield.

Very easily, they discovered the battlefield at this time, the north side of London Bridge.

It was a huge asymmetrical stone bridge with nineteen arches, two drawbridges in the middle, houses, shops and even a church on the bridge.

The suspension bridge was retracted from the middle, and a large number of defenders surrounded Wei Jinzhong's troops in a faint siege posture next to the suspension bridge on the north side of London Bridge, and rained arrows there with longbowmen.

On the other side of the suspension bridge, the church was also occupied by the defenders who came from the south of the Thames, condescendingly shooting the Ming army hiding in houses and shops with feathered arrows.

From time to time, a lone cannon sounded from the three-storey house on the bridge, signaling to Yingming that the gunpowder and scatter tubes carried by the No. [-] Muye Camp were about to run out.

Standing in the distance and watching for a long time, Ying Ming analyzed the composition of the enemy army and observed the deployment of the enemy army on the four walls of the Tower of London. After finding that there were many musketeers and artillery deployed on the city, he decided to divide the army.

He left a small group of troops on the west side of the Tower of London, and personally led most of the cavalry to detour from the north side of the Tower of London.

Those left behind were the musketeers and crossbowmen of the Second Pastoral Camp. They quickly stood on the west wall of the Tower of London, drove the carriages collected on the road to make simple fortifications under the city, and shot at the defenders.

The defenders who found them responded immediately, pressing muskets on the walls so that they did not dare to look up.

Although it is true that the English don't know how to use muskets very much, they can't stand the large number. Not only the large calibers made by the Netherlands, but also the small calibers made by themselves, all shot at the remaining troops.

They were terrified. The No. [-] Muye Battalion led by Wei Jinzhong showed a strong will to fight in the battle. Even if they were forced to face the enemy, they refused to surrender and killed two soldiers they sent to persuade them to surrender.

At this moment, another Ming army appeared, and Earl Charles in the Tower of London had no other ideas, but just wanted to kill them as soon as possible-don't ask them to go to the Tower of London!
In fact, as soon as the blunderbuss sounded here, the pressure on Wei Jinzhong's side suddenly increased.

The defenders knew that they might not be able to stop the enemy, so they stepped up their attack immediately, and even sent infantry to attack from the bridge again.

Since the previous street fighting defenders had no advantage in close combat, after forcing Wei Jinzhong onto London Bridge, Baron Charles never sent infantry to engage in combat, but kept suppressing and shooting him with longbowmen.

Although there were casualties in that way, Wei Jinzhong was more relaxed after all, and could rely on big and small crossbows to shoot each other with the enemy.

But once they entered close combat, they couldn't do it. Wei Jinzhong's Muye soldiers fought all night, and they would be so tired that they couldn't even open the crossbow strings, so they didn't have the strength to fight close combat.

On the contrary, their morale was greatly boosted, and when they heard the gunshots, they knew that Yingming was coming.

Not long after, there was the sound of rumbling horseshoes from the east, and Wei Jinzhong saw from upstairs that the fiery red horse team roared from the east, and slowed down after firing an immediate volley.

The Alan riders in heavy plate armor followed him unabated, making Wei Jinzhong sweat hard in his heart, not even daring to give the order stuck in his throat—Alan riders are mounted infantry, They don't know how to ride and fight.

Later, Wei Jinzhong didn't worry anymore, because he found that Ailan Bing didn't even think about riding and fighting, and this group of people just rushed to fall off their horses.

Two or three steps closer to the enemy, the horse looked at the flickering spear and was terrified, but the rider on the horse was not afraid. He just got up and jumped out, hitting the defenders' faces like plate armor shells.

Then started fighting.

"I knew the general would never forget us, hurry up, go downstairs and line up to break through."

(End of this chapter)