Speaking of which, the nobles in Plymouth are also miserable.

You say that this is a plague, it will cause a plague. It has not stopped making trouble for this disease for three hundred years. Everyone is very experienced and takes their wives, children and servants out of the city to take a vacation in a place where no one is.

As for the Black Death, I took a vacation and disappeared when I came back.

But they did not expect this time to be different. More than a dozen jazz and knights living in Plymouth were horrified to find that not only did the Black Death disappear, but their homes and property were also gone.

The jazz who came back first did not see the remaining troops, and the jazz who came back later shouted to the city gate that the response from the city was a string of arrows shot from Chinese bows... The owner of the bow held not only the Ming Dynasty merchants who lived here, but also the untouchables in the city.

The angry knights rushed back to the fiefdom, and most of the knights close enough to the town were ambushed on the way to the village. The untouchables put on the mail of the Plymouth Guards and hid in the fields on both sides of the muddy road, and shot at them with strong crossbows and muskets.

Even worse happened on the Taima River. The nobles on the west bank of the river were not ambushed, but the people of the seven villages along the river disappeared without a trace. Some nobles who had previously taken refuge in nearby mountains claimed that they had seen Garen ships docked in Plymouth military port appear along the coast, but no one cared about it.

Some people have a farther fiefdom, but fortunately they can successfully recruit their subordinates, but when they return to the city, they find that they are helpless in Plymouth.

Who the hell is bringing siege weapons when going out for a trip?

Plymouth is relatively independent geographically. It is the Taima River to the west, the Plymouth Bay to the south, and the Primu River to the east. It is only about four miles northeast to the northeast and is connected to land. Although the rivers are only three or four hundred meters wide, it is precisely because of the short distance that no one proposes to cross the river.

They had no warships, but the pariahs in Plymouth had, and they knew very well what kind of firepower those Galen ships had.

The circumferential cannons made by the Plymouth Shipyard, namely the trumpet Franc cannons, and the iron-forged steel cannons purchased from the Netherlands, are not quite large in caliber, but for those who are used for forced ferry, they can be knocked to the sky with just one shot.

Moreover, on rivers of such width, the possibility of artillery deviating is very small.

Although no one knew what was going on, it was obvious that Plymouth had a rebellion during this plague, and they attacked the defenders, swept away the peasants, and snatched the warships from the port.

In fact, at this time, most nobles were optimistic about the situation, and they believed that this was a peasant uprising.

There was not without peasant uprisings in Europe, but their uprisings were too weak. One was weak in equipment and the other was the revolutionary program. The latter had a decisive significance far beyond the former.

In the past uprisings, most of the peasants' equipment was indeed poor. The hundreds of peasant soldiers carrying manure forks may only require two knights to wield their big swords with spears and storm and then break up.

However, most peasant uprisings were participated by rich peasants. For example, the peasant uprisings that occurred in England. Many small landlords with hundreds of acres of land, citizens who raised two or three hundred sheep and hundreds of large animals also joined the uprising. They were able to buy decent weapons for themselves, and they could also participate in the war as elite forces.

The main reason for failure is that they don’t know what to oppose.

The peasant uprising program in ancient China was indeed not very good, but the goal was very clear. If you dare to rebel, you are no longer your own. There is only one goal. To overthrow the court, as for what happened next? Let’s talk about it if you have the fate to survive until then!

European peasant uprisings have never been so decisive. It is not their fault. When they think they are under oppression, who will this oppression come from? Who should they resist?

Regardless of the king's affairs, the king had nothing to do with them, he was the lord.

So it’s enough to kill the lord. After killing the lord, the kingdom will send a new lord. Everyone discusses the tax laws and the uprising will end.

Therefore, outside the city of Plymouth in the 11th year of Wanli, after discussion, the nobles sent riders to the city to express their ideas of negotiations to see if they were not satisfied with the apprentices, the peasants, or the untouchables who had no citizenship in the city were dissatisfied, and they agreed to any dissatisfaction. Anyway, as long as they were disarmed and the nobles returned to the city, everything would be returned to their original state.

But what they didn't expect was that Plymouth was different this time.

The fat Protestant monk was said to have been released from the city crying, bringing news that shocked everyone - the leader of this rebellion was a merchant from the Ming Dynasty!

"The Black Death made the church lose its majesty in the city. They said Puli County, they called Plymouth the Puli County, and said Puli County was protected by Emperor Wanli of the Ming Empire, and asked you to evacuate twenty miles northward, otherwise it would be regarded as a provocation to the Ming Empire."

"They have fifty ships and two thousand soldiers. If they don't retreat north, they will come to attack you."

It is clear that it is possible that there are fifty ships in Plymouth. There are indeed many armed merchant ships docked in the port, but there are two thousand soldiers? There are only a few thousand people in the city. How could there be two thousand soldiers?

But Taoist Cao did not lie. He was just a little exaggerated. There were more than 2,000 people holding weapons in the city, but these people holding weapons did not all fight.

The siege has begun.

The angry knight set fire in the field and then found that it was his farmland that was burning, and he became even more angry.

The trenches and roadblocks were laid layer by layer, and the camps outside the city grew stronger day by day in the eyes of Cao Changqing and others in the city. Every day, new people came from all over Devon County, with few people and more than a hundred people gathering little by little.

There were no veterans in the city, and they didn't know what to do in this situation. Wang Jinzhong gathered dozens of cavalry out of the city and explored north once. On the way, he encountered a cavalry from the besieged army. After a fight, he suffered casualties and wounded each other. Then he decided to defend the city - the city had enough food to eat for another two months, and the Ming Dynasty's food was enough for the Ming people to eat for the first half of the year, so they were not in a hurry to leave the city.

They were not worried about the gathering of more and more nobles on the northern land. The combat power of both sides was just equal. Although those nobles had good armor and weapons, they also inherited the fine traditions of Emperor Wanli and copied the nobles' homes and got a lot of exquisite armor. If they really fought, they might be even more powerful than those outside the city.

When there is a city, they can defend the city to the death. Even if the city is captured, there is still a Ming Guild Hall. No matter how bad it is, they can still abandon the city and escape from the sea.

The only thing that worried Cao Changqing was at sea. If the English fleet cut off their sea routes, things would be in trouble.

Now they only have one expectation, this is a gambling.
Chapter completed!