Yingming is secretly hidden.

His troops are few.

After a battle in Winchester, the elite Beiyang Army, the uninjured army under his command, the Ailan Restoration Army, the three Ailan Knights were less than 800, and the three Makino Battalion veterans were less than 2,000.

These two teams, totaling more than 2,700 people, were all the people who followed him all the way to the city of London.

From a distance, San Puli was slightly injured by more than 2,000 people, and they set up the camp fifty miles away.

Ying Ming wants to do a big thing this time. If he succeeds in entering London, he will transfer them to suppress the people.

After General Ying's careful consideration, he still refused to let them get involved in the war.

It is not true that we should be clear about the perspective of a high level of vision and fight. It is human nature to be afraid of an unscrupulous army when they retreat when they are not in good condition.

But if a friendly army has the advantage of defeating the enemy, and can retreat into the enemy's rest camp in an established manner with the enemy, General Ying has been in the army for five years, and it is the first time he has seen him.

As for the wounded soldiers in the previous battle, they were all left in Winchester, a hundred miles away. Those who were slightly injured were taken care of seriously injured, and those who could be rescued should be saved as much as possible. Those who were seriously injured could not recover. When the critical moment passed, they would be sent to Pride to take a boat back to the Eastern Military Palace to receive pensions.

He brought more than 2,700 people, Ying Ming dared to come to the city of London, but because Spain's subordinate Linden gave him a silver gift.

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

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

Linden could open a water gate near the wall of Westminster Temple in the south of London. The commander of the guard who guarded it had fought side by side with him while fighting France, and was poor and in debt due to gambling.

Ying Ming didn't even need to pay real money. He just needed to declare that the siege was successfully exempted from his debts and allowed him to open the water gate.

In addition, Linden, who had worked 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 reinforced by the royal family in London for all dynasties. In addition to the royal residence, it also stores treasures, prisons, observatories, churches, execution grounds, zoos, small docks and barracks, and a comprehensive fortress defended by thirteen towers.

Once the Ming army invaded the city, it was almost foreseeable that the last war must have happened there.

The Water Gate in the Tower of London is also called the Traitor's Gate, which is used to escort the upper noble criminals. As the weakness of the castle, it is very vigilant, and Linden cannot open the Water Gate, but he only knows where to get in.

Although Ying Ming had a lot of information, it was still difficult to attack the city of London, because London was a strange place.

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

This is because in order to control the London population, Elizabeth did not allow anyone to build any houses or shops within six miles of the city gate. Even so, it could not prevent the city's population from continuing to expand. There were 150,000 people inside and outside the city, and were isolated from the city and on both sides of the blank area outside the city due to the decree.

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

Even though the defenders were mostly mobs temporarily recruited, they still had a huge force of 17,200, and even more guards had trained than Ying Ming.

If he wants to attack the city, he needs to 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.

After the fierce generals failed outside the city, Ying Ming immediately changed his plan and led his army around the city for half a circle and marched north. He didn't walk far before setting up an ambush circle.

Dispatching the enemy during combat is a science. If you lure the enemy, you must attack and rescue them.

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

Of course, Ying Ming did not think that the defending general would send troops out of the city.

If he was a garrison, he would probably not leave the city. What does the Queen of England have to do with my Ming Dynasty General Parliament? If you die, you will die. I will be the King of Mountains in London.

But Baron Charles Howard didn't think so. He had to go out of the city to protect the queen from the Ming army, so he was beaten by himself.

First, the riders who were sent to investigate were wiped out one by one by the Beiyang cavalry team behind the palace, and then the main force was dizzy by the tiger squat cannon established by the Ming army during the pursuit. The Fran machine cannon position was bombarded.

Especially the heavy General Zhenshuo who was unloaded from the warship, the shells hit the ground with the might of sweeping across the thousands of troops, and smashed everyone on the path into flesh and blood.

Before they could recover from the bombardment, Mo Ming, the third Makioying, was in their mouths, lined up to charge and attack. In a hurry, the nobles leading the army were about to shout for retreat, but the Ming army's cavalry had already attacked on both wings.

Sometimes it is not a good phenomenon to converge the defeated army. While the defeated army is reorganized into a new combat power, it will also bring old fear to the new army.

This is especially true for the London army, which gathered survivors of all wars since the Battle of Puli, and people spread the terror of the Ming army everywhere, especially the Eastern cavalry that had made a final decision on the battlefield.

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

The front and the two wings were scattered. The front was thrown away and the armor was abandoned. The back was pushed and shoved. More than 6,000 people squeezed together and trampled on each other. They were lucky and fled to the countryside. The lucky ones were seriously injured and even died on the spot. The large army was chased by the Ming cavalry and chopped and surrendered. Even the defenders who fled under the city wall did not dare to open the city gate.

You can only shoot with a musket and a longbow indiscriminately to prevent the defeated army from rushing to the pass.

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

After this battle, Charles Howard completely stopped his intention to help the North and only wanted to guard the City of London.

Despair and panic spread throughout the city. On the third day of the battle, Charles Howard sent a small team of horses to explore the north again. They walked far north and could not trace the signs of the Ming army.

It made the city feel a little relieved, but they really couldn't care about the Queen's side.

For the sake of the present, I can only pray that the situation can really be as Yang Gao said, if the Queen leaves London, and both London and the Queen can be saved.

But what he didn't expect was that Ying Ming did not lead his army to pursue the Queen north.

His army just made a big circle in the northern suburbs of the city and returned to the west of the city. On the night of March 14, from Ailan and Makino's army, they selected fifty death-death soldiers, and followed Linden from the green space outside the city to the water gate of the west wall.

Just half an hour later, a torch was waving on the spire of the west wall of London.
Chapter completed!