Chapter 238: The Way
Ying Ming was a little doubtful about Yang Ce’s origin.
He knew Yang Ce and also had some understanding of this pirate leader. He followed Lin Afeng all the way to Africa from Nanyang and was the only remaining pirate in the Ming Dynasty.
I remember that when Chen Mu went out to sea, from the three elders of Zeng, the pirates who gathered in the stormy waves and burned the city and destroyed the country, and the pirates who were buried in the city and destroyed the country were killed. The only one who was included in the collection was Lin Afeng, who surrendered first and then rebelled, and then went out to sea and was once again enthroned by Emperor Wanli.
In fact, when Lin Afeng was awarded the title of King of Min of the Han Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, the people of the world no longer hated the pirates so much. On the contrary, they believed that this was the only one who saved the incense of Chinese pirates.
Because they are really the only one left. The ban on the sea was opened, and the imperial court dug the ancestral graves of pirates from the root. After the feng shui changes, the people who have some hope for the sea will become serious maritime merchants. Who would become pirates with blood on the edge of the knife?
After all, that is a helpless choice without room for growth.
If you can go through the imperial examination, which scholar was willing to be a military advisor for the Shan Dawang?
In this era, ordinary people can enter the martial arts halls and the Beiyang training grounds that cannot enter the martial arts halls. They all end up being officers.
It is not ordinary people who take the imperial examinations, and becoming civil servants is also the most glorious thing for ancestors. The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty are the most glorious professions in the world. Now they are out of the sea. No matter what king or lord you are, if you don’t kneel down for our small household, you will never end up with you.
Just like Chen Jiu was granted the title of Duke of Baishan, France, the Valois royal family wanted him to kneel at the enthronement ceremony, but in the end, Xiao Jiu's master bit me to death and asked me to kneel, 50,000 taels of gold cushioned.
In his mind, he would make another 400,000 taels of silver for the court, so it would be fine if he knelt down.
In the end, it was really inappropriate, so he threw it out for a reduction. If he was really short of money, we understand that the General of the Mountain would not be that evil person. You, the third brother, kneel down for me at the enthronement ceremony. My army retreated for forty miles and didn't ask you for money, and you would be exempted from 50,000 taels of gold.
Anyway, in the Baishan Pavilion in Baishan City, the little eunuchs from the Ming Dynasty recorded this: King Hesaner of Fu Lanxi summoned all the ministers to discuss it, thinking it was inappropriate.
For this kind of thing, the king of a country has lost even if he takes it as a serious matter.
Back to Ying Ming, he discussed military affairs with Yang Ce. The whole process was filled with a feeling of intimacy. It felt not like Ying Ming and his subordinates discussed affairs, but rather like Lin Lai, a few members who had studied in the Guangdong Martial Arts Hall, discussed affairs.
Yang Ce, the pirate leader, used standard martial arts tactics, and even his speaking style and his examples were exactly the same as those of the generals who graduated from the martial arts hall.
This is so strange. Ying Ming has never been to the martial arts lecture hall. What he learned is that after the promotion is given a short-term training by the superior, he will be put on the shelves. Especially in the resumes of Qianhu and generals, no one can train him at all.
His talent was barely reaching the level of the Beiyang 100 households in the Ming Dynasty. Whether it was the dispatch of subordinates, marching and fighting, or the traditional astronomy and geography of generals, he understood it, but did not have the opportunity to study it carefully.
But the most unfair thing in the world is here. He can fight, as long as he brings one or two hundred Eastern Flag Army and some Maple Camping, he can fight a small-scale encounter invincible world, and a medium-scale decisive battle is invincible.
For no other reason, these people are of high quality, so Ying Ming himself has almost no need to do anything in the battle.
At first, the Eastern Banner Army learned to read and fought for three months. With the help of the Banner Army, Makioying also learned to read, and the propagandist could work.
Therefore, Ying Ming and Yang Ce discuss strategies and tactics. Yang Ce often says something. Ying Ming: Oh! It’s okay!
Ying Ming felt strange in his heart, and Yang Ce felt even more strange in his heart: How did this fool get to London?
Yang Ce was so hard that he had a bunch of pirates who didn’t understand the four or six pirates, and there was no lower-level officer who could use it, and there was no constraints from the state or the army. The entire pirate group was like a loose secret association without the bonus of religious belief.
No matter what he did, he showed 120% of his talents, and finally passed on to the soldiers who could only achieve 30% of his strength. This was the 30% burying his European counterparts of an era.
Therefore, even though he still had a strong sense of martial arts lecture hall, his troops could not see the appearance of the Beiyang Banner Army at all.
The Beiyang Banner Army is an autonomous force. Scouts can move freely from the front line for two or three hundred miles. After losing contact with the central army, the commanders of each unit can move independently to open up the situation.
Yang Ce's troops were just the opposite. His soldiers had absolutely no autonomy. Except for the superior's words, there was no need to think at all. All thinking, whether right or wrong, was useless.
Soon, two Spanish companies and three pirates led their troops to detour from outside the city to the north gate of London, not participating in the mission of besieging the Tower of London, and were dedicated to Ying Ming's butt.
Then a steady stream of pirate troops and Spanish companies drove towards London, covering the wounded soldiers of Makino camp out everywhere in the streets of London City, loading all valuable items from the houses of the lost owner into Westminster Temple, and then transporting cattle and horse vehicles to Southampton.
Several small flying shark warships sailed into London from the Thames River, relying on ship cannons and bird guns to monitor the bridges on the river surface, and set up wooden and stone fortifications at the bridgeheads along the line.
A pirate from the Ministry of Revenue began to search for the strong men in the west of the city, outside the city, forcibly organized Latin as a civilian, transported baggage, built equipment, and dug holes under supervision.
Further north of the city, a Spanish light cavalry company acted as a scout, setting up a warning forty miles forward to prevent Count Robert from leading his army back to the army to raid.
After all the preparations, Yang Ce personally led two pirate troops from the Ministry of Revenue into the south bank of the Thames River, and quickly defeated the defenders left behind in the south of the city with a sweeping force, and implemented military control over the streets and alleys. The bridgeheads of the three bridges in the south of the city were equipped with the Huangming Banner and the Chinese-character Yang Banner.
When he finished these things, he did not continue to siege the Tower of London with Ying Ming. They only siege not attacked. They neither used the secret door of the Tower of London that Linden knew, nor used a strong attack method. They just slowly siege and kept persuading Baron Charles in the tower.
On April 2, three hundred pirates drove thousands of civilians gathered outside the city into the south of the city.
They opened a small section of the river embankment opposite the Tower of London and rebuilt the river embankment with wood and stone. The newly built river embankment was four feet lower than before, and three trest bridges were built at the same time.
Large tracts of civil, wood and stone coastal houses were destroyed, and four large earthwork forts with a length of ten feet apart were built.
Through the river, General Zhenshuo's artillery imitated by the Han Dynasty was transported to the trestle by warships, and was pushed onto a large earth-shaking fort built along the river at the efficiency of fifteen gates a day.
They even requisitioned the monastery in Nancheng as a gunpowder depot.
Yang Ce’s idea is very simple. If you want to defend it, I will make you afraid that you cannot defend it.
Chapter completed!