Chapter 244 struggle
"Low your chin, arch your back, right, hold your hands on your chest, wrap your left hand with your right hand, and then say: Jun Ye."
Belle held the whip with the logo of the Eastern Military Palace behind her back, raised her white chin and pointed at the two rows of London people on both sides. The last two words were loud and loud, and she did not forget to add: "It's best to say it funny, be a polite person."
At this time, she was wearing black soap boots, blue cloth cotton trousers, and brown cotton scattered with a dragon behind the Dongyang Military Palace, wearing a fur shawl pulled from some big fox buckle, and a big round hat with wooden pillars.
It looks quite like that.
At this moment, Belle was in a farm called Liu Zhizhuang forty-five miles west of London.
Her identity is no longer a prisoner in London, but a friend of the owner of Liu Zhi, an armed soldier of the Eastern Banner, who was responsible for educating the 430 households who moved out of London from the village.
After Yang Ce's Western Han coalition entered the city of London, the war between inside and outside the city continued, but the Tower of London was difficult to break, and it was still difficult to break even after the construction of the fort in Thames and Henan.
Therefore, the siege of the city was accepted by Yang Ce, who had many soldiers and generals, and planned to siege Baron Charles in the city, or simply wait until he surrendered.
Ying Mingze took over the more urgent problem, which is the livelihood of the people in London.
In fact, this is an urgent matter for the entire "Puzhou", an overseas administrative division that belongs to the Ming Dynasty.
Today, there are nearly 30% of the land in England in Puzhou. These lands were caused by the Black Death in the 11th year of Wanli. The war was caused by the disaster, and most of them were almost wasteland. The people also fled and ran away. Even if they were still under Puzhou, they were a hundred miles away from their hometown.
Some people privately cultivated lands that the Ming army had not intervened and competed with refugees; some people were lucky, and were granted land by the government on the route of the Ming army's eastern expedition.
Land needs to be measured and redistributed. In some places, there are many people and in some places there are few people, so the government must be the authoritative force to uphold justice.
But the government in Puzhou? That is a nominal existence, but it does not exist in fact. Even Ying Ming doesn’t know whether it exists or not.
Not to mention the so-called Puzhou, even the yamen in Puli County is basically a big market. The primary function is that merchants put interesting goods at the yamen and do business at the yamen, because the magistrate will suddenly ask the yamen runners to go out and buy some weird things and come back for experiments.
It is said that it does not exist. People with conflicts and problems can indeed get things done when they go to the yamen.
Let's say it exists, and when no one goes to look for it, the yamen will do nothing serious.
As a result, Ying Ming, a half-baked man, could only manage the people in a way that would manage the troops, and sent flag troops to various places to take pirates to measure the land. After the measurement, it would be assigned to the flag troops to manage.
There is no other requirement. This year, I have to plant the grain in the fields. If I can’t grow the grain, I will plant other things. If I need it, I will ask London for whatever I need.
When Ying Ming had not entered London, there were no less than 100,000 people in London. After he entered London, there were still 100,000 people in London. Now?
Now, there are probably no 30,000 people in London, and he has moved them out.
In his simple concept, London's urbanization is contrary to the historical trend. What should we do with so many useless people in the city? Except for craftsmen, they all go to the countryside to farm.
In addition to alleviating the food shortage in the city, this also aims to weaken the strength of the defenders. Tens of thousands of people were assigned surnames, registered household registration, and assigned to various places. As long as their fathers, sons and brothers who were in the defenders turned against each other, they could immediately find their families through the official army.
England has a national consciousness, but does not have a sense of national pride. Before the Battle of England and the West, they really had nothing to be proud of.
Drake stole and robbed a Spanish treasure ship. It is probably the most proud thing to do.
The biggest reason why the defenders were willing to defend the lonely city was that they knew one truth: if they wanted to protect their family, they had to stand with other defenders.
Now the family is going to farm in the countryside, which immediately makes the morale of the defenders blew.
What makes people even more disgusting is actually the Spaniards who appear on the battlefield.
Baron Charles held on for two weeks but did not find that the enemy had changed. He always thought that the enemy besieged Tower of London was Ying Ming and his Ming army.
Therefore, the strategy used by the defenders for a long time was to give the streets in the city to the Ming army after appropriate blocking, and try to use one street to further dilute Ying Ming's troops, in order to use more troops to completely eliminate one or several elite squads under Ying Ming's command.
And I was complacent about this plan.
Soldiers can surrender during battle. Even if they surrender to Baron Charles, they won’t blame them for surrendering to the Ming army. When they arrive at the Ming army, the Ming army will definitely treat them badly. They bully their women and then turn against the Ming army during the war.
The first half of their plan went very smoothly. Without any resistance, the Ming army incorporated a large number of puppet surrendered defenders and occupied a large number of streets.
However, before the puppet surrendered defenders gathered to fight back, they had just had a meal and it was difficult for them to gather their morale again.
When the defenders surrendered, they scolded the commander of the Ming army for the poor supplies in Fort London and asked when the commander would let them go back.
The Ming army did not allow them to go to war, and they were wrapped in blankets to avoid being frozen. Someone cooked them with hot pancakes and soup, the pancakes had oil, and a few leaves and a piece of meat in the soup.
People eat and tears fall.
The tears were not moved by the goodness of the Ming army, but were sad for the suffering of the defenders.
Their food in the Tower of London was almost finished, and people were so hungry that they wanted to eat people, but they were likely to have no food to eat when the food was out of stock - the weather was getting hotter.
Here in the Ming army, soldiers could drink broth and eat meat, and no one even ate bread.
What's even more strange is that it only takes a few days to raise them for free, not give them weapons or let them fight. The soldiers tacitly no one asks about the war.
No one forgets their mission, but... they just don't have to worry about dying in the next battle. It's so good to have food every day, which makes them deliberately want to escape the war.
People collectively tell a huge lie, as if the matter of surrendering first and then rebellion can be postponed infinitely as long as they are not mentioned.
The fact is that the Ming army did not give them this opportunity at all. The Ming army on the front line changed again and again. After the red hat and blue hat, there were Muyemen, and when the Muyemen left, there were Han people, and when the order was finally transferred, the troops who were guarding them had become Spanish.
No one sent them weapons, bundles of hoes were piled on the carriage, and the commander led them to go further and further towards the direction of the Tower of London until the city of London was left behind and further away.
Chapter completed!