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Chapter 1489 Peak District
Different people stand at different angles and will see different things and have different perceptions.

When the London House becomes the rear, Tang Xianzu and Ying Ming can spend the most time researching how to completely eliminate the rebel forces in this land.

But in the eyes of Liu Ruguo on the front line, he has no time to care about anything other than survival.

Historically, this war has stopped with the surrender of the Queen and the suspension of the Ming army, but for most people in England, the war is far from over.

Because the Ming army only completed the first half of the war, but not the second half.

Normally the war would have ended with the surrender of the last Tudor heir, but that was not the case with the distribution of power in the land.

The conquest conditions of the Ming army did not rule the land in name, or the surrender of the queen only meant that the king of England gave up continuing to resist, but this kingdom did not.

The style of the Ming army is different from any enemy they have seen in the past. There are only two kinds of people who hold power in this kingdom, one is the nobles, and the other is the church.

The Ming army did not recognize the existence of the nobility and the church, but pushed the common people to the highest level in history. This is the greatest insult to a kingdom where the word "free people" appears in a large area of ​​official documents.

The appearance of owner farmers indicates that there are tenant farmers.

The appearance of free people means that there are slaves.

The rebel forces led by the nobles and the church will not disappear. This was already known the moment Liu Ruguo led his Suncheonan army and set foot on the land of England.

Because this is like an external force that quickly defeated the Ming Empire by military power, but announced that there will be no imperial examinations in the future, and there will be no need for officials from the six ministries, and it will use a completely different approach to rule.

It is conceivable that the resistance to its rule is great.

The greatest advantage of the Ming army is nothing more than a more perfect system. In Liu Ruguo’s mind, he simply understood the Ming system as a combination of officials and officials, and understood the England system as a very vague system of nobility, church and vassal. system.

Without a mature system, nobles are not nobles but nobles, and the entire family controls a piece of land; the church is not a monk but a church, and the entire church manages a piece of land.

Only the vassals are independent people, there is no promotion system, only according to the preferences of the nobles, some appoint people on merit, some appoint people on their own merits, and appoint such things as the captain of the lord's guard, baker, blacksmith, and tax collector.

Aristocrats are not officials, and have no responsibility to manage and develop the region. Their greatest obligation is to enjoy life, hunt, play, buy expensive things, sleep with other people's wives, and live well.

The church is not an official, nor does it have these responsibilities. Their primary mission is to serve God, and their secondary mission is to preach to collect more taxes. Jobs such as opening brothels, breweries, and sleeping with prostitutes can only be placed in the back row.

Now that the system of the Ming Dynasty is used to forcefully apply it to this land, Liu Ruguo thinks that if they are not allowed to experience it for themselves, even the common people will not be able to understand it.

It is normal to rebel, but it is strange not to rebel.

But this kind of conclusion, which is easy to understand after analysis, brings about changes in reality, and it is unacceptable to spread it on Liu Ruguo. Drake has a lot of backup troops, so many that he only needs to find a few nobles and monks to raise his arms. Hundreds of farmers in the territory will take up arms and join the rebel army.

Even though their combat power is low and they rarely leave the fief, they are defeated and fought everywhere.

It was too difficult for Liu Ruguo to accept, he came here at the invitation of Ying Ming with the team he had worked so hard to pull up from the Kingdom of Alan.

The Suncheon Anmin Rebel Army landed from Southampton, and marched northward to meet the Ming Empire's regular army's defense line on the south bank of the Tyne River. Then the regular army retreated south, and the Suncheon Anmin Rebel Army took the top.

Then began the strangest scene in the war history since the Great Expansion of the Ming Empire in the Longqing Year:
The Suncheon Anmin Rebel Army won one after another brilliant victories in the battle, but the battle line was approaching London step by step.

At first, Liu Ruguo was able to cross the Tyne River at will, and even drove Drake's rebels to the north of Hadrian's Great Wall while easily defeating the troops of one or two Scottish nobles.

But it didn't work.

He defeated Drake on the front foot, and the nobles who ruled the land attacked his grain road and plundered his back road.

Some people even let the soldiers set fire to kill people mercilessly in the villages they ruled in order to stop the Suncheon Anmin Rebellion Army, and received the monks' enthusiastic praise in the firelight soaring to the sky.

When Liu Ruguo decided to retreat, Drake, who had regrouped in the Kingdom of Scotland, went south again and joined the rebels swarming from all directions, chasing and intercepting them along the way.

In the first confrontation, Liu Ruguo won.

The second time Liu Ruguo defeated the enemy's pursuit.

But by the third battle, the soldiers who were short of food, exhausted and lack of sleep had no energy to fight the enemy again.

In the end it was really hard to get away, the enemy army pressed forward, Liu Ruguo, wearing an armor and carrying a long simple knife, faced the musket array that shot empty bullets and rode alone, killed several gunmen, took down the flag and looked around, and then fought with the flag The horse returned in full body.

Only then did he frighten the enemy back, giving his troops a chance to retreat and escape from the encirclement with great difficulty.

Later, the battle line was pushed southward by Drake, first occupied Northumberland, and then captured the Yorkshire Valley, driving Liu Ruguo's Suncheon Anmin Rebel Army to the mountains at the southern border of Yorkshire.

But at this point, Drake didn't dare to attack south again.

The eastern part of this mountain is Sheffield, where Drake fought Ying Ming and suffered a big defeat. It was thanks to the fishing boats on the eastern coast that he had the opportunity to be beaten from rebels to pirates.

Otherwise, I'm afraid I'm dead right now.

In that battle, Drake's men learned a Chinese term called Beiyang Cavalry.

After the Battle of Sheffield, whenever Drake's men saw horsemen in the Ming army, they would shout at the Beiyang cavalry, and then quickly retreat.

Except for Liu Ruguo who was forced into the mountains, the surrounding plains were all areas where the cavalry of the Ming army might be active. Drake didn't dare to go out and run around.

He could also tell that Liu Ruguo's group was not a regular army. This could be seen from the different colored uniforms, plate armor picked up from nowhere, a small amount of muskets and rare cannons.

But Derek didn't expect Liu Ruguo's people to be the rebel army, he just thought it was the servant army that Daming got from Ireland.

The strength of the rebel army has never been head-to-head fighting, but from the people, and it is easier to incite the people.

Coincidentally, the mountainous area where Drake drove Liu Ruguo to, although it has a large area and a lot of farmland, there are not many native people in it, and more miners.

Because since the sixteenth century, more and more Englishmen have found black and white marble, a large amount of lead ore, coal, purple quartzite and copper here.

So many miners and some outlaws who had a hard time came here, carrying mining picks to quarry for a living.

Liu Ruguo was also a mason before he was a martial artist.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)