open sea

Chapter 1501
The battle for Manchester is over.

The two armies confronted each other for more than a month, but it took less than two hours from marching northward across the Mersey River to breaking the city.

Then it took only three days to eradicate the resistance forces in this big town one by one.

It is difficult for those stragglers and mobs to pose a threat to organized professional veterans.

Both rise and fall are bitter.

In the second year of the Tianli calendar of Emperor Mingzong of the Yuan Dynasty, there were only 39 years left before the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

There was a severe drought in Guanzhong that year, and the history books said that the hungry people ate each other. The imperial court appointed him seven times. Zhang Yanghao, a sixty-year-old scholar, donated his money and went out to the mountain to relieve the disaster. He passed through Tongguan and wrote such a poem.

Today's England is facing a similar hell on earth as that year, whether it is a drought or a war.

Less than four months after their new life was on the right track, the peace was broken by the sudden war.

Wars come and go faster.

A moment ago, all the men in the city were mobilized, and the children who had just learned to climb trees stood in a row on the street, with two horseshoes stuffed into their hands by the mercenary who lost one eye.

The lord stringing the longbow was breathing heavily, and people were whispering in the streets, on the roofs, by the windows, and beside the fences in the yard, as if speaking a little louder would be heard by the all-pervasive Ming army outside the city.

But the Ming army was actually still on the other side of the Mersey River. The aristocratic lord wearing a dazzling jousting plate armor and riding through the street said that the invincible Royal Navy of England had left the city to fight the Ming army.

Countless young men lined up in the army, carrying spears, longbows and Scottish swords, singing folk songs, stepped out of the street and walked out of the city. Angry, people clenched their fists and encouraged them viciously: "Kill them all!"

When the army was gone, the people gathered on the street slowly dispersed, and the chimneys of every house were smoking, throwing as much food as possible into the big clay pots and iron pots.

One must be particular about food. In this season of lack of food, not every kind of rotten vegetable leaves can be cooked together with the roots that have been stewed in the pot for three to five days.

The battle will last for a long time. In fact, everyone has no idea whether the Royal Navy of England can win, and everyone tacitly does not reveal their expectations.

'If you can win, you have already won, why is the royal navy fighting land battles with others. '

But the dishes still have to be cooked, and they hope the Royal Navy will win.

But the battle ended much sooner than people imagined. Before the newly lit fire could even heat up the soup, the panicked horseshoes had already trampled on the street, and it struck everyone's heart like thunder.

It's a broken army.

No one knew who was the first rout to run back, only that those noble lords who had been riding tall horses through the streets and alleys half an hour ago left through the city in a panic that had been holding back half an hour to find the toilet.

Behind them, the messy soldiers running across the street looked like someone had fired a shot in a pigsty. They had a complete system and sufficient troops, but they didn't run that way.

The fleeing soldiers fled into their homes, and their armor and weapons were completely thrown away on the way to escape. They panicked and asked their families to pack up their valuables, and some even ran away empty-handed.

No one could tell why they were defeated, and none of the soldiers who managed to escape back into the city fought the enemy at all, but they knew very well that the battle was over.

Their formation was overwhelmed by others.

To be precise, the army formation was overwhelmed by our own people.

One of their counts was deeply trusted by Drake for his military exploits, and he was responsible for the battle that drove Liu Ruguo from the north into the mountains last year.

A veteran general in the army, he is very capable. The troops under his command have lost in encounter battles, and he has never lost a single large-scale battle.

Only this time, after setting up the battle line, I was moved to see the enemy retreat to the other side of the river.

It was a trap, and all of them knew it was a trap now, but half an hour ago, no one felt that way.

Because the Ming army left two cannons in the camp, two large rotary cannons.

As an old opponent who fought against Liu Ruguo many times, the Earl knew that the biggest reason why Liu Ruguo was unfavorable and retreated every time in the battle was the lack of fire support.

He knew how important the two artillery pieces were to Liu Ruguo.

It was precisely because of this that he judged that there must be a big problem in the rear of the Ming army, and promptly dispatched three thousand-man teams with the worst equipment to evacuate the camp that the Ming army had no time to clean up as quickly as possible.

Then the Ming army crossed the river.

The three teams of thousands who were packing up their luggage were at the moment when their organization was the loosest. Some turned back to meet the enemy, some hurriedly transported the carriage, and some even ran back without leaving the carriage behind.

The artillery placed on the front line was useless, and the officer ordered the artillery bombardment, but the artillerymen were unwilling to drop the shells on their friendly troops until the front line was completely dispersed by the friendly troops.

Soldiers who fight on their own, whether they meet the enemy or flee, are a drop in the bucket for the enemy troops who are culled by organized teams.

Before the people in the city recovered from the situation where the army was fleeing, real bad luck had already befell them.

The aristocrats on horseback fled first, and the rest of the unorganized rout joined the gangsters in the city who dared not join the battle. No one knew who started it first, but soon the town was full of smoke, and people were robbing and killing people everywhere.

The paradox of the war happened here. The Ming army, whom they had never met, appeared in front of them for the first time in the form of a savior.

Block the streets and occupy the key points and all the roofs of the towns with more than two floors, and execute the perpetrators decisively and mercilessly during the march;
Squads of heavily armed soldiers went from house to house and picked out all the men like chickens;

No one can escape. Those routs and hooligans who were too late to leave had dozens of people hidden in one street, but hid in different houses. In the end, only a small team of less than a dozen people was needed to search the entire street.

At the very beginning, there were rout soldiers rushing out of the house with their swords in hand. As soon as those black-armored soldiers drew their swords halfway, the musketeers standing on the roof across the street took all of his battles in the smoke from their guns. ability.

People were sent to the roof of lame Irishmen leaning on muskets, shouting that the war was over, put down their weapons to fight the fire, and the government registered and distributed the fields.

Afterwards, no one resisted, and more and more people came out of the house, until a child broke through the wooden door and rushed out. With all his strength, he threw the horseshoe towards the figure on horseback escorted by infantry at the end of the street.

The hoofs smashed down the street, and sparks made a clanging sound, stopping the entire general's guard.

Zhao Can on horseback looked around, behind the half-closed doors, there were women's worried and frightened faces, but no one dared to look at him, except for the child's mother, no one dared to go out of the house Door.

He could see that the shocked people were already tired of this kind of life.

The guard picked up the bird gun, and Uesugi Wei's ashigaru became even more nervous, holding the tassel gun ring and approaching, but Zhao Can stopped him.

Zhao Can, a general of the Shuntian Anmin Rebel Army and a friend of Liu Ruguo's martial artist, got off his horse and approached with a friendly smile. He said, "It's all right."

"It's okay, the baby sees me riding a horse and regards me as a nobleman."

"Son, stop fighting and go to school."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)