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Chapter 1517 Peace Talk
In August of the 12th year of Wanli, troops holding high the banner of Emperor Ming once again crossed Hadrian's Great Wall.

This time, they did not go to the north of the low wall to fight. Although the Uesugi Guards who were rushing northward on the way did have several conflicts with the Sixth Division of Scotland, they were mainly for cross-border disaster relief.

On the one hand, it was used to help the lack of rations caused by the recruitment of young and strong soldiers in northern Scotland, and on the other hand, it was also to recruit farmers and women for the land actually controlled by Liu Ruguo.

The previous wars caused a large number of Yilan people to flee to the north following the footsteps of the nobles and the defeated army. There is indeed a lot of land in the north for farming, especially after a large number of soldiers from the southern expedition died in battle. Almost every family cried, but there was no one who could Let southern refugees work the land.

The owners of those fields would rather the land go barren than give up the fields to others for cultivation.

What's more, even if they are willing to sell the fields, it is already too late. Autumn has already arrived, and Scotland will soon fall into severe winter, and there will be no time for them to cultivate.

In fact, peace talks between Scotland and the House of London have already begun. The pro-government King James sent envoys to try to get the two sides to draw a border line that is beneficial to Scotland in order to maintain long-term peace.

The original intention is good, but the concerns of both parties are not on the same line.

Tang Xianzu, the prefect of London, and Ying Ming, the commander-in-chief, agreed that they had won the war, and that Scotland would simply surrender.

But Scotland didn't see it that way. They believed that the previous war had nothing to do with Scotland. Although they sent troops, it was a war between Ming and Yilan. Now that battle has ended with Elizabeth's surrender.

King James is the heir of Elizabeth and has the right to inherit the entire island. Now that Scotland is willing to share the island with the Ming army, you will withdraw to the south of York and everyone will maintain long-term peace.

Isn't this a dream?

Ying Ming was not a very moral person, and when he saw that the negotiations could not yield any point of view that he would like to hear, he sent cavalry to order Uesugi Jingsheng at the front line to continue heading north.

In fact, Uesugi Jingsheng was also holding his breath, not because of anything else... just because of the torture here.

Almost every village and town has its own torture, and even Jing Sheng saw it. Just because his wife talked too much, the husband put an iron halter on his wife's head and went for a walk in the street, just like walking a dog.

Some iron bridles still have screws on the eyes and mouth, and when they are put on and screwed on, the mouth and eyes are all broken.

There are also those who saw people upside down, tear people apart from the middle, twist off the kneecaps, crush the head, and even make two containers to connect the eyes and teeth. Who can bear these things?

The key is why these tortures were created by people, which is the most puzzling thing for Jing Sheng.

It has exceeded the limit of what he can understand.

If you want to kill people, you can kill them. What are you doing with these things?
The most unacceptable thing for Jing Sheng is that these instruments of torture have been approved by the church, so they can be used on a large scale.

He knew those Kiritan daimyos were not good things when he was in Japan, but he didn't expect that when he got here, he realized that these people were more cruel than his adoptive father Kenshin.

so horrible.

But now for the Scots, they are more terrifying guys.

Of course, Jing Sheng's troops are not the scariest. The most terrifying is the Cho Can's troops from the Anmin Rebel Army in Suncheon, known as the White Devils.

There are not many soldiers in Zhao Can's Department, but they are extremely rich... They are really rich. After receiving the equipment from Yingming, everyone has clothes to wear. Due to the limited dyes, they can only write Tuanming on their chests with various dyes. All good white cotton.

In terms of military equipment, apart from a small group of cavalry artillery, [-] infantry with a water gun, followed Jing Sheng all the way to the north, and all the armor and helmets on the soldiers were picked up on the battlefield.

For the Scots, their horror lies in the homemade thorn.

Zhao Can had seen the blunderbuss of the Beiyang infantry, and in order to make the blunderbussmen under his command have considerable ability, he specially asked Liu Ruguo to make the blunderbuss in the mountains.

They appear on the battlefield in the form of musketeers, and the Scots have seen such troops, and they have musketeers themselves, so the enemy who sees them for the first time will rush to them as fast as possible, and try to cut them down with their swords .

As a result, every time they rushed to a distance of twenty or thirty steps, they would be shot by muskets. First, a group of people fell, and the rest continued to charge forward. Suddenly, they found that the musketeers who were holding muskets dared to line up and charge back at them. .

It's not a random charge, but a row of muskets with jabbers coming forward, each time they hit more and hit less, stabbing indiscriminately, and then go back to the whole team after the stabbing, and the next team continues to charge.

In the encounter, the Scottish infantry who were shot at close range for a while could not form an organized squad, not to mention that they were holding Scottish tomahawks and highland swords, even if they had three heads and six arms, they would have to be stabbed to death.

Zhao Can is a general who can't fight, the only thing he can do is to be clear about things.

He clearly talked about the skills of the musketeers. Their rebels might not even be as skilled as the Scottish musketeers, so the best way to fight is to line up and wait for the enemy to get close enough to shoot. After shooting, go directly to melee.

They can't beat the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, so they have to line up to ensure that at least three people can beat each other at a time, so that they can stab and defeat the enemy.

The difficulty of this technique is that the soldiers are reluctant to live without the muskets in their hands.

"Why don't you go on the spear?"

"Using the thorn will make the barrel bend, and if you bend it for the next battle...the gun will be useless in the next battle."

Hearing what his subordinates said, Zhao Can was about to be blown up by a fool: "Use the blunderbuss to stab the enemy and bend the barrel, which means you have killed at least one enemy. Seven or eight hundred of you, if you kill one, you can kill the enemy." Eight hundred."

"If you don't install a blunderbuss and you are killed by the enemy, what else can you leave besides allowing the enemy to capture a blunderbuss with a straight barrel?"

"Besides, it's my business that the barrel of your gun is bent. I'll just find you another gun. Is this something you have to think about?"

But it is true that they are always stabbing like this, and the damage to the barrel is really serious. Fortunately, the Ming army took over the London Palace early, so that the craftsmen there can continue to make barrels in the Royal Armory to supply front-line military supplies.

The envoy James sent to London was still telling Ying Ming and Tang Xianzu that their king must divide Yilan Island with the Ming army and draw the border at York.

King James of Scotland, who was far away in Dwarf Nail Castle, had already seen the Ming army.

Layer upon layer of soldiers shouted chant outside the castle, dug out one trench after another, encircling the castle into a jeopardy.

It made him feel a little regretful, but at this time, the young king was no longer able to inform the envoys from the south of the latest instructions.

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)