Siege war can establish the advantage of war, but compared to the defending city, the siege often has to face greater difficulties.

Earl Charles of Plymouth is no exception.

Their army was not a standing army. Whether it was loyal to his noble family or other invited lords, their service time was limited. In order to help him, many nobles from the west lost their lives in this battle, which caused a great blow to morale.

If this war seems unprofitable, what are the nobles who summoned the free people and serfs in their territory to form an army and drove a hundred miles to the city of Plymouth?

The biggest dilemma and the most important issue is money.

Often they can rob the place during war. Once the besiege camp is established, soldiers will go out everywhere to incite the peasants to dissatisfie with the lord and rob in a clamped manner.

The problem lies in the territory of Plymouth, the Earl of Charles. How did they incite the people to rob themselves?

Without additional sources of income, the Count had almost dispersed all his wealth to reward reinforcements from all over the country. Everyone's hope was to capture the cities and plunder the Ming merchants.

At least in people's eyes, those merchants are still rich, but no one knows how rich they are. But now only these uncertain amounts are to offset the worries of the aristocrats from the military expenses of hundreds of pounds a day.

The siege has lasted for a long time, and they urgently need a victory, especially for Earl Charles, which already had cavalry and infantrymen left the camp. In fact, it was still good to go on a run. What was even more excessive was that some people began to plunder the place, rob his subordinates, and turn those workshops and farms that belonged to him into ashes.

Their tentative attack failed, and the bluffs surrounding the three sides of the city failed to cause the defenders to relax. The hasty-made stone-casting cannons and crossbows will always be under the focus of enemy artillery in terms of range, and the siege towers were also destroyed by the enemy's cyclone cannons and a defense weapon that could continuously fire rockets.

In the regular siege battles, the Ming merchants guarding the city seemed to have stronger willpower than them.

Of course it is willpower, not more professional. In fact, Earl Charles knew that if he could allow all siege troops to attack together and rely on troops several times more than the defenders, they would easily launch many assaults on the siege for miles, and in the end this city with a severely insufficient number of defenders would definitely fall.

But he could not, except for his direct loyalty to several families, no one of the other reinforcements was willing to advance in the fire of artillery or strange rocket rain for Plymouth.

At the beginning, they could use the wealth possessed by the Ming merchants in the city to tempt them, but the tricky problem now is that many nobles pay more attention to the women at home than the wealth of merchants in the city.

They start fighting in spring, which also brings great difficulties to raising food.

All this made Earl Charles doubt whether the siege could last until the moment the tunnel was dug through.

Fortunately, reinforcements from the sea came, and the news that Wang's brother Howard and Drake led eight Garen ships and twelve armed merchant ships arrived off Plymouth turned the situation around for him.

"Tomorrow we will launch a general offensive. The confrontation has been long enough. Our tunnels are convinced to be dug under the cathedral, but the workers said that they could have heard the conversation above and the chaotic and uninterrupted footsteps underground, and they are likely to regard our church as a barracks."

"So we will continue to dig in three directions, the two streets where the untouchables live and my estate, Miller and Nice, led the troops to enter the streets from the underground with weapons, control the untouchables in the house, and send them weapons, and create chaos in the streets; Sir Harry led the soldiers into the manor, and the enemy commander was likely to rest there, and you will control them."

"It's better to let them declare their surrender."

"If it doesn't work, you will cause as much noise as possible to attract the attention of the defenders, or find a way to open the city gate. Regardless of whether your actions are successful or not, we will launch a general offensive on Plymouth."

The nobles who received the order summoned their subordinates, and the entire besieged camp once again began to pray before the war this night. People knelt and kissed the hilt of the sword. Then the recruits carrying short weapons followed the nobles in bright armor into the narrow tunnel and launched an attack on the city of Plymouth.

No matter what the nobles were thinking about before, at this critical moment, they did not want to show their incompetence in front of the great nobles from the court. Therefore, they had to take action one step ahead, preferably to capture Plymouth before the navy defeated the merchant ship, or at least form a tug of war with the defenders in the city.

Otherwise, the rumors that they were incompetent people would spread throughout London with the return of these great nobles in the palace.

Under Plymouth, the Ming sailor with a wide belt and axe was holding a porcelain bowl upside down on the wall, leaning his ears in the tunnel and listening for a long time, until he heard the sound of chain mail colliding, he turned his head and made several gestures to the sailors holding the three-eyed guns behind him.

People squeezed out of the passage, wore a thousand-layer cloth shoes and tied with winding sailors, climbing up the tunnel to the ground, informing the generals guarding the ground of the discoveries from the underground.

There were sketches of the jurisdiction in front of the Beiyang cavalry at the outpost. The soldiers who listened everywhere reported to this place. According to the sounds heard by the soldiers, he used charcoal to draw the enemy's marching position on the map. A route that extended from outside the city into the city gradually became clear. The cavalry recruited their subordinates and quickly wrote a letter, asking them to hand it to a Makino Baojia General stationed in the defense zone.

The news was quickly transmitted, and Baojia gathered all the tiger men under his general assembly in the letter and asked in a muffled voice: "It's right here? You're ready. When the rockets rise, they will be dug up and blocked the retreat!"

In other parts of the city, some people dug the wellheads and dug the trenches; some people ignited fires and made chimneys with wood; they were all waiting for Ying Ming to send a signal in the city.

If the caravan sailors who used the three-eyed gun could not defeat the enemy underground, they would first dig the tunnel close to the city wall and block the enemy reinforcements. If this could not allow the sailors to defeat the enemy, everyone would retreat to the ground, use chimneys to guide the smoke into the tunnel, and then flood the tunnel.

No matter how well-armed the enemy is or how strong the combat power is, as long as they enter the tunnel, this is a dead end to the Naihe Bridge.

The tunnel is still being excavated.

The soldiers at the front tried their best to suppress their smiles. They could feel that the road was getting easier and easier to dig. The knights behind were whispering that they were not far away and they could reach the wine cellar immediately. Be careful and whisper.

As someone chiseled the last time, the earthen wall made a sound of gold and stone, revealing bricks and stones. People's hearts rose, and someone cheered heavily, and turned around and said, "Sir, we dug up the wall of the wine cellar!"

Someone pushed the loose bricks and stones, trying to see the light out of a little light to look into the wine cellar. Behind him was a short sword, the recruits with an axe tied up their helmets, gathered beside the knights, ready to make a breakthrough.

On the other side of the wall, sailors sitting cross-legged were alarmed by the sound of chiseling the wall. They were ready to pick up their beloved three-eyed guns. Someone raised his thumbs to signal the wall behind them. The brick was slowly chiseled and pushed outward.

The torch ignited the long fuse. The moment the brick landed, two three-eyed guns hit the gap and hit the terrified eyes that wanted to look outward.

The sailors heard the people on the other side of the wall muttering, but they couldn't understand.
Chapter completed!