Chapter 219 Choice
Winchester's intermittent battle continued until the evening.
Both sides were red-eyed. Robert Dudley retreated three times and then completed the team three times. Until the evening, none of his two Spanish legions-like organizational structures were annihilated by the Ming army.
The Puli camp on the Ming army kept jumping repeatedly between recklessness and failure.
Before the two sides could start fighting, the shells hit the military formation and they wanted to flee. Then they saw that there were too many artillery on their side, and they felt that they had the advantage. The officers and the longbowmen were not required to complete the squad, so they went back to stand on their own.
As soon as he stood up, the Knights on the opposite side charged in a whole team. Without surprise, these free people today still couldn't forget the fear of being dominated by the nobles. They did not have any hesitation and began to retreat again.
After fleeing halfway, the camping soldiers of Muye calmed down and pressed the knight master to the ground with a tiger squat cannon until they hit the ball. Ying Ming then led the Beiyang cavalry from the rear, knocking the British cavalry to the point of being terrified, and even holding a pistol, he could not aim at anyone.
Prie camp became hard again, and they were possessed by gods, holding a hunting knife and stabbing the knocked knight to death, and then followed Makio camp with blood on his face.
Makio camping is really brave. As early as when they were still playing with stone tools, they dared to fight with Spanish soldiers with longbows. Now, they all carry the cannons and carry the ring-headed steel swords, which are more like tigers going down the mountain, easily killing the enemy musketeers and fleeing.
The musketeers who fled in all directions did not forget to hold the heavy musket and hit the Puli Camp to a big party.
They were defeated again.
This defeat became the reason why the battle, which could have ended at noon, continued until the evening.
Many people were let down by the wounded musketeers. The musketeers who were eager to escape did not care about their lives. In the end, many of the new recruits who had never been on the battlefield in the past were frightened after being beaten and turned dizzy and even forgot where their central camp was.
After all, the soldiers of the Puli Camp look the same as the British soldiers. They are in farm clothes, and many British soldiers also have farm clothes. When they see others fleeing, they think they are their own people and they run away.
But at the beginning, no one on both sides felt that it was wrong.
Makio was tired of fighting, and they were carrying heavy loads, both with big crossbows and tigers. Seeing the enemy retreating and chasing after two symbolic steps, the battalion, which was worried about the physical strength of the soldiers, ordered the general to reorganize the team for a short rest.
Ying Ming's cavalry and horses were also tired. They basically changed their horses all the way through the battle. Now that they saw a victory in a battle, they wiped out the enemy cavalry, they were busy gathering the running horses and didn't bother pursuing them.
Not to mention the three Puli camps that have no sense of existence in the battle.
It was not until Count Robert Dudley started to reorganize the team that he realized that his troops had suffered a lot in the battle, which everyone knew.
But he had a small number of people, and it seemed that he had more soldiers after a morning.
Only when the tide is gone can I know who is swimming naked, but only when the small company is separated can I know who is infiltrated.
More than 700 people were squatting leisurely on the British position and gasping for breath. When they suddenly looked up, they found that they ran to the wrong place. The atmosphere was extremely awkward for a moment.
They were not prepared, and the remnants of England were not prepared, and they fought in chaos. The other end of the battlefield was thinking about whether to set up a camp on site or retreat to the trenches to protect the central army. Suddenly, they saw the Luobu Army fighting with them, and quickly ordered troops and armed forces to persuade them to fight.
When he approached, he found that a unit that was being chased and beaten was running in his direction. It was the leader of the Principal who ran and turned around while covering his helmet.
After joining the army, he also invaded the enemy. It seemed that he had underestimated his army in the past.
Such a new battle continued to unfold until the evening of that day. In the end, Ying Ming's troops were not strong enough. Some soldiers seriously injured the enemy after assassination or slashing, and they also lie on the ground, losing the strength to get up again.
In the end, Ying Ming didn't know how many of the defeated Winchester army fled back to the city, and he estimated that the number was less than 800.
Of course, he was also very sure that his subordinates did not kill so many people. In the afternoon battle, many enemy troops threw away their weapons and took off their armor and ran to another place.
There are still many people living on the battlefield. After a battle, the tiger squat cannon was destroyed by high-intensity fire. The other six were deformed. It is difficult to kill the enemy directly after the shells or large crossbows. Therefore, there are crooked wounded soldiers everywhere in the field.
Ying Ming's troops had neither the strength to finish the fight nor the spare energy to rescue them. They must have taken care of their injured people first. When all the wounded soldiers of his subordinates were settled, they sent people to collect the enemy wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
The professional soldiers of the knights and heavy infantry were not counted. The other soldiers obviously made Ying Ming feel that many of them had not received decent military training and had no high fighting will.
The biggest possibility they stayed on the battlefield was not to fight to the end, but to be injured by the Ming army's Sanzi Tiewan before they could figure out where to run, or just started running, they were injured by the Ming army's Sanzi Tiewan and could not run.
For people like this, Ying Ming asked the soldiers to pull their clothes and take out the projectiles and bandage them as much as possible. Of course, there is no medicine. After that, they will tell them that as long as they no longer become enemies with the Ming army, they will be free.
After taking off the weapons and armor, I can go wherever I want. I can get some places to go west of Winchester, but more people's choice is to go east of Winchester, where their home is.
Before Ying Ming could consider whether to go back to the trenches to sleep or go to Portsmouth City to the south to sleep, before Ying Ming could consider whether to sleep tonight, Winchester City sent him an invitation to declare his surrender.
It took some time to find out that Robert Dudley fought to death outside the city for a whole day, and performed three defeats and three reorganizations, winning Ying Ming's respect, but failed to get the sympathy of the Winchester elders.
When Mr. Radish brought his hundreds of Radish troops to Winchester with him, the defenders in the city closed the gates and asked him to return to London, and did not allow him to enter the city at all.
The people in the city were not prepared to stand with Robert and fight an extremely difficult battle for the queen to defend the city.
They simply drove away Robert, who wanted to enter the city to rest, turned to surrender to the Ming army.
In fact, when Ying Ming and Robert fought outside the city, a small peasant uprising broke out in the city.
The Ming army's declaration of commitment to the people of England had long been spread throughout every corner of England with Puley's printing newspapers, and even spread to Scotland in the north. Everyone knew that the enemy of the Ming army was the royal family, nobles and wealthy merchants riding on people's heads, rather than the people of England.
Not only are they not enemies with the people, but they will also give rewards because the people do not shoot at them. At least in tabloids circulating everywhere, they promise that they may grant land or hereditary aristocrats to loyal people.
Of course, no one believes in newspapers, and even if people want to believe, there is no soil for them to believe.
But Winchester is different. The main force of the army was defeated. The lord will definitely mobilize wealthy businessmen to invest and hire them to defend the city. The multiple-choice question of whether to be an enemy of the Ming army or surrender is already in front of you.
There are not many choices left for them.
The two options are obvious. Should we make the Ming army annihilated hundreds of nobles in one battle more terrifying, or should the nobles in the city be more bullied by the wealthy businessmen?
Even if they win the Ming army by chance, they will only get a few days' salary; but if they win the city's nobles open the city and offer surrender, if the tabloids say it is true, at least they will get much more than help Robert.
People have a scale in their hearts, and they know how to choose.
Chapter completed!