The more tight the defense, the more vulnerable the city will be once it is broken from the inside.

The trick of doubting soldiers arranged by Ying Ming took effect halfway, and Baron Charles didn't care about the east side. He focused all his attention on dealing with the possible siege in the north of the city.

More than 5,000 troops were deployed on the city walls in all directions and on the bridges of the Thames River. More than 3,000 elite troops were stationed in the city camps, and they received good rest and sufficient food as reserves for combat in various places.

Various types of city guarding equipment were placed on the city. More than 500 simple stone throwers like seesaws were built under the city, and tens of thousands of pottery jars containing charcoal and wood chips were prepared, specifically for defending the city.

These simple stone throwers placed at the base of the city wall can be controlled by only one person. They light the pot and place it on the seesaw. They pick up the earthen bag on the other side and smash it heavily. They can throw the pot into an arc across the city wall and hit the siege soldiers on the opposite side.

This is the method Baron Charles learned in the North when he pacified the Catholic rebellion.

He knew that the Ming army's elite troops were difficult to fight, but the number was very small. As long as they could successfully kill those blue hats and red hats, other troops would be defeated without attacking.

The Baron even planned to take advantage of the fact that the troops would launch a death-fighting charge after the death of the Ming army's propaganda officer. He specially organized a sniper team of 300 muskets and longbows, named the Blue Hat Killer, intending to snipe the Ming army's propaganda officer if necessary.

Everything is ready, and I only need the Ming army to attack the city.

Several artillery guns in the north shot at the city wall at night at a distance, making the Baron really happy for a few minutes.

But when he found out that the Ming army might have only used a few heavy artillery firing, he extinguished his joy and guessed that the Ming army's strategic intention of this night bombardment was to disturb their sleep, so he sent half of the defenders to rest.

Anyway, I can't tell whether the Ming army is luring the enemy. If I go out of the city to fight, I will definitely not be able to defeat the Ming army. The Ming army will not launch a general attack at night, and the artillery bombardment will not harm the city walls.

It's better to go to bed.

This is indeed not the Tyrannosaurus of Baron Charles. Although the city of London is a vertical wall, it has the Roman stone structure, and later it has been repeatedly reinforced by many kings in England.

The Ming army's light Franz aircraft and tiger squat cannons could not cause damage to the city wall at all, while the heavy General Zhenshuo could cause damage to the city wall, but to rely solely on shelling to collapse the city wall?

This is not an earth wall. A heavy general like this must be placed in at least one hundred people in a row and beating them for two or three days.

As far as Baron Charles knows, the Ming army did not have so many heavy artillery, so they naturally rest assured.

As soon as he gathered the defenders in a mess, he thought of these hints and put them back to sleep. He knew that not long after the troops were down, someone came to report that the Ming army entered the city from the west gate.

Following the soldiers who reported the message were the vast beggars and refugees, as well as the fires rising from the sky on the Thames River southwest of the city, which was the direction of Westminster Temple.

To be precise, it is the book tower of Westminster Temple.

The fire that illuminated the night sky caused the air conditioning behind Baron Charles to rise from his butt groove to the sky cover!

Westminster is not only a nine hundred-year-old church, it is also a symbol of England, where the king is crowned, married, and buried.

Now that the Ming army has entered the city, for some reason, the Westminster Temple Book Tower has caught fire. The crowning relics and the limited records of England for nine hundred years are stored there. How could Baron Charles, who has the responsibility to defend the city, not panic?

Now we need to ignite elite troops and start the Westminster Temple.

But his army couldn't walk.

The streets of London City were originally empty. It was not an industrial or handicraft town. Only workshops belonging to the Wang family were in the city. Due to the Queen's laws, most workshops and houses that cover a large area and are densely populated outside the city.

However, because of the war and in order to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, the people living outside the city were moved in by Baron Charles, and the limited taverns and hotels in the city could not accommodate so many people.

Tens of thousands of displaced people work as the garrison during the day, and treat the streets as the most comfortable hotel at night.

At this moment, the soldiers in Xicheng were in chaos, and the people could not sleep on the ground. All the soldiers fleeing to the north city where the main force of the defenders were located, and the streets were blocked in an instant.

Hu Tianzhe in front wanted to escape from the city, but the one behind squeezed left and right, and saw that the road ahead was different, he slapped the door and crossed the wall, and rushed into the noble house living in the city. He was so aggressive that the housekeeper guarded the ward and scolded each other and fisted at each other, and even pulled his sword to stab people.

For a moment, wailing, screams, and cries filled the Tao.

The people were anxious, and Charles was even more anxious, and asked the Ming army to rush into Westminster Temple to destroy the tombs of the previous kings. He could not raise his head for the rest of his life. He immediately pulled out the pistol on the horse's back to shoot in the sky, then drew out his sword, and waved it to rush out against the crowd on the street.

The soldiers guarding him could only follow suit, forming troops, erecting long bows with long spears, shouting for the people to avoid, and bowing their heads down to press down on the street.

But I knew that this caused even greater chaos.

There were officials in front of them, and there were crowds of people behind them. The people in front were even more uneasy. The frightened crowd could climb over the wall, and could not dodge over the wall, and some even turned around and stepped on people and retreated.

People trampled on each other, and there were countless deaths, but Baron Charles' troops failed to move forward.

Seeing that the fire in that direction became more and more intense, the Baron, who was unable to move forward on the horse's back, was filled with sorrow and distress, he knew that Westminster was beyond his help.

Westminster Temple is indeed beyond salvation, but the fire was not released by the Ming army.

As the defensive functional building closest to the city wall, the monks at Westminster Temple did not have many guards and did not have permanent weapons. After the defenders of the three towers of West City turned against each other, they had no other way to stop them except to raise their hands to curse.

Some people wanted to fight with the Ming army to protect the temple in a life-and-death manner, but before they could see the serious Ming army, they were shot to death by the newly surrendered London camp soldiers with a longbow.

Now that things have come to this point, they have no way out for the surrendered soldiers, so they can only follow the Ming Dynasty and even kill people more than ten times more fiercely than the Ming army with strict military disciplines.

The very small number of defensive forces were quickly frightened. The maid who was using the bishop to communicate with the gods watched the Ming army rush into the tower, and was so scared that she quickly fled to the highest point. Seeing that there was no way to escape, she had to ignite the curtains, trying to burn them with the fire.

The serious Englishmen, no one knew what the military discipline of the Ming army was. All their understanding of the Ming Dynasty came from newspapers published by the royal family. In their eyes, the Ming army was a group of barbarians wearing animal skins, eating people and being evil.

No woman wants to fall into their hands.

Before the Archbishop could draw his sword, he was nailed to death through the door with a big crossbow. Seeing that the fire was getting stronger and stronger, the maid who set fire finally saw the Ming army.

To be honest, the moment she saw Ming Jun, she suddenly regretted setting off this fire.
Chapter completed!