Drake's troops gathered again and swept down the southern mountains.

It was not that Drake wanted to go south to fight with the Ming army, but that there was no way if he didn't go south, autumn was coming.

All the Scottish tribes lacked strong men. They were inspired by Elizabeth to fight south and missed the best time to cultivate the land. Now they have no other way out except to go to the south to grab one.

Relying on the scouts arranged by Ying Ming on the border, Liu Ruguo received news when Drake first advanced south that the five teams of troops from the expansion of the Minyi Army of Shuntian were out in full swing, deployed defenses in the north of the mountain, and fought a beautiful ambush.

Then Drake retreated northward and was chased by Liu Ruguo all the way to the suburbs of the mountain called Manchester in the northwest of the mountain, which was Drake's second line of defense.

The city has no strong defense, but the town is surrounded by three rivers and the siege lasts for many days.

Liu Ruguo's army was transferred here, and Drake's reinforcements also increased their troops to the town.

By controlling Manchester, you will master the estuary of Liverpool in the west and the road to the north or south.

Whoever can control the river can control Manchester.

The Mersey River, which is not wide in the wilderness in the south of the city, became the most critical place for the battle. Crossing the river. For Liu Ruguo's troops, crossing the river and the prosperous towns in the north with the extreme sight of their eyes are trophys at their fingertips.

Reinforcements from both sides arrived and fought fiercely and repeatedly on the riverside. The battle had been going on for seventeen days.

Meng Xin used a trench under a single man's trench on the south bank of the river to clear the gun chamber.

He is from Ailan and was born in a small place in the south of Ailan that cannot be named. He has many brothers and sisters in his family.

The year before yesterday, Liu Ruguo raised an army to attack his hometown, and the family could rob the wealthy businessman's mansions. Later, the Shandong immigrants who led the troops became his eldest brother-in-law and the command soldiers became his third brother-in-law.

The entire family followed the surname Meng.

Later, the eldest brother who was a groom for the nobles was first a cavalry, and when he was fighting in the north, he became the general flag; the second brother who was strong and good at using a logging axe became a knife player, and Zaipu used his shield to kill a nobleman and got his body armor.

The fourth brother ran quickly and became a messenger, but he has not yet joined a war horse for himself. The sixth brother was a spearman in another unit. He used to be a hunter, but later the eldest brother made him a crossbow and became a crossbowman.

The male of their entire family followed Liu Ruguo to sweep the entire Ailan, then climbed onto the land of the English, and walked all the way here.

Meng Xin bit off the wooden cartridge, loaded the ammunition into the gun barrel, looked up from the individual trench and looked at the corpse lying on the river beach with a slump on his back. The Englishman who came to fetch water didn't know what was wrong with his mind and wanted to cross the river.

He swears softly in Chinese, using a fuse rope to smoke a black dot on the handle of the gun.

He blew, and there were already three black dots on it, and this was the fourth one.

The Englishman stood up many pointed wooden poles across the river, very high, some poles poked their heads, and some were still empty.

The distance was a bit far, and Meng Xin couldn't see the faces of the heads, but he knew that one of them was his elder brother.

That was the first battle more than ten days ago. They chased the river bank, and the eldest brother riding a war horse was particularly brave and was shot to death by the enemy's ambush with a longbow.

Meng Xin's elder sister only sent a letter two months ago and said she had given birth to two boys.

Originally, my brother-in-law wanted to go back to Ailan, but the news of the war in the north was halfway through, and he came back a few days before the war.

The day after my elder brother died, the pointed wooden poles stood up on the other side. My brother-in-law wanted to steal my elder brother's head back at night, but he didn't come back after he went there.

So one of the heads worn on the wooden pole may also be his elder brother-in-law.

When he first entered the army, he often bullied him and took care of him on the battlefield was Muye. He used to work with Bai Laohu, but later joined the army. A few days ago, he was shot into a hedgehog in front of him.

There was also an English child who had been in the army for less than three months. He joined them in the mountains. He was always timid and timid, so he did whatever he asked him to do. On the same day as his elder brother, he was stepped into a pool of mud by the knight.

He wanted to play it together, but he tried it, but he couldn't find the arm he lost.

Meng Xin scratched his itchy head, and an unpleasant smell was everywhere in the air. His legs began to hurt again. Next to the open crotch of a linen pants, the wound on his thigh that was shot by an arrow was festering.

He wanted to pray to God, but after thinking about it, he gave up. He just picked up the cake with dirt in the pit and took it into his mouth, looked up at the other side of the river.

The baggage has not been delivered to the front line for several days. I don’t know when I can eat this cake until the whole meal is over, so Meng Xin has been half full in three days, and the hunger in his stomach tortures him all the time.

This battle is more difficult than ever. Yesterday, the fourth brother, who was a messenger, sent him news that his second brother died in a village not far away.

Just five days ago.

A small team of English troops attacked a village from the flank. The second brother brought people to support him. The number of enemies in intelligence was too small, and it was actually much larger. In the end, he was forced into the house and burned to death.

The counterattack had not yet begun, and the general asked them to wait. It is said that they were waiting for reinforcements from the rear. The general of the London Palace would assign them a very warlike force to support them.

Meng Xin didn't know how long he would have to wait. Maybe if he could wait any longer, his third brother-in-law, fourth brother, sixth brother, and his comrades here would die here.

Two people came to the other side, wearing chain mail, covered with an armor of unknown nobleman, and arched their backs, as if they would not be discovered when walking like that.

How could it not be discovered?

Meng Xin calculated the distance from the trench to the riverside, and at most it was only fifty steps. He could see them with his eyes.

The two of them might want to retrieve the body, or they just want to pick up the equipment on the body.

But no matter what they want to do, it is important to quickly enter their own range - even a rabbit from the rebels, Meng Xin will kill him.

Meng Xin looked at the crossbow with a string in the earth pit, quietly placed the crossbow arrows as thick as his fingers beside the pit, blew the fire rope that was about to be extinguished, and placed the bird gun next to the earth pit.

Bang!

The gun fired, and the projectile crossed the two men who were stripping their armor and hit the river in the distance. The two men reacted quickly, threw down their helmets they had just picked up and ran behind them.

After a few steps, a crossbow arrow was nailed from behind and hit a man in the back. He was still running, but his speed slowed down significantly.

Meng Xin put down the steel crossbow, raised the bird gun at his hand, and repeated the action of loading bullets, but his face did not look at the bird gun.

Instead, he looked at the figure with a crossbow arrow stuck behind his back expressionlessly, slowed down step by step, fell to the ground when approaching the river bank, grabbed it forward one by one with his hands until he didn't move.
Chapter completed!