"Dong, dun..."

The drum sounded in the air. Under the guidance of the drum sound, a team of nearly 10,000 people headed south along the road. The team included both cavalry and artillery, but more were musketeers. Ten years ago, when the new flintlock rifle from the East spread to Europe, a revolution was quickly launched. The reliable and light flintlock rifle and paper-packed fixed-loading bullets quickly replaced the colloid.

Even the New Model Army defeated the King's Army in Scotland with its new muskets. Of course, in history, they also defeated the King's Army, and with the bonus of new weapons, the effect was better.

Now, this legion that went south from Scotland was the Scottish legion that Cromwell had high hopes. Even the whole of Britain placed hope on Scottish Governor George Monk. Monk fought under the Duke of Buckingham as early as 1625 and basically participated in the British foreign wars. As a lieutenant colonel of the infantry regiment, he participated in the bishop war in 1639. Later, he suppressed the Irish uprising. After the civil war broke out, he returned to England to join the royal army. In 1644, he was captured by the Congress army and was imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years. He wrote a book "Analysis of Political and Military Situation". It may be this book that made him suffer from Cromwell.

He was appointed as a major general of the new model army. He was once suspected of secretly colluding with the Royalist Party and was forced to retreat. After the Scotland revived in 1650, he was activated by Cromwell to fight the Scots. Since then, he has made many military achievements in fighting in Scotland and suppressed a large number of royalists. In the British-Dutch War, after Robert Black was seriously injured, he took over command and eventually led the British Navy to win and gained great prestige. After the end of the British-Dutch War, he returned to Scotland in 1654 and suppressed another rebellion of the Royalist Party. Monk's rule in Scotland was quite successful, not only completely conquering Scotland, but also not aroused resistance.

In the past few years, Monk has been running his army in Scotland. He has replaced many officers in the army. While improving military discipline, he also operated the troops he commanded like an iron barrel. After receiving Cromwell's order, Monk led his 12,000 elite troops all the way south to reinforce London.

This army, which has been through many battles in Scotland, is undoubtedly the trump card in Cromwell's hands, and even shoulders the fate of England, which is also the key to this battle. For George Monk, he had only one idea to go to London and fight back the Chinese.

"The Chinese... really don't know how this war was initiated."

George Monk, who was riding on the horse, murmured to himself.

"General, no one can give us an accurate answer, all the intelligence is just mentioned, we had a conflict with them in Plinmouth, and then the Chinese broke into the Thames, destroyed our fleet, burned London..."

William's answer made George Monk frown. The war has gone on until now, and he doesn't even know the reason for the war to break out?

Is there anything more ridiculous than this?

In fact, this is not absurd. The reason why Cromwell was unwilling to publicize the reason for the outbreak of the war was, firstly, because he did not want the outside world to know that the reason for the war was because of the "misunderstanding" caused by the "Navigation Regulations". This misunderstanding hurt the face of the Chinese mission, so the Chinese mission took revenge.

The face of the Celestial Empire is very important, and Cromwell also values ​​his face. In fact, he did not know that the face of the Celestial Empire may be important, but England is just a "chicken" that hit the door.

It’s just a chicken that kills chickens for monkeys to show. As for monkeys, of course they are from all over Europe!

For the Ming delegations who came from afar, they had to "perform" in Europe and use tough military strikes to tell European countries what the power of the Celestial Empire is! Let them get used to dealing with the Ming Dynasty and dealing with the Ming Dynasty under the conditions and context of the Ming Dynasty.

No matter what the reason was, in the end, the Ming Dynasty would use a certain country to re-establish the "diplomacy" of European countries, but England itself bumped into it and then became a "sacrifice", that's all.

Whether it was George Monk or Cromwell, they had no way of knowing all this. They even took the initiative to respond to the Ming Dynasty's "needs" to mobilize troops to resist the attack of the Celestial Empire.

In order to attack the Chinese, Cromwell even mobilized the troops stationed in Ireland, and drew troops from 11 military regions across the country, added George Monk's army, and finally gathered in London, with more than 50,000 troops!

This will be the largest battle in British history.

This war not only attracted the attention of the "whole world", but also attracted the attention of some bards. After all, this is a rare "game".

In short, George Monk finally arrived in London on June 23, when the fire in London had been extinguished, but he did not express much sympathy for those displaced Londoners. He asked as soon as he saw Fairfax, who came to greet him, the former commander of the Congress.

"Why haven't we attacked until now? My friends? Aren't they only a few thousand people? Why has it been dragged until now?"

This is exactly where George Monk was confused, and Fairfax said helplessly.

"They have cannons!"

"cannon?"

George Monk wondered.

"Yes, this may be the Chinese who surpassed Europeans. In terms of ballistics, this is not to say how well their guns and cannons have reached, but that they are surprisingly large and therefore have a long range, even as we have never heard of. Our cannons are like pocket toys compared with the terrible weapons of China... Their cannons fire hundreds of pounds of shells, which can easily knock down hundreds of people seven miles away. Although they have few people, the lethality of their cannons is very terrible. Every time they fire, the soldiers fall down like wheat ears under a sickle. Their cannons have very strong killing ability. When they attack them, they killed hundreds of us with one shot. Really, a group of people fell down with a bang."

For the British, after discovering the Ming army's fleet, they also tried to reclaim the artillery and the occupied docks, but in the face of the fierce artillery fire of the fleet, they were all stunned.

Fairfax's answer made George Monk stunned.

"Is this possible? A few hundred pounds of shells?"

How many pounds is the largest artillery in Europe?

"Of course, their warships are filled with such cannons, and there is nothing strange about it. The Chinese, the first mechanics in the world, are born engineers. Their giant cannons are enough to make any opponent bow their heads in front of them..."

Lower his voice, Fairfax said.
Chapter completed!