Speaking of which, the aristocratic lords of Plymouth are also miserable.

You say that this plague is a plague, and it has not stopped making trouble for three hundred years, and everyone is very experienced, and they take their wives and children and servants out of the city to spend a vacation in a place where no one is around.

The Black Death, take a vacation, and come back and it's gone.

But they didn't expect this time to be different, and the dozen or so knights and knights living in Plymouth were horrified to find that not only was the Black Death gone, but their homes and possessions were gone.

The knights who came first did not see the troops left behind, and the knights who came back later shouted at the city gate, to which the city head responded with a string of arrows fired from a Chinese bow...... The bow-wielding masters were not only the merchants of the Ming Kingdom who lived here, but also the untouchables in the city.

The enraged knights rushed back to their fiefdoms, most of which were ambushed on their way to the villages, and the untouchables took refuge in the fields on both sides of the dirt paths in the chain mail of the Plymouth Guards, firing at them with crossbows and muskets.

Worse had happened on the Taima River, where the nobles on the west bank of the river had not been ambushed, but the people of the seven villages along the river had disappeared without a trace, and some nobles who had taken refuge in the nearby hills claimed that they had seen Galen's ships docked at Plymouth Military Harbour appear along the shore, but no one cared.

Others had fiefdoms farther away, but fortunately far enough to recruit their subordinates, only to return to the city to find themselves helpless against Plymouth.

Who the goes out on a trip with siege weapons!

Plymouth is relatively isolated from the Tyma River to the west, Plymouth Bay to the south, and the Primm River to the east, and is only connected to the land about four miles wide to the north and northeast.

They didn't have ships, but the Plymouth pariahs did, and they knew very well what the Galen ships were.

The Whirlwind Cannon, the small Furlong Cannon, made by the Plymouth Shipyard, and the coiled iron forged steel cannon purchased from the Netherlands, were not of great caliber, but for the rafts used to force the crossing, a single shot could blow them to the ground.

And on a river of this width, the possibility of an artillery shot is negligible.

While no one knows exactly what happened, it is clear that Plymouth rebelled during the plague, attacking the defenders, sweeping away the peasants, and seizing the ships in the harbor.

In fact, at this time, most of the nobles were optimistic about the situation, and they thought that it was a peasant uprising.

It is not that there are no peasant uprisings in Europe, but their uprisings are too weak, one weak in equipment, the other in the revolutionary program, and the latter is far more decisive than the former.

In the past uprisings, most of the peasants were indeed poorly equipped, and hundreds of peasant armies with dung forks may only need two knights with spears and swords to rush in a wave to disperse.

But most of the peasant uprisings were attended by rich peasants, for example, in the peasant uprisings that took place in England, many small landowners with hundreds of acres of land, and citizens who raised two or three hundred sheep and hundreds of large cattle also joined the uprising.

The main reason for the failure is that they don't know exactly what to oppose.

The program of the peasant uprising in ancient China was indeed not very good, but the goal was very clear, and it was no longer one's own to dare to rebel, and there was only one goal, to overthrow the imperial court, as for the rest of the matter? I have a life to live until then!

The peasant revolt in Europe has never been so decisive, and they are not to blame, when they think they are being oppressed, and from whom does this oppression come from? And against whom?

Regardless of the king's business, the king had nothing to do with them, he was the lord.

So just kill the lord, after killing the lord, the kingdom will send a new lord, everyone will discuss the tax law, and the uprising will be over.

Therefore, outside the city of Plymouth in the eleventh year of Wanli, the nobles also sent riders to the city to express their ideas of negotiation after consultation, to see whether the apprentices were not satisfied, or the peasants were not satisfied, or the untouchables in the city who had no citizenship rights were dissatisfied.

But what they didn't expect was that this time Plymouth was different.

The chubby Protestant monk was supposedly released from the city crying, bringing the shocking news that the leader of this rebellion was a Ming merchant!

"The Black Death swept the church away in the city, they said Puli County, they called Plymouth Puli County, said that Puli County was under the protection of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Empire, and asked you to evacuate twenty miles north, otherwise it would be regarded as a provocation to the Ming Empire."

"They have fifty ships and two thousand soldiers, and if they don't retreat north, they will come to attack you."

It is clear that it is possible that there are fifty ships in Plymouth, and those armed merchant ships docked in the harbor are indeed a lot, but two thousand soldiers? There were only a few thousand people in the city, how could there be two thousand soldiers.

But Cao Daochang didn't lie, he was just exaggerating, there were more than 2,000 people with weapons in the city, but not all of these people with weapons had ever fought.

The siege began.

The enraged knight sets fire to the field, only to find out that it was his own farmland that has been burned, only to be even more enraged.

Trenches and barricades were laid layer upon layer, and the camp outside the city grew stronger day by day in the eyes of Cao Changqing and others in the city, and every day new people came from all over Devon, ranging from a few to more than a hundred, gathering little by little.

There are no veterans in the city, and they don't know what to do in this situation, Wang Jinzhong gathered more than a dozen horsemen out of the city to explore the north once, and encountered the rangers of the besieging army on the way, and there were casualties in a battle, and then decided to defend the city to the death - the food in the city is enough to eat for another two months, and the grain in the Daming Hall is enough for the Ming people to eat for half a year, and they are not in a hurry to go out of the city.

More and more nobles gathered on the northern land to recruit troops, they are not worried, the combat strength of the two sides is only between the two, although those nobles have good armor and good weapons, they also inherited the fine tradition of the Wanli Emperor, copied the nobles' homes and got a lot of exquisite armor, maybe they are more powerful than the people outside the city.

When there is a city, they can defend the city, even if the city is captured, there is still the Ming Hall, no matter how bad it is, they can also abandon the city by sea and escape.

The only thing that worried Cao Changqing was the sea, if the English fleet cut off their sea routes, things would be in trouble.

Now they have only one hope, and it is a gamble.

Bet on whether Makino's reinforcements will come first, or England's navy will come first.