Cao Changqing regretted that he did not listen to Wang Jinzhong's words, and asked the troops to take advantage of the enemy's gathering in all directions to select elite soldiers to break them one by one.

But Wang Jinzhong was not so insistent, in case the elite soldiers went out of the city and were destroyed by the enemy, it would mean that there would be no elite to save the city when defending the city.

Well, now that all the enemy soldiers are coming to the city, there is no chance to get out of the city.

Whenever the lieutenants of Zhongxian went to the city to investigate the enemy's situation, they could always see the English nobles in the besieging camp organizing martial arts tournaments to drink and have fun, but one after another their orders to exempt the citizens of the city were still transmitted to the city through various channels.

No one would have thought that the singing outside the city was a sign of weakness by the English aristocracy, and although the plan to recruit troops was delayed by the ambush of the merchant soldiers out of the city, they were able to gather more than two thousand troops in a month, plus the merchants, prostitutes, mercenaries, and scavengers of all stripes, and the city looked out of the city to be full of people.

They cut down all the woods they could see, set up camps and fortifications to build siege weapons, and they never stopped persuading them to surrender.

On the one hand, people paid attention to the actions outside the city, and explored their true thoughts from the words sent by the nobles to the city every few days to persuade them to surrender, and on the other hand, they paid attention to Cao Changqing's plans.

The only thing that can provide them with confidence is Cao Daochang's calmness.

The army outside the city is almost more than the citizens in the city, and this is only the noble army gathered in Devon, and in the recent persuasion, the nobles revealed that Dorset in the east and Cornwall in the west have received a request for help from Devon, and a large number of troops are on their way, and this war will end before the summer in any case.

Summer, soon to come.

But Cao Daochang is still very calm, even if Wang Jinzhong, Li Changlai and others look flustered and angry, only Cao Changqing, the county governor, eats, meditates, walks the dog, and sleeps every day, neither handling government affairs, nor flustered, and looks like no one else.

Not even praying.

Of course, the truth is not like what most people seem, Cao Dao was very panicked, but the cultivators, even the action of praying is different from that of the Europafan monk.

How do the monks pray? Kneeling on one knee, kneeling on both knees, bowing with head bowed, and the movements are different.

How does Dao Chang Cao pray?

Cross-legged, put your hands on your legs, raise your chin up, and be angry.

Temperamentally it has already won.

As the mascot of faith, all the affairs in the county are not under the control of the county magistrate Cao Daochang, and the military defense is managed by Wang Jinzhong and Li Changlai, and Josepha is in charge of the baggage, grain and grass, and ordnance, and the shipyard that is free from burning is a good place.

Everyone knows that muskets are good, but most of the blacksmiths in the city don't know how to make muskets, and secondly, Puli County may be broken before the muskets are made.

As for Alan Muming, he is in charge of patrolling the street organization to protect the armor.

Everything went according to plan, but the pressure was mounting, and the English nobles outside the city had already set up trebuchets, two.

And the tone of those who persuaded him to surrender became more and more arrogant, and it was clear that the general attack was coming.

Early in the morning of the third day of the fourth month, Wang Jinzhong stretched out his bow and arrows under the city, and accurately nailed the arrows to the center of the arrow stomping not far away for practice, when he heard the city lookout report that another army had entered the siege camp.

"A whole army, they have artillery?"

Wang Jinzhong raised his hand to buckle himself with a bowl with skin chain mail, he was wearing a half-sleeved placket short cotton robe with blue auspicious clouds and dark patterns, fastboots with mille-feuille soles, and a leather with iron bars wrapped around his calves, under the cotton robe was a middle-sleeved chain mail shirt with a heart guard and a cotton jacket as a lining, and two quivers hung on his waist, and he did not carry a waist knife but carried a four-edged iron shovel diagonally behind his back.

He may be the most capable person in the whole Puli County, this chain mail shirt on his body did not have heart goggles in the past, it was his trophy in Luzon, the owner of the chain mail in the past was a squad leader who did not leave Luzon after the war, and he led the soldiers to fall into the grass, and everyone was killed by him, and the riveted chain mail was not broken, but the lock ring on the chest was deformed, light and strong, and he left it for his own use.

In fact, he has always wanted to get a Beiyang cuirass, but he couldn't buy it when he was in the Ming Dynasty, not that it wasn't available on the market, but it was too expensive to afford.

The cost is not much high, the amount flowing out of the market is too small, and there are too many people who want to buy it.

Twenty taels of silver, why don't you do something?

This money can buy two war horses, four pack horses, two bows, six bags of arrows, and four fine goose feather blades, which can arm two lightly armed archers.

However, now that he wants to really go to the battlefield, Wang Jinzhong can't help but regret that he didn't spend a lot of money to buy himself a set of Beiyang military equipment...... Not to mention, if you wear Beiyang weapons from head to toe, you may have the courage to go into battle.

Wang Jinzhong asked angrily, "What about Captain Li?" ”

"The captain is in the city, please go to the city."

The head of the Mongolian sumo wrestling coach who grew up in Tianjin Wei nodded, looked back at the sailors resting under the city, and summoned the leader to cheer up his subordinates, put the riding bow back into the bow bag behind him, and walked towards the castle tower.

The atmosphere is getting more and more tense, now most of the sailors of the Daming Hall live in the dwellings close to the city wall, the original city wall of Plymouth is mainly guarded against enemies from the sea, the city wall on the north side of the town is sloppy, wood, earth and stone are mixed, and it looks stronger than the camp under the wood, although the merchant soldiers have been reinforcing recently, but how long this wall can be held up, no one knows.

These sailors from the Ming Dynasty have never seen anyone in this world who really built the city wall straight up and down, and it is not strong when they look at it.

On the city wall, Li Changlai, who was also a lieutenant of Zhongxian, supported the battlements surrounded by a group of Nanyang warriors wearing Ming costumes, and looked out of the city according to the improvised sketch in his hand, frowning.

Compared with Wang Jinzhong, Li Changlai is more like a leader of the army, even if he is just wearing a satin robe and a hair scarf, Yu Guang saw Wang Jinzhong coming up, and hurriedly opened his hand and said: "The captain came at the right time, there may be six hundred people joining the siege today, we don't have much time, they bring at least two cannons, with two catapults, they may start the siege tomorrow." ”

"When they start attacking, how long does Captain Wang think this city can be defended?"

Wang Jinzhong just shook his head lightly and did not speak.

They lacked experience in warfare and missed the opportunity to break the enemy's army, and now it is difficult to attack out of the city, and it is also different to hold the city.

No one thought the city would be able to withstand a two-day attack.

He asked, "Do you think we can hold out until the Oriental reinforcements arrive?" ”

"It's difficult, if there is no accident with the ship asking for help, the fastest and fastest, it will only arrive in Makino a month ago, the news is sent from Makino to Mexico City, even if it is changed on the road, it will take seven days, and the generals of the military government will send troops, and it will take another seven days, and we will have to hold on for at least a month to see reinforcements."

Li Changlai turned his head and scolded secretly: "Fuck, I miscalculated!" ”