Chapter 1008: London Chaos (continued)
"What? Traitors launched tonight? Isn't that already started? Why did you get the news so late? General Chrissy was furious.
However, he didn't have the heart to blame the intelligence officers. Because, he must hurry up and attack the whole army. Otherwise, if it's late, it can go terribly wrong. Because, he wasn't sure if those recruits would be able to beat the traitors. In terms of heads-up ability, many killers among traitors are very powerful.
In other words, among those remnants of the Tudor Dynasty, there are many killers who are equivalent to martial arts masters. Of course, these people have high personal skills, but in the face of a disciplined army, they must be cool.
But the problem is that the 5,000 Praetorian Guard recruits in the city are completely a rabble. Their existence is to give confidence to those traitors. Otherwise, the other side would not dare to start a rebellion.
Therefore, Clichy must send troops to quell the rebellion as soon as possible......
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At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, a temporary high platform was erected on the square of Westminster Abbey. Jones, the leader of the men in black, took off the black clothes he usually wears, put on a gorgeous aristocratic costume, and also waved the family flag. Looking at the family emblem, it is the family emblem of the Stanley family, the former Earl of Derbyshire. And Jones is indeed the illegitimate son of the Stanley family. After the people on the face of the Stanley family were killed, Jones, the illegitimate son, became the only bloodline of the Stanley family.
At 12 midnight, Jones ordered a torch to be lit. At this time, they no longer need to hide. I saw Jones standing on a makeshift platform and shouting:
"Brothers, the time has come to avenge His Majesty the great Henry VII! Kill Edward's tyrannical faint king, His Majesty Henry VII, and my father, Thomas, Earl of Derbyshire. Stanley and other noble adults take revenge! ”
The men in black below are all killers or thugs privately raised by the slain nobles, and they agree with Jones's words. So, the men in black raised their swords and shouted:
"Revenge!"
"Revenge!"
"Revenge!"
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Then, under the leadership of the leaders of the underground forces, the men in black divided into groups of different sizes, and one by one left Westminster Cathedral Square and attacked the Tower of London Palace, southeast of the city......
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At this time, General Chrissy's fears became a reality - many of the Praetorian Guard recruits in the city were afraid of the war......
Originally, after taking out the Basque Country, the leader of the Third Front, his lieutenants planned to directly gather the legions and go to Westminster Cathedral Square to block the remnants of the Tudor dynasty.
However, as soon as the recruits heard that they would have to face more than 4,000 outlaws, most of them were intimidated and did not dare to fight......
Why? Because most of the 5,000 Praetorian Guard recruits are gangsters forcibly recruited from all over the country. What is a gangster? They are just a bunch of cowards who bully the weak and are afraid of the hard. Don't look at their usual babbling, but when they encounter officials or outlaws, they run faster than anyone else......
The leader of the Third Front, Basque, was originally a gangster leader with an aristocratic status, and when he picked troops, he actually liked to choose those gangsters with eyesight. Why? Quite simply, gangsters are a bunch of sluts who are high and low. When the Basque Country was appointed as the commander of the phalanx and went to select new recruits in high spirits, many gangsters came up to pat themselves on the back. Then, he was recruited into a third-party formation......
Therefore, the recruits of the third-party array are a group of sluts who bully the weak and fear the hard, and praise the high and the low. As soon as they heard that they were going to fight with more than 4,000 outlaws, they were all intimidated......
Fortunately, when the 5,000 hidden regular troops of the camp outside the city came to the west gate, the thugs of the third-party array guarding the west gate did not stop them, but obediently opened the city gate and did not make trouble. Of course, these thugs don't have the guts to mess around......
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However, when Clichy's 5,000 veterans entered the city, the more than 4,000 rebels had already marched to the middle part of London, and defeated the fifth phalanx from the north of the city and the fourth phalanx from the south of the city......
Because of their usual negligence in training, the soldiers of the fourth and fifth phalanxes, although not as cowardly as the gangsters of the third phalanx, are also some rabble - no cooperation, no courage......
In fact, at the beginning, the recruits of the Praetorian Guard in the fourth and fifth phalanxes were still very brave enough to rush over and fight the rebels to the death. However, the soldiers of these two phalanxes were originally a rabble, and they did not pay attention to training in peacetime, and their combat effectiveness was very poor.
The more than 4,000 rebels on the opposite side, although they are also a rabble, their individual combat effectiveness is strong......
After a chaotic scuffle similar to that of the later generations of Gang Boys, those rebels with strong personal strength and incomparable courage finally overwhelmed the 2,000 recruits of the fourth and fifth phalanxes in momentum, and defeated them one after another.
However, after repelling the Praetorian Guard recruits from the fourth and fifth phalanxes, Jones. Stanley didn't let people take advantage of the victory either. Because, for him, breaking into the palace of the Tower of London and killing the enemy Edward is the most important thing.
So, after the defeat of the fourth and fifth phalanxes, the confidence of the rebels was greatly increased. Originally, the uneasiness caused by the people of the third-party array who did not come to the uprising together as promised was left behind by Jones and others.
Although it seems that the Third Front did not revolt as promised, it did not send troops to pursue it. As for the fifth phalanx, Jones and the others didn't recognize that one of them who came to intercept and kill them was the fifth phalanx, and thought it was the second phalanx.
In this case, Jones and others analyzed that although the third formation and the fifth phalanx did not send troops to help, they did not seem to send troops to fight them, as if they were neutral......
This made Jones and the others very uneasy for a while, but after repelling the 2,000 officers and troops of the fourth and fifth phalanxes, the rebels were so confident that they no longer had any worries. Then, with this group of rebels with great confidence, Jones slaughtered the Tower of London's palace southeast of the city......
As for the second phalanx, which was mistakenly thought to have been "repulsed", it was supposed to arrive at the battlefield from the northeast. However, after seeing that the fourth and fifth phalanxes were united and repulsed, they also lost their determination to confront the rebels.
So, under the leadership of the somewhat timid commander of the second phalanx, Uke, the 1,000 recruits of the second phalanx retreated to the east of the city and joined up with the first phalanx guarding the east gate and the perimeter of the Tower of London's palace, intending to resist the rebel attack based on favorable terrain such as the city walls and palace walls.
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I have to say that the choice of the second phalanx leader Uke is right, and in the face of the remnants of the Tudor dynasty who are more powerful in combat, it is obvious that they can't fight hard. But retreating to the city walls and various strong fortifications made up for the tribes in their combat effectiveness. After all, no matter how miscellaneous the troops are, when they have the city walls and other support, they can completely make up for the gap in combat effectiveness between those recruits and the rebels.
When the rebels approached the Tower of London's palace, they were met with fierce resistance from the first phalanx in the streets. Although the second phalanx is not good at frontal combat, it is still no problem to play support on the side of the first phalanx. Then the steps of the rebels were delayed......
At the same time, the 5,000 elite veterans hidden in the camp west of the city, under the leadership of General Clichy, were also galloping east after entering the city, intending to eliminate the rebels who were going to attack the palace of the Tower of London......