"As long as the English are defeated, the Elders and I will personally issue a decree to you!"

"The bravest of them will be personally received by Her Majesty the Queen Mother, and will also be knighted with three villages as fiefdoms!"

The words of the Earl of Allen aroused the desire of the Scots to resist England, in a word, their subjective initiative.

Before the Count could finish speaking, a herald came to him.

"Lord Regent, the English have arrived!"

Hearing this, Count Aaron immediately beckoned an army of citizens and freedmen to the city walls, and began a defensive battle with the soldiers.

Back in front of the English army in Edinburgh, in the main camp, there were dense tents, most of the soldiers were standing or squatting, and some were talking and laughing, looking leisurely, without the slightest hint of fighting.

The Scottish prisoners of war, who were randomly fenced with fences next to the main camp, walked out of the humble camp one by one under the urging of the elite English cavalry, and walked listlessly.

As captives, the Scots not only traveled continuously these days, but also had only one meal of black bread a day, and sometimes they were driven away without a loaf of bread, and they had little strength to walk one by one.

"You barbarians, thanks to God's blessings, our Duke Edward will give you a chance to be free!"

Gavin knew the fat man, a greedy and ruthless guy who was the leader of the highland warriors who were guarding over him and himself.

Even if Gavin looked down on this fat man, he had to listen carefully to his words, because this fat man could dispose of him as a prisoner at will, and no one would care if he killed him!

"All of you, as long as you fill that stinking ditch and come back alive, the hundred people who work the hardest among them, he will be free and can go home!"

Tens of thousands of people suddenly lost their voices, and less than ten seconds later, the scene erupted into a brain-blowing shout.

As a result, tens of thousands of Scottish Highland warriors were forced to march to the walls of Edinburgh.

Gavin, like the warriors of his own tribe, struggled to hold a sack of dirt and followed the big man holding a large rock in front of him slowly towards the moat, his stomach grumbling all the way after a day of eating.

With three miles to walk from the camp to the moat, and with dozens of pounds of dirt, Gavin felt like his thighs weren't his own, and there was a heart-piercing pain with every step.

Seeing the moat, Gavin hurriedly threw the sack in his hand before looking around.

In a short distance of three miles, Edinburgh fired thousands of arrows, and the usually more agile warriors fell close to three hundred due to physical exhaustion.

More than 100 people fell to the ground, howling miserably on the battlefield where their bowels were flowing and blood was all over the ground, and the cries of help were endless.

However, tens of thousands of people were buried at one time, and not even a shadow could be seen in this black city ditch.

In this way, after a dozen successive landfills, the moat formed a mile-long hard ground that could be used as a bridge for large armies to pass.

And the tens of thousands of sharp arrows fired by the Scots took the lives of nearly 5,000 people and more than 3,000 seriously wounded, and the Scottish captives can be described as suffering heavy casualties!

At this time, the anger in the hearts of the captives had reached a critical point, and the Duke of Edward sent a large amount of black bread at this time, directly suppressing the dissatisfaction of the Scots.

In fact, when Gavin ate the bread in front of him, he only had a happy feeling in his heart, he had been hungry for almost two days, and his shriveled stomach finally bulged!

After his stomach was barely half full, Gavin had time to look at the fat man who had just arrived, and the Scottish captives, who were just as hungry and thirsty as he was.

"Fellow Highland warriors, everyone knows what I'm here for!"

The fat man looked at the highland warriors with staring eyes, even if he knew that they didn't dare to touch him, but the size of the average Englishman was also a threat.

"With the Duke's instructions, Gotha, Wales ......"

"These people are free, but you can't go to Edinburgh! You know? ”

"Yes! Be! Be! My lord! The most flexible brain nodded hurriedly and responded loudly.

Watching more than a hundred people return to their homes, Gavin couldn't help but yearn for it.

"Don't be discouraged, Lord Duke said, as long as any of you can climb the wall, he will be free!"

Looking at the remaining five thousand captives, the fat man said unhurriedly.

Suddenly, the cheers of the highland warriors who had gained strength became even more enthusiastic.

The next day, the Highland warriors carried the long ladder and rushed up the walls of Edinburgh, and Gavin was one of them, and he was the second to climb the wall, with a sturdy buddy leading the way in front of him.

Almost all of the stones that fell from the walls were blocked by his shield, and Gavin was unharmed.

When Gavin made it to the wall, he saw the fierce warrior kneeling on the ground, surrendering to the militiamen with spears in hand.

But how could the militiamen who had made meritorious contributions let him go, and took advantage of the fact that he was buried in his head and stabbed him with a gun, and the poor fellow went to see God before he could see it clearly.

Before Gavin could be reminded, the warrior was bleeding profusely, and Gavin hurriedly prepared to climb down the wooden ladder, but the archers on the tower had already aimed at him.

"Boom-boom-boom-" The three arrows hit Gavin directly in the chest, and before Gavin could react, his body fell uncontrollably under the city wall, and the flesh and blood of the fall were blurred.

He lay on the corpse, feeling pain all over his body, breathing more and more difficult, and slowly stopped breathing.

In this way, after a month of attack, only more than 300 Scottish captives returned to their homes wounded, while Edinburgh remained impregnable.

The infantry of England also suffered more than 3,000 casualties, forcing the Duke to stop the siege and besiege the city.

Edinburgh itself was a port, and for a month ships came and went with French aid.

"Is little Edward telling the truth?" Duke Edward couldn't help but think about Edward's letter.

The Monastery of Mohom, which has always been quiet, has many uninvited guests at this time.

"Grandma! Where is Queen Mary? "To the oldest nun of the convent, Harry was very polite.

"Not there! There are also men who are not allowed to enter the monastery, you know? ”

"Grandma, I won't go in! This time it was interrupted! ”

Harry spoke politely to the old nun, but gestured to the dozen or so stout women behind him.

So, a dozen women entered the monastery one by one, and the old nun could only watch them enter, and the dozen or so old nuns behind her also looked helpless.

After all, they are just women, and they are old women, and they can't do anything about this group of people.

The fierce woman came to a remote courtyard, and when she opened the door, she saw a beautiful little girl of four or five years old playing happily with a maid in her thirties.