Just as the Earl of Surrey, a high knight under Henry VIII, behaved on the battlefield, John Neville, a nobleman, was condemned by the Earl of Hertford's nobles for his actions tonight, exposing himself to unnecessary danger. Of course, the Earl of Hertfordshire did not have the position of Chief of Nobles in the army that participated in the campaign, which was specifically used to oversee the honorary duties of the nobles in the army.

When it was completely dark, John and two quasi-lancers, led by Joman, quietly entered the area between St. Giles's Cathedral and the eastern part of Edinburgh. Sometimes bending down and trotting forward, sometimes crouching down and walking slowly, the three of them walked a 0.2-mile road before reaching the slope of the battlefield.

In the darkness of the night, several burning torches planted in the walls of the gatehouse illuminated the moat in front of the gatehouse and the stone bridge leading into the gatehouse. Several Scottish sentries patrolled the walls back and forth with weapons in hand, and from time to time they watched the slope outside the gatehouse with an alert eye. Although they were well aware that the British army invading their kingdom would not attack at night, they were still ready to withstand the British attack at any time.

John glanced at the two would-be lancers kneeling beside him on one leg and whispered, "From now on, we must crawl over." We must not make any noise, and we must not be discovered by the Scots. ”

A quasi-lancer craned his neck to look at the castle gatehouse, which was only more than 360 feet (about 109.7 meters) away from him, and said in a suppressed voice, "My lord, do you remember where Sir's body is?" ”

"Well, it's near that stone bridge."

"My lord, near the stone bridge... It's dangerous. ”

John just stared silently at the death slope ahead, and just said, "I know. If you dare not go, I will not rebuke you. ”

"My lord, we'll go with you."

"Okay, be careful."

The three of them lay on the ground almost covered with corpses, walking slowly, no one spoke, just kept climbing over one corpse after another. When the three of them crawled about half the distance, suddenly a small "Whoa!" came from the night. Sound. John and a quasi-lancer, who were crawling in front, suddenly stopped, looked at each other, and said nothing, and hurriedly looked at the Scottish sentry patrolling the gatehouse.

To the surprise of the two, the sound of the collision with the weapon was made by a quasi-lancer behind them. The quasi-lancer, who was a position or two behind the two of them, hurriedly held down a saber that had been struck by himself, his heart pounding, and his eyes stared at the Scots patrolling the city walls.

The three of them lay quietly on top of the corpse, disguising themselves as a corpse. After some time, after noticing that the Scots had not noticed them, the three of them continued to crawl forward. When the three of them finally crawled to a distance of about 50 feet from the porter, John put his head on the stomach of a corpse and moved his lips a few times at the two people next to him, "Sizz's body is nearby, pay attention to the corpses that have been broken in half by the projectile." ”

Time passed slowly, and several Scottish sentries guarding the walls of the gatehouse also showed varying degrees of burnout. Unable to concentrate, the sentinels became sluggish, and their eyes were hazy, gradually letting their guard down. Soon, several sentries were discussing the rotation of patrols.

The fatigue of the sentry gave John and the other three a good opportunity, and the three of them quietly raised their heads to observe the sentry's movements, and sometimes took advantage of the light of the torches on the city wall to slowly search for Sir Ernest's body. One lancer groped for half of Sir Ernest's head, right arm and 1/3 of his chest to the north, while John and another lancer searched for another part of Sir Ernest's body near the south.

Next, the more difficult part was how to transport both parts of Jazz's body out of this death slope without making a sound. After thinking about it, John made a decision that would not be discovered by the Scots: the three of them stayed where they were and rested for a while. When the time enters the second half of the night, the two parts of Jazz's body are transported out.

If Isabel Walton, a naval intelligence officer, had been asked to make today's battle plan, she would never have let her brother Sir Ernest and a large number of mercenaries and noble soldiers die in vain on this slope. Without sufficient artillery support, and a back-up offensive from the foot of the hill to the top of the hill, such an attack would only end in failure.

From a naval point of view, the capture of Edinburgh, which was built on the top of the hill, must first be suppressed with powerful shipboard artillery. The royal fleet cruising in the Forth of Forth north of Edinburgh needed to seize the advantageous port first, on the one hand, send a ship-based landing force to capture the northern port town of Leith to exert pressure on Edinburgh to encircle Edinburgh from the north and south, and on the other hand, use ship-based artillery to provide artillery support for the army units attacking Edinburgh. Only if the navy and army work closely together will it be possible to break Edinburgh's defenses and capture it.

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Yesterday evening, the Earl of Hertford, the commander of the army, had sent a batch of fishing boats for the landing of naval carrier-based troops to the sea area where the royal fleet was located. In the next day's offensive, he also completely abandoned the battle plan for attacking Edinburgh Castle and the foolish instructions of Henry VIII, and continued to carry out the plan of coordinated naval and land operations.

At sunrise on 4 May, the royal fleet under the command of the Duke of Richmond quickly launched an artillery attack on the town of Granton, northwest of Edinburgh. The weakly defended town of Granton was soon captured, and the mercenary landing force carried by the fleet immediately landed in fishing boats in the harbor outside the town. Subsequently, the port town of Leith, which was no more than 3 miles away from Granton, was also captured by the British.

Soon after the successful landing of the mercenary landing force, the royal fleet also entered the Forth Bay Canal north of Edinburgh and carried out artillery suppression along the coastline of the entire city of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Castle. As thousands of artillery pellets slammed into the city, the Scots' resistance crumbled and crept into the interior of Edinburgh Castle.

Now, Edinburgh Castle was the last hope of the Scots, and the Earl of Hertford, commander of the Army, certainly would not be unaware of this. He decided not to besiege Edinburgh Castle but to destroy the city completely. As soon as the order was given, the English army, composed of "Burgundian" mercenaries and noble soldiers, suddenly became crazy, and they wanted to avenge the blood hatred of the Scots!

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