Chapter 675: No hurry, wait and see

At the beginning of the siege, the British commander Henry Percy, the earl of Northumberland, discovered a situation-there seemed to be a lot of recruits on the opposite side ...

If you are an experienced veteran, you will definitely hide directly behind the outside ‘female’ wall above the city head in the face of the longbowmen ’s arrow-throwing arrows under the city wall. . шщш.㈦㈨ⅹS.сом is updated fast. However, because of the trajectory angle, the bow and arrow thrown by ‘shot’ cannot hurt the person hiding behind the wall of the ‘female’ in the city. Anyone who was injured in the first round of ‘shoot’ must be a properly recruited egg.

As a result, the first round of arrows rained down, and the British army under the wall heard dozens of screams from the wall. Obviously, there are a lot of recruits in the city ...

Of course, it may not be a recruit, but simply a people strong. After all, it is a common practice to let the Minzhuang help defend the city. However, under normal circumstances, only in a critical situation or when the main soldiers are tired, will the Min Zhuang be pushed to the front line. This is because the military literacy of the people and the people is too low. If they are allowed to keep the first 'stick', it is estimated that they can shake the military's mind and lower their morale. After all, in the cold weapon era and the semi-cold weapon era, it was morale and military spirit that fought in war. If the military's heart is shaken and the soldiers are affected by the screams of the strong people, then the battle is very difficult to fight.

Therefore, Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who has learned a lot of military knowledge, directly concluded that the city has insufficient military power and many recruits ...

Even Henry Percy speculated that the French in the city might have escaped a lot. After all, the French are not fools when they see no hope. In this way, Edward will have to rely on the Minzhuang in the city to help defend the city and push Minzhuang to the front line as soon as he comes up.

As a result, Henry Percy was directly excited. If his judgment is correct, then it may be easier to capture York City. And if you have captured York City and caught Edward and his 'female', then it is definitely a good job. According to the promise of Henry VII, he could cut off a lot of land in the north of the big Yorkshire.

So, Henry Percy gave up the tentative attack half a day later and changed to attack directly ...

In the following time, it entered a formal offensive and defensive phase. But what made Henry Percy so confusing was that the defender on the city's head, besides making a lot of mistakes on the first day, performed better in the next few days. And the defense of York City is naturally more and more stable ...

In fact, the recruits of this Fifth Army Corps at the head of the city have a solid training foundation. Sivag and his fellow celebrities were already experienced military officers. After surrendering to Marin, Siwag and his friends learned a lot of advanced training methods of the East Frisian army, including the food stabbing training method in Sakara. As a result, the foundation of the 10,000 English recruits in the city is actually very solid. The conditions on the first day are basically due to tension or not being taken seriously.

In the afternoon of the first day, the British army launched a fierce attack, almost breaking through the defense of the city wall. For a time, hundreds of British soldiers once rushed in, almost knocking out the recruits in the city.

Fortunately, there are seven thousand French veterans and three thousand German mercenaries standing by the wall. With their support, the recruits of the Fifth Legion on the city's head would not collapse.

But after the first day of panic and chaos, the recruits of the Fifth Legion above the city were completely reborn ...

With the exception of a dozen soft egg recruits who were directly scared by the **** battlefield, everyone else gradually adapted to the brutal battlefield with the first day of fighting ...

Therefore, from the next day, the recruits of the Fifth Legion above the city became more and more stable. Even if the British army once again broke through a small section of the city wall, it did not almost collapse like the first day. Instead, it organized a counterattack calmly and drove the British army off the city wall again ...

In this way, every day, the British army under the city wall and the French and German mercenaries in the city can feel the growth and changes of the recruits of the Fifth Legion ...

"Could it be that the war of defending the city really allowed the recruits to grow quickly?" On the tall building inside the city wall, several French officers who had been watching the battle situation thought so ...

In fact, they are not wrong. With the help of veterans, fighting a city-defense battle that is not very disparate in strength is indeed a good way for new recruits to grow. However, in this way, few judges have seen it as obvious.

This is because the general recruits have never received the basic skills training that is as strict and solid as the Beihai Grand Duke. If the foundation is too poor, even if it is safer to defend the city and train people, but if you want to improve too much, you can't do it.

Only like the Fifth Legion, which has solid and solid basic military skills, coupled with the assistance of veterans, to fight a city defense battle that will not lose, the promotion will be so fast.

After all, many skills and experience have already been trained by military officers. It's just that because they were nervous for the first time on the battlefield, they will inevitably forget. But as their nervousness was overcome, they recalled the basic military common sense of the instructor and confirmed it ... In this way, their promotion will be so obvious ...

Moreover, the method of selecting recruits in the Grand Duchy of the North Sea is very special. In this era, the general army chooses the kind of people who look strong enough to serve as soldiers. But Marin's selection methods are different. Marin believes that military skills can be cultivated and the body can be exercised. However, the brave and fearless ‘sex’ character is not something that can be trained.

Therefore, when picking soldiers, the picking officer will let the candidates beat each other. The officers of the Grand Duchy of the North Sea do not want those people who are empty and have a flinch but are afraid of being injured. Because, people who are timid in this kind of training can easily collapse on the battlefield. Only those ruthless people who are not afraid of injury or even death in combat are the officers' favorite. Such a daze is like a battlefield, and I like to kill people ...

Even if such people were selected, more than a dozen new recruits were scared and stupid on the first day of the city defense. Then, those with poor psychological qualities were eliminated. Even if it can recover, it can only become a strong man. And most people have successfully overcome the feeling of not adapting in the first battle, and are more and more adapted to the battlefield ...

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On a hill ten kilometers west of York City, Marin and Schwartz are watching the latest high-definition telescope ...

This new high-definition telescope is made of sulphuric acid, a by-product of the processing of Cuban laterite nickel ore, washed with powdered quartz sand, and smelted into transparent glass. The light transmission is very good ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Unlike the previous green glass, you can see blurry scenes up to three or five kilometers away. This kind of optical glass that dissolves iron ions with sulfuric acid has a much better light transmittance than green glass without removing iron ions. Even if you stand ten kilometers away, you can see the general situation on the walls of York City. Of course, the premise is that in fine weather, there must be no fog ...

At this point, the York City offensive and defensive battle has been fighting for seven days, but Marin has not moved. Schwartz suggested hesitantly:

"Master, you should be able to send troops to attack the British army now? If you continue to fight like this, the casualties will be great ..."

The siege is cruel. Even if the defender has a wall as a cover, there are still hundreds of casualties every day. Those siegers who bravely climbed to the head of the city, even if they were beaten down, would bring casualties to the defenders on the head of the city. After all, the battlefield is ruthless, and soldiers defending the city may be injured by the enemy siege even if they are careful. Sometimes it was because of bad luck, sometimes, it was the other brother of the other party ... so, it was inevitable ... Schwartz was worried that the time was too long, and the recruits suffered too many casualties, causing the military to collapse. After all, that is a recruit, not a veteran, and the ability to bear it is not very strong ...

Marin shook his head and said:

"No hurry, wait and see ..."