The Rise of the European Emperor

Bayless is Kasbal's cousin, who used to be a traveling businessman and could write and count. Originally, Bayless was also a child of an ordinary peasant family. However, a Jewish merchant came to the village where their family lived when they were young. The young Bayless admired the Jewish businessman's ability to write and calculate, so he often went to steal his teacher. And the Jewish businessman was also very kind to the child. Although he didn't teach him directly, he didn't stop him from learning by himself.

In this way, when he grew up, Bayless became a shrewd traveling businessman who could write and count. His main business is to import a batch of cheap scraps of cloth and needles and threads from the city, and then carry them on a load to the countryside to exchange grain with farmers.

The serfs in the countryside had very limited surplus food, but they were even more short of clothes. Most serfs couldn't afford to buy a whole piece of cloth at all, so the cheap city leftover cloth and needlework sold by shopkeepers like Bayless were very popular in the countryside. A handy peasant woman can make a colorful dress by mending those broken pieces of cloth. Moreover, the cost is still low. Moreover, this kind of colorful clothes is quite popular. At this moment, the poor mercenaries in Germany also like to wear this kind of colorful clothes with many pockets.

In this way, the peasant women saved a lot of money to make clothes. But Bayless earned more, because these cloth heads were worthless in the city's tailor shops, and they were basically half-sold and half-given as garbage.

But Bayless's business was not very big, mainly because few serfs in this era had much surplus food. The manor owners are very shrewd, they are only willing to give the serfs enough food to survive starvation, how can they give too much food to the serfs?

Therefore, even if Bayles found a business that looked good, it would be difficult for him to expand his business because the serfs did not have much food left over.

In particular, he had the misfortune to live in the Duchy of Württemberg. Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, extorted money from the people and extorted excessively, which made the life of the serfs even more difficult.

If Bayless had done this business in Beihai, he would have made a fortune long ago. Because the food production in Beihai is very high, and Marin and his nobles also distribute a lot of rations to the serfs. Trading food here is the real way to make money. As for the Duchy of Württemberg, who had low food production and encountered a tyrant, they were really helpless.

Because of this, when Kasbal revolted, Bayles heard the news, without saying a word, he left the salesman and followed his cousin Kasbal. Moreover, he also held such an important position as a quartermaster.

But before the decisive battle, Bayless suddenly fell ill and was unable to follow the large army. Therefore, Kasbal left a dozen or so low-ranking officers to take care of Bayless. At the same time, it also allowed Bayless to escape.

When he joined the second wave of the rebel army again, Bayles suddenly found that he was not familiar with the new leader of the rebel army, so he was a little worried that the leader of the new rebel army would not tolerate him, the cousin of the previous leader. Then, he did not reveal his identity for the time being,

Instead, he brought a dozen cronies to act as ordinary uprising soldiers. And when he began to trust Chapman and the others, the second wave of rebels was also besieged. He and his men were then also prisoners of war and shipped to Colonial New Jersey...

After arriving in New Jersey, Bayless was very lucky to be assigned to the same colonial stronghold with a dozen of his men. The colonial stronghold is located in the eastern part of the New Jersey colony. It was originally the residence of the Delawares, but the Delawares were fooled by Albert to live in Albany, and the place was vacant.

Because it is located in the eastern part of New Jersey, unlike the colonial points on the Delaware River in the west, because it needs to guard against the Shawnees on the west bank, many soldiers and horses are often stationed. Therefore, the eastern colony where Bayles is located has only 20 soldiers, mainly to supervise the work of the 1,000 strong men in the colony.

And this gave Bayless a chance...

Bayless found that the local natural environment was very favorable. The fallen leaves in the forest piled up on the land by the river bank, layer by layer, decomposing the soil into gray-black—this is a sign of fertile soil...

Moreover, their colony of 1,000 households is located on the bank of a river, which is an area that is extremely conducive to irrigation. If it was placed in the Württemberg area, this kind of fertile land by the river would definitely be taken over by the nobles, and would not be left to ordinary people at all. But now, these 1,000 exiled people can use the land at will...

Something called "ambition" spontaneously emerged in Bayless' heart...

As a former itinerant businessman, Bayless' eloquence is naturally unspeakable. After he gathered a dozen of his original subordinates, he easily fooled them into agreeing to rebel with him. Then, he found every opportunity to fool hundreds of other people and acted with them.

Then, one night, while 20 colony soldiers were asleep, Bayless took more than a hundred mobs he had fooled, and went to the tool room first, and a guy who used to be a thief pried open the door with a wire lock, and obtained a felling ax for day work. Then, more than a hundred people armed with felling axes, attacked the soldiers' garrison overnight, split open the gate of the camp with felling axes, and hacked to death those 20 unlucky soldiers with felling axes...

The next day, Bayless called together thousands of strong men in the colony and announced that he would "do something great" in this barbaric continent.

But people in the colony now have nothing to worry about eating and drinking, and many people are unwilling to respond. Bayless became enraged and ordered to kill dozens of people who openly opposed him on the spot. Then, he coerced all the strong men in the colony to take up logging axes and follow him to "do righteousness" and regard him as the "Grand Duke of the Wild".

Afterwards, Bayless led thousands of people, armed with logging axes, and attacked several new nearby settlements in the style of the ax gang. He then expanded his force to 8,000, more than half of the 15,000 new arrivals.

In fact, when Kaspar led the Peasant Army to surround Stuttgart for the first time, it was also 8,000 people.

With so many people, Bayless' mind began to swell. He felt that he should be invincible here...

At this time, Albert only had 2,000 colonial troops in his hands. And the newly recruited 3,000 people have not yet arrived...

Bayless and the others landed in New York Harbor, so they naturally know the situation in New York. And, Bayless knew, in New York, the barns were full of wheat. In the arsenal, there are also weapons and armor that can equip thousands of people.

Therefore, after Bayless had more than 8,000 men, he decisively ordered a direct attack on Manhattan Island, New York, to seize the granaries and weapons depots there...

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In New York, Albert knew nothing about it. Because New Jersey is a newly developed colony, and there is no complete early warning system. For example, not many beacon towers were built. Only on the banks of the Delaware River, in order to guard against the Indians, a few beacon towers were built.

As for Bayless' rebels, they were mainly operating in eastern New Jersey, and they didn't go to the edge of Delaware. Naturally, they didn't trigger the beacon tower, and Albert naturally didn't receive the news.

When 8,000 rebels attacked Manhattan Island, Albert panicked.

Fortunately, there was no bridge between Manhattan Island and the West Bank at this time, and Bayless's men spent a lot of time rafting on the shore, which also gave Albert enough time to prepare.

When Bayless's army basically landed on Manhattan Island, Albert's 2,000 colonial troops were basically in place...

At first, Albert didn't pay much attention to the rebels. After all, these people don't even have armor, and everyone only has a logging axe, which looks very shabby.

Therefore, Albert sent out 1,000 shield soldiers, intending to defeat the enemy with a single charge.

However, Albert didn't know that the group of rebels with logging axes in front of him happened to be the nemesis of his sword and shield soldiers...

The sword and shield soldiers under Albert were wearing wood chip armor or wooden plate armor. The shield in his hand is also a simple wooden shield.

This kind of protection is naturally enough to face the Indians who are still in the stone age. However, their opponents were rebels with long-handled logging axes. And the logging ax happens to be the nemesis of wood products...

In this way, the sword and shield soldiers under Albert, the shields and the armor on their bodies were split by the axes of the rebels one after another, and they had no resistance...

An hour later, after losing 300 people, the colonial army was defeated...

Albert was immediately terrified. While ordering the remaining 1,700 people under his command to retreat into the Manhattan Castle, he also sent someone to the Long Island Pier to send an order to make the shipyard also be on guard. At the same time, send a ship to the mainland for help. The report Marin received was sent out at that time...

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But just when Albert was in despair, 50 Spike Commando soldiers who had been following Albert as guards stood up...

They all had to come to North America for the sake of keeping secret after participating in the killing of King James IV of Scotland. Usually, they are very low-key, only wearing ordinary clothes and following Albert. So much so that Albert almost forgot that they are the real ruthless people...

At the critical moment, these 50 Spike commandos opened their boxes one after another, put on the long-preserved full-body plate armor, and picked up the long-lost mace...

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Of course, they did not attack rashly. Under the command of Spike Captain Cook, the members of the Spike Commando first hid on the top of the city and observed for two days, and finally locked the location of Bayless and other rebel generals...

Then, when the rebels retreated for lunch at noon, the gate of Manhattan Castle suddenly opened, and 50 Spike commandos, wearing a full set of plate armor, took the lead and rushed straight to the enemy's command tent with thousands of shield soldiers...

Before the rebels who were eating lunch could fully react, the Spike Commando led by Cook rushed into the tent of the Chinese army where Bayless was, and Bayless and his confidants The generals were all smashed into meatloaf.

But the logging ax that the rebels are proud of has nothing to do with the real plate armor. They watched 50 fierce Spike commandos directly enter the main camp of the Chinese army... and during the whole process, only 5 Spikes The commandos were injured by the force of the axe, but none of them were seriously injured, just minor injuries...

Later, under the leadership of the Spike commandos, Albert's army easily defeated several waves of resistance organized by the rebels, and then took control of the pier where the rafts gathered, cutting off the retreat of all the rebels...

After a day of fighting, more than 8,000 rebels and thousands of people were killed, and the rest surrendered...

Just when Marin was in a hurry preparing to organize an army expedition to the New York colony, Albert's second letter just arrived - the wolf teeth shot, the rebels have been wiped out...