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Chapter 1280 Reinforcement
On the sixth day of April in the 11th year of Wanli, the drumming music of Daming came to the city from the port of Puli County.

The cymbals were beating lightly, the drums were playing, and the people in the city stood side by side looking at each other.

A high-spirited military formation was lined up under the guidance of the county captain Zhongxian, and the horseshoes were adjusted uniformly, and the Huangming flag was unfurled across the streets and alleys.

Alan Muming, who was wearing an old suit with a blindfold to cover his blind eyes, was wandering the streets with his thugs. He just found two small fishing boats that he could use to escape after the city was broken. He was in a good mood. He heard the noise and searched When he came over, he happened to see the scene of the Ming army entering the city, and after just a glance, he covered his mouth and was speechless.

He recognized the big flag with Ming characters, which was written on the wrapping paper of Muye Tobacco. When Puli County was first established, he was elected as the captain of Zhongxian, and he also knelt down to worship such a flag, but it was not so delicate.

Under that banner, the most eye-catching are those well-equipped knights.

They all wore identical bowls with tall helmets and spears. Red tassels fell from the helmets, and armor plates called Dunhuang hung on the sides and back of their necks. The difference was that the eyebrows protruding half an inch above the eyes of the bowls. There are two people with silver borders on their eyebrows at intervals, corresponding to the square flags of birds and animals that people have never seen before hanging down from the back of the breastplate, and some people have copper borders on their eyebrows. There is a pennant on the back of the armour, and only the general who marched forward with Colonel Zhongxian has gold edges and patterns on his eyebrows.

They all had hideous iron masks that showed only the eyes, and some wore no masks, but they had masks too, hung on the collars of breastplates or on the backs of horses.

These people wore red military uniforms covered with breastplates with painted mottled patterns, their arms were covered with layers of iron long armguards with leather pads, and their legs were covered with red cloth armor with foam nails. It seems that there is also iron armor under the cotton cloth. Outside their black boots, like Wang Jinzhong, iron greaves are tied on the calves, and they are also painted with fine and delicate patterns.

They generally use spears with long blades that open on both sides, and there are also long knives that look like long-handled military sickles. Their packages, salutes, and bedrolls are stacked behind the saddle. Each cavalry leads another horse that does not carry people. It seems that it is their war horse. There is a short weapon hanging on the saddle, which may be a saber or a small hammer that can be held in both hands. There are leather sheaths hanging on both sides of the saddle. In the holster were two flintlock pistols with one-foot-long barrels.

The cavalry team was mixed with infantry, and more than half of the infantry walked on horseback. However, the equipment of these people looked much worse than that of the cavalry in front. Many of them were Irish, and those red-haired barbarians from England could recognize them at a glance. , not to mention the exaggerated Viking age equipment on them, the whole thing is a walking joke.

War horses and pack horses seem to be the same breed, they are not tall, but their numbers are astonishing. There are more horses in this support army than people. How much concentrated feed does it need?Alan Muming had already prayed in his heart that these cavalry had better bring enough feed with the ship, otherwise the [-] war horses and pack horses alone would eat up Plymouth.

But at the same time, he screamed in his heart, where did these reinforcements come from?It looked like Ireland. As far as he knew, there were not many Ming military ships there. I am afraid that in order to transport these soldiers, the ships would not be equipped with anything.

It's just spring, where can I find so much oats to feed the horses.

Reinforcement, really makes people happy and painful.

That night, Alan Muming thought that there would be a grand banquet or other activities for the support army in the city, but he didn't expect that no one would come to deliver a letter to him after waiting in the city for a whole day. I went to find the master Wang Jinzhong, not only learned that there was no banquet at all, but also saw Wang Jinzhong packing things.

"The commander should just come from the Kingdom of Alan. His cavalry needs to feed the horses, and the troops can't be used to defend the city. He asked us for a map and then led the troops out of the city."

"Out, out of the city?"

Wang Jinzhong nodded and said: "Well, 400 people have left, and 100 people are left to help us defend the city. Those Ailan soldiers are all under Li Xiaowei's bid. Tomorrow, I will take 20 people out of the city. You help Li Xiaowei to guard the city in the city. , as long as the people are not disturbed."

Alan Muming thought about it, but in the end he didn't ask the knights out of the city. What's the use of them staying in the city?

In his eyes, Ying Ming's [-] cavalry are [-] knights, he doesn't know if they can control the situation of the battle, after all, there are too many enemy troops, but he knows that the chances of survival seem to be higher by following the knights than in the city much.

"They are the Ming army in Ireland, master, why did the Ming army appear in Ireland?"

Wang Jinzhong thought for a while and said, "Ireland is called Ailan in Ming Dynasty. Do you know the Minister of the East, Marshal Chen?"

Alan Muming didn't even bother to answer this kind of question: "Chen Mu defeated the Spaniards in the New World."

"Don't call Chen Gong by his name. In Asia, people who talk like you will have their heads screwed off."

Wang Jinzhong waved his hand, and continued: "That happened a long time ago. Before Chen Gong went abroad, Zhu Xiaoen, King of Alan, traveled across the ocean, went to Daming to pay homage to the emperor, and was named King of Alan. Chen Gong was the first to see him. He then brought him into Asia, and after the Second Ming-Xi War, he sent instructors to Changsheng to set up a National Restoration Army Camp, trained soldiers, and sent troops to help him restore the Kingdom of Alan, so the Ming Army was there.”

Alan Muming curled his lips: "There is no King Alan, he is a fake King Alan."

"There is nothing fake or fake, even if he is fake, once the emperor's imperial edict comes out, he is real. If you go to Daming to find Chen Shuai earlier, say that you are the king of England or Scotland, but the throne has been taken away Go, if you are lucky, the emperor will also make you king, maybe we are not besieged in the city now."

This kind of logic left Alan Muming speechless, mainly because he didn't want to refute. First, he regretted why he didn't seize the opportunity earlier; second, he and these Ming people were grasshoppers on the same boat. The support is directly related to whether he can survive, and the strength and tolerance of the Ming army are related to whether he can go to other places to continue enjoying life if the rebellion fails.

As for the success of the rebellion?Then there is no need to think about it, he might be able to get a noble title.

Oh, I'm sorry, it's not fashionable to be aristocrats in Puli County now, it's called an official position... the earl of Puli County is called a county magistrate, then maybe he can be a magistrate by then?
"The Beiyang cavalry is here, and Puli County will be able to attack and defend easily. Just wait until their horses are full. General Ying said that our strategy is wrong. Let's see what he can do, and Puli City doesn't have to go any further." Worrying about food, King Alan's Tai Longwei planted a lot of potatoes, which will be shipped in one after another, as long as we protect the waterway, the harvest of this battle may be much greater than we imagined."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)