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Chapter 1288 Prophecy
Although there were only a hundred troops, Ying Ming completely blocked the English reinforcements west of the Taima River.

For half a month, his Beiyang cavalry galloped across the vast wilderness, killing more than [-] reinforcement troops from various places one after another, sometimes moving forty miles a day and fighting two or three battles without resting for a day.

Taking stock of the losses again, Ying Ming looked almost ten years older.

It's not old age, but the fatigue caused by successive battles. Not only him, but also the Beiyang cavalry and Alan cavalry infantry. Everyone has deep grooves under the eyes and on both sides of the nose. When people are tired, the horses also lose weight. Many war horses ran lame, which greatly delayed the marching speed.

Due to the proper tactics, every attack was won with more hits and fewer hits in a comprehensive or partial way. Except for the soldiers who were hit by muskets in the melee, almost no soldiers were killed, but everyone was more or less wounded, and the battles were won one after another. Let them gain a lot, even the eyes of the red-eyed soldiers are different from when they first landed.

How did the war affect them?
In a strange land, these Ming people and those who have lived here for generations were strangers to each other, and had neither new nor long-standing grievances, but when they met, they had to use all means to fight to the death.

The luggage they brought out from Asia has been used up, and the kimchi and miso that were in the hip pouches when they landed have also been eaten. In the past few days, all they ate were horse meat and milk, as well as captured enemy supplies. Can't live like this.

Speaking of it, it should be clear that this cavalry is also miserable. They lived a good life in Asia, but since boarding the ship bound for the Kingdom of Alan, their food has been worsening day by day. Most of them have drank stewed nettle soup, which tastes like Spinach is a bit like spinach. Later, when the Kingdom of Alan had potatoes, they ate baked potatoes, steamed potatoes, and stewed potatoes until they vomited. In fact, this was the reason why they immediately called for war when they saw Tang Er asking for reinforcements.

I really want to change some decent food.

In the end, I didn't expect that I still ate fucking potatoes when I was fighting here.

The problem of food even affected Ying Ming’s tactics. In the officer’s drill textbook of the Beiyang Army, officers were encouraged to lead troops to attack the enemy troops who were stationed in the camp. This was the most time-saving in mobile warfare—the smoke rising from the enemy’s camp meant that they were hungry. The enemy at this time is the weakest. Even if the attack on their camp fails to wipe them out, they will give up the cooked food and create opportunities for the next complete wipeout.

On the other hand, the winning troops will directly get the cooked food, saving the time of cooking, and then go to the next battle after rest.

But this is not the way to fight in England. Except for the cavalry infantry of the Kingdom of Alan, all the Beiyang cavalry did not support the attack on the enemy stationed in the camp, and hoped that Ying Ming would lead them to attack the enemy who had not had time to cook during the march.

Because the enemy's food is really strange.

Brown bread mixed with sawdust, sand, and gravel, and unleavened.

Apples and pears are often roasted on the fire. Even if you see the soup gurgling in the pot, you don’t want to drink it, because the stew is plums and it’s the kind with pepper.

On the contrary, the vegetables are all raw. Carrots, cabbage, cabbage and onions are all raw and mixed together. For the Ming army, this is completely reversed. Vegetables should be stewed in a pot, and fruits should be cooked. Wash and eat raw.

Even if the soldiers of a relatively wealthy little nobleman were captured, the food was still very bad. It was nothing more than stewed salted fish, meat from who knows where, apples, pears, and some strange vegetables. It looked like feeding pigs s things.

This can't help but make Ying Ming fall into deep thinking. They are all fruits and vegetables, so why do they waste food like this?

After careful inspection of the seized luggage, I realized that their flour had not been sifted to remove the bran. To save some money, the breadmakers added wood chips, sand and pebbles, which were full of dietary fiber and minerals. Caterpillars are comprehensive nutrition.

The most hateful thing is that there is alcohol in their luggage, but the Beiyang military law forbids the banner army to drink alcohol during the battle.

In fact, Ying Ming didn’t have time to sift the flour. It took a lot of work. On the way, they occupied a village not far from Plymouth. There was a water mill in the village. They sent the captured food to the people in the village Grind and sieve flour for them, and give them the food and meat they can't eat in return.

This is actually difficult.

During the battle, Yingming found that England was different from other places, they had national consciousness.

This is very strange, in a place where feudal lords are the main body, the common people have national consciousness.

In fact, this was given by Cromwell, not the protector Cromwell who was not yet born to engage in the bourgeois revolution, but Thomas Cromwell, the first Earl of Essex, who assisted Henry VIII For ten years, he assisted him in promulgating the "Supreme Act", separated from Catholicism, created a Privy Council, and strengthened the power of the monarch.

Relying on Henry VIII's trust and his own strength, Cromwell formed a set of central management departments in feudal England that could only be found in a centralized monarchy. In the kingdom of the feudal system, he broke away from the counties and created a system that conforms to the feudal rules and is similar to the Sangong Jiuqing. Although it was backlashed by the old aristocratic group, this system still existed after his death, until it later developed into the British cabinet. .

Such a system determines that the people of England, like the people of Spain, have a simple national consciousness.

Of course, being conscious is conscious, and in the end it’s about self-interest. The nobles have taken away all the strong men in the village who can go to the battlefield. No one can deal with Ying Ming’s group of people. Other than being afraid, people have not done anything excessive, and the people can only listen to them.

What's more, for some people, their hearts are panicked, more hesitant than the coming of war.

A businessman came to their village the year before last and set up a stall outside the mill to sell knives and agricultural tools but did not charge any money. They only recorded their names and addresses. The prophecies to everyone were different. The money will be collected after the tax is paid; some say that the money will be collected when the land is not sold and distributed;

At that time, people thought it was a joke. Before the lord's guards came, the merchant who only offered a few knives on credit immediately rolled up the goods and ran away.

But now the people who collect the money haven’t come, and the monastery really can’t collect taxes.

All kinds of rumors and words spread in the village, the nobles are gone, the monastery can no longer collect taxes, and the village women who gather together are eagerly looking forward to the days when the prophesied merchants said that the fields will not be sold and others will be divided. The time has come.

This creates a strange sight.

When the Plymouth siege camp sent out a force of thousands of troops that was about to approach the village, a peasant woman in the village sent her fast-running son to the west to report to Ying Ming.

　Good morning! Chapter 2 will be later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)