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Chapter 1419 Support
In the following time, more and more troops entered Westminster Abbey from the West End of London.

First came the wounded soldiers from the rear, bearing the scars of previous battles, they almost crowded Westminster Abbey the night before. Fortunately, most of them went outside Westminster Abbey to find a place to stay after eating.

Those who stayed in the temple were all 'professionals' in Bai Lier's eyes.

Most of the wounded were Devonshire and Winchester, the first two places to fall into the hands of the Ming army. It is said that their regiments rushed into Earl Robert's position very bravely in the Battle of Winchester. , resulting in heavy casualties.

However, Liu Zhi, the leader of the fire soldiers, the red hat, taunted and made fun of them, saying that those fools lost their way on the battlefield.

The professionals among the wounded soldiers are very powerful. They not only know how to make pancakes, but also steam a very cheap food. Bai Lier heard that it is called rice, which is very popular among Daming people and Spaniards.

The technique of steaming rice is amazing. According to Liu Zhi, it is a state secret. The reason why Spaniards do not cook well is that they don’t understand it. Only people in Ming Dynasty understand it.

As he spoke, Liu Zhi asked her to take a good look. After the rice was poured into the pot, he stretched out his hand, pouring water while stretching out. fire.

The whole process does not require cups, bowls or any weighing utensils, everything depends on the induction of heaven and man, and I am extremely confident that this will never go wrong.

On the second night of Belle's arrival, the father of a friend outside the city was led into Westminster Abbey by a blue hat and took his daughter away.

According to Liu Zhi, it was because Ming Jun needed the timber factory to reopen to make coffins, and the timber merchant asked Ming Jun to help find his daughter in London.

Bai Lier really wanted to know if the Ming army needed to make clothes. If her family's textile factory could reopen, although the Ming army might not be able to find her father, she could go outside the city to take on important responsibilities.

At least I can bake a few cakes and try it myself.

She rolled the pancakes so much that her hands cramped, but the Ming army only allowed them to eat black bread that they did not know where to get outside the city...they couldn't eat white bread, and they couldn't make enough pancakes and steamed rice.

After finally making some, a large number of Ming soldiers would rush into Westminster Abbey, eat up and disappear without a trace.

On the third day of the siege of the Tower of London, rumors suddenly increased in Westminster Abbey. Perhaps there were always many rumors, but there were not so many Puli soldiers in Westminster Abbey to help cook a few days ago, and she could not understand some words.

But Bai Lier thinks that the Puli soldiers look far less...disciplined than the real Ming army?This is how Liu Zhi described the word, but Bai Lier didn't know any words in their language that could translate it.

Maybe upbringing is more appropriate.

Those lowly Puli cooks are really uneducated, always suggesting to the red hats that they, the noble ladies and the nuns of Westminster Abbey, should be turned into military prostitutes.

Therefore, Bai Lier firmly believed that all the rumors in Westminster Abbey were spread by Puli Bing.

Someone explained that the army's attack on the Tower of London was frustrated. Even if the heavy artillery blasted a gap in the outer city wall, the infantry could not rush into the city protected by the inner city wall.

It is also said that Earl Robert will lead the Scottish troops to sweep down from the north, and the troops of the Ming army may not be able to stop them at that time.

Having said that, Bai Lier found that the wounded soldiers of the Puli Battalion should go out of the city every day to dig a pit, and they should transport their corpses out of the city every day.

Even if the Ming army ignored them at all, they would not run away.

On the fourth day, no matter what news came out of the city, Liu Zhi's mood became obviously better, and he even took out three packs of Muye cigarettes and two packs of Mexican rock candy for Bai Lier to share with her friends.

As for the nuns, there were no nuns. The longer they were stationed in Westminster Abbey with the Ming army, the more they understood that Westminster Abbey used to be called aristocratic brothel by Londoners, so it was inevitable that there would be some discrimination against these soldiers from decent families.

Bai Lier finally couldn't hold back the doubts in her heart, and asked Liu Zhi: "They said that Earl Robert would lead troops to fight back, why aren't you afraid?"

"What is there to be afraid of? It's not that the Carrot Army has never fought before. If he dares to come back, he will fight him again as a Winchester. The Scottish army has nothing to fear. We have driven the Scottish soldiers in the country of Alan and fought the Scottish soldiers. "

Needless to say, in Liu Zhi's eyes, the most capable players in this land are the English, followed by Scotland, and the weakest is Ireland.

The fighting ability of the English troops is mainly because they are relatively the richest.

The country can manufacture high-end plate armor by itself, and also has the ability to mass-produce low-end breastplates, but it cannot compete with Europe in terms of price, so it imports hundreds of armors from Europe all the year round.

Scotland is almost there, but with French aid all the year round, there are a group of noble swordsmen who dare to fight and fight hard, and they also wear French plate armor to learn from Switzerland's three-foot spears, but most of them have been around for decades. It was reimbursed to England in the previous battle that was comparable to civil engineering.

Alan can't do it anymore. The mainstream protective equipment from 500 years ago is generally used, which is like a target in front of the longbow. Once a certain nobleman surrenders to England, he will immediately get the equipment assisted by England, and he can kill all directions when he turns around.

But now Alan has Da Ming's assistance, and he picked up the rags from the battlefield and armed an army composed of the elite Alan Restoration Army as the main force, with longbows, big axes, and damaged and repaired plate armor. A military group that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the two countries.

"As for them?"

Liu Zhi crossed his arms and looked at the dirt-covered Puli soldiers who had just walked into the high wall at the gate of Westminster Abbey, curled his lips and said, "You think they're not afraid?"

"They were terrified. Eight out of ten longbows were not up to the standards of war bows. They were useless except for emboldening themselves. Haven't they noticed that people don't take longbows when they go out of the city now? Because the heavenly army is more courageous than longbows."

"Then why no one escaped?" Bai Lier blinked, raised her hand and said, "No one is watching them."

"Escape, where are you going? Flee back to their hut in the lord's farm. There is no bed, quilt, or iron pot. The most valuable item in the family is a big clay pot. After returning, they will drink rotten vegetable soup and black bread every day?"

As Liu Zhi said, he pointed to a middle-aged Puli soldier who was helping the cook: "It is very likely that there will be no bread to eat when I go back. I remember that he is a baker somewhere. Is there any place in this world where they can eat a piece of bread a day?" Pancakes wrapped in egg and radish sticks?"

"They won't go anywhere, even if they run around in fright when they meet the noble lord, they are killed and scattered every time, but they can find the main force of the heavenly army and come back after every battle, even if they die."

"They will also follow us to eat food for another day before they die, not to mention that they are not allowed to fight now, helping with cooking, digging pits, and carrying corpses."

"But..." Bai Lier couldn't understand, and said: "England doesn't have so much food, I don't know how to count it, but if there is so much food, the queen won't let the soldiers have enough to eat."

Liu Zhi didn't say any more, just shook his head and smiled: "Yes, as long as there are no nobles, everyone can eat enough, even if there was no arable land in the war last year, they still can't eat enough now, but they will be full when the war is over .”

"And now, ha, the Spaniards have a kind of ship called the Great Galen. One ship can be used as 35 lucky ships to transport supplies. Philip, the king of Spain recognized by Ming Dynasty, used seven of those ships to transport food for us."

Speaking of this, Liu Zhi raised his head and laughed, opened his hands and said, "The food and grass worth hundreds of thousands of stones will support the Dongyang Army to fight the entire war."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)