Although his troops were only over 100, Ying Ming completely blocked the English reinforcements west of the Taima River.

For half a month, his Beiyang cavalry has galloped across the vast fields, destroying more than 20 reinforcements from all over the country. Sometimes he has to fight two or three battles for 40 miles a day, and he has not rested for a day.

After taking stock of the losses again, Ying Ming looked nearly ten years old.

It was not old, but the fatigue brought to him by successive battles. It was not only him, but also the same between the Beiyang cavalry and the Ailan cavalry. Everyone was now exposed to deep ditch marks on both sides of their noses. When people were tired, the horses became thinner. Many war horses ran and limped, greatly delaying the speed of the march.

Due to proper tactics, each attack won by more or less with more attacks. There were almost no soldiers who were hit by muskets in the melee, but everyone was more or less injured. The successive battles made them gain a lot. The red-eyed soldiers even looked at them differently from when they first landed.

What impact did the war have on them?

On a strange land, these Ming people and those who have lived here for generations have never known each other. They have neither new grudges nor long-term resentment. However, when they meet, they have to use all means to fight to the death.

The supplies they brought out from Asia have been used up, and the kimchi and soy sauce they had been put on horse buttocks when they landed. In recent days, they had eaten horse meat and milk, as well as the seized enemy supplies, but they could not live like this.

Speaking of which, Ying Ming's cavalry was also miserable. He lived a good life in Asia, but since he boarded the ship to the Kingdom of Ayran, the food was getting worse day by day. Most of them had drunk nettle stewed soup, which tasted a bit like spinach. Later, when the Kingdom of Ayran had potatoes, they ate roasted potatoes, steamed potatoes, and stewed potatoes until they vomited. In fact, this was also the reason why they immediately asked for reinforcements when they saw Tang Er requesting reinforcements.

I want to change some decent food.

Unexpectedly, I went here to eat damn potatoes.

The food problem even affected Ying Ming's tactics. In the Beiyang Army's officer teaching materials, officers were encouraged to lead troops to attack the enemy troops stationed in the camp, which saved the most time in mobile warfare. The enemy garrisoned at the camp showed that they were hungry, and the enemy was the weakest at this time. Even if they failed to completely wipe out the camp, they would give up the cooked food and create opportunities for the next complete annihilation.

On the other hand, the troops who win will get the cooked food directly, save time in cooking, and then take a break and engage in the next battle.

But in England, we cannot fight like this. Except for the horse-riding infantry in the Kingdom of Ayland, all Beiyang cavalry did not support the attack on the enemy stationed in the camp. We also 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 meals were so strange.

Black bread mixed with wood chips, sand and gravel, and has not yet fermented.

The roasted on the fire is often apples and pears. Even if you see the cushioning soup in the pot, it makes people not want to drink it, because the stewed plums and pepper is the same.

On the contrary, the dishes were all raw, carrots, cabbage, cabbage and onions, all raw and mixed together. This was completely reversed for Ming Jun. The dishes should be stewed in the pot and the fruit should be washed and eaten raw.

Even if we cut off a soldier of a wealthy little nobleman, the food was still bad. We just stewed together the salted fish, meat, apple pears and some strange dishes from where we got it, and it looked like something to feed pigs.

This made Ying Ming fall into deep thoughts. It was clearly fruits and vegetables, so why did they waste their food like this?

Later, after carefully checking the seized supplies, I realized that their flour was not sifted away from the bran. In order to save some money, the bread made them added wood chips, sand and small pebbles, which were full of dietary fiber and minerals. Just add some bark and green worms to make them fully nutritious.

The most hateful thing is that there is wine in their baggage, but the Beiyang military law does not allow the flag army to drink during the battle.

In fact, Ying Ming had no time to sift flour, and it took a lot of effort. On the way, they occupied a village not far from Plymouth. There was a hydraulic mill in the village. They sent the seized food and asked the people in the village to grind and sifted noodles for them. In return, they would give them the endless food and meat to eat.

This is actually very difficult.

During the war, Ying Ming discovered that England was different from other places, and they had a national consciousness.

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

In fact, this is thanks to Cromwell. It is not the protector of the country who was not born in the bourgeois revolution. It is the first Earl of Essex, Thomas Cromwell, who assisted Henry VIII for ten years and assisted him in promulgating the Supreme Act, breaking away from the Catholic Church, creating the Privy Council, and strengthening the monarchy.

Relying on the trust and his own efforts of Henry VIII, Cromwell formed a central management department in England in the feudal era, which was only available in centralized monarchies. He gathered nineteen nobles who held the power of the kingdom under the Privy Council, which was equivalent to breaking away from counties in this feudal system and creating a system that conforms to feudal rules and is similar to the three dukes and nine ministers. Although he was backfired by the old aristocratic group, this system still existed after his death until it later developed into a British cabinet.

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

Of course, consciousness is conscious, and ultimately, we must start from the personal interests. The nobles took away all the strong men in the village who could go to the battlefield. No one could deal with Ying Ming and other people. Anyway, there were rich rewards. These people had never done anything excessive except for being scared. The people could only listen to them.

What's more, for some people, they are panic and even more confused than the war is coming.

Two years ago, a merchant came to their village. He opened a stall outside the mill to sell knives and farm tools but did not charge money. He only remembered his name and address. The prophecies for everyone were different. Some said that after a few years, the monastery could not collect taxes before they came to collect money; some said that the land was not sold and someone would share it before they could collect money; some people heard the prophecies that they heard were even more terrible, and they would collect money when the nobles were gone.

At that time, people thought it was a joke. Before the lord guards arrived, the merchant who had only given a few knives to credit immediately took the goods and ran away.

But the person who collects the money has not arrived yet, and the monastery really can't collect taxes.

All kinds of rumors and languages ​​spread in the villages, the nobles were gone, the monastery could not collect taxes, and the villagers gathered together were eager for when the days that the merchants predicted that the "lands are not sold and there are people to share" would come.

This creates a strange scene.
Chapter completed!