Although there were only a little over 100 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, successively destroying more than 20 reinforcements from all over the country, sometimes maneuvering 40 miles a day and fighting two or three battles without a day.

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

It's not that he's old, but the fatigue brought to him by successive battles, not only him, but also whether it's the Beiyang cavalry or the Ailan cavalry infantry, everyone has deep grooves on both sides of their noses and eyes, and the horses are tired and thin, and many of the horses are lame, which greatly delays the speed of the march.

Due to the proper tactics, each attack was won with more or less strikes, except for the soldiers who were hit by muskets in the melee almost almost no casualties, but everyone was more or less wounded, and they gained a lot from the successive victories, and the red-eyed soldiers even had different eyes than when they first landed.

What impact did the war have on them?

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

The baggage they had brought with them from Asia had been used up, the kimchi and miso that had been placed in the horse's rump sac at the time of the landing, and the last few days they had eaten horse meat and mare's milk, as well as captured supplies from the enemy, but they could not live like this.

Speaking of Ying Ming, this cavalry is also miserable, and has had a good life in Asia, but since boarding the ship bound for the Ailan Kingdom, the food is not as good as day by day, most of them have drunk nettle stew, which tastes a bit like spinach, and later the Ailan Kingdom has potatoes, so they eat baked potatoes, steamed potatoes, and stewed potatoes until they vomit, in fact, this is also the reason why they immediately asked for help when they saw Tang Er asking for reinforcements.

I really want to change to some decent food.

As a result, I didn't expect to eat potatoes when I went to fight here.

In the Beiyang Army's officer discipline textbook, officers are encouraged to lead their troops to attack the enemy troops who are stationed in the camp, which is the most time-saving in sports warfare - the smoke rising from the enemy's camp indicates that they are hungry, and the enemy is weakest at this time, and attacking their camp will make them give up the cooked food even if they are not completely annihilated, and then create an opportunity for the next complete annihilation.

On the other hand, the victorious troops will receive the cooked food directly, saving the time of cooking and then resting for the next battle.

But in England, it was impossible to fight like this, except for the cavalry infantry of the Elan Kingdom, all the Beiyang cavalry did not support attacking the enemy who was stationed in the camp, and hoped that Ying Ming would lead them to attack the enemy who had not had time to cook on the march.

Because the enemy's meal is so strange.

Black bread with sawdust, sand and gravel, and not yet risen.

Apples and pears are often roasted on the fire, and even when you see the soup in the pot, you don't want to drink it, because it's plum stewed and peppered.

On the contrary, the vegetables are all raw, carrots, cabbage, cabbage and shallots, all raw cut and mixed together - for the Ming army, this is completely reversed, the vegetables should be stewed in the pot, and the fruits should be washed and eaten raw.

Even if they cut off a soldier of the wealthier nobles, the food was still terrible, nothing more than salted fish, meat from nowhere, apples and pears, and some strange vegetables stewed together, which looked like pig-feeding stuff.

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

Later, after carefully checking the seized baggage, I realized that their flour was not sifted to remove the bran, and in order to save some money, the bread maker added sawdust, sand and pebbles, which were full of dietary fiber and minerals, as long as they added some bark and green worms, it was full of nutrition.

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 alcohol during the battle.

In fact, Ying Ming did not have time to sift the flour, which was very laborious, and on the way they occupied a village not far from Plymouth, which had a water-powered mill, and they sent the seized food to them, and asked the people of the village to grind and sift the flour for them, and in return they would give them the food and meat that they could not eat.

It's actually hard.

During the campaign, Ying Ming found that England was different from other places, and that they had a sense of nationhood.

It is strange that in a place where feudal lords are the main body, the common people have a sense of statehood.

In fact, this is due to Cromwell, not the patron Cromwell, who was not born to engage in bourgeois revolution, but Thomas Cromwell, the first Earl of Essex, who assisted Henry VIII for ten years, assisted him in promulgating the "Supreme Act", broke away from Catholicism, created the Privy Council, and strengthened the power of the monarchy.

Cromwell relied on the trust and single-handedness of Henry VIII to form a centralized monarchy in feudal England with a central administration, bringing together nineteen nobles who held the power of the kingdom under the Privy Council, which was equivalent to breaking away from the counties in this feudal kingdom and creating a system that conformed to feudal rules and was similar to the Three Princes and Nine Princes - although it was attacked by the old aristocratic group, this system still existed after his death, until it later developed into the British cabinet.

Such a system determined that the people of England, like the people of Spain, had a simple sense of statehood.

Of course, conscious is conscious, and in the end, it is necessary to start from the vital interests, the nobles have pulled away all the strong men in the village who can go to the battlefield, no one can deal with Ying Ming's gang, anyway, there are rich rewards, these people have not done anything excessive except to make people afraid, and the people can only listen to them.

What's more, for some people, they are more panicked than when war comes.

The year before, there were merchants who came to their village, and set up a stall outside the mill to sell knives and farm tools, but did not collect money, but only recorded their names and addresses, and gave different prophecies to everyone, some said that after a few years the monastery would not be able to collect taxes; Some say that the land is not sold, and when someone divides it, they will come to collect money; Others heard an even more terrible prophecy, which was to wait for the nobles to be gone before collecting money.

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

But now the collector has not come, and the monastery really can't collect taxes.

Rumors and languages spread throughout the villages, the nobility was gone, the monasteries were no longer taxed, and the village women were eager for the day when the merchants had prophesied that 'the land would not be sold'.

This creates a strange sight.

When the Plymouth siege camp was about to approach the village with a force of more than a thousand troops, a peasant woman in the village asked her son, who was a fast runner, to go west to report to Ying Ming.