Although the weather was very bad, and there were soldiers who fell ill due to the drastic changes in the weather or fatigue, there was no large-scale disease, which made Ding Chen really breathe a sigh of relief!

On the seventh day of landfall, although it was rainy for half a day, it rained moderately in the afternoon, and it was not until the eighth day of landfall that the sky cleared again.

The Seventh Army has just restarted!

It's just that at this time, after two days of heavy rain, the land has become muddy, making the task of transporting artillery and materials even more difficult!

On the short straight-line distance of more than four kilometers from the landing site to the city of Malacca, there were muddy and dirty Tang soldiers everywhere, they were in groups, shouting, pulling with ropes in front and pushing hard in the back, pushing a heavy artillery towards Malacca!

On the muddy dirt road leading from the landing city to Malacca City, Ding Chenzhen rode a horse and slowly advanced with the officers and guards of the headquarters behind him, and Ding Chenzhen had already transferred the army headquarters from the beach of the landing ground to a small hill outside Malacca City, about 800 meters away from Malacca City.

Walking on the road, all Ding Chenzhen saw all the way were officers and soldiers who were struggling to carry artillery and supplies!

Looking at the elite soldiers under his command, all covered in mud at this time, shouting like coolies to push the artillery forward, he had an indescribable taste.

It's so hard!

This is the dignified Seventh Army, and the 19th Infantry Division in it is a first-class elite unit in China, and this kind of elite troops are placed on the battlefield, but they are powerful enough to make any enemy fearful.

But now in Malacca, he is like a coolie, doing some road construction and transporting supplies.

In the eight days since landing, no matter how big or small it is, not a single battle has been fought!

The Portuguese were determined to defend to the death, hiding outside the city of Malacca all day and night, and even the reconnaissance troops, spies and other things were too lazy to send out, as if they wanted to rely on the strong city defense of Malacca to defend it.

This also led to the fact that after the troops landed, until now, not a single shot has been fired!

Not to mention the Portuguese, even the local natives didn't know where to run, and they couldn't even see a single figure, which made the Seventh Army's attempt to recruit the local natives to build roads and run was frustrated.

Sighing, Ding Chenzhen continued to advance, and after passing through the muddy road, he arrived at the new army headquarters.

The conditions of this new army headquarters were much better than the tents on the beach, but the troops had cut down the surrounding trees in advance and built a simple wooden house.

Although the wooden house is very simple, it is still a house, much better than a tent or something.

After entering the house, Ding Chenzhen once again convened a small meeting of the officers, and the main issues discussed at the meeting were artillery and material transportation.

As for the operation, who has the time to do any battle plan now, he can't even transport artillery, what a fart!

In order to speed up the transportation of artillery and artillery shells and other materials in the rear, Ding Chenzhen ordered the 59th Infantry Regiment to also free up his hands to help the artillery and baggage troops carry out the transportation of artillery and materials.

And the defense of the regiment is the responsibility of the 2nd Provisional Regiment of the Guards!

With the Second Provisional Regiment of the Guards Army in charge of the defense line of the 59th Infantry Regiment, Ding Chen is really relieved!

Although these guards, in the eyes of the army generals, are a group of masters, although they are uncles, their strength is not bad.

Now the 2nd Provisional Regiment of the Guards Army has also landed, and it has also come to the front line, of course, like the rest of the troops, it is advancing lightly, and the artillery battalion of the provisional regiment is also a heavy battalion, and it is still struggling on the muddy road behind.

It is worth noting that the provisional regimental establishment of the Guards participating in foreign wars was never a regiment, but in fact it was a mixed regiment, and the provisional regiment also had an artillery battalion and a baggage battalion and other auxiliary units, and its artillery battalion was also larger.

In fact, after so many years of mutual imitation, the basic establishment of the army and the guards is basically the same, and the ordinary field artillery battalion is a battalion of 18 guns.

However, there are differences, for example, the artillery regiment of the army has only three battalions, but the artillery regiment of the Guards has four battalions, and the extra battalion is still a heavy artillery battalion.

Therefore, the artillery regiment of the division of the army only has 54 5-pound and 9-pound field guns, but an artillery regiment of the Guards Army has 72 artillery pieces under its jurisdiction, and there are 18 more 14-pound guns!

The artillery battalion under the jurisdiction of the Second Provisional Regiment of the Guards Army was not an ordinary artillery battalion, but a temporary formation, and its artillery units were drawn from other artillery units of the Guards Army.

The battalion has a total of four teams, each with six artillery pieces, two five-pound field artillery battalions and two nine-pound field artillery battalions, with a total of 24 artillery pieces.

Even for the infantry units, their Guards infantry battalion had an extra heavy musket squad in addition to six ordinary infantry units.

Not only did the heavy musket team wear 18 mm heavy muskets, but they also wore thicker half-body armor for added protection.

In fact, the 18-mm heavy musket has been widely equipped with all army departments, and basically every infantry battalion will have an infantry team equipped with an 18-mm flintlock gun.

However, this infantry team armed with 18mm muskets still only wore light cuirasses for musketeers!

The standard size of an army infantry battalion is to have six infantry units, four of which are ordinary musket teams, armed with 14 mm muskets and light cuirass.

Then there was a musket team armed with 18 mm muskets, and they were the same except that the muskets were different from the four musket teams in front of them, and the main target of the battle was the enemy's heavy armored units, and under the blows of the 18 mm muskets, no armor would be of any use.

And then there is a grenadier team, needless to say, this grenadier, the most elite infantry in the Tang Army, there is no one!

The soldiers who can be selected as grenadiers are the most elite soldiers in this infantry battalion, they are not only veterans with rich combat experience, but also all of them are strong and strong, and their average height and weight are much higher than ordinary soldiers.

Nowadays, the average height of ordinary soldiers in the Datang Army is about 1.63 meters, but the minimum selection standard for grenadiers is 1.7 meters, but in fact, the average height of Datang grenadiers has reached 1.75 meters, and the height of many grenadiers is even more than 1.8 meters!

Interestingly, even if the average height of ordinary soldiers in the Tang Dynasty is 1.63 meters, it is far more than the average height of soldiers in other contemporary countries.

After more than 10 years of people's livelihood recovery, the Tang Empire dare not say that everyone is full, but the strategic goal of feeding most people is still barely achieved, when the food is full, the nutritional level will go up, and the physical fitness will naturally be higher.

At the same time, the Tang Army selects soldiers, not everyone wants, there are many farmers who are quite soldiers in these years, and the military recruits are the best of the best, among which the physical condition is naturally a very important reference target, if you want to join the army, the minimum is one meter five eight.

In fact, more soldiers are recruited who are generally more than 1.6 meters or even about 1.7 meters, and there is another point that is very important!

The soldiers who join the army are generally under the age of eighteen, and even many are actually only sixteen or seventeen years old, and the Tang Dynasty recruits soldiers who are over 16 years old, and in principle, they do not recruit soldiers over the age of 20, basically only recruit young people between the ages of 16 and 18.

Soldiers of this age, after joining the army, after receiving abundant nutritional supplements and physical training, many can continue to grow taller, and over time, the average height of soldiers will become higher and higher.

So over the years, the average height of the soldiers in the Datang military has increased year by year, and it was not even 1.6 meters before, but now it has reached 1.63 meters.

Of course, it is inappropriate to use the average height of soldiers as the average height of ordinary people, because the treatment of Datang soldiers is notoriously good, and the diet level of ordinary people cannot be compared with that of Datang soldiers.

The Spanish and Portuguese belong to typical southern Europeans, who are relatively short, and the living standards of ordinary people or serfs in the Middle Ages in Europe, especially in southern and eastern Europe, are too poor, and the average height is actually not as good as that of the Tang Empire.

As for the natives of Fusang, Annam, Myanmar, and India, not to mention, they are all short, and the average height can be 1.5 meters to burn high incense.

This has nothing to do with race, it is a problem of insufficient nutrition and unhealthy diet!

After the Industrial Revolution, the living standards of Europeans improved, especially after entering the twentieth century, their average height rose significantly, which led to the height of later generations.

Even the Fuso people, after World War II, made up their minds to increase the average height of the nation and provide nutritious food such as milk for their children, and in later generations, this average height also went up.

In later generations, Huaxia is also because of better economic conditions and better food, and the average height has slowly risen.

So the height of this thing, it really has nothing to do with the race, the geographical environment, the popping, the problem, it's a nutritional problem!

If you eat well, you will grow tall, and if you don't eat well, you will grow short, this is a universal law, if you drink the northwest wind every day and grow into a two-meter man, God has to shout: You are awesome!