When he received the news, Ying Ming was leading his horse to a hidden scout post in the forest beast road.

His troops did not gather in dense groups in the woods, and although there were still not many people when they did, they were accustomed to camp at short intervals in case people got together and had conflicts.

In battle, every soldier caused too much killing, lived in an unstable environment for a long time, every soldier became perverse, suspicious and irritable, they were accustomed to obeying orders, just because of the difference between the two sides, they put people they did not know to death, even if there was no contradiction, what if there was a contradiction?

During the occasional march break, Ying Ming was drafting a report on the mentality of the soldiers on the notebook he carried with him to prepare for the Dongyang Military Government, and their troops were afraid that they would be mired in war until they retired, and it didn't matter if they wanted to continue to serve in the Flag Army, but those who retired from the Flag Army, Ying Ming suggested that the Dongyang Military Government should not send them back to Tianjin as soon as possible.

Instead, find a place to stay there for a few months, such as Japan, Korea, or Changsheng, so that they can learn some skills to survive at home, and second, even if they have conflicts with others and commit crimes, they will not cause disaster to their homeland.

Wait for them to get used to a relaxed life of peace, and then release them back to their homeland.

However, Ying Ming estimates that not many people want to go back, at least the flag army under his command has been accustomed to following the army all over the world, and seventy percent want to sign a contract to continue to serve for five years.

In fact, Ying Ming was thinking about going back, not to go back to the village, but to lead the troops back to Plymouth, but his little pony horseshoes ran away, and he unloaded a pair of hooves from the hooves of the England horse he had just killed, and planned to go to the forest post to change the horseshoe, so that the flag army could rest and rest, and then lead the troops back to Puli County.

Some of the captured war horses were killed and eaten by them, and there were not a few left, although those high war horses did have a strong impact and ran fast in a short time, but the best one for them was the best.

They are all mares, low in stature, not fast running, not big in weight, but save baggage, three or two days can not find water to drink mare's milk can live, itself is a semi-wild horse, eating is not so particular about feeding, the shortcomings can be ignored in the local combat environment with more strikes and less, the advantages are indispensable in the lack of baggage in sports operations.

Truth be told, there wasn't a cavalry who didn't like the taller European horses, and at other times, they would be willing to take two months' pay for an Andalusian horse, and if it was in Asia, they would grab one on the battlefield and bring one back, but not here.

After robbing the horses, they couldn't keep them, they were few, the horses they could take away were limited, and these horses were not easy to take care of, so they only took a small part of the captured horses to carry the war spoils.

Ying Ming didn't think that the besieging enemy army would send troops to encircle and suppress him, in fact, this was what he expected, and his original intention of going out of the city was to intercept the reinforcements from the west and at the same time, transfer the siege army to divide the troops.

But he never imagined that this letter would be reported by the people of the village.

Looking at the child in front of him, wearing a shabby little hat and a sackcloth shirt that he didn't know whether it was his father or his brother, and looking obviously ill-fitting, wading through the forest camp with one foot deep and one foot shallow, bringing news that the enemy army was about to arrive in the village, Ying Ming pondered in his heart for a long time, but still didn't ask why the sentence in his throat was.

He was self-aware, he never promised anything to the people of the village, nor did he ask them to protect the grain he stored in the village, and he thought that all this was a matter of skill except for helping him grind flour in exchange for payment.

If he could protect the grain and destroy the enemy, no one would be able to take it away, and the people would not have the courage to swallow his things. If he is not capable, he does not expect the people to keep their mouths shut, and if the people of the village think that it is good for them to hand over their food to the enemy, then they will hand it in, and he will take it back anyway.

The child timidly stared at the Beiyang cavalry resting in the forest camp with big eyes, and answered the question of Ying Ming's own soldiers, it was a strong, skilled swordsmanship, and an Ailan warrior who could speak Chinese and English, and was relatively tall in his group and had the size to catch up with the Ming people, and now he was covered in high-quality plate armor, and he tried his best to use his two-handed sword to ask the messenger child about the military situation in a soft voice.

There are some things that children know, and some things that children don't know - in fact, the Irish generally don't like the English, and to beat the English out of the womb is to kill the English, and this sentiment naturally includes the children of the English, but Ying Ming told him to speak better to this child.

"His mother, the woman who helped us to make pickles, said that the noble tax collector had returned, and had asked the village to prepare food and wine for a meal for two hundred men, and to prepare bread, fruit, and fish for half a month, and that the miller had told the tax collector that we had garrisoned and stored grain there, and that there were now a dozen soldiers in the village, and that by evening there would be two hundred, and perhaps more."

Ying Ming loosened the rope tied to the horse's hooves, nodded slowly, and asked his own soldiers, "What's his name?" ”

"Little John."

The commander frowned, chewing on the name and muttering to himself: "Lei Tou Jiao Khan? It's okay, I've seen too many strange names, at least this one is better than the Bull Demon King, and their village will be called Leitou Township in the future. ”

As he spoke, he searched for it on his body, and finally took out a small jade Buddha handle from the bag hanging from his belt, handed it to the child, and asked, "Little Khan, do you know how to ride a horse?" No, you can take him with you, send a message to the flags, load the handcuffs, check the remaining gunpowder, and it looks like you will have to fight two more battles before returning to Puli County. ”

If it weren't for the miller telling the enemy that the Ming army had been in the village, the biggest possibility at this time would be that all the enemy troops except the noble headquarters, the other squads would scatter around to requisition grain, but now that the enemy already knows that the Ming army used that village as a place to store grain, it is very likely that they will fortify and ambush in the village.

Ying Ming knew very well that if it hadn't been for Lei Tau Kok Khan's mother who had asked him to report the news, his scouts might have crashed headlong into the enemy encirclement and died in the process of setting up the outpost.

"The four general flags are assembled, the cavalry is in front, the cavalry infantry is in the rear, each small flag is spaced one mile apart, according to the width of five miles to the east, in the event of a small group of enemy troops can be annihilated that is, that is, advance, can not be annihilated that retreats, and then annihilates when it is surrounded by the rear formation, and then annihilated, if it encounters most of the enemy army, it will retreat and assemble and transfer, and fight in a different formation with them."

"If you encounter an enemy team, the gunners act cautiously before they release their guns, and once they release their guns, they will be the first to destroy them while they are loaded - they let Leitou Township prepare food, and Ying will watch them waste food again, and return fruits and fish? Today, let's invite them to eat Daming standard guns. ”