By chance, Pan Sheng wanted to evaluate the English army. After the news of Baron Burrick of Gravesend's visit, he also planned to let Pan Sheng see their army.

Although the meeting was at the Baron's manor, it was a meaningless greeting for the two. The real conversation began only when six squires, four knights and five soldiers arrived at the woodland near the river near the manor.

The Baron was a member of the House of Lords, especially the baron whose fiefs were near London, and had great influence in the kingdom, as well as his own fiefs, vassals and armies.

The squire is different. They are farmers, ranchers, estate owners, factory owners or traffickers. Although the social structure of England has changed due to the opening of new routes, these people still do not gain aristocratic power to this day. What kind of social status they have is changed based on the annual income of the real estate.

When the country seizes the opportunity of a large amount of wealth influx, a few lucky people acquire wealth, which is enviable, and thus causes changes in social atmosphere such as material worship.

While people envy these people who got rich overnight, just like the merchants of the Ming Dynasty had some influence on local politics, the same ability of the merchants in England was also beginning to emerge on the eve of capital affecting the political situation.

The introduction of the rules ended, and Baron Berrick's servant brought three long bows and three muskets of different lengths and exquisite workmanship.

The baron was not tall, wearing brown leather tight-waisted egg-trousers, a solemn black short top with a linen shirt, and his limbs were short and thick. He used force to skew a long bow on a purple shirt. The huge force made his cheeks tightly, and a blue vein appeared on his forehead. At the same time, he said: "This is a rare good bow, huh!"

He used different forces to wind the three longbows one after another, and then he let out a long breath, moving his arms and fingers to introduce to Pan Sheng: "Flying bow, target bow, battle bow."

Several squires sat beside each other in various postures, their servants set up half of the sunshade tents for them, and the baron prepared wine, which looked relaxed and comfortable; the knights were almost the same, gathered together to discuss the matter about Southampton.

Only those soldiers who were signs stood beside them with weapons crookedly.

In fact, they stood very well. In most garrisons in the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult to find a flag army that could stand like them. However, Pan Sheng had just come down from the French battlefield and was extremely disgusted with the behavior of the Southern Zhili personal soldiers under Tang Er, so he felt that these people were not standing very well.

A queue cannot represent combat effectiveness, it is just a small aspect of combat effectiveness.

For example, Yang Ce's troops in the Han Dynasty were all in the top ranks, but his subordinates could not do anything except the team.

Pan Sheng guessed that these four soldiers were likely the most elite soldiers under the Baron, because they all looked very strong... If everyone was strong, Pan Sheng would not think so, but these soldiers looked stronger than those knights.

Every time the Baron said a word, Old Taylor would repeat it in Spanish. This was the first time that the old carpenter had been invited to the manor by the Baron in decades, which made him look a little restrained and his speech trembled. When Pan Sheng replied, Old Taylor wanted to translate it to the Baron in English.

The second half of the process was particularly troublesome for Old Taylor because Pan Sheng’s Spanish was not very good. Sometimes he would use Fujian dialect, Portuguese, and French dialects to express his meaning.

It is difficult to communicate in this era. It is easy to say that a small country like Portugal is like the Ming Dynasty. There are already accents everywhere, and their words are learned from people from various places. They have their own dialect accents and the other party's dialect accents before they can say things they are not familiar with.

It is not much easier to understand than to go directly to sign language.

So in Pan Sheng's ears, the names of the three bows are "Bird Bow", "Target Bow", and "Fighting Bow", but Pan Sheng could not see any difference in these three straight sticks, only knowing that these three bows are really good.

The well-maintained bow arm has a layer of oil mixed with wax. It does not look as beautiful as the Jiubian, Jurchen, Mongolia, and North Korea, and is also not as scientific as the Japanese and Han bows or the Sui and Tang dynasties.

But just looking at the baron's laborious appearance, Pan Sheng knew that this kind of bow is very strong.

The baron signaled with his eyes, and the servant inserted the feather arrows one by one on the ground in front of him, then pulled out an arrow with goose feathers as long arrow feathers, and used his hand with a leather finger condom to arch, saying to Pan Sheng: "The range of the flying bow is long, and the battle bow can use heavy arrows to deal with armor. Even if it is plate armor, the best archer can..."

Before he finished speaking, the longbow pulled out half a force. Its pulling distance was not large, but the collapsed string was loud. The plate armor that was about fifteen steps away was knocked away. The servant with a leather belt and a long sword ran away. After a while, he picked up the plate armor with a heavy arrow.

Pan Sheng clearly saw that the chest of the plate armor was pierced by an arrow, about an inch deep.

"In fact, crossbows are better than this, but it is too expensive to make a pair of steel crossbows. It is reasonable to consider the limited metal-made plate-breasted plaques. "Baron Berlik has a rough face, strong body, but speaks very gently. He handed out the longbow and asked Pan Sheng, who was taller than him, "Sir, give it a try?"

To be honest, Pan Sheng regretted that he did not bring the flag army he had transferred from Liaodong Town. He was a good archer, and he?

He could only smile and shake his head, and answered bluntly: "I'm afraid I can't pull such a heavy bow, so why not try this."

Rather than saying that he can't pull it away, it is better to say that he is more willing to use the excuse of "can't pull it away" to cover up his inaccurate ejaculation.

His training process was a heavy spearman, an excellent bird gunner, and then he made contributions to becoming a small flag... and before joining the army, he was a butcher, and he never touched a bow.

Pan Sheng opened the wooden box placed next to the flag army, first said to the baron, then took the breastplate and tapped it twice, and ordered his subordinates: "The master also has a long gun, which is worse than a gun for one person; go and put this away forty steps."

Baron Burrick shrugged with a relaxed expression, and even became interested, saying, "No need to be ashamed of this. There are few people in England who can use such heavy bows. I have been trained to use various weapons since I was a child. It has been thirty years since I was a child. The next generation does not have the will of me, and the military responsibilities of the nobles are not as good as five pence in their eyes, and gradually they are tired."
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