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

His troops did not gather in densely in the woods. Although there were still not many people together, they were used to camping at a distance not far away to prevent conflicts from happening together.

During the battle, each soldier caused too much killing and lived in an unstable environment for a long time. Every soldier became perverted, suspicious and irritable. They were used to obeying orders and putting people they didn't know were killed just because of the different positions of both sides. Even if there was no conflict, they would still use swords and guns. What if there was a conflict?

During the occasional marching break, Ying Ming was drafting a report on the soldiers' mentality in the notebook he carried with him. Their troops would probably be in a war until they retired. It would have nothing to do with the flag army that wanted to continue serving, but Ying Ming suggested that the flag army do not send them back to Tianjin as soon as possible.

Instead, we first find a place such as Japan, North Korea, or the like, and let them stay there for a few months. First, we can learn some skills to survive home, and second, even if we have conflicts with others and commit crimes, we will not cause trouble to the local area.

Wait until they are used to relaxing peaceful life and return to their homeland.

However, Ying Ming probably doesn't want to go back. At least his flag army is used to following the army around the world, and 70% of them want to sign another contract to continue serving for five years. If the military government has improved the treatment of veterans who served in the second service, I'm afraid the number of people will be even greater.

In fact, Ying Ming was thinking about going back, not going back to the village, but leading his troops back to Plymouth, but his little horseshoe ran away, unloading a pair from the newly killed English horseshoe, and planning to go to the forest post to change the horseshoe and let the flag army rest, so he led his troops back to Puly County.

Some of the seized war horses were killed and eaten by them, leaving only a few. Although the high war horses were indeed very powerful and they ran very fast in a short period of time, the best one was the one that suited them the best.

They all carry mares, low in size, not fast in running, and not heavy in carrying heavy loads, but save baggage, and can survive if they can't find water and drink milk in a few days. They are half-wild horses, and they don't pay so much attention to feeding food. The disadvantages can be ignored in local combat environments where more hits less, and the advantages are essential in sports and combat without baggage.

To be honest, no cavalry doesn't like taller European horses. In the past, they would be willing to exchange two months of military salary for an Andalusian horse. If they were in the Asian environment, they would grab one on the battlefield and take one back, but it doesn't work here.

They can't keep the horses if they rob the horses. They have few people and only have few horses to take away. These horses are not easy to take care of, so they only take a small part of the horses to carry the war.

Ying Ming had thought that the enemy troops in the siege would send troops to encircle him. In fact, this was his expectation. His original intention of leaving the city was to intercept reinforcements in the west while transferring the large siege troops to divide the troops.

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

Looking at the shabby little hat in front of him and the linen shirt of his father or brother, who looked obviously incompatible, he waded through the forest camp and brought him news that the enemy was about to arrive in the village, Ying Ming thought for a long time, but still couldn't ask why the sentence in his throat.

He was self-aware, never promised anything to the people in the village, and never asked them to protect the food stored in the village. In his opinion, except for helping him grind noodles for rewards, all this was based on his ability.

If he could protect the food and defeat the enemy, no one could take away the food, and the people would not have the courage to swallow his things; if he was incompetent, he would not expect the people to keep their mouths tight. If the villagers felt that it would be good for them to hand over their food to the enemy, they would hand over it, and he would grab it back anyway.

The child stared timidly at the Beiyang cavalry resting in the forest camp, answering the questions of Ying Ming's personal soldiers. He was a strong, skillful swordsman, who could speak Chinese and English. He was relatively tall in his tribe and could catch up with the Ming people. Now he was covered in a well-textured plate armor. He tried to ask the report to the children in a gentle voice with his hands and asked the children about military information.

Some things children know, some things children don’t know - in fact, Irish people generally don’t like English people, and they want to kill the English people after they come out of their womb. This emotion naturally includes the English children, but Ying Ming told him to speak a better tone to the child.

"His mother was the woman who helped us make kimchi. She said that the noble tax officer was back and asked the village to prepare two hundred people for a meal for food and wine, and prepare bread, fruit and fish for half a month for these people. The miller told the tax officer the news that we had garrisoned there and stored food. Now there are more than a dozen soldiers in the village, and by the evening there will be two hundred people, and there may be more."

Ying Ming loosened the rope tied to his mount hooves, nodded slowly, and asked his personal soldiers: "What's his name?"

"Little John."

The commander frowned and chewed the name and said to himself, "Leitoujiao Shan? That's fine. I've seen too many strange names. At least this one is better than the Niu Mowang. Their village will be called Leitou Township in the future."

As he said that, he searched for it, and finally took out a small jade hand-held piece from the bag hanging on his belt, handed it to the child, and asked, "Little Khan, can you ride a horse? If you don't know, just take him with you, send a message to the general flag, load ammunition for the hand gun, check the remaining gunpowder, and look for two more battles before returning to Puli County."

The enemy army must have sent more than 200 people, but the road conditions are not good, and there will not be too many people in the village. If the miller had not informed the enemy of the news that the Ming army had been in the village, the biggest possibility at this time was that all the enemy troops except the noble headquarters would have spread the requisition of food in various places. However, now that the enemy already knows that the Ming army treats that village as a place to stock up on grain, it is very likely that they will set up defenses and ambush in the village.

Ying Ming knew very well that if Lei Toujiao Khan's mother had not asked him to report the news, his scout might have crashed into the enemy's siege and died in the process of setting up an outpost.

"The four general flags gather, with cavalry in front and cavalry in the back, each small flag is separated by one mile, and will move eastward according to the width of the five miles of Caodian. When a small group of enemy troops can be annihilated, advance, and retreat when they cannot be annihilated. When they meet with the rear formation, they will be surrounded and annihilated. If most of the enemy troops encounter, they will retreat and gather and move, and they will not be formed to fight."
Chapter completed!