Chapter 642： Burn the enemy camp (Part 1)

Along the way, Coster and Maric took 900 men and walked on a secluded path. Moreover, when they encounter the forest, they walk away from the forest.

They have been in the Sherwood Forest for so long, and they have become very skilled jungle horse thieves. Walking in the forest, even the woodland that has not been visited, will not get lost. Of course, precisely because of this characteristic, the two later became cavalry generals of the North American Colonial Army. Because, they are good at taking the horse team to the jungle. Of course, this is something.

For the sake of confidentiality, when they passed through the forest, the two rushed by during the day and rested at night. Because there is no one in the forest, don't worry about being discovered. When you reach a flat, manned area, you will switch to the middle of the night, and you will find a small forest to hide and rest during the day to avoid leaking information.

In this era, there were only a total of less than 3 million people in England, and the degree of land development was very limited. So, there are forests and woods everywhere. Therefore, the march of the Robin Hood Rush did not disturb the English officials. Of course, their number is limited, and it is difficult to attract the attention of the British army. If thousands of people are dispatched, the alarm must be sounded.

900 horse bandits, this number is very uncomfortable. He is not a small one, and the local defense militia may not be able to beat them. So try not to provoke them. But there are not many 900 people, and it is impossible to mobilize the army to siege. So, this is a scale that is very uncomfortable for the government. Moreover, the horse bandits came and went like the wind, and wanted to encircle and suppress them. Whether it was the authentic Robin Hood Bandit that year, or now the Robin Hood Bandit Bandit in the cottage, as long as you get into the jungle, it is difficult to encircle and suppress it. As for setting fire to the forest? The climate in England is so humid that a rain will wipe you out ...

After several days of cautious rushing, the 900 horse thieves of the Robin Hood Rogue finally entered Warwickshire. But at this time, Koster and Marić explained to their men the real task-burning the barracks ...

The horse thief immediately clamored-this is to openly and the rhythm of the king's death. If the British army barracks were missing, wouldn't it lead to the crazy encirclement and suppression of the English army?

Koster had thought about his speech long ago-he told his horse thieves that this British camp was set up to encircle the thieves in several central counties. If Britain completes the assembly, it will soon launch an attack on Leicestershire, northeast of Warwickshire. And in the forests of Leicestershire, there is also the rudder of the Robin Hood Rogue ... So, this action of the Robin Hood Rogue belongs to the preemption ...

Of course, he did not tell his men that this British military camp was actually used for the Northern Expedition. However, if the Northern Expedition succeeds, it is inevitable that the North and South will hit the thieves in several central counties. Therefore, Koster is not completely deceived.

The horse bandits still have awe in the heart of the court officials, but the spies sent out in return said that there were only 500 infantry in the camp and about 3,000 soldiers, which immediately restored their confidence ...

The reason they are timid is that they are afraid of too many officers and soldiers. And if there are only 500 infantry, then don't worry. What reassured them was that these 500 infantrymen were all spearmen and no longbowmen.

Longbowmen's lethal power against horse thieves is great. In the face of plate armoured knights, they can still make achievements, not to mention horse thieves without armor? Once the arrow rain hit, the horse thief must have suffered heavy casualties. Therefore, the absence of longbowmen is definitely good news for the horse thieves.

Although it is said that a horse thief with a sabre and a frontal charge lancer are also prone to failure, but this group of horse thieves are not all melee. Among these horse thieves, more than 300 people are archers, very restrained lancers ...

England is a nation of archery for all people. The king asked the people to practice archery at ordinary times, and even banned football to ensure sufficient time for practicing archery. Therefore, there are too many archery masters in England during this period. They were not selected for the Longbowmen of the King of England, and it was not that the archery level was not good. Instead, the Longbowmen demanded a height of more than 1.75 meters, which eliminated most of them. This era is not a time when Europeans are generally tall in later generations. Because of insufficient nutrition, in England, more than 1 meter 7 is not too much, let alone 1 meter 75. Therefore, this rule wiped out most young people.

However, there are also many archery masters among those young people who are not up to standard. They started practicing archery from an early age, but they didn't grow up enough. Can be practiced for more than ten years, shooting is absolutely not bad.

Therefore, in this era, there are not many prey in the forests of England. Because everyone can shoot arrows, can those wild animals still have a way to live? Unlike Germany in the same period, because archery is not popular, there are many prey in the forest. Marin's first start-up capital was obtained by poaching in the Black Forest.

Of course, being able to shoot arrows does not mean being able to shoot. Riding and stepping are two concepts. Therefore, despite the huge size of the Robin Hood Rogues, with seven or eight thousand people, Cost and Maric only picked out more than three hundred bandits who were able to shoot arrows immediately and had a good hit rate. At the same time, the bow they used was not an English longbow, but a recurve bow with a shorter bow. After all, people ca n’t spread their longbows on horseback.

With these more than 300 bow cavalry, Coster and Maric have enough confidence to defeat the 500 English spearmen ...

This is also Henry VII's mistake. After all, Warwickshire has been taken over by Henry VII's cronies for 20 years, and it has long been operated as a big rear loyal to Henry VII. Moreover, the Robin Hood band mainly operates in Nottinghamshire across Leicestershire. Therefore, Henry VII did not expect that a band of thieves would be so bold as to dare to attack the British army camp. Of course, because it is still in the stage of secrecy ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Henry VII didn't know that anyone would know the existence of Daying ...

In this way, on a dark night with a dark wind, the 900 horse thieves of the Robin Hood Band, under the command of Koster, tied the horse's mouth with cloth strips (to prevent the horse from hoaring, this is the method of Marinism), and returned to the horseshoe Put on foot covers to reduce the sound of horseshoes ...

After a series of preparations, the 900 horse thief stopped two kilometers away from a fence in the British military camp. Then, he sent a few men carrying gunpowder barrels, carrying engineer shovel and wooden board, and quietly touched the fence of the British army camp ...

Before coming to the big camp, a few horse thieves carefully paddled the wooden board in the trench filled with wooden spikes. Then, the man carried the gunpowder barrel and stepped on the wooden board to come under the wooden fence ...

Then, several people began to use engineer shovel to dig carefully. In order not to disturb the defenders, their movements are very light, which also causes the digging speed to be very slow ...

It was almost dawn, which was the time when the attack was scheduled. Several talents hurriedly completed the excavation, buried the gunpowder barrels in the pit, filled it with soil, and stepped on it, leaving only the guide Torso exposed outside ...

Kost and Maric were awake at dawn. Before, they took their men and squinted for a while. At this moment, I just woke up. Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, Coster quickly sent someone close to the job site, learned to bark, and asked if those few gunpowder barrels were completed. Soon, a few meows came under the wooden fence of the British military camp-which means that it is ready ...

As a result, Koster and Malichian, who got the news, settled down, took the rest of their men, dressed them, picked up sabers, bows and arrows, sheep oil tanks and wooden boards, stepped on the war horses, and slowly marched towards the British army camp .

While advancing, Coster also sent people to inform several men in front of the British fence-the fuse can be lit ... 8)