Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 209 Husbands

"Ah, this meal tonight is the best meal I've had since I came here." After adding a spoonful of shredded fish-flavored pork to his bread and taking a bite, Pierce let out a long sigh of satisfaction. .

Because it was getting dark, everyone called it a day and returned to the tent to have dinner.And after the workers bought some raw materials from a village not far away, Fan Meng stood in front of the cauldron to show everyone.

As the son of a chef, although Fan Meng did not fully inherit his father's culinary skills, he has mastered very good cooking skills for big pot rice after being exposed to him since he was a child and living in the military camp.

So after everyone helped together, it only took an hour for everyone to make a sumptuous dinner that could feed more than a dozen people present.

"Then what have you been eating the past few days?" After hearing Pierce's emotion, Liang En asked after taking a sip of the mushroom cream soup in the bowl.

"Just put those cans in the pot to heat up, and then use the bread that is barely heated by the fire." Pierce pointed to the empty cans in the tin trash can that was obviously brought from the nearby village. arrive.

"Sometimes we even just eat the contents of those cans directly in bread or biscuits, and then drink bottled water. Now thinking about it, the first few days were terrible."

"There are so many of you who should hire a chef." Liang En said while watching Fan Meng use a spoon to scoop out vegetables or soup from large plates and pots and put them into the workers' lunch boxes and rice bowls. "Those instant foods are okay for a day or two, but they can't hold it for a long time."

"This is mainly because I was cheated before." Pierce said with a look of helplessness. "I asked some of our family's partners before, and they told them that these instant foods are enough when digging in the field, and at most they are hot."

"That's because at least half of your partners are earth-diggers wandering in the gray field." Hearing what Pierce said, Liang En immediately understood what the problem was.

"Because their actions are between legal and illegal, they will naturally reduce fires during the excavation process and reduce all behaviors that may arouse the suspicion of local people."

"So in this case, the other party will use heating packs as much as possible instead of lighting fires to cook. But you are legally licensed excavators, and you can live and cook by yourself."

Legal public excavation and private illegal excavation are completely different things. For example, a simple cooking problem like this can show a huge difference.

Of course, it's understandable that Pierce and the others don't hire people from the village as cooks.After all, this kind of excavation work still has certain confidentiality requirements, and unreliable people are not suitable for the position of chef.

After finishing this delicious dinner, Fan Meng arranged the night watchmen and went to rest with the workers, while Liang En and Pierce went to a small tent next to them to check the results of the day.

Most of these victories were things of little value to Liang En and the others. For example, the five or six iron bars they found should be the raw materials of the blacksmith shop.

If these iron bars are put into some metal laboratories to test the specific conditions, it should be possible to determine the possible origin of these iron bars by analyzing the ratio of various elements in the iron bars.

But for people like Liang En who don't study this area, the only value of this thing is to give it to those professionals in exchange for some money or favors.

Fortunately, the things dug out in this place are not all those unremarkable existences. For example, Liang En found several long strips of copper, and after putting these copper pieces together, he found that it should be integrated.

"I think we found something very interesting." Looking at the piece of copper pieced together like a fishhook on the white cloth in front of him, Liang En patted Pierce beside him and said. "That military fortress is more important than we thought."

"Is it just because of this long strip of copper with eyes all over it?" Looking at the green and rusty existence in front of him, Pierce's eyes revealed a look of doubt.

"Of course, this is not a simple piece of copper." Liang En pointed to the copper piece with a curved front end that looked like a fishhook and said with a smile. "This is the metal used by hussars to strengthen the wooden frame and feathers on the back."

"Husbands!" Pierce's eyes widened for a moment. Of course he knew that this was a very distinctive unit in Poland's heyday. The epitome of military power.

According to historical records, this cavalry unit brilliantly combined the cavalry elements of Eastern and Western Europe, and at the same time carried forward the advantages of local traditions and contemporary innovations.

They are both heavy cavalry and light cavalry. Their armor is both strong and swift, and they can choose different tactics according to the ever-changing needs of the battlefield.

The cuirassiers and carbines in Western Europe in this era were too accustomed to the rigid tactics of riding to the front of the formation to fire their firearms in rows, and then galloping back to the rear of the squadron to reload. The bold charge of the hussars always defeated them.

At the same time, the hussars can easily defeat the cavalry from the East, because the speed and maneuverability of the hussars are comparable to them, but they are better armed and supported by firearms.

"That's right, the copper bars are exactly the shape of that wing when connected together. And the holes on the top are for inserting feathers." Having said this, Pierce turned his head and saw Liang En.

"But what happened to the scale armor we found before? If I remember correctly, the armor of the hussars is either a whole Western European-style breastplate, or a ring plate nailed together with metal rivets or It's chain mail—"

"You are mainly influenced by those handed down oil paintings, but in fact the armor of the hussars is very chaotic." Liang En stared at the other party seriously and said.

"Because the hussars are not like a modern army, they are actually an army composed of a group of wealthy farmers and small landowners, with big landowners and nobles serving as officers, so most of the equipment needs to be prepared by yourself."

"In this case, the soldiers naturally have what equipment to use. Some people with better economic conditions may buy some breastplate armor from Western Europe, but those with poor conditions may only be left with chain mail and scale armor. gone."

"That's why this kind of cavalry is called hussars, because if they have anything in common, the only thing they have in common is the wings on their backs and the spear in their hands."

"So during the Napoleonic Wars, the descendants of these hussars formed the Polish Lancers." Pierce raised his eyebrows. "Maybe that's what the Poles do."

And from the next day, they unearthed more things that could prove their conjectures on the remains of the blacksmith shop.For example, an armor-piercing claw hammer obviously used by a hussar officer, or a gorgeous gold-plated spur.

At the same time, the scorched wood around the blacksmith shop also indicates that the blacksmith shop was probably abandoned after an accidental fire, and then the ruins and the remains of these equipment belonging to the hussars were buried to this day.

(End of this chapter)