Along the way, Koster and Marić took 900 men and walked on secluded paths. And, when you encounter a forest, walk from the forest.

They've been in the Sherwood Forest for so long that they've become very skilled bush thieves. Walking in the forest, even if you haven't been to the woodland, you won't get lost. Of course, it is precisely because of this characteristic that the two later became cavalry generals of the North American colonial army. Because, the two of them are good at walking the jungle with a team of horses. Of course, that's an afterthought.

In order to keep it secret, when the two passed through the forest, they hurried during the day and rested at night. Because, there is no one in the forest, so there is no need to worry about being discovered. When they reach a flat populated area, they travel in the middle of the night instead, and during the day they find a small forest to hide and rest to avoid news leakage.

At this time, there were less than 3 million people in England, and the extent of land development was very limited. So, there are forests and woods everywhere. Therefore, the march of the Robin Hood thieves did not alarm the English authorities. Of course, their limited size made it difficult to attract the attention of the British army. If a few thousand people were to go out, they would have to ring the alarm.

900 horse bandits, this number is very uncomfortable. He is not a few, and the militia of the local garrison will probably not be able to defeat them. So, try not to provoke. But 900 people is not too much, and it is impossible to send a large army to encircle and suppress it. Therefore, this is a scale that is very uncomfortable for the government. Moreover, the horse bandits come and go like the wind, and if they want to encircle and suppress, they can't do it. Whether it is the authentic Robin Hood thieves group back then, or the Robin Hood thieves group in this cottage now, as long as they get into the jungle, it will be difficult to encircle and suppress them. As for setting fire to forests? England is so humid that a rain will douse you......

After several days of cautious travel, the 900 horse thieves of Robin Hood's thieves finally entered Warwickshire. At this time, Coster and Mariki gave their men the real task - to burn down the barracks......

The horse thieves under his command suddenly made an uproar - this is the rhythm of openly fighting with the British king. If there was no British barracks, wouldn't it have attracted the frenzied encirclement and suppression of the British officers and soldiers?

Koster had already thought of his rhetoric - he told his horse thieves that this British battalion was set up to encircle and suppress the bandits in the central counties. If the British complete their build-up, they will soon attack Leicestershire, northeast of Warwickshire. And in the forests of Leicestershire, there are also the rudders of the Robin Hood Thieves...... Therefore, this action of the Robin Hood Thieves Group is a preemptive strike......

Of course, he didn't tell his subordinates that this British battalion was actually used for the Northern Expedition. However, if the Northern Expedition is successful, it is inevitable that the north and south will attack the bandit groups in the central counties. Therefore, Coster is not completely deceived by his subordinates.

The horse bandits still had reverence for the imperial court officers and soldiers in their hearts, but the spies sent out reported that there were only 500 infantry in the camp and about 3,000 people, and the horse thieves immediately regained their confidence......

The reason why they are timid is that they are afraid that there are too many officers and soldiers. And if there are only 500 infantry, then there is no need to worry. What reassured them even more was that the 500 infantry were all spearmen, and there were no longbowmen.

The longbowman is very lethal to horse thieves, and he can still make contributions in the face of plate knights, let alone horse thieves who have basically no armor? Once the rain of arrows hits, the horse thieves will definitely suffer heavy casualties. Therefore, the absence of longbowmen is definitely good news for horse thieves.

Although it is said that horse thieves with sabers in one hand are prone to defeat as spearmen charge head-on, not all of these horse thieves are close combat. Of these horse thieves, about three hundred were archers, very restrained spearmen......

England is a country where all people shoot archery, and the king requires the people to practice archery on a regular basis, and even forbids playing football to ensure that there is enough time to practice archery. Therefore, in the English folk, there were too many archery masters in this period. They were not selected as the king's longbowmen, not because they were not good at archery. Rather, the longbowmen demanded a very high height of more than 1.75 meters, which eliminated most of them. This era was not the era when Europeans were generally tall in later generations. Because of the lack of nutrition, in England, there are not too many people who exceed 1.7 meters, let alone 1.75 meters. Therefore, this regulation has brushed off most young people.

However, among those young people who are not up to standard, there are also many archery masters. They started practicing archery at an early age, but they didn't grow tall enough. But after more than ten years of practice, the archery skills are definitely not bad.

As a result, there was not much prey in the forests of England in those days. Because, everyone can shoot arrows, can those wild animals still survive? Unlike Germany at the same time, because archery was not popular, there were quite a lot of prey in the forest. Marin's first start-up capital was obtained through poaching in the Black Forest.

Of course, being able to shoot an arrow does not mean that you can also shoot on a horse. Mounted archery and infantry archery are two different concepts. Therefore, despite the huge size of the Robin Hood thieves group of seven or eight thousand people, Coster and Marich only selected more than three hundred horse bandits who could shoot arrows on horses 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, a man is on horseback, and the longbow cannot be wielded.

With these more than 300 archers, Koster and Marić were confident enough to defeat the 500 English spearmen......

After all, Warwickshire has been taken over by Henry VII's cronies for 20 years, and has long been run into a loyal rear of Henry VII. Moreover, the Robin Hood Thieves mainly operate in Nottinghamshire, across Leicestershire. Therefore, Henry VII did not expect that a group of thieves would be bold enough to dare to attack the British camp. Of course, because it was still in the stage of secrecy, Henry VII did not know that anyone would know about the existence of the camp......

In this way, on a dark and windy night, the 900 horse thieves of the Robin Hood Thieves Regiment, under the command of Koster, tied the horse's mouth with a strip of cloth (to prevent the horse from neighing, which is the method taught by Marin), and put foot covers on the horse's hooves to reduce the sound of the horse's hooves......

After a series of preparations, the 900 horse thieves stopped two kilometers from a certain section of the fence of the British camp. Then, he sent a few men with powder kegs on their backs, sapper shovels and planks, and quietly touched the fence of the British camp......

Before arriving at the camp, a few horse thieves carefully put planks in a trench full of wooden stakes. Then, carrying the powder keg on his back, he stepped on the plank and came under the wooden fence......

Then, several people began to dig carefully with sapper shovels. In order not to alarm the defenders, their movements were very light, which also led to a very slow digging speed......

It was not until dawn, the time of the scheduled attack, that several people hurriedly completed the excavation, buried the powder kegs in the pit, filled them with earth, and stepped on them with their feet, leaving only the fuse exposed......

Both Koster and Marić woke up at dawn. Before, they took their men for a while. At this moment, I just woke up. Seeing that the sky was a little cloudy, Koster hurriedly sent someone close to the operation point, learned to bark the dog, and asked if the few buried powder kegs had been completed. Soon, a few cat meows came from under the wooden fence of the British camp - this means that it is ready......

So Koster and Marić, who had received the news, settled down, took their rested men, dressed themselves, took up sabers, bows and arrows, tolfat canisters, and planks, mounted their horses, and marched slowly towards the British camp.

While advancing, Coster also sent someone to inform a few of his men in front of the British fence that the fuse could be lit......