The reason why the devil's height is so low has been said before, that is, he has eaten vegetarian for thousands of years. It wasn't until after the Meiji Restoration that Hirobumi Ito was the first to eat beef in Japan and discovered the famous breed of Wagyu.

But the changes were not drastic at that time, and it was not until the devils of World War II suffered too much loss in the fight that the official learned from the pain and ordered the whole people to drink milk and eat meat to increase. It's not about appearance, it's about practicality. You must know that at the beginning, the northern militia composed of untrained peasants was able to fight with the old devils who had been trained for many years, which was really shocking.

Many people say that the old devil is powerful, but I don't see that people have trained for ten or eight years. But what about the militia in North China? Not long after he dropped the hoe, he was able to rely on his height advantage to fight with the old devil. Even if the old devil has a slight upper hand, it is a big loss for the devil. After all, the cost of cultivating an old devil is very high. Just like Europe in this era, more than ten years of training a knight, and the result is on par with the opposing peasants. As a result, it will make people vomit three liters of blood.

This is also the reason why muskets replaced longbows in England. In fact, the longbow surpassed the musket in range and power. However, the cost of training longbowmen is high, and a longbowman has been trained for more than ten years and has bent the spine. As a result, a Musketeer recruit who has been training for two weeks across from the house is on par with you. The longbowmen are dead and difficult to replenish, so the musketeers can just catch some peasant training......

The advantage of height and arm length was also very obvious in the Battle of Zhenjiang in the First Crow War. In the defense of Zhenjiang, most of the soldiers of the Qing defenders were not killed by muskets, but stabbed to death with bayonets.

At that time, Britain had completed the Industrial Revolution, and the people in the country were rich and well-nourished, and the soldiers were naturally tall and strong. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was in the dark ages, and there were people with yellow faces and thin statures everywhere. Even the flag soldiers guarding Zhenjiang are very average in height. Even if they practiced martial arts, they could only hate the bayonet array of the British army's long men and long arms.

Of course, the Swiss in this era were more chicken thieves - I was not tall enough, but I used a super long spear five or six meters long, and I used weapons to make up for the shortcomings of height and arms......

Relying on extra-long spears, the Swiss are often invincible in the field. But then everyone was not stupid, and they all started to learn from the Swiss, and they all switched to using long spears. Then the advantage of the Swiss decreased. Although it is still very powerful, it is not an absolute advantage.

Then, Marin's side became more chicken thieves and popularized the use of muskets. No matter how long your spear is, it can't reach the range of a musket. Therefore, the Swiss mercenaries, who used extra-long spears, were gradually eliminated. Even without Marin, he would have been eliminated by the original German mercenaries with arquebuses.

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Just as the spring ploughing was about to end, something big happened in Calais, France - an English merchant named Wilson and another English merchant named James were both killed at their home in Calais. Moreover, the whole family was poisoned, and no one was spared......

This kind of murder case is very bad in nature, and there are two cases at once, which immediately caused a sensation. At this time, King Edward also protested to the French side, believing that the French authorities had failed to protect the English expatriates in Calais. Edward then expressed his intention to send emissaries to Calais to help investigate the case and pacify the English in the city.

King François I of France was a hundred unhappy that the English wanted to intervene in the investigation. However, the English people in the city were indeed panicked and needed to be reassured.

Therefore, François I agreed that the English side should send emissaries to pacify the English in the city, so as not to panic. Of course, it would be nice to bring all these Englishmen back to England.

After all, Calais has been ruled by England for more than a hundred years, and there are many English people in the city. Although many English chose to return to China after being conquered by the French, many remained. Despite France's efforts to increase the number of French, nearly half of Calais's inhabitants were English.

Therefore, if you want to ensure the stability of Calais, those English people also need to be appeased. Therefore, François I allowed Edward to send emissaries to help pacify. However, the emissary was not allowed to meddle in the investigation.

And Edward never thought of really interfering in the investigation, after all, the perpetrator was sent by him. All he wanted was to send the unfortunate messenger to Calais......

Therefore, Edward agreed to François I's request, but asked to observe the results of the investigation in order to protect the people......

In fact, Edward didn't even want to bargain, but if he was at the mercy of the French, he would find it problematic. Therefore, he deliberately made a small request to confuse everyone.

The French, apparently deluded, allowed the English to sit on the sidelines of the case, but were not allowed to intervene. In this way, England received permission to send emissaries to the city of Calais.

Edward then picks an unlucky guy named Robinson and travels to Calais to pacify the English in the city and watch the results of the investigation.

Robinson was an opponent of Edward, an old baron in Cornwall. This item was not a remnant of the Tudor dynasty, so it was not killed by Edward's clean-up in the first place.

But after Edward ascended the throne, Robinson became Edward's opponent because he disagreed with Edward on many things.

Under normal circumstances, Edward would have tolerated him. However, last year, this guy actually harbored an important remnant of the Tudor dynasty. The man's name was Marquis, a former friend of Robinson's and a former baron, and the two were colleagues during the reign of Henry VII and had a close relationship. Even, the two almost got married.

But after Edward overthrew Henry VII, Robinson was neutral and escaped. Marquis, on the other hand, fled England with his family and went into exile in France. Later, Margaret of Bontudor and Margaret's false son Henry were the main masters, and actively planned to participate in the overthrow of Edward's rule.

Marquis was also a baron in Cornwall, so he was naturally sent back to his hometown. Last year, because he was worried that England would attack France from behind, Louis XII sent people to Wales to plan an uprising, and at the same time, he also sent Marquis to sneak back to Cornwall to plan a rebellion in order to hold Edward back.

At that time, Marquis quietly lived in Robinson's country estate, sleeping during the day and going out at night to find people and encourage everyone to rebel......

However, the unexpected capture of the leader of the Welsh rebels led to the bankruptcy of Marquis's rebellion before it could even begin. In desperation, Marquis had no choice but to get on a fishing boat at night and smuggle back to France......

Later, this was inadvertently discovered by Edward's spies. However, the agents did not receive specific information and could not convict Robinson. However, since then, Robinson has been labeled as an "anti-thief" in Edward's heart. Although Robinson did not directly participate in the rebellion, he contained the rebels and allowed them to contact and rebel everywhere, which can be regarded as an accomplice of the rebels.

But Edward had no evidence, so he had to replace Robinson from his position as a county warden in Cornwall and transfer him to the Foreign Affairs Department in London.

You must know that the county guard is the absolute real power of the local government. If the county guard participates in the rebellion, the success rate is very high, and the consequences are serious.

Edward transferred Baron Robinson to London as an aide-de-camp to Foreign Secretary Howard, nominally promoted, but without real power. After all, there is a big difference between the real power of being a local prince and being an adjutant to a minister.

Robinson also resented this, and then, often finding fault with Edward in official meetings, much to Edward's annoyance.

It just so happened that a nobleman was needed to go to Calais to die this time, and Edward thought of Robinson, the unlucky one......