It is not an easy task to ask the locals for food and grass - even if Luo Ming plays the banner of hanging the people, not many people will believe it for a while, after all, it is not a day's work to win the trust of the people.

Maybe there will be some big local families who will pay protection money and donate a small part of grain and grass, but that can't be too much - they rely on their own power, and they don't believe that Luo Ming dares to tear his face.

If Login wants more, he will inevitably have to attack.

The poor peasants did not have much power to protect themselves, but the poor peasants did not have much surplus food in their homes, and robbing them would require the army to be extremely dispersed, which would increase the risk, and would also provoke their desperate counterattack, in short, it would not be worth it at all.

And if you rob the kulaks, the kulaks generally have weapons and even armor to resist.

If you rise to the level of a squire and a small nobleman, you will have to face castles of different sizes.

Broadly speaking, in fact, the "landlord's compound" also belongs to the microcosm of the castle, but unlike the Song and Ming dynasties that strictly controlled the civil armed forces, the free people of this world have the right to wear swords, and the squires and small nobles have no taboos.

Repair the walls of the house higher and thicker, collect some armor bows and crossbows, and blatantly build arrow holes in the wall battlements, which are not illegal at all, and it is naturally difficult to attack.

Romin would have to breach at least two or three of the larger castles before he could scare the nearby nobles into relenting – just as the Berans had done in the early days in Vanshei.

Although Lockin has artillery, and is now developing larger-caliber siege artillery, it will not take a day to break through a castle that is not specially reinforced for artillery, but in the process, gunpowder consumption is definitely a lot.

Gunpowder can basically only be brought by itself, and the consumption is a little less, and if it is wasted, there will soon be a shortage.

As for collecting materials on the spot to prepare gunpowder...... If you want to take a complete military gunpowder production line with you, you have to consume hundreds or even thousands of laborers, and if you cut corners in this regard, then the gunpowder quality problem will not be discussed, and maybe it will explode on the way to the configuration, and there is no way to ensure safe production.

If Luo Ming is developed one day and has the ability to mobilize a genuine army of tens of thousands, it is not a big deal to piggyback a few hundred or one thousand more people.

But now he is still far behind, even if he only sends an expeditionary force of more than 1,000 people, it will take half a day to calculate the logistics problem.

Even if you try to save gunpowder and then succeed in grabbing it, there are still a lot of troubles waiting for you.

Let the soldiers grab food, they will inevitably have the opportunity to take the sheep and seize the property, and even commit violence against the civilians, this opening is difficult to contain, and the gradual deterioration of military discipline is inevitable.

If you are not careful, you may even become an outright bandit group, preferring to plunder the weak and disdain those hard-nosed battles that are very risky.

The snatching of grain will also arouse serious resistance among the local people, and more people will stand up and resist.

Even civilians who do not dare to resist by force will be happy to provide intelligence, cover, and internal response to enemy forces.

If a messenger or scout travels alone, they may even be ambushed and killed by a few resentful civilians.

In the future, if he wants to occupy or even conquer this place for a long time, this will become a serious obstacle, and even if he does not want this land, he will set up more enemies.

Luo Ming is happy to use patriotism or more simple vernacularism against the enemy, but if the patriotism or vernacularism of the other party is stimulated, starting a mighty people's war, even if it is only a prototype, it will become a big trouble.

Napoleon used the banner of nationalism and patriotism to inspire his soldiers and conquer Europe, but when his opponents began to learn these two points to the fullest, his advantage gradually diminished and eventually collapsed.