Multiply simple things by the number and it becomes complicated and difficult.

In his book The Primer of the Infantry, published in 1499 by the Patrosi Empire in Lamanite New Arahman, the relationship between the number of troops and the weight of the baggage is recorded: "For 12,000 infantry, at least 650 heavy carriages, and for 3,000 knights, 300 heavy carriages." For a team of 15,000 men, a minimum of 950 heavy wagons were needed to carry supplies. Each knight should carry at least two horses for a ride, and the carriages should be spaced 10 metres apart, and the length of the team should be 23 kilometers from the head to the end. ”

The Imperial Army's heavy carriages were much larger models than the two-horse drawn commercial carriages, generally in groups of six pack beasts. Heavy wagons of this size need to be spaced 10 meters apart to ensure safety, and nearly 1,000 wagons plus more than 10,000 combat personnel can pull out more than 20 kilometers of length in a loose long snake formation.

That's a staggering number. Most people may not have any idea just by looking at the number of people, but the march line of more than 10,000 people is 20 kilometers, which means that with this formation, the front end of the two adjacent town teams has already reached the end of the next town, and there is no time to start at the end.

Of course, the only people of this size can be used as the basic unit is the powerful Padrossi Empire. A regular army of more than 10,000 is already a national force for a small kingdom, and those battles that cost tens of thousands of troops are often filled by a large number of slaves and conscripted peasant soldiers, and the actual combat capability cannot be compared with the regular army at all.

But let's get back to the moment and get back to the present. Ryunosuke's 150-strong force was exactly one hundredth of the 15,000 men mentioned in the Imperial Handbook, although his composition was slightly different. Of the 150 people, 100 were Ashigaru, and the remaining 50 samurai carried 60 horses, and there were 7 wagons including waterwheels, and 7 of the 50 samurai were selected to drive the wagons. Such a scale is barely enough to maintain the operation of the team itself, and Henry's party, who has temporarily joined at the moment, also has its own baggage, so in general it is not a big problem.

After more than ten years, Ryunosuke's own wealth, which was a Chinese clan in the past, was almost gone, and it can be seen from the mouths of the samurai under his command that they were several times the number of people they have now.

It's just that some people died in the process of chasing the murderer, while others chose to flee in search of a better life. Eventually, it was scaled back again and again, leaving only this scale.

Good-looking romance

Time is the most important thing, chasing the clues of chasing the wind and shadows day and night to find their enemies, such days are not acceptable to everyone. Even in the samurai class, where loyalty is the root of their culture, most of them still have a peaceful and stable heart. It is acceptable to sleep in the open for a while, day after day for ten years, which is a great torture for the spirit.

Even Ryunosuke himself is afraid that he doesn't know whether to continue or not, and this is also a factor that he will try to apply information from Henry and others. Perhaps what he was expecting at the time was for the sage to tell him that the rebellion had not happened, and the so-called return to Zhangzhou because of the rebellion was just a baseless speculation, so let himself finally give up seeking revenge with the help of this sentence.

He didn't tell him directly, because he didn't know whether Henry and his party were involved with Saburo. After more than ten years of seeking revenge, he had probably been disappointed and betrayed too many times, so he preferred to make up lies rather than state the facts before Joshua suggested it.

Single-mindedly chasing the murderer. The partners turn their backs, scatter their wealth, don't think about the future, don't think about what to do when everything is over, the only goal is revenge. In this way, he is probably already alone.

Friendship should not be deep, but it is a newcomer, and putting on the appearance of an old acquaintance is not something that a sage would do. He doesn't care what the other party wants to do, but at the moment they are temporarily together in the same direction and can have a mutual care for each other, so in general, the teams on both sides still maintain a certain distance and restraint, and do not mix directly.

Ryunosuke's team is all male, and the average age is over 30, and all of them are in the prime of life. There are several young women in the team here, and when Sakura first walked over to talk to Ryunosuke about Saburo, many people looked at her with the eyes of a scrutinizing object, which was not to be taken lightly.

All in all, distance and vigilance were maintained, and the teams on both sides rested temporarily under the bamboo forest. Our sage was holding a cup of coarse tea and leaning on the thick nan bamboo and drank it without taking a sip, and a few rough ronins who had originally carried some food and seemed to want to come over to talk, and the gray-blue eyes of the sage who was nearly two meters tall and nearly two meters tall met for a moment, and then turned his head back stupidly.

Oiran who watched all this behind her couldn't help but laugh, and she had been a little silent since she learned last night that Ryunosuke's object of revenge was Saburo.

What happened in the swamp village at that time was a memory she didn't want to remember. Women are only vassals of men in the Japanese society, and the women of Rigal can still hold weapons and become mercenaries, or go into battle as knights and nobles. If you have the ability, it is entirely possible to run a city-state as a heroine like our Mr. Sage and Miss Margaret, the old acquaintance of the Miss of Loan. Although it is harder and smaller than men, they can stand up on their own.

But it is not allowed in the society of people. The highest achievement a woman can achieve is nothing more than a doctor's job with empty knowledge like Aya—but even that is considered an evil way, and most of the plans for the future discussed among the ladies are to marry into a wealthy enough family and become a prime family. This is the clear division of labor between men and women in this traditional society, and women should be gentle and housekeeping.

A woman's lack of talent is virtue. A good woman should have no personal ability and no subjective opinion, just a beautiful vase to satisfy the male show-off psychology and maintain quiet, not resisting, not talking back, not rebelling against the authority of the male host. This is the deep-rooted thinking of this 4,000-year-old country. And Miss Doctor and Oiran had a fierce collision as soon as they met, precisely because their ways of living are so similar but so different.

They all want to use their abilities to become independent and contrarian beings, but Aya chooses to ignore gender to prove that she can do what men can do, while Sakura uses her gender advantages and male weaknesses to climb to the top.

But after all, this is just a small pebble thrown in the turbulent rapids.

When the domain changed, the Oiran was easily abandoned.

A vassal without self-worth, in an era of peace, he can be regarded as a rare plaything and spend a lot of money to please him, but after all, it is not a necessity, and he will abandon it as soon as he encounters a crisis.

It is a total denial of the value of human beings, and the saddest thing is that this is normal in this country.

They are abnormal and incompatible with the mainstream society of humans, so they can only move forward with the likes of Ezo from the southern barbarians.

A person, an encounter, revived the sorrow that she had tried her best to forget.

So she was silent, and she laughed out loud until she saw our Sage's silent coercion scare away the ronin who wanted to strike up a conversation.

"I say, Miss Mercenary of the Southern Barbarians. Sakura hugged the Roan girl from behind, who was defending her weapon, and Mira quickly put the knife down so that she wouldn't be hurt.

"Huh?" the white-haired girl looked back, her eyes pure and unadulterated, and Sakura looked at her unpolluted eyes with some envy.

"Can I do it to your teacher? She said this, and then watched as Mira was stunned by the words and laughed again.

Henry's actions were not based on possessiveness, and he did not chase away those who came to talk to him like a little boy who was jealous and protected his girlfriend. Just to defend their cherished companions. He doesn't claim ownership of his female companions to chase away others like those high-ranking men who are like people, and he behaves in a low-key manner, but treats others as human beings.

This kind of care is based on respect and cherishment, and is not purposeful and possessive.

But that's why Oiran feels a little lonely. She clings to our white-haired girl and teases her until Lulu and Ayaya next to her come over.

Lunch was very simple, and the yellow rice I bought in Ziyun before consumed a lot and it was a little tiring to eat this all the time. In the middle of summer, it's much more comfortable to be able to drink soup. Therefore, what the group ate today was noodles made from flour purchased from Ryunosuke and others.

With a team of more than 100 people, the baggage rations on Ryunosuke and his party were like the shelves of a rice and flour store. Because their supplies are in small villages and towns, it is often difficult to obtain the same type of food in large quantities at one time, so they only have a little bit of everything.

This clutter became a plus when exchanging supplies, and when the two Ashigaru duo, who were in charge of cooking the fire, noticed that there was a bag of flour in it with a unique fragrance, they immediately asked for it from Ryunosuke and his party, who were obviously not interested in them.

The samurai from the top didn't know what it was, but the ashigaru at the bottom could recognize it at a glance - it was flour mixed with soybean meal.

The total population of Crescent Island is more than 70 million last year, and although the continent is long and narrow, the total area is not small. Zhangzhou, which the group has reached after walking for so long, is actually only in the central and northern regions, and the central part has still not arrived, not to mention the most prosperous south.

With such a large population and a lack of large plains where livestock can be raised, meat is relatively scarce in this country, which we have already mentioned. Therefore, most people obtain protein by planting soybeans in addition to fish in rivers, lakes and seas.

Tofu and bean curd and bean-based miso are both sources, but the cheapest of them is probably flour mixed with soybean meal.

Soybeans are the basic crop that underpins the entire Crescent civilization, and to some extent even more important than rice and millet. It is rich in oil and various nutrients, and in addition to human and animal consumption, another important role is oil extraction.

Frying in cooking oil is an irresistible cooking method for many people, and the crumbling dregs left over from soybean oil extraction still contain a lot of protein. The cheapest and most readily available raw material is the rice flour supplement commonly used by the low-class people, which is packed into a cloth bag and beaten into a finer powder with wooden sticks, and the flour can be added to make a protein-rich pasta.

The ashigaru, who is in charge of cooking, puts into the soup the dried kelp that Shiyun buys, and this seaweed that grows along the coast is common in many places except in the inland areas that are too far inland. After drying kelp, kelp with a high salt content and the umami of kelp itself becomes a portable salt that can be stored for a long time, after all, refined salt is not easy to buy, and it is easy to get damp or lost. Therefore, this high-salt dried kelp is brought and then simmered in a soup pot with a knife cut into small pieces when it is needed, and the salty and umami flavor that overflows can be transformed into magic.

While the kombu soup is simmering, the excellent chefs wet and knead the bean-flavored flour, and it takes a short time to pat and rub it back and forth to make the taste authentic and even. When he was done with all this, one of them took out a thin kitchen knife and cut the flatdough into noodles of similar size at a very high speed – all while he pinched a pinch of flour with his fingers and kneaded it to prevent the noodles from sticking to each other.

This series of operations attracted many people around to watch, and as the aroma of the simmering kombu soup gradually spread, it also made everyone who was originally tired from the heat subconsciously began to swallow their saliva.

Boil the soup and cut the noodles underneath. The golden soup is translucent, and the umami and salt that blends into it are enough to replenish the missing parts of the summer sweat. The noodles are full and elastic after being stewed in the soup, and although they are not very rich in condiments and additives, it is precisely because of this lightness that makes people have a good appetite in the hot summer.

The excellent chef has prepared a whole bunch of people's rations in less than half an hour, and he is tired from walking all morning under the summer heat, but he is eating noodle soup in the bamboo forest at noon.

A full meal can make people fully healed, and if you are in a bad mood and tired from the journey, as long as you remember to eat on time, you can always go on.

However, a few families were happy and a few were sad, Henry was eating the fragrant noodle soup here, and the samurai under Ryunosuke, who was eating dry cakes and drinking wine, were very satisfied, but now they suddenly felt uninterested.

The team of more than 100 people is well stocked, and it is a pity that there is no excellent chef in charge of the food on their side.

Including this bag of soybean meal flour, all the rice noodles Ryunosuke and his party are kneaded into dough in twos and threes, and then baked into biscuits with wine and stomach, and they can endure this rough taste before, and many people will not taste it once compared to this.

After more than 10 years of chasing the murderer, the people in the team who pursued a little bit have left. If you want to be able to cook a good meal, you have to have some basic pursuits, but how can such a person endure sleeping in the open day after day? Only a person who is informal, and endures such a rough day can continue to accompany Ryunosuke, but it is obviously impossible for such a person to know how to make a fire and cook.

The slightly complicated mood eventually turned into action, and at this lunch, many of the samurai of Ryunosuke's side drank more alcohol than usual.