Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"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 sigh of satisfaction. .

Because it was getting dark, everyone stopped work and returned to the tent to start having dinner. After the workers bought some raw materials from a nearby village, Fan Meng stood in front of the big pot and showed his hand to everyone.

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

So after everyone worked together to help, it only took one hour 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 them up, and then make do with the bread that is barely warmed by the fire." Pierce said, pointing to the empty cans in the tin trash can that was obviously moved from the nearby village. arrive.

"Sometimes we even just put the stuff in the cans directly into bread or biscuits, and then drank bottled water. Now that I think about it, it was terrible a few days ago."

"There are so many of you and you should hire a chef." Liang En said as he watched Fan Meng use a ladle, a large plate and a pot to scoop out vegetables or soup and put it into the lunch boxes and rice bowls of the workers. "Those instant foods are okay for a day or two, but they won't hold up for a long time."

"This is mainly because I was tricked before." Pierce said helplessly. "I asked some of our partners before, and they told us that these instant foods are enough when digging in the wild. At most, we can light a fire to heat it up."

"That's because at least half of your partners are diggers who wander in the gray field." After hearing what Pierce said, Liang En immediately understood what the problem was.

"Because their actions are somewhere between legal and illegal, they will naturally light less fires during the excavation process and reduce any behavior that may arouse local suspicion."

"So in this case, the other party will use heating packs instead of making fire to cook as much as possible. But you are legally licensed excavators, so 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 the huge difference.

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

After finishing the delicious dinner, Fan Meng arranged for the night vigil and went to rest with the workers, while Liang En and Pierce went to a small tent nearby to start checking the day's results.

Most of these results were items of little value to Liang En and the others, such as the five or six iron bars they found that should be the raw materials of the blacksmith shop.

If these iron bars are put into some metal laboratories to analyze the specific conditions, the possible origin of these iron bars should be determined by analyzing the proportions of various elements in the iron bars.

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

Fortunately, the things unearthed in this place were not all featureless. For example, Liang En found several long pieces of copper. After putting these pieces together, he found that they 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 this long copper piece with eyes on it?" Looking at the green rust-covered existence in front of him, Pierce's eyes showed doubts.

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

"Wing Cavalry!" Pierce's eyes widened for a moment. Of course he knew that this was a very distinctive unit in Poland during its heyday. The figure of the winged cavalry charging with their spears could even be regarded as a symbol of Poland in that era. The epitome of military power.

According to historical records, this cavalry brilliantly blended cavalry elements from Eastern and Western Europe, and at the same time carried forward the advantages of local tradition and contemporary innovation.

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

In this era, Western European cuirassiers and carbine cavalry were too accustomed to the rigid tactics of riding in rows to the front of the formation to fire firearms, and then galloping back to the rear of the squadron to reload. The bold charges 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 than them and have the support of firearms.

"That's right, when these copper bars are connected together, they will be exactly the shape of the wings. And the holes on them are for inserting feathers." At this point, Pierce turned his head and saw Liang En.

"But what happened to those scale armors we found before? If I remember correctly, the armor of the Hussars is either a Western European-style whole breastplate, or ring armor that is 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 confusing." Liang En said, staring at the other party seriously.

"Because the Hussars are not like a modern army. They are actually an army composed of a group of wealthy yeoman farmers and small landowners, and are served as officers by large landowners and nobles, so most of their equipment needs to be prepared by themselves."

"In this case, some soldiers will naturally use whatever equipment they have. Some people with better economic conditions may buy some chest plate armor from Western Europe, but those with poor conditions may only be able to use chain mail and scale armor. ”

"This is why this kind of cavalry is called wing cavalry, because if they have anything in common, they may only have the wings on their backs and the spears in their hands."

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

Starting from the next day, they excavated more things that could prove their conjecture on the remains of the blacksmith shop. For example, there is an armor-breaking claw hammer obviously used by a hussar officer, and another example is a gorgeous gold-plated spur.

At the same time, the charred wood around the blacksmith's shop also indicated that the blacksmith's shop was probably abandoned after an accidental fire, and then the ruins and the remains of the equipment belonging to the Hussars were buried until today.