open sea

Chapter 1131 When Ten
Since Zhu Xiaoen's territory was unable to supply the Restoration Army and the vanguard cavalry on the spot, most of the Ming troops who moved from the French battlefield to Ireland and experienced ups and downs at sea for several months stayed by the sea.

Therefore, King Alan lacked an effective deterrent to his vassals.

As soon as he said he wanted to become king and fight England, Lord Zhu Xiaoen's vassals ran away without eating most of their meals, leaving only 22 nobles or local leaders who were willing to grit their teeth and follow suit.

Ireland's military capabilities are hard to describe in one word, basically the feeling of the white aborigines in the age of great voyages.

The Germanic barbarians in AD 400 and the Castilian light cavalry in Spain in AD 800 used weapons and equipment from the Viking Age. Villages and tribes plundered and fought repeatedly.

Under Zhu Xiaoen's order, the 22 nobles gathered all the manpower they could, and went to the shore to carry the grain and grass on the ship. The most fantastic scene of this era came into Ying Ming's eyes.

An aristocratic knight in plate armor wears a high-topped helmet purchased at a high price from Spain, holds a wooden gun with an iron head as long as a blunderbuss, sits on a low soft saddle under his buttocks, and has bare calves and feet on the back of the horse. The lower part of the stomach is about to hang down to the ground, and it is arrogant.

They usually come with two or three horsemen in chain mail and Viking helmets, the same short spears and hairy calves and bare feet that also hang down under the horse's belly.

Behind the attendants, some nobles will have a walking sandal swordsman in a Spanish or English breastplate, others will not, but there must be a large army of peasants in rags with spears and long axes, and Scotsmen with hatchets at their waists. The tribal people, of course, must have at least one bagpipe player.

Takahashi saddles and stirrups have been around for more than [-] years, and have quickly become popular all over the world, but in Ireland, there are no such products.

But Yingming and his comrades couldn't laugh when they saw the embarrassed friendly soldiers, because these people would soon become his subordinates.

Deputy Qianhu Han Jinhuan, who commanded [-] cavalry, walked out of the lord's longhouse with a sad face after the food was transported to King Alan's tribe. He waved and ordered the four hundred households and eight general banners under his command to assemble on the spot, complaining: "King Alan You have a high level of vision and look down on these troops, in order to avoid the reduction of the combined combat power of the Fuguo Army and the Alan Army, more than [-] troops from various places have been assigned to your command, and each department will be expanded on the spot."

Han Jinhuan raised three fingers and said, "Three times."

After all, Han Jinhuan said to all the frowning subordinates: "Okay, don't be so sad. Before gathering troops to attack the Warlord City, we must first help King Alan conquer all the tribes. We are like this, and so are the enemies."

Han Jinhuan could still laugh. He looked down at the officers who were wearing Beiyang cavalry armor and were almost armed to the teeth. He sneered and said, "I asked, the whole of Ailan, they fight like a man in mail armor. Elite infantry with two attendants who usually carry armor and weapons and three spearmen rampage, there is no army formation, no military law."

"It's rare to be able to experience the appearance of an ancient fierce general in battle. We cheered up. Hundreds of households went to draw with me. We had dinner at noon. In the afternoon, the National Restoration Army marched south. We divided our troops to capture the eight surrounding lords who were unwilling to send troops. Come."

Han Jinhuan's goal is very clear, and the general banners under his command can also understand it. Eight general banners correspond to eight noble territories. It sounds like he will continue to attack south with the National Restoration Army after the battle.

Ying Ming didn't even go to see the soldiers assigned to him in person, and sent the preacher of the General Banner Department to gather the soldiers and horses, and went directly to the five small banner officers under his command to mobilize before the battle.

He was not very familiar with Irish after cramming for a few months on the ship, and he didn't think that the local soldiers of Alan could be counted on. Their 56 well-equipped cavalry were the decisive force on the battlefield of Alan.

As a result, when the general banner preached and brought the soldiers over, there were still some pleasant surprises.

The general banner preacher is called Gan Hai, a native of Yanzhou Prefecture, who is older than Ying next year, not a soldier trained in the Beiyang Military Academy, but an honest farmer in the past, brought his family to the university in accordance with the imperial court's order to move the homeless people to four provinces in the year of the severe drought in Shandong Dongyang, who was a deputy lieutenant in an immigrant village, was recruited into the National Restoration Army because of the quick learning of native languages.

Later, he was seconded by Han Jinhuan to the vanguard cavalry as a preacher. The one who entered was Yingming's small flag. It is lucky to do the general banner propaganda.

Riding, blunderbuss, spear, and wrestling skills are all far inferior to normal cavalry, but they are tall, strong, and honest, and they can unite the banner army. This is much more important to Ming than a good soldier.

The most indispensable thing for the Beiyang Army is good fighters, but it is rare to find a preacher like this who can be supported by the troops under his banner.

As for saying that one can be promoted even if one is inferior in skills... Let’s see how it goes, at least few people in the Siyang army would have such an idea. Don’t you see Lin Hu’er, the general stationed in Daxigang, who was promoted after a night’s sleep? class.

At any rate, Gan Hai really has the first level of skill in him.

"It's okay, 120 people, there are twenty elites in chain mail, they call these people foreign soldiers, mercenaries from Scotland, each has a five-man squad, two squires with swords, and three spearmen. "

"They're all infantry. The prince left all the cavalry in the National Restoration Army." Gan Hai returned to the station with hundreds of people, and his expression was not too distressed. He responded to Ming and said, "Anyway, they're all under the mark, let's send them a flag. It is always necessary to mark the enemy and ourselves, and the people here are not happy to fight, and the fight is too chaotic."

Saying that, Gan Hai responded to Ming and said: "General Banner, there are six people here who served in the English and Spanish armies. They have really fought in wars and should be able to use them."

Ying Ming looked over to his new subordinates, twenty squads came here in disorder, you are among you, and you are among me, but the difference between the captain and ordinary soldiers can still be seen on the armor, it looks fierce, but this This kind of ferocity belongs to the feeling of robbers and robbers, not an army formation.

Ying Ming looked back at his cavalry.

The five small flag officers and their subordinates all lead horses in a phalanx, and each has distinct subordinates. The red horsetail helmets and the flags behind them are waving. Each small flag has half cavalry and half long soldiers. There is also a small flag. The last two cavalry hold sabers, and one horse butt One is carrying a tiger crouching cannon, and the other is carrying a cannonball and ammunition box, with a majestic military appearance.

Before Ying Ming could say anything else, Qianhu's subordinates came on galloping horses and presented Han Jinhuan to issue the military order. Ying Ming took a few glances and handed the general order to Gan Hai. The recruit turned his head and said, "If it's useful or not, you'll know after fighting this battle."

"The military order has been issued, 32 miles to the south, there are no fortifications, and there are more than a thousand soldiers... We will count one as ten."

(End of this chapter)