Since Zhu Xiaoen's territory could not be supplied on the spot for the Restoration Army and the vanguard cavalry, most of the Ming troops who had been transferred from the French battlefield to Ireland after months of ups and downs at sea remained at the seaside.

As a result, King Alan lacked an effective deterrent to his vassals.

As soon as he said that he wanted to be the king and fight with England, most of the vassals of Prince Zhu Xiaoen ran away without eating, and only twenty-two nobles or local leaders were willing to grit their teeth and follow.

Ireland's military capabilities are hard to describe, and they are basically the feeling of the white natives of the Age of Discovery.

In the 400 years AD, the Germanic barbarians, plus the Castilian light cavalry in Spain in the 800 AD, used the weapons and equipment of the Viking Age, and the villages and tribes plundered back and forth, and fought again and again.

Under Zhu Xiaoen's order, the twenty-two nobles gathered all the people they could muster to carry the full load of grain and grass on the shore to the shore, and the most fantastical picture of this era crashed into Ying Ming's eyes.

The aristocratic knight in plate armor wore a high-topped helmet purchased at a high price from Spain, and carried an iron-tipped wooden spear as long as a bird's gun, and sat under a low soft saddle under his buttocks, and his bare calves and feet hung down to the ground under the horse's belly.

They usually brought with them two or three horsemen in chain mail and Viking overheads, and the same short spears and hairy calves and bare feet hung under the horse's belly.

Behind the squire, some nobles would have a swordsman in a walking straw sander wearing a Spanish or English cuirass, while others would not, but there must have been a brigade of ragged peasants armed with pikes and axes, Scottish tribesmen with hatchets and axes, and of course at least one bagpiper at the waist.

Takahashi saddles and stirrups have been around for more than 1,300 years and are quickly becoming popular around the world, but in Ireland, there are none.

But Ying Ming and his comrades couldn't laugh when they looked at the embarrassed friendly soldiers, because these people quickly became his subordinates.

Han Jinhuan, the deputy thousand households who commanded the four hundred cavalry, walked out of the lord's longhouse with a sad face after the grain was transported to the tribe of the Ailan King, waved his hand and ordered the four hundred households and eight general banners under his command to assemble on the spot, and complained: "The vision of the Ailan King is high, and he can't look down on these troops. ”

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

After that, Han Jinhuan said to his subordinates with sad faces: "Okay, don't all cry and mourn, before gathering troops to attack the Overseer City, we must first help King Ailan conquer all the tribes, we are like this, and the enemy is like this." ”

Han Jinhuan could still laugh, he lowered his eyes and looked at the officers wearing the Beiyang cavalry standard armor, almost armed to the teeth, sneered, and said: "I asked, the whole Ailan, they fought a war with an elite infantry wearing padlock mail with two attendants who usually carried armor and weapons and three shuttle darts on a rampage, there was no military formation, no military law. ”

"It's rare to be able to experience the appearance of the ancient fierce generals going into battle, all cheer up, each hundred households went to draw with me, ate at noon, and in the afternoon the Restoration Army marched south, and we divided our troops to catch the eight lords who were unwilling to send troops around."

Han Jinhuan's goal is very clear, and the general banners under his command can also understand, the eight general flags correspond to eight noble territories, and they will continue to attack south with the large army of the Restoration Army after the battle.

Ying Ming didn't even go to see the soldiers assigned to him in person, so he sent the propaganda officer of the General Flag Department to collect the soldiers and horses, and directly found the five small flag officers under his command to do pre-war mobilization.

He didn't know the Irish language for a few months on the ship, and he didn't think that the local soldiers of Ellan could be counted on, and their fifty-six horsemen and armored cavalry were the decisive force on the battlefield of Ellen.

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

The general banner preached that his name was Gan Hai, a native of Yanzhou Mansion, older than the next year, not a soldier trained in the Beiyang Military Academy, he was an honest farmer in the past, and in the year of the great drought in Shandong, he took his family to enter the Great Dongyang according to the order of the nomads in the four provinces of the imperial court, and served as an lieutenant in the immigrant village.

Later, he was seconded by Han Jinhuan to the vanguard cavalry as a preacher, and it was Ying Ming's small flag that entered, and when the beard was shaved off, he was really aggrieved for a while, but he followed the troops on the French battlefield and made a first-class merit, so he also followed the promotion of the general flag to preach luck.

Horsemanship, gunnery, spearmanship, and wrestling are all much worse than normal cavalry, but they are tall and strong, have a good temperament, and can unite the banner army together, which is much more important than a good soldier for Ming Ming.

The most indispensable thing for the Beiyang Army is to have good soldiers, but it is rare to find a propaganda officer who can be supported by its soldiers like this.

As for saying that you can be promoted if you are not as skilled as others...... Let's see how to say this, at least few people in the Four Oceans Army will have this kind of thought, you don't see Lin Hu'er, the general of the garrison Daxigang, sleep and be promoted to a level.

Gan Hai really has first-level merit.

"It's okay, one hundred and twenty people, there are twenty elite people in chain mail, they call these people foreign warriors, mercenaries from Scotland, each with a squad of five, two squires with swords, and two shuttle dartmen."

"It's all infantry, and the prince left all the cavalry in the Restoration Army." Gan Hai returned to the station with hundreds of people, his expression was not too distressed, and he responded to Mingdao: "Anyway, they are all under the mark, give them a flag, you must mark the enemy and me, and the people here are not in a battle formation, and the fight is too chaotic." ”

As he spoke, Gan Hai said clearly: "General Banner, there are six people here who have served in the English and Spanish armies, and they have really fought in the war, so they should be able to use it." ”

Ying Ming looked at his new subordinates, twenty squads were walking in a messy manner, you have me and I have you, but the difference between the captain and the ordinary soldiers could still be seen in the armor, it looked fierce and fierce, but this kind of fierceness belonged to the feeling of robbers and robbers, not the military formation.

Ying Ming looked back at his cavalry.

The five small flag officers and their subordinates all led the horse column phalanx, each of which was distinct, the red horsetail helmet and the flag behind the banner, the half-cavalry and half-long soldiers under each small flag, and the last two horsemen of a small flag held a saber, one of the horses carried a tiger squat cannon on their buttocks, and the other carried a cannon ammunition box, and the army was majestic.

Without waiting for Ying Ming to say anything, thousands of subordinate riders came to fly horses and handed over the military order to Han Jinhuan, Ying Ming glanced at it a few times, handed over the military order to Gan Hai, and still looked at the recruits standing on the opposite side with looking eyes, turned his head and said: "It's useless, you will know if you have fought this battle." ”

"The military order has been issued, thirty-two miles to the south, there are no fortifications, and there are more than 1,000 soldiers...... We're going to have to make one ten. ”