After Mayor Freilly left, Osborne Steward did not leave, and he handed William the battle reports sent back from the front these days and some information he had obtained through the intelligence system.

William flipped through a stack of bound books, read the information quickly, and then looked up at Steward Osborne and said, "Steward Osborne, according to the battle report above, the situation on the battlefield in Ireland is not optimistic. ”

"Your Majesty, that's exactly the case, on the battlefield of Ireland, the Earl of Mephistopheles and Baron Albert did encounter some setbacks, unable to break through any direction in the north and south from the stronghold of the Dublin Earldom, even if there was frequent harassment by the North Sea Fleet, several times suddenly like the Xiangnong River, attracting the attention of the enemy, they were powerless to change the overall situation." Steward Osborne said with a look of regret.

"What is the reason for this situation, I remember the last time they sent me the battle report that they had broken through the defense line of the Duchy of Munster, and the situation was very good, why did this happen." William clenched his right hand into a fist, knocked on the table twice, looked at Steward Osborne and asked, "Steward Osborne, can you tell me the details?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, two weeks ago, as you said, there was no one in the whole of Ireland who could match our army, even though the Duke of Munster and the Duke of Connaught and a group of small counties united in an attempt to gather our forces on the banks of Shannon, but they were still defeated, and after preserving most of their strength, they chose to retreat to their respective territorial castles.

But at this time, the situation was reversed, and for some reason, the king of the Norse-Gaelic people, Ivar. Clovin led his army to attack the Dublin Earldom, the rear stronghold of our army, and in order to ensure the safety of our army's logistical supplies, the Earl of Mephistopheles had to lead his army back to Dublin.

A group of princes in Ireland also attacked Dublin like a fishy wild cat with a well-groomed coalition army.

At this time, we were undoubtedly in the difficult situation of being attacked by the enemy, and if it were not for the strength of our army, and the courage and skill of the Earl of Mephistopheles and the noble generals, it would be difficult for other armies to win in the face of several times the enemy's army. ”

After listening to Osborne's butler's account, William finally understood the plight of his Irish expeditionary force, the plight of being flanked by the coalition of Irish princes and the Norsgaelis.

"Those hateful Vikings, all of them are hateful-stirring sticks." William gritted his teeth and said, "Steward Osborne, tell me how these despicable Vikings colluded with the Celts in Ireland?" ”

This starts with the origins and history of the Norse-Gaelic people, who no longer ruled Ireland purely by the Celts, but by the Viking Craze, the Celts and Vikings merged together to form a situation in which the Celts and Vikings ruled Ireland together.

Like Ivar, king of the Norse-Gaelic people. Guloving's grandfather, Olaf Quaran. Ivar was the Earl of Dublin, the leader of the Vikings in eastern Ireland.

The Norse-Gaelic raid on us behind our back is not only due to the benefits promised by the Irish and the promise to recover the old lords of the Gurowingian family such as Dublin, but also to the fact that my Norman kingdom occupies the old Dublin county of the Gulovingian family. "Steward Osborne was not only well aware of this information, but he was also a learned man, opening his mouth to historical allusions that William did not understand.

The Norse-Gaels ("Foreigner Gaels") are a mixture of Gaelic and Norse origins and cultures, and like the Normans, they are a branch of the Vikings who migrated from Norway to settle in Scotland and Ireland.

They emerged during the Viking Age, where the Vikings who settled in Ireland and Scotland adopted Gaelic culture and intermarried with the Gaelic people. From the 9th to the 12th centuries, the Norwegian-Gaelic ruled most of the Irish Sea and the Scottish Sea.

The Norwegians were first recorded in Ireland in 795 when they sacked the island of Lambay. Sporadic raids continued until 832, after which they began to build fortifications throughout the country. Throughout the 10th century, the raids of the Knowles continued, but resistance to them increased. Norway established independent kingdoms in Dublin, Watford, Wexford, Cork and Limerick. These kingdoms did not survive the later Norman invasions, but the towns continued to grow and prosper.

They founded the Isle Kingdom (including the Hebrides and the Isle of Man), the Kingdom of Dublin, the nobility of Galloway (named after them), and ruled over the Kingdom of York, the most powerful of which was the North Gaelic dynasty of Ivail.

Over time, the Norse-Gaelic people disappeared into history as a distinct group. However, they left a lasting impact, especially on the Isle of Man, also known as the Isle of Moe and the Outer Hebrides, where most of the place names are in Norse Gaelic. Some Scottish clans have North-Gerick roots in their surnames, such as Clan MacDonald, Clan McDougall, Clan Ruaidhri, and Clan MacLeod. The elite mercenaries, known as the "Galloglaigh", emerged from these Nos-Garrick families and became an important part of the war in Ireland.

Even today, many of the surnames associated with Geldom are of ancient Norse origin, especially in the Hebrides and the Isle of Man. Some old Norse scripts also influenced modern Scottish English and Scottish Gaelic, such as the bairn (child) in the Norwegian barn (Denmark, Norway, Sweden).

"It is true that the Norse-Gaelic are very difficult, and they do not retreat after plundering like the Norwegian Viking adventurers, but have a solid territory, and the Scottish coast and the many islands, and part of the coast of the island of Ireland, these are their territories.

With a solid territory and rear stronghold, which meant that they had a constant supply of logistics and troops, the Norse-Gaelic who fought locally were indeed a formidable enemy that had to be treated with caution. "Even if he is as arrogant as William, he has to admit that the Norse-Gaels are not easy to deal with.

"Is it necessary to send reinforcements and send the main force of the First Army to support the Irish expeditionary corps?"

This idea was dispelled by William as soon as it appeared, and when half of the main forces of the Norman kingdom were on the march, the First Army and other main forces became the cornerstone of the stability of the Norman kingdom, and it was not to be done rashly, otherwise William's enemy Henry I and other French princes would find an opportunity, I am afraid that he would lose not only the defeat of the Irish conquest, but the entire Norman kingdom.

"Steward Osborne, how is the situation on the battlefield in Wales? I urgently need to know what's going on there. ”