The Grand Duchy of Munster is made up of three counties: the County of North Munster, the County of Ormond, and the County of Desmond. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among the three counties, the county of Desmond has the largest territory, but the population is the most scarce and poor, because Desmond does not have a natural harbor, most of the places near the sea are hindered by high mountains and hills, even the most suitable place to dock ships can only dock a dozen brigs, and the money to build a sea ship is not something that ordinary peasants or even ordinary nobles can afford, so even the fishing industry has not developed.

But the county of North Munster is different.

The county of North Munster is bordered to the north by the Dukedom of Connaught, to the south by the county of Desmond, and to the west by the counties of Ormond and Leinster. This area was originally supposed to be surrounded by enemies on three sides, easy to attack and difficult to defend, but who would have thought that this generation of Grand Duke Murchid could be good at dancing, although the military ability is not very good, but the diplomatic ability is really not bad, and it is hard to convince people.

Moreover, North Munster and Desmond must have one of the greatest advantages - it has a river that crosses half of Ireland, and it is this river that brings North Munster great advantages and wealth.

The existence of rivers meant that they could fish, that they could feed more people, and that rivers could pass through merchant ships, and that it was through this river that the Archduke of Mulchid could collect a lot of money just by collecting tolls, and that he could support more soldiers who were out of work to strengthen his position.

As for the county of Ormond, it has always been in a rather awkward position, it is neither the richest nor the poorest, the middle. And if North Munster is surrounded on three sides, then the county of Ormond is surrounded on all sides - North Munster, Desmond, Connaught, Leinster are all watching it!

Therefore, the Earl of Ormond has always been quite cautious, and he is not willing to easily show favor to anyone, nor is he willing to offend anyone casually.

But this time, Count Ormond was really embarrassed.

On one side is the coercive order of the Grand Duke of Murchid, and on the other side is the coercion and temptation of the Knights of Alcoba!

Archduke Mulchid, that must not be offended, the most powerful person in the whole of Northern Ireland, who can offend? But what the Knight of Alcoba said also makes sense, he is already a vassal of the Grand Duke, but he still has a territory about the same size as the Grand Duke, once the Grand Duke defeats the Count of Don Jr. and gains the whole of Desmond, then who will he be next?

As for kinship? Come on, it's a fool to believe this! At most, the relationship between relatives can only keep him from dying, and this ancestral foundation and family will be completely ruined!

But time waits for no one, Count Ormond here hesitates, and the grand duke's conscription order over there is already a wave of hurried demands, and he is in a hurry to ask him to send troops!

So, in the end, the Count of Ormond joined the army of the Grand Duke of Murchid with his demobilized soldiers and some of the conscripted serfs. It's easy to understand, just like the Jews during World War II, they were all in concentration camps, they knew they were going to die, they were even forced to dig their own graves, but they just didn't resist!

Resistance is death, and failure to resist is death, don't they understand what it means to kill one to kill two and earn one?

Of course they understand, but they just prefer to bury their heads in the sand and deceive themselves by saying, "He can't see me, he can't see me, he can't see me......"

That's it.

However, the coercion and temptation of the Knights of Alcoba were not without effect, and in the end, the Earl of Ormond only brought three hundred and fifty soldiers out of work, accounting for less than half of his total strength.

What the? You say conscription of peasant soldiers? Joke, can conscripted peasant soldiers be seen as people?

So, by the end of October, the Archduke of Ormond had an army of more than 1,500 men, of which more than 1,100 belonged to him, and 350 of the Earl of Ormond - but note that the 350 men of the Earl of Ormond, according to the medieval military service law, only had to serve 40 days of military service with the lord, that is, the Archduke of Mulchid, and it was up to the Earl of Ormond to favor the Archduke of Mulchid. Or what kind of conditions can the Grand Duke offer to keep the Earl of Ormond?

As for more conscripted peasant soldiers, or in that sentence, can conscripted peasant soldiers be considered people? Is it really a difference whether they have two thousand or three thousand? Anyway, it's just a rush to disperse, just a consumable to consume the enemy's physical strength.

Therefore, no one cares about the life or death of the conscripted peasants, in the eyes of these 'superior people', it is already a great gift to be able to give these useless conscripted peasants a piece of black bread every day, and to be able to barely maintain their immortality! As for the flames of hatred that grew hotter and hotter in the eyes of the conscripted peasants, the old men must not be able to see it.

But after all, when the army went out on the march, the Grand Duke of Murchid still asked his knights to make a battle plan.

From North Munster to Desmond, it is only a few hours' drive at most, but in the Middle Ages, on an army like the Grand Duke, it can be regarded as full speed if you can walk 30 miles a day - don't laugh, even in the Three Kingdoms, Xiahou Chun can be called the general of the Three Kingdoms, creating a record of '500 in 3 days, 1,000 in 5 days', and it is only 70 kilometers a day when carefully calculated-Our ancestors also once said: "A hundred miles and the interesting one jumps on the general, and fifty miles and the interesting one is half a general, Therefore, the art of war is taboo. ”

After all, the march, it is not an outing, you can go casually, you can stop if you want, but the march, first of all, it has to rely on the water source, otherwise there is no water, and tens of thousands of people will not all die of thirst? Then there is the fire and cooking, and the people in the army solve the problem of personal hygiene, and they have to rest for a while after walking for a while, otherwise they may lose their strength in the event of a surprise attack. The most important thing is that you can't march after the sun goes down.

After the sun went down, the ancient people were no better than the modern ones, most of the people at that time had night blindness, and they couldn't see anything at night, plus most of them were unorganized and disciplined conscripted peasant soldiers, in case something happened to bomb the camp directly, it was really a joke for the ages!

Therefore, the knights of the Grand Duke of Murchid thought that by the time they arrived in Desmond, the Count of Little Tang would have received the news early and prepared, but you don't have to worry about this, as far as Desmond is concerned, who of us doesn't know? It's good to be able to feed a few hundred soldiers, so Count Xiao Tang will definitely recruit a large number of peasant soldiers, and you don't have to worry about this, peasant soldiers, the peasant soldiers in the world are one family, what we are like is what they are, and when the time comes, we will rush, and this battle will be over.

But Archduke Murchid didn't think much of it, because his third son, Prince Tade, had already told him about the three hundred pikemen of Count Don when he came back last time, and although he didn't believe it, Prince Tad was also his own son and wouldn't lie to him.

As soon as the Grand Duke said this, the knights were immediately unhappy, isn't this the ambition of others to destroy their own prestige, and the most important thing is that this doesn't mean that the Grand Duke doesn't trust himself?

So this group of knights, one by one, swore to the sky excitedly, Grand Duke, you don't have to worry at all, Prince Tade still has little knowledge, isn't it an elite infantry! How many of us are not blowing, after so many years of wandering the rivers and lakes, what kind of infantry have not been seen? Northern pagans, you know what? As for them, I talk and laugh with them, so I say, tooyoungtoosimple.

In this way, in this inexplicable sense of superiority and self-confidence that appeared out of nowhere, the Grand Duke's troops, although they had not yet won a single battle, and had not even met the enemy, were already intoxicated with the slight drunkenness of victory, and could not extricate themselves.

So, at the beginning of November, the envoy of the Grand Duke of Murchid came to the castle of the Count of Don and handed a letter of war on behalf of the Grand Duke.

PS: Because there was something suddenly at night, this chapter was in a hurry, and I didn't have the face to ask for tickets anymore......