Subduing an excellent spy, although this spy is far from being loyal - but the dead man has such a benefit, as long as the master gives an order, even if there is a mountain of swords and fire in front of him, he has to close his eyes and grit his teeth and step on it, and now the Grand Duke of Mulchid asks him to be loyal to the Count of Xiao Tang, even if he is unwilling in his heart, and then he is in Cao Ying's heart in Han, he can only give in. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

So the little Count Tang asked the servants to take the insider down to rest - this time it was a real rest, there was a spacious enough room, a bed covered with silk, and more delicious food, and the little Count Tang was waiting for him to recover quickly and help him train spies!

But for now, Insider Liss is temporarily useless.

The war began.

That's right, the war began.

After almost a month and a half of rumours spreading, the pretext for war was finally perfected, and most of the Irish now know that 'the Earl of Donchester had killed the head of the Archduke of Mulchid and hung his head from a tree'.

With such a pretext for war, the Archduke of Mulchid will undoubtedly have a legitimate and reasonable reason to attack Desmond again - to avenge the son - the white-haired man sends the black-haired man, do you say that the Grand Duke is not sad to be hurt? It must be sad! The Grand Duke wants to punish the murderer of his son, do you support it? Of course I support it!

It was this logic, with such a perfect pretext for war, that the entire Irish nobility could no longer oppose the combined forces of the Archduke of Mulchid and the Duke of Eide.

Therefore, Count Tang Jr. must also immediately, immediately begin to gather all the soldiers in his territory, and according to the scout's report, the alliance of the two archdukes is now getting closer and closer, and it is only five or six days away from Desmond!

In this great battle, the Duke's coalition army had 2,800 soldiers (which had been consumed in the battle with Prince Mulcheltč), and the Earl of Don Jr. sent 1,600 soldiers, and the two sides had a total of 4,400 soldiers, and all of them were professional soldiers who were out of production, and were not filled with peasant soldiers by conscription—this was a very, very remarkable force, when William the Conqueror conquered all of England and imposed Norman law. Doomsday Judgment', and his professional soldiers should not have exceeded nine thousand, to be precise, between eight thousand and nine thousand.

But King William's 9,000 men were the whole of Normandy, and the full support of his father-in-law, the Duke of Flanders, who may not be familiar with the Duchy of Flanders, which later became the Duchy of the Netherlands and the forerunner of the Netherlands.

Moreover, the significance of this battle is more than that, if this battle is won by Count Xiao Tang, then everyone should eat and drink, what should they do, continue to be drunk and dream, but if this battle is won by Duke Ed, even if it is only a tragic victory, he can immediately take the aftermath of victory and become the king.

Such a scene is the aristocracy who are used to it absolutely do not want to see, but they are also more than willing to do it, the recent Earl of Ormond has been frightened by two successive wars, and only nests in the castle every day as a herbivore obedient man, the four nobles in the north have the heart to resist, but they are close to Connaught, and they are the first to be unlucky once the water is back.

Therefore, these nobles, they can only ask people to give Count Tang some support - most of them are a few pieces of chain mail and the like, and then they are 'little brother, you do a good job', 'little brother must win', 'little brother will knock out a few of his teeth even if he dies, and the brothers will avenge you'.

If there is no nutrition like this, Count Tang can only hehe.

But then again, scouts, aka hussars, are a good thing.

Scouting the terrain, harassing the enemy, charging on the battlefield, chasing the rout, why didn't you think there was such a thing before?

But now that he has thought of it, Count Tang will definitely not let it go.

Knight minions, do you remember? It was the fifty knight servants, who were stripped of their chain mail by the Earl of Don, and then each of them was given a suit of leather armor, and each of them was equipped with two crossbows, and fifty crossbows, and finally a fast horse. That's it, the mounted crossbowmen who did not appear in Europa until a hundred years later have now appeared in advance.

To be honest, this mounted crossbowman is not very lethal, because it shoots from a horse, and even with a crossbow that has a very high hit rate, it is not guaranteed to hit a few. But the crossbowman on horseback, he, quite ...... Annoying, like a fly, always buzzing in the ear, even if you know that he is harmless, but you can't help but hit him twice, but this blow, you will be led into an ambush, and you will never be able to get out again.

As if the combined forces of the two dukes had experienced in the past two days, there was a sound of horses' hooves, and the two archdukes were ready to fight, but the small cavalry unit in front of them suddenly whistled, turned into the wind in an instant, and ran away in a collective turn, and then a rain of arrows fell from the sky, and at that time, more than a dozen soldiers fell, and many more soldiers were wailing.

In the face of such a tactic of shooting and running, the two dukes have no good way at all - let the cavalry chase it, the duke's side is full of heavy cavalry, plus their horse dumplings are still tied to the horse's chest, and their endurance is not as good as the light cavalry, so they can't catch up at all. If you let the archers shoot at each other, people will shoot an arrow and run, and the duke's side will not be able to guard against it all the time!

In fact, this is a typical Mongol tactic, harassing light cavalry and then charging with heavy cavalry while the enemy's morale is low, so that in one fell swoop you can crush an enemy that is even several times the number of your own.

However, Count Xiao Tang doesn't have so many heavy cavalry, so he can only harass and harass now, but even if it is harassment, it is not comfortable, the light cavalry harasses five or six times a day, that is, nearly sixty or seventy casualties, which is not a small number!

Therefore, Duke Ed can only take off the chain mail of his hoplite cavalry like Count Don Jr., and turn them into light cavalry, patrolling the vicinity of the army every day to prevent Count Don from sneaking up on him again - but, but we also said before that even if it is the same light cavalry, the horse dumplings tied to the horse's chest are completely different from those tied to the horse's shoulders, not to mention that Duke Ed's light cavalry does not have long-range attack capabilities, and Count Tang's light cavalry only needs to circle far away, Then you can wait for Duke Eddard's light cavalry to run out of energy, and you can easily and happily harvest with crossbow arrows.

Besides, even if it is because Duke Ed's light infantry is more than that of Earl Don, he can prevent a drop of water, but he is always a person, always has to go to the toilet, always has to drink water, right?

At this time, several people were in one - Duke Eddard's soldiers were also afraid of being attacked, so they fetched water and dung all together - but this was the opportunity of the hussars.

Another whistle, where there was no trace of the enemy, more than a dozen light cavalry appeared in an instant, and a round of crossbow bolts ran without looking at the results of the battle, running or scattering. If there are really soldiers who dare to pursue, then the next thing is to lure the enemy deeper, and as soon as the whistle sounds, the light cavalry from nowhere will descend from the sky, and crossbows, crossbows, and crossbows, round after round, until they shoot people into hedgehogs.

That's it, the light cavalry tactics made Duke Ed suffer enough, so he made a rather risky decision, he wanted to force the army.

Forced the march, and then rushed straight to Desmond, if the Earl of Don still dared to let the light cavalry harass instead of attacking head-on, then Duke Ed would force him to attack head-on.

This forced word means to kill, to kill to promote war, to kill to force war.

So, at the end of spring, at the junction of Desmond and North Munster, a great battle was about to break out, and a bloody storm was about to be staged.