The horse team stopped in the forest. In this dense forest near the noble fiefs in the outskirts of Tyrone County, Northern Ireland, Ying Ming, the chief cavalry flag officer of the Eastern Ocean Army of the Ming Dynasty, encountered the most difficult obstacle to winning the battle - how to dissuade his subordinates from charging after the war begins.

"This is too difficult. They plan to drink medicinal wine before the war begins to rush forward, and then rush forward. They all say they are the bravest warriors, and they may not want to be looked down upon by us."

The preacher Gan Hai climbed down from the tree and put the iron-shell telescope in his bag and spread his hands with a helpless look: "The tribe seems to be gathering, and people are drinking and dancing in the open space. Rusen said this is their way to mobilize soldiers and may be ready to be enemies with the prince."

Rusen was the Scottish mercenary leader who was transferred by Han Jinhuan to Ying Ming's command. He was born no different from the Irish people, but his body was stronger, with red hair and green eyes like ghosts.

The ghost-shaped monsters here are two-way. For the Irish people, the Ming cavalry with black hair, black eyes, black armor, straddles a war horse and wielded a sword may also be another ghost.

Rusen's name comes from transliteration, because the translation is too sissy, it is a black rose, and a small black rose.

The English managed Ireland just like the Spanish managed colonies, and the policies were extremely strict. Even the bards could not sing songs about Ireland. Therefore, people thought of a way to refer to the little black rose as Ireland.

This is the origin of Rusen's name. He said that he was a Celtic herder. He worked as a soldier in Scotland across the strait, and later worked as a mercenary in Spain. He eventually returned to his hometown with his friends with his long axe. With his experience of traveling around the battlefield, he learned the ability to get wine money under any noble in Ireland.

But Gan Hai said that he should actually be a coward... Compared to the gradually prevalent professional legions, phalanx combat and firearms and artillery appeared in Europe where the battlefield was prevalent, the primitive form of Irish combat helped to make these ancient warriors live longer.

From this perspective, Ying Ming feels that in Gan Hai's eyes, all the mercenaries on this big island are cowards.

"They are very brave. They are not scared to pee their pants when facing ten times of the enemy. Look at the javeliners."

Ying Ming felt that except for the different appearance and material of weapons and armor, the Irish military system was very similar to the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was nothing more than the texture of weapons and armor changed from copper to iron, and the dignified formation turned into a gang fight.

They are also aristocrats, nationals and savages, and the morale of the nobles is higher than their subordinates before they go to battle because of their better military armor.

"Forget it, they can fight as much as they want. Let's find opportunities and all the troops will get on the horse."

As Yingming ordered, several birds were heard from the forest. This sound made the preacher frown and muttered to himself that he didn't know if there was such a bird in the Kingdom of Ailan.

Then, five crooked teams walked out of the forest, each with four heavy Scottish infantry in mail, with high morale; eight attendants with sword axes and a small number of mail and helmets, they were eager to try; and twelve light infantry in cloth clothes carrying spears, they... Ying Ming, who rode his horse out of the forest in the distance, couldn't think of any good words.

Finally, he said in his heart: They are ready to die.

Generally speaking, this scattered soldiers and raiders, composed of hundreds of people, were temporarily restrained by the propaganda officers. The heavy infantry were lined up in a row with all kinds of flags and with all their sincerity, and their servants and javelins followed closely with cloth belts of the same color on their arms and foreheads.

The formation was no longer as chaotic as it was at the beginning, but Gan Hai was still not satisfied and shook his head and said, "They need more training."

"Enough, enough."

While speaking, Ying Ming's cavalry had already walked out of the forest, with five small flags and deputy flags, three cavalrymen in front of the propaganda officers, and nine cavalrymen were stationed in three rows, and were held behind the local soldiers.

Riders on horseback are loading ammunition into their cavalry, handgun and new bazooka.

Compared with Zhao Shizhen's modified tail spiral, the bazooka is not very innovative. It is even portable for cavalry and reduces the charge and range, but it makes the quiver a portable container that can be used multiple times, and changes the fire mechanism to flintlock.

It is basically like a large gun barrel, but the tube is stuffed with rockets. After the cavalry rocket is plugged into the tail, it can send a small flag arrow containing a hundred small balls on the bumpy horse's back to the strike surface 200 steps away, and eventually explode on the ground or the sky.

In the "Guide to Cavalry Ordnances" published by the Dongyang Military Office, this weapon is summarized as "Zhao Shizhen's precision", which means that each small flag is equipped with two rockets during wartime, and each cavalry has two rockets on its back. When it is united by the Hundred Houses, it can reach the precise damage of 20 steps in killing within a radius and 50 steps in killing the outer ring.

This is also the first time that the cavalry bazooka has been put into actual combat in the actual sense.

Faced with a small number of invading enemies, the soldiers gathered and reveled in the tribe after a short period of panic. The soldiers in the Viking helmets were stunned by the wine pot. The bald monks rang the small bell, and the continuous bells sounded under the ropes, and then the whole Muzhai was in chaos.

For a long time, the tribes fought each other and gave them a lot of defense experience. The women poured wine to the soldiers gathered here due to the order of the lord and did something shameless. The next moment, they had already run into the house very skillfully, and did not forget to throw their shields and short axes outside the house.

The soldiers were even more eager to find handy weapons around them. Even if the bows and arrows that were only used for hunting were mistakenly placed on the weapon stand, no one would take them. People prefer those huge, heavy battle axes and big swords with both hands.

Irish girls don’t use bows and arrows, and real men have to use battle axe to divide life and death with invaders.

A powerful man with a padded mail and a Viking-style helmet with carved patterns to protect his mouth and nose was assembled at an extremely fast speed, and gathered outside the Muzhai under the banner of a mess. It seemed that they did not have the idea of ​​guarding the Muzhai wall.

Think about it, they don’t use bows and arrows. The darts and stones are their usual long-range weapons. They have to fight anyway. What’s the difference between being in a camp and outside a camp?

Rusen, the head of the Scottish army, led the infantry, prohibited his subordinates from standing in prayer according to Yingming's orders. Facing the enemy troops pouring into Muzhai like a tide, he loudly declared that the territory was betrayed the order of Sean Earl of Tyron and asked them to put down their weapons and surrender.

This desperate move obviously did not get the response it deserved. The light cavalry holding short spears wandered outside the Muzhai, and thousands of infantry gathered together, approaching them in a semi-encirclement after leaving the camp.

Compared with the enemy, the army with only one hundred and seventy people is obviously too small.

Ru Sen's subordinates knocked on the shield uneasily. The leader swallowed his saliva and turned his head with his green eyes to look at the Ming officer who was still sitting on the horse's back with a relaxed expression. He muttered in his heart that his faith gods blessed him and shouted to his subordinates: "Dispel them and kill them!"

Amid the noisy roar, Rusen heard the heavy stomping of armored horses behind him, and the sound of gunpowder burning that he had only heard on the battlefield in the Netherlands.

In the light of the cover helmet, he saw something swaying from the air with fire and leaping on the front line, landing among the enemy, just like the omnipotent power of the gods, bursting out a white light.
Chapter completed!