Soon, a secretary under Grey, the Governor-General stationed in Dublin, Ireland, noticed the military operations of the Kingdom of Ayran.

The secretary was named Edmund Spencer, a son of a wealthy cloth merchant. He had read books in Cambridge and liked to write poetry.

It was also because of this hobby that he was admired by Sir Philip Sidney and recommended him to the Earl of Greville, the governor of Ireland in England, and followed the governor to Ireland.

Before he came, he could be a secretary next to the governor of the Irish colony, living and working in the castle rewarded by the queen, which was a rare good job.

In addition to understanding the people's sentiments, resettlement of immigrants and collecting taxes from the nobles in Ireland every year for the Queen, he could spend a lot of time writing poetry in the castle.

There is more money and less work, and it is close to home.

However, since Edmund Spencer arrived, the trouble has not stopped. First, the count of Tyrone County returned and launched a massive annexation war from the north.

Because they were mentally unprepared at that time, they did not think that the appearance of Sean O'Neal in Tyrone County would worsen the situation in England here, and did not stop it.

As a result, in just half a year, the count around Sean surrendered and the ones who were annexed were annexed, and there was no one left.

Then Sean announced to the entire Ireland that he was Zhu Xiaoen, the king of the Kingdom of Ayland, who was conferred the title of Emperor Ming Dynasty. He spread Chinese language in his leadership, respected the Ming Emperor, trained elite troops, and showed his flag to expel the British island barbarians.

The Governor's Office finally realized that Sean declared war on them.

In the subsequent war, strange phenomena continued to happen in this land.

The Irish nobles who were still serving the Queen of England a while ago were defeated by the Alan Restoration Army on the battlefield and were defeated one after another.

The same group of people, after surrendering, formed under the banner of Ailan, who was held high, and in the next battle, they could turn around and defeat the nobles' recruitment troops.

People are the same people, but these Irish tribal warriors are unwilling to do their best under the English, so they will be better if they are under Zhu Xiaoen.

They were all veterans who had experienced bloody battles, eliminated the old and weak, updated their equipment, and even had their tactics briefly trained by generals from the Eastern guerrilla army such as Han Jinhuan to adapt to local conditions, teaching military formation tactics suitable for their scattered soldiers and brave wars on a small scale.

The strength may still be insufficient when facing the English troops, but when fighting with the same Irish tribe, it is a rainbow of momentum.

War will change people's lives to the greatest extent. For Edmund Spencer, it is difficult for him to free up time to conceive poems, but it is not all bad.

Fortunately, he has more opportunities to go out, which also helps him think.

Last year, Dublin almost fell. Zhu Xiaoen besieged the city outside and the Black Death was raging inside. Fortunately, Zhu Xiaoen insisted on besieging the city, and finally the patients in the besieged camp rage, which made Dublin still stand firm under the Queen's rule until this year.

Secretary Edmund was on his way out of the city to find creative materials, and passed by the village and found that villagers everywhere were storing food. He believed that this was probably the Irish tribes preparing siege for the Ailan army.

When he reported this abnormality to Governor Gray, the latter insisted that Zhu Xiaoen was greatly affected by the plague last year. According to the poverty and despair in northern Ireland, there would be no more large-scale siege this year. He also thought that his poet secretary was too nervous and advised him to relax.

In Edmund's opinion, this is not a matter of tension or relaxation. The veteran who has been through the battle formation has his own experience and judgment, but other people's experience can never soothe his fear - he is really scared.

At the end of last year, the plague broke out in the besieged camp. While Zhu Xiaoen's main force Restoration Army was not in the camp, Earl Grey led elite troops in the city to defeat the enemy with surprise attacks. When the Restoration Army found that the situation had changed, it was too late to return to the aid, so he had to retreat as soon as possible.

In the camp where the Fuguo Army had temporarily stationed, they found a broken artillery and collected 140 shells and a large pit that was blown up by a large amount of gunpowder on the land.

Earl Grey attached more importance to the artillery they discovered. Due to the Puli's war, the Earl Governor was unable to send the broken-bore pieces to the artillery factory in London for verification, but he had a bold guess that the batch of artillery purchased by the Ailan rebels from the Ming Dynasty were likely to be cast in one piece.

The inner layer is iron and the outer layer is copper, which is an extremely technical means.

Edmund did not pay attention to how that gun was made, because no matter how that gun was made, they could not make it on a large scale. They could not cast cast iron cannons, but casting copper cannons is not difficult, and Dublin is not short of copper.

What they lack is not the technology of cast iron cannons and the materials used for cast copper cannons, nor is they lack the wealth they spend. What they lack is gunpowder.

This decade was the ten years when England was most lacking in gunpowder. In the past, they could use wrought iron circumference guns, namely Franc cannons and Morocco to exchange for nitrite soil. Later, a man named Yang Ce came to the sea. Needless to say, he buried a generation of navigators in the sea.

So he was more concerned about how much gunpowder was blown up by the Ailan rebels to break the cannon and blow the ship into a big pit, so that one cannon could be equipped with 140 shells.

It would be fine if I didn't ask, but when I found out, the rebels blew up all the gunpowder reserves of Dublin's musketeers for half a month. In Edmund's mind, they could not fight this battle.

England's regaining lost land is probably impossible.

The English nobles used Irish soldiers to fight against the Ailan rebels, which was a technical task in itself, and could only form a large-scale infantry formation. Once they left the officer's eye line supervision, their squad would become unreliable.

When the same equipment team went to join the rebels, they immediately became reliable. Not only did they have higher morale in combat, but they could also serve as flexible tasks for the team, and they did not even need the supervisory officers.

Even those Irish tribal soldiers are unsavvy mountain village men, they can recognize the most obvious problem:

The Governor of Dublin, England, who once ruled the entire territory of Ireland, as long as he formed a confrontation with the Ailan rebels and as long as they did not dare to take the initiative to attack Zhu Xiaoen, it means that Zhu Xiaoen had won the war.

The world of the Irish people is very small, so small that it is so small that England is the most powerful country in the world. As for others saying that Spain is the most powerful, it is definitely a lie. If Spain is really so powerful, how could it not stop England from invading Ireland?

If this most powerful country wants to annex our Ireland, as long as our Kingdom of Ayran can stop him, it doesn't even need victory. As long as it can stop it, Ayran will undoubtedly be very powerful.

Edmund can understand this truth too.

The result of the war is to gather all conditions that are beneficial to one's own side, destroy all conditions that are beneficial to the enemy, and make victory inevitable.

In Edmund's mind, it is necessary to collect the food hidden by the surrounding villages into the city in advance.

This is a work that requires many people to do. Hundreds of grain collection teams quickly gathered from Dublin. They were composed of eight strong soldiers, led by an officer, and ran around the village tribes, taking away all the food they could see.
Chapter completed!