The Rise of the European Emperor

After a long time of preparation, King Henry VII of the United Kingdom finally entangled a 20,000-strong army, including 7,000 longbowmen, and with the help of the merchant ships of the "Five-Port Alliance", began to transport it to the island of Ireland.

The location where the British army landed coincided with Earl Edward, and also chose the small town of Aklow, 21 kilometers south of Wicklow. After all, the British are not stupid. They know that if they land near Dublin, if they are discovered by Edward's army, they are likely to be attacked by Edward's army during the landing process. In the case of the army not all landing, encountering the army of Earl Edward, it is no chance of winning. Because, after the troops landed, they still needed to regroup and form a good battle formation before they had combat effectiveness. Otherwise, it's just a mess of sand.

Therefore, the British considered again and again and chose to land in the seaside town of Aklow. This is also to avoid surprise attacks during the landing process.

In fact, there was no problem with the British choosing to land at Wicklow at this time. Because, Earl Edward did not station a large army in Wicklow at all, but only left a thousand local militiamen. Whether these militias would surrender directly after the British besieged the city is unclear to the Earl of Edward. Of course, don't care. Because he put all his energy into the defense of Dublin.

When the British landed, they were slow. Because, they did not use local small fishing boats to wading and land like Edward did, but foolishly used the only few long bridge piers. The troop transport ships are all waiting in line at sea, one by one slowly landing...

If Earl Edward's army was nearby at this time, they would definitely wipe out all the British troops who landed earlier with a smile. Because the efficiency of the British landing is too slow...

The final result was that Edward's 8,000 troops landed in half a day. For 20,000 British troops, it took six days...

When the 20,000 British troops landed on the land tiredly, many people were tired and fell to the ground. It is enough that one login can be exhausted like this.

The British army did not take the people with them, but sent troops and dispatched them directly in the local area. However, the British ships brought enough food and other supplies. Therefore, as long as the British army caught enough Irish civilians on the shore, they could carry it.

In this way, the British army began to send troops, in the places around Aklow, everywhere to catch people's husbands to help transport the baggage. By the way, he also went to the homes of those people and robbed them. These Irish peasants can be considered bloody mildew for eight lifetimes. Not only were they arrested as people's husbands, but their food and valuables were also taken away by the British soldiers. Moreover, there is no salary to be a civilian husband for the British army...

As a result, the Irish civilians, full of grievances, began their careers in serving the British army. In addition to the 20,000 army, the merchant ships of the "Five Harbors Alliance" were also full of food and weapons. In order to siege the city, the British army also raised 30 bronze cannons. Because, the British also got the method of shelling + bombing the city from the Danes.

However, they did not know that Earl Edward had long since replaced Dublin's city gate with a large iron gate with the help of Marin, and plated it with a layer of tin. And those tins are sourced from Cornwall, England...

The British army dragged on and finally headed north. Along the way, 20,000 British troops sacked local Irish families and plundered food and property while marching, causing great anger among the Irish. However, in the face of the British army of 20,000, the Irish have nothing to do.

When 20,000 British troops arrived at Wicklow, the longbowmen only fired a few rounds of arrows at the city's head, and a thousand Irish militiamen in the city surrendered. Because these Irish militiamen had no armor on their bodies, and many people were injured in the face of arrows falling from the sky. As a result, the morale of the Irish militia plummeted. With no hope in sight, the militia leader simply surrendered...

Seeing that their own side had only fired a few rounds of arrows, the other side opened the city and surrendered. For a time, the morale of the British army was boosted. Many British soldiers and soldiers began to imagine that they would use the same method to conquer Dublin.

The British soldiers, led by the commander-in-chief Sir Richard Pol, entered the city of Wicklow arrogantly and repaired for three days.

In these three days, the whole of Wicklow has become a hell on earth. The British soldiers began to burn, kill and loot in the city of Wicklow, annihilate the women, and turned the good capital of the Kingdom of Leinster into a hell on earth. Although some Wicklow citizens resisted, the number of British troops was too large. Therefore, the resisters were all shot into hedgehogs by the British longbowmen...

The British army was roaming all over the city of Wicklow, but the commander-in-chief of the British army, Sir Richard Pol, a close associate of King Henry VII of England, was having a headache.

Because, before departure, Henry VII and his wife gave him two opposite instructions...

King Henry VII of England instructed Richard Pohl to kill him on the spot when he caught Earl Edward, so as to avoid future troubles. And his wife Margaret asked him to let him escape as much as possible if he defeated Earl Edward. Even if Earl Edward didn't escape, it would be better if he was captured alive and brought back to England...

This is not the most important thing. If it were only like this, Sir Richard Pol would not hesitate to stand on the side of King Henry VII and kill his brother-in-law.

It's just that the Lord Margaret gave him an ultimatum. That ultimatum made him shudder...

This is how the Lord Margaret threatened Richard Pohl - "If you kill my brother, I will publicly declare that I am the rightful heir to the British throne, the rightful heir to the House of York. My The son, Henry Pohl, is the rightful King of England of the York family..."

Richard Pohl's head is big, and the Lord Margaret is his wife, and her son is naturally his own son. If the county lord Margaret declared that, claiming that Little Henry was the legitimate king of England, with Richard Bohr's knowledge of his eldest, he would definitely not let little Henry go. So, he is so entangled now.

It can be said that the mad woman, Lord Margaret, is threatening herself with her son's future. If he kills her brother, then little Henry will be finished...

In fact, Richard Pol is simply overthinking. Before Dublin was conquered, I wondered if I should let Earl Edward go...

However, at this time, there were not a few people in the British army who had similar ideas to Richard Bohr. Because, the victory of Wicklow City made them dizzy.

Unbeknownst to the British soldiers, Earl Edward never intended to defend Wicklow. Therefore, the defenders of Wicklow City were all farmers recruited by Earl Edward from around Wicklow City, and they were not regular soldiers at all. Therefore, after several rounds of arrow rain, these farmers chose to surrender.

And Dublin is different, there are professional soldiers. Facing the rain of arrows from the British army, it would not be so easy to give in. Moreover, Earl Edward had already received the information sent by Marin through the "North Sea Chamber of Commerce", and learned that the British army had mobilized all 7,000 longbowmen to the Irish battlefield, and had already taken countermeasures...