Marin is waiting for the autumn harvest now. Once the autumn harvest is over, he can send troops to Ireland. Of course, Marin is actually very well prepared and does not have to wait for the autumn harvest. After all, the local area only needs to send a Sixth Legion, mainly the Scottish Highlanders, to fight with Edward. The other legions do not need to be moved at all.
Therefore, this actually has no impact on the autumn harvest of the Beihai Kingdom. But England was quite affected. Not to mention, Edward hoped to provide the rations sent for this time. In addition, the 20,000 to 30,000 people who followed the army were also the main force of busy farming. If the troops were sent before the autumn harvest, the strong people who participated in the war would definitely delay the farming time. In this era without machines, people are the most precious labor force. If troops were sent before the autumn harvest, it might lead to insufficient labor force in England's autumn harvest...
Moreover, this question is particularly important to England! Why? Because England is a wet and rainy island country!
Although most of the North Atlantic warm currents are blocked by the Ireland Islands, England is inevitably affected by the North Atlantic warm currents, with a warm and rainy climate.
If it is usually warm and rainy, it will make people feel that the climate is suitable. However, if there is a rain during the autumn harvest... it will be very terrible. Without a modern harvester with drying equipment, in rainy England, in autumn harvest, it is necessary to grab time, race against time, and hide and seek with the weather. Otherwise, the crops that have not had time to harvest will easily rot in the fields!
Therefore, before the autumn harvest is over, Edward is unlikely to waste labor to do anything else. Because, at the autumn harvest moment, the more labor force, the better... One word is used to describe the rainy autumn harvest in England - grab the harvest! Grab before it rains...
Therefore, whether to fight Ireland or not is not on Marlin's side, but on England!
In fact, there was a reason why the English had not sent troops to unify the Ireland Island for hundreds of years. Because it was rainy there, and there were no raincoats and umbrellas for rainproof in ancient Europe, making it very inconvenient for the army to go to war.
Fortunately, this problem is a piece of cake for Marin. He not only introduced Chinese straw raincoats, but also created raincoats from later generations, perfectly solving the problem of rain protection.
In fact, if the rubber production is not high enough now, Marin planned to sell raincoats on a large scale. For now, because of the limited rubber production, Marin only planned to sell his trouser windbreaker-shaped raincoats among the aristocratic class. When the rubber production increases, selling raincoats will definitely become a big business in the future. Not to mention, the sales of raincoats will definitely not be bad in the rainy Ireland and the British Isles. The only problem is the threat of strawcoats. After all, strawcoats are cheaper and more economical. But the only problem with strawcoats is that they look too ugly and shabby, and people with a little money will not be happy to wear them. And ordinary people in this era must have no money to buy raincoats. Therefore, they are not worried that raincoats will not be sold...
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Before the autumn harvest came, good news came from Kiev, Ukraine - the walls of Kiev City were almost restored and the old palace in the city were ready to be used...
Previously, Marin sent a more professional engineering team from the Beihai Kingdom to Kiev City to be responsible for restoring the city walls and the old palace in the city, preparing for Simon's arrival.
The city of Kiev was once the capital of the Grand Duchy of Kiev hundreds of years ago, so it naturally had an old royal palace. However, after the Grand Duchy of Kiev was destroyed in the Khitah Khanate, the old royal palace in the city of Kiev became a decoration and began to fade away.
Fortunately, most European royal palaces are made of stone and will not be damaged for hundreds of years. The only problem is that they need to be repaired and renovated.
Therefore, the engineering team sent by Marin was actually not very large in quantity. It was just cleaning the old castle covered with moss, and then repairing the walls and ground with the cement it brought, and it was almost done.
The same is true for the city wall, and the situation of the city wall is much better than the old palace. Because the city wall in Kiev has been used to guard against the Crimeans in the south and the Moscows in the east. Therefore, the city wall will be maintained and used much better than the old palace. The energy and material resources spent by the engineering team to repair the city wall are actually not too great. The main thing is that the four gates are covered with galvanized iron sheets to enhance their defense.
In addition, the design of a bastion was added at the city gate. That is, two protruding bastions were built on both sides of the city gate. The protruding bastions could see the city gate on the battlements. When an enemy attacked the city gate, the defenders could attack the enemies who destroyed the city gate on the convex bastion. Because there were protruding bastions on both sides of the city gate, they could form a cross-fire strike against the enemies who destroyed the city gate. Therefore, the chance of the city gate being destroyed by the enemy was greatly reduced.
In fact, this design has been applied in the city of Orich. For the safety of the capital, Marin added ridges on both sides of the gates to the four gates of Orich to better protect the city gates.
With the bulging bastion structures on both sides, it is quite difficult to send people to the gate to destroy the city gate. Because the defenders on the bastions on both sides of the city gate will use muskets to clear the enemies rushing to the city gate. No matter what those who smash the door or those who blow the door with powder barrels will be given priority care from the musketeers!
In addition, Marin also transformed Orich's city gate, increasing the urn, and further increasing the difficulty of siege. Marin designed the urn, not outside the main city gate, but inside, and there was an extra city gate. In this way, the difficulty of breaking through the city gate was greatly increased.
Moreover, because there is another city gate inside the city gate, it is difficult for the enemy to cooperate inside and outside. After all, if you want to seize the main gate, you must first seize the internal gate. But once you attack the inner gate, the defenders of the outer gate will definitely be alarmed. It is difficult to continue to attack the outer gate again. In this way, the existence of the two city gates will eliminate the danger of being stolen by a small group of elite enemies.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! However, the design of setting up a small urn inside the city gate has not been carried out in Kiev City for the time being. The main reason is that the construction of the urn is a bit large, no less than the construction of a small castle. Moreover, the demolition volume is a bit large. Therefore, Marin did not rush to build an internal small urn in Kiev City.
In addition, the old Hoffman and his wife were very nervous about Simon's marriage. In order to speed up the construction period, Marin planned to give up the construction of the internal small urn in Kiev City, first let Simon take office and get married first. Then, slowly build four small urns...
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Simon was obviously a little impatient, because he wanted to leave Marin and taste the taste of being the boss himself.
Over the years, Marin has been affected by the fact that Edward V was killed by his uncle and has never dared to let his brothers take control of military power. This has no feeling for a person like Albert, but for the two militants Adler and Simon, it would be uncomfortable.
Therefore, when Adler heard that he had the opportunity to lead troops alone on the Ireland Island, he accepted the title of Earl Wicklow without hesitation and went to Ireland Island to become a tyrant.
Simon was also envious, but he did not give up his position to Marin like Adler. Therefore, he could only stare at him. Fortunately, Marin recently gave him a chance to be an earl because he wanted to make arrangements in Ukraine, which made Simon very excited. What he was excited about was not being able to be an earl, but that he could become the commander of thousands of troops...
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After hearing that the walls and old palace of Kiev were repaired, Simon came excitedly to ask Marin for troops to escort him to take office in Kiev. So Marin sent thousands of troops to escort the excited Simon and went to Kiev to take office in Kiev first...
Chapter completed!