Unlike the three major knight orders (Knights of Hospitals, Knights Templars and Teutonic Knights) that were previously ordered by the Holy See, the Flying Wing Knights are a secular knight order. The three previous knight orders were strictly a group of armed monks. All of their previous leaders must be single monks who are not married.
The Flying Winged Knights formed by Simon are strictly a secular Knights. By theory, they are not qualified to be recognized by the Holy See. For example, the Knights of Garter in England and the Golden Wool Knights in Burgundy were not recognized by the Holy See.
But this is no problem with Marin. After all, his father-in-law is the pope. Moreover, Simon's territory is indeed located at the easternmost point of the Catholic region. It is said that Simon's army formed is a barrier to the Catholic world, and no one can say anything. After all, this is also a fact.
Therefore, strictly speaking, the Flying Wings Knights are just secular knights recognized by the Holy See. But with the recognition of the Holy See, it is a little more dazzling than ordinary secular knights. After all, in this era when Protestantism was not yet on the rise, the name of the Holy See was still very loud. With the recognition of the Holy See, although the Flying Wings Knights cannot keep up with the reputation of the three major knights, their reputation among the people is definitely very high.
In this way, the people sent by Simon did a lot of success when recruiting Wandering Knights. After all, the Knights are a "regular" Knights that have been recognized by the Pope...
To put it bluntly, Simon is too famous. If Simon takes the lead in forming the Knights alone, no one will be willing to come. After all, Simon is currently unfamous. Only by holding the thick thigh of the Holy See and letting the Holy See help promote it can someone come and join us.
As Marin expected, after being publicly recognized by the Holy See, the Flying Winged Knights became famous...
Then, when Simon promoted recruitment in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland, many people actively came to apply.
Simon first selected a thousand young and strong people, and gathered them to the dozens of Polish winged cavalry instructors sent by Sigmont I for training. Simon himself ran back and made villains with Princess Anna...
As for the remaining people, Simon's men will slowly recruit. After all, in this era of "communication basically depends on yelling", the message transmission is too slow. If you really want to recruit thousands of people, you will probably have to wait for a long time...
After all, there were many knights living in the countryside in this era, and transportation and information transmission were very inconvenient. If you want to recruit them, you had to wait for the announcement to be posted in the countryside.
Besides, Marin thought that it would take several years to wait until the religious war broke out, so the Knights didn't have to be so anxious, and they could recruit people while training. Considering that the religious war broke out for a long time, Marin asked - try to find younger wandering knights. In this way, when the religious war really broke out, the members of the Knights would not look too old, just in the past...
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Just as Simon was busy recruiting people in a hurry, Marin also received a letter from King Edward in Orich - England, who was already preparing to attack Ireland...
In fact, as early as the summer, Edward was persuaded by Marin and began to prepare for the military use of Ireland. However, Edward did not have enough food and grass for tens of thousands of people, nor did he have no money to buy food from Marin. Therefore, he could only wait until the autumn harvest was over to collect a batch of new grain as the food and grass for tens of thousands of troops. Now, the autumn harvest has long passed, and Edward has also conducted a nationwide grain collection in China. When Marin received Edward's letter, Edward's food and grass had been almost ready...
This is also a common problem for European monarchs in this era - the war preparation period is long. There is no way. At this time, except for Marin, Europe, with the high grain output, and never lacked food, the monarchs of other countries were all the people who lacked food.
Often when a war is fought, the monarchs of European countries need to collect grain across the country. Otherwise, they will not be able to raise enough food for tens of thousands of troops. Therefore, the wars in Europe in recent years have often only 10,000 or 20,000 people in the scale. If there are many people, it will be difficult for the monarchs to afford military spending and food.
Although Marin has a lot of food, he will not act as a sucker and provide Edward with free food. After all, this does not make sense. If he pays too enthusiastically and proactively, it might arouse Edward's suspicion.
So Marin could only watch coldly, watching Edward plundered food from all over the country during the autumn harvest under the name of levying the "war tax".
England's "land enclosure movement" was still in its early stages, and the nobles were still occupying public land and had not yet developed to the stage of large-scale occupation of small tenant farmers and self-cultivated farmers. Therefore, England's grain production is still OK now. After the autumn harvest, Edward barely collected all military rations.
According to the previous agreement, Edward will lead 10,000 England's most elite Imperial Guards, plus 10,000 troops of the Sixth Army, and 5,000 troops of the Fourth Army, together with 25,000 troops, to attack Ireland. Moreover, Edward will lead the army to lead the troops to unify the entire Ireland.
Marin's last words reminded him that if Irish is completely unified this time, he will become the monarch who completely unified the Isle of Britain and Ireland for the first time in British history. Even if he dies, he will definitely earn the title of "Emperor".
Therefore, Edward naturally needs to go to Ireland to scan his face this time. Although he does not need to lead by example, he also needs to maintain a sufficient sense of existence. In this way, he can bring all his historical achievements to himself.
In fact, at this time, those indigenous forces in Ireland generally do not have a total force of more than 5,000. Even if the forces are combined, there are only more than 10,000 people. Including the militia composed of the people, there may be tens of thousands. After all, the entire Ireland Island was only about 250,000 people at this time.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Therefore, this time Edward led a 25,000 army to attack, and the possibility of failure is very low. Originally, in history, Elizabeth I used 17,000 army to fight for 9 years, because the Irish Resistance Army received support from Spain from the sea. Spain's Invincible Armada lost to England before, and was worried, so he strongly supported the Irish people to find England to fight, which made England spend so much power to suppress.
But now, whether it is Spain or France, these two major powers that are capable of supporting Ireland's local forces, have started to compete in Italy first and have no energy to support Ireland's local forces. Therefore, at this time, the local indigenous forces will not be able to get strong help from attacking Ireland.
Even Malin felt that it was OK to divide the army into several groups this time. After all, the military strength of the indigenous forces is so weak.
However, both Marin and Edward knew one thing about it - the resistance forces on the island, in addition to those natives, might also be the counts left by the Norman Conquest...
Although the four forces, Desmond, Ormond, Ulster and Dominion of Vixford, nominally surrendered to the royal family of England. However, who knows whether these four forces are really loyal to England.
These families have been a tyrant on Ireland for too long and have long regarded Ireland as their territory. They might feel offended by England when they reach out to England. After all, England has not taken care of Ireland seriously in the past few hundred years. At this time, England suddenly sent a large army to Ireland, and these four princes may not be truly welcomed. If you are not careful, you might be stabbed in the back by these four princes.
Therefore, both Marin and Edward felt that it was better to be careful and avoid capsizing in the gutter. In addition to being careful of the resistance of the natives, they should also pay attention to the movements of the four princes, so as not to be obscene by them...
According to the original plan, Edward will take 10,000 Imperial Guards to fight. Marin's Fourth Corps in England will send 5,000 troops to accompany them. They will first arrive on the western coast of England, and then board the ship to Dublin to land. Marin's side will send the Sixth Corps, mainly the Scottish Highlands soldiers, to set out from the local area and go to Dublin to meet with Edward.
Chapter completed!