Chapter 170, Strengthening Public Security (1)

When it comes to the level of organizing terrorist attacks, the British are still completely a younger brother at this time, and the level of the royal party that cooperates with the British is also very limited. Those guys from the royal party can also do something like spreading rumors, and they can't even do a good job of finding out intelligence, as for terrorist attacks?

If you want to ask who the royal party hates the most and wants to kill the most, then Robespierre's gang must be at the forefront, and to be honest, as far as Robespierre's style of running around without anyone is brought to him, the royal party is a little more capable, and it is not particularly difficult to assassinate Robespierre. As for Ebel, it's easier, the guy has been living in the most chaotic slums.

In fact, none of the Jacobin bigwigs at the beginning did a good job of preventing assassination. The royal party doesn't even need to have a high IQ and ability, they just need to have the courage to not be afraid of going to the guillotine to kill any big guy they want to kill. Whether it's Robespierre or Saint-Just or Danton and Ebel. Just like Corday, a sympathizer of the Brissotes, who has no training, can easily take out Marat.

In other words, the gang of people in the Wang Party have no martial virtue to "die with" at all, and they are all a bunch of unbearable wastes in Feila.

So, that group of Britons was surrounded by the law enforcement intervention team of the national army.

However, compared with the waste of the royal party, the British are much more full of martial virtues. As soon as they found out that they were surrounded, they launched a breakout operation. If their opponents were just ordinary police, or those parallel goods of the National Guard, these guys might have really broken through.

But this time they were faced with the National Army's Law Enforcement Intervention Team. In fact, this so-called law enforcement intervention group of the national army is a group of people in the "Red Army" who are specially responsible for street fighting training. In accordance with the tactics they had studied long ago, they first quickly laid out anti-personnel mines on the streets. In anticipation of a possible breakthrough of the enemy, three-pounder guns were prepared.

As a result, the British really stepped into the trap when they broke through, and as a result, they first stepped on a mine, then they were shelled, and then they were fired by a platoon of guns and bombed by small melons, and it was immediately a mess. In the end, the law enforcement intervention team of the national army wiped out the "thug" with only single-digit casualties.

Since the British are doing things in France under the banner of the royal party, the French naturally have to respond. So the Irish launched an offensive in Ireland again, taking advantage of the fact that the newly recruited British troops had not had time to prepare, and a large number of troops were thrown overseas, and the weak forces in Ireland began to launch a large-scale offensive operation.

In its original history, under the influence of the French Revolution, the United Irish Union launched an uprising in Ireland. However, due to the lack of experience in the struggle, the secrecy work was not done properly, and the money and news leaked during the uprising, resulting in the arrest of the main leaders Thorn, Tandy, Russell and others. The remnants of the United Irish United, under such circumstances, hastily launched an uprising,

But the United Kingdom is not our Qing Dynasty after all, and such a hasty uprising naturally cannot shake their rule in Ireland. The uprising was easily and quickly suppressed by the British. In order to deter the Irish rebellion, the British went on a rampant massacre in Ireland, massacring at least 70,000 Irish people.

However, the United Irish Federation today is completely different from its original history. Several of their leaders were trained in various secret jobs in the Toulon training camp, and the organization of the whole organization was greatly improved. Although it was not at all comparable to the Leninist parties of later generations, after the Toulon rectification, the United Irish Federation was no longer the club-like organization it had been. Although it cannot be compared with the vanguard, it can at least be compared with some criminal organizations in later generations.

It was during their studies in Toulon that they met the spiritual mentor of the Irish Revolution, Mr. Joseph Bonaparte. Later, after the Irish finally ushered in independence, the first version of the currency issued by the independent Irish government used Joseph's head on a gold coin of 1 Irish pound.

Joseph, on the other hand, made the greatest contribution to the independence of the Irish in Toulon not so much as he provided weapons and training to the Irish, but that he helped them to analyze the current situation in Ireland and pointed out the correct line of struggle that the Irish needed to follow in order to fight for independence:

"The majority of the Irish are farmers, and the majority of the Irish population is in the countryside. It's not the same as England. In England, cities are at the heart of the country's economy, and the main strength of England comes from cities. But in Ireland, cities are just appendages to the countryside. If there were no cities in England, the whole economic life would be in disarray. But in Ireland, for most people, without the city, how to live and how to live. In Ireland, cities are not producers, but entirely consumers. Even in a sense, in the sense that in war, the cities of England were the source of strength, and the cities of Ireland were basically a burden.

So the revolution in Ireland must be a revolution in the countryside. Whoever controls the countryside of Ireland can truly control Ireland. Therefore, do not rush to attack the city, do not rush to carry the burden of the city. What's in the cities of Ireland? It can produce neither cannons nor small melons. The colonists would not allow it to have such capabilities.

In that case, let them be in the hands of the British first. Let's first control the countryside outside the city, and let the British who stay in the city be surrounded by the vast Irish countryside. They will not get anything in the cities, they will have to go into the countryside, into the territory that is favorable to us, into the sea of the people's war. Personally, I believe that this is the right course for Ireland to seize independence. ”

These views of Joseph were accepted by the Irish. And at the First All-Ireland Congress of the United Irish Union held in Toulon, it was defined as the "general line of the revolution", that is: "the countryside encircles the cities, and the armed seizure of independence." ”

So even in the phase when the British were empty of power in Ireland, they did not blindly target the cities. At first, they took advantage of the arrogance and eagerness of the British to retaliate, luring them into the countryside, luring them into a predetermined battlefield, and then concentrating superior forces to kill or even annihilate them.

After the British suffered a lot of losses and easily stopped daring to leave the fortified stronghold, the Federation began to quickly fill the gap in strength, and they took out the "lovers" who followed the British with all their hearts, or forced them to run into the British stronghold, so that the British lost control of the entire Irish countryside.

Speaking of the brutal rule of the British in Ireland, in a sense, it was actually very helpful for the Irish Revolution. Over the years, the British continued to plunder the Irish by various means and deprive them of their land. As a result, most of Ireland's lands were already in the hands of the English. In other words, in Ireland, most of the landlords and wealthy people are English, if not English, then they are also lackeys of the English.

This made the agrarian revolution extraordinarily simple, because the national and class contradictions were very consistent here, and the ideas in the revolutionary ranks were very easy to unify. And once the ruling power of the British retreated back into the strongholds of the cities, it was very easy to carry out land reform in the countryside. As a result, Ireland was suddenly divided into fields and really busy situations. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the federation quickly began to establish its own organization in each village.

The British were not ignorant of these acts of "Irish rebellion". After all, such a large-scale move cannot be completely secret. But the British did not take this matter seriously, on the contrary, they either thought that the Irish rebels had little strength, because the largest city they had taken was a small town; Or laugh at those rebellious "really country buns", who don't know how to take the opportunity to seize the city, and who are in a hurry to divide the spoils of war before winning the war - this looks like a group of brainless turtle worms.

"When our army arrives, we will be able to sweep them away." Despite the fact that they were besieged in strongholds in various towns and cities, the morale of the British was actually quite good. Of course, the premise is not to let them go to the countryside to sweep.

The British were not inefficient, and after the special appropriation was approved by Parliament, the British quickly raised an army of more than 40,000 men, and then spent a month training and sent them to Ireland. The Duke of Norfolk became the new Governor of Ireland, and he would take the army to Ireland to restore order.

British troops landed in Dublin, and the Duke of Norfolk entered the newly restored Doge's Palace. He first inspected the defenses of the Doge's Palace to ensure that previous attacks would not be repeated.

After the inspection, the Duke of Norfolk was dissatisfied with the present defence of the Doge's Palace, and he immediately issued new instructions: first, the square in front of the Doge's Palace was to be made a military exclusion zone, and no one was to enter the square without special authorization. Second, some of the houses in the vicinity of the Governor's Palace are too close to the Governor's Palace, which is a serious safety hazard. Therefore, they should all be demolished, and in any case there should be no other structures within three hundred feet of the Doge's Palace. Finally, the garrison of the Doge's Palace had to be increased to ensure security.

After settling the security of the Governor's Palace, the Duke of Norfolk ordered the beginning of a rebellious crusade against Ireland.