Chapter 278 [Battle of Edgey Mountain]

But what I never expected was that during the parliament, opposition leaders such as John Pym and John Hampden were elected to parliament.

So when Charles I demanded appropriations and new taxes, the opposition MPs not only refused, but also demanded the punishment of Thomas Wentworth Stratford, the Governor of Hibenia, the king's favorite servant, the Earl of Stuart Stratford, the protection of the rights of Parliament, and an end to the tyranny of the Empire.

Regarded as a fool by Charles I, on May 5 Charles I arbitrarily dissolved Parliament, which was known as the "Short Parliament" because it only lasted for more than three weeks.

With the rebels of the Stuart kingdom attacking the territory of the Stuart dynasty, Charles I was forced to reconvene the parliament on November 3, which existed until April 20, 1653, the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, known as the "Long Parliament", in this 13-year parliament, the elected bourgeoisie and the new aristocratic parliamentarians formed an opposition, and proposed and passed the execution of the king's favored servant, the governor of the Stuart dynasty, the Earl of Thomas Wentworth Stratford, and William Lauder, Archbishop of Canterbury in the Stuart dynasty, and the "Great Protest" restricting royal power, which quickly exacerbated the conflict between the king and Parliament, which was generally seen as a sign of the beginning of the revolution.

As the Parliament forcibly arrested the Governor of Hiba, the king's favorite, and removed the army that was supposed to be under the king's control, Charles I arrested five councillors on charges of treason, and personally led his guards to the council hall to arrest them.

This incident marked the break between the king and Parliament, and became the first of the Stuart civil war, and because the news of Charles I's arrest in Parliament angered the people of Londonshire, the citizens of London County took control of the county of London, and the king was forced to flee north to Yorkshire on the 10th day of the first month of 1642 in the fifteenth year of Ming Chongzhen, and gathered the power of the king.

On June 11, Charles I ordered the rejection of 19 proposals made by parliamentarians.

Immediately after the 9th of August, King Charles I again sent a direct [crusade against Parliament] and provoked the first civil war.

On August 21, the Netherlands (Netherlands) finally couldn't bear the constant looting of supplies by the Kingdom of Ezedenia (the Spanish Habsburgs), and decided to send Captain Nedland: Harlausi, commanding 690 soldiers, to march towards the Ming Empire, the richest man in Asia on the eastern continent, and landed at Jilong Harbor, the political envoy of Taiwan, in Fujian, and launched an attack on the garrison of Exienia left behind in the city of San Salvador.

The sound of gunfire is still loud ten miles away, the indigenous people of Jilong Port in Taiwan are miserable, and there are often cases of Janiya soldiers breaking into the indigenous areas to plunder food, and after the confrontation between the two sides for 5 days, only 107 people were left in the west of the Nia defenders were forced to open the city and surrender, so that the Spanish Habsburg Dynasty ruled in the Taiwan Prefecture Jilong Port for 16 years of colonial activities came to an end.

On 23 October, the royal army of Charles I of the Stuart dynasty engaged in the first large-scale battle with the Parliamentary army at Mount Edge, in which the royal army assembled 11 infantry regiments and 42 cavalry squadrons, 11,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry, and 700 other dragoons. Infantry tactics of the Suyiqi Kingdom.

A total of 3 Royal Infantry Brigades were deployed on the central slope, with 2 infantry brigades behind them as reserves, each of which was in a T-shaped formation before the exchange of fire, allowing the Arquebusiers of the 1st Horizontal Squad to take refuge behind the pikes as they advanced.

Then, after arriving at the firing position, the arquebusiers formed a six-row deep firing formation on either side of the pikemen, while the ratio of pikemen to arquebusiers in the royal army was about 2:1, and on either side of the three infantry brigades at the front, 700 dragoons were in charge of guarding.

Due to the hasty formation, many of the pikemen of the royal army actually included thousands of tenant farmers armed with scythes, pitchforks, and hoes.

On the right flank of the royal army was the commander of the cavalry of the Stuart royal army: Rupert, who also commanded 1,700 elite cavalry, and on the left flank was led by the Stuart baron: John Wilmot, who also commanded 1,000 cavalry on the flanks.

Their common plan was to take advantage of the elevated terrain, with the infantry in the center of the line and standard cavalry detours from both flanks, with the ultimate goal of turning a grueling positional battle into a simple and easy crushing battle.

However, at this time, the Parliamentary army was slightly larger than the royal army, with 21,000 infantry and 2,850 cavalry, and since the main commanders under his command were all from the Queen of the Dordor dynasty: Elizabeth, a militia or mercenary of the era, who had served in the Dutch battlefield, so it was logical to arrange the Dutch tactics.

As the commander of the parliamentary army, the earl: Robert Essex, also deployed most of the infantry in the central front, flanked by cavalry responsible for covering, so that the parliamentary infantry column had 8 rows of pikemen in depth, flanked by about the same number of arquebusiers as the pikemen, because of the numerical advantage, they also allowed them to maintain depth and thickness.

In addition, not only did the Parliamentarians have a high rate of pikemen, but the arquebusiers were all equipped with swords, and they also set aside two cavalry regiments to be used as general reserves at the rear.

The left flank of the Parliamentarians was deployed on a high ground with a large hedge on the left, with 24 squadrons of cavalry and 600 arquebusiers and 3 cannons, and the commander was the Marquis James Ramsay, and if the cavalry commander of the royal army directly opposite wanted to attack, he would have to climb over 5 or 6 ravines and canals, and face the 3 cavalry regiments of the right flank of the Parliamentarians, who could rely on a security guard and 16 cannon artillery positions to counterattack.

Due to the favorable terrain occupied by the royal army, the Earl of the Parliamentary Army was not prepared to launch an active attack, he would wait patiently for the opponent to attack, and then carry out a defensive counterattack, and not far from the battlefield, there were 3 infantry regiments and 11 cavalry squadrons plus reinforcements of 7 Hongyi cannons, which were on the way to Mount Edge.

First of all, there was a fierce artillery battle between the royal army and the parliamentary army, and after several hours of mutual shelling, the impatient royal army began to rush down the slope, according to the order of the commander-in-chief: Astley, the royal army advanced the battle line for half a mile, but to the confusion of the commander of the parliamentary army, the earl, the opponent was so stagnant?

In order to successfully lure the royal army to attack his defensive position, he sent dragoons to harass the right flank of the royal army, and in the face of the provocation of such a small group of dragoons, the commander of the royal cavalry did not hesitate, and immediately ordered his cavalry to trot forward, while the dragoons of the parliamentary army quickly fled and led the commander of the royal cavalry to the left flank of the parliamentary army.

Here, the dismounted cavalry and arquebusiers of the Parliamentarians hid behind hedges, ready to hold a welcome party with a storm of buckshot.

On the other end, Baron Wang Jun was not to be outdone, he personally led the cavalry to the right flank of the parliamentary army, due to the influence of Su Yiqi's cavalry tactics, the Wang army cavalry did not use the popular semi-swing shooting method, but relied on charging and white-knuckle combat to solve the opponent.

Their parliamentary opponents, however, chose to shoot on their horses, but because of the poor arquebus technology and personal skills of the time, they could only watch the enemy trot over 5/6 of the obstacles and kill them unscathed.

Within 30 paces of the left flank of the Parliamentarian army, the royal cavalry drew their short "wheeled muskets" and fired a volley, put away the wheeled muskets between their legs and the belly of the horse, and began to gallop towards the parliamentarian army with shining swords and cavalry spears in their hands.

At this time, the right flank of the parliamentary army also collapsed, and the cavalry led by Baron Wang Jun used the same Su Yiqi tactics to easily seize the right flank artillery battalion position of the parliamentary army, and after a short battle, the parliamentary army had already lost both wings of cavalry and most of the artillery, and the balance of victory seemed to be completely tilted in favor of the Stuart king: Charles I, and also caused the elated Charles I to immediately dispatch all the infantry and crush the infantry of the parliamentarian army on the opposite side.

If the commander of the royal cavalry and the baron of the royal army can properly gather their cavalry and cooperate with the royal infantry at this moment, then they will launch a flanking attack from three directions and reap a perfect victory.

However, contrary to the wishes, the cavalry of the royal army lacked the strict discipline of Su Yiqi's peers, and after defeating the enemy, they were completely out of control, and the knight-born lords ignored the overall situation of the battle, blindly pursued the scattered cavalry of the parliamentary army, and soon broke away from the main battlefield as long as 4 miles away!

To make matters worse, the royal cavalry discovered the Parliamentarian wagons in pursuit, and many of them quarreled and brawled in order to grab the spoils.

On the central front, the two infantry units also began to fall into a stalemate, the inferior equipment of the royal army, in the case of chicken blood, launched several attacks in a row, but were repulsed by the opponent, the parliamentary infantry with the advantage of depth and thickness was not moved at all, and gradually gained the upper hand by relying on the advantage of equipment and numbers.

At this time, the Earl, the commander of the parliamentary army, duly activated the reserves, and threw two intact cavalry regiments into the flank, so that the parliamentary infantry and cavalry could work together to launch a counterattack against the royal infantry, which had been caught in a bitter battle, causing the two armies to immediately stop firing and turn to a brutal white-knuckle battle.

The royal army was very disadvantageous in this situation, the thin front was squeezed into retreat, and the collapse was imminent, although Charles I was anxious, but there was nothing he could do, just now he had sent the most elite royal army knights in order to strengthen the strength of the royal cavalry commander, but now he ended up with no reserves available, and now he could only send batch after batch of messengers to find the cavalry of his own army to help.

But the news he got made him even more depressed.

Fortunately, in the course of the infantry attack of the parliamentary army, there was a serious trampling of each other, because many of them were unpaid militia groups, causing some soldiers in the front row to disobey orders, stop and start plundering the spoils of the dead, while the friendly troops in the rear who were still advancing collided with their comrades in the front row.

Taking advantage of the confusion of the parliamentary army, the royal infantry began to regain their strength and drove their opponents back in front of the artillery battalion, and they also exhausted the last of their physical strength, and some of the weak-willed people began to choose to slip away, and when the Earl, the commander of the parliamentary army, suppressed the chaos, the reorganized parliamentary army continued to advance.