Chapter 111: Untitled Votes
After the Qing army withdrew from the Dunlun area, a British army of about 100,000 people followed the Qing army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThis British army has always maintained a distance of more than ten miles from the main force of the Qing army, but it has never taken the initiative to attack the Qing army.
After the landing, the Qing soldiers lost more than 10,000 people during the siege of London, and more than 40,000 of the 60,000 soldiers remained. It can be said that the main force has not been lost. In the Battle of London, the British dead and wounded troops were all elites, especially those sailors **** were the dead soldiers in the elite, and now there are not a few brave sacrifices among the 100,000 British troops behind.
According to the exchange ratio of about one to five before the British army **** was used, the 100,000 British troops were wiped out, and the more than 40,000 Qing troops were half crippled - but the British were used to being superior people, so how could they use this exchange ratio to fight.
Now the British are requisitioning the garrisons of the colonies and bringing them back home to suppress banditry - the emphasis here is on the death of the native forces of the colonies for the benefit of the British. But this kind of thing is far from being something that can be done in a few days and half a month. Even within a month or two the nearest colonial troops could be brought back.
Lin Kui was also surprised by the British army that was following behind, so go after him, and this force immediately retracted in the direction of London. Leave it alone, he's with you every day. The distance of more than ten miles is only three hours of walking, and one hour of rapid infantry march is enough. If it weren't for the fact that the Qing army was all heavy infantry who didn't move fast, these British troops really wouldn't dare to follow like this.
Along the way, the Eight Banners of the Qing Army destroyed more than 100 villages in England, and the British army didn't care - anyway, the cavalry sent in front had already reported the news, and those who didn't run deserved it.
As for the kind of running the whole village, the Qing army thought that it was uncooperative, and such trivial things as setting fire to the village were still inevitable.
If the English could still flee to London, then the Welsh would have almost no escape, and since ancient times, the English have not allowed Wales to build fortified cities in order to rule the Welsh region. Some of the military castles left by the old-school aristocracy are also pit goods built by the English aristocracy hundreds of years ago.
These military forts built hundreds of years ago are old, dark and damp, but as military buildings, they have no defensive artillery power, and after the rise of artillery, these military forts were gradually abandoned. In later generations, this kind of ancestral castle was often sold for 1 yuan in Europe, and it was built because most of these places were located in the mountains, and the roads were difficult to navigate, and they were ancient buildings, so they could not be modernized.
Let modern people go to the mountains to live a life without electricity, no internet, no supermarkets, no takeaways, and even a lack of clean water, then few people are really willing. Not to mention the huge amount of money that has to be invested in maintenance every year - it is also illegal to lack maintenance of ancient buildings. Or maybe it's a pit grandson. In later generations, no one would ask for a single dollar.
Tens of thousands of Qing troops cast their nets and drew a circle, and they captured more than 50,000 masters and hundreds of thousands of washerwomen in the Welsh area to build a new Huanyi camp -- in fact, the Welsh women who were captured in the Qing army's Huanyi camp had many more opportunities to wash sticks than to wash clothes, but this was still called the Huanyi camp.
All kinds of grain and cattle, horses, sheep and other reserve food were also looted - this time the sea lion planned to attack the British mainland, and the Qing army only brought seven days of supplies, and the naval blockade of the British Royal Navy had long been considered. In fact, every night, the Japanese airship unit can also send some supplies, medicines, munitions, etc., and can also transport a small number of personnel back to the European continent at a critical moment. It's just that only a few people in the top echelons of the Qing army know about such confidential matters, otherwise how could their subordinates have the determination to break the kettle.
In recent years, a Japanese airship unit had been drawing crop circles in various parts of the British mainland at night, and they had also been tasked with picking up spies and intelligence officers, and the route had been familiar for a long time.
When the Qing army was raging in Wales, Lin Kui also left a main force of more than 10,000 people in his hands to confront the British army that had been following behind but should not fight.
In the face of the iron cans equipped by the Qing army, the British basically neutralized their attacks except for **** and artillery shells. If it was just a single Qing army tin can, everyone rushed up and took off the armor, the question is that there is one person on the battlefield, and if you want to pull out the tin can, you will often pay several times the price.
Although the **** exchange ratio is better-looking, the British went to the battlefield to survive and make a fortune, so when the **** tactics are behind, there are only a small number of elites who dare to fight hard, and the British are still quite desperate in peacetime.
After the Qing army under the command of Lin Kui was greatly replenished in Wales, seeing that the British army did not dare to fight, he was relieved and swaggered north with a lot of booty into the border between Scotland and Wales.
If the Welsh were docile under English rule, then Scotland was the base camp of all kinds of disobedience to English rule - the English did not intend to assimilate the Scots, but were ready to colonize and plunder the Scots, and before the sun never sets, the English did so, sweeping away the Scottish nobility and sending the English nobility to manage or oppress the colonial plunder.
In the past few hundred years, the Scots have rebelled or resisted taxes or did not cooperate, and even in the era when Britain no longer needed to suck blood from Scotland, the people of the two places also quarreled with each other and did not stop - how can one or two sentences of grievances for hundreds of years be clearly explained.
Generally speaking, the English will think that the other party is an old hat, and the Scots will think that the other party is a liar when they look at the English.
I heard that a Chinese army fought a big battle with the English near London, if it wasn't for the fact that London had not been defeated, the Scots would have had a carnival, although the Scots did not necessarily have a good impression of China, but the traditional understanding of the Scots is that England is the worst in the world - even our Scottish king's position was deceived by the English, and the perception of most Scots about England is that England is a liar.
Although Scotland and England have a deep grudge, Lin Kui has long not regarded the Scots as allies, without him, the Scots are too weak.
Historically, hundreds of thousands of Boers once fought the British, but the millions of Scots were mostly willing to be obedient to England.
Even after several anti-British wars, they were all lost, and they were repeatedly defeated by the British Army, which was not in the middle of the stream - the villagers of Sanyuanli in China still defeated the British army. In a word, Lin Kui thinks the Scots are the quintessential pig teammates.