Chapter 133: Ireland Rises
Now the Qing army on the British Isles is fully equipped with food and grass and no shortage of ordnance, and the Japanese air caravan uses the night time to replenish every day, and has a great posture of being more and more happy behind enemy lines. Even bandits in the Scottish mountains and forests joined the Qing army in the British Eight Banners to fight against www.biquge.info the colonial rule of the English.
How did the English rule over the colonies outside England was, in a word, a lot of evil, immorality. For example, Ireland is an agricultural area that is rich in potatoes, but in the year of the potato harvest, a large number of Irish people die of starvation. The only grain available in the potato-rich Irish market is the expensive potato.
Who's asked, where are the potatoes in Ireland? The answer is that it was taken from the territory of England. At this time, both Europe and Britain adopted a tax system, that is, the aristocratic landowners contracted out the land revenues. The problem arises, if a thousand pounds of land is produced a year in peacetime, and there is no income of more than a thousand pounds, the nobles will certainly not sell the right to tax. However, the businessman who spent more than 1,000 pounds to get the right to package tax was not Lei Feng, and he would not post his own money just to write a diary, but as a businessman, he naturally wanted to make a profit. An investment of more than 1,000 pounds will naturally require a return of 2,000 or even 3,000 pounds on this land.
As for whether the Irish peasants on the land had enough to eat, whether they sold their sons and daughters or sold chrysanthemums, it was none of the business. As the Dutch neighbor said, business is business - this famous saying comes from the Anglo-Dutch War, when Dutch merchants sold arms to the British, which led to a complete reversal of British against the Dutch in naval warfare later in the war.
In fact, the behavior of the Dutch is explained in an ancient Chinese saying: Heaven can be abused, but people cannot live.
In modern translation, natural disasters cannot destroy a dynasty, but if people die by themselves, they can indeed destroy a dynasty.
If the ministers and nobles of the Ming Dynasty were not so desperate for death, they could firmly remember the first sentence of the opening chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War: soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival, must not be ignored. The Ming Dynasty would not have perished in three hundred years. Those who were later tortured and even killed by the Shun army deserved it. As for those who did not die in the Shun army and descended to the Qing Dynasty, even the Manchurians looked down on them, and let them go to the second minister record one by one, leaving infamy through the ages. Because these people are not loyal to their own people, how can they be loyal to the rule of foreign races, although the Qing court had to use them at that time, but they have always looked down on them and guarded against them.
Today, Great Britain is losing ground year by year, and is falling into the abyss of death step by step.
In order to clean up the Qing troops on the island, the wishful thinking of counting on the colonial army was in vain. Nowadays, people of insight in Britain generally think that the natives of the colonies are not suitable for being soldiers, but in addition to being soldiers, those natives are still quite docile as slaves, and we Anglo-Saxons have to do this kind of thing as soldiers.
In that case, let's let the War Department be expanded. In addition to recruiting soldiers on the island, those colonies that can be controlled also recruit (capture strong men), such as Ireland.
Since the power of the tin-canned muskets in the face of the Qing army was not satisfactory, these British recruits were only trained to use artillery and cold weapons.
The elder brother James also organized an allegro propaganda team and sang his set of allegro books without guns and fists among the soldiers of the new army.
No matter how strong the British army is, it can still be stronger than the Taiping Army of the Hongyang Rebellion, and it can also be stronger than those Han people who supervised themselves to form a self-raised army and formed a self-raised army. There has always been a saying in the Manchu Qing Dynasty that the Han people are strong and the Manchus are dead.
Xianfeng saw that the Hanchen Governor was already like a self-reliant country, and he didn't listen to the will of the imperial court at all, and he couldn't splash oil into a ball. Only then did he leave the West Expedition of Sijiu City in a hurry.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Han people was far above that of the Manchus, and the population was a hundred times that of the Manchus.
The ancestral training of the Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains was to retreat outside the customs to protect the Manchurian lineage when it was impossible to do anything, so there was the Sushun Northern Expedition and the Xianfeng Western Expedition. Even the later devil six ran to conquer India before the fourth brother's filial piety period expired. The city is the ancient capital of several dynasties, and maybe someone will call you again one day.
Lin Kui and others had already calculated that the Britons themselves were only a few million people, and the colonies even had to divide their troops to protect the interests of Britain. Now there are millions of Manchurians, plus the vassal Mongolian and Hui Tibetan ethnic groups, it is completely impossible to bird the British. Moreover, in the battles with foreigners in recent years, the paper tigers with foreign guns and foreign guns have been dismantled by Dongying steel armor and guns.
A Qing army wearing a tin can, if he was lucky enough not to be directly hit by a cannonball on the battlefield, he could easily complete the beheading of ten people, or even a hundred people.
Chang Si, who killed the French general during the Battle of the Two Crows outside the city of Sijiu, was originally a taciturn lord who did not enter the oil and salt, and it is said that such a person is not treated anywhere. But this lord went to the battlefield and was a real battle madman, who only had enemies and death in his eyes, and with his military exploits, he was now rising step by step, and now he has sealed Baylor. One step further, that is to be crowned king with a different surname.
In order to deal with the Qing army, the real British troops from all over the country gathered in London, which made Cixi see the flaw. This time, Cixi used the island-hopping battle plan to drop her troops into Ireland by air. The island of Ireland across the sea is also the backyard of the English.
Going deep behind enemy lines, such tactics are still a bit dangerous, but things in the world are also rich and dangerous. This time, it was the legendary Emperor Xianfeng's eight-worship friend Song Erye. Now Second Master Song is already the title of auxiliary general by virtue of his military exploits, and in order to avenge the first emperor Xianfengye, he robbed this errand.
This air transport is not as good as sea freight, and the transport is not only people, but also firearms, supplies, grain and grass and even military horses, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce has calculated that the maximum number of air transport is enough to meet the one-time delivery of 10,000 people.
Second Master Song counted it, it was enough. Now London has troops from all over the world, and there are less than 8,000 British troops on the whole island of Ireland, and half of them are full of indigenous troops.
10,000 soldiers, as long as they can occupy Ireland for more than ten days, after the second batch of 5,000 personnel and supplies arrive, they are no longer afraid of the British army coming to reinforcements. Now, according to the battle losses of the Qing army and the British army, it takes about five genuine British soldiers, or dozens of indigenous British troops, to exchange the lives of the Qing army. Therefore, Second Master Song decided that Ireland did not have so many British soldiers in exchange for them.