Chapter 572: London Worries

"When will the war end?"

For soldiers on the front line, they look forward to the end of the war in order to live a new life that they have longed for, and for the country, when a country longs for the end of the war, then there is only one reason, either it has suffered a setback or is unable to fight again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for Britain, war has become an unavoidable issue for Britain as early as a few months ago, when Britain was determined to meet the challenge from China, at sea and on land.

The outcome of the war was beyond all expectations, and now, although London was once again shrouded in winter fog, and despite the pungent soot, there was only one topic on which the people of London were talking about now - China.

In the streets of London, all people talk about is one question - war!

War has never been feared or feared by the British, but now the fear of war affects everyone, and their fear is not so much out of fear of war as it is the responsibility of the British government itself.

In Britain, in the face of an unprecedented fiasco, reports and news about the war were constantly seen on mastheads, but unlike ordinary news, these news were more racist and still carried a kind of white arrogance.

In the face of unprecedented defeat, the British government did everything in its power to turn the emperor of the Chinese Empire into a tyrant as cruel as Genghis Khan, who drove millions of "immortal armies" with the intention of completely destroying European civilization. The Emperor himself was portrayed by the London newspapers as a sinister, vile, cruel and bloodthirsty tyrant, a little more so than Genghis Khan, and Napoleon was as pure as a baby, even as a saint.

And now this "tyrant who grew up under the conspiracy of the Oriental" is ready to use his "undead army of evil wisdom and cruelty of the Oriental" to destroy the great and sacred British Empire and dismantle the white man's domination of the world.

Although in fact there is not much disagreement, but, in order to put aside their own responsibilities, the royal literati and the white supremacist racists, in order to cover up their own weaknesses, and of course to achieve a better literary effect, slightly richer in details, a little more full use of imagination, and a little more ornate in the wording, with the result that the Battle of Cologne and the Battle of Australia are without exception depicted as a magnificent war epic.

Genghis Khan-like tyrants, Mongol-style undead legions, in short, all imagination was brought to full play in the newspapers, and those literati did not mind using the most flowery words to slander the Chinese as a cruel, bloody, barbaric "undead army".

In their text, the Chinese legion is invincible, it seems, because the emperor of China made an agreement with the devil in exchange for the devil's support. The Chinese's superiority in weapons written by those slightly sensible journalists has been repeatedly ignored.

No one in London would talk about the Chinese breech guns, the rotary-barreled machine guns that could spit out tongues of fire, or even the ironclad ships, and for the British, they preferred to believe that the Chinese won battle after battle by cooperating with the devil.

In order to cover up the repeated mistakes of Downing Street after the outbreak of war, and in order to shirk his own responsibility, he used extremely exaggerated words to describe the brutality of the Chinese army, and in his speech in the House of Lords, he not only listed the emperor of the Chinese Empire as the most cruel enemy in the history of Britain, but also used all known negative words to slander China and its soldiers.

In his description, the Chinese soldiers are without exception the most brutal soldiers in the world, they are like "a group of barbarians trained in the European style, they know no pain, no death, no fatigue", "once they receive orders, they will howl and attack", "bullets cannot stop them", of course, all this is from the description of war correspondents or generals, and more importantly, he will use the "massacre" in Chinese history as "evidence" to show it to the House of Lords, what kind of enemy Britain is facing now.

This time, it is undeniable that it succeeded in evoking the literal fear of the Mongols among the British, who could feel the most immediate racial threat, and they seemed to see once again the moment when the whole of Europe was burned and European civilization was about to be destroyed.

Nevertheless, it stands to reason that they should have been thrilled by the speech, that their personal courage should have been provoked by their speech, that they should have thrown themselves into the act of the British army with honor, and that they should have fought for the defense of Britain and for the defense of European civilization, but to the surprise of the people - a fear that had never existed before permeated the heart of every Englishman, because he had succeeded in instilling in the English the idea that any who resisted would be killed, and that the cities of resistance would be burned, which was the brutality of the Mongols, And now it has become a habit of the Chinese.

In the face of this "habit", those hypocritical British actually chose fear rather than resistance, and when this fear spread, they actually believed that the Chinese were invincible, especially after repeated news of defeat in the newspapers, many British people actually stubbornly believed this.

The hypocritical Britons don't think about anything else, they just see the news about the defeat in the newspapers again and again, and the paranoia in their personality makes them try to find countless reasons to prove themselves right as long as they believe in the existence of something, and they will try to "prove" it with all kinds of lies and imagination.

Under the influence of this mentality, the British newspapers were filled with hundreds of reporters and literati who used exaggerated words to describe the brutality of the Chinese, and people did not even notice that those brutal atrocities occurred in the memories of the Huns and Mongols in Europeans, and even in the records of missionaries during the sinking of China in the 17th century, completely ignoring the reality that has now reached the 19th century.

More than any other voice of reason, all this undoubtedly explains a little more - how the British army failed, explains why the valiant Royal Navy could not be the opponent of the Chinese fleet, and fully explains the current defeat, not because of the incompetence of the general, nor because of the backwardness of the armament, but only because of one reason - the Chinese soldiers are a group of ruthless and ruthless fellows in their bones, and each of them has made a pact with the devil to die and sacrifice his British life.

And in the midst of this propaganda, the results can be imagined: the morale of both the army and the civilian population has hit rock bottom, and everyone is asking the question - can Britain defeat such an enemy? Even the clouds of defeatism began to spread over Britain.

Who can again assure the population that Britain will be victorious in this war, and who can guarantee that Britain will defeat this cruel enemy, as it did in the last defeat of Napoleon?

"Genghis Khan may be brutal, but he is not invincible!"

Of course, this is only the statement of some literati, and many people believe in the truth that the more brutal the enemy, the more difficult it is to defeat, and if it cannot be defeated, then why continue the war that is doomed to failure.

All of this is as if it was when Napoleon was at his strongest, a fear that has never existed before permeates the hearts of the people, and people look at the sea with frightened eyes, what is their greatest fear now? It is the fear that Chinese will appear on the shores of Britain, and then their undead legion will be as described in the novel - "Those Chinese from the east, with black hair and black eyes like the devil, are pouring into Europe like a tide, this is an undead army, and millions of undead legions will drown everything......"

There is no hope for this!

For many people, they stubbornly believe that if the Chinese hit the British mainland and appear here, then Britain will not be able to defeat them at all, because the "undead legion" is not something that humans can defeat, not that humans can destroy,

However, those British literati will not blindly exaggerate the enemy, they will also praise the British warriors, praise their courage, praise their sacrifice, of course, all this finally formed a view in the hearts of the British - our soldiers are so brave, but why still failed to defeat those Chinese!

This further fueled the pessimism in people's hearts, and it seemed that for them, this proved their stubborn belief in defeat, and more fully proved the fact that the Chinese were invincible, and it was undeniable that more than half a year after the outbreak of the war, all the pride of the British was completely dispersed with the successive defeats of the army and navy, and no one would even doubt that now, as long as the Chinese appeared, they would surrender.

But the English literati still told everyone at the end that there was a hope, a hope to defeat the most cruel enemy in history - "If the whole of Europe is united, then this enemy will not be feared, and we will defeat these yellow-skinned enemies from the Far East, just as we defeated Napoleon and Attila in the past!" ”。

It seems that for the British, this is exactly what they want, and in order to achieve this hope, Britain's best diplomats have been working the Continent to win their allies......

"The best option for the French right now is to wait and see, and they will not take the initiative to join any coalition at this time. But one thing is for sure, they will never be in league with the losers! ”

Henry, as the Prime Minister's special envoy, has been lobbying the generals, politicians there in Paris for more than a month, trying to get them to support Britain. But the results are obvious. The French would not have been moved by his empty promises at all. In contrast, the Chinese lobby in France is more effective.

"And those damned Chinese, they are in order to be able to get the support of France! I ceded most of Canada to the French, as well as our colonies in India......"

Henry's tone at the time of saying these words. With a strong hostility, once upon a time, this kind of generosity has always been the patent of Britain, when the wealth of Britain actually became the generosity of others.

"Those despicable Chinese tried to use this method. Pull the French and the people of other nations into their chariots, sir, these conditions are extremely tempting. ”

"It is true, for those countries that do not have colonies. Whether it's Canada or India. are full of temptations, temptations, even irresistible. ”

As the Prime Minister of Great Britain, there is even a phrase that comes to mind now: "Britain's sin is to have too many colonies".

Once upon a time the vast colony was the pride of Britain, not tired, even like a cow. Pumping milk from the colonies. And now, in the face of the attacks of the Chinese with the same name in all directions. Britain, unexpectedly, did not have the strength to launch a counterattack.

"We can send soldiers to Canada, to every colony, but what's the point? We had to stand on the coastline and watch the sea vigilantly, guarding against any attack that the Chinese could launch at any time. When we strengthen Canada's defenses. Chinese appeared in South Africa......"

This is precisely the helplessness of Britain, and the war with the Chinese does not have any main battlefield at all. Each region has the potential to become the main battleground.

Of course, the more fatal point is that the Royal Navy does not have enough strength. To block the ironclad fleet of the Chinese, so now you can only defend passively.

For the UK, even worried. The Chinese fleet will appear on the coast of Britain, and no matter how good the Royal Navy is, it is clear to everyone that the wooden-hulled ships of the Napoleonic era cannot compete with the ironclads of the Chinese.

Passive defense is causing the prestige of the British Empire to lose little by little, and the loss of this prestige can easily lead former allies to be tempted by the conditions offered by the enemy, and then become enemies.

"Everybody in London is asking me now. When and where will we launch a counteroffensive. But what do we use to launch a counteroffensive? ”

Looking back at Henry, his tone was solemn and serious.

"How can we launch a counteroffensive without help from our allies?"

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