Chapter 1014: Lisbon's Retrospective
"The scene of the handshake between the Duke of Cumberland and Admiral Yue has been left on the oil painting called the Hand of the Century, which still hangs on the wall of the corridor of the House of Lords Chamber in London, but everyone knows that the oil painting can stay there for only a handful of time, and it has been more than a century since then, and the two sides of the handshake are now clenching their fists and eyeing each other."
"I have not been able to see the original painting with my own eyes, but I have seen a copy of it as a child, when I parroted the words of my school teacher and praised the greatness of Seris and the century-old unbreakable friendship between Seris and Prussia in front of my father. The father took out the painting, pointed to a red figure on it, and said, "It's all the same, Carl, Seris, and Britannia are all the same." The reason why this world is so chaotic and painful is because these two red devils, one east and one west, rule the whole world. โ
"I looked at the painting, it was all bright red, and I couldn't tell the difference between the Britons and the Serisians, but I saw two very different faces, smiling brighter than the hawker forgotten by the tax collector, and I was only nine years old at the time, and I thought it was a hypocritical smile, and now I think back that maybe the British painter was secretly warning his countrymen."
"When my mind no longer wavered by a person's words or the feelings of a painting, I finally saw a noticeable difference when I looked at the painting. The red of the British Redwoods is more vivid, and it is even more dazzling when paired with white pants. The red of the Seris Redcoats is much darker and heavier, perhaps due to the color difference of the dark blue trousers, in short, it is more depressing. In such colors, the Europa, nicknamed the flat-faced Seris, is in no way aesthetically inferior to the Europa, and even in my personal opinion, Admiral Yue is more manly than the Duke of Cumberland, the playboy. โ
"By the way, this post-war painting actually has a lot of flaws, and the city of Berlin in the background is actually much more tattered. The artillery of the Seris ruthlessly swept away the Russian-Austrian defenses, leaving the city of Berlin in ruins. And that's just the details, the real face of the Seris Redcoat is very different from the painting, except for the officers. Most of the soldiers came from Portugal, the Netherlands and even Poland, and were almost a mercenary regiment. โ
In July 1865, in Lisbon, Portugal, Carl Marx was lying on a rocking chair on the terrace of the Bell House, enjoying the slight sea breeze, and in front of his eyes, the port of Lisbon was unobstructed. He had a pipe in his mouth. I wrote down the thoughts that I was immersed in the centennial remembrance. He is not the kind of academic historian who has a lot of experience, he likes to reorganize the context of history with his own thinking and even inspiration.
"I am also an avid military enthusiast personally, and although the history of the Syris European Legion in the First World War has been exhausted, I think there are still many aspects that have been ignored by military historians in European countries."
"When Admiral Yue held the hand of the Duke of Cumberland, it was the third year that he led the Cyris European Legion to fight, and his army had expanded from 10,000 to 30,000. As mentioned earlier, the vast majority are mercenaries. The cost of transporting large armies from Seris proper, or even from Tianzhu, to Europa is too high. Britain did not allow Seris to blatantly use the European theater as a training ground. โ
"Another important reason is that the naval battle between Britain and France is already in full swing, and the two sides are fiercely fighting for control of the Celtic Sea, the Bay of Biscay and the Bay of Cรกdiz, and in this situation, it is obviously difficult to ensure the safety of the transport ship group."
"Yes, the Seris had the most advanced ironclad steam fleet at that time, but later military scholars believe that the first ironclad steam fleet of Seris did not have the advantage of comprehensively overwhelming the sail war, at least in front of Europa's main sail battleships, Seris's fast battleships are not yet an opponent of the same magnitude, although this assertion is a little colorful. But the Seris fleet after the Battle of the Alvoran Sea. The two-month repair in Lisbon also shows that the ironclad fleet is not indestructible. โโฆ,