Chapter 397 Rewrites British History

In the blink of an eye, the English Civil War had been fought for several years.

At first, the English Parliamentarian army fought a series of battles, fighting the king's army in favor of Charles I, and almost took control of the entire British island. But the dynamics of the English Civil War changed when the Imperial Chinese government secretly rescued Charles I and helped the King's Army train new troops and export advanced weaponry.

In May of the thirteenth year of Shenwu, the reorganized British King's Army, after systematic military training and armed with Chinese-style equipment, the British Army of 10,000 people suddenly turned the tide of the war.

On 7 May, the King's army defeated the Parliamentarian army at Oxford, just outside London, and defeated Cromwell's elite knights.

Up to this point, the parliamentary government in London had not given up its political illusions in the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire followed the same capitalist path of development as the British, which led the British parliamentary government to have political illusions about the Chinese Empire, hoping that the Chinese Empire would eventually abandon its support for Charles I in favor of the British Parliament.

However, in fact it is. Although both the Chinese Empire and Britain followed the capitalist road, it was clear that the Chinese Empire was a country that ate alone, and it would not allow a strong Britain under the capitalist system. As a result, the British parliamentary government was unable to get help from the Chinese Empire, but instead lost the opportunity to attack the king's army when it was at its weakest, giving Charles I a respite, and finally leading the king's army to resurge and march to the city.

After the Battle of Oxford, the main force of the British Parliamentary Army was defeated, with more than 10,000 casualties, and the soul of the Parliamentary Army, the Cromwell Knights, was regarded as the number one enemy by the King's army.

In this battle, Cromwell's prestige was greatly damaged, but his influence was still great, and he was still the soul of the parliamentary army. Under his leadership, the bourgeois ** elements up and down London regrouped and planned to defend London.

On 13 May, the King's army marched to London after a short rest and resupply at Oxford.

The next morning, the King's army lined up on the northern outskirts of London. Equipped with Chinese-style weapons, the King's Army has the world's most advanced muskets and artillery, and when this British ** team of 10,000 people appeared outside London in Chinese-style military uniforms, the British felt for the first time that the ideology from the East had penetrated into the land of Britain.

A hundred export-type Ares guns were deployed outside the city, and the momentum was a visual impact that the British Army had not had since the founding of the country.

On a small hill somewhere outside the city, the field observation group of the Imperial Chinese King's Army in Britain stayed here.

On the hillside, more than a dozen officers at or above the school level of the Chinese Empire were using binoculars and new-style battlefield high-power observation glasses to observe the battle of London.

The victory or defeat of the Battle of London was directly related to the direction of the English Civil War. It can be said that once London was recaptured by the King's army, the English Civil War would probably be over.

In the eyes of the Imperial Chinese government, the protracted English Civil War could deplete Britain's national power and nullify the capitalist economic accumulation that had existed in Britain since the thirteenth century. The long-term English Civil War was in line with the long-term strategy of the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire pursued a policy of eating alone and did not allow Britain to take the capitalist road, so it could only help Charles I, who pursued feudal **, to rule England. In this way, the imperial government could not allow England to be over-depleted and prevent Charles I from continuing to rule England.

This was a dilemma, and the Imperial Government, after careful consideration, finally chose the latter strategy, which was to exterminate the bourgeois ** elements in Britain and do everything in its power to prevent the establishment of bourgeois power in Britain.

On 14 May, the final negotiations between the British parliamentary government and the Chinese Empire broke down, and the British bourgeoisie finally gave up the last vestiges of political illusions in the Chinese Empire.

Negotiations broke down, and the Chinese Empire abandoned its neutrality and openly supported Charles I's royalists, both politically, economically, and militarily.

The decisions of the imperial Chinese government greatly influenced the attitudes of the major European powers. The Dutch were eager to support the British parliamentary government, but when the Chinese Empire openly supported the royalists, the Dutch government was pressured to abandon all aid to the parliamentary army. Similarly, arms dealers in Europe have begun to rein in their activities, going underground and reducing their share of military exports to the Parliamentary Army.

The British Parliamentarian Army faced a huge arms embargo, and all kinds of strategic materials could not be transported into London, resulting in a shortage of weapons and ammunition and other strategic materials for the defenders of London.

From the 15th, the main forces of the King's Army began shelling the city of London. Charles I repeatedly persuaded the parliamentary government to surrender, but was scolded back. In desperation, Charles I had no choice but to cut his love, watching his city of London scarred by shells, and begging not to blow up his royal palace. However, he knew that once the flames of war began, the palace would not be spared.

Due to the fierce siege of the city by the king's army, the defending council army suffered heavy casualties, and various strategic materials were consumed too quickly, and the inventory became less and less.

From the 17th, other units of the King's army arrived one after another, surrounding the entire city of London, causing London to be cut off from even domestic supplies, and the defenders were in great difficulty.

Cromwell gathered a large number of students, businessmen, and ordinary citizens in the city of London, together with the defenders, a total of more than 30,000 people, to defend the city of London.

It has to be said that the castle in the city of London was built quite well, and after a week of shelling, there was no large-scale collapse of the walls. However, the King's army still opened many small gaps, and almost broke through the city, only to be beaten out by the combined efforts of the military and civilians in the city of London.

The well-armed King's army was beaten out by the beggar-like defenders of London, which really made Charles I feel very humiliated.

As a result, the king's army intensified its attack and again borrowed money from the Chinese Empire to purchase a huge number of artillery.

In mid-June, the King's army used 150 artillery pieces to completely destroy the North City of London in one day. At this time, although the soldiers and civilians of London resisted vigorously, demolished all the houses near the city wall, and even filled the gaps in the collapsed city wall with flesh and blood, it was to no avail.

At noon on the 16th, the King's army finally broke through the north city of London and entered the city, and street fighting began immediately. But once the soldiers and civilians of London lost the protection of the city walls, they could no longer resist the wolf-like army of the king. The street fighting was quickly defeated, and the King's army quickly occupied the city of London and approached the palace.

Originally, Charles I ordered that the royal palace should not be bombarded, but the result was the same, and the angry citizens of London had completely destroyed the royal palace and burned down Charles I's palace.

Charles I was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and suddenly lost his mind, and he wanted to punish the perpetrators severely.

The Dark Ages of the European Middle Ages seemed to have reappeared, and the King's army rushed into the city and immediately launched a purge operation, and for a time the city of London was full of corpses and blood. X