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What was the longest war in history?

The Thirty Years' War in Europe, from 1618 to 1648, spread from the original Bohemia to most of Europe, and millions of soldiers and civilians were wiped out by the double blow of war and famine, and the process of national unification in Germany was delayed for two hundred years. It has far-reaching multiple historical significance in Europe, and is a catalyst for the rise of modern capitalism in Europe, international geopolitical relations and the explosion of science. However, it is not considered the longest war.

Then one thinks of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, which lasted 116 years, from 1337 to 1453. It was not only a war after the end of the Middle Ages that would affect the geopolitical relations of Europe for hundreds of years to come, but also the last darkness before the dawn of modern civilization. The knightly class is coming to an end, and it is full of the last romance in the midst of desolation, pain and cruelty.

France was defeated first and then won, completed national reunification, and officially set its sights on the hegemony of the European continent; England won first and then lost, lost almost all of its territory on the European continent, retreated to the British Isles, and also promoted the rise of nationalism, and the national mentality was officially adjusted from the countries of the European continent to the island and sea countries, and since then it has gone to the global ocean, and finally the sun never sets. However, judging from time alone, it is not the longest war.

In the middle of the 17th century, a bourgeois revolutionary civil war broke out in England, and the emerging bourgeoisie represented by Cromwell swept away the old English royalists, cutting off the head of Charles I, and England ushered in the second national transformation since Elizabeth I, and industrial capital became the core development force of England.

A handful of royalist knights retreated to the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago of 16 square kilometres more than 40 kilometres from the Cornwall peninsula southwest of the British Isles. The Royalists took advantage of this strategic location, bordering the English Channel to the south and St. George's Strait to the north, and began to attack nearby merchant ships frequently, especially Dutch merchant ships, which supported the English National Assembly.

The Dutch merchants, disgusted by it, could not bear it anymore, and in 1651 the Dutch admiral Tromp went to the Isles of Scilly, after a great rage. A declaration of war was launched on the Isles of Scilly, which had been seized by the English Royalists. The legality of this diplomatic declaration of war was left aside, and soon the Dutchman's gaze was replaced by other European firms that followed. The National Assembly of England recovered the islands shortly afterward, and the Netherlands never really sent troops to engage in an exchange of fire with the remnants of the English Royalists who were entrenched in the Isles of Scilly.

But the "terrible" thing is that the Dutch declaration of war on the Isles of Scilly has not ended diplomatically, as if it had been forgotten. In 1985, Duncan, a historian who was the president of the parliament of the Isles of Scilly, found a historical document out of nowhere, and immediately wrote to the Dutch embassy in Britain about the myth of the war.

After cautiously confirming the matter, the Dutch side immediately sent diplomats to the Isles of Scilly to sign an armistice and a peace treaty with the parliament of the islands. And at this time. It has been 335 years since the initial declaration of war.

The "Three Hundred and Thirty-Five Years' War" defeated the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France in one fell swoop, and the people of the Isles of Scilly were proud for a long time, although it had no bullshit at all......

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Saturday, July 21, 1635.

Just before dusk, a large fleet appeared on the surface of the Celtic Sea in southwest England. This fleet, which consisted of 4 gorgeous light cruisers, 9 Spanish and 4 Portuguese sail ships, and a number of transports, was a veritable combined fleet. Their target is St. Marys, the largest of the Scilly Islands.

At this time, there was only one small town of no more than 200 people in the natural harbor of St. Marys Island, and the priest of the town was also the top administrator of St. Marys Island. When I saw the fleet flying the flags of the Three Kingdoms, it was full of people docked in the harbor. The old priest was so frightened that he didn't even have the idea of ringing the church bell.

The steamboat that was lowered from the transports of the Horned Whale brought two companies of Foreign Legion troops ashore. The heavily armed Foreign Legion officers and men from the American Concession in the Azores were the first combat companies of the newly formed Brown Bear Brigade. After nearly half a year of brutal drills, today is the first time they have been engaged in actual combat.

All English civilians were ordered to stay at home and not go out. Bands of gorgeous soldiers with helmets and guns occupied almost all the commanding heights around the town. Then piles of supplies began to be unloaded on the pitifully small dock, while hundreds of Portuguese or Spanish laborers from the Azores or A Coruña began to get busy.

Building an outpost that can effectively provide cutting-edge logistics and tactical support in the subsequent war was the first consideration of the Chinese and US Navy after entering the war. The Isles of Scilly were the best target for their choice, otherwise every replenishment of the fleet would have to cross the Bay of Biscay and return to A Coruña.

It's a short distance from mainland England. But there were practically no defenses, and thus quickly fell into the palm of the combined fleet. The European Expeditionary Fleet formed by the Chinese and American Navy, which used it as an outpost supply base, could control almost all of the English Channel and St. George's Channel.

The Kingdom of Spain, which had suffered a heavy humiliation not long ago, naturally fully supported the actions of the Chinese and American Navy. Desperately scraped together a small half of the fleet, and together with the Portuguese, they helped the Chinese and American navies. According to the basic plan of joint operations, the Spanish and Portuguese navies would be responsible for guarding this forward base, which was vital to the Sino-American European fleet.

For the sake of defense and security, the Chinese Army Command also kindly helped and sent two companies of the Foreign Legion Brown Bear Brigade to take charge of the island's defense. As many as nine 90-mm or 120-mm fortified guns were brought to St. Mary's Island, and even if the Spanish and Portuguese maritime defenses were broken, the artillery fire on that island would be enough to sift the English counterattack.

The clamor of various languages echoed on St. Mary's Island, which covers an area of less than 10 square kilometers, and the army and navy officers and civilian builders of the three countries who went to the island were carrying out special work with tools to expand the docks and establish a logistics supply base. The combined fleet, which was on guard on the periphery, was divided into two groups, of which the Chinese and American fleets divided two light cruisers and began to reconnoiter the English Channel to the southeast, while the Spanish and Portuguese sail warships covered the remaining transports heading north to the port of Kinsale, Ireland, and continued to transport supplies and troops for the Marquis de Santa Cruz.

Three days later, several more Chinese and American merchant ships from the Azores docked, unloading more than 3,000 tons of coal, ammunition, food and medicine.

On the seventh day, the Spanish fleet from A Coruña came. Thousands of tons of coal, bedding, ship maintenance equipment and canned food were brought to the island, of course, most of these materials were transported from the Azores, except for coal, and the Spaniards only undertook the task of transit transportation.

It was not until August 6 that the military occupation and base construction of St. Marys Island came to an end, with tens of thousands of tons of coal, ammunition, food, and medicine filling the local military warehouses, more than 500 American-Spanish Portuguese defenders, including two companies of the Chinese American Foreign Legion, and the port expanded to accommodate two gorgeous light cruisers at the same time.

During this time, a number of small English naval clippers attempted to get close to the scouts, but were driven out by the Spanish or Portuguese navies. Even the Spanish Navy made a cameo appearance as a pirate, capturing a passing English and Dutch merchant ship and snatching a large amount of cargo from the Caribbean and West Africa on the spot.

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For most of the past month, the three Magnificent Jewel-class light cruisers, which were responsible for providing naval artillery support to the Spanish defenders, inflicted great casualties on the English ground forces attempting to resume the attack.

With the cooperation of the radio of the liaison group in the city, whenever the English troops deployed their forward offensive positions, they were hit by 90-mm high-explosive shells from a long distance. Although the density of shells is not large, no one can stand this kind of "staring" artillery fire.

Immediately afterwards, two republic-class light cruisers of the Sino-American European Expeditionary Fleet began to block the mouth of the Lean River outside Cork. At one point, it even drove into the river bend and bombarded the outer ramparts of Cork City with 120 mm naval guns.

Since the outbreak of the Irish rebellion, Cork City has not been directly attacked, even though it has been threatened repeatedly. Now it is exposed to the long-range naval guns of the Chinese and American warships. Almost every targeted shelling will destroy part of the fortified fortifications.

To make matters worse, the blockade of the St. George's Strait by the 3 Princess-class large light cruisers of the Huamei Fleet was even more alarming. Dublin, the largest city in Ireland, has not seen a merchant ship from England for half a month, and three lazy white ladies are lying across the ocean outside the harbor. With 2 Republican-class doglegs, he intercepted every passing English merchant ship under the noses of the inhabitants of Dublin. After detaining the crew, the looted English merchant ships were smashed into burning wood slag with merciless artillery fire.

Out of political considerations. As a last resort, the European Expeditionary Fleet of the Chinese and US Navy's European Expeditionary Fleet has no intention of blockading the English Channel for the time being. But just for the passage through St. George's Channel on the east coast of the island of Ireland, the Chinese and American navies were playing a game of squatting and farming, and the naval transports in charge of replenishment suddenly became traps for trophies and prisoners.

The Spanish Army in Kinsale Port, which had recovered from repeated beatings in the early stage, began to prepare for the attack on Cork City under the leadership of Albert, Marquis of Santa Cruz, who had recovered from a serious illness. The Spanish army now in Ireland has more than 10,000 troops, almost double the main force of England in Cork City.

In desperation, Cromwell, who was in charge of the war in Ireland, began to focus on defense, and he could only rely on the Spaniards not having enough courage to advance into the heart of Ireland. And the navy of China and the United States will never be able to run to land.

Although Ireland did not necessarily need to rely on the full support of England itself for the war, the English National Assembly found itself in an awkward situation: Cromwell's elite main force lost its backing, and Dublin and other large Irish coastal towns became the forbidden territory of the Chinese and American navies. The only consolation is that not a single coastal town on English soil has been threatened by the Chinese Navy, and perhaps the Chinese Navy is conveying a subtle attitude that the war will ultimately require both sides to sit down and talk.

In contrast to the one-sided atmosphere of peace talks in the Scottish Bishops' War, the momentum of turning defeat into victory for the US-Spanish-Portuguese coalition navy for more than a month has increased, and the call for the main war faction to break the deadlock from the sea has also become louder. The Lords and factions who accepted the mediation of the French royal family said that the war was not impossible to end immediately, and England's military spending in the past six months had exceeded the initial expectations, even more than the dictatorship of the brainless Charles I.

It took time for the heated debate to collide with the final answer, but the preparations for a military counterattack did not stop. Soon, on August 9, 1635, Admiral Chad Richard, who had made a name for himself in England in the early stages of the war. Dean was ready to strike again in London, this time with a fleet of 35 ships, at least two-thirds of which were recruited English pirates.

On the same day, the first batch of two "Iberia 2000 long-sail battleships" delivered to the Spanish Navy by Huamei Beiyang Shipbuilding Group arrived at the port of St. Marys in the Isles of Scilly, and a single imported warship worth more than 600,000 US dollars has become the biggest support for the revival of the Spanish Navy.

The Spanish officers and men of the large longitudinal sail battleships "Santa Mariana" and "Santiago", who had received warships from the Chinese mainland and completed sea trials, proudly drove slowly in front of the home fleet fellows, opened their gun doors and fired a gorgeous beehive salvo at an uninhabited island and reef a few hundred yards away.

The successful firing rate of the spherical flowering shells of the new gorgeous breech guns reached more than 60 percent, and the effect of the explosion smoke and dust thrown on the small islands and reefs was suddenly not much worse than that of the Chinese and American battleships, which made the Spanish generals who had observed the artillery drills very excited, and they were eager to drive to the Thames River in London to fight a round immediately. (To be continued)