Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1284 Death and Revenge ([-])

This kind of thing is not uncommon, it is nothing new.

As the economy continues to develop, business continues to prosper, and the strength of the urban industrial and commercial class becomes stronger, then this division and reshuffle will come sooner.

If the game is played well and the bet is won, then there will be a smooth transition in the UK.

If the game is not good, the game is broken, that is, the story of the later generations of the Philippines will be staged here. The people would rather choose the conservative aristocrats than support the industrial and commercial radicals.

The split of the Whig Party after the "Excise Tax Act" was itself a product of British economic development, and urban industrial and commercial people needed their own spokespersons.

Otherwise, the small circle established by the Temple family alone would not have such a great influence.

The old horse said that the Whigs were the aristocratic representatives of the industrial and commercial middle class.Since the bourgeoisie ceded to the aristocratic oligarchy, the Whigs, the monopoly of government and state office, the latter made to the bourgeoisie all the concessions which the course of social and political development had shown to be necessary and urgent, And help the bourgeoisie realize these concessions.

Nothing more and nothing less.

And whenever the Whigs took such a last resort, they clamored that historical progress had reached its limit, that the development of society as a whole had reached its ultimate goal, and then they "clung to" this "Apex" on...

And this split of the Whig Party, which was triggered by the "Consumption Tax Act", is essentially the "limit" and "ultimate" of "historical progress has reached its limit, and the entire social development has reached its ultimate goal". Where is the question.

In other words, the label "Patriot Party" was given to them by others, and it is also something they voluntarily accept and are proud of.

So, whose UK is the UK that the "Patriot Party" loves?

A country must have a ruling class. The key question is, whose Britain is this?Whose interests should this British policy be based on?

There is no general and abstract Britain. In fact, among the 600 million British people, only 43 are legally considered human beings at this time, and the rest are not counted.

And among these 43 people, there are many interests.

Is the Hanoverian family the German royal family of England?

England, a landed aristocracy living on rent?

England of monopolized political families around the king's coterie?

Is it the East India Company and other monopoly commercial bourgeois Britain?

Is it the U.K. of the businessman of the middle class in the city?

Britain of the merchants of the West Indies?
And, are the Anglos in North America British?

These problems are the root problems of the British partisanship at this time.

The Patriot Party itself was a branch of the Whig Party. They also started by opposing Walpole and Walpole's subsequent government, and have always advertised that they represent "true British interests."

In fact, the real Britain in their mouths is the interests of the capital groups that have made a fortune from the war.Including the Jenkins ear wars, as well as fanatical global strategies, are all oriented in the interests of commercial capital.

But it is undeniable that, politically, they are progressive compared to those conservative Whigs, those Tories, or the king of Hanover in Germany who intends to have sovereignty in the king.

After all, at this time, noble landlords and royal power still dominate.Now isn't the time to say it's two piles of shit.

John Mordaunt's final revenge was not only a revenge of personal grievances, but also a political revenge of "elimination of heresy" after the internal division of the Whig Party.

The core of the Patriot Party is the Temple family, the Grenville family, the Littleton family branched out from the Temple family, and the Pitt family who were married and brought up by the Temple family under the special principle of property inheritance law in the United Kingdom.

In the words of George III later: (these four families) relatives must always either implement arbitrary rule, or (if they cannot rule) they will fiercely oppose the government!They wanted to be one clan, one clan to rule England.

To some extent, what these "Patriot Party" are pursuing is more like "a legitimate Cromwell with a traditional halo".

Because the Industrial Revolution did not break out, and because the political ideas of the British bourgeoisie were not strong enough—if they were strong enough, they would not take off their pants and fart to hang out with the Whigs. In other words, the value of its existence lies in the existence of a Tory party of the landed aristocracy, and when the Tory party disappears, the Whig party will also disappear-so, because they are not strong enough, the urban industrial and commercial classes prefer to pin their hopes on a party that strives to become Enter the Cromwellian figure.

In turn, these patriot parties are also aware of their source of strength-neither the land aristocracy nor the Hanoverian royal family in Germany, but the urban industrial and commercial class.

Excluding the big capital and those people in the Financial Street, the class attributes of the remaining urban industrial and commercial classes determine their fanaticism, weakness, and initiative to defend their own interests.

John Mordaunt, who had been through the Jenkins ear incident, understood the nature of the part of the population that the Patriots exploited.

I understand both their fanaticism and their weakness.

Now that we have experienced the public opinion incitement of the Jenkins ear incident - war!Total War!Otherwise, it is traitorous! ——Then, in order to incite public opinion in this matter, it must be the loyalty, bravery, and persistence of the defenders of Gibraltar that make people cry.

The images of these defenders in his composition, the more loyal, the more heroic, the more desperate they still stick to their posts.

Then, the more hateful and damned they are to "kill" their cabinet, the ministers of state who would not save them, and those who led the war to failure.

And then, the scene that happened on the battlefield gave John Mordaunt enough inspiration and enough touch to make his writing come alive and make him feel like he was on the scene.

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On the battlefield, it was like some kind of fate.

More than 100 years ago, the defeat of the Spaniards at the Battle of Rocroi declared the end of the Spanish era.

In Rocroix more than 100 years ago, the last desperate phalanx formed by the Spaniards was surrounded by the enemy, and the phalanx was blasted from all directions with cannons, and finally turned into a massacre after the formation was broken.

At this moment, it is like that moment.

The combat engineers who penetrated to the isthmus and captured the British camp, together with the main force of the defenders in Dashun, completed the encirclement of the 2500 British troops who attacked.

Both sides are the sea.

It was the gunboats of Dashun and the French Navy that dominated the sea.

To the south, Dashun's main force in its own camp surrounded the British army that had not broken through the trench artillery from the two wings of the isthmus.

To the north, there is a multi-battalion, well-trained, and elite engineers who are quick to fortify.

More than 2500 British troops had to form a phalanx in desperation, hoping that the commanders in the rear could win them a chance to surrender honorably.

At this time, it is absolutely wrong to form a square matrix.

However, if you don't form a phalanx, there is no need to fight this battle. If you are desperate and lose morale, if you don't form a formation, it will be a defeat and a massacre blocked by people on the isthmus.

The remaining 2000 British troops formed three hollow phalanxes, where they stood motionless to defend against the attack of the Dashun army.

At this time, the morale of the army has completely dissipated, and the basic formation is maintained entirely by the officers' hard training and the memory of sticks on weekdays.

And the commander of Dashun, like the French army in Rocroix more than 100 years ago, did not choose to use infantry to charge the phalanx.

Of course, Dashun does not have regular cavalry in Gibraltar, so it is impossible to use cavalry to charge.

Instead, they chose the same method as the French back then.

He began to move a large number of artillery forward, obviously preparing to aim at the British phalanx at close range, and use the phalanx's nemesis cannon to completely blast the phalanx.

The surrounded British army remained motionless in despair, and could only watch as Dashun's artillery dragged their shiny or dark cannons out of the artillery barracks bit by bit, and pushed forward.

This fateful scene gave John Mordaunt great inspiration and endless feelings. He was like the popular metaphor, fate, and the bible in England at this time, and he portrayed a picture called the British. A tragic scene that I can empathize with.

Many times, cultural barriers are insurmountable.

Only the British know that the British can empathize with what they see.

Just as it is impossible for countries with non-Christian culture to understand the metaphors in the "Mayflower Convention" about Exodus, the trap in the wilderness, the covenant of God, the promised land, and no return.

This fateful, desperate, and tragic scene is exactly the scene that can move British public opinion.

This scene needs a perfect curtain call.

Surrender, spared death, this is not a perfect curtain call.

The perfect curtain call should be when the phalanx was completely blown away by Dashun's artillery. In order to defend Britain and the state religion, 2500 people spit at the Dashun officer who persuaded them to surrender, and cursed in a manic, low-level language: eat Shit, heathen!
Then, the general who witnessed all this in the fortress on the mountain committed suicide by drinking a bullet.

This is the perfect curtain call.

Therefore, John Mordaunt did not give the order to surrender, even though he saw that Dashun had dragged the 24-pound heavy artillery and the large-caliber mortar used for the siege to a distance of [-] paces from the besieged phalanx.

(End of this chapter)