Chapter 367 Dissolution of Parliament
Qi Jiguang, under the order, took the main force of the Ming army to officially enter the palace, and officially began to set up fortifications around the palace.
The royal army was gathered and led by Earl Serticos to leave the palace, preparing to suppress the rebels.
When Essex brought the rebels to the palace, the Ming army had already prepared fortifications.
Nearly 20,000 Ming troops built a tight firepower network defense line with sandbags and trenches. There were soldiers with outstanding shooting levels on all floors of the palace guarding the best rifles.
The rebels looked quite well-trained, and their troops were not so single, and they all came to the palace in an orderly manner.
The infantry were in three formations, all holding a coercion gun. There were spearmen on the periphery, with long spears spreading like a forest.
There are also cavalry on both wings, both of which are silver armor and steel helmets, which look very majestic.
This was the first time that the Ming army fought against the English army in this era.
The rebel commander Essex was very cautious about this and couldn't help but ask Baron Fushun, a nobleman who was familiar with the royal affairs, again: "His Excellency Baron Fushun, these Ming troops really have no cavalry?"
"Earl of Essex, I swear to God that I have never lie to you. These Ming troops do not have cavalry, they are just firearms that are sharper than us!"
Fushun said.
"Since that's the case, it's easy to deal with."
So Essex first ordered his infantry phalanx to attack from the front to attract the attention of the Ming army, and then ordered the cavalry to immediately encircle the two wings, attempting to break through the palace's defensive positions from the side.
At the same time, Essex ordered the artillery to fire first.
Bang!
The first thing that was near the palace was shelling. Solid iron bullets without a clear head flew over and hit the palace walls, knocking away several stones.
Because the Ming army was hiding beside trenches or sandbags, they were not killed by these solid shells.
Qi Jiguang also ordered the artillery to fire. With the help of telescopes, the artillery commander accurately determined the position of the rebel artillery and issued a long-range howitzer firing order.
The howitzer was powerful, with accurate sight and agile and flexible post-loading technology, which made the first round of artillery quickly cover the rebel artillery positions, and the explosion of thick dust, and the sound trembled violently.
The rebel artillery army was wiped out!
Essex was quite shocked and hurriedly ordered to speed up the attack, and he wanted his army to launch an attack before the second round of artillery attacks of the Ming army.
Although the hedgehog-like spear infantry phalanx accelerates the speed, it still seems very slow due to the need to keep a neat queue to ensure the queuing and shooting effect.
"fire!"
Qi Jiguang issued an order to fire again, and the howitzers brought by the Ming army showed their power again. Ten shells accurately fell into the rebels' huge infantry formation and caused waves of heat, smashing blood pits.
Essex, the rebel commander in the central army, was also stunned by the bombing. When the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, his face turned black, and what appeared in front of him was no longer a neat infantry phalanx, but a huge bullet crater and countless broken limbs.
At the same time, the cavalry on both wings were also bombarded, dozens of war horses were frightened and ran out.
"The cavalry rushed over! rushed over immediately! Kill his artillery!"
The infantry phalanx was disrupted, and Essex could no longer expect it to attract the main force of the Ming army, so he could only rush over immediately with the cavalry.
The cavalry increased their horsepower and their powerful maneuvering power quickly approached the Ming army's defense line.
The Ming army immediately activated the firepower network to block the attack.
Thousands of grenades were thrown out from three directions, like locusts. In an instant, a dust curtain exploded in front of them. The rebel cavalry rushed to the forthcoming chaos. The war horses neighed, and the cavalry also screamed. Blood flowed out of the smoke screen, and soon dyed the grass red.
At the same time, in the barrier formed by sandbags, Ming army machine gun soldiers started shooting with the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun. They still ignored the rushing cavalry being shot by intensive bullets. Some war horses died on the ground due to excessive blood loss in the shooting, and their cavalry even flew into the trenches and fell to death!
A dense firepower net composed of hundreds of machine guns harvested the lives of these cavalrymen, and even the war horses that rushed over were swept to the ground just because of scares.
However, because of the powerful power of the cavalry, some cavalry came over and leaped over the defense line, but only a few cavalry rushed in and were unable to escape being shot dead by the Ming army infantry on the second defense line.
In addition to machine guns and grenades, there are also short-range artillery, which are also looking for enemy troops to bombard them from time to time.
The entire palace was filled with dust, sand and dust were everywhere, grass chips and corpses were flying everywhere, blood stained the river water, and the dead war horses were densely covered with rocks in the river.
The surviving rebels began to flee wildly despite the pursuit of Ming army shells and guns.
Essex also robbed a horse and fled here.
"Report to the Supreme Emperor, the rebels suffered 46,146 casualties, and our army injured four..." Qi Jiguang reported to Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao nodded and said nothing. Today's Ming army fights against other countries' armies, which is a dimensionality reduction strike. There is no need to think it is strange that the proportion of casualties caused.
Essex hurriedly fled the city of London with hundreds of soldiers.
And at this time.
Miss Catherine and Rebel organizers such as Reining were not yet aware of the news of Essex's defeat. At this time, she still presided over the parliament and presided over the dethronement of the anti-enclosure bill.
"Agree to depose the anti-enclosure bill!"
"Agree to depose the anti-enclosure bill!"
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A group of representatives expressed their agreement to depose the anti-enclosure bill. Miss Catherine expressed satisfaction and said: "Very good, Speaker Leilin and Speaker Jane Chong, sign it."
Bang!
Chetycos broke in with the royal army. He first ordered the soldiers of the royal guard to shoot the parliamentary guards, and then directly ordered people to break open the parliamentary gate.
As a royal general, Scheticos lived a luxurious life with the rewards and salary of the king. He was quite loyal to Zhu Zai, and in order to prove his loyalty and ability, he took the lead in encircling the parliament.
Looking at these congressmen, Scheticos issued an order from Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Zaiyuan: "Kill all the troops, no one will be left!"
These members of the parliament were all shocked and did not expect that the royal army would come to the parliament so soon.
Miss Catherine shouted, "Scheticos, who gave you the courage to come here, shouldn't you protect your tyrant now?!"
Scheticus first cut off the head of a member of the parliament and let his head and blood roll into the hall, and walked step by step towards Miss Catherine: "The king has defeated your army, and I am here to clear you down by order!"
Puchi!
Cheticos's sharp blade wiped off a MP's neck again. The MP covered his blood-gushing neck in horror. Looking at Cheticos, he never expected that he would have such a day.
The soldiers under Scheticos were also doing this, grabbing a MP, dropping it directly, and with a click, a bloody head was immediately lifted by him.
For these officers and soldiers, the strength of the king has been proven. They can only prove their loyalty to the king by killing the king's rebels. Therefore, they are not merciless, and in their opinion, these hypocritical MPs do not need to be merciless.
Some MPs wanted to escape from here, but before they could escape, their heads flew out.
Some MPs were so scared that they were incontinent and hid under the table and shivered, but were still picked up and killed.
Seeing this, Lelin hurriedly shouted: "His Excellency Chetycos, I am willing to return to the king. Please spare me and let me see the king. I am willing to give up my property!"
Chetycos didn't say anything, but stabbed Lelin into Lelin's stomach with one knife, then smuggled, throwing Lelin, who was too dead to death, and walked towards Catherine and Jane Chong.
"My Lord Chetycos, I regret it. Please spare my life in the presence of God!"
Click!
Chetycos still killed Jian Chong, then pressed Catherine on the table, and killed her life with one knife.
After Catherine was bleeding, Serticos said to the empty parliament hall: "The king issued an edict to dissolve the parliament forever! If the king sets up a parliament again in the future, the whole world will punish him! God will not forgive him!"
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The aristocratic and bourgeois armed rebellion aroused by the forced demand from the Parliament to pass the Anti-Enterritory Act and bloody suppression of the vested interests of enclosures in England was suppressed.
In the following period, all the princes and nobles who participated in the rebellion were pulled out and all were executed.
Zhu Houzhao asked Zhu Zai to execute tens of thousands of people. He naturally forced Zhu Zai to learn to be a ruthless king. Moreover, he also knew that if he had not stationed here with tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, the only one who was pushed to the guillotine would be his son, and his kindness to the enemy would be cruel to himself.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao made his son not be kind to these rebels when he now has absolute strength. He would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go. He would give the most severe blow to the bourgeoisie in England and make them fully realize the king's majesty.
In Zhu Houzhao's opinion, the reason why these bourgeoisie in England is so arrogant is because the kings in the past were too polite to these people.
When will we wait until we don’t take advantage of the rightful reason to attack the bourgeois forces? Is it true that they can counterattack?
It was not until three months later that Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Zai-gun stopped the search and execution of the rebels.
In order to avoid the bloody suppression of the English rebels by himself and his son Zhu Zai-gun and aroused dissatisfaction among the people of England, Zhu Houzhao asked Zhu Zai-gun to reward the large amount of property confiscated from the rebels to the royal army and nobles who still chose to be loyal to the king this time.
Roger was named Duke, Serticos became Marquis, and other meritorious personnel were awarded titles one after another, and were rewarded with countless money.
besides.
Even urban civilians and rural farmers who had nothing to do with this upper-class armed struggle received favors, and Zhu Zai-kong issued a decree to reduce rent on the grounds that the rebels caused losses to the people.
Zhu Houzhao even issued an order to subsidize every citizen in London on the grounds of his birthday, the money was naturally given by Zhu Zaiyuan, and the source was naturally to confiscate the income. The use of the Ming silver dollars was naturally to help the Ming silver dollars occupy the English currency market.
Although there were not many silver dollars, it bought the hearts of the people. In any case, the people began to choose to forget some of the cruel methods of this Ming Emperor and their king.
But Zhu Houzhao knew that doing this was not enough. If the people of England wanted to accept the rule of royal power in their thoughts, they could only strengthen the indoctrination of the divinely authorized ideas of the monarchy, and even engrave the minds of the people of England that there would be no future without a king.
The monks who are best at this aspect are naturally the monks.
But there are two religious ideas in England, one is Catholicism and the other is Protestantism. Protestantism advocates breaking away from the rule of the church and breaking away from the shackles of etiquette and law, which is in line with the interests of the bourgeoisie.
Zhu Houzhao wanted to help his son establish a royal rule, but he could only support the Catholicism that focused on establishing etiquette and law to restrain the secular people. However, Zhu Houzhao could not let his son become a vassal of the Catholic Church.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao decided to change the rules, and he allowed Roger to have a high status among the Congregationalists of England.
"His Excellency Thomas, I can continue to support your religion to become a country, and even in the future, I can help you become the Archbishop of the entire Europa, but you have to explain a fact to the outside world," Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.
"I don't know what the truth is, please tell me," Thomas asked.
Zhu Houzhao just smiled and immediately ordered people to bring the electric lights he brought from the Ming Dynasty and the recording box he made, and turned on the light switch himself: "Look at this light, this is what I have brought to this world. What I have brought to this world is not only light, but also this."
Zhu Houzhao opened the recording box and made a sound of his own, which was in English, with the content: "I am God."
Thomas was shocked when he saw the lights, but now he heard the sound from the box and was even more shocked. When he heard that the box was actually in English, it was a bit like the voice of the oriental man in front of him. He trembled for a moment: "Are you a god?"
"You say yes, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's not, but at least, I'm a little more advanced than you people. I know the history of mankind and even the future of mankind, because this is all created by me! If I want, I can create something in the future that can directly destroy a city. Do you believe it? If you don't believe it, I will take your life with one shot and let you go to heaven!"
After Zhu Houzhao pretended to be mysterious, he pointed a gun at Thomas.
Thomas pondered for a long time and finally bowed to Zhu Houzhao and said, "You are God! Your Highness the King is the Son of God. In the words of the Eastern people, our King is the Son of Heaven. His power comes from God's grant, and it is sacred and inviolable!"
"You're smart!"
Zhu Houzhao smiled and immediately said to Zhu Zaiyuan: "Guan'er, remember to reward Bishop Thomas well and help His Excellency Thomas suppress the Protestantism from now on!"
Of course, if you want to completely deify yourself in England, Zhu Houzhao knew that it would take time, and now he had to continue to push England towards centralization.
The victory fruits and rebellion of the anti-encirclement movement were suppressed and guaranteed that the development of capitalism in England began to be hindered. Next, Zhu Houzhao began to prepare for the implementation of the sea ban and business ban strategy based on the suggestion of English conservative leader Roger.
Chapter completed!