March 18, London.
It's all chaos!
The whole of London has been in chaos since the afternoon of March 17th!
In the morning, only St. James's Palace, St. James's Square and a few surrounding blocks were in chaos. But as the gunshots of repression rang out and London workers narrowly escaped death from the "slaughterhouse" around St. James's Palace, news spread throughout the city that the emperor was using German and Indian troops to kill innocent people in London. The city that originally seemed to be filled with revolutionary firewood quickly ignited the raging fire of revolution!
Although London was also the financial center of Europe at this time, it was also an industrial center. A large number of factories have been opened along the Thames River, among which textile factories, chemical factories, and arsenals are the largest. There are also several shipyards that can produce small and medium-sized warships, and there is even an aircraft factory! It can be said that London can produce any kind of arms you want.
In addition, since it is wartime, the chemical factories in London are working at full capacity to produce gunpowder and explosives, and arsenals everywhere are also running 24 hours a day. A large number of produced guns, ammunition and artillery were piled in warehouses of chemical plants and arsenals before they could be transported away. The largest of them, Vickers Factory, has ammunition, guns, artillery, and warships. In its huge London factory, there are enough weapons and ammunition to arm tens of thousands of troops!
Starting from the afternoon of March 17, workers in London's industrial areas began to arm themselves with weapons shipped from various arsenals warehouses under the leadership of the trade unions and the newly established London Commune.
While the workers were being armed, the flag of the Republic of England, with a red cross and a harp on a white background, was also mass-produced by workers in London garment factories. By the evening of the 17th, almost the entire London industrial area was flying the flag of the Republic!
In other areas of London, most of them were controlled by the King's German Infantry Regiment under Emperor William - Emperor William still felt that it was not appropriate to use Gurkhas to occupy London's middle and upper-class neighborhoods. Because this group of Gurkhas look too much like foreigners (actually they are foreigners), letting them occupy various districts in London looks like Britain has been colonized.
But these brutal Gurkha Royal Guards will not be idle either. Emperor William, who had made up his mind to be a Cromwellian ruler, commanded his Royal Gurkha Guards to launch an attack on the industrial areas of London starting from the evening of the 17th.
The battle starts after dinner! The Gurkha Guards first mobilized a dozen 2.75-inch artillery pieces to bombard several textile factories on the edge of the industrial zone. The London Commune did not show any weakness. Engineers from the Vickers Factory pulled out more than twenty 6-inch and 3.7-inch cannons from the factory's production lines and warehouses, and fired hard in the direction of St. James's Palace. . The cannonballs filled with picric acid fell around St. James's Palace and soon set fire to a forest and the house of St. James's Palace. The flames soared into the sky and could be seen from far away.
After the bombardment, of course it was the charge of the Gurkha Royal Guards! The brave and capable Gurkhas still wielded a gun in one hand and a machete in the other. They roared into the textile factories and started a fierce battle with the London armed workers guarding there.
At other entrances to London's industrial areas, armed workers dumped a lot of miscellaneous things from nowhere and built barricades on the streets. The temporarily organized workers' armed forces even took engine oil and didn't even wipe it clean. Rifles and Gurkha soldiers started a street fight!
Although the emperor's Gurkha soldiers were very powerful, the London working class was not weak either - because the war had been going on for some time, and seeing the war situation becoming increasingly unfavorable, Emperor William issued an order to organize the British a few months ago. An edict for young and middle-aged people to participate in militia training. So after working for more than ten hours a day, the working class here in London had to spare an hour or two to learn how to use firearms with the London militia (there were militias in British cities at that time)!
In addition, many of the workers or petty bourgeoisie who are participating in the London Commune Revolution have served in the British Army and Royal Navy. Some of them also participated in the war against Emperor Napoleon, so they all know how to shoot guns and throw grenades.
The emperor's Gurkha soldiers were not large in number and were not familiar with the terrain of London, and these warriors from the mountains of Nepal were not good at street fighting. They are often beaten down one by one by machine guns and snipers ambush in high places or dark places. However, these Gurkhas are indeed fearless of death and can persist in attacking even if they suffer heavy losses! And once they got close, Gurkha's scimitar started to chop, but it was very powerful.
Therefore, every barricade they captured was surrounded by broken human bodies and severed limbs or heads. It was so bloody that it was too horrible to see!
While attacking armed workers, the Gurkhas did not forget their traditional skills of killing innocent people indiscriminately! Basically, they killed and burned wherever they hit. They robbed, burned and killed all the way, which was extremely brutal.
The ferocity of the Gurkhas also angered the British workers. In fact, they were not good people. They were all brainwashed racists and social Darwinists of the middle and lower classes. They regarded the yellow race as a yellow peril and the Indians as subhumans. , treating Indians as humanoid creatures, and treating Uncle Black as a slave! Now they are actually being killed like this by the Gurkhas from India. This is simply an insult to their race, and it also gives them a real feeling of being colonized.
How did the British Empire become an Indian colony after so many years of development?
This is comparable to the Indian Emperor!
The irritated London workers took up arms and joined the fight. Gunfire, cannon fire, and fighting were heard all night long, and fire spread from block to block. Some scum among the workers took the opportunity to start zero-dollar shopping. The entire London industry The area is in chaos!
In this chaos, London's telegraph and telephone offices were affected. Those who worked in the telegraph and telephone offices were also members of trade unions. Naturally, they knew who to support? So as soon as the shots fired at St. James's Palace, they cut off the telephone and telegraph lines and ran away.
The London workers' armed bombardment of St. James's Palace destroyed the long-wave radio station of St. James's Palace. Now it was difficult to send Emperor William's imperial edict out of London.
But the London Commune had a way of sending messages out. Because the telegraph and telephone offices in London's industrial areas were still functioning, workers and engineers with strong hands-on skills even set up a radio station to send out false news 24 hours a day - the anti-D Hanoverian Dynasty Already destroyed, the free Republic of England was born!
And this terrible news reached Windsor Castle immediately!
Now the rebellious officials and traitors in Windsor Castle were dumbfounded! Why did the British Empire disappear in such a blink of an eye?
It was obviously a conspiracy to usurp the throne, so why did it lead to the British Revolution? Why did Cromwell's English Republic fake its corpse?
The atmosphere in the throne room of Windsor Castle was depressing. Everyone cast their melancholy eyes on the doll-like Princess Victoria - Princess, your greatness is gone, what can you do?
(End of chapter)
