May 6, London, St. James Palace Bunker.
Emperor William is holding his last imperial meeting. This is a desperate meeting! Because except for Emperor William and Charles Elliot, there were few European white men sitting in the conference room.
None of the ministers of the cabinet led by Emperor William himself came. The secretaries of St. James's Palace, headed by Huck, all fled without a trace. These ministers and civil servants really fulfilled their duties!
The brigade commander and battalion commander of the King's German Infantry Regiment (the King's German Infantry Regiment is the name of an administrative unit, not an infantry regiment) also disappeared!
There were quite a few officers from the Royal Gurkha Guards, but most of them were Indian Asans wearing big turbans. There were only a few white-skinned Europeans, and they were all military personnel hired by Emperor William from the European continent. Tramps, none of them Anglo-Saxon.
And the reason why there is such a scene of the country's subjugation, with trees falling and hozens scattered, is actually the fault of Emperor William - didn't he give the order to pack up his things and run to Dover yesterday? This order is tantamount to declaring that he is not the king of the United Kingdom. And what about after running to Dover? Of course, he lived in exile in France and took refuge with Napoleon II. Doesn’t that make him a Bonapartist?
Both the British Army and the German troops in the King's German Infantry Regiment were extremely hostile to the Bonapartists. After all, it’s less than 20 years since the end of the Napoleonic Wars!
Now that their king is going to France to become a Bonapartist, can they still follow him? Would a British civil servant like Harker throw away his iron job and become a Bonapartist for the sake of Emperor William?
If they wanted to become Bonapartists, they would have gone to "welcome the emperor" 20 years ago. Why wait now?
Moreover, Her Majesty the Queen has given them preferential conditions for defecting. Whether they surrender with troops or surrender empty-handed, they will receive corresponding rewards. If you are a civil servant, your original rank can also be retained.
In addition, the German soldiers in the King's German Infantry Regiment could become British citizens, or they could choose to return to live in Hanover after the Austro-Prussian War. So they had no idea of continuing to fight.
The officers and soldiers of the King's German Infantry Regiment are, after all, Germans! What is currently going on in the land of Germany is a magnificent unification war. A strong and unified emerging German Empire that can sweep away Germany's 200 years of humiliation (counting from the 30 Years War) will surely fight in this iron and steel war. Reborn after a bloody struggle.
As a member of Germany, how could the officers and soldiers of the British King's German Infantry Regiment follow William to France to join Napoleon II at this time? These people are all stubborn anti-French and anti-Bonaparte elements! If they fall into the hands of Napoleon II, they will definitely become Napoleon II's tools to subvert and oppose the German motherland!
But those Indians boarded Emperor William's pirate ship and could not get off!
They were the ones who worked the hardest to help William. They had done so many bad things, including murder and arson, and they were still the Indian Asan who was loved and loved by no one. Once Emperor William is finished, Victoria will not let them go for the sake of the common people!
Moreover, human lives in India and Nepal are not valuable, and no one cares if all the Gurkha mercenaries die.
Looking at the few white-skinned people and a group of sad-looking upper-caste Indian Asans in the conference room, Emperor William wanted to stand up and shout: "My God!"
But now, even if the Father, the Emperor, comes to earth in person, he will probably stand behind Queen Victoria! William may have asked Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu to come down for help.
Just when he felt helpless, an Indian adjutant with dark skin, short stature, and very straight features quickly walked into the conference room and whispered something in his ear. Emperor William stood up immediately, and with a bang, the chair he was sitting on fell heavily to the ground along with his body. The face of the "First Emperor" of the British Empire had turned pale. He stood there blankly for a while before he squeezed out a few words through his teeth: "They are coming. Let's rush out, right now!"
What came was the British Army loyal to Queen Victoria. They launched an attack on downtown London from Windsor Castle, Guildford, Cambridge, Crawley, Grace, etc. yesterday afternoon.
Among them, the main force was dispatched from Windsor Castle and Grays, especially the troops from Grays in the Thames Estuary. They also marched by water. On the road were elite Royal Marines and Rakshasa airborne troops, and on the water was a " "Combined Fleet", including several armored destroyers of the Ming Navy, armored cruisers of the Royal Navy and the Aurora of the Rakshasa Navy!
Because these two groups are the main force, and the British King's German Infantry Regiment in charge of the periphery of London has collapsed, the army and local militia that were previously loyal to William have also defected. So they advanced very quickly, and before William even started to run away, they had already rushed into the city of London.
What's worse is that the London Commune has already fled before Emperor William or defected to Queen Victoria - the leadership of the London Commune is very complicated, including big bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie, and workers' leaders, so it is very unstable. Although they raised the banner of the Republic of England, that was all. They did not go further to establish a republican government or a republican army. In fact, they were just a bunch of rabble. Previously, they had relied on the strength of their numbers and the sturdy buildings in London's industrial areas to withstand Emperor William's attack. Now, facing the British Army and Royal Navy, which were really moving, of course they had to disperse quickly. Not only did they break up, but some of the commune armed forces, led by their bourgeois leaders, also defected to the queen's side.
Therefore, not far from St. James's Palace, the emperor's carriage, protected by the Indian Asan, encountered a group of rebel commune armed forces. They immediately opened fire on the emperor's motorcade, and the Gurkha soldiers escorting the motorcade immediately set up heavy machine guns and fired back. Dense hails of bullets flew across the streets of London, and the emperor's carriage became the most conspicuous target. Fortunately, Emperor William was quite smart. When he left the palace, he did not take a car. Instead, he put on the uniform of the Royal Guard. Under the protection of Charles Elliot and several Indian adjutants, he followed the carriage on foot with a rifle on his back. Only now did he escape, but he was still unable to lift his head under the weight of the dense rain of bullets. He had no choice but to huddle behind the carriage and rely on the solid body to protect himself.
The draft horse of the trailer was killed at the beginning. Charles Elliot called another group of Gurkha infantry to push the large carriage and withstood the enemy's bullets, protecting Emperor William and withstanding the enemy's bullet rain. Continue towards south-east London.
A fierce battle immediately broke out in the streets near St. James's Palace. Bullets flew towards the carriage and the Indian soldiers around the carriage, causing many casualties to the Gurkha soldiers beside Emperor William. The Gurkhas' counterattack also caused heavy losses to the London civilian militants who blocked them, and they could only retreat steadily. But after advancing for a certain distance, Emperor William and his Gurkhas clearly felt something was wrong, and the firepower from the opposite side suddenly became accurate and cruel. The Gurkhas suffered heavy casualties! Feeling that something was wrong, Charlie Yilu had to cobble together a group of several hundred Gurkha soldiers. Shouting the slogan "Long Live the Emperor, Long Live India", he launched a "Machete Strike" at the enemy at a crossroads ahead. charge.
The enemy troops guarding the crossroads did not show any weakness. They picked up their rifles with bayonets and shouted "Ula! Ula!" and came up - it turned out that the unlucky Emperor William had encountered a soldier sent by the Rakshasa Kingdom. Airship paratroopers. Those are the "special forces" trained by Pingxi King Wu Zhenzhen for the tsar, and they know how to print best! As soon as the Gurkhas' machetes collided with their bayonets, they were immediately unable to resist and were defeated.
Knowing that it was impossible, Charlie Elliot quickly let the machine gun fire, killing all the soldiers from both sides who were fighting fiercely in front of him without distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy!
This move undoubtedly angered a Rakshasa bald general who was commanding the battle. This guy didn't care who the nearly smashed luxury carriage belonged to? He directly picked up the phone receiver and gave a bombardment order to a naval artillery command post on the bank of the Thames River!
As a colonel of the British Royal Navy issued the "fire" order to a cruiser on the nearby Thames River, the eight 155mm main guns on the Aurora immediately spit out dazzling tongues of flame! Subsequently, all the armored cruisers, second-class cruisers, and armored destroyers on the Thames River spit out tongues of fire. The shells fell like raindrops on the street where Emperor William was, and the explosions of fire and black smoke columns shot straight into the sky!
Emperor William dies!
(End of chapter)
