Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, death is as quick as epiphyllum.
It is the best portrayal of Cromwell in this time and space.
A figure who should have been glorious for eternity suddenly fell.
While delivering a speech in the Grand Place, a drunkard named Hans Billcock suddenly took out a musket from his arms and shot Cromwell in the chest.
Everything happened so suddenly that the guards didn't even react.
What's more terrible is that the projectile hit the heart.
Cromwell closed his eyes forever before he was taken to the hospital.
As the spiritual leader of the rebellion against the king, Cromwell's sudden fall had an immeasurable impact.
His assassin, Hans Billcock, endured severe torture and finally came to a conclusion that made people laugh and cry.
This guy was originally a worker in a London ironworks and had a good life. But later as the war progressed, Parliament began to have financial problems.
The superiors have been asking workers to work hard, but they have never paid them.
His wife couldn't bear it and chose to divorce.
The good family broke up, and Hans Bilcock became depressed, began to drink all day long, and held a grudge against the Parliament.
This time he finally found the opportunity and assassinated the famous Cromwell in his character.
As for where his gun came from?
According to his own account, he picked it up on the street.
Very speechless, but also very normal.
During the war, it was quite normal for weapons to be scattered outside.
There are countless deserters in the city of London alone.
Finally, after the court verdict, Hans Billcock was hanged.
However, there are many different opinions about Cromwell's death, and there are various conspiracy theories behind it.
But in any case, with Cromwell's death, the situation in the parliamentary army took a turn for the worse.
When Charles II heard the news, he laughed as crazy as a lunatic.
He personally rushed to the front line and ordered all armies to march towards London.
The parliamentary army along the Fairfax route has collapsed and is completely unable to stop them.
Although the other parliamentary army was intact, Cromwell was dead. They were leaderless and in chaos, so they had no choice but to retreat.
Ten years later, Charles II arrived in Manchester where he had betrayed him.
Before entering the city, there was a group of people waiting for him.
The representatives of the Presbyterian Church quickly held talks with the king.
If the king can maintain the power and status of the parliament and guarantee their interests, then they will firmly side with the king.
At the critical moment, the traditional aristocracy and the new bourgeoisie showed a compromising side.
Charles II wisely did not play hardball in the face of Presbyterian overtures.
He also knew that Britain had been fighting a civil war for so many years, and its national strength had become extremely weak, especially since it could no longer keep up with the Age of Discovery.
The situation that Britain faces next is no longer to compete for ocean hegemony, but to ensure that interests are no longer lost.
The independence of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales has caused too much damage to the United Kingdom.
Faced with the overtures of the Presbyterian Church, Charles II's mentality began to change.
In his mind, the roles of the Empire, the Netherlands, and Portugal were transitioning from friends to rivals.
This is what politicians think about when.
Of course Liao Zhongjian didn't know the subtle psychological activities of Charles II. Even if he knew, he didn't care.
The already independent Scotland, Ireland and Wales, with the support of the empire, will never be annexed by the UK again.
As long as it cannot absorb nutrients from these three areas, Britain will not have strong soil.
Another thing is that if Charles II, a feudal monarch, regained control of the country, it would certainly end the civil war, but it would also interrupt the development of Britain.
What is the threat to Britain, which has always been under feudal rule?
So Liao Zhongjian readily agreed to the illicit agreement between Charles II and the Presbyterian Church.
With the rebellion of the Presbyterian Church, the Parliamentary army quickly collapsed.
Charles II carried out a bloody massacre in Manchester, and disaster befell all those who opposed him.
In the vigorous British bourgeois revolution, with the rebellion of the emerging aristocracy and bourgeoisie at the top, only the ordinary people endured all the suffering.
Fairfax brought the two parliamentary armies together at Birmingham, but to no avail.
Although his prestige is also very high, he is not Cromwell after all, so that the thoughts in the parliamentary army are surging and they are teetering.
Just as Ruprecht led his troops in pursuit, many officers in the parliamentary army chose to rebel.
In the Battle of Coventry, Fairfax originally fought well, but Northampton's 3rd Guards Division mutinied behind the defensive side, causing holes in the defense.
The Earl of Essex quickly seized this opportunity and led the Scottish cavalry to attack the Parliamentary artillery positions.
After all the artillery was eliminated, the parliamentary army was gone.
Fairfax fought as he retreated, with fewer and fewer troops on hand. Finally, on the outskirts of Chernatem, the last parliamentary troops were surrounded.
Facing an enemy ten times his own, Fairfax knew that defeat was inevitable.
He knew better what would happen to him in the hands of the king, so he shot himself.
As Fairfax committed suicide, the rest of the Parliamentarian soldiers lowered their weapons.
The British Civil War lasted seven years longer than the original time and space, leaving the whole of England riddled with holes and making it difficult for the people to survive.
The most fatal thing is that the maritime power developed by Britain after hundreds of years of accumulation was completely destroyed.
It is conceivable that the Netherlands, France, Portugal and others will not let Britain create a powerful navy in the future.
As an island nation and unable to dominate the oceans, what future does Britain have?
The civil war ended and Charles II won a great victory. He entered London in the proudest manner. Facing the volcanic gazes of the people, he didn't care at all.
The Great Purge also unfolded in London, with many parliamentary army stalwarts being physically exterminated.
Instead, the Presbyterian Church, which chose to betray, gained greater power.
Of course, Charles II, who had regained power, also had to reward his allies.
Britain paid five million and three million pounds in military expenditures to the Netherlands and Portugal respectively.
The most important thing is, of course, the empire.
Charles II signed a series of treaties with the Empire on behalf of the British government.
Allow the empire to establish an embassy in London, allow the empire to trade freely in the UK, allow empire goods to enjoy tax exemptions after entering the country, and allow empire merchants to invest in the UK.
In addition, there is another important matter.
Britain transferred Dominica and other Caribbean islands to the United Kingdom free of charge as payment for imperial support.
This immediately gave the empire a unique geographical location in the middle of the New World and the Atlantic Ocean, allowing it to deeply influence various affairs across the entire Atlantic Ocean.
