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On the other hand, Edward IV's army was just the opposite. Although it was at a lower ground, the wind and snow were favorable to them, so the range and power of bows, arrows, guns and artillery were greatly increased. Taking advantage of the wind, Edward commanded
His army launched a fierce attack on Margaret's army on the mountain. The Lancastrian army suffered extremely heavy losses. These are guns and weapons. Are they kidding? So although they have the advantage in numbers, due to the harsh nature at this moment
Conditions inhibited Margaret's army.
In order to reverse this passive defensive situation, Margaret ordered a counter-insurgency against Edward's army at the foot of the mountain. Both sides almost began to fight hand-to-hand in the wind and snow. Because the number of troops on both sides was not several thousand this time, the total number increased.
It looked like a scene of hundreds of thousands of people massacring each other crazily, so the fierce battle continued until the evening. There was no winner or loser. Countless dead bodies were buried by the wind and snow. All the soldiers
Although they looked very tired, their number was significantly reduced compared to the morning, and the dead bodies were gradually turning completely cold under the wind and snow.
At this moment, suddenly, the flanks of Margaret's army began to commotion. It turned out that it was Edward's follow-up troops who arrived and launched a fierce attack from the enemy's weakly defended flanks. This suddenly led to Margaret's attack.
The army was in chaos, coupled with the wind and snow, it was already evening, so Margaret's headwind army was gradually unable to resist at this time. Seeing this situation, Edward IV led his
The soldiers worked hard to pursue Margaret's fleeing army until late at night, killing countless British soldiers. Margaret took advantage of the chaos and fled to Scotland again with Henry VI and her youngest son.
In 1465, Henry VI was captured again and even imprisoned in the Tower of London by Edward IV. This was when Edward IV basically eliminated the power of the Lancastrians. Then only God knows what happened.
How many British soldiers died in the process? After all, they fought for so many years, right?
At present, the Yorkists have actually taken control of the political power. After that, the internal contradictions began to emerge. That is, the political power is only owned by one person, but now it is obtained by everyone working together. So how should this political power be divided? So this
There was an irreconcilable conflict between Edward IV at that time and the current powerful figure, the Earl of Warwick, because Edward IV believed that he was the king and the political power should be handed over to him, while the Earl of Warwick believed that everything in the army belonged to him.
Yes, he originally wanted political power so he would help Edward IV, but now he is not allowed to continue to actually have political power. What is the reason? Therefore, this contradiction cannot be reconciled at all. Since it is an irreconcilable contradiction, we
Human beings' inertial thinking can only use war to solve problems. After all, only a dead person will not fight for anything, and he will definitely shut his mouth and even lose his hidden desires.
Therefore, the Earl of Warwick believed that Edward IV was acting recklessly, and then launched a rebellion, directly leading his army to attack Edward IV's guards, and then imprisoned Edward IV. After Edward IV was released from prison
He must be very angry. He is the king, and the power of the king should belong to him. Why is it not Earl Warwick's turn? So Edward IV organized a large number of troops. Because Edward is the king, he is organizing
This was justifiable when it came to the army. So far, many armies were obeying the orders of Edward IV. This made Edward's army very powerful. In one fell swoop, Warwick and his army were driven directly to France. This process was even more deadly.
A large number of British soldiers.
But how could Earl Warwick swallow this sigh of relief when he arrived in France? So he formed an alliance with the Lancaster family and made a comeback with the support of the French King! Because of the support of the French King, Warwick's army
This is very powerful. There are French soldiers. It can be said that for the French soldiers, they are not civil war, they are killing the British. Moreover, the British have made France have no peace for hundreds of years. It is simply a scene of hell on earth.
It lasted for a hundred years, and this caused great hatred for the British! Therefore, when the French soldiers killed the British soldiers, they were extremely cruel! Therefore, Edward's army was not as numerous as Walter because they had been fighting.
The overwhelming number of Earl Lectra's troops this time resulted in Edward IV's defeat, and he had to flee to his brother-in-law, the Duke of Burgundy.
Now Warwick has taken control of the British political power, so after Warwick came to power, the British people were extremely disgusted with his rule. The main reason is that Warwick just wants to be extravagant and extravagant, and he does not think about how to develop.
Britain should be kind to the civilians first, and use this method to slowly restore the country's strength. In short, Warwick is very cruel. He has been exploiting all British civilians. The civilians are suffering unspeakably because of Warwick's oppression.
If the common people are eliminated, then the common people will be squeezed by the nobles and even the rich, which will eventually make the common people unable to survive, and the domestic conflicts will heat up again.
And Edward IV, who is now with his brother-in-law, the Duke of Burgundy, also saw this situation, so he seized this opportunity that was beneficial to him. We can also say that Edward IV has seized the opportunity of the British people.
The people's support. So in March 1471, he once again organized an army, and he personally led it. This time Edward IV's army only had about 9,000 people, and then fought in Nibat and Warwick.
Start a decisive battle.
The weather that day was filled with thick fog. Edward IV, who only had an army of more than 9,000 people, decided to use a preemptive tactic to raid the opponent, so he led his army to set off early. At this time, Warwick was thinking,
Relying on the absolute advantage of more than 20,000 troops, they adopted roundabout tactics to attack the opponent.
After the fierce battle started, the thick fog made it difficult for both armies to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, so they were just killing each other! Because they didn't know whether the other party was the enemy or one of their own, but they knew that the other party might also kill themselves.
Therefore, the armies of both sides basically strike preemptively whenever they see people! So far, this has caused very heavy casualties. And Edward IV has been attacking fiercely at this time. God knows what they are fighting, right? In short,
In the end, Warwick was killed in the battle, which made things better, and the Lancastrian army began to be unable to resist, and was almost completely wiped out. Edward also captured Queen Margaret and took her with her
Many Lancastrian nobles were killed! Only Henry Tudor, a distant relative of Lancaster, managed to escape.
In 1485, Henry Tudor led an army to defeat King Charles III of England and killed him, which ended the War of the Roses that lasted for more than thirty years. After Tudor ascended the throne, he and Edward
The eldest daughter of the fourth generation, Elizabeth, got married, and the two families were reconciled again.
Then let's summarize. The so-called War of the Roses was actually a war between two major families in the UK. This involved the deprivation of life and massive death of countless British civilians. After all, as we said before, the soldiers were all civilians.
, but we now understand the War of the Roses from another aspect.
The War of the Roses was actually like a major surgery performed by the nobles on themselves, causing almost all the nobles headed by the two major British families to disappear. The emerging noble and bourgeois forces gradually developed, and politics gradually became unified.
, we can say that this is achieving centralization.
But no matter how we understand the so-called War of the Roses, in fact, in our world, until our modern civilization, this kind of War of the Roses has been going on in the open and even in the dark, and it is also in every country on the earth.
It is going on more or less, so in any country in our world, some civilians are still suffering from the deprivation of life and massive deaths caused by this form. This is the last scene of our human medieval world, and
It is this last scene that marks the beginning of another era of humankind, the era of centralization! Of course, if you want to develop the era of centralization and progress, it will definitely take a long time, and it will definitely require the baptism of blood.
It would require the death of massive numbers of civilians, but once centralized rule is implemented, the lives of civilians will be relatively better. From this point of view, the so-called standards of truth, goodness and beauty that we humans seem to have.
Is this some progress? In fact, that is not the case. On the contrary, we humans seem to have become more like demons. If you don’t believe it, let’s take a look.
We have also said before that the development of navigation and even land transportation has led to great geographical discoveries by humans, and has even promoted the budding growth of capitalism. At the same time, it has also begun to connect the two hemispheres of the East and West as well as local
Economic exchanges between regions. And the entire world market on our planet has begun to take shape, which has also given the emerging bourgeoisie a broad space for activity.
The new ideas and lifestyles of the bourgeoisie have also become the development and spiritual driving force of capitalism. Religious reforms have also begun. This is also a larger-scale and more widespread anti-feudal struggle of the emerging bourgeoisie.
During this process, the flames of the religious reform were ignited throughout Western Europe. The religious reform also further disintegrated the feudal structure of the Middle Ages and confirmed the political, even economic and ideological dominance of the emerging bourgeoisie.
So we can simply understand that this is a more terrifying and huge disaster for us civilians! But if everything that can happen is reasonable in terms of the laws of nature, then we civilians have nothing to say.
I said that, because from my personal point of view, in fact, we humans do not possess such qualities as truth, goodness and beauty. In fact, we are all a group of demons, and they are selfish demons! It’s just that some people are not very selfish, but this is basically the case.
There is only one person among ten thousand. We humans generally call this kind of people good people. However, good people obviously cannot live long in our world full of demons and are easily killed. Therefore, more and more people are killed.
Chapter completed!