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Chapter 1496 Panic and Conspiracy in Parliament
"The king's army commanded by the wizards of the East defeated our army on Marston Moor. 3800 of us were killed in battle, 1700 were captured, and thousands were wounded in battle. The heroic Ke Renwell was seriously injured in the battle, and his left eye was almost blind. Now the king's army is attacking the towns that supported us in the north, and almost captured the entire north, while some of our troops and the Covenant Army withdrew to Berwick Village, and were about to be driven out. To the territory of Scotland. Gentlemen, our parliament is facing an unprecedented crisis, what should we do?" As a member of the House of Lords, the Earl of Essex looked around the members of the House of Lords and House of Commons, worried.

Members of the House of Lords and Houses of Commons all showed embarrassment. The news of the failure of the Battle of Marston's Wilderness was sent back to the city of London. There was an uproar in the city of London. Many nobles and citizens were shocked and desperate.

In the confrontation between the parliamentary army and the king's army, they have always relied on their own financial resources to have advantages in numbers and infantry equipment. In this battle in the Marston Wilderness, 2.7 people fought against the 1.8 king's army. .As a result, the parliamentary army was defeated instead!

"If we beat the king 100 times before he submits, the question now is how can we defeat him once? If the king cannot be defeated once, how can we make him submit?" the Earl of Essex once again told the MPs They issued psychological torture.

Members of Parliament are more silent, they are also aware of the seriousness of the problem.

They reconvened the parliament without authorization and launched a war with the king. It would be fine if they could win the war, but if the king won, I wonder if the king will execute them all after the war is over.

"In London, the king's spies have spread the news that the king intends to confiscate the land of all the congressmen who betrayed them after the victory of the war, and use it as spoils of war. And it is said that those who betrayed the king, the king will hang them all... "

I don't know which congressman spoke out the rumors in the market, which made the members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons panic.

All of them have invested manpower and material resources to form a parliamentary army to fight against the king. After the king wins, maybe none of them can escape!
"If I had known earlier, I would not have executed the Earl of Stratford. Now that I have made a bad start, the king can rely on this as a basis to execute us as well!"

"Should we negotiate with the king? If the king can recognize that our parliament has resumed and has legislative power, we can promise to help the king raise military expenses. We need a king, and it is a good thing for Britain to have a strong standing army. France China, Spain, Sweden, and Ottomans all now have de facto standing armies, but we are still a peacetime militia, and this battle has fully exposed the fact that our army’s soldiers are of low quality.”

"The king has already gained an advantage. We still choose to negotiate and negotiate everything peacefully before the negotiation table, so that the war will end here."

Many congressmen were shaken in their confidence in breaking with the king, and simply proposed to negotiate peace with the king as soon as possible.

"You guys are too naive. Don't you know King Charlie's past style? He is arrogant and arrogant, and he never counts his words. He will even openly violate the documents he signed. He has no spirit of contract at all. He can accuse a person in the morning A traitor, changed at night for money."

Opposition MP Pym stood up and tried to calm MPs down.

"Sir Pym, although the king never counts what he says, our parliament represents half of England's nobles, squires, and merchants. If the king wants to execute us all, this is impossible. After all, the law does not punish the public. "

"The nobles on the king's side must also want to end the endless war as soon as possible. We lost tens of thousands of people on both sides in a few months, which is more than our ten years of war in Europe. We can't continue to let us The young people died senselessly in this battle."

Pym's efforts to turn the tide seemed a little pale, and the congressmen were still full of fear.They are also lucky, thinking that even if the king wins, he will not execute everyone in their current parliament, after all, they are the real ruling group.

"Don't speculate on King Charles' intentions. He might execute half of our current parliament, not to mention we haven't lost yet! There are still many counties supporting us or waiting to see! According to King Charlie's character, he might We are so proud of our victory in this battle, and then it will be our time to turn defeat into victory!" Another leader of the opposition, Hampton, stood up to echo Pym, and many members of parliament who were also leaders also strongly opposed the easy Submit to King Charles.

"Will the Covenant of the Scots end the war with the king? If the Scots join us, we lose the battle. If they withdraw from the battle, then our situation will be even worse."

"Scotland will definitely not withdraw from this war. The king's army is so strong that they are definitely not what they want to see. If the king defeats our parliament, their next target is Scotland!"

The loss of thousands of people in one battle is not enough to make the parliament completely desperate!

Under the lobbying of Pym, Hampton and others, the MPs continued to support the parliamentary army and planned to take one step at a time.

The situation was worse than they had imagined. Sun Chuanting and Prince Rupert fought more and more bravely, and towns fell. They fought, but again they were defeated and fled back to the Scottish border.

More and more pessimistic and desperate news began to circulate in the city of London, and unfavorable battle reports came back from the front line.

In a stone house in the inner city of London, a conspiracy is brewing.

"The king's army has been triumphant all the way. If this continues, more and more nobles and civilians will join the king's army, and our parliament will inevitably fall into a disadvantageous situation of failure. The reason why the king's army has a huge influence is that Having the banner of the king not only makes us fearful, but also allows more people to join the ranks of the king. The current plan is to erase the banner of the king's army, so that our parliamentary army may Turn defeat into victory.”

"You don't mean to..."

"That's right, the king must be given... and that person named Sun Chuanting cannot be kept. He is too much of a threat to us, so we must kill him as well..."

(End of this chapter)