Britain is accustomed to dictating the internal and external affairs of other countries, and this lack of minimum cultivation and tutoring. Not only does it feel good about itself, but this faceless skill has also been inherited by the United States, which has launched various sanctions against other countries at every turn. For small countries that can knead at will, they can describe a tube of laundry detergent as a weapon of mass destruction. And for the big country or power that they have no way to do, they will form a group together and use ignorant remarks to all kinds of disgusting people.
From a psychological point of view, this behavior of theirs is a typical behavior of bullying the soft and fearing the hard. There are benefits to be occupied, absolutely do not want to suffer losses, everything wants to insert a foot. In fact, this habit of behavior in britain has been formed hundreds of years ago. Britain used the strength of its comprehensive national strength to plunder and humiliate Scotland in various ways, which eventually aroused the anger of the low-level people and a large number of nobles in Scotland, and accidentally played away.
The two Scottish Wars of Independence not only inflicted heavy losses on Britain, but also gave Scotland complete national liberation. Released in 2018, "The King of the Outlaws" is about a film in Scotland that fought the British army for the second time under the leadership of Robert Bruce and achieved national independence. It is indeed rare for the British to suffer a great loss on the British Isles, so this movie is still necessary to watch.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > aristocratic guys were dissatisfied with British rule and stabbed the British army in the back</h1>
The protagonist, Robert The Bruce, is a well-established Scottish aristocrat of the second generation of Garfu, whose ancestors came from the Normandy region of France. The gene of advocating freedom in his ancestors, judging from the later events, was indeed engraved in his mind. Since their family had a large territory in Scotland and England, and his father had been relatively close to the British earlier, Bruce served in the British army for a long time and was quite familiar with the British army's combat style and related tactics.
King Edward I of England also liked this young talent and actively acted as a matchmaker for this Scottish boy. The daughter of Ireland's most powerful nobleman became his wife. This transnational political marriage, while reinforcing Bruce's prestige, also became a bond for him.
Bruce's father was so close to the English that he wanted to gain the crown of Scotland. He helped the British invade Scotland with practical actions, but King Edward I of England apparently did not want him to be satisfied. After conquering Scotland, he killed a large number of Scottish nobles and immediately claimed jurisdiction over the territory of Scotland. Legally severed his father's wild hopes for the Scottish Crown.
The depression in his father's heart can be imagined, coupled with the heavy taxes imposed on the Scots by the British during the rule of Scotland, the British soldiers also had many disturbing behaviors, but he did not have enough strength to fight against the British army. The British could only be blackmailed in secret. And his eldest son, Bruce, was the one who carried out this action.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" wallace's rebellion > gave Bruce some inspiration</h1>
William Wallace represented a group of moneyless craftsmen and free peasants and began the process of confrontation with the British army. Although their team often won against the British, most of the Scottish nobles were not involved. So before the absolute strength of the British army, William Wallace's team inevitably suffered defeat.
But william Wallace's actions gave Bruce some inspiration, it seems that Britain is not ready to support its own pursuit of Scottish monarchy, if others do not give myself to fight, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, it is worth a try. Although his motives were not pure, they unexpectedly set off the beginning of a full independence movement in Scotland.
So he killed John Comin, the strongest contender for Scottish crown power, and then quickly claimed the throne. However, it was inevitably attacked by a joint attack by the British army and the forces of the slain Comin family. With the strength of the Bruce family, it is difficult to face these two forces head-on, so in the early confrontation with them, Bruce suffered consecutive defeats.
Not only that, his wife, daughter and sister were all captured by the British, and several younger brothers died in the process of dealing with the British. And he ran away with the remnants while being beaten, and in this regard, Liu Bei Huang uncle Liu, who was in the early days of the eastern Han Dynasty in China, had a lot of say.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="8" > amassed strength in guerrilla warfare, angering the British army</h1>
It was clear that a frontal showdown with the British would not work. Then, the game needs to be played differently. Bruce opened the guerrilla warfare mode, which launched a crazy destruction mode on the Territory of Scotland. He began to lead people to rob his own territory, and after the robbery, he took the civilians who were willing to go to run together before the British army reacted, and lit a fire on the castle before running, so that the British troops who came to suppress it could watch a dance of flames.
If this is done once or twice, the British can still accept it. But when the whole of Scotland, with the exception of Strindberg, was robbed by Bruce in this way, the British could not bear it. Edward I, who was already in poor health, gathered tens of thousands of troops, hoping to complete his efforts in one battle and wipe out this once favored young talent and his tattered army.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > decisive moment, King Bruce of Scotland is sure to fight! </h1>
In this film, the British army mainly used cavalry against scotland's rudimentary infantry arrays. But in real history, Scotland not only had spear infantry phalanxes, but also hundreds of cavalry to use. The British army was not only several times larger than the Scottish army, but also infantry, cavalry and even longbowmen, and the troops were complete and morale was high.
However, at that time, the Scottish army, although inferior to the British army in all aspects, had an advantage that made victory at hand. King Edward I of England contracted dysentery from a long march, and frequent diarrhea made this battle-hardened old man out of his soul, and finally lost his last shred of life and died on the way to Scotland.
And Edward II, who took over the British throne, was a royal disciple with the good of Long Yang. In the film, the British king wears a mental boy hairstyle, which to some extent reflects the director's and stylist's contempt for this person.
The british army had such a commander in place, and it is not difficult to imagine the outcome of this war. In the movie, this guy leads the British to the battlefield chosen for him by Bruce, a slippery place that is not suitable for cavalry to exert its power, and is used by the Scots to carry the charge of a large number of British cavalry with spears, and kills and wounds a large number of British cavalry, and then attacks and defends, defeating the British in one fell swoop.
Historically, bruce sent out scotland's meagre hundreds of cavalry to slash and slash the longbowmen in the rear of the British army when the British cavalry began to collapse. The British lost more than half of the battle, losing a large number of well-trained troops, and the British who stayed in Strindberg were forced to surrender to the Scots after being stunned.
After this fiasco, the British lost the strength to continue to conquer Scotland, making Scotland de facto out of British control. Bruce's captured wife and children were also returned by the British army.
Later: Although Britain did not use military means against Scotland in the following centuries, with the strength of Britain's comprehensive national strength, Britain used a large number of naval achievements to harvest vast colonies and massive wealth, and won the prestige of the Empire that never sets. Scotland was forced by the situation to merge with The United Kingdom again.
Although the treatment was still inferior to that of the people in England, the Scottish bagpipes were turned into a symbol of the British army. From this perspective, the people of Scotland are undoubtedly something to be proud of. Although the 2014 Scottish referendum did not succeed in independence, well, the good guys once again made a fuss for freedom, didn't they?