Chapter 544: A Civil War Without Gunpowder

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On the streets of Berlin, Germany, a group of children giggled and played with each other on the way from school, they ran to the bakery for a while, bought some bread with the food tickets given by their parents, ran to the alley and played hide and seek with their classmates, and returned to their homes with some talking and laughing.

At home, the mother had already prepared dinner and served it on the table, waiting for the return of the children, whose fathers had mostly gone to the front, but their lives were relatively comfortable, or at least not hungry.

In addition, because Reinhardt did not want to enter the full-scale wartime system prematurely before the Soviet-German war, in addition to the "three-shift rotation system" adopted in factory manufacturing, in terms of food, although there is a restriction on food stamps, this restriction is indeed not excessive, and it can fully meet the people's living needs.

Compared with the well-off society of the German people, the British civilians were much more miserable.

London, United Kingdom.

Due to the war, schools have been completely closed, and the children have also ushered in a long vacation.

While the five-day holiday is a joyful event, these children are nostalgic for the old days. Although they no longer have the burden of studying, it is very difficult for them to even pack a meal, and their lives are far from being as good as before.

The Luftwaffe bombed the London area without stopping. Those German bombers roared all day long over London.

Because the British Royal Air Force lost too many fighters on the battlefield in France, and when it attacked German ports, the Chinese plan was wiped out, and the British Air Force is now unable to protect the people of the British Empire, and countless London citizens are in dire straits all day long.

Faced with this situation, Churchill could only urgently increase his manpower and build more bomb shelters to cope with the German bombing.

However, there are thousands of citizens in London, and the few air-raid shelters built at zero hours can only be said to be a drop in the bucket, and they cannot solve any problems at all.

Only a handful of the refugees in London had found a place to live in bomb shelters, and most of them were still shrouded in the fear of German bomber shells.

In London, the self-proclaimed "capital of gentlemen", it is already difficult to find so-called gentlemen.

For example, Bill and a few of his colleagues are the kind of people who can't get a place in a bomb shelter. Before the war, Bill and his party worked in a small company, and they were polite to people on weekdays, and they would definitely greet people with a smile when they met them.

But now, because they have no relationship and can't get a limited foothold area in the bomb shelter, Bill and the others have gradually lost their appearance as good people and developed in a more selfish and dark direction.

And John's family is just the opposite of them, because John is a staff member of the City of London, who was in the government before the war, and now he also uses his connections to naturally live in a bomb shelter.

Divided into less than 5 square meters in the bomb shelter, John looked at his wife and several children, where he was smiling happily while eating rye bread that most people could not eat, and he suddenly felt that although such a day was bad, it was still full of hope.

Sitting on a thin cushion, John leaned his back against the concrete walls of the dugout and smiled contentedly.

Although life was difficult today, at least he protected his family from the war and exposed them to German bomber shells.

But what happened next was something that John couldn't laugh again.

"Hey, boy, if you can live in a bomb shelter, you can still eat bread, which should be given to us a little! Otherwise, you'll have to move out of here and give us the place!" ”

It turned out that Bill and his party had secretly wandered into the bomb shelter, and when they saw John's family eating bread, they were jealous and dissatisfied.

John knew them, John was in charge of policing in the precinct when he was working in the government, and he met Bill, who was dressed in formal clothes every day and greeted him politely. But he didn't expect that the war was now, and when he met Bill again, the temperament shown by the other party was already the same as before.

"Boy! This is our place. "John's wife, Mrs. Mary, was obviously not a person to be messed with, and she had always been more aggressive than her husband, who was a government official.

Lady Mary said, glanced back at the unscrupulous men, pursed her lips and continued: "The bread we eat is our own, so why should we give it to you? ”

"It's all the families of you officials who take the hard-won food for themselves, but the food that should be distributed to us is not distributed to us, and we are hungry! And you also occupied the bomb shelters that should belong to us, causing us to be bombed by German planes all day long! Bill and his party were annoyed and angry, and said forcefully: "You are the one who caused us to suffer outside all day, and one of my colleagues was killed by a German shell two days ago, and you are the one who caused it!" ”

John's wife also hurriedly retorted: "You men, instead of going to the battlefield to kill the Germans, but running over to steal the food of your own compatriots, do you still have even a little gentlemanly spirit left?" ”

"What's wrong with me robbing you today? Hand over all the food! Then move out of this place! This place is ours! I let you stay for a few days, now it's our turn to live! Bill shouted angrily.

Finally he exposed his true nature, or rather his humanity.

"You officials, relying on your own little power, always oppress us ordinary people. Today, we ordinary people who have no power are going to rise up and regain the power that belongs to us. We are all British people, why can't we go into bomb shelters, we can't eat bread, and you have everything we don't have! ”

"We are the first batch of people who have been assigned by the government to take refuge here, you can go back and wait for the next batch!" John stood up, stood in front of his family, and said sharply: "I am still a government official, and I know a lot of big people above. If you don't want to get in trouble, get out of here! ”

Except for Bill, everyone else was obviously hesitant, but Bill was not afraid at all, the people who really had a big relationship had already run to the north for refuge, and only a small person like John with limited access had no way to run away with his family, so he had to stay in the air-raid shelter.

Therefore, Bill shouted forcefully: "I don't care what kind of official you are, anyway, I must take back the power that belongs to me today!" ”

Although Bill had never beaten anyone before, he had always been quiet. But this time, he led several colleagues to be thugs without a teacher: "Let's go together, grab food!" ”

And John, who works in the government and sits in his office all day, has also not fought, but this time after all, there are many people on the other side, and after a few rounds, he is obviously unable to parry.

Eventually, John was knocked to the ground by a punch from Bill in a missed dodge.

Looking at John, who had fallen to the ground, Bill smiled and strode in the direction of his family.

Bill led the people straight to the buckets and bread stacked in the corner, and after taking them for himself, he drove the family out of the bomb shelter and took the place where they lived for himself.

This is also the war, the civil war between the British themselves and themselves. There is no smoke of gunpowder, but no less cruelty.