"Please go this way, sir." The tall man treated Maiko with such kindness that he couldn't tell that he was yelling for a slit throat of the Scottish Yard lackeys a minute ago. The man was very polite in his words and appeared to be somewhat educated.

Perhaps because the Germans had put away their weapons, the atmosphere between the two sides had eased, and after discovering that Lieutenant Colonel Maiko was fluent in English, the Englishman began to introduce himself to the Lieutenant Colonel of the Air Force.

"My name is Woodcock, my friends call me Woody, the one up front is Edwood, and we'll call him Eddell."

"Slackers? Is it a nickname? "Maiko thinks the nickname for the short man is very interesting.

"Shut up, you idiot...... Oh, not to say you, Lieutenant Colonel, that title is just a joke between friends, it doesn't mean anything substantial. The short man was a little annoyed, he felt that Wookee was exposing his old truth in front of outsiders.

"Can you recognize my rank? I'm Luftwaffe Lieutenant Colonel Hermann. Maiko, it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

"Fortunately, Lieutenant Colonel."

"Fortunately." The two Britons hurriedly responded politely.

"We're here, the road down there is a bit of a rough walk, you have to watch your step, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel." Ed Wood walked to the intersection of a laneway, looked left and right, then picked up a crowbar behind a wooden board against the wall and pried open an iron cover on the ground. The lid was clearly carefully camouflaged, with a mess of newspapers and miscellaneous items glued to it, and if you didn't look closely, you wouldn't know there was a hole underneath.

"Hey, listen closely, I think I hear a siren." Wooki warned from the sidelines.

"Don't worry, those lackeys can't find here." Moving the lid to the side, Ed Wood climbed into the shaft first.

"Be sure to tighten the handrails and step carefully, it's a little slippery underneath." The short man raised his head to remind the lieutenant colonel.

"What's down here?" Maiko turned back and asked Wooki.

"It was the pride of the British Empire, the underground kingdom of London. Our secret base. Wooki squeezed smugly at Maiko.

"The smell of this secret base is really strong." Looking at the dark hole that smelled strange, Maiko put his goggles on his forehead and put the mask back on.

Grabbing the icy iron, the Air Force lieutenant colonel descended one level at a time.

"The rain was so heavy in the first two days that it was completely flooded, so there was some smell." Edwood held a flashlight and shone it at Maiko's feet.

"It's directly connected to the River Thames, so the water recedes quickly, but when it comes to flooding in the first two days, more than a dozen alleys in the vicinity will be flooded by the backwater."

Edwood then bowed to Mike. Made a funny medieval salute. "Now, welcome to our underground kingdom, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel."

Maiko looked at the other party a little speechlessly, he took out the German standard flashlight from the leg pocket of the one-piece flight suit, turned on the switch, and hung the folding buckle on the back of the flashlight on the socket of the chest pocket.

"Well, now you can tell me who you really are and why you are helping me. Understand that I am a German officer, an enemy of England. Lieutenant Colonel Maiko took two steps back and stood against the wall, transferring the weapon he was carrying to his armpit. With the handle of the pistol in hand, it can be put into combat condition at any time.

"I'll just say you Germans are too suspicious." Ed Wood shook his head. Then he put away his smile and puffed up his chest to face Maiko's loud announcement. "We are the Liberation Army of England, and we share your goals. There is a common enemy. ”

"What? Wait a minute, what PLA? "Maiko feels like her brain is a little underwhelming." The Liberation Army of England, we are made up of ordinary people who yearn for freedom. I can assure you, you've seen it before, and we're not your enemies, Lieutenant Colonel. Ed Wood replied loudly.

"We still have a long way to go, and we can say that this place is still in the search range of the lackeys, and it would be dangerous to stay too long." Wooki shifted the subject and started a round.

"Well, I don't know what to say, maybe I'm too nervous, sorry, after all, this is a war zone for me, and I can't trust strangers easily because of my profession. Edel, can you give me a detailed introduction to your People's Liberation Army, I have never heard of your organization before. Maiko lowered the barrel of his gun, feeling that he had indeed gone too far, and he sincerely apologized to the two Englishmen, trying to ease the atmosphere.

"Please call me Edwood, Lieutenant Colonel, Edel is just a joke."

"Okay, Ed Wood. I haven't thanked you two yet, thank you so much for saving me from falling into the wrong hands. "Lieutenant Colonel Maiko took advantage of the hot iron and tried to get closer, and if the organization that the other side said was true, then it would definitely help the German army's operations.

"You're welcome, we have a common enemy, I think we can be friends, and it's only natural to help friends, don't worry too much about that. Lieutenant Colonel, watch your feet, there's a pit here. Edwood seemed to be very familiar with the tunnels, and he took Maiko around left and right to a large main tunnel that Maiko estimated would be able to drive four Opel trucks side by side.

"It's part of London's old underground system, and over the centuries people have dug thousands of tunnels and basements under London, stacked on top of each other, left and right, and no one can figure out exactly what the lines are. If you're not familiar with the terrain, it's easy to get lost inside, and you can find quite a few corpses of those unlucky guys every year. We call this the Underground Kingdom, the refuge of our freemen. The lackey cops generally did not dare to go down to search here, because once they got lost, they were no more hungry and thirsty than the others. Ed Wood proudly introduced to Maiko.

At this time, Maiko had already learned the general situation from Edwood's mouth, especially what kind of organization the English Liberation Army was in the other party's mouth.

It all started with Churchill's order three days ago. The Prime Minister of the British Empire, who controlled the supreme power of Britain, seemed to have degenerated into a real dictator. His competitive personality had overwhelmed his sanity at this point, and in order to preserve his dignity, he refused to admit that his decisions had led to the defeat of the Empire, and he needed to find a target to shirk responsibility and deflect public pressure from the government.

He set his sights on London's East End, a filthy place that was full of sin in the eyes of the noble lord. It's a real concentration of villains from all over the UK, all sorts of messy criminal organizations, and anyone who bumps into a random person on a street corner could be a wanted career criminal. In the eyes of British citizens, these people are all the dregs of society. The enemies of the decent people, the inhabitants of this region, except the stupid illiterate workers and ignorant village women, the idle robbers, gamblers, prostitutes, swindlers and opium dealers, you will not find the slightest trace of the beauty of humanity here, but only the dark side of society.

Churchill's choice to go here was a very clever decision, one that would not be criticized, but would have been applauded by the entire citizenry.

"Most of these people are foreign immigrants and their mixed descendants, and they are not really British at all."

"These people hate the law, they hate all rules, they believe in getting something for nothing. The law of the jungle, they are not human beings at all, they are just beasts in human skin. ”

"These people hate His Majesty, they are all spies sent by foreign governments. The British lost all because some of them sold intelligence to the Germans. Overnight, the newspapers were flooded with similar words and arguments, and the public opinion machine was running at full speed, with writers trying to turn the fear and resentment of the citizens against the German landing into a spearhead of hatred. Pointed to the poor in the East Side.

Infantry from the Metropolitan Police and a Scottish brigade were all in action that evening and began a purge of several major neighborhoods in the East End. Those places are dominated by workers and unemployed people at the bottom of society, as well as their families. These old neighborhoods simply can't be renovated because the population is too dense. There are hundreds of people living in a small three-story apartment, and many rooms have no lighting and ventilation at all, and there are not even beds. In this small tomb-like space, the occupants lie on the ground like livestock.

Churchill now needed to stand by and to show the British a real enemy. These poor people who have no money and no power are the best targets. Local residents were evicted from their apartments and stood in the pouring rain under the threat of bayonets. Hordes of police officers entered the dilapidated buildings, and they rummaged through the boxes and began to search.

"An inspection of all prohibited items, especially the written correspondence, reveals that there are German spies among them." Here's how the police officer who led the team explained.

Then piles of so-called evidence were "searched", and some German books and French magazines, and some posters with Nazi insignia on them also became incriminating evidence.

"Take them all away, and all of them will be interrogated strictly." The leaders of Scotland Yard conveyed Churchill's orders with a grim face. It was late in the day, the rain was so heavy that the usual rain gear didn't do much at all, and the soldiers and policemen in soaked uniforms kicked and beat the residents of the East Side fiercely, and they vented all their cold and hungry grievances on the heads of these poor people.

The police repeated this work throughout the day the next day, and although the area was so large that it didn't take much time to clear it. The inhabitants were sent out of the city in droves, enclosed in barbed wire fences, and strong men were selected and escorted by the army to the construction sites in the suburbs, all free labor, which was what the British government lacked most at the moment.

Ordinary citizens were paid food and wages, and these people worked for only a few potatoes a day. The soldiers were commanded that these were enemies of the British Empire, public enemies, traitors, treacherous villains who wanted to murder your family, and that they must be dealt with with with the strictest means and without the slightest sympathy.

If there are signs of sabotage and resistance, especially desertion, the soldiers have the right to dispose of them by any means, even with explicit hints that encourage them to be hanged. In England, hanging was a dishonorable form of execution, and only the most heinous villains were publicly hanged, beheaded, and shot, a form of execution that could only be enjoyed by nobles and soldiers of status.

A large area of the East End was cleared, and due to bad weather and lack of manpower, it was not possible to demolish the house as Churchill had originally intended. Within two days, 150,000 people were arrested at Scotland Yard on suspicion of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and were temporarily detained pending investigation.

Among them, the able-bodied laborers were sent to the front-line construction sites to dig fortifications, while other elderly and infirm women and children were continued to be held in the "detention camps" to "wait" for investigation by their superiors.

Although the police are exhausted, they have really made enough money, not to mention that those poor people do not have much property, but after accumulating a small amount, the total amount can be jaw-dropping.

The newspapers unanimously praised Churchill's decision, and under the wise leadership of the Prime Minister, they removed the long-standing carrion of the city of London, knocked out the internal response of the Germans, and eliminated the hidden danger of the British Empire. Don't look at how rampant the Germans are now, it's all an illusion, Germany has actually been exhausted by the war, and now is their last madness, the Germans are no longer sustainable, it is completely the end of the crossbow, as long as the British are united, under the command of Prime Minister Churchill, the British Empire will definitely win the final victory, the military and people of London are united, the city defense is impregnable, London will never fall, long live His Majesty the King, and the British Empire will live forever.

But for a large and complex city, no matter how tightly locked, there will be loopholes, and although the border between the east and west sides and a few blocks along the river seem to have been emptied, in fact, many people remain.

These are all nimble guys, and many of them have sound organizations, or gangs. Some of them had criminal records on them, so they called their friends and hid as soon as they heard the siren sound. The pros have a wealth of experience in counter-reconnaissance, have been battling highly trained Scotland Yard agents for years, and have not lost at the expert level.

As a result, what happened after that made these people look at the whole thing, throwing the last vestiges of their trust in the British government into the Thames. This group of damned capitalists and aristocrats slaughtered the poor, and they realized that the crimes they had committed before were not at all on the same level as the high-ranking old men.

Some of those who still had a sense of justice stepped forward, and the heavy pressure from the outside world became the best catalyst, and these survivors of various backgrounds and backgrounds united in a single day and formed a close alliance, all with the goal of saving their fellow villagers, shouting the slogan "Down with the king, aristocracy and capitalists, freedom belongs to the people".

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