Chapter 195: Evacuation of Overseas Chinese

Due to the international dispute over the right to use Salom Bay, the new United Kingdom issued a notice to all expatriates living in Scotland, asking them to evacuate all of them from Scotland within a week, and the new United Kingdom government will set up evacuation points in 36 cities and ports including Perth, Glasgow, Lochgilphead, and Inverness, to provide free air and shipping for the evacuation. Fastest updates

Salom Bay is the 37th evacuation point outside the announcement.

On the second day of the announcement of the evacuation of the new United Kingdom, under the supervision of two Scottish Navy torpedo boats, the amphibious landing ship "St. Stephen", flying the flag of the New United Kingdom Navy, slowly sailed to the No. 3 oil tanker terminal in Salom Bay.

After Scotland's request for forcible repossession and control, the amount of crude oil exported through Salom Bay dropped by 95% compared with the past, and more than half of the Irish people returned to the country, but more than 1,000 remained here, hoping that the new United Kingdom would be able to make concessions to the Scots through non-war means.

It is a pity that the "dictator" Barriol has offered compensation conditions that are unacceptable to the other side on the grounds of "defending the legitimate sovereignty of Scotland", and the talks between the two sides have reached a stalemate several times, and the government and people of the new United Kingdom have gradually lost patience with this, and the call for a punitive war against Scotland with the momentum of the United Arab victory has risen, and the new United Kingdom has held large-scale military exercises in Wales with the armies of a number of friendly countries, which has made people smell the smell of imminent war.

When the St. Stephen docked, the two Scottish Navy torpedo boats still aimed their bows at the behemoth, which surpassed all Scottish ships, and the torpedo crews were ready to fire deadly torpedoes at this lethal distance if they dared to make any unkind move.

The area available for 10,000-ton ships in Salom Bay is very limited, and in terms of geographical location and natural conditions, this remote northern bay is not remarkable, and it would never have developed to its current size without the development of the North Sea oil fields, and the indigenous people who have lived here for generations would not have the living conditions they have today.

The St. Stephen was not a Trojan horse in the Trojan scheme, and was inspected by Scottish naval officers before sailing into Salom Bay. Only four rescue light helicopters were parked on the spacious deck, and the landing capsule did not contain a single combat vehicle, not a single armed infantryman, nor any military supplies, but was temporarily equipped with seats, beds, dining cars, and medical vans for transporting the expatriates.

The escort destroyers were also waiting fifteen nautical miles away from the channel of entry.

"Irish, go back to Ireland!"

"Don't say goodbye, never see each other!"

"No one can encroach on an inch of Scotland!"

A handful of banners hung prominently near the pier, the only way the local Scottish residents said goodbye to their special neighbours, and most of them simply watched in silence as the men who brought prosperity to Salom Bay left. With the stagnation of crude oil shipments, this crane-strewn, modern harbor has lost its original vitality and even appears to be a desolate abandoned place.

The vast majority of Irish expatriates from the New United Kingdom boarded their new warships in an orderly manner under the protection of their own marines. Externally, the new United Kingdom Navy classifies amphibious landing ships as military auxiliary ships, and internally, whether it is tactical rules or exercise roles, the two newly commissioned amphibious landing ships are capital ship-level existences, and furthermore, their tonnage and cost are equivalent to about two-thirds of the fenia-class aircraft carriers.

In the afternoon, the ground command liaison officer for the Salom Bay evacuation operation followed the last expatriates aboard the "St. Stephen", where they met the captain of the ship, Colonel E-Green, under the bridge.

"Gentlemen!" The colonel nodded, "We arrived on time, not an hour is bad, I hope your work is also on time, and you must not leave out even a single expatriate!" ”

"Don't worry!" "All the registered expatriates have been put in place, and there are a few people with dual or multiple nationality who have volunteered to stay and try their luck, and we have made them write a letter of commitment not to engage in any activity in the name of the new United Kingdom nationals after we leave." ”

"And such weirdos?" Colonel Grimn curious.

The officer directed the colonel's gaze to the perimeter of the dock: "Look at these cranes, tracks, and oil depot facilities, which one is not worth millions?" When we go, these assets are nominally sealed, but who will guarantee their safety? Those Scottish cops at the police station? ”

Colonel Grimn thought for a moment, "Well, I see what you mean. If I were you, I would have forcibly taken them away, lest they do anything bad after we leave. ”

The official shrugged his shoulders: "If we take coercive measures, we will inevitably leave a voice for the Scottish authorities at this juncture." Besides, the most these unscrupulous guys are to dismantle and steal some small equipment and large equipment and facilities, and they can't afford to get rid of them, and the Scottish authorities have coveted these crude oil transshipment and primary processing facilities for a long time, and they will not let them do anything wrong. ”

"What if the Scottish authorities want to get rid of them?" The colonel asked again.

"Not to mention the technology and expense of relocating them, they were designed to serve the North Sea oil fields from the beginning, and when they leave Salom Bay, they lose their original value, no different from a pile of scrap metal." The officer said proudly and worriedly, "Mr. Colonel, it won't be long before we return here as victors, right?" ”

Colonel Greon smiled slyly: "For us, teaching the Scottish Navy a lesson is like cutting butter with a dinner knife, there is no pressure, the key is to do it appropriately. ”

The official raised his eyebrows and said, "Still not allowed to believe?" ”

The colonel nodded: "Yes, I can't believe it yet, but it should be soon!" ”

In contrast to the calm of the Salom Bay evacuation, in Glasgow, a seaport in southwest Scotland, the new United Kingdom's comprehensive evacuation of nationals has provoked a backlash not with the new United Kingdom government and army, but with dictator Grimol and his appointed senior military and political officials. Since Scotland's independence, Glasgow has recovered and developed at a rate that is second to none in the whole of Scotland, with a thriving shipping and manufacturing industry, largely benefiting from the rise of the new United Kingdom. As a result, the New United Kingdom's evacuation at the Port of Glasgow was the largest of all evacuations, with more than 60,000 people boarding and leaving, out of a population of less than 500,000 in Glasgow. It is important to know that the Irish who work and live in Glasgow are mostly businessmen and technicians, and their departure means the exit of capital and technology. In the past two weeks, factories have been closed, banks have runs, and the bond market has plummeted, and people seem to have returned to the economic crisis of the late 20s and early 30s.

At the Glasgow Port Terminal, you can see slogans everywhere:

"Goodbye, Irish friend!"

"Long live peace! Long live friendship! ”

"We don't want war!"

"Britons are one!"

In order to evacuate the expatriates in the shortest possible time, the new United Kingdom has mobilized and directed its commercial capacity, suspended all the Atlantic sea and air passenger routes, and concentrated 6 transoceanic cruise ships, 20 ordinary cruise ships and liners, 16 transoceanic passenger aircraft and 60 ordinary passenger aircraft in the Glasgow evacuation operation, which has demonstrated to the world the strong strength of the new United Kingdom in the field of transnational and intercontinental shipping.

Faced with this situation, even the Scottish officials stationed in Glasgow to supervise the evacuation of the new United Kingdom have to sigh: If Scotland wants to evacuate its expatriates from the other side, even if all its capacity is concentrated in one place, it will still be inferior to what the new United Kingdom is doing today!

From 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., the new United Kingdom evacuated more than 720,000 of its nationals from all over Scotland, and more than 50,000 people with dual or multiple nationalities accompanied the evacuation of Scotland. Although the new United Kingdom government declared in the announcement that the revocation was mainly aimed at the intensifying use of force throughout Scotland during the diplomatic dispute between the two countries, and that it was a voluntary evacuation to protect the lives and property of its nationals, and there was no direct military purpose, such a comprehensive evacuation still prompted many wait-and-see people to make the decision to leave Scotland temporarily, and the cruise ships, liners, and airliners leaving the country were hard to find, the trains to England were full, and the border road crossings lined up all night......

The new United Kingdom evacuated hundreds of thousands of expatriates with lightning speed, and the Scottish government's announcement of the evacuation of overseas Chinese was belated, and their reasons were the same as those of the other side, that is, to avoid their own nationals being excluded, suppressed, and persecuted by the other side before the diplomatic dispute between the two countries subsided, but to the embarrassment of the Scottish side, the Scots living in Ireland and Wales reacted indifferently to their own evacuation announcements, and only sixty percent of the more than 200,000 registered expatriates reported to the evacuation points on time, and the rest either lost contact with each other. Either it means that it voluntarily stays in another country and bears all the consequences accordingly.

The Scottish military's repatriation operations also mobilized the country's sea and air capacity, and the relocations were limited to two days. The Scottish military strictly followed orders and the crew ships that had been called up were at the mercy of the military, but at the end of the two-day time limit, tens of thousands of Scottish expatriates remained in ports in Ireland and Wales, and finally had to return to Scotland on foreign passenger ships and flights, including those of the New United Kingdom.

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