In just a few days, the Black God Army has become a household name in the British Isles, thousands of miles away.

Of course, this is not a good name, but a bad name, and the Black God Army has become synonymous with demons.

Of course, ordinary Britons will not know why the Black God Army has become a demon in their eyes, they only know that the honest and kind Englishman preached the gospel in the land of the infidels, but was shamelessly and savagely harmed by the infidels.

The British were furious, outright outraged, especially after knowing that the shameless and barbaric infidels wanted their soldiers and expatriates to eat pig food and do hard labor.

But what happens after the anger? The British were at a loss.

At this time, the British Empire was no longer the British Empire before the First World War, and the First World War changed many things, especially the rapid sinking of the Empire.

After the end of the First World War, the world economy was in a depression.

Although Britain was the victor, its losses were also enormous, with direct losses of £12 billion alone, as well as the loss of a large number of workers.

From 1921 onwards, the number of unemployed in Britain skyrocketed at a rate of about 1.2 million a year.

In 1929, when the world economic crisis broke out, Britain's industrial production accounted for only 9 percent of the entire capitalist world, and its financial hegemony was in jeopardy.

In 1932, Britain's industrial production index fell by 23 percent compared with 1929, of which the production of pig iron and steel was halved, the shipbuilding industry was reduced by 88 percent, the output of machine manufacturing was reduced by one-third, the volume of foreign trade was reduced by more than half, and the number of unemployed people reached 22 percent of the total number of workers.

Faced with serious economic difficulties, the British political axe had to start from the urgent domestic issue and devote itself to economic recovery, which inevitably neglected the consolidation of military forces.

In 1919, the British War Cabinet decreed that "as part of the campaign of economic economy, the military departments should draw up their budgets on the assumption that 'the British Empire will not have any major war and no expeditionary force for the next ten years.'"

The "10 years without a war" rule was actually implemented not just for 10 years, but for 14 years.

Moreover, even after the end of the "10 years without a major war" rule, Britain's investment in the military field is still extremely limited due to its domestic problems.

During this period, the British economy has not seen a major upturn, which has led to more problems: domestic political turmoil, frequent regime changes, domestic revolts, and surging strikes.

These problems, in turn, inevitably affect the economy.

In short, Britain has been in a vicious cycle from which it has not yet been freed.

For this reason, the leader of the British Empire, an old imperialist country, Attlee, went so far as to declare: "We absolutely do not agree with the use of force as a means of carrying out policy." ”

The words that came out of the political leaders of the British Empire were extremely comical.

In addition to economic factors, it is also because the memory of the First World War is too painful.

In World War I, Britain directly participated in the war with 6 million people, 2.44 million casualties, 180 billion US dollars spent on both sides of the war, countless urbanization was in ruins, and the finances of various countries were in a depression.

Before the First World War, the British people lived in great comfort and wealth, so the tragedy of the First World War had a great impact on the whole of Britain, which made the British very disgusted and tired of the war, and then extremely afraid of the disasters brought by the war, thus forming a strong social trend of anti-war and peace.

And this is also the social basis for the appeasement policy adopted by Britain, France and other countries towards Hitler's Germany.

Therefore, in the face of the demonic atrocities of the Black God Army, the entire British society was at a loss in addition to anger.

In the past few days, the House of Commons has simply been noisy.

There are people with shallow knowledge everywhere, and the same is true in the House of Representatives, many of these councillors are not even as knowledgeable as ordinary village husbands and women.

For the first time since the First World War, in the House of Commons, the cries for war were so strong.

Winston Churchill sat in the back seat, his face gloomy and he never said a word.

Many people are surprised by Churchill's attitude, because Churchill has always been the most hard-line fighter in Parliament, but at this time, he has stopped talking.

After the First World War, pacifism was the absolute trend in Britain, and everyone from the leaders of the political parties to the common people advocated disarmament, and people thought that there would never be another war so brutal.

Churchill was one of the very few in parliament who opposed disarmament and warned Germany that the Treaty of Versailles was being torn up.

Churchill warned that Hitler's fascist reading would bring disaster to Europe and could even lead to the destruction of civilization if not stopped immediately, urging Britain to rearm and encouraging its ally France to strengthen its military rather than reduce it, but his warnings were dismissed by the vast majority as alarmist.

When the most talkative parliamentarians stopped talking, Churchill stood up and walked to the podium, he looked at the parliamentarians who were fighting the main battle, and asked, "Do you know China?" Any idea what's going on in China? Which of these things happening in China are good for us, and which are bad for us? If you send troops, do you know how many troops you have to send and how much it will cost? What are the consequences of sending troops? Is it good or bad for us? What is the advantage, and what is the damage? ”

"Yue Ben is attacking China, we can unite with Yue himself and force China to settle the matter!" A councillor shouted with a waving arm.

Churchill's head hurts, and even with his intelligence and talent, it would be too difficult to explain it to these fools.

Churchill said: "Attacking China will do great damage to our interests, but first, we have no strength to prevent China from attacking China, and second, after attacking China, we may turn to attack the Soviet Union, so we have adopted a tacit attitude toward attacking China." ”

After a pause, he continued: "However, even if Yuben conquers China, no one can guarantee that Yuben will definitely attack the Soviet Union. If we do not attack the Soviet Union, but follow the attack on Southeast Asia, we will absolutely not allow it. ”

Looking at the parliamentarians who were fighting the main battle, Churchill asked, "Excuse me, my lords, are we still going to help Ben attack China?" ”

"So what do you say you should do?" The overly emotional councillors are slowly calming down at this moment.

Churchill's head hurt even more when he asked: "In China, the Black God Army is a group of bandits, but the strength of this group of bandits is extremely strong, if we send troops ourselves, we will have at least 200,000 soldiers, and we must be prepared to pay at least half of the casualties." ”

Below, there were bursts of exclamations.

Churchill added: "We have to pay them $10,000 a day as things drag on, and that's not the most important thing." Gentlemen, if it continues to drag on, it will be an extremely serious blow to the prestige of the Empire, and will cause our colonies in the East to flout the authority of the Empire. ”

Most of the expatriates captured by the Black God Army are very high-status people, so even if the British political axe does not pay $10,000 a day for living expenses, their families and friends will pay it.

And that's not the point, the point, as Churchill said, is that if the colonies start to defy the authority of the Empire, then it's a big problem.

The British Empire was able to rule such a vast area, at least for now, not by military power, but by deterrence.

It is not a problem for any colony to rise up against it, but if many colonies rise up together, then the British Empire will face real trouble.

Churchill added: "Ladies and gentlemen, the world is not at peace, and war can break out at any time, not in Europe, but somewhere else. This is a wake-up call for us, and if we continue like this, it will become more and more ...... in the future."

Churchill began a long speech with the main idea of strengthening armaments, but until the end of the speech, he did not say what to do with the matter.

Because, there is no need for it.

-- The British succumbed.

Looking at the message in his hand, Comax fell into deep thought.

Britain succumbed to the blink, both unbelievable and reasonable. Submission is the only choice for the British at the moment.

Comax pondered, he was not thinking about Britain, but about Han Lihong.

Han Lihong created one incredible miracle after another, Germany, Yueben, and the United Kingdom, all of which were world powers, fell at Han Lihong's feet.

Han Lihong has subdued three world powers in his life, how incredible it is, anyone knows it.

Germany, purely because commercial interests are subjugated; It is because the domestic political situation has yielded; Britain, because of the stability of the Eastern colonies succumbed.

Although the reasons for giving in are different, every shot, no matter how impossible it seems in advance, or how nonsense, in the end, the winner is Han Lihong.

Comax couldn't figure out Han Lihong, he couldn't figure out who Han Lihong was.

Han Lihong is different from anyone else, Han Lihong seems to have no interest in expanding the army and grabbing land, but he is unusually interested in industrial manufacturing.

Obviously, although Han Lihong gave the British two choices, he already knew how the British would choose, and what he wanted at all was the manufacturing process of those machine tools, engines and steel.

The technology that Han Lihong wants is not the most advanced, or it is the technology that the great powers are about to eliminate, so it is very clear how the British choose.

However, these technologies are of inestimable significance to backward China, no, to China, which has nothing.

The engine manufacturing process that Han Lihong asked for, including aircraft carrier engines, can be imagined by Comax, once China achieves reunification, these technologies can enable China's industrial technology to achieve leapfrog development.

It's not that the British don't know the weight of this matter, but Britain is now too busy to take care of itself, so it can't take care of it.

Hitler's Germany had already shown its hideous face, and Britain and France could only hide at home and shiver, praying that the devil Hitler would attack the Soviet Union.

This time, as usual, the United States has become the guarantor again, guaranteeing the authenticity and reliability of this batch of technical data.

Comax had an idea in his mind that he wanted to join forces with the British to falsify some key data in these technical data, but as soon as the idea arose, it was extinguished.

The data is changed less, and it is not of great use; If you change more, it's easy to be discovered.

As soon as he thought of Han Lihong finding out that he had been deceived, Comax felt a chill in his neck.

Han Lihong did not abide by any of the rules they were familiar with, and he did not regret his word; Han Lihong only believes in people once, and will never forgive betrayal.

Han Lihong may not have much to do with the United States, but for him, and even for his family, it is definitely a nightmare within a nightmare.

Takashi Sakai, who was slashed by a thousand knives, died when he died, but his relatives and friends within his three clans could no longer sleep peacefully.

The hunt order does not give a definite amount of time, and this is precisely the most terrifying. A year is it, ten years is it, a hundred years is still it.

Cowmes has a feeling that the Black God Army is a highly organized gang, even if it is defeated and the territory is gone, this big gang will continue to exist, and he doesn't want his family and children to live in such a terrible nightmare.

is not afraid of hooligans' high martial arts, that is, hooligans are educated, and the Black God Army, a big gangster, is not just culture?

The insight of the Black God Army, not to mention which person, is the political axe of a country!

With this batch of things, the Black God Army's military manufacturing capacity will be greatly improved, and it won't take a few years to have a headache.

Suddenly, thinking of this, Comax's heart was shocked: "Myself!

How would I react to this change?

He said that he couldn't stop the British from handing over these things to the Black God Army, which was not only because of bad relations with the British, but also because of bad relations with the Americans. Moreover, as long as the British want to give it, even if they do their best to block it, the British will always have a way to put things in the hands of the Black God Army.

Therefore, I will not block it strongly.

He said that he couldn't stop this batch of things from falling into the hands of the Black God Army, but he himself would never sit idly by, so next, destroying the Black God Army was the only choice for him, and he would definitely be desperate for this.

Cunning, the British are really very cunning, this hand borrowed a knife to kill people is too beautiful!

If he exterminated the Black God Army, this would not only avenge the British and avenge their hatred, but also mean that the blackmail of the Black God Army would have no loss for the British.

Moreover, even if this batch of things ended up in the hands of Yue himself, the British would have no loss, because those things were useless to Yue himself.

High, really high!

Thinking along these lines, the more he thought about it, the brighter his heart became, and suddenly, he stood up, walked to his desk, sat down, and began to write a report to the State Department.

-- March 25, Tokyo, base camp.

In the large conference room, Prince Jaehito, chief of staff, King Hirokoshi Fushimiya, director of military orders, Sugiyama Moto, minister of the sea, Mitsumasa Mineuchi, commander of the North China Dispatch Army, Terauchi Toshione, commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Kenkichi Ueda, and Kuniaaki Koiso, commander of the Korean Army, were all present.

In Yumoto, there are only two people who are really powerful, one is Prince Jaihito, the chief of staff, and the other is King Fushimi Miyahiroko, the minister of military orders, one of them actually controls the army, and the other actually controls the navy, and they are both outright militarists.

This meeting will decide the direction of the war, and it will also determine the direction of the book.

Ishihara, director of the First Department of the General Staff Headquarters, was also there.

The hardships of the war in China exceeded everyone's imagination, including Ishihara Waner, who was the least optimistic about the war in China.

None of you, including Ishihara, regard China as an adversary, and the only difference between them is the difficulty of conquering China.

Ishihara believed that although China was not worthy of being an imperial rival, China was too large and had too many people, and the conquest of China would be a long-term process.

In the presence of the great enemy of the Soviet Union, we should not expend our strength on the conquest of China. After subduing the Soviet Union, China is the meat in the imperial bowl, how to eat it. Therefore, for the time being, it is better to make some concessions, except for Manchuria, everything else can be returned to China.

Naturally, this opinion would not be adopted, but the war in Shina was unexpectedly difficult, and the aura of the Empire's best strategist was once again placed on Ishihara's head.

In the large conference room, the atmosphere was extremely solemn, and at this moment, the shouts of the past could not be heard.

The Battle of Shanghai, with 100,000 casualties, and, after paying such a huge price, did not destroy the effective resistance of the Chinese army.

Next, if the war continues, it can only take Nanjing, attack Xuzhou, and carry out a north-south advance with the North China Dispatch Army.

Originally, this plan was a backup, it was the second plan, and the first plan was to take Nanjing, go to Wuhan, and quickly force Nanjing to surrender.

Now, the first option is absolutely impossible, because the implementation of the first plan can only be done on the basis of the weakness of the Chinese army.

However, even if the second plan is implemented, what is the result, these imperial elites who are clamoring for the destruction of China in three months are now all bottomless.

The meeting was very dull, because everyone didn't have a lot of blood today, so they were a little sluggish.

Prince Jaein sat on the side, his expression seemed to be calm and breezy, but his heart was actually extremely anxious. Now, the battle of China has become a tiger, but this game must be solved.

No one wants to let go, but if you continue to fight, the result is really worrying.

Although the Battle of Shanghai was won, in fact, it was a heavy blow to the Empire, because the result was too far from the original expectations, and the abandonment of Nanjing by China was the second heavy blow to the Empire, which made the Empire lose a great opportunity to annihilate a large number of the Chinese army.

Next, if the fight continues, the Battle of Xuzhou will inevitably be carried out.

The Battle of Xuzhou, although the empire still had a huge advantage, and the final victory was inevitable, but compared with the Battle of Shanghai, the advantage was much weaker, which means that the Battle of Xuzhou was more difficult than the Battle of Shanghai, and the casualties were heavier.

China has an infinite number of human resources, but the empire can't, the empire can't afford to consume it.

(To be continued)