Chapter 38: The Palace Changes Hands

The headlights pierced the night sky of London, until Buckingham Palace could no longer be seen in the car mirror, Zhao Zhi then ordered the convoy to start turning, before entering London in disguise, Zhao Zhi carefully studied the map of London, and after Krim's detailed explanation, Zhao Zhi formulated four retreat routes. Regardless of which route Zhao Zhi evacuated from London, it was guaranteed that they would be able to leave London within two hours, and the final assembly place would be Portsmouth.

Zhao Zhi didn't change his route to leave London as soon as possible, he had more important things to do, three of the 3,000 lurkers had not been ordered to rush to Buckingham Palace to assemble, in fact, they all went elsewhere on Zhao Zhi's orders, and Zhao Zhi was now going to pick them up. The infiltrators who entered London had already conducted an investigation on the scientists and famous engineers living in London in accordance with Zhao Zhi's order in advance, and the 900 infiltrators who did not come to assemble were to arrest people for Zhao Zhi, and the target was the British scientists and engineers that Zhao Zhi had already targeted.

The convoy drove along the Thames for a while, and when it reached a small dock, Zhao Zhi separated from the convoy with some mercenaries, and the scientists and engineers captured by the lurkers were imprisoned on the tugboats at the dock. "Sir, there are 120 people in total, including their families, there are 420 people in total, we only got three tugboats, and only when we get to the sea can we change to the big boats" Brian, the mercenary captain in charge of this operation, reported the situation to Zhao Zhi in a low voice.

"Thank you for your help, my people will send you to the palace" Zhao Zhi said a cursory farewell to the lurkers in civilian clothes, and left with Krim and his mercenaries. Once the palace is opened, the British will definitely block the Thames in order to prevent more Germans from sneaking into the British mainland, although Zhao Zhi is not sure about the time of the blockade of the river, it is better to leave as soon as possible. Zhao Zhi doesn't need to go to sea by boat all the time, Brian's words just now are intended to be heard by those lurkers, Zhao Zhi's real retreat route is to leave London along the Thames, and then change to the truck provided by the Krim gang and go to Portsmouth along their smuggling channel, only in Portsmouth Zhao Zhi is safe.

"Oh God, there are dead people here" The people who went out early in the morning found the dead body in front of their house, the dead body was still wearing a police uniform, and the panicked people immediately called the police, and with the arrival of the police, more and more bodies were found, both police officers and soldiers and officers in military uniforms. The sirens began to gather towards the palace, and the closer they got to the palace, the more corpses there were, and most of the dead were the military and police who were in charge of guarding the perimeter of the palace last night.

"Come, tell everyone to hold their positions" Hoffman, who had been napping with a gun, came to the spirit and led a group of snipers to the roof, with the arrival of the three teams of lurkers, Hoffman had plenty of men in his hands, and the defense line that was still a little thin was already impregnable. The snipers were all arranged in the rooms on the 4th floor and on the roof, more than 100 sniper rifles in each direction were enough to ensure that there would be no British within 400 meters of entering the palace, and the bullets sent by Zhao Zhi were enough for these snipers to hold on to the palace until the British made a choice, unless they could invest a large number of troops to storm the palace at one time.

Bazooka was placed by Hoffman in a room on the second floor, and if the British used vehicles to cover the soldiers, these Bazooka placed on the second floor would be a mass killer to send them to hell. What's more, Hoffman still has a large number of incendiary bombs, bombs and collected gasoline in his hands, even if the British break through the direction and rush into the palace, Hoffman will turn this palace into a sea of fire at the last moment, and all the royals, nobles and politicians under their control will become the burial of the lurkers.

"Come closer, so I can see your face clearly" Hoffman, who was lying on the roof, looked at the policeman walking towards the main entrance of the palace from the sniper scope, now that it was dawn, according to Zhao Zhi's plan, it was time to announce their existence to the British, only by announcing to the British that the palace had been captured by the SS could attract the attention of Britain and provide an opportunity for the German troops who were about to land in Portsmouth.

"Bang" Hoffman's gun went off, and the policeman outside the palace fell in response, and "bang" another gunshot, and another policeman sitting in the police car was also shot in the head and fell on the steering wheel. An undercover man in an SS uniform and a German-style steel helmet at the main entrance of the palace rushed to the police car, carrying a lit gasoline bottle in his hand. The sudden appearance of a fireball outside the palace was spotted by early Londoners, as were lurkers in SS uniforms, and if anyone would think that the SS might have just finished a masquerade, the blazing police car would have been enough to dispel them.

"God, it's the Germans, it's the SS" Just as the lurkers with the gasoline bottles were strolling back to the palace, finally the citizens of London who heard the sound of gunfire and explosions began to scream again and again, the Germans came, and appeared in their palace, could it be that Buckingham Palace, which represented the imperial power, had been occupied by the Germans? The British, who were busy looking for the phone to call the police, soon got the answer they needed, and the rice flag over Buckingham Palace was lowered, and instead of it, a German flag fluttered over Buckingham Palace, which had really been occupied by the Germans.

After learning that the German flag was raised at Buckingham Palace, a large number of military and police surrounded the palace under the command of junior officers, but the palace under siege was not moving at all, and the silence was a little scary. There are no royals, no aristocrats, and no politicians who are usually high-ranking in the world, and the highest-ranking official in the whole of London is only a guy in charge of the city's municipal administration, and if it weren't for the fact that this plumber-turned-fellow did not receive an invitation from George VI, I am afraid that the highest official in the whole of London would be the mayor's female secretary.

In just one hour, Hoffman led the snipers on the roof to repel 7 attacks by the British military police, and the palace was full of soldiers who were shot, if it weren't for the weapons and ammunition on those military police, how could Hoffman allow these nasty Britons to be so close to the palace. The weapons and ammunition sent by Zhao Zhi were enough for Hoffman to hold on to the palace for a while, but the upright Hoffman had already regarded himself and his 3,000 men as dead soldiers, and he would not take his men out of the palace without seeing the German tanks appear on the square of Buckingham Palace.

Stalemate, after the failure of the 14th attack by the military police, Hoffman in the palace and the British military police outside the stalemate, the time is almost afternoon, the British troops who received the news entered the city of London through various means, a large number of troops entering the city of Buckingham Palace surrounded by water, and even several neighborhoods near the palace were also included in their control. In the face of a large number of British troops, Hoffman was not ambiguous, according to Zhao Zhi's practice of leaving to explain, Hoffman commanded a team of lurkers under his command to escort dozens of captured politicians in the garden of the palace to show a small face, including British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who vigorously advocated the Jingbian policy.

"Bread, water, and 10 live cows" was Hoffman's request to the British army, and in return he was to release several children under the age of 10. Among the captives captured alive by the Sleeper forces were a few children under the age of 10, and Hoffmann did not want to show the children how powerful Germany was, so it was best for them to exchange for food, and the rest of the women and children were not yet ready to be released. It was Hoffman who feared that the cunning British would drug the bread and drinking water provided, and 10 live cattle plus a large number of canned food sent by Zhao Zhi would allow Hoffman to hold out in the palace long enough.

The British did not refuse Hoffman's request, there was nothing around the palace that could provide them with concealment, at least within 300 meters, and the Germans who occupied the palace said that as long as the British dared to cut off the power supply of the palace or do things in drinking water and food, they would kill all the people in the palace. The British troops assembled outside the palace organized an attack, and more than 500 British soldiers attacked the palace under the cover of trucks, but only half of the 500 men returned from the departure under accurate German fire.

Seeing that trucks were not working, the military was ready to mobilize tanks and armored vehicles to forcibly attack the palace and recapture their king and prime minister at the lowest cost. When Hoffmann's radio waves flew through the sky to Berlin, the British troops besieging the palace finally decided to attack Hoffmann and them, and the time of the attack was set for midnight.

When Hoffman and the British army were fighting wits and courage in London, Zhao Zhi, who had already changed trucks, was escorting those British scientists and engineers towards Portsmouth, the sky was already bright, Zhao Zhi and they were now winning every minute and second by relying on Hoffman, so Zhao Zhi and they didn't care about hurrying away, and under the guidance of the Krim gangsters, they went straight to Portsmouth along the smuggling route. According to the second half of the lurker plan, after Hoffman and his control of the palace attracted the attention of the British, a large number of German troops that had already been assembled would land in Britain disguised as Jewish refugees.