Chapter 960 One Gold Coin Indemnity
The fierce man, who was clearing the battlefield, was only more than a hundred kilometers away from the coastline, and after receiving the order, all the warships were assembled and quickly pounced on Plymouth Harbor.
The speed of one hour and thirty-five knots allowed the battleship to reach a speed of more than seventy kilometers, and after an hour and a half, it reached the range range.
Along the way, twelve submarines were discovered by destroyers, and they were dealt with accordingly, none of them escaped, and all of them were sent to the bottom of the sea. Depth charges based on the same principle as close-detonation anti-aircraft shells are the nightmare of today's submarines.
Arriving at the firing range, looking at a near-shore defense ship that fled in a hurry not far away, the fierce man waved his hand and ordered: "The first fleet sinks the enemy ships in front, the remaining battleships have five left rudders, the main guns and secondary guns are ready, one round of shelling of the harbor, and a full-scale shelling will be launched in fifteen minutes!" ”
With his order, Li Rongbin's First Fleet main guns quickly locked on, and fired a salvo in the panic of the British on that enemy ship.
The screeching shells accurately hit the target, which was only seven or eight kilometers away. In the roaring explosion, armor-piercing shells raged in the cabin, tearing the armor of the battleship effortlessly, without even a chance to be injured, more than thirty shells hit, and only one round tore the inshore defense ship to pieces, in the rising mushroom cloud, let it disappear directly.
At the same time, the other warships turned one after another, drawing an arc, and the position only more than ten kilometers from the shore was neatly arranged in four rows, facing the harbor on the side, all the guns fired in unison, and the projectiles and hailstones fell towards the already panicked harbor.
Columns of water rose into the sky, and various types of warships, cargo ships, supply ships, minesweepers, minelayers, and other ships were hit by shells, and in the explosion, clusters of flames rose on the battleship for a short moment. Smoke billowed from the harbor, and the flames rose to the sky. On the surface of the sea, the turbulent waves rolled up the shattered debris, making the harbor like a huge furnace, a huge garbage dump, burning fiercely at the same time. The waves push the debris to the shore.
The heavy shelling threw Plymouth Harbour into chaos, and figures struggling to flee for their lives ran in the smoke and firelight. They couldn't care about anything but flee for their lives, and the enemy had knocked down the natives.
Receiving the shelling of Plymouth Harbor, Churchill was alarmed and ordered all nearby airfields to take off with warplanes and bombers, and ordered ground troops to rush to the coast with artillery. The tanks all wanted to assemble and prevent the enemy from landing.
At the same time, anxiously contact Nufeng Company, contact an industry related to the advance army, hoping to contact the high-level of Nufeng mercenaries, even if it is not Dong Ku, as long as they have the right to speak, they can deliver their sincerity.
Pity. No matter what method they used, they were unable to contact Nufeng, and the continuous messages sent were all lost. Even the explicit message did not respond. Obviously, the other side is not ready to talk about something.
Is there going to be a war......
Churchill was powerless for a while.
He wasn't ready to fight the advance army, the predecessor of Fufeng, or rather, he realized that he wasn't ready for war after the fleet was quickly wiped out by the main force of the fleet.
The reaction of the furious front was clearly annoyed by the lack of response to the previous ultimatum, and it took only ten days to fight across the ocean. And eliminated his own main fleet, and now the offensive on land has begun.
Are they going to attack with all their might, fighting across the oceans?
Churchill was alone in the panic of the bigwigs, trying to figure out what Fufeng's intentions were. Is it Liwei, or do you have other ideas.
The fierce man waited fifteen minutes to give the civilians of Plymouth Harbour time to evacuate. As for the shore defense artillery, he didn't care at all, and in the round of shelling just now, two batteries close to the coast were destroyed. Although there is no bomb magazine, it will not pose a threat to the battleship.
Seeing that the time was up, the fierce man roared angrily: "All the warships obey the order, starting from the coordinates of the harbor, the carpet is shelling, clean all the high-explosive bombs, and let the big nose of Britain see the power of the Angry Tide Fleet!" ”
"Yes!!"
All the captains of the battleship answered in unison, and then began to regulate the artillery according to the data transmitted from the flagship, and in just a few seconds, one cannon after another roared.
Balls of flame erupted from the muzzles, and shells screamed towards Plymouth, which thought the enemy attack was over.
The shells fell almost in a line, each line was separated by dozens of meters, and one by one moved forward in turn, and in the loud roar, the fire and smoke immediately covered Plymouth.
There were still some people in Plymouth who did not flee at this time, and they hesitated to leave after the shelling, and in this way, they became the ghosts of the fierce guns.
There was no place to hide from the intense shelling, and the rows of shelling destroyed all the buildings, leaving behind a ruin.
The cannonballs moved forward as quickly as they ploughed, and the flames rolled forward, and wherever they passed, the British soldiers, the Tuinacles, and the civilians were torn apart by the violent shock wave.
The waves of air surged forward, and the explosion followed, and no matter where they were hiding, as long as they were on the ground, they could not escape the bombardment of the shelling even in the building.
There were no screams, no shouts, and the shelling just continued in patches, rapidly advancing towards the becoming, towards the edge of the city.
Mengzi doesn't need to look to know that such an artillery bombardment, no buildings can be left, and it is more powerful than covering shooting, and there will be an air to accurately control the muzzle, although the missing ones are so accurate, but most of them are in a straight line.
On the surface of the sea, the battleships spewed flames, oblivious to the approaching enemy planes.
The British fighter and bomber groups took off on command, but not so fast. And the number is pitiful, all of them add up to only more than 300 aircraft, and most of them are old aircraft.
The good planes have all been left in the sea, and they have to take them off as a last resort.
During the shelling, the distance of the enemy plane group was close to 10,000 meters, and the fierce son also received a report.
"Leave these enemy planes behind, helicopters take off for cover!"
Mengzi ordered easily, not caring about this plane.
The shelling continued, not stopping with the arrival of enemy aircraft. The helicopters on the aircraft carrier took off one after another, hovering around the perimeter of the battleship at the moment when the anti-aircraft guns were turned on here, protecting the battleship group.
With them, it would be useless for more enemy planes to come. On average, one of their planes had four air-to-air missiles, carrying rockets, and sweeping the enemy planes that came to attack them was in their hands.
Sure enough, they didn't shoot. Six or seven kilometers away, the enemy planes began to fall like dumplings, splashing a puff of water on the sea.
In just five or six minutes, only about forty of them escaped and returned to the shore. The rest, all shot down.
By this time Plymouth was in ruins, and all the buildings had been destroyed, one building after another. The bungalow was gone, rubble all over the floor, corpses all over the floor. Before they could fire a single shot, those tanks turned into scrap metal, smoking in the dust.
Plymouth's telegram flew like snowflakes into London, like a hammer on Churchill's heart, and he lamented that Plymouth was ruined. But he could not do anything, and it was impossible to declare defeat. The fact that no way to stop the war could still be found left frustrated and helpless.
The heavy shelling continued for half an hour, and the shelling did not stop until all the battleships left a base number of high-explosive shells, and the rest were cleaned.
"Move closer to the supply fleet!"
While reporting to Dong Ku, Mengzi ordered the battleship to return to the supply point and wait for the next order.
After receiving the telegram, Dong Ku once again informed Liu Chengcheng that the British telegram could be restored.
Liu Yucheng had already drafted the message, and after receiving the message from Dong Ku, he directly sent the message. But. The message was sent in clear code, which was to be seen by many countries.
The content of the message was simple. Based on the hijacking of a Filipino-flagged freighter under the Eurasian Business Alliance, the innocent crew of the crew was slaughtered, and the fleet of the Raging Tide Mercenaries has arrived in the waters near the United Kingdom, ready to bring back the bodies of those innocent people so that they can be buried in peace. But unexpectedly, he was attacked by the British Royal Fleet and fought back. More than 60 British warships, including six aircraft carriers and several battleships, were sunk.
But before the Fufeng Company could negotiate with the British high-level management, hundreds of planes took off from Plymouth to launch an air attack on our fleet. Our fleet did not stand still, and after a fierce battle, shot down all the invading enemy planes. They followed the fleeing ships and launched an artillery attack on Plymouth in order to destroy the airfield there and ensure the safety of the warships.
In order to avoid harming innocent people, our fleet issued an artillery warning to the port of Plymouth, waiting for the commander who attacked our fleet to give an explanation to Nufeng. At the same time, it is also a reminder for civilians to leave areas where war is likely to occur as soon as possible to avoid harming innocent people.
But our goodwill was not understood by the British commander who ordered it, and after fifteen minutes of waiting, after many fruitless negotiations, our fleet launched an artillery bombardment of Plymouth. After removing the threat by force, our fleet retreated 50 kilometers, still maintaining a peace-loving heart, waiting for an explanation from the commander who ordered the attack on our fleet.
Here, Nu Feng wants to seek an answer, why did the British Royal Navy launch an attack on our fleet without giving an explanation, slaughtering the crew of our Chinese fleet and seizing the freighter? Is this a declaration of war on behalf of the British Empire?!
If this is not a decision made by the top of the British Empire, but an individual act, then our anger is not unreasonable, and we still maintain the original demand, the perpetrators will compensate for the deaths of innocent civilians, and hope that the British Empire will hand over the perpetrators to our side for trial, and at the same time, give an explanation for the attack on our fleet and compensate for the losses of our fleet, so as to avoid greater contradictions being provoked.
At the same time, the names of the sunken British warships were announced, and the location of the sinking was explained in detail in the telegram.
As soon as this telegram was sent, the world was immediately hit by a magnitude 10 earthquake.
The Royal Navy's aircraft carriers and battleships are gone, and the news is terrifying. After the disappearance of the Japanese fleet, the British Navy has leapt to the first place in the world, both in terms of tonnage and quantity. And now there is a decisive battle on both sides without everyone knowing, I don't know where the battlefield is, but the result must be that the main warships of the Royal Fleet are gone, otherwise how can the Furious Front fleet get close to the coast and bombard the port safely?
The British Navy is finished......
All countries have a straight back chill. When the advance army killed the Japanese fleet, everyone did not know where the battlefield was, how long the battle had been, and what the losses of the advance army were. This will bring down the Royal Fleet, and it is still unknown how much the advance force will lose after the name change.
If they knew that this would annihilate the main British fleet, and Nufeng did not lose a single battleship, or even hit a single shot, what kind of expressions would they have.
The Germans reacted the strongest, and the main ships of the British Royal Fleet were gone, so that their warships would no longer be blocked out of the English Channel, and they would be able to cross the English Channel and launch an attack on the British mainland. However, there was a fierce battle with the new weapons of Soviet Russia. Lao Xi has an idea, but he can't pull away for the time being, so he can only watch the great opportunity being missed, and then talk about getting Soviet Russia first.
There in the United States, Roosevelt was on the verge of collapse. The U.S. fleet suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Japanese, and the British Royal Navy was wiped out. He didn't even have anyone to help, could the Pacific Ocean go back?
Churchill was furious at the same time that the nations were shaken. This is a rake. You came to attack us, we defended, and in the end we said it was our attack, and you shelled and destroyed Plymouth, but you said that it was a force to remove the threat there, which is purely reversing black and white!! That's it, sinking my main fleet. How shameless could it be to ask for compensation for your losses?!!
However, anger can't solve the problem, he knows very well that strength represents dignity, and the right to speak is always on the winning side. He has already been defeated, and the other party's message undoubtedly gives the steps and gives the direction. There is no indication of a war with the British, which indicates that Tung Ku did not intend to go to war with the British.
Endure!!!
Churchill was furious. Calm was quickly restored. Constantly breathing heavily, he decided to endure the bad breath.
After a brief consultation, the British soon responded, stating that the seizure of the freighter was being investigated, and that the attacking fleet was caused by Plymouth's commander Connor misjudging the Fury Tide's intentions. I thought it was to start a war, but because I didn't receive official documents from Nufeng, it was just a misunderstanding. Britain is willing to sit down with Nufeng and talk calmly to resolve this misunderstanding.
Britain's bow has the world staring at it again. At the same time, I also understand that the British are soft on the one hand. The key point is that Fufeng's strength is too strong, and Britain is just a sacrifice to the flag established by Fufeng.
As for the British fleet attack, this is simply nonsense, if you are not a large army pressing the border, how can you annihilate the main fleet of the other side? Moreover, they shelled other people's ports, and in the name of lifting the threat by force, this is just a diplomatic rhetoric to the outside world from the level of the victor.
While mourning for Britain, these countries also know that they must not offend Nu Feng, otherwise this madman does not know what to do. What do they dare not do when they go to sea to attack Britain, which has the world's largest navy?
When various countries were discussing and figuring out how to resolve this armed conflict, Britain finally contacted Nufeng.
Liu Chengcheng, the vice president of Nufeng, was already in London, and after responding in the UK, he found the relevant department, identified himself, and was taken directly to Churchill, where he met Churchill.
After verifying the identity of Willow, Churchill met with him personally.
The politeness of meeting is gone, and Liu Yucheng is not aggressive. It is an international practice for those crew members to pay compensation in gold. The amount is negotiable, and he didn't bite to death. The freighter was returned as it was, and the perpetrators were handed over to Nu Feng to deal with, in this case all the soldiers of the entire battleship involved in the massacre, including the cook.
These were no different from what was originally requested, and there was no inflated compensation because the main fleet of the British Royal Navy was lost.
This made Churchill feel a little more comfortable. Otherwise, he lost a huge fleet, not to mention, a beautiful harbor is in ruins, there is no need to worry about rebuilding for three years, if you ask for compensation too much, it will only be a desperate war, otherwise, Britain will never be able to raise its head.
Next, the compensation for the loss of the battleship was briefly communicated. To Churchill's surprise, Liu was not asking for much compensation.
Liu Yucheng put down the coffee and said with a smile: "Prime Minister, my Nufeng Company is a mercenary, there are no enemies outside, and they are all potential customers in business, so for the loss of our warships and fighters, our president thinks that there is no good hand to fight, and there is no good scolding, since it is a misunderstanding, then shake hands and smile and enmity." But it's not appropriate not to compensate at all, after all, you have to give an explanation to the soldiers, otherwise the morale of the army will be scattered. ”
Churchill looked at Liu Chengcheng quietly, not knowing what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, but he didn't interrupt, maintaining a gentlemanly demeanor, and waited for Liu Luocheng to finish speaking.
Liu Chengcheng paused, and seeing that Churchill did not react, he continued: "Based on this, we have decided after discussion to claim a gold coin from you, weighing five hundred grams. ”
A pound of gold?
Churchill's heart moved. This amount is the same as no compensation for the state, which is not a lot at all.
But before he could speak, Liu Yucheng continued: "However, the gold coin must be engraved with the reason and time of the compensation according to our requirements......"
You......
Churchill didn't wait for Liu to finish speaking, and almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.
This is an insult, a humiliation of Chiguoguo. Isn't it equivalent to a commemorative coin to pay a gold coin and write the reason for the indemnity?
But he immediately remembered Soviet Russia, which had written the reason for the reparations with a silver coin. The other party either asks for money, or has a bowed attitude.
Churchill had the intention to turn his face, but looking back, it was nothing. Even if the indemnity is one pound, a treaty must be signed. Therefore, there is no special meaning for whether it is engraved on a gold coin or not, and there is no meaning that can be insulted.
How did he know that Liu Yucheng did not come to ask him how much compensation he wanted, but came for this gold coin. As he said, the Fury Mercenaries have no enemies, all individuals and countries are their potential customers, and there is no need to tear their faces in similar situations. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for the lion to open his mouth on the matter of losing money, so that the contradiction will be completely intensified, resulting in a situation that cannot be stopped.
And he still has to raise funds, so many countries are in the draft infrastructure, domestic demand alone is simply not enough to meet the rapid development of the capital requirements, he just sold Dong Ku cultural relics to get two billion euros can not even see a splash, so, he also expects this commemorative coin to get more money from Dong Ku.
Dong Ku smiled when he saw his telegram at that time, and said to Zuo Boyang magnificently: "The gold coin should weigh one pound, the size of a teacup, and the reason for the indemnity will be engraved, and I will give him five billion euros ......" (to be continued......