Chapter 868 The Great Transfer of Wealth
The bombing ended before the British planes arrived. The second wave of bombers continued to bomb for about half an hour, blowing up the brightly lit location in a mess, and the ruins and walls everywhere were in shambles.
Even the originally dark position was bombed because the light of the fire should reveal the target, but it was relatively lighter, with only a dozen fire points, and the buildings collapsed a little.
The mournful cries of wounded London residents and soldiers were made clear when the engine sound was weakened, and troops and crowds fled in panic.
Groups of soldiers entered the areas where the damage was most severe, took control and avoided the riots. Chaos appears. Everyone couldn't help but shudder when they saw the miserable picture, they were no longer safe here.
At this time, for nearly an hour and a half, the bank and the museum and the library have not completed the transportation, especially the museum, there are too many objects, even if the bank has gold, it is faster than the museum's cultural relics that need to be carefully packed to be packed in boxes. If it weren't for the bundles of securities in the bank, it would have been able to move in more than an hour.
Li Zhankui, who was in charge, watched nervously at the outside of the museum, ready to block the British troops who found that the situation was wrong and wanted to enter the interior. In the museum, although I was mentally prepared, I was still stumped by the large number of objects, which made the shipment not fast.
But these captains strictly ordered that even if the gold could not be transported, the transportation of these cultural relics should be ensured, and even if there was an obstruction after the worst attack, they should try to transport as much as possible.
Li Zhankui didn't know the true value of these things, he was just a hunter in the Great Black Mountain, but he was more direct to carry out orders, and the day he became a member of the Huya team, he didn't think about disobeying orders.
There were more and more people outside, and the tense estuaries of the British troops who had been the first line of defense were aimed at the chaotic crowd. I am afraid that a bad situation will happen that is difficult to control.
They are guarding the defense line for Li Zhankui and others, providing strong protection for Li Zhankui's wealth transfer.
Churchill had come to his senses, and he and his generals decided to retaliate against Germany by air raids, so that Germany could also taste the taste of being attacked by air raids.
But those are tomorrow's things. What we need to do today is to control the situation as soon as possible and avoid a commotion. Chaos, there is another thing, that is, to prepare in advance, although the gold has been concentrated in the Bank of England, but those securities, those stocks, property rights deeds, etc., he must collect them as soon as possible.
He decided to transfer the property. Move to a safe location. But the United States is not the first choice, and he can't trust the United States, especially an opponent that is rising so fast.
In the underground vaults of the Bank of England, there were more than 2,000 tons of gold, but that was not all he had to transfer, he planned to transfer 4,000 tons of gold and those gold coins, gold products. As for the relics, he had already thought of the location. That is to bury secretly, waiting for the war to stabilize.
He would have realized how powerful the Germans were. According to reports from the front, the Germans had already attacked most of the Netherlands, dividing their forces into several routes. In Belgium and Luxembourg, the Germans had broken through the defensive line, Luxembourg surrendered without a fight, and the Germans were crossing the gorges of the Ardennes. Attack on the territory of France.
And the troops they were massing on the back of France were bombarded by the German air force, and after the air raids in Paris, the dawn began, the assembly place of the army, the transportation hub. They were all attacked by air raids, and there were not many who could rush to Belgium for reinforcements, and I am afraid that they could not stop the German army from advancing at all.
Therefore, Churchill took precautions, and while urgently transferring the troops of the colonies, he no longer invested in the Japanese army that entered India, and at the same time planned to transfer the wealth, so as to prevent the German army from breaking into the British mainland, so as to have a chance to make a comeback and avoid all the wealth falling into the hands of the Germans.
It's just that his gold has not been completely collected, and the collection of securities has not yet been carried out, and the German army has begun air raids, which makes him extremely nervous.
"Herald!"
He shouted: "The Bank of England has increased its protection, and those who come close will be shot directly!" ”
Churchill could not let the Bank of England have anything to do with it, the gold there, the jewels there, there was no room for error. Moreover, there are the most valuable securities there, and stocks with great potential and momentum, together with gold, worth more than $3 billion.
Following his orders, a large number of soldiers rushed to the Bank of England. At night, it was not necessary to transport and transfer, but protection was necessary, and no one was worried about whether the bomb would blow up to the vault underground. That's not a three-meter-two-meter-thick layer of defense.
The citizens and soldiers who were running in the nearby streets were dispersed by the fast-approaching troops, blocked the streets, and waited until dawn to move the belongings first to avoid damage from the air raids.
In the midst of the chaos, the explosion disappeared for an hour, and the sky was already blocked by warplanes arriving from a nearby airfield, when the explosion sounded again in London.
Booming explosions rang out next to the area where the fire should be lit, igniting the areas that the two air raids hadn't hit, dispelling the darkness there.
The place where the fire was put out was also bombed, and those who put out the fire fled frantically in the loud noise, and no one cared about the flames that had gone out of control, hoping to pan for gold and darkness immediately to escape.
Li Zhankui watched the movement outside nervously, he was very anxious, but there was nothing he could do. The airships had taken off, loaded with a shipment of supplies, and flew to the waters off the Isle of Mersey, where they were unloaded onto the freighter where they were staying.
But the things here are conservatively estimated to be twice as many as in Paris, and although their transportation distance is shorter, the internal transportation time is much longer.
Everyone was silent and busy quickly, hoping to transfer these as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the British army was extremely cooperative, and has been strictly controlling some important positions to avoid the trouble of looting caused by bombing.
The small carts were running rapidly, and the soldiers were sweating profusely and steaming all over. But they didn't care about anything, just ran quickly down the sewers, to the exit, to the assembly position.
This is a race against time, although they are plundering and extracting your wealth, once a link goes wrong, they will be annihilated by the flood of enemies, even if they are the king of soldiers, even if they are a ten, a hundred, they will not be able to stop thousands of enemies.
Du Fei was very nervous about the wealth that had not been transported away from Paris, although he was very excited, but he would not be relieved until the task was completed.
Churchill was nervously deploying at this time, mobilizing warplanes to rush to nearby airfields, mobilizing the air force to search for bombing planes, but he did not know that his wealth was being transferred.
The warplanes in the air roared and flew the deer, but they couldn't find the planes that dropped the bombs. Although they knew that the Dao was definitely above their heads, they could not see higher.
Churchill only then realized that there were one or more bombers above them that their fighters could not reach, which made him even more frightened, and he was even more determined about the plan to transfer the wealth. Germany, it is really possible to hit the homeland!
The Airbus overhead flew comfortably, at an altitude of at least 300 meters away from the enemy plane, and even if the pilot's ears were good, he could hear but not see, and he could not attack, and he could throw bombs without any scruples.
The nine-ton bomb was still very fast, and half an hour later, when it was about to be dropped, the pilot on board finally received a call to carry out targeted bombing.
He didn't have to drop bombs himself, he dropped bombs all over the city, so that the British army could not judge where the bombs landed. It's just that he was going to fly to the bombed position to drop the bomb.
Ten minutes later, the roofs of these places that had been evacuated were the same as in Paris, and suddenly there was a fire in the explosion, and then, under the frightened gaze of everyone, a bomb exploded in a scream, and then, a huge pull made everyone breathe, and then suddenly felt a violent expansion force, and before he could react, he lost consciousness in a dazzling firelight.
Rumble!
There was an earth-shattering bang, which stunned all the people who rescued or fled, and those who were relatively close to the location of the explosion were directly torn apart by the rapidly expanding shock wave, and a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky, illuminating the entire sky over London, as bright as day.
The man in the distance had just recovered from the violent shock, and had not yet gotten up, when his ears were buzzing, and another loud bang rang out, and before the mushroom cloud had risen to the top, it rose one after another.
Immediately afterwards, several explosions sounded one after another, each more violent than the other. The earth trembled violently, the buildings in the distance shook, the nearby ones disappeared like dust, and the tumbling shock wave swept out like a tsunami, devastating and devouring everything. A great destruction ensued.
In the city, there are not many people who can stand, and most of them have already fallen to the ground, even if they are far from the location of the explosion, they have been injured by the falling debris.
Churchill's head slammed into the corner of the table, and he lay on the ground dizzy, losing the ability to think in the dark. He didn't know what kind of new weapon Germany was using.
This should not have happened, but De Gaulle did not tell Churchill about this situation, and told him the cause of the devastation and explosion in Paris, De Gaulle believed that it was only a problem in Paris, and London would not have it, but he did not know that his negligence had caused incalculable losses to London, otherwise, during the bombing, Li Zhankui and they would have to fight a defensive battle with the swarming British army.
The ruined London did not affect the rapid loading of the airship, and the warriors pushed the cart into the airship quickly, unloaded the boxes, and left from the other end, like a long dragon, loading the wealth into the airship's cargo hold.
The wealth that was about to be transferred left London in the chaos of London, and most of the wealth that should have been transferred to Canada was left behind, and it would soon become the wealth of Dong Ku. (To be continued......)