Chapter 87 International Suez
The Suez Canal, which winds its way through barren loess, is a 104-kilometer-long, 4.8-kilometer-wide military base that has been home to Britain's largest overseas military base since 1875, when the Egyptian government had to sell 44% of its shares in the Suez Canal to Britain at a bargain price. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In the future World War II, Britain took this as the core, and the army with up to 15 divisions, 65 air squadrons and the Royal Navy fleet throughout the Eastern Mediterranean was stationed here, and it was the base camp of British operations in the East.
The flag of the International Suez Canal Company flies everywhere on the canal, and the annual cost of crossing the river is several times the income of Egypt as a whole, and the strategic significance is unimaginable, and it has become a de facto British state in Egypt.
It is also one of the UK's most important special interests overseas.
Its importance could have triggered a world war, and the British garrisoned there so many troops and the system was so tight that even with the infiltration ability of the Eye of Horus, it was difficult to completely control the entire military base.
Since yesterday when the British delegation to the international Suez Canal was stationed at the military base, the new British High Commissioner to Egypt, Baron Fermoy, has taken over all the security and gendarmerie systems of the base, sealed off the arsenals and oil depots, and kept the ammunition under close control.
Soldiers from Britain took over most of the important posts, and the military base was full of panic.
However, Baron Vermoy was skillful, first on the grounds of salary, to slow down the soldiers' resistance to resist, and on the other hand, on the grounds of inspection, to require the soldiers to accept militarized management, and at noon the next day, he cut off the communication between the soldiers, and lined up a huge military base one by one.
"Baron, the army is ready!" A clerk wearing a wig said to a diminutive nobleman.
Baron Vermoy turned his head slowly, he had a pair of amber eyes, he looked quite young, but I have to say that he was just well-maintained, making him look like a young man, Baron Vermoy's temperament was slightly feminine, and his every move was worthy of the example of the aristocracy, he was the kind of character who integrated etiquette and behavior into his bones, the real heritage of the old British imperialist power.
Even if Chen Ang came, he had to admit that this kind of person was the representative of the real elite of this time and space.
Since the British Industrial Revolution, the national power has risen, colonized the world for hundreds of years, usurped countless global elites, accumulated rich heritage and talents, the Age of Discovery left the British aristocracy that kind of ruthlessness, greed, the pride and tempering of the empire on which the sun never sets, and the vision and accumulation of colonizing the world.
On the one hand, London's extravagance and glitz and decadence are a reminder of the twilight of the empire, while on the other hand, politicians and elites like Baron Vermoy show the essence of the empire.
It was they who squeezed the United States out of the League of Nations through various political tricks and arrangements, and it was they who blocked the claws of the United States reaching out to the imperial cake, leading to the peak of isolationism in North America.
Behind Baron Vermoy stood an old priest in a red robe, his half-open and half-closed eyes looked like the tiredness of an old man, but only the guards who followed Baron Vermoy knew what a terrible influence this unattractive old man had, as the Puritan Archbishop of York, this old man had equal rights with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Church (Anglican Church).
The old bishop nodded slightly to Baron Vermoy, and said in a loud voice: "The intelligence is not wrong, there is indeed the smell of those dark creatures here, we have locked down most of them, and the infiltration of those vampires into the imperial army has reached a very dangerous point!" ā
Baron Vermoy also seemed to be furious when he heard this, and he said in a deep voice: "If the Queen hadn't sent me, would we have lost control of this place?" How far will the situation deteriorate? We can already establish that a vampire organization called the Eye of Horus has infiltrated the army and even has a strong influence over Egypt......"
"Fortunately, we have preemptively controlled the situation before the situation deteriorated, those vampires' control over the army has not yet reached that dangerous critical point, and now we have successfully taken over most of the power here, and divided them and controlled the situation, and then, the matter of screening and handling will be handled by the church."
When the old bishop heard this, he smiled and nodded slightly, already showing his approval.
"We, on the one hand, take over the reorganization of the Suez Canal Company, and on the other hand, we focus on the Eye of Horus." Baron Vermoy ordered.
The subordinate clerk, Sir Aemond, reported: "Is that going to be done now?" ā
Baron Vermoy shook his head and said, "Look at the sky, it's midnight, are you asking us to clear a group of vampires who are almost unkillable under the moon at midnight?" Fools know that tomorrow noon is when they are at their weakest......"
"Your Excellency means that we will act tomorrow at noon?" Sir Edmund asked cautiously.
"I said that idiot knows, are you stupid? Don't those vampires know that they are weakest at noon? Won't they be wary of that? Baron Vermoy sneered, and seeing Sir Edmund's flustered and ignorant appearance, he reluctantly tidied up his appearance, and commanded: "Start your action early tomorrow morning, and when the sun is fully raised in the sky, you will begin, and then the vampires will not be as vigilant as they are at noon, nor as sharp as when the sun first comes out, and they will fall into a period of psychological dullness." ā
"Yes, Your Excellency! Sir Edmund hurriedly bowed his head.
The camp where tens of thousands of troops are stationed will not be crowded together, in fact, it is a large area, the division of different areas is orderly, the army is stationed in different areas according to the battalion level, and the regimental headquarters are far apart, and the entire military base is like a sparsely distributed city, which facilitates the blockade of Baron Vermoy.
The checkpoints between the camps, which had been taken over by the native army, and the gendarmerie had fallen under his control, were now ready to cut off the links between the battalions and gradually clear them.
In fact, he did the same, and dozens of black-clad priests had followed the cardinal to the camps in the central part of the base, nominally to pray for the soldiers, which was common and irreproachable in the British army, and the chains were silently tightening the throats of the Eye of Horus bloods.
As he headed south along the Suez Canal in the early morning, Aung stood on the bow of a freighter bound for India and looked out over the camp with the International Suez flag flying on the shore.