Chapter Ninety-Six, Let the Nuclear Explosion Come More Violently! (Above)

In general, even if they were numb to war and death, and depressed, pessimistic, and even hopeless about the future, the soldiers and civilians of the British Empire did not lack the last courage. Pen ~ Fun ~ Cabinet www.biquge.info Even those who once opposed the war policy of the Churchill Cabinet threw themselves into the work of defending their homeland when the news of the nuclear bombing in Paris came and saw that there seemed to be no hope of seeking a decent peace.

Encouraged by the propaganda of the cabinet and the royal family, the squires, celebrities, priests and nobles of England, Scotland, and Wales took the lead in taking action, and in just a short time, more than 3,000 battalions of the "National Guard" were raised. Since most of the young and strong British boys had died in this odious world war, the standard of conscription this time was to starve, basically non-disabled people over 16 years old and under 60 years old, as long as they did not lack arms or legs, they were all conscripted into the army, and children under 16 years old and old men over 60 years old were also conscripted to be responsible for logistics and transportation and other auxiliary work. All had little military training, and many had even touched a gun for the first time in their lives. If you're lucky, you can meet a retired veteran, but you don't have to expect too much, after living peacefully for so long, the memory of the barracks has long been blurred. In addition, a large number of female soldiers were also gathered, and the scale was quite amazing, and the total number of people reported before and after was as high as 2 million!

However, it is not enough to have people, and then they must be armed, and they must be given the necessary training and appropriate tactics, so that they can be used as cannon fodder to find trouble for the enemy, otherwise they will simply be driven and slaughtered pigs.

However, at this time, the British Empire, which was almost exhausted, had all its military reserves under the cordon, and even each company of the regular army could not necessarily be assigned a mortar, and the latest batch of urgently conscripted recruits could not guarantee a rifle for each person except for a military uniform, and some recruits were only given a grenade, which I really don't know if it was used to kill the enemy or commit suicide. As for the irregular militia such as the National Guard, it is even more difficult to mention, and during the war, the cabinet could not even issue a set of military uniforms to each of these "National Guards" who were eager to serve the country.

As for the question of eating, there is no need to worry about it for the time being, although it is basically impossible to maintain the level of food before the war, and to have wine and meat every day, and butter on bread every day, but if all the land of Great Britain is planted with potatoes, then it will barely be enough for the people of the whole country to eat.

In desperation, Churchill had no choice but to order the members of the National Guard to bring their own cooking utensils and wear civilian clothes. At the same time, he racked his brains and took out a batch of old rifles that had been reloaded and sealed, but after all, the number of soldiers who needed weapons was too terrifying, and throwing these rifles down was not even a drop in the bucket. And even if you get your hands on the rifles, it's still a big question whether they'll be usable now – thanks to the British Empire's habit of hoarding old goods, these rifles are antiques that have been mothballed for many years or even produced in the last century, and the variety and age span are truly breathtaking, and some of the equipment can even be traced back to the Napoleonic Wars. Some members of the National Guard were able to get their hands on a batch of brown bass flintlock pistols with oil harder than stone (the kind of thing that required biting the bottom of the bullet to be used, and as a result, the bullet was coated with lard and butter, which led to a great rebellion of the Indian native soldiers......

In the end, Churchill, who had nothing to do, had to order the squires, landlords, and aristocratic gods who formed the National Guard to raise their own weapons, so the people below began to cross the sea to show their magic - first, as the main force leading the formation of the militia, the families of the English squires who loved hunting usually did not lack weapons, and they hunted not for life, but for entertainment and excitement. Therefore, they not only hunted foxes and rabbits in their own land, slaughtered bison and brown bears in North America, slaughtered tigers into rare animals in India, and killed an unknown number of antelopes, rhinoceros, lions and African elephants in Africa, but also happily cut off the entire head of the beast and concocted it into a specimen to hang on the wall to show off. In order to hunt these beasts, these modern British tyrants are like gamblers, and they have always been very willing to spend a lot of money on all kinds of killing weapons, just like modern rich people are happy to spend a lot of money on luxury cars, what James partner shotguns, Remington shotguns, hunting heavy crossbows...... It's got it all. Even if someone doesn't like hunting themselves, they will keep their ancestors' shotguns for self-defense.

-- Don't look down on this hobby of the English gentlemen, in any case, it at least exercises their courage to face fierce beasts, their strong physique to trek through mountains and rivers, and their shooting skills and ability to survive in the wilderness, which is much healthier than the late Qing tyrants who swallowed clouds and smoked cigarettes all day long.

Don't think that this kind of thing is just full of food, and idle eggs hurt. You must know that a person's life should be spent in constant pursuit and struggle, although the result of struggle has success and failure, but this is much better than no desire and no desire. If a person has no pursuit and desire, then he will completely lose the purpose of life and fall into extreme emptiness and confusion spiritually. So those big stars who seem to have unlimited scenery and success will inexplicably pursue excitement, drag racing, drug abuse, and promiscuity ♂ ♂...... To put it bluntly, it's too boring to be like this. The penchant for hunting was really nothing compared to these depraved fellows - an English gentleman who loved to hunt could fight his way through the enemy in times of war, or at least act as a qualified partisan. What can you contribute to society if you can change to a drug addict?

However, no matter how many hunting rifles these hunters have in their homes, they may not be enough to arm an army. And a considerable number of squires who were not generous enough to be willing to give up expensive and elaborate hunting guns to the mud-legged people. Fortunately, Britain has not been completely deindustrialized in these years, and there are still many small workshops in the countryside, many of which are Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and some of the blacksmiths in small workshops can even hammer out a car by hand - so, after the government lifted the ban, the country workshops in the counties of Britain began to frantically manufacture all kinds of earthen guns, such as smoothbore guns, rifled guns, air guns, revolvers, match guns, lever guns, potato guns, and then rockets, mortars, and other "heavy equipment".

Of course, this is a product that can only be made by a well-crafted workshop, and those country blacksmiths who are not skilled in making firearms (for fear of exploding) can only forge some cold weapons, such as spears, broadswords, maces, bayonets and maces, and even some people have made the Welsh longbow as a characteristic product of Britain. However, the most made axes and pitchforks were made, because they seemed to be the most cost-effective and useful after the war.

Although they were dressed in a mess and equipped with a variety of weapons, the flags of the National Guard were quite exquisite. Those rural aristocrats who ran the regiment naturally moved their family coats of arms to the military flags, while the little squires who did not have an aristocratic identity made their own creations by digging through the aristocratic heraldic classics in the library. Other militias, led by priests and bishops, rightly painted crosses of all kinds on the flags...... In the end, some of them looked like medieval aristocratic private soldiers or mercenaries, while others looked like resurrected crusaders.

All of a sudden, from the highlands of Scotland to the mountains and forests of Wales, from the factories of Glasgow to the universities of Oxford, from the warm and warm Windsor Castle to the cold Shetland Islands, there were groups of National Guards, dressed in various clothes, holding a mess of weapons, holding bright flags, marching in queues, shouting slogans, and singing military songs, just like a super-large-scale "medieval all-out war cosplay".

Then, the scenes of these rabble training camps around Britain were successively captured by the pervasive Soviet spies and reconnaissance satellites in orbit, and quickly transmitted to the bigwigs of the other camp.

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Easter Island, South Pacific

In the vast South Pacific Ocean, there is a small island with an area of 165 square kilometers, which is the famous Easter Island. This small, triangular island made of volcanic lava is the easternmost point of the Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean and one of the world's loneliest landmasses, surrounded by vast oceans on all sides. The nearest island, Pitcairn, is 2,000 kilometres away, and the coastline of South America is 3,700 kilometres.

In addition to loneliness, Easter Island is most impressively "desolate" and "barren" - in contrast to the usual image of the densely vegetated and lush tropical islands of the South Sea, Easter Island has no streams and springs, no coral reefs, and hardly a decent tree, except for bare rocks and sand, only low weeds and shrubs. At first glance, it makes people think that they are in the Gobi Desert.

In the future of the other world, it will attract visitors from all over the world with its mysterious stone statues of giants and "talking planks". But in 1946, there were only a few thousand sheep and goats, a gray-haired Chilean missionary, and hundreds of indigenous converts to Christianity.

As for the more than 900 giant stone statues scattered all over the island, they have long been overthrown or even destroyed in the civil war of the natives of Easter Island, and it was originally intended to be re-erected by people in the future when a large number of archaeologists came to the island and for the development of tourism. However, in this time and space in 1946, everyone forgot that they still lie quietly among the weeds and sand, and even the stone platform where the colossus is displayed is dilapidated.

Well, there used to be a U.S. Navy weather station here, but they had already slipped away before the Japanese arrived.

And the de jure owner of Easter Island, the Chilean government in South America, did not have the courage to fight head-on with their pocket-sized navy against the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy in order to defend this remote territory where birds don't, and so far no Chilean warship has appeared in the nearby waters.

In short, in the battle plan drawn up by the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, Easter Island is the final destination of this "South Pacific Raid."

At this time, Wang Qiu was standing on the only small beach on Easter Island, watching a group of Japanese sailors excitedly raise the Rising Sun flag on the high ground of the coast.

As a volcanic island suspended in the depths of the sea, Easter Island's coast is full of cliffs - the coastal rock formations formed by volcanic eruptions, eroded by the foaming waves, have become so steep that from the sea that it is almost reminiscent of the steep coast of the Scottish Highlands. These cliffs are generally layered in various colors such as reddish-brown and yellow-tinged gray, like a slice cake. On the top of the cliff, you can see green grass, as well as ancient walls left by ancient islanders, which seem to be about to collapse at any time. Of course, the entire coast of Easter Island cannot be all cliffs, and there are also many relatively gentle places where you can see grassy hills and rocky fields. Outside the coastline, however, is still a mess of black lava that encloses the island like a wall, making it difficult for any slightly larger ships to dock, and making Easter Island, a reef-strewn island with no safe haven, a naval base like Hawaii's Oahu.

“…… Alas, this place is really barren enough, the coast looks like the Scottish Highlands, the inland looks like the Mongolian steppe, or the kind of grassland on the edge of the Gobi Desert, which is already on the verge of desertification...... There is not even a river on the island, drinking water depends on rain, it is difficult to be self-sufficient in food, not to mention that there is not much fruit and vegetables to collect. It is really only exiles and missionaries who can live in such places......"

Senior Sister Ma Tong, who followed Wang Qiu to the island with her, after going around with Doraemon's [Bamboo Dragonfly] on her back, returned to the beach where she first landed, and said this - and behind her, she was followed by a large group of Easter Island natives who worshipped her as a god, chasing after her ass one by one, shouting "Birdman!" "Birdman!" …… Well, this is a compliment to the local natives.

Although the scene is a little messy, what Senior Sister Ma Tong said is indeed insightful. Easter Island, a barren and desolate place with no natural harbor, is simply nothing, and there is no value in stationing troops for a long time.

The Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy really did not intend to stay here for long, but only sent some people to land and take a turn, roughly survey the terrain and products on the island, plant a few national flags and military flags, and erect a monument to indicate that they had been here, and then planned to call it a day and return home.

As for whether the U.S. Pacific Fleet or the Chilean Navy will take advantage of the loopholes to regain this place in the future, the combined fleet said that it doesn't matter, anyway, the distance between Easter Island and the Samoa base is even farther than the distance from Japan to New Zealand! If the US Pacific Fleet Command is really having a brain cramp and is ready to use Easter Island, which has nothing as a counteroffensive base in the South Pacific, then the entire Combined Fleet can open champagne to celebrate!

However, although Easter Island is so barren that there are not even a single tree, the Japanese are not without a single tree here. At the very least, the thousands of sheep left on the island by the Chilean livestock company were laughed at by the Japanese marines who landed on the shore, in the spirit of frugality. Now he is being slaughtered and bloodied by the army cooks on the beach, shedding hair and skinning, and preparing to make a wild roast lamb feast for everyone to beat their teeth. At this moment, Wang Qiudu could already smell a smell of pepper and cumin...... Huh? How does it feel more like being in the Mongolian steppe?

I just don't know, is the taste of beach barbecue made by Japanese chefs in this year authentic?

Swallowing his saliva and trying to suppress the gluttonous worms churning in his stomach, Wang Qiu raised the tablet in his hand, pulled up a photo casually, and then moved it to Ma Tong's eyes, and said in a low voice, "...... Look at this, what do you think this should be? ”

Ma Tong looked at it and found that the photo was taken very clearly, only to see a group of white people dressed in all kinds of messy costumes, mainly old men, children and women, holding antique muskets from the last century, as well as the famous longbow, broadsword and mace and other miscellaneous weapons, led by a Christian clergy holding a cross flag, walking in a majestic procession.

“…… Could this be ...... Someone is filming a costume film from medieval Europe? Or costume cosplay? Ma Tong guessed.

“…… No, this is the number one priority that Churchill has been busy with lately, preparing the two million National Guard to defend against the Soviet invasion! ”

“…… What the? Take these old, weak, sick and disabled against the Soviet Red Army? Do the British think it's possible to win? Ma Tong was dumbfounded.

“…… Maybe they really think they can win! After all, the British in these years are really angry. All eyes grow on the top of their heads. seems to think that he is the second oldest in the earth, and he is the third...... You have to beat them down hard to make them admit defeat, right? ”

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On the eve of the fall of any great empire, there are always some weird, funny, and even deadly thoughts. In essence, this is all due to the fact that thinking and concepts cannot keep up with the changes in reality. This was true of the late Roman Empire, of China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and of the British Empire on the eve of its collapse.

The British of this era are completely different from the cautious people of the marginal island countries in later generations, and their hearts are still full of imperial dreams that are proud of the world.

In fact. Since winning the Napoleonic Wars and rising to the pinnacle of power, the British have been living in their own world. Even if the sun never sets on the empire is almost gone, the vast majority of the British are still as arrogant, stubborn, and almost stupid as stubborn. At all times, he never forgets the superiority of the empire on which the sun never sets, and sincerely thinks that he can still rule the world and dominate the earth.

Neither World War I nor World War II woke these out-of-date British pirates from their dreams.

Therefore, despite the extremely unfavorable situation, the British still did not give up the courage to fight, and the determination to unite and defend their homeland.

But the question is, can such a scene of a large-scale military training of the whole people as if they were mentally ill be able to deter the Soviet Red Army, which is ready to attack?

Of course, this is absolutely impossible, and in the eyes of Stalin, the iron uncle, this is nothing more than a group of criminals waiting to be tried by him, all losers who have failed or are about to fail in the future...... Uncle Steel's real name was not Stalin, but he later changed his name to Stalin. Because the name Stalin means steel. He considers himself an invincible Iron Man, and his motto in life is: Only the victor can not be judged. Lenin's assessment of him was that Stalin was a very rough man, and if I am not there one day, you must be careful, comrades.

Then, as expected, Stalin launched the Great Purge, killing the heads of the early revolutionary fathers and bleeding rivers of blood.

The real Iron Man Stalin, although he is as tall and tragic as the Iron Man in the Marvel world, is only 1.62 meters, but he is a real invulnerable steel body. He had smallpox, and was later cured by himself with an invulnerable physique, but with some pockmarks left on his face. Later, he suffered from fatal sepsis, and he was healed by his steely physique, but his left arm was shortened because of this. In the early days of the revolution, because of financial constraints, he often risked his life to rob cash trucks and banks. All the money robbed was handed over to the organization, and he didn't keep any of it. Later, the stupid black and coarse of Soviet industry and the painting style of the torrent of steel were all the products of Stalin's personal style dominating the will of the state.

After Stalin came to power, in order to give full play to the advantages and efficiency of collectivized large-scale production in socialist countries, and in order to rapidly industrialize the country, he did not hesitate to use the most cruel means to exploit the people, and even caused a famine in Ukraine. However, after the three five-year plans, the Soviet Union's steel output also jumped more than 200 times, surpassing the entire European continent, becoming an industrial power second only to the United States, and laying a solid foundation for winning World War II.

In short, Uncle Iron is a red tyrant who is cruel to others and to himself, and a super ruthless character who leads the global proletarian revolution.

Obviously, Stalin would never be intimidated by such a ridiculous bluff of the British - no matter how well trained the British militia was? Even if they were able to defeat the enemy forces that landed at ease, would they still be able to get the Soviet strategic bombers that dropped their nuclear bombs?

- "It seems that this atomic bomb really can't be stopped!" In that case, let's just make the nuclear explosion more violent! ”

As a result, two weeks after the end of the "100-hour bombing," these British "National Guards," who were still training day and night with rudimentary weapons and high morale, did not wait for the Soviet Red Army commandos to land, but ushered in the next wave of more violent nuclear explosions from the Soviets......