In the early hours of March 18, in the west of London, the night was as bright as day.

The orange firelight, the terrible screams, the black smoke that soared into the sky, and the scorching heat wave...... On this night when the fire demon was raging, the crowded and old neighborhoods of the old London town with centuries of history, due to the serious backwardness of fire safety standards, quickly turned into a blazing torch in the night, and the sound of crackling, collapsing, and crying for help came and went one after another.

House after house burst into flames in the wind that carried the sparks. Block after block, gradually engulfed in flames and smoke. In the eyes of those who were terrified, it was as if the heavens were burning, the earth was burning, everything in the world was burning!

Although the fire did not spread very quickly, the problem was that in the current environment of war, there was simply no one who could organize the residents to put out the fire. Even those who are willing to try to fight the fire demons will be left with no water or fire trucks because the city has no water or electricity, and after consuming the few foam fire extinguishers, they are almost helpless and let the flames rage.

To make matters worse, the inhabitants who were lucky enough to break out of the burning building and try to fight the fire demons were not only desperately trying to put out the fire, but also suffered a brazen attack by mobs from all walks of life - and the chaos and deadly fires magnified this fear exponentially......

The most terrible thing is that on this tragic night, not only did the mob take advantage of the fire to loot, but also many wicked people tried very hard to set fires everywhere.

Eventually, most people gave up trying to save their homes. Thousands of fleeing citizens who helped the elderly and children abandoned their homes in a hurry and embarked on an unknown escape route. These people who were lucky enough not to be burned to death by the flames. With a coarse cloth wrapped around his head, a soaked towel over his mouth and nose, and a trolley case full of belongings, he struggled through the suffocating dust and smoke...... I have to admit that it was quite a hard hike.

Some people are so stingy with their belongings that they drag too much luggage despite the fact that their lives are now in danger. Even the silverware and fur coat at home were reluctant to throw away, but they soon lost their physical strength, and fell down one by one...... Then. These men usually stomp countless pairs of stinking feet half to death, and then let the spreading fire burn to ashes - the pungent stench of burnt human flesh filled the air around the fire......

As for others, the more stupid ones even wanted to flee in a car in a sea of fire. Didn't think at all after a few days of fighting and a night of fire. Streets long buried by layers of rubble, abandoned cars, charred corpses, broken streetlights and street trees were still able to allow their cars to drive - as a result, they either abandoned their cars and fled on the way, or turned them into iron coffins to bury themselves.

There are also some people who are not strong enough on the one hand, and on the other hand, they really can't stand the scorching heat wave, so they haven't even run out of the range of the fire, so they just find a small pond and jump into it, but after enjoying a short coolness. But I realized that this was actually killing myself - this time the fire was too big, and the temperature was too violent. The small ponds in the courtyards were quickly boiled, and those who jumped into the water found themselves surrounded by fire, and even if they hurried ashore, they had nowhere to escape but to slowly turn into cooked meatballs in a soup pot......

Those who jump into the river may be in a slightly better position, as the flowing water is able to carry the heat, so that they are at least not cooked alive. But the problem is that they also face another terrible mortal danger - in most cities, all the rivers that flow through the urban areas are flanked by land and houses. And London is no exception. In the previous scuffle, the river was already full of messy things. After the fire broke out in the whole city tonight, the buildings along the river caught fire and collapsed, and suddenly there were countless wooden planks, beams, sundries, plastic signs, and even charred and charred human and animal corpses, all down the river, and the black pressure slowly poured downstream...... Some of these particularly narrow rivers have been completely buried by collapsed buildings, and even formed dammed lakes......

As a result, the refugees who were carrying the river with a load and float immediately found themselves in a game of life and death similar to whack-a-mole - except that there were so many "hammers" on the river that could be struck on the river, and it was they who needed to dodge the gophers that needed to dodge the impact......

Others have not been far from the fire, fleeing to some open area where there are no buildings, such as a parking lot, a school playground, etc., and they think they are out of danger and will not be burned again, so they stop and find a place to rest. But the problem is that after only a few moments, billowing smoke is blown by the wind, which once again smokes them to the ground, and then suffocates in the pain of lack of oxygen. In this way, many people were burned alive by the hot wind with Mars, or "foehn wind", and some of the charred corpses were "fused" together by the heat, and they could never be separated......

Even those who are bent on escaping the cobweb-like streets and alleys and want to run wildly towards open places such as parks and suburbs are also full of dangers along the way - the burning of the city is not just behind them, chasing their buttocks and burning, but from time to time deadly smoke and fire are rolling out along the narrow alleys on both sides of the street, breaking up the fleeing people, and the people in front have no time to turn back to help...... Therefore, no matter which team of refugees is constantly shrinking like ice and snow melting, but refugees from other neighborhoods are constantly flowing in one after another halfway - this is nothing, but the problem is that while everyone is busy trying to save themselves, there are still many rioters who take advantage of the fire to loot, and the more timid ones just break into unoccupied houses and turn over boxes, and the fiercer ones simply raise their knives and guns to kill people and sell goods directly against the fleeing people. As for the more egregious ultraracists, they simply set up ambushes on the escape routes, using automatic rifles to shoot the frustrated women and children......

Therefore, in the midst of this raging and terrible burning fire, the people who are struggling to survive have to fight the fire all the way. Fight the smoke, fight the collapsed buildings, and wrestle the thugs who take advantage of the fire...... A lot of people don't last long. It's on the verge of collapse.

However, no matter how difficult and dangerous the journey is, there is still an end to it - among those who have persevered to Zuihou, some have run to the suburbs, collapsed in the fields with cold spring dewdrops, and looked at the burning city in amazement; Someone jumped into the Thames with a lifebuoy or an empty plastic bucket in an effort to find a boat willing to carry them. so that he can escape from this corpse-strewn Shura field.

However, many more people do not have the physical strength and patience to run to the countryside in one go, and are not willing to risk jumping into the Thames to gamble on their water nature. You can only choose to take shelter from the fire in the more open areas of the city, such as Hyde Park, Regent's Park, Kensington Park and Queen Mary Park.

Among them, the citizens of London, who fled to Hyde Park, were shocked to find an army that claimed to be loyal to the British crown. Already took this place over.

Although in the eyes of all true English gentlemen and ladies. At first glance, this rabble of hangers is not a regular army, and many of them appear to be foreigners...... But it is difficult to say exactly where they came from, and who called so many foreign immigrants in Britain today?

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At five o'clock in the morning, hundreds of armed men with loaded guns in Hyde Park made the place heavily guarded.

Standing in the scorching hot wind, by a fountain that no longer sprays water, but has not yet dried up. Wang Qiu frowned, looking up at a string of shadowy small black dots on the edge of the sky, gradually approaching. And around the park. It was crowded with thousands of grizzled and depressed fugitives, and although there were many of them with rough faces and strong physiques, who were not good people at first glance, but under the deterrence of automatic rifles, they were quite honest for the time being—all the slightest dishonest ones had been killed on the spot without mercy, and the corpses were still lying beside them.

After another moment, with a loud roar, a team of transport helicopters took off and landed in the open green area of the park, and the wind blowing from the propellers blew the bushes to the ground. Hordes of British police officers and soldiers, carrying grass-green duffel bags, streamed out of the cabin.

If before that, there was a risk of being shot down by ground anti-aircraft fire by massively airlifting troops from Scotland to the London theater of operations. Well, most of the high-ranking backbone members of the "Nelson Knights" have all secretly attacked and defected, and even the most die-hard chief of the regiment, Macmillan, has become a prisoner, and has been taken prisoner by Harry. After Gordon, the leader of the British wizarding world, magically manipulated the surrender speech, the air corridor was unimpeded.

Therefore, the 500 military and police urgently collected from Scotland and the northern part of England, as well as the British royal family, launched all relations and promised rich rewards, and the 900 retired British Navy and Army soldiers urgently gathered in just a few days were ordered by the "temporary prime minister" of Glasgow City Hall to go to the London theater of operations and seize territory with the EU intervention force, so as not to fall into the same fate as Berlin, Germany after World War II.

In short, since Wang Qiu and others successfully occupied the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, these shrimp soldiers and crab generals who have been turned out of various places have been continuously sent to London by all kinds of helicopters, wave after wave, with almost no gaps -- from civilian light helicopters that can only carry two or three people, to large helicopters that can carry tanks, all of them have been mobilized. He even hired a cargo airship out of nowhere, "piled up" soldiers in the cargo hold like stuffy tankers, and slowly floated towards London, hoping that it would take off and land without an airport runway......

In addition, since there is no available airport in the London metropolitan area, the use of helicopter transfers is too inefficient. Therefore, another elite special forces with SAS units (British Special Air Service Corps) as the main body have also taken helicopters to Heathrow International Airport, 22 kilometers west of downtown London, preparing to take over this air transport hub, which can allow large passenger planes to take off and land, and then find ways to airlift more troops from other places, so as not to be isolated in the city of London These small units will not be able to stand on their feet and be squeezed out by the numerous EU intervention forces.

Of course, the enemies that this group of airborne troops need to deal with in London are not only the remnants of the "Nelson Knights" coup army, the French Foreign Legion, and the illegal armed forces of immigrants from various ethnic minorities in London...... And the ubiquitous raging fire demons, and. As it stands, the fire that is spreading throughout London seems to be more terrible than any enemy!

For this. A burnt Harry. Gordon's interim cabinet secretary had to use all his authority and contacts to collect a batch of fire-fighting equipment from some unknown sources. Then, almost by putting the muzzle of a gun to the heads of those people, a group of firefighters were forcibly summoned and airlifted from a few cities in the north of England that were still in normal order for the time being. In addition, due to the city's water and electricity cuts, the fire squads were forced to move from the basement of the Ministry of Defence office building in Whitehall. The dusty backup generator was dragged out, connected to an electric water pump, and water was pumped from the River Thames to extinguish the fire.

Even so. They could only barely keep the area around Whitehall from being burned down, and the farther neighborhoods had to give up altogether.

What's more, in order to be as fast as possible. There was chaos in the city. With the street fighting still under control, a safe fire barrier was created for Whitehall and Westminster, and Wang Qiu even had to bombard the houses with rockets, ignoring the possibility that there would be residents hiding inside—as for whether there would be a humanitarian catastrophe...... Even genocide broke out before, and who cares about such a trivial matter?

At the same time, the French Foreign Legion, flying the French tricolor and the European Union's twelve-star flag on a blue background, has just passed through the labyrinthine streets of South London and reached the banks of the River Thames. Across the Westminster River Bridge, you'll be amazed to discover Whitehall, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Houses of Parliament across the River Thames. It has been controlled by an army that claims to be loyal to the British crown.

The bad news that the fruits of victory had been picked made Colonel Barnazar, the front-line commander of the French Foreign Legion, feel very disappointed, and even started a fire and the other side thought about it. It's just that, seeing that more and more troops are being airlifted by the other side, and the backup forces scheduled by his own side have not arrived for a long time due to the European Parliament's mutual bargaining, and the French Foreign Legion, which has fought the whole field alone from beginning to end, is already exhausted, and considering the possible international impact of this matter, he finally dispelled the crazy idea of another Anglo-French war, and even a mini version of the Shijie war.

But despite this, the tenacious Colonel Barnazar ordered a detour to cross the river, allowing the army to avoid the blockaded Westminster Bridge and pass through the Tower Bridge further downstream, into the upper class of London north of the Thames, and seize the thousand-year-old City of London, the Tower of London, which was once the royal palace of England and a luxury prison reserved for the great nobles, to continue the "turf war".

-- Because they were unfamiliar with the roads and pressed too hard by their superiors, many French Foreign Legion soldiers did not die under the guns or bombs of the enemy, but were burned alive because they accidentally fell into the fire, and as a result, they were burned alive......

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At eight o'clock in the morning on March 18, a majestic thunderstorm finally saved London, the foggy capital that was almost engulfed in flames.

Prior to this, due to the approaching fire, the various government buildings on Whitehall Street had been filled with smoke that people could not breathe, and even if a fire barrier was hastily opened, it did not last long...... The thousands of rabble, who had just recaptured the Capitol less than ten hours ago, were already discussing a retreat as they looked at the fire, which was brighter than the morning light, and the gray "fog" that filled the sky.

- Obviously, London could not have fogged again in the early morning of this day, but only the ashes of the sky scattered like snowflakes.

Thankfully, nature is far more powerful than mortals, and in the midst of this torrential rain, London has finally escaped total destruction.

Then, at half past ten o'clock in the morning of this day, when it was still pouring rain outside, in the council chamber of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, which was still full of messes, Macmillan, the chief of the "Nelson Knights", who was pushed out in a wheelchair - because he was driven by the "evil king's true eyes" by the little bird Yu Mahaku to learn for a long time, the zombie jumped for a long time, and his muscles were seriously strained, and he really couldn't stand up. In front of the TV camera that was about to be broadcast live to the whole Shijie, he gave a speech announcing the failure of the coup.

It is the same as the situation when former Prime Minister Mason, who passed away last night, announced the success of the coup d'état and the establishment of the "Martial Law Commission" two days ago.

“…… Dear compatriots,

Even now, I still insist that England will always be a godsend for the Anglo-Saxon nation, and I hope to see a pure England, a united Britain. But the cruel truth tells me that although our original intention in launching the revolution was haode, now the whole thing has taken another terrible path - our motherland is sliding into the abyss of dismemberment and separation! There is even the possibility of being occupied by foreign shili for a long time! This is something I absolutely cannot agree with.

Here, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to those who have joined me in recent years in upholding the cause of justice. Maybe some mistakes could have been avoided and some things could have been done better. But at this point, in order to avoid the worst end, I had to make the most painful decision:

In view of the fact that our operation is no longer likely to succeed and that there is a danger of total destruction of the Fatherland, I declare that the Martial Law Commission is hereby dissolved, that all armed struggle will be put to an end, and that you will lay down your arms and surrender to the army and government loyal to the King, and that Britain will not be occupied by foreign troops......"

-- At this point, the "three-day war," which tore apart the British Empire's sunset power, finally came to an end amid lightning and thunder. (To be continued......)

PS: I still haven't figured out whether the next volume will be about the Civil War or King Arthur.

However, the Civil War did not have to be fought only in the South. If you can bring a large number of Confederate troops to New York to grab a handful, such as during the New York conscription riot - was there a stock of gold there at that time?

Or you can pretend to be a secret British envoy and visit Richmond - you can bring the real British Cabinet Secretary Harry, and all the supporting documents can be made for real time.

King Arthur, there were so many forests on the island of Britain at that time, but they were all money!