Although the far-right political organization "Nelson Knights", which staged the coup d'état, three days after the declaration of war, it was declared defeated in internal and external difficulties. But the resistance of the rebel forces in Birmingham, Nottingham, Southampton and other areas continued for another three days. As for the sporadic riots in the middle of nowhere, it took a whole month for the many shili on the island of Great Britain to subside completely.

The city of London, which had just experienced a "humanitarian crisis", was completely shrouded in a gloomy and bleak atmosphere of despair.

After a catastrophe of burning the city, and now facing the division and occupation of foreign troops, this shijie overlord capital that used to rule the seven seas is finally no longer in its glory, and it has been torn off a bit of high-sounding majesty and glory, and it has completely come to the end of the road.

“…… The glory of Britain, the greatness of Britain, the arrogance of Britain, everything passed away in the wind in the fire of the world......"

Standing in front of the window of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, looking at the flags of various countries on the other side of the Thames, Harry was haggard and overworked. Gordon, the interim cabinet secretary, couldn't help but sigh melancholy, "...... I never dreamed that London would one day be occupied by people. ”

On the other side of the misty Thames River, and on the historic Tower Bridge in London, the French tricolor, the European Union's twelve-star flag on a blue background, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Romania, ...... and a series of EU member state flags came to make up the numbers, a total of 14 countries sent troops to London. Coupled with the Russians who arrived here from Scotland and the Chinese fleet anchored at Portsmouth and the mouth of the Thames, looking down from the map for a while, it seems that the Sixteen-Nation Alliance has joined forces to carve up London.

――Worthy of being the Shijie Metropolis who once ruled the Seven Seas. It is actually double the lineup of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entering Beijing that year!

Because many important ports in the west and south of Britain are controlled by EU intervention forces, and although China and Russia have quietly helped the interim government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, they have no intention of fighting to the death for Britain and the EU, so they sit back and watch the EU collect troops from various countries, continuously cross the sea and land on the island of Great Britain, and frequently move in the south of the island. Attempts were made to seize territory and expand the occupied territories.

At present, the city of London south of the Thames has been divided up by the intervention forces of the European Union. And north of the River Thames. Neighborhoods east of the City of London were also garrisoned by the French Foreign Legion, thus cutting off the Chinese fleet from direct contact with the Provisional Government.

In addition to the city of London, the large forces of the European Union ashore in Portsmouth and Southampton. It is also expanding the occupied territories at the fastest pace. It was not until after joining forces with the French Foreign Legion in Kent and London that it was stopped by the military police temporarily recruited by the British government.

On the contrary, the Irish troops who landed in Bristol, who did not have much pursuit of land that could not be annexed, even gave up the plan of occupying the western part of the United Kingdom, and instead directly transferred the landing force to London, and marched and retreated with the EU coalition forces, and by the way, they were also very poor at the moment.

Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise, precisely because of the threat posed by the sight of these foreign intervention forces. In the midst of the ruins of England, the separation of Wales and Scotland has come to an end much - as a new nation. It was one thing to separate from the United Kingdom, but quite another to become a foreign colony. Wales, in particular, would be so humiliating that the Irish would be "governed" by the Irish if they were to become so independent that they would not know where to go - at least until the external threat subsided, and the domestic separatist threat could be "frozen".

The Provisional Government is holding urgent consultations with the EU side on the issue of the intrusion of these foreign intervention forces into British territory, and the British side naturally hopes that these foreign invaders, who have marked a great disgrace, will get out of here as soon as possible, but the EU has patiently brought out various collective security clauses and demanded that Britain accept the joint supervision of the EU -- no matter how much they disagree with each other, or even dismantle each other in private, Britain is still a member of the EU after all, and to a certain extent obliged to accept the control of the EU If the outcome of the negotiations is not satisfactory, then it is very likely that these EU coalition troops who have landed in England will continue to be stationed on British soil for another ten or eight years, just as the US military invaded Iraq......

At present, EUA forces control more than half of London's neighborhoods, and the Provisional Government's motley army barely controls the remaining half, and also loses the mouth of the Thames to the sea, as well as the nearby docks...... Fortunately, Heathrow Airport, London's aviation hub, has been successfully recaptured by British special forces and has basically returned to normal use, otherwise it would have been a big problem to transport troops and supplies when the railways and roads are not yet smooth.

In short, this is the current situation in London - the army is divided and confrontational, the people are in mourning, the city is in ruins, and the refugees are waiting to be fed......

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With the fighting in the City of London largely over, the issue of post-war reconstruction was put on the agenda.

On the morning of March 19, sitting in the Westminster Houses of Parliament, which had just been restored, Wang Qiu and others talked to Harry. Gordon looked at some of the documents that had just been put together and used a projector to show up the recent photographs that had been taken to count the destruction of the city of London.

At this time, the civilian team of the British central government scattered all over the place has not been able to be summoned for a while. Gordon had no choice but to haul in a few random people to handle the paperwork - thankfully, there was nothing more to do at the moment than to recruit rebels and count losses.

Although they had witnessed the tragic situation of red light, heat waves and ashes in the city of London before, it was now found that the damage suffered by the city of London during the three days of catastrophe was far more serious than anyone expected.

-- In the previous chaotic street fighting, take advantage of the dense architectural pattern of the old town. Many barricades were erected on all sides to defend it. As a result, in order to remove the nails one by one, the attacking side generally set fire to the houses to clear the road. The defending side also tried their best to set fires to create obstacles, while both sides were just setting fires and not putting out the fires, and even had the bad habit of taking advantage of the chaos to loot......

As a result, street fighting in various districts of the city fought in chaos for several days and nights, and the fires that bloomed everywhere burned for several days and nights, until an unprecedented and tragic fire was brewed in Zuihou. In particular, in some of the most fierce neighborhoods, houses collapsed and dead bodies were covered. Dense, flowing with blood all over the street, under the reflection of the firelight in the sky. It's terrifying......

According to current incomplete statistics, at least 200,000 houses were burned and blown up throughout London, in the center of several major fires, as well as in the areas where the fighting was most intense for foreign settlers. There is almost no tile left. Furthermore. In the route of the European Union forces, several skyscrapers crumbled and collapsed in the flames and explosions, turning into unrecognizable mountains of discarded building materials......

The main battleground, south of the River Thames, south of the River Thames, was the most severely damaged and almost completely reduced to rubble. The city of East London, north of the River Thames, was also devastated, and even the British Empire Museum was somehow hit by aerial bombs and collapsed several buildings. Only in the area of West London, where military and government offices and mansions and villas are concentrated. Relatively speaking, it is relatively intact, but there are also many unlucky people who can be displaced.

In the ruined ruins that look like a ghost realm. In addition to the charred corpses scattered unburied, there are also some barely surviving war refugees wandering around. Women and children, in particular, lost their homes and loved ones, and then were attacked and ravaged by thugs in the midst of bullets and raging fires, stripped of their clothes or torn to their clothes, and even if they survived, they had to wander the streets naked......

Due to the chaotic nature of the situation, it is not possible to calculate an accurate number of casualties. But according to Harry. Gordon's rough estimate is that at least 200,000 people in the city will die in this unprecedented catastrophe, and more than 300,000 citizens will have their homes destroyed and have nowhere to go, so that they will become war refugees. All of them looked apathetic and exhausted, struggling on top of the ember wasteland. Or use the wooden planks, bricks and tiles dug out of the ruins to build a number of simple shacks indiscriminately, and live in peace for the time being. Or simply live in the open air, relying on government handouts and garbage pick-ups every day to make a living.

As for the damage in other cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Nottingham, there are no statistics yet, but the latest satellite maps show that their situation is also not optimistic, at least in their respective city centers, they are already in ruins.

Seeing that London had suffered terrible losses far worse than the bombing of World War II, and that the number of dead and wounded in Britain would be in the millions, Wang Qiu couldn't help but be quite stunned for a while. The British's ability to destroy each other is too strong!

“…… Alas, when I was in Tokyo before, I saw that your Japanese Self-Defense Forces burned down a block in a military coup, and I thought it was already very tragic. But now that we look at the British approach, the coup d'état in Tokyo was so pediatric that it was like a joke. ”

He quietly turned his head sideways and complained to the former Prime Minister Yuyu Mashiro, who was sitting next to him.

“…… Yes, in terms of the degree of contempt by mainstream society, British drunkards and football hooligans are probably on a par with Japanese otaku. ”

Japan's strongest superpower girl, the holder of the "Evil King's True Eye", former Prime Minister Kotori Yu Mayahiro raised his eyebrows and said calmly, "...... But in terms of destructiveness and ferocity, the British drunks are much stronger! Japanese otaku simply can't catch up with a tenth of theirs! Look at how many people have been killed in this breath! ”

Speaking of this, she suddenly couldn't help but laugh, "...... No wonder someone once commented that the blood of pirates was still in the body of the English gentleman, while the spirit of the Japanese samurai Yamato had long since disappeared...... Do you really want to be glad that my compatriots are '100 million people are in ruins'? ”

While the tragic aftermath of the Holocaust in London is indeed deplorable, in the eyes of hard-hearted foreigners, it is a headache for the British themselves, well, and perhaps with the EU coalition forces that want to be stationed on the island of Great Britain. As for the Chinese, the Japanese, and the Brazilians who came from thousands of miles away...... They were polite not to take advantage of the chaos to empty the treasure of the British Empire Museum (partly because the place had fallen into the hands of the French Foreign Legion). I can't move if I want to. ）

In fact, due to the long-term travel through various historical time and space, it is important for this ancient artifact in the British Empire Museum. Wang Qiu didn't look much at it anymore - the statues and relics of ancient Rome and Greece were more or less on the territory of Queen Cleopatra; If you want to collect ancient Egyptian mummies, you can also ask the craftsmen in Alexandria to make a few; Even those cultural relics that were looted in the Old Summer Palace, if he was lucky enough to travel to the late Qing Dynasty next time, Wang Qiu could also try to get them himself...... So there's really no need to keep thinking about such things in the British Empire Museum.

However, when Buckingham Palace was on fire before, everyone was busy moving valuables. Wang Qiu took advantage of the chaos to take away some good things that were not particularly eye-catching (he didn't take the crown or anything), such as enamel vases, silver tableware, landscape and figure paintings, gem crafts, and so on...... All of these stolen goods are currently piled up in the royal palace of Alexandria, ancient Egypt, opposite the wormhole. Even if these things are too sensitive to be sold for a while, they can be given as gifts to Cleopatra to please her. Decorate her palace a little more beautifully......

However. Just as Wang Qiu was lamenting the post-war tragedy in London with the mentality of a spectator and an outsider, a new piece of news made him jump.

“…… Riots broke out near Heathrow Airport! Chinese Navy officers and sailors distributing relief food are under siege! A distress signal is being issued! ”

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Fortunately, when Wang Qiu and others arrived at the scene of the riot by helicopter, the whole situation had actually been controlled.

The Chinese Navy relief team, which sent out a distress signal, was indeed besieged in the playground of a madrassa near Heathrow Airport. There are also countless indignant Indo-Pakistani immigrants shouting gibberish slogans, throwing mud and stones at them, and even raising a variety of guns to intimidate. But under the deterrence of several armored vehicles in the vicinity. In the end, no bloodshed broke out.

In the final analysis, this catastrophe was also tossed by the Chinese side itself.

Originally. After the fighting in the city of London gradually subsided, EU countries began to distribute relief food such as biscuits, bread, beans and sugar to refugees in the war zone out of humanitarian considerations. The Chinese fleet, which was also in the theater of operations, was embarrassed to sit idly by, so it took out a small batch of surplus rations from the fleet's reserves and transported them to Heathrow Airport in the western suburbs of London by two helicopters from the aircraft carrier "Goujian."

So far, nothing has happened. But then, when the Chinese navy's personnel insisted on handing out relief supplies to the refugees in order to be in the limelight and to prevent the embezzlement of donations, the problem began.

-- The relief food that the Chinese expeditionary fleet had prepared from its provisions, which contained a lot of high-calorie canned "minced lard" and canned luncheon meat, was inhabited by immigrants from Pakistan and northwestern India near Heathrow Airport......

As a result, when the Chinese Navy's relief distribution team walked out of the airport, took possession of a local religious school that had been burned down in a daze, set up tents on the playground, and began to distribute the above food to the teachers and students of the Indo-Pakistani school that had been drilled out of the rubble, the Indo-Pakistani immigrants who had been given canned "minced lard" and canned luncheon meat immediately became outraged.

-- In the final analysis, it was the people in charge who did not know enough about the current situation in Britain to think that they would have to act according to the customs of the Arab countries in London.

Fortunately, because of the heavy army Heathrow Airport next to it, these troublesome refugees were quite restrained. And David. Potter's interim prime minister happened to land at this time on a special plane, and when he heard the news, he hurriedly ran over to make a speech and reassure, but finally did not let the situation worsen.

Well, except for a Chinese civilian naval sailor who was hit in the head by a stone and had some bleeding on his forehead.

However, looking at David. Standing on a concrete platform with his hands in hand, relying on Arabic and Urdu (Pakistan's Chinese) translators, Interim Prime Minister Porter delivered a consolation speech to the teachers and students of the Indo-Pakistani religious school who did not know much English, while arranging for the besieged Chinese relief team to quickly withdraw to the airport. Gordon's interim cabinet secretary's face was cloudy.

“…… Alas, it's terrible that there are more than 500 such schools in the UK, where we live, filled with children who speak Chinese a foreign language as their mother tongue. These little ones will refuse to be assimilated into our society, but will be brainwashed by the ancient scriptures of the seventh century A.D., and will never fit into English society, but will form a small society within the larger society. This is really bad news - there are two very different societies on such a crowded island, which are the source of danger in any way...... A small incident can cause great trouble, as in the terrible chaos of these days......"

He sighed sadly, as if he clearly saw that a new calamity was coming to England, but that he could not do anything about it.

-- Although the flames of war have come to an end, the undercurrents that have led to ethnic contradictions and social crises are still surging beneath the surface.

But, no matter what, it's all over for the time being. (To be continued......)