751 must! Immediately!

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In the early morning, the cold fog drifting over the North Sea shrouded the whole city, and like the gloomy weather, the heart of the so-called empire on which the sun never set was gradually losing its warmth, and although people began to step out of their homes and start another day's work, the only thing left behind by the nearly three years of war was numbness, pain, and the long list of deaths that drifted over the entire country.

Like the fog that can't be dissipated all year round, it is uncomfortable and unsettling.

Richard walked out of the house, said goodbye to his wife, and began his day's work with a bicycle, and his brow furrowed as he passed by the harbor and saw a handful of cargo ships.

Unlike ordinary people, Richard works in the Prime Minister's Office, although he is just an ordinary office worker, but he can also know some things that others can't know, and what makes the Prime Minister and the big names uneasy during this time is precisely the shrinking sea transportation, which in addition to the factors that German submarines began to reactivate, mainly because the squadron landed in the United States, and also shot Los Angeles, I heard that San Diego was also captured a few days ago, so that the United States must concentrate all its resources to defend the country, As a result, the convoy of transports between the two sides of the Atlantic began to shrink dramatically!

This is not a good thing, Britain has lost an important source of raw materials, India and Australia, and the African colonies are unable to meet the needs of the war because of transportation and mining, so how much American raw materials can be obtained has become a very important matter.

Richard, like most Britons, disliked the nouveau riche across the Atlantic, but he had to admit that the situation would be much worse without American raw materials. But he didn't continue to think about it, because he was just a small person, and this kind of thing was naturally handled and decided by the big people.

It was a short journey from his home on the dock to Downing Street, and although he had a car, gasoline became a strategic material after the war began, and there was no quota for it, and there was no more gasoline on the market, so the car could only be parked at home and rusted.

Along the way, in addition to the hurried workers, there are also a large number of citizens waiting in line to receive relief supplies, the war has been fought for nearly three years, all supplies have begun to be scarce, although Britain is alone in the open sea, even if there is no India and African colonies can provide some needs, but it has begun to be stretched, but this is okay, it is said that France and Italy, even famine broke out, and many people starved to death.

Cycling through the city, you can no longer see the shadow of the former proud center of the world, the leisurely afternoon tea restaurant disappears from the streets and alleys, and all the factories in the country now produce only one thing, weapons. And the workers have also become unpaid labor, because they can no longer afford to pay for such huge expenses, so everyone has to make sacrifices.

Britain is not afraid of sacrifice, and the country has been full of sacrifice since the time of Sir Nelson, but as the war becomes more tragic and the death list grows longer, people's endurance is declining.

Very much, Richard came to the famous Downing Street, when he saw the cars parked on both sides of the street, slightly surprised, after restricting the supply of gasoline, even the few remaining army and police in the country are rarely used, so at this moment can still use cars to travel are some rare big people.

But he didn't pay much attention to it, after all, this kind of scene has not happened before, but ...... today, it seems that there are a lot of people coming.

The guard knew Richard, so he walked into the large office on the ground floor without hindrance, his job was to organize and keep the materials, which was usually a leisurely job, but with the outbreak of war, the Prime Minister's Office often needed to access a large amount of materials, and the manpower began to be insufficient, so he was also busy, in addition to a part-time job of translating documents. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Richard had just sat down in his seat, about to translate a French document sent from Africa yesterday, when he felt someone push him on his back, and it turned out to be Jason, who was sitting in the back, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"You know what? Richard. Jason looked around, leaned forward mysteriously, leaned over and said, "Something big is wrong!" ”

"Big deal?" Richard thought he was saying that the big guys were here today, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and said while digging out the papers and getting ready to work: "Are those big guys?" What's this, isn't it usually like this? ”

"God, Richard, haven't you heard?"

"What did you hear?"

"Richard, it's bad, I just got the news that the squadron has surrounded the US state of Arizona, and it's ......." "What!" Before Jason could finish speaking, Richard's hand holding the telegram froze suddenly, and everyone almost jumped.

The sudden shouting attracted a lot of eyes from all around, and seeing that everyone was looking at him, Richard knew that he was out of shape, so he immediately pretended to work, and when his eyes turned away, he leaned against the desk behind him, and asked softly, "Is this true?" ”

"Of course, otherwise how do you think there would be so many big people! And I've heard that even San Francisco is going to be lost, so it's a terrible situation right now. Jason has a mouthful of words, telling everything he knows, from the airplane dropping soldiers, to the rapid breakthrough of tank troops, to the stalemate between the two sides in Albuquerque, and the news that more than a million U.S. troops in Arizona are cornered.

"If it weren't for Lieutenant General Allenby and our army desperately protecting them, maybe Albuquerque would have fallen by now." Jason said fiercely: "These American idiots. ”

Richard didn't hear his words at all, just nodded subconsciously, and the shock in his heart was indescribable. If transporting soldiers by plane and throwing them down from hundreds of meters to seize the bridge by lightning sounds like a myth, it is nothing compared to the fact that Arizona is surrounded and more than a million U.S. troops have no way to escape.

People who work in the Prime Minister's Office have more or less developed some political sense, and Richard is no exception, so he knows very well what this big event means.

In the past, he and everyone looked down on the United States, thinking that it was a bunch of nouveau riche, but after the outbreak of the war, the importance of the United States has become more and more important. Of course, this is not about their force, but about the raw materials that Britain urgently needs, and if there is no steel and other things provided by the United States, Britain will not be able to give full play to its industrial capacity, no matter how strong its industrial capacity is, not to mention that the United States is now an important source of food for the European Entente countries.

The war has been fought to this day, and it is no longer a confrontation between countries, or even a conflict between alliances and alliances, it should be regarded as a confrontation of resources and resources! This is also the reason why the Chinese are desperately trying to enter Mesopotamia and open up the Persian Gulf route! When they landed in the United States and urgently needed a lot of material support, they also gritted their teeth to provide supplies to the European alliance through the Eastern Railway explained everything, you must know that the Chinese are not stupid, and Li Mo's arsonist is a strategist, so they know very well that if Germany is allowed to defeat the Far East, it will not be spared.

Now, they are stepping up the delivery of supplies to Germany via the Baghdad Railway, via the Black Sea, and via the Bulgarian Railway, although the volume of transportation on this line cannot be compared with the Atlantic shipping in its heyday, but it is precious at the critical time of the war, and Germany has been able to hold on to it so far, and there has been no large-scale anti-war movement in the country, half of the reason is because of the opening of this transportation line.

Now that Germany is beginning to receive a steady stream of supplies, and Britain is becoming increasingly scarce in raw materials because of the attack on the United States, how can the big men still sit still!

"When Mrs. Gang Fillet came into the office to deliver coffee, she also heard that the American team surrounded in Arizona was considering surrendering." "Really!" Richard's mouth was wide open, his eyes were popping out, and although he didn't turn around, his shaking shoulders could still clearly feel the shock in his heart.

"Yes, these nouveau riche, noodles! They don't know what war is, and they don't have any background, so ......, it's bad! Jason continued, with a hint of anger and grinding teeth in his words.

"It's just bad."

Richard smiled bitterly in his heart, he was convinced of Jason's statement about the large-scale surrender of the American army, in fact, a long time ago there was a saying in the British leadership, "Italy is the macaroni of the alliance, and the United States is the noodles on our side." Because both are the same, they will soften as soon as they encounter "hot water".

Now, through diplomatic efforts, macaroni has become an ally of the British, but in fact, even Richard does not have much hope for this country, they are armed with more than a million troops, but in the face of the old Ottoman Empire, they have fought for so long without any major results, the only thing to be thankful for is that their navy is still a little good, after the French navy basically disappeared, it propped up the defense of the Mediterranean, blocking the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman fleets at their doorstep and unable to come out to move.

And the United States, has become a joke at the top, since the beginning of the war has not won even a small war, if the Pacific naval battle is because of the comprehensive and irresistible technological superiority of the Chinese, then on land they are really too disappointed.

He also has several officer friends who know some military affairs, in fact, although the Chinese control the sky and the army equipment also occupies some advantages, but it is not yet able to suppress millions of troops, because the land is not a floating sea after all, the width and depth of the battlefield, and the urban mountains can be used to limit the enemy's equipment advantage. It's a pity that the U.S. Army doesn't understand, or doesn't know how to fight, hundreds of thousands of Australian troops were surrounded in Augusta by people with artillery and planes, and finally destroyed, and the West Coast landed all over the world, but they were easily landed on the coast, backed by the Los Angeles fortress defense, and lost in three days.

The San Diego Super Fortress began to retreat without much fighting, and even San Francisco was about to be given to others.

As Jason said, the country is indeed lacking in heritage, they don't understand what it means to fight for every inch of land, they don't understand what attrition is, especially after a major setback, soldiers and officers will immediately fall into the kind of "knightly" warfare of the 19th century, and simply surrender.

This is also the reason why Li Mo was surprised and Chen Ping was surprised.

You must know that France, which was also invaded by the territory, is now all broken, and it has not given up lightly, because people know that as long as it drags on for one more day, it can consume an additional part of Germany's vital force and win a glimmer of life for the post-counteroffensive, but the United States still does not realize this, or even if it does, the officers and soldiers do not want to do this!

What is serious is that if this kind of thing happens, President Wilson, who has always stood firmly on the side of Britain and does not hesitate to influence the domestic supply of raw materials...... Stepping down, what should Britain do?

Richard subconsciously looked at the corridor, at this moment, what should the prime minister and those big people do?

The Prime Minister's office was already crowded with people, many of whom were even standing and listening to Marshal Kitchener's analysis, anxiety and uneasiness on every face, for whom the doomed earthquake was too much to do!

"The Chinese are very cunning, and that General Sun Jiugong is a very powerful commander, and he knows very well that if he can't take Albuquerque in one go, then he will fall into a stalemate here, so he decisively and boldly threw in a battalion, trying to seize the bridge, and then quickly seize it through tank troops, and establish a stronghold on the east bank of the Rio Grande in one go. Although they miraculously protected the bridge, due to Allenby's sudden appearance, the bridge was still badly damaged, and it was temporarily impossible to pass through heavy equipment such as tanks and artillery, so he did not succeed 100% this time.

At present, Allenby and Pershing have formed a defensive circle in the middle of the city, and a stalemate has been formed, and that General Sun is also well aware that Albuquerque cannot be taken for the time being, so his army is turning around and compressing Karl's forces. ”

"So, they're not going to cross the Rio Grande for a while?"

"Yes." Kitchener took the baton, stood in front of the map and glanced at the crowd, his eyes stayed in front of Prime Minister Lloyd George, who was questioning, and said: "Chinese know that they have lost the opportunity to advance to the west bank of the Rio Grande in one go, so what they have to do now is to completely wipe out the Karl forces in Arizona, even if Karl ...... and surrender!" I think they also need a period of adjustment, because from the time they came ashore, their troops hardly stopped.

And if the troops cross the Rio Grande, their supply lines will become longer, and the more troops there are, the more difficult it will be, and with the railroad line basically damaged, what they need to do now is to eat Karl's troops, and then accelerate the hoarding of supplies to the east bank of the Rio Grande, laying the groundwork for going deep into Texas and the east coast of the United States, so I don't expect that in 1 month, there will be no more large-scale battles. ”

A trace of helplessness floated across Kitchener's face when he spoke of surrender, which was seen by Lloyd George, so he immediately asked: "Marshal, if ......, if that situation really happens, what should we do?!" ”

Although Lloyd George didn't say it explicitly, in fact, everyone here knew that if Carl really surrendered, then the United States would face large-scale humiliation at home, which was completely different from the surrender of overseas troops, because the surrender of overseas troops could be considered that it was not their own land and there was no need to sacrifice senselessly, but if several states on the mainland fell, it was still a shame to lose nearly 2 million troops from the time of being landed, and Wilson would have to resign no matter how powerful he was!

As an American official who firmly supports Britain, if Wilson resigns, it will have a great impact on Britain and France and other Entente countries, which means that the United States will shrink with all its might, and may not provide raw materials and arms to Europe anymore, so how long can Britain hold out?!

Kitchener knew what Lloyd George meant, and he knew everyone's worries, in fact, he also knew how terrible the impact of this doomed American political earthquake was, but now he had no choice, so he walked to the map of Europe next to him and drew a circle in Paris!

"Prime Minister, there is only one way for me."

"A must! Immediately! Attack on Paris!! ”

RO！ ~！