bookpower Chapter 703
Chapter 703
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In May 1928, in the capital of Britain, in the foggy city.
Although the German army did not carry out air raids on the foggy city, because they were afraid of being bombed before, the senior officials of the British government dared to hide underground for meetings and did not dare to show their heads on the ground. They were afraid that they would be discovered by Hans’ intelligence personnel and contact the air force to bomb them. Once the German army discovered their whereabouts, that would be their death!
However, although it was called a meeting, in fact, after the meeting started, no one spoke at all. The whole meeting room seemed unusually dull. Everyone sat there without saying a word, just smoking. The meeting room was soon filled with smoke, choking people to the point of being unable to breathe!
“”Okay, stop smoking, or we will all suffocate to death!”
Prime Minister Lloyd George knocked on the table and reminded loudly.
After hearing the Prime Minister’s words, some people immediately put out the cigarette butts in their hands, some hesitated and finally put out the cigarettes in their hands, but some people were dismissive of the Prime Minister’s words, without any action, and continued to smoke as if no one was around. Prime
Minister Lloyd George glanced at those people and was very dissatisfied, but at this time he could only try his best to suppress his dissatisfaction.
He knew that this was not the time to lose his temper. If he lost his temper with these guys now, they might just quit and run away!
At present, the British Empire cannot do without them, so for the time being, they can only tolerate their behavior.
Prime Minister Lloyd George felt that he had been wronged and felt that he had made concessions, but on the other hand, those who did not obey his orders actually felt that they had been greatly wronged and felt that they had paid a huge price. Great sacrifice.
The thing is, since the German army landed on April 20, the situation in Britain has continued to deteriorate. In order to prevent the British Empire from being destroyed, under the persuasion of Prime Minister Lloyd George, King George V took the remaining royal family members and some senior government officials and quietly left the British Empire by ship, headed for North Africa, and then went to South Asia from there, preparing to rebuild the empire in South Asia!
In order to avoid causing panic among the people at home, Prime Minister Lloyd George and King George V kept this matter very secret. It was not until several days after King George V left Britain that senior officials within the government realized that something was wrong, because they hadn’t seen the king for several days. After these people realized this problem, they immediately inquired from various parties, trying to find out the truth of the matter.
As the current highest ruler of the British Empire, naturally the most people would find Prime Minister Lloyd George.
Prime Minister Lloyd George knew the truth of the matter, but he did not tell these people the truth. Instead, he concealed the information. By the time these people got the news through other channels, King George V had already arrived safely in South Asia with his confidants!
This time, the British Empire was completely in an uproar!
Faced with a powerful enemy, the king led the people and the army to resist the powerful enemy, but he took the lead in escaping and fled to South Asia thousands of miles away!
This made the people and officials feel betrayed, which made them very dissatisfied. They were not only dissatisfied with King George V, but even with Prime Minister Lloyd George!
Because Prime Minister Lloyd George was nominated by King George V. , he can be said to be the confidant of King George V, and he had been hiding the truth for King George V before, which made everyone feel very dissatisfied. Therefore, the officials and people who were originally very obedient had some resistance to Prime Minister Lloyd George.
Some people have even turned a deaf ear to his words and did not obey his orders and arrangements at all!
And the king is not here now, and many people do not obey the words of the prime minister.
What’s worse is that they are also facing the threat of powerful foreign enemies. The German army has established a foothold on both the north and south sides of the sun never sets. They once tried to launch a counterattack against the German army, but failed. Instead, they paid a heavy price in casualties under the attack of the German army!
After the counterattack attempt failed, the sun never sets completely lost the courage to take the initiative to attack, and could only shrink in the defense line and passively defend!
In this case, it is impossible for them to drive the enemy away. The situation of the sun never sets has not improved at all, but is further deteriorating. After King George V left, the speed of this deterioration has greatly accelerated!
The current situation of the British Empire is very desperate. After their own failed attempts, the British Empire has already understood that it is impossible to drive away the invaders by their own strength.
But the problem is that they have no allies to rely on. They have very few troops in their overseas colonies. Even if they have troops, the colonial troops cannot support them in the case of a lack of navy and the blocking of sea transportation routes!
Moreover, they are not short of troops now. What they lack more is food, medicine, weapons and ammunition, and daily necessities!
Because the sea supply routes have been cut off, the prices in the British Empire have long been out of control. Their own food self-sufficiency rate is only 40%. Moreover, as the army occupied a large number of farmlands in their central region, many of the crops they had cultivated before could not be harvested. When they were eagerly preparing to harvest the wheat planted last winter in May, the
German army actually dispatched a large number of bombers and used napalm bombs to burn their wheat fields!
This action was extremely unethical. The wheat field was too big to be concealed. The German army only needed to drop a fire bomb in a wheat field to set the entire wheat field on fire! The
British soldiers and civilians who came to put out the fire were all in tears when they saw the food burned to ashes in the raging fire.
The British government originally planned to harvest a batch of food during the wheat harvest season in May and then support themselves for a while longer. Unexpectedly, Hans was so unethical that he used this method to shatter their beautiful dreams!
This time, their last hope was also shattered.
This was also the reason why Prime Minister Lloyd George convened an internal government meeting this time. Their supplies, especially necessary supplies such as food, had completely run out at this time!
If they didn’t think of a way, they would really starve to death!
Who would have thought that the great British Empire, the once glorious world hegemon, would face such a desperate situation one day!