Rise from the sword

Chapter 711 From the laborers whose sun never sets!

"prime minister."

"Socotra is occupied."

As soon as the bombers left, Fatty Qiu received news from the intelligence department. At this time, 24 hours had passed since Xu Husheng landed on Socotra Island.

"Why did it take you so long to tell me?"

Fatty Qiu's eyes twitched, and his tone was bad.

He and Luo Zizi have been competing for the ownership of the island.

The British Empire wants to maintain the rule of the Indian Ocean, while the United States wants to win the rule of the Indian Ocean, but the Indian Ocean and the subcontinent have always been the traditional territory of the British Empire. It has been in operation for hundreds of years and is deeply rooted. It is impossible for anyone to influence the British Empire in a short time. Empire status.

of course.

without direct use of military means.

So a springboard is needed, and this island is the key point. As long as it is occupied here, the Suez Canal can be cut off at any time, radiating most of the Indian Ocean.

The decline of the British Empire is a fact, and he can't change this. In Fatty Qiu's mind, even if he lets go in the end, the Americans have to spit out more good things.

The two parties were really having a good time fighting, but they were suddenly robbed by others, which made Qiu Fatty unacceptable.

This is all right, the island is gone, and the benefits are gone.

There was no progress on the western front, and the homeland suffered repeated bombings. Fatty Qiu was already in a bad mood, and the intelligence department was still so procrastinating, so the fat man vented his anger on the intelligence department.

"us··"

The person in charge of intelligence who came to report secretly regretted it.

Why do you have to report this broken news when you have nothing to do?
Wouldn't it be good to find a staff officer to convey it?
As for why the intelligence is so slow, the British Empire has been blown into a gravel field, especially in London, where few intact buildings can be seen. Domestic forces are either supporting the Western Front attack, or are in charge of air defense, foreign intelligence departments Only one-tenth of the original.

To be only 24 hours late is already a miracle.

"how?"

Fatty Qiu's tone suddenly became gloomy:

"Anything to say?"

The intelligence chief immediately shut up.

He understood that the prime minister wasn't looking for problems, he just wanted to scold someone.

As the person in charge of foreign intelligence, during this period, he was not taken seriously by others. All the personnel of his intelligence department were transferred to other places. In order to protect his position, the person in charge decisively chose to bow his head and be scolded.

"correct."

After scolding severely, Fatty Qiu felt much better. He suddenly asked the secretary beside him:

"What about the group of people who went to the Republic of China to 'lose rescue soldiers'?"

To be honest, at this moment, Fatty Qiu really wanted to ask those people to help.

According to American intelligence, those people have missiles and anti-aircraft missiles with a range of tens of kilometers. They can deal with aircraft at an altitude of [-] to [-] kilometers. bomber?

but.

As a master of international relations, he knows very well that this is impossible and unrealistic.

Put yourself in the situation and think about it, if he was the leader of that group of people, he would definitely put the British Empire to death, wishing that both the British Empire and the Germans would suffer, and tens of millions of casualties would be good.

This is in their best interest.

Unless he can come up with something that is of interest to anti.

However, Fatty Qiu counted the current wealth of the British Empire, and silently gave up this idea in his heart.

Even Cripple Luo couldn't do it, let alone him. As for the so-called leased land, Fatty Qiu is still sensible. With these things to support, the people on the other side will probably turn their faces directly.

People don't recognize these things in the first place.

Add oil to the fire.

"prime minister."

The person in charge of foreign intelligence who hadn't left suddenly stopped in his tracks:
"I have a way, I can ask for support!"

"any solution?"

Fatty Qiu narrowed his eyes.

"Although the Japanese have not surrendered, they have already been defeated and cannot pose any threat to the Republic of China."

Fatty Qiu nodded in agreement.

Although the little devil hadn't surrendered yet and clamored for [-] million pieces of jade, he was just being stubborn.

Hundreds of thousands of troops in the Far East were separated, the subcontinent troops secretly surrendered here, the Southeast Asian troops were isolated, the combined fleet existed in name only, and its military strength was gone.

The mainland is blocked, still under bombing, industrial capacity has basically disappeared, and even agriculture cannot be self-sufficient.

You just need to continue to block and bomb, and you don’t even need to bomb. As long as you block, sooner or later, you will collapse by yourself.

"Their current main task is economic construction and industrial development."

The head of foreign intelligence continued:
"But although they don't know where to get technical support, machinery and equipment, and senior technical personnel, there is a serious shortage of grassroots technical workers and technical engineers. They even waved money around the world to recruit people."

"For skilled workers, they charge very high prices."

"but."

Having said that, the person in charge paused:
"Recently, the Americans withdrew the pilots, forced a large part of the technical engineers to withdraw, and also suspended the technical exchanges between the two sides, and even prohibited them from recruiting technical engineers in the United States."

"In addition, they have recently controlled the huge Southeast Asian waters and began to spread the commercial system locally, but they lack maritime power."

"We can..."

"That's a good idea."

Fatty Qiu's eyes lit up immediately.

The British Empire has been bombed continuously for more than nine months, and the domestic infrastructure has been almost completely lost. However, there are really not many casualties, but there are a large number of displaced and homeless people.

Numbers up to eight figures.

The food from the United States can keep these people fed and not starve, but the German bombs also make some people fear and panic. Facing the continuous bombing, many people want to surrender.

It's a headache.

It can't be the same as dealing with the Boers, after all, they are also Anglo-Saxons.

The transportation was destroyed and there was a lack of raw materials. Except for dozens of military secret factories and some important factories located underground, the rest of the factories could not be opened, and there were no jobs for this many people.

Can only keep it dry.

Feeding these people consumes a lot of money and supplies. The supplies of Americans are not free, so forget it. Anyway, there is no need to worry about debts. What makes Qiu Fatty the most upset is that these people start to make trouble when they are full, disrupting domestic affairs. Military spirit, help the Germans.

If he is real, then this group of people can't help it.

However, a large part of this group of people are technicians. There are a lot of high school and university education levels, and many of them are skilled workers. It would definitely be a good thing if all these people were sent there.

It can not only solve these people reasonably, so as not to cause trouble in the British Empire, but also provide help for the defense of the British Empire.

Except for the Americans and the damned Germans, there is another country in the world that has sufficient supplies, even more than the Americans. It is said that tanks are used to build roads, and the food supply is incredible.

As for the lack of shipping power, this is very appropriate. The British Empire lacks everything, but there is no shortage of shipping power. Although it was sunk by the Germans a lot, its tonnage is still the second in the world - second only to Luo Laizi, and the gap It's a bit big, the Allied logistics and supplies have been covered by the Americans, and thousands of Liberty ships are sailing in the Atlantic Ocean.

There will be no problem with the British Empire allocating several million tons of shipping capacity to transport materials.

Although it is a bit far away, especially after the Strait of Gibraltar is cut off, it is almost [-] kilometers away, but this is not a problem.

"prime minister."

The person in charge kindly reminded:

"They need skilled workers and engineers who can speak Chinese, and they need to be able to communicate in basic Chinese."

Obviously, this product has been tried a long time ago.

"You arrange this."

Fatty Qiu handed over this job to the person in charge of foreign intelligence.

Fatty Qiu is very self-aware. Although the British Empire used to be glorious and was once the master of the earth, that time has passed. Now the British Empire is just a dog in the water, so it is not qualified to negotiate terms.

Isn't it training Chinese?What a big deal!
"Yes."

Although it is not intelligence work, he is still very happy.

This means that he will not be eliminated, and will not be thrown to the front line to eat shells inexplicably.

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Shikoku Island.

somewhere on the coast.

"Kill it."

Accompanied by howls, a group of devil soldiers rushed towards a group of guerrillas in tattered clothes with their [-] caps on their shoulders. Both sides used [-] caps, and neither had heavy weapons. It's fun.

Although the number of guerrillas is large, it is obvious that the devil soldiers are of stronger quality and are fighting against the guerrillas.

But it can only be suppressed and beaten.

The continuous domestic bombing will indeed increase the external hatred at the beginning, attracting many people to join the army, but with the disastrous defeat of the United Fleet, continuous blockade, and lack of supplies, gradually this hatred is transferred to the Prime Minister and others, even in the hands of those who are interested. Under the guidance, it was also transferred to the locust.

As a result, the devils at the bottom, as well as some devil soldiers who were treated differently, began to form guerrillas and shouted the slogan of liberation. Of course, a large part of them were actually the king of the mountain.

The locust and the prime minister were shocked, and quickly mobilized elite troops to encircle and suppress.

For these reasons, the devil's homeland has been very lively recently.

There are still many elite divisions in the devil's country, with a total strength of more than 20, and many second and third divisions, adding up to more than 50, all of which are under the control of the devil's locust.

The equipment is not bad, some underground arsenals have not been destroyed, especially in order to capture Yamato, Musashi, and Nagato of the devils, Li Yunlong deliberately did not bomb the berthing port and left an arsenal, so the devils’ supplies are also okay.

However, the country was bombed, the railway was shut down, the speed of troop deployment was extremely slow, and it had to guard against the bombing from the other side. Its efficiency can be imagined.

With the advantage of the home field and the guidance of some people sent by Ito, the guerrillas thrived and even grew stronger in the face of the encirclement and suppression of the elite troops.

However, it seems that the guerrillas have encountered a problem today. Not only are there devils chasing from the front, but there are also more devils gathering on the two wings.

The devils on the two wings also carried the mortar and the Type [-] infantry gun.

"Kill it..."

The head of the Devil Brigade, who was attacking from the front, raised his katana and howled hysterically, with murderous intent in his eyes:
"Kill them all, leave none behind."

However, the chasing devil soldiers obviously didn't notice it. Although the chasing devil guerrillas looked very flustered, they still retreated to the coast in an orderly manner.

Just when the encirclement is about to form.

"Arrived at the scheduled location."

Among the devil guerrillas, a devil with a radio on his back suddenly took out the microphone and spoke a string of Chinese.

boom boom boom

Ten seconds later, a violent explosion exploded in the formation of the chasing devils. Some devils were directly thrown into the air, while others were smashed to pieces.Then the artillery shells fell one after another, comparable to the firepower of an artillery regiment, and the chasing devils were instantly defeated.

Only then did the chasing devils realize that there were two gunboats on the edge of the coastline.

"idiot."

The chasing Devil Captain's eyes were tearing apart, but he was still rational.

"retreat."

Although he has an absolute advantage in military strength, but now the guerrillas rely on positions and have long-range artillery support, and it is daytime, even if they win, it will be a massacre of his alliance.

"The little devil runs pretty fast."

Passing the observation post, the commanders of the two gunboats by the sea felt a little regretful.

At this time, they are equipped with the offshore gunboats that the army served a week ago, and it is said that they are specially customized for the devils.

More than 300 tons of full-load displacement, wide flat hull, shallow draft, can be close to the beach.

Equipped with two 105 howitzers, the maximum range is 18 kilometers, because it uses semi-automatic loading, it can fire twenty rounds per minute.The stern is also equipped with two 20mm single-barreled anti-aircraft guns, two 120mm mortars, and two double-mounted 12.7mm heavy machine guns with shields, which are full of firepower.

The combined firepower projection of the two gunboats is comparable to that of a ghost artillery regiment.

There are currently more than 100 such gunboats in service, sailing on the devil's coastline, helping the devil's guerrillas, and providing weapons and logistical support.

"Hurry up and work."

The company commander who led the team immediately ordered.

Subsequently, the soldiers on the two gunboats moved out bags of food from the warehouse, and threw boxes of supplies to the guerrillas.

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"idiot."

Soon, the base camp of the devils in Tokyo received the information, and Konoe Fumimaro was so angry that he cursed.

"What about the United Fleet?"

"What is Deputy Takeshi Toyoda doing?"

"prime minister."

The reported staff officer replied:
"The navy replied that although they still have some old-fashioned warships that can operate, the enemy has an aviation advantage and will be bombed once they leave the port, so they cannot deal with these offshore gunboats."

After all, the Devils Navy has a deep family background. There are still some torpedo boats, small gunboats and so on. These big things can’t go to sea at all, because there is no war. Recently, there are not many bomb trucks cruising in the devils’ land. Once found, within 10 minutes You will reach any sea area within.

"idiot."

Received a response, Konoe Wenmaro could only continue to gossip.

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the other side.

"Skills and engineers for supplies and dollars?"

Li Yunlong received another message from the British Empire.

"interesting."

Zhao Gang on the side was amazed.

"tell them."

Now the base area is short of talents, and the Yankees don't let them recruit people. Naturally, Chief Li will not let them go, but he paused, and suddenly said:

"This is better than business, but the people who come must be in the name of war labor."

(End of this chapter)