Chapter 751 must! Immediately!

London.

In the early morning, the cold fog over the North Sea enveloped the whole city. Like the gloomy weather, the heart of the so-called "unfalling empire" is gradually losing its warmth. Although people began to walk out of their homes and start a new day's work, the last three-year war left only numbness, pain, and the string of more and more A long death list floating over the whole country.

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

Richard walked out of the house, said goodbye to his wife and pushed a bicycle to start the new day's work. When he passed by the port and saw a few cargo ships, his eyebrows suddenly frowned.

Unlike ordinary people, Richard works in the Prime Minister's Office. Although he is only the most ordinary office staff, he can also know something that others can't know. What makes the Prime Minister and the bigwigs most uneasy during this period is the shrinking maritime transportation. In addition to the factors that German submarines have begun to reactivate, It is mainly because the [***] team landed in the United States and captured Los Angeles. I heard that San Diego was also captured a few days ago, which made the United States have to concentrate all its resources to defend the country, causing the transport fleet between the two sides of the Atlantic to shrink greatly!

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

Although Richard, like the vast majority of Britons, does not like the upstarts across the Atlantic, he has to admit that without American raw materials, the situation will be worse now. 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 big people.

It's a short distance from the dock's home to Downing Street. Although he has a car, gasoline has become a quota supply for strategic materials since the beginning of the war. Recently, there is no quota. There is no longer a drop of gasoline in the market, so the car can only be parked at home and rusty.

Along the way, in addition to the hurried workers, there are also a large number of citizens queuing up to receive relief supplies. The war has been fought for nearly three years, and all supplies have begun to be scarce. Although Britain is alone in the sea, even if there is no India and African colonies can provide some of the needs, it has begun to be overstretched. But it's okay. It is said that famine even broke out in France and Italy, starving many people to death.

Cycling in the city, you can no longer see the shadow of the former proud world center. Leisurely afternoon tea restaurants disappear from the streets and alleys. All factories across the country now only produce one thing, weapons. And the workers have also become unpaid labor, because they can no longer afford to pay such a huge amount of expenses, so everyone needs to make sacrifices.

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

Soon, Richard came to the famous Downing Street. When he saw the cars parked on both sides of the street, he was slightly surprised. After restricting the supply of gasoline, even the few remaining troops and police in China were rarely used, so those who could still use cars at this moment were rare big shots. .

But he didn't care too much. After all, this kind of scene has never happened, but today, it seems that there are a lot of people coming.

The guard knew Richard, so he walked into the big office on the ground floor without any hindrance. His job was to sort out and keep information. He usually lived leisurely. However, with the outbreak of the war, the Prime Minister's Office often needed to read a large amount of information, and the manpower began to be insufficient, so he was also busy. In addition, he also I have a job in translating documents.

Richard just sat in his seat and was about to translate a French document sent from Africa yesterday. He felt that he had been pushed on his back. It turned out that it was Jason sitting in the back and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Do you know? Richard." Jason looked around, leaned forward mysteriously, came to his ear and said, "It's a big deal!"

"Big deal?" Richard thought he was saying that all the big shots were coming today, so he didn't care too much. As he looked through the documents and prepared to work, he said, "Are they the big shots? What's the matter? Isn't it usually like this?"

"God, Richard, haven't you heard of it yet?"

"What did you hear?"

"Richard, it's terrible. I just got the news that the [***] team has surrounded Arizona in the United States, and." What!" Before Jason finished speaking, Richard's hand holding the telegram suddenly froze and almost jumped up.

Sudden shouts attracted a lot of attention. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Richard knew that he had lost his temper, so he immediately pretended to work. After turning his eyes, he leaned against the desk behind him and gently asked, "Is this true?"

"Of course, otherwise how do you think there will be so many big people! And I also heard that even San Francisco will be lost, so the situation is very bad now. Jason had a speakable mouth, saying what he knew from the airdropping of soldiers to the rapid breakthrough of the tank troops, until the final stalemate between the two sides in Albuquerque, and the desperate news of more than one million U.S. troops in Arizona came out.

"If it hadn't been for the desperate protection of Lieutenant General Allenby and our army, maybe Albuquerque would have fallen now." Jason said fiercely, "These American idiots."

Richard didn't hear what he said at all. He just nodded subconsciously, and the shock in his heart was indescribable. If it sounds like a myth to transport soldiers by plane and throw them down hundreds of meters high to capture the bridge by lightning, it is nothing compared with the siege of Arizona 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 exercised some political sense, and Richard is no exception, so he knows very well what this big thing means.

In the past, he and everyone looked down on the United States and thought that it was a group of upstarts, but after the outbreak of the war, the important surnames of the United States have become more and more important. Of course, this is not about their force, but the raw materials that Britain urgently needs. Without the steel and other things provided by the United States, Britain will not be fully utilized, no matter how strong its industrial capacity is, not to mention that the United States is now the most important food source of the European Allies.

Today, the war is no longer a confrontation between countries, not even a conflict between alliances and alliances. It should be regarded as a confrontation between resources and resources! This is also the reason why the Chinese desperately want to enter Mesopotamia to open up the Persian Gulf route! When they landed in the United States and urgently needed a large amount of material support, they gritted their teeth and provided materials to the European Union through the Middle East Railway, which shows all the problems. You know, the Chinese are not fools, and the arsonist Li Mo is a talented strategist, so they are very clear that if Germany is allowed to fail in the Far East, they will not be spared.

Now, they are stepping up the delivery of supplies to Germany through the Baghdad Railway and the Black Sea through the Bulgarian Railway. Although the transportation volume of this route cannot be compared with the Atlantic shipping in its heyday, it is precious at the most critical time of the war. Germany can still persist until now, and there is no explosion in China. Half of the reason for the large-scale anti-war movement was due to the opening of this transportation line.

Now Germany has begun to get a steady stream of supplies, but Britain's raw materials are becoming scarce because of the attack on the United States. How can this make the bigwigs still sit still!

"Just now, when Mrs. Philly came into the office to deliver coffee, she heard that the United States [***] team surrounded in Arizona was considering surrendering." Really!" Richard opened his mouth wide and his eyes were about to stare out. Although he didn't turn around, the shaking shoulders could still make people clearly feel the shock in his heart.

"Yes, these upstarts, noodles! They don't know what war is at all, and they don't have any background, so it's terrible!" Jason continued, with a little anger and teeth grinding in his words.

"It's not just terrible."

Richard smiled bitterly and believed in Jason's large-scale surrender of the U.S. military. In fact, a long time ago, British officials had a saying, "Italy is the pasta of the alliance, and the United States is the noodles on our side." Because both are the same, they will become soft when they encounter "hot water".

Now, through diplomatic efforts, the heart-in has become an ally of Britain, but in fact, even Richard does not have much hope for this country. They have armed more than a million troops, but they have no major results in the face of the old Ottoman Empire for so long. The only thing that is fortunate is that their navy still has After the French navy basically disappeared, it propped up the defense of the Mediterranean and blocked the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman fleets at their doorstep.

And the United States has become the joke of the upper class. It has not won even a small battle since the beginning of the war. If the Pacific naval battle is because of the comprehensive and irresistible technical advantages of the Chinese people, then they are really disappointed on land.

He also has several officers and friends who know some about the army. In fact, although the Chinese control the sky and the army equipment also has some advantages, it has not yet reached the ability to suppress millions of troops, because after all, the land is not a floating sea, the width and depth of the battlefield, and the many urban mountains can be Use it to limit the enemy's equipment advantage. Unfortunately, the U.S. Army did not understand, or did not know how to fight at all. Hundreds of thousands of Australian troops were surrounded by cannons and planes in Augusta and finally destroyed. The landing on the west coast was known all over the world, but it was easily landed on the coast by others, backed by the Los Angeles Fortress, and lost in only three days.

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

Just as Jason said, this country really lacks a background. They don't understand what an inch of land is and what is consumption. Especially after encountering major setbacks, soldiers and officers will immediately fall into the "knight" war in the 19th century and simply surrender.

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

You know, France, which was also invaded by its territory, is now almost broken and did not give up easily, because people know that as long as it drags one more day, it can consume more of Germany's living power and win a glimmer of life for the final counterattack, but the United States still does not realize this, or even if it realizes it. Officers and soldiers don't want to do this!

What's more serious is that if this kind of thing really happens, President Wilson, who has always stood firmly on the side of Britain and does not hesitate to affect the continuous supply of raw materials in China, if he steps down, what should Britain do?

Richard subconsciously looked at the corridor. At this moment, what should the Prime Minister and those bigwigs do?

The Prime Minister's office is already full of people. Many people even stand and listen to Marshal Kitchner's analysis. Anxiety and uneasiness appear on every face. For them, this doomed earthquake is too much to do with!

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

At present, Allenby and Pershing have formed a new defensive circle in the middle of the city, which has formed a stalemate. The General Sun also knows very well that he can't take Albuquerque for the time being, so his army is turn around to compress Carl's troops.

"So, they won't cross the Rio Grande for the time being?"

"Yes." With a baton, Kitchener stood in front of the map and glanced at the crowd. His eyes stopped in front of the questioning Prime Minister Lao He George and said, "The Chinese know that they have lost the opportunity to advance to the west bank of the Rio Grande, so what they have to do now is to completely eliminate the Carl troops in Arizona. Even if Carl, surrender! I think they also need an adjustment period, because their troops have hardly stopped since they went ashore.

And if the troops cross the Grand River, their supply line will become longer, and the more troops there are, the more difficult it will be. In the case that the railway line is basically damaged, what they need to do now is to eat Carl's troops, and then accelerate the hoardment of supplies to the east bank of the Grand River to lay the foundation for going deep into Texas and the east coast of the United States. So I don't expect that there will be another large-scale battle in a month.

A trace of helplessness floated on Kitchinner's face when he talked about surrendering, which was seen by George Lao He, so he immediately asked, "Marshal, if that really happens, what should we do?"

Although George did not say it explicitly, in fact, everyone present here knows that if Carl really surrenders, the United States will face the largest humiliation on its own, which is completely different from the surrender of overseas troops, because the surrender of overseas troops can be regarded as not their own land without unnecessary sacrifice, but if this If several states fall, or shameful people lose nearly 2 million troops from the beginning of landing, Wilson must resign no matter how powerful he is!

As the most firmly supporting American officials of Britain, if Wilson resigns, it will have a great impact on the Allies such as Britain and France, which means that the United States will make every effort to shrink and may no longer provide raw materials and arms to Europe. How long can Britain last?!

Kitchinner knows what George means and everyone's worries. In fact, he also knows how terrible the impact of the American political earthquake that is destined to break out is, but now he has no choice, so he went to the map of Europe next to him and drew a circle in Paris!

"Prime Minister, I have only one way."

"Must! Immediately! Attack Paris!!!"

(to be continued)