Chapter 36: Shocking Changes

Buckingham Palace, a four-storey cube grey building with a stately main entrance with the British royal coat of arms, is the center of the Crown's power. Surrounded by railings, there are many statues in the square in front of the palace, as well as the Queen Victoria Memorial Expanded by Edward VII, the golden statue of the goddess of victory stands on a high marble platform, the golden light is glittering, as if it is about to fall from the sky, and the golden angel on the statue of Queen Victoria represents the royal family's desire to recreate the glory of the Victorian era. There are more than 600 halls and rooms in the palace, such as a ceremony hall, a concert hall, a banquet hall, and a gallery. In addition, the vast Imperial Garden is full of beautiful flowers. If the flag of the British Emperor is flying directly above the palace, it means that the monarch of the British Empire is still in the palace; If not, then it is on behalf of the monarch to go out.

And today, the flag of the British emperor flutters high above the palace, which means that the current British monarch George VI is currently in the palace, because today is Christmas Eve, George VI, who has been plagued by war, invited a large number of British nobles and high-ranking officials to gather in the palace, and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was also invited. Unlike those nobles, the British officials did not all enter the palace, and without the emperor's summons, these politicians who controlled the British situation had no way to enter the palace, so the politicians who received the invitation of George VI were ecstatic and gathered at Buckingham Palace early to wait for George VI's summons.

George VI's Balls at Buckingham Palace will run until midnight, and the number of guards guarding the palace has increased, and the Metropolitan Police has mobilized a large number of military and plainclothes officers to guard the streets around the palace, and those who take to the streets will be told to detour the area. As soon as it got dark, a large number of military and police gathered outside Buckingham Palace, and aristocratic dignitaries drove to Buckingham Palace to attend the Christmas Ball with invitations from George VI.

In an alley only two blocks away from Buckingham Palace, a flashlight suddenly appeared, and the person holding the flashlight was a strong man with a height of more than 1.9 meters, and his strong body was about to break the police uniform on his body. "Mandel, hurry up, sir will be coming" The strong man knocked on the door of the van with his hand with some impatience, and the door that had been closed was opened from the inside after he knocked, and several people in royal guard uniforms jumped out of the car.

The person standing in the dark and guarding the entrance of the alley sent back the code with a flashlight, and a convoy was heading here, and a dozen people dressed as policemen in the alley immediately greeted them, and before the operation began, all those who posed a threat to them must be eliminated, just like you Azig Liuhan who originally lived in the alley. "It's my own people" The oncoming truck made the agreed code with its headlights, and the companions guarding the alley moved away from the obstacles and let the convoy in.

"Are you all ready?" Before the truck could stop, Zhao Zhi, dressed in an SS uniform, jumped out of the car, and the mercenaries under him gathered in the alley were tasked with defeating the palace guards and the military police in key positions outside Buckingham Palace after the Christmas Ball in the palace began.

"Our people are ready, but those lurkers still need time, so far, we have only contacted 7 teams of lurkers, and 3 teams have not been contacted" Mandel, who was in charge of leading these mercenaries, whispered a few words to Zhao Zhi. According to Zhao Zhi's original arrangement, those infiltrators who entered London were a team of every 300 people, and Mandel, who infiltrated London in advance, only contacted 7 of them.

Time passed minute by minute, after Zhao Zhi's mercenaries were completely prepared, Zhao Zhi looked at his watch, according to the internal news, now at this time, the Christmas ball in the palace has begun an hour, and the dance will end in three hours, if Zhao Zhi and they can't solve those obstacles on the periphery within 2 hours, the plan to attack Buckingham Palace will be terminated, and Salen, who has rushed to various airports in batches, will also become a lone army and be abandoned by the German command.

"Don't wait, signal the prepared lurkers, let's start" Zhao Zhi took the German-style steel helmet handed by the mercenary and buckled it on his head, covered his face with a visor, and then hung the submachine gun on the triangular gun belt. Covering your face with a black mask before the battle is a common practice for mercenary troops, which can not only scare the opponent without fear of being seen by the opponent to see his true face, which is a perfect disguise for Zhao Zhi, who is the only Oriental look.

"Poof" and "poof" two soft sounds, two British military policemen standing on the street corner fell to the ground in response, and at the same time that the military policemen in the distance were attracted by a few beautiful women passing by, several figures quickly jumped out of the shadows of the street corner and carried away the two British military policemen who fell to the ground. The military policemen who looked back from the beautiful woman didn't know that the two companions who were standing on the street corner smoking had already been replaced, and in place of them were already two mercenaries under Zhao Zhi, who were far away, and the military policemen could only identify their companions from their uniforms.

The sound of military boots sounded, and a group of soldiers in British uniforms appeared on the empty streets under the leadership of a captain, and every time they arrived at a military police cordon point, they always stopped to ask a few questions, and no one noticed that when they moved forward again, there were fewer soldiers in the queue that had looked quite long. In just one hour, the British team walked through all the military and police guard points around the palace, and when the British captain in the team walked past the royal guards guarding the main entrance of Buckingham Palace, there were only three soldiers left with him.

"Merry Christmas" Captain walked over and over and greeted those royal guards, the royal guards are all young people from British aristocratic families, and it is their tradition not to smile, so when the captain greeted them, these royal guards still stood straight without squinting, as if they did not see the people who had approached at all. "Can you borrow a fire?" The captain did not darken his face because Mingyue was ignored, but still took out a cigarette with a smile on his face, put it in his mouth, and reached out to borrow fire from the captain of the guard standing in front of him.

Henry, who was the captain, rolled his eyes helplessly at the captain, the royal guards can't talk to people casually when they are standing guard, let alone taking things out of their pockets, not to mention that as the captain, he doesn't smoke, and what lighters are lent to this captain from there. "Go away" Henry squeezed out two words from between his teeth with a straight face, and motioned with his eyes to the captain in front of him to leave quickly, these military police are only responsible for the perimeter of the palace, according to the order, they should not be so close to the palace.

"Oh, damn it, you look down on me, God, you look down on me" Henry's contempt annoyed the captain, and his voice became louder, causing the other royal guards to look at me. The royal guards had an order not to move at will while standing guard, but they didn't say that everyone couldn't look left and right, not to mention that they were just moving their eyes now, and they didn't turn their heads to stare at them in a daze.

"What's the matter? What's going on? The captain's loud voice wafted through the empty main entrance of the palace, and soon a team of military police was summoned. Seeing that the situation was not under his control, Henry saw the team of military police who rushed over, and the breath in his heart was slightly relieved, today is a special day, if this captain is allowed to mess around outside the palace, the face of the British Imperial Royal Family will be disgraced, and he will be the captain of the guards.

"Is that what he said?" The commander of the military police team first asked Henry about the whole process, and then assigned his men to ask the other guards guarding the palace about the process, and then turned his attention to the captain, who was still holding a cigarette. The captain's cynicism made the already angry Henry secretly happy in his heart, the army attaches the most importance to the officer's discipline, like the guy in front of him who is crooked wearing a military hat and holding a cigarette in his mouth, he will not end well, didn't he find out that the commander of the military police is a major with a higher rank than him?

"Shut up, you idiot, you're too slow, don't you all have a watch?" A scene that was different from Henry's imagination happened, the major who led the military police was actually reprimanded by a captain, and he didn't dare to talk back like that. "Poof" didn't wait for Henry to speak, only felt that his neck was cold, the sharp short knife in the captain's hand had cut his neck, leaving Henry no longer with a thousand feet of anger, leaving him with only endless night and death.

At the same time as the captain made his move, the military policemen who were asking the other guards pulled out the short knives that had been hidden in their sleeves for a long time, and a strong smell of blood permeated the front of the palace, all the royal guards standing guard were dead bodies, and those who stood in place of them would be the mercenaries under Zhao Zhi. The order to never talk to others while standing guard became a talisman for the fake guards, who could stand until dawn as long as no other royal guards came to change the guard. The corpse was well hidden, and after the flashlight flashed with three long and two short flashlights, several groups of people wearing German SS uniforms suddenly appeared from the darkness of the street corner, "Quick, quick" The captain who had just solved Henry with a short knife took off his British military uniform, took the SS uniform from his companion and changed it, and waved his hand to speed up the SS soldiers who were rushing from the street corner. Companions dressed in royal and British uniforms had entered the palace to clear the guards from the palace, and the captain, dressed in SS uniform, was to seal the main entrance of the palace with a group of soldiers to prevent the Britons from escaping the palace.