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"Your Majesty, no matter what method we use, the two hundred million pounds of treasure of the British must be obtained! If you can get your hands on it, the time it will take for the empire to recuperate will be at least a third less than before! On the contrary, if this wealth is acquired by the Germans, the gap between us and Germany will be further narrowed! Imperial Prime Minister Wu Tingfang said excitedly. This usually elegant prime minister is also excited now, as if the wealth of the British royal family originally belonged to China!

Of course, this statement is not wrong! These riches of the British royal family were originally plundered by the British from all over the world over a period of hundreds of years. And China was one of the countries that was plundered by the British. Moreover, it was the Opium War launched by the British that made China rapidly decline, and there was later suffering! Now, it is time for China to take revenge on the British!

"Your Majesty, I will send a telegram to Admiral He Bingju, even if I dig three feet into the ground, I will definitely find out the wealth of the British royal family!" War Minister Marshal Zhao Bowen also said. Everyone knows the importance of this wealth of the British royal family, if China gets this windfall, then China will be able to recover its strength faster, and then fight a decisive battle with Germany as soon as possible, so as to completely relieve the trouble! If the Germans get it, then China will have to face an even more formidable enemy in the future! Even if Germany can be defeated, I am afraid it will pay a greater price!

"Hmm!" Wang Yuze nodded, deep in his heart. The same is the ambition of this wealth of the British royal family! Britain has been the world hegemon for hundreds of years. The accumulated wealth is already very eye-catching! Before, Wang Yuze was still thinking about waiting until after occupying LinkedIn. How to harvest wealth from the British. Unexpectedly, now that I know the secret warehouse of the British royal family's wealth, of course, I can't let it go!

"Your Majesty, with the strength of the 8th Army, it is not difficult to conquer Birmingham! It's just that the British must have known the importance of Birmingham as well, and waited until the 8th Army took Birmingham. They will definitely storm the 8th Army. If the 8th Army can't resist it, then we're in vain! In addition, maybe the Germans will intervene at that time! Therefore, we must be completely prepared! "Marshal Cai Yun, Chief of the General Staff, said! Although the strength of the 2nd Army and the 8th Army of the Chinese Army is not weak, even in the face of the full strength of the British Army, even if it cannot be defeated, at least it can retreat with the support of the Navy. But if the Germans are also involved, the pressure on them is even greater!

"Let the Navy be ready to take over the 8th Army, and as soon as the wealth of the British crown is discovered, it will be transferred to the naval warships. And then bring it back to the country by battleship! Cities such as Birmingham can be abandoned if necessary. Retreat to the coast! I do not believe that the British, with the support of the main guns of the battleships, will still be able to defeat the land forces of the Reich! Even the Germans, too! Wang Yuze said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the navy will do its best to send warships to the Irish Sea for reinforcements! Aircraft carriers will also go to two, ensuring the seizure of air supremacy in the middle of England! "Navy Minister Zhang Cheng said!

"When will the reinforcements from North America be able to reach the UK?" Wang Yuze asked. With just two army groups, it is clearly not enough! Twenty infantry divisions from North America had been prepared to be sent to Britain for reinforcements, and if they could arrive in time, they would be able to solve the problem!

"Your Majesty, the reinforcements transferred from North America will probably be able to reach the English Channel in four days, and if they are faster, they should be able to reach the Irish Sea in four days!" Navy Minister Zhang Cheng said!

"4 days? Enough is enough! I think it should be no problem for the 8th Army to hold out for 4 days, right? In addition, the 2nd Army can also be properly reinforced! Well, give the order to the 8th Army! Do your best to take Birmingham, then find the wealth of the British royal family and try to bring it all back! Wang Yuze waved his hand and said very imposingly!

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Marshal Cai Yun, Chief of the General Staff, received the order!

After receiving the telegram, General He Bingju, commander of the 8th Group Army, immediately summoned the commanders of all infantry divisions and brigades directly under the group army to a meeting in the conference room!

At 4 p.m. on June 28, the meeting was held in the provisional headquarters of the 8th Army, because at the moment it was on the march, and the so-called temporary headquarters was nothing more than a house belonging to the British on the side of the road! It's hot, the meeting room is cramped, but no one cares!

"Guys, you can't imagine what you're bringing everyone together this time?" Admiral He Bingju glanced at everyone and said with a mysterious expression. When he received the telegram from China, he was also shocked for a long time!

"Commander, aren't you going to attack Birmingham? Are there other battles to be fought? With whom to fight? Germans? Major General Li Yang, commander of the 9th Infantry Division, asked nonchalantly. In his eyes, the combat effectiveness of the British Army is too rubbish, and they can win lightly!

"Haha! That's right, it's Birmingham! But, do you know what's in Birmingham? Admiral He Bingju said mysteriously!

Everyone looked at General He Bingju inexplicably, not knowing what happened to this usually strict commander today!

"I tell you, we have received definite information that the British royal family had shipped their accumulated wealth to Birmingham at the end of last year! According to preliminary estimates, these fortunes are worth at least 600 million yuan! His Majesty the Emperor has personally ordered us to take Birmingham and then take all this wealth and leave nothing to the British! Admiral He Bingju said!

"What? A fortune of 600 million Chinese dollars? Everyone was dumbfounded, and many of them could put a fist in their mouths! Although these veterans from the army have no specific concept of money and the like, before the war began, the Chinese Army's annual military expenditure was not 600 million Chinese yuan!

"Commander, what you didn't say, take down Birmingham, find out all the wealth of the British royal family and bring it, whoever dares to stop it, kill them all!" Major General Li Yang, commander of the 9th Infantry Division, jumped out directly!

"Haha! That's right, take Birmingham and bring back all the wealth of the British royal family! Now, Birmingham has only 200,000 British troops, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they are not vulnerable at all! However, the British are sending troops to Birmingham with all their might, so we are running out of time! Tomorrow morning, an operation against Birmingham must be launched, and then Birmingham must be taken in one day! In the rest of the time, search for the location of the British royal family's secret warehouse, and try to get all the wealth away before the British arrive! Not at all! Admiral He Bingju said!

"Yes, General!" All the generals who participated in the meeting replied loudly, everyone is full of energy!

"Remember, the wealth of the British crown belongs to the Empire! If the wealth of the British royal family is found, no one is allowed to intercept it privately, and violators will be punished by military law! Lieutenant General Zhang Ruifeng, Chief of Staff of the 8th Group Army, reminded! After all, with so much wealth involved, it is inevitable that no one will use their brains, and they must be vaccinated first! Otherwise, if something goes wrong, it won't be easy to clean up!

"Yes, Chief of Staff!" Everyone nodded. Everyone has made up their minds that after returning to their respective units, they must pass on the order, lest anyone violate military law, and it will not end well!

At 6 o'clock in the morning of June 29th, the Chinese Army launched an attack on Birmingham, and the British army stationed in Birmingham had a total of 4 corps, but most of these troops were newly recruited second-line troops, many of them joined the army with enthusiasm, but they did not undergo systematic military training, most of them only learned how to shoot, as for other combat qualities, it was almost equal to zero!

The 8th Army of the Chinese Army hit hundreds of large-caliber heavy artillery and carried out a fierce shelling of Birmingham, because the main force of the British Army has been transferred to the south of Britain, and a large number of heavy weapons are also given priority to supplement the troops on the southern coast, which makes several corps of the British Army stationed in Birmingham lack heavy artillery, so the artillery adds up to less than two hundred, and they are all artillery with a caliber of less than 100 mm! There are only more than 20 heavy guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm!

When the artillery of the British Army launched a counterattack, the Chinese Navy carrier-based aircraft had already flown over Birmingham, and hundreds of H5C "Osprey" torpedo bombers carried heavy bombs to carry out horizontal bombing missions, and with the precision strikes of the H5D "Fish Eagle" dive bombers, only one round of bombing almost wiped out the artillery of the British ** team in Birmingham! After the loss of artillery, the British Army was completely in a state of passive beating!

After half an hour of shelling, the 8th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army took the lead and launched an attack on Birmingham! The 9th Infantry Division and the 10th Infantry Division cooperate with the 8th Armored Brigade to attack! The British Army's defensive line outside Birmingham was broken through in less than an hour, and the rest of the troops all retreated inside Birmingham!

However, in the street fighting, these recruits with almost zero combat quality are not the opponents of the elite Chinese army soldiers at all, they only have the share of being slaughtered! By 4pm, most of Birmingham was under the control of the Chinese Army's 8th Army! (To be continued......)