"At this time, the battlefield was no longer a battlefield, but a slaughterhouse. Tens of thousands of people were thrown into a giant meat grinder called "Verdun". There were stumps and broken arms everywhere, and corpses were everywhere.
Equipment was piled up on the battlefield, but even so, those British soldiers still moved forward stubbornly with awe-inspiring courage and faithfully performed their duties.
The dense bullets were like the sharp scythe in the hand of Death, and in an instant the British troops were "swept down in droves like wheat"... What is the "Scythe of Death"?
Isn’t all this the way the death scythe is wielded in the human world?
For thousands of years, in order to win the war, human beings have continuously invested their intelligence and wisdom in war. People have been studying how to kill their own kind more effectively!
And today, in Verdun, humans finally achieved their wishes. This day can no longer be surpassed, because they achieved the long-awaited goal of humans - humans can finally kill their own kind efficiently!
"
Although after the "Battle of Verdun", people felt the cruelty of war through words, they will never understand what exactly happened on that land in "Verdun" on that day.
People will never be able to feel how determined the British officers and soldiers were at that time. They just endured unprecedented casualties and moved forward, forward!
They attacked the Ming army's defensive positions step by step. Even though every step they took required the death of hundreds or thousands of people, they still moved forward and attacked without hesitation.
The successive attacks, regardless of life and death, finally had results. In the morning of that day, the British soldiers finally broke into certain areas of the Ming army's defenses, and started a life-and-death hand-to-hand battle with the Ming army in the trenches. It was an extremely bloody battle.
Lasted for a whole day.
On this day, this one-sided massacre continued for the whole day. On this day, the British army suffered more than 60,000 casualties - almost all the troops involved in the charge.
By evening, they only occupied a mere 2.3 square kilometers of land. They also created a history and created a record for the largest casualties in one day in the history of world wars!
A total of 63,000 people were killed!
This is an unprecedented sacrifice. The world finally sees the courage of the British army. They are a group of men who can brave the hail of bullets and catch the bullets with their bodies. They are real men!
There is no better man than this!
A good man is the kind of man who is willing to generously go to the country.
Such men are worthy of respect regardless of their nationality or each other. Of course, the best way to respect your enemies is to kill them.
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While tens of thousands of Anglo-Saxons were fulfilling their responsibilities with their lives at Verdun, some Anglo-Saxons in the New World, in the west, in the dense primeval forests of the Rocky Mountains, were still resisting tenaciously.
Washington has fallen.
It was Washington state that fell, not the District.
Half a month ago, with the fall of the state capital Olympic, this land had been completely occupied.
Although Olympic has fallen, there is still no safe return to calm in the city. Resistance occurs from time to time, and sentries can still be seen everywhere on the streets. As for ordinary people living in Olympic who need to apply for a new "resident ID card", this is their
Credentials for traveling and looking for work. Of course, there are no jobs on the market at all. Except for the retained police and municipal workers, it is difficult for others to find jobs.
Because of this, after Olympic was occupied by the imperial army, although there were people wandering around on the streets, it was difficult for them to find a job even if they wandered around for a day. Without jobs, no money, and naturally no food, in the evening, wandering around
A person who has only been here for a day can only return home disappointed. He sighed with a sad face.
"There is no other way, so just endure it for now!"
Tolerate?
How to endure it?
Of course I was starving.
It was definitely not possible to go hungry. As for Juliet, who had never been hungry before, she would never starve herself.
Once again, she came to the city center. There were several shops in the city center that were already open. They were shops opened by people from the Ming Dynasty. They were not only shops selling various goods, from soap to food, but they were also pawn shops.
Everything you plant here has its value.
Even a woman's body has its own value. In fact, compared to other things, sometimes a woman's body is more valuable. Of course, the more people sell it, the less valuable it becomes.
Walking into one of the shops, I looked at the Ming man behind the counter who looked a bit like an Indian and asked directly.
"Do you exchange dollars here?"
"Miss, US dollars must be exchanged, but it depends on which bank it is from,"
The waiters in the store greeted the customers enthusiastically. Unlike the Empire's banknotes, which are uniformly issued by the Imperial Central Bank, American banknotes are issued by banks. All larger banks issue banknotes. Now after the Empire occupied the Olympics, those banknotes
Bankers fled south with their money, so that the banknotes on the market were like waste paper, so merchants bought them at lower prices.
The purpose of these businessmen who took the risk to open shops in the occupied areas was to acquire banknotes, which should be said to be banknotes with acquisition value. In the Olympics, a ten-dollar banknote could only be exchanged for two or three Chinese dollars. These banknotes
It will be trafficked to the North Sea by merchants, and then sent to Montana through smugglers, where one dollar note can still be exchanged for 1.5 grams of gold. This is a currency speculation.
Why does this happen?
Why can U.S. dollar banknotes be exchanged for gold or silver?
Because Washington's regime still exists and the West is just a part of the United States. Their rule and economy have not collapsed, and the currency will naturally not collapse. This is the subtlety of international finance.
Moreover, among the banknotes circulating in the market, there are also US dollar banknotes issued by some large banks in the United States. Most of these large banks are located in the east. Their banknotes will naturally not be waste paper. They are still circulating in other regions.
But in the occupied areas... it was already worthless. This also gave speculators room to play. In this way, those speculators became nouveau riche overnight.
Soon, the clerk picked out the three hundred U.S. dollars in banknotes that Juliette brought over, and selected those that could be exchanged for less than two hundred U.S. dollars. How much did he pay in the end? It was only 32 yuan. Although the profit was less than ten times, it was still very considerable.
. But for Juliet, although it was only a few dozen yuan, with this money, not only did she no longer have to go hungry, she could even leave here.
"Go to Seattle, go to your aunt..."
While she was thinking about this, she saw the intruders again. Seeing their arrogant appearance on the street, she felt uncomfortable in her heart.
Of course, what made her even more uncomfortable were the American men. Why didn't they resist until death? Those men were simply cowards. Now the invaders were living in this city with such arrogance, but what about the men?
They were actually indifferent. Shouldn't they, like Billy, join the guerrillas to resist the invasion?
What a bunch of useless guys...
When Juliet thought this, she once again cast a hostile look at the intruders. At this moment, she felt like a warrior.
He bravely resisted the invaders, which was completely different from those cowardly men.
Yes! That’s right! She is the real warrior!
Even if those men had resisted, so what? They did not die. Regardless of the fact that they had resisted, the men who survived now were cowards who had given up resistance.
Only women like her still bravely choose to resist and resist those foreign invaders.
Although she is a civilian, she still resists tenaciously...killing them with her eyes!
I'm so brave!
Thinking of this, Juliet couldn't help but admire herself even more...
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