Chapter 1443: A True Fighter (First Update, Please Subscribe)

"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". Broken limbs and arms were everywhere, and corpses were piled up on the battlefield. But even so, those British soldiers still stubbornly advanced with awe-inspiring courage and faithfully performed their duties.

The dense bullets were like the sharp scythe in the hands of the god of death, and in an instant they "swept down the British troops in groups like cutting wheat"... What is the "scythe of the god of death"?

Isn’t all this just the waving of the Grim Reaper’s scythe in the human world?

For thousands of years, in order to win the war, humans have continuously invested their intelligence and wisdom in war. People have been constantly researching how to kill their own kind more effectively!

And today, in Verdun, mankind finally achieved their wish. This day will never be surpassed, because they have achieved the goal that mankind has been waiting for for a long time - humans can finally kill their own kind efficiently! "

Although people felt the cruelty of war through words after the Battle of Verdun, they will never understand what really happened on that land in Verdun that day.

People will never be able to understand how determined the British officers and soldiers were at that time. They just endured unprecedented casualties and marched forward, forward!

They attacked the Ming army's defensive positions step by step. Although each step they took cost the lives of hundreds or even thousands of people, they still advanced and attacked without hesitation.

The successive, life-or-death attacks finally paid off. That morning, the British soldiers finally broke into some of the Ming army's defensive areas and engaged in a life-and-death hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army in the trenches. The extremely bloody battle lasted for a whole day.

This one-sided massacre lasted all day, and the British army suffered more than 60,000 casualties that day - almost all of the troops involved in the charge.

By the evening, they had only occupied 2.3 square kilometers of land, but they also created a record for the highest casualties in one day in the history of world wars!

A total of 63,000 people were killed!

This was an unprecedented sacrifice. The world finally witnessed the courage of the British army. They are a group of men who can brave the hail of bullets and catch bullets with their bodies. They are real men!

A real man like this!

A good man is one who is willing to sacrifice his life for his country.

Such men are worthy of respect regardless of their nationality or race. Of course, the best way to respect your enemies is to kill them.

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While tens of thousands of Anglo-Saxons demonstrated their responsibility with their lives in Verdun, in the New World, in the West, and in the dense primeval forests of the Rocky Mountains, some Anglo-Saxons were still resisting stubbornly.

Washington fell.

It was Washington state that fell, not DC.

Half a month ago, with the fall of the state capital Olympic, this land had been completely occupied.

Although Olympic has fallen, the city is still not safe and peaceful. Resistance occurs from time to time and sentries can still be seen everywhere on the streets. As for ordinary people living in Olympic, they need to apply for a new "resident identity card", which is their proof of going out and finding a job. Of course, there are no jobs on the market at all. Except for the retained police and municipal staff, it is difficult for others to find a job.

Because of this, after Olympic was occupied by the imperial army, although there were people wandering around the streets, it was difficult for them to find a job even if they wandered around for a day. Without a job, there was no money, and naturally no food. In the evening, those who wandered around for a day could only return home disappointed. He sighed with a sad face.

"There's no other way, just bear with it for now!"

Tolerate?

How can I bear it?

Of course, that means starvation.

Going hungry was definitely not an option. As for Juliet, who had never been hungry before, she absolutely did not want to starve herself.

Once again, she came to the city center, where there were several shops that had already started business. They were shops opened by Ming people. They were not only shops selling various goods - from soap to food, but also pawnshops. Anything here had its value.

Even a woman's body has its value. In fact, compared with other things, a woman's body is sometimes more valuable. Of course, if more people sell it, it will be worthless.

I walked into one of the shops and asked directly to the Ming man behind the counter who looked a bit like an Indian.

“Do you exchange dollars here?”

"Miss, US dollars can definitely be exchanged, but it depends on which bank it is from."

The shop assistants greeted the customers warmly. Unlike the Empire's banknotes which were all issued by the Empire's Central Bank, American banknotes were all issued by banks. Any slightly larger bank issued banknotes. Now that the Empire had occupied Olympic, those bankers had fled south with their money, so that the banknotes on the market were like waste paper, so merchants began to buy them at lower prices.

The purpose of these merchants who took the risk to open shops in the occupied areas was to purchase banknotes, or rather banknotes with purchase value. In Olympics, a ten-dollar bill could only be exchanged for two or three Huayuan. These banknotes would be trafficked to the North Sea by merchants, and then sent to Montana by smugglers, where one dollar bill could still be exchanged for 1.5 grams of gold. This was naked currency speculation.

Why does this happen?

Why can US dollar banknotes be exchanged for gold or silver?

Because the Washington regime still exists and the West is only a part of the United States, their rule and economy have not collapsed, so 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 major American banks. Most of these major banks are located in the East, and their banknotes are naturally not waste paper, and they are still circulating in other regions.

But in the occupied areas... it was worthless. This also gave speculators room to play, and just like that, those speculators became nouveau riche overnight.

Soon, the waiter picked out the less than two hundred dollars that could be exchanged from the three hundred dollar bills that Juliet brought. How much did he pay in the end? A mere 32 dollars. Although the profit was less than ten times, it was still very considerable. But for Juliet, although it was only a few dozen dollars, with this money, she would not only not have to starve anymore, but she could even leave here.

"Let's go to Seattle, to my aunt's place..."

While she was thinking this, she saw the invaders again. Seeing them walking on the street with such arrogance, she felt uncomfortable.

Of course, what made her even more uncomfortable was the American men. Why didn't they fight to the death? Those men were simply cowards. Now the invaders were living in this city with arrogance, but what about the men?

They were actually indifferent. Shouldn't they have joined the guerrillas like Billy and resisted the invasion?

What a bunch of useless guys...

As Juliet thought this, she once again cast a hostile look at the invaders. At this moment, she felt like a warrior.

He resisted the invaders with courage, 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 didn't die. Putting aside the fact that they had resisted, the men who survived now were cowards who had given up resistance.

Only women like her are still bravely choosing to resist, resisting those foreign invaders.

Even though she was a civilian, she still put up a strong resistance...killing them with her eyes!

I am so brave!

Thinking of this, Juliet couldn't help but admire herself even more...

The old group is down, so I created a new book club group: 739209015. Everyone is welcome to join and discuss and deduce the plot together.

(End of this chapter)