Chapter 466: Professional Selling Teammates
Pascal stormed into Xiao Peng's cabin angrily: "Xiao, I have a few questions!"
"What's the problem?" Xiao Peng put the game console aside and got up from the bed and asked.
Pascal asked, "Why can't I take a plane to Norderney Island in Germany and wait for you? Why do I have to take a boat there with you?"
Xiao Peng said lazily: "Actually, you don't have to come for this."
Pascal said helplessly: "Brother, what's the point of you all coming here and leaving me alone at home?"
Xiao Peng said helplessly: "Xiao Pa, aren't you not interested in gold?"
Pascal grinned and said, "I'm interested in something else on the ship! Xiao, tell me honestly, can this ship really be found?"
Xiao Peng said, "This matter is a bit troublesome. Come over and take a look at this sea chart."
As he spoke, he enlarged the computer screen on his desk and explained to Pascal, "According to the book, William I's loot went through Lille to Dunkirk and then sailed through the Strait of Dover, passing through the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands to the Heligoland Bight, where it sank. Actually, there's a big problem here."
"What's the problem?" Pascal asked in confusion.
Xiao Peng explained, "Weather! According to records, the ship returned fully loaded and then encountered a storm and sank. However, I looked up relevant information and found no record of a storm in the Heligoland Bight during that period. However, there is a record of a storm moving south from the North Sea to the Strait of Dover."
"This means..." Pascal thought for a moment, "that the ship didn't sink in the Heligoland Bight?"
Xiao Peng said: "Even if it sank in the Heligoland Bight, it was on the west side of Heligoland Island."
The name Heligoland Bight comes from the fact that there is an island called Heligoland in the middle of the bay.
Pascal suddenly understood and said, "No wonder you want to make a documentary about the Battle of Heligoland Bight! The Battle of Heligoland Bight took place on the west side of Heligoland Island."
"But what if it sinks prematurely?" Xiao Peng explained, "Our exploration range should extend from Dunkirk to the Heligoland Bight. So far, we've only received authorization from Germany, not from any other country, so our workload this time may be quite large."
Pascal looked at the chart and asked, "What do these green lines mean?"
"The waterway," Xiao Peng explained. "This is the area we avoided searching. The Germans came back stealthily, so they didn't take the waterway. The red line above is where I expected to search."
"Damn it!" Pascal said angrily, "All the red lines start from one place: Dunkirk! I hate this place!"
Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this. "I understand. My plan is this: we'll start by working together in the Heligoland Bight. Once we've been working for a while and everyone else's concerns have been dispelled, I'll secretly investigate from Dunkirk. You won't have to go to the 'sad spot' of you French people."
The French grit their teeth in anger when they mention the place called "Dunkirk".
Renowned director Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" made the world feel the cruelty of war, with Tom Hardy's performance as a pilot being particularly memorable. The story revolves around 400,000 British and French troops trapped in Dunkirk during World War II by the Germans. The British mobilized their entire nation to evacuate the trapped British soldiers back to their homeland, an event known as the "Dunkirk Evacuation."
The film's release sent some public intellectuals into a frenzy of excitement, with some online exclaiming about the greatness of Britain! This is the "brilliance of humanity." Look at how so many British people united under fire to rescue those soldiers. That's what it means to "never abandon, never give up!"
However, the French have a different opinion on this film. In their eyes, this film is just a "whitewash". In real history, Britain can be said to be a typical example of "abandoning and giving up" and selling out teammates and its own people, and the "Dunkirk Evacuation" is the most conclusive evidence of this.
In fact, from an outsider's perspective, the French are similar.
Before the outbreak of World War II, Britain, France, and Poland established an alliance. At that time, they agreed that if Germany dared to invade Poland, Britain and France would directly go to war with Germany.
After Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France did not break their promises and directly declared war on Germany, but it was mostly verbal. France even pretended to push its soldiers several kilometers towards the German border, while Britain was too lazy to even do so and only sent soldiers to France after Poland was destroyed.
In fact, Germany invaded Poland with the whole country's strength. If Britain and France had directly attacked Germany at that time, there would basically be no World War II.
After defeating Poland, Germany began to deal with the British and French forces. After a beating, 400,000 British and French troops were trapped in Dunkirk.
At this time, Britain began to "sell out teammates".
The French thought: "After all, we have 400,000 men. Let's just break out and retreat to Paris and then fight Germany to the death." However, the British simply fled, as seen in the movie, as they fled to the beaches and retreated to England. This retreat was the result of no consultation with the French.
If you pay attention to the movie, you will find that those who retreated were all British, but after all, it was the Anglo-French Allied Forces, so what about the French?
The French soldiers were fighting the Germans! The British not only did not help, but they also ran away...
After the release of the movie "Dunkirk", the French were completely furious: because the movie did not mention the group of French soldiers who stayed behind! It only described how the British rescued people.
It seems so many people died in vain!
In fact, the British betrayed their teammates more than once during World War II.
The United States sent 36 merchant ships to transport strategic materials to Europe, and British warships were responsible for escorting them. However, when they were halfway through the escort, they heard that the Germans were coming and they ran away. 24 of the 36 merchant ships were sunk by the Germans in one go, which made the United States angry and wanted to "break off all ties" with Britain. Later, Japan attacked Burma, and Britain tricked the Chinese Expeditionary Force into going there. As a result, after the expeditionary force arrived, the British fled to India and left a lot of munitions to the Japanese.
Incidentally, the man who led the British escape in Burma was Harold Alexander, the same man who had led the British escape at Dunkirk, abandoning the French. Perhaps it was his unethical actions at Dunkirk that led to his transfer to Burma, where he ended up doing it all again, a classic British "Fan Paopao." First he cheated the French, then the Chinese. This Harold Alexander was quite the character!
Xiao Peng was still looking at the nautical chart when Chen Cheng's voice came over the intercom: "Boss, you'd better come up and take a look. We're in trouble!"
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