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Fortunately, Cornelia's dilemma didn't last long, because the Europa League launched an attack.

Having purchased so many high-quality products from China Union, the European Union feels it has become stronger, and it's time to showcase its true capabilities!

"Hahahaha, that's so typical of old Europe!"

According to the information Qin Shan received, the European Union is using the promise of European Union citizenship as leverage to recruit a large number of suicide squads from overseas immigrants. This European Union is not the Europe on Earth. In the case of long-term war between major powers, governments prioritize the interests of their own citizens, as this is a matter of life and death. In this environment, refugees who smuggle themselves into Europe are considered spies. They are to be sent to a concentration camp, or else be killed as spies.

In Paris, France alone, more than 3,000 illegal immigrants were executed last year.

Please note that this is a mass execution by firing squad, not a clandestine killing or deportation. It's an open and blatant accusation of espionage, followed by being dragged to a shooting range in the suburbs to be shot.

Currently, there are over three thousand concentration camps across Europe, holding at least a million illegal immigrants. The living conditions there are so bad that cockroaches would be ecstatic, bedbugs would be delighted, and flies and mosquitoes would be rampant. Corpses are carried out every day, but the illegal immigrants inside dare not come out because anyone who leaves without permission will be shot dead.

It's such a waste to let such a large number of low-end people rot in concentration camps. Now the European Union has found the right way to use them. After all, the European Union is not the European Union. As a union that is in a state of war for many years, it can scare away ghosts and gods if it doesn't care about its reputation. These people are good resources and must be fully utilized.

Therefore, the European Union introduced the "Measures for Commending Illegal Immigrants During Special Periods".

Simply put, if you die on the battlefield, your family members can get a green card in the European Union. If you perform exceptionally well and are promoted, then your life is secure.

On one side is a dark and dreary concentration camp, and on the other is a battlefield where survival is a matter of life and death. Will they continue to rot, or fight to the death? Not everyone has the courage to choose to go to the battlefield, but there will certainly be some who choose to dance with death for the sake of their families.

Thus, the first batch of suicide bombers specially supplied by the European Union, equipped with simple weapons and self-destruct devices, went to the battlefield to deplete Britain's military strength as consumables.

The first wave of impact Britain faced came from these homeless people, who might also harbor deep-seated hatred towards them.

Most of the people who smuggled themselves into the European Union were forced to flee their homeland after Britain destroyed it, only to be imprisoned in concentration camps. Now, they have a chance for revenge and to give their families a chance at survival. These people are truly fearless. A tragic waste of resources, a tragic era.

Just as Qin Shan was reflecting on this, the North African campaign had already begun in full swing, this time targeting the European Union.

"Attack! Attack! Send all our suicide squads up to break through the enemy's defenses. Keep the artillery bombarding them. Don't worry about hitting the suicide squads. As long as we can break through, victory is ours."

The "Line-Filling Baby Army," composed of illegal immigrants, fought with a death-defying spirit, tearing open the first line of defense for the British army. They literally stepped into the British defenses by stepping on the landing points of their own artillery shells. As long as their weapons were still usable and they could still struggle, they would take anyone down with them.

Not to mention, the European Union injected these people with drugs before the battle to ensure they were willing to fight and kill.

Yes, that's right, just like you're thinking. Right now, all these thread lifters are extremely excited. As for what aftereffects this excitement might cause, the European Union doesn't care at all. Do you care how the consumables are worn out? As long as they wear out where they should, the process doesn't matter.

Ultimately, the European Union army stormed Cairo, breaching the path cleared by the corpses of nearly 100,000 illegal immigrants, and captured the west bank of the Suez Canal. The European Union troops then began to coordinate with the Chinese Union officials on the other side, and the two sides conducted business happily. Large quantities of supplies were delivered to the west bank through the canal. Even at Christmas that year, the local European Union troops had many small gifts made in Yiwu to give away, and the morale of the entire army reached its peak.

The British army was naturally unwilling to lose such an important strategic stronghold, and Cornelia immediately organized a counterattack, but with little success. This was because the defenses on the west bank of the Suez Canal had been fully reinforced by the European Union army. More importantly, the Central Union next door was their lifeline. Taking advantage of the fact that the British army dared not attack them, the Central Union's trade corps unscrupulously provided the European Union army with all kinds of supplies, massive amounts of drones and loitering munitions, as well as anti-tank missiles, bombing the British Afrika Korps, which was still equipped with a large number of tactical mechs, into a scene of carnage.

In November alone, the 1st Armored Army of the British Afrika Korps lost almost all of its tactical armor and more than half of its combat personnel. Following closely behind, the 2nd Armored Army, which was also a meritorious British Afrika Korps, fared even worse, being completely decimated. The number of officers killed or wounded was no longer the issue; the highest-ranking officer before the battle was a lieutenant general, but after the battle, the highest-ranking officer was a lieutenant colonel, almost as if a number had been deleted.

In her report back home, Cornelia wrote painfully: "Our troops are like exquisite targets in the face of the intelligent weapons provided by the United Nations. They can easily bring us precise death and fear from tens of kilometers away. The era of mech knights engaging in close-range combat is over. The battlefield now is about who has the longer range and the more accurate strike capability. Unfortunately, we have neither. So our troops can only defend their positions with their lives, and then lose positions piece by piece. The situation is deteriorating, and we don't know when it will lead to the total collapse of the entire African theater."

This is not an exaggeration. As the European Union advances, resistance forces are also rising up across Africa. Creating trouble behind enemy lines is something every country does on the battlefield. The situation is now very favorable. In addition, the European Union has raised the banner of liberators, which is welcomed by the African people who have been exploited by Britain. As the United Nations continues to open up the market for drones and man-portable anti-armor weapons, and even sells full-band jammers everywhere, Britain's technological advantage is rapidly disappearing.

In early 2019, during World Six, there was even more explosive news: South African guerrillas wiped out a regiment of the British regular army.

Well, it was a new regiment, but it was still a regular British military force, a numbered British army. This had never happened before, and something was changing.

That was the idol erected by the Holy British Empire through military authority, which bled after being touched by a mortal. Yes, a mortal. In the eyes of a small country, a great power is a god, an inviolable supreme being. But if a mortal could touch a god and discover that a god bleeds, that would be a different story altogether.

The dam of deterrence is crumbling, and something that has been held back is about to roar forth. A fury called hatred is beginning to devour Britain.

From Africa to South America, from South America to North America, and even on Pacific islands, protests and gunshots began to echo through the British Empire. The military empire, its foundations shaken, was facing its inevitable darkest hour.

Britain's response was also very imperialistic: kill, there's nothing that can't be killed. As long as these people are scared, the empire will still be the empire. Let the disobedient pay a terrible price for their actions!

There are certainly temporary effects, and the situation in some areas has indeed stabilized. However, the hatred brought about by the killings has also settled in the eyes of those who are secretly observing. Just as Israel created Hamas, Britain is also creating a Hamas that suits its own constitution. The resistance that is accumulating strength in silence is more terrifying than the open resistance, because the pressure inside the boiler is rising rapidly, and Britain has no pressure relief valve. Moreover, the European Union and the Central Union are working together to fuel the boiler and have even added an outer shell for Britain.

An explosion that's been held back to its limit will be even more terrifying.

But no one expected the explosion to happen in such a bizarre way.

Chapter 183: Got carried away? Actually, they just couldn't stop!

If a spark can ignite explosives, it can only mean that the explosives are surrounded by gasoline.

No country in the world is without internal conflicts, it's just a matter of the magnitude of those conflicts. Ordinary internal conflicts can be handled by the police, but when it comes to life-or-death class conflicts, things become a "beautiful sight."

The colonies of the Holy British Empire were experiencing these things.

First, let's open a map of World Six. After the British royal family left Europe, they re-established the country in the United States and then incorporated Canada and Mexico into the new homeland. This is how the core territory of the Holy British Empire came about.

In other words, all the places outside these areas were British colonies, essentially a larger version of Britain.

But since it's a larger version of Britain, the various outrageous and inhumane actions of Sakura are naturally inherited and even surpassed by the original, and she will definitely not have more conscience just because the territory has become larger.

After all, the principle of the British Empire is sustainable exploitation. The greater their conscience, the less money they earn. The less money they earn, the more turbulent the country becomes. The more turbulent the country becomes, the more the British Empire tries to shift the blame. The more they shift the blame, the more immoral things they do. The more immoral things they do, the less conscience they have. So the more conscience Britain has, the less conscience it has.

And to be frank, apart from France, the rest of the European countries are no match for the talent of centralization.

However, the centralized system in France was not a centralized system inherited from the previous system; it was more like a temporary centralized system under strongman politics. They did not develop a good system of succession, so after the establishment of the European Union, the effect of this centralization was as follows.

Don't take a large land area for granted. There are only a handful of countries in the world with truly vast territories and well-controlled populations. Let's not even mention Russia, with its small population. India is a fragmented country. The United States of America is not a true centralized power. So how could a world like World VI, which, apart from the unique Sakura Stone mine, has no technological advantage over Earth, give rise to a larger centralized state? It can't. It doesn't have the capability, you know?

Therefore, the actual situation on the map is that the Holy British Empire was essentially a federation of the United States, with some regions having autonomy that even reached the level of a confederation. Places outside the mainland were colonies and autonomous regions. Loyalty to Britain was like Lu Bu's loyalty to Ding Yuan. If there was no opportunity, so be it; but if an opportunity was found, it would be like a halberd, used to stab one's adoptive father.

The only thing Holy Britain does better than the United States is gun control—strict gun control. However, this gun control is only strictly enforced in the vicinity of the capital. Outside of that area, the enforcement in other state governments is less effective. So, the actual result of gun control has become "I've banned guns," "I think we've banned guns," "If I don't see it, then it's banned," "Anyway, the gun control law is there," and "A gun control that is legally enforced is a gun control."

It's hard to describe this kind of thought process; it's difficult to evaluate.

Normally, this situation would just be a shooting or something, but if there's internal turmoil followed by everyone owning guns, then it's like everyone's playing PUBG. There will always be people who find hunting down the poor boring and choose to turn their guns on the rich instead.

The top-tier items are hard to get, but the middle-class items can. After that, they can upgrade their equipment and then go after even higher-level targets.

Comrade Stalin, a classical Caucasian financial expert, expressed his approval.

Faced with internal problems, Britain's response was quite imperialistic. The whole country was on the verge of glory through bayonets, and such a regime exerted high pressure both domestically and internationally.

In the past, when we were victorious, high pressure was called unity; now, with repeated defeats, high pressure is called brutality.

Britain's historical misdeeds towards various ethnic groups are well-documented. Even in the New World, Britain continued to act arbitrarily in certain policies. In fact, the absence of military counterbalance in the New World led to its increasingly extreme behavior. The problems of Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland were presented in a completely new form within Britain. Moreover, the population structure in the New World was already quite diverse.

It's not a matter of Black people, White people, or Asian people; it's about rainbows covering the sky and a major clash of beliefs.

All of this was achieved by leveraging Britain's undefeated record in foreign wars, coupled with Emperor Charles's belief in the survival of the fittest, his implementation of the feudal system, and the establishment of a militaristic regime. When this system was functioning properly, its combat power was formidable, but once it stalled, the backlash was terrifying.

The sharp decline in cherrystone production led to increased costs for many industries in Britain. Capitalists, not being benevolent, naturally passed on these costs, resulting in many Britons finding life difficult. This further exacerbated Britain's exploitation of its colonies, leading to escalating resistance and continuous financial ruin.

This process can last a long time, or it can be triggered instantly by the combined effects of internal and external catalysis.

"Destroy the dictators!"

With a gunshot, the Fourth Princess of Holy Britain fell into a pool of blood, shot in the head. Kennedy expressed his approval.

The assassin then detonated the explosives on his body, leaving no trace of his body. More than a hundred organizations subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack.

This is the most terrifying thing. Britain has fallen to the point where everyone dares to provoke it. More than a hundred organizations have claimed responsibility for the assassination. Even if Britain has great abilities, it is impossible to control a hundred fleas with two hands.

Moreover, the external war situation is deteriorating, with the British army in the North African theater being utterly defeated by various smart weapons.

"The era of knights has finally come to an end, and we must pick up our guns again."

Cornelia's knights surrounded an armored vehicle, the latest weapon of the British Armory, while the former tactical mechs were being replaced by individual exoskeletons and powered armor.

After all, there are only two types of defense on the battlefield: either you are tough enough that the enemy can't do anything to you, or you are small enough that most of the enemy's submachine guns have a hard time aiming at you. The tactical mechs that were three to five meters tall before obviously did not meet either of these requirements.

This is why there are no Gundams on Earth. Until smart guided weapons can be completely rendered ineffective, the larger the target, the easier it is to become a target. Haven't you seen how the tanks on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield have turned into such ridiculous shapes?

The former British knights are also moving in this direction, trying to add all sorts of odds and ends to their mechs or vehicles in order to survive one more round of attacks from loitering missiles and drones.

Various air defense weapons have become widespread, which has also driven the development of aerospace technology in World Six, as well as rigid shield technology. This has been around for a long time, rigid energy shields, but it is obviously more cost-effective to install this on tanks and armored vehicles than on mechs. Compared to armored vehicles, the complex structure of mechs is definitely not as strong as that of tanks in terms of impact resistance.

After taking a turn, the history of World Six has returned to the classic problem of armor-on-bullet combat. However, this time, the enemy fighting against the armor is not only on the same plane, but also hunters in the sky.

"Those despicable scumbags from the China United International Space Station!"

"Despicable? There's no such thing as despicable. This is a battlefield, and different eras have different definitions of a battlefield. Even an old man like me can let go of the past. What are you young people still worrying about? Hurry up and adapt to the new environment, or you'll be eliminated by the enemy's hail of bullets."

"Sir, where are our loitering munitions and drones?"

"That's a question for our military experts. Until then, we can only rely on ourselves to hold firm."

That's the reality. Britain is now trading flesh and blood for steel. However, as the battle lines shift south, the European Union is also beginning to suffer heavy casualties. After all, their advanced weapons are all purchased. It's not that they can't imitate them, but they can't solve the communication technology of the Central Union that ignores full-frequency interference. They simply can't reverse engineer it. Even if they secretly send spies, it would take a long time to solve this problem. In reality, they simply can't solve it.

This is a communication network created by Qin Shan using the system's features. The management array is located in the industrial star system of World Three. Only Qin Shan and the ship girl have the authority to open the door, and each use is registered and recorded. Without authorization, even if Qin Shan opens the door in front of a stranger, that person cannot enter.

The security measures are impeccable; the European Union certainly can't do anything about it.

If core technologies are controlled by others, then we can only honestly purchase them with real money. The EU's money doesn't come from thin air. Moreover, equipment wears out after use. Supply and logistics depend entirely on the mood of the China Union. If they are a little slow, the EU's actions will be delayed by a day or two, or even a week. The China Union is not in a state of war. The production cycle is fixed. In addition, there are transportation and other issues. It is normal for there to be a delivery error of one or two days.

Even without this error, Qin Shan would have Britain take the blame to create it, for example, by claiming sabotage by British spies that caused some factories to reduce production or some places to run out of raw materials. After all, fire and water are merciless, so please understand. Of course, if you really need it urgently, you can discuss with other customers and ask them to share their goods with you. As for how to discuss it, I'm just providing a channel; you'll have to figure it out yourselves.

As a result, many industries in China have specially ordered a large number of drones and stored them in warehouses, waiting to distribute them to Europe in case of "unexpected circumstances". We also need them urgently, so it is normal for the price to increase when distributing them. Money makes it easier to make friends.

In short, the Europa League is now being gradually drained of its resources. They have traded more than 5,000 tons of gold reserves to the China Union. It is no exaggeration to say that the Europa League's victory in the North African campaign was won by throwing money at the problem.

But the Europa League is still gritting their teeth and persevering. They know very well how difficult Britain has been in the past. In the past, even money couldn't buy them a victory. Now that they can buy a victory with money, it's already too cheap. If they don't spend real money on military equipment, are they going to spend it on reparations to Britain?

Don't forget that the legitimacy of the European Union was built on the expulsion and transformation of feudal nobles in various countries into Louis XVI. If they bow down to Britain, their legitimacy will be shaken, which would be a seismic political crisis, and the European Union might even disintegrate on the spot.

This is something that the vested interests of the European Union cannot accept. Moreover, World Six has not developed into a state of frenzied financial capitalism, where funds can be sent flying all over the world with a flick of the finger. The vast majority of capitalists are industrial capitalists, and their lives and fortunes are physically tied to the rise and fall of their nations.

Look at the treatment of domestic factories after Germany's defeat in World War I, and how many industrial capitalists went bankrupt.

This group of people with stable property are truly determined to fight Britain to the death. They would rather bow down to the Central Union than to Britain, otherwise Britain would definitely hold them accountable for what the European Union did to those feudal nobles in the past.

To put it more bluntly, both are class contradictions, but the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is more progressive than the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the feudal aristocracy. In a three-way power struggle, it is of course the bourgeoisie who will unite with the proletariat to eliminate the feudal aristocracy.

That's why Britain and the European Union fought so fiercely, not because they enjoyed fighting, but because they had no way out. Their legitimacy was built on hatred and loathing for each other.

Just like you can't expect the Tsar's family to discuss legitimacy with the Soviet Union, you're asking for a machine gun blast.

Seeing that the strategic situation was becoming increasingly unfavorable for Britain, Emperor Charles made a dangerous decision.

Chapter 184: Internal Training of the Dragon-Slaying Saber

Now that things have come to this, a surprise attack on the Central Alliance is the only option... right?

Don't be silly. The Japanese attacked the United States during World War II because, under conventional weapons conditions, the American troops that were attacked could not easily retaliate against the Japanese. But if the Chinese had just dropped a nuclear bomb, the British attacking force would have been completely wiped out.

Then the two sides went to war. The Central Alliance rained down ammunition without restraint, and Britain was attacked from both sides by the Central Alliance and the European Alliance.

What Nazi German ways of dying.

The current situation is that the two sides are not technologically equal. Therefore, Britain must also bring out its own unequal advanced technology, namely GEASS.

Don't forget, Emperor Charles also has a VV with the same privileges as CC, and both of them can contract GEASS.

Furthermore, the British Empire began researching Geass a very long time ago, and different people who obtain Geass have completely different abilities, such as regional time stop, absolute obedience, mind reading, and so on.

However, all of this is based on the premise of a community of human consciousness. In other words, it is useless to outsiders like Qin Shan, but whether it is the Central Union or the European Union, the majority of people are locals, so they will naturally be affected by GEASS.

With the addition of a group of loyal GEASS members, the British army quickly gained the upper hand on the battlefield.

After all, most of the weapons in the Europa League still require human operation. As long as you can influence that person, victory is within your grasp.

But there is one thing they really can't do anything about: intelligent weapons.

This thing isn't connected to the C world, and they're not even in the same system, so it naturally won't obey external permissions. That's why there were situations on the battlefield where the European Union forces inexplicably lost their combat effectiveness, but the weapons provided by the Central Union were still able to wreak havoc. And this intelligence was naturally sent to Qin Shan.

"Britain has gotten inside, so let's not stand on ceremony."

The Empire is researching World C, and Qin Shan's side is also researching World C, and has achieved even more results.

Because his technological level is higher than that of the simple C world. Don't forget that the Resistance Moon of the Third World can upload consciousness. He has unique technical insights into the collective subconscious, the human consciousness community, and the human thought process. And the basic data of carbon-based life forms like humans are largely the same, which makes Qin Shan's reverse engineering very smooth.

The first achievement was the ability to block the permission influence of the C world, rendering GEASS ineffective.

I'm no longer within your access control system, so of course you have no right to influence me.

All related technologies are integrated into the full-frequency jamming device. In fact, there is already something in the animation that can disable the GEASS device, but that one has a reverse activation effect, while Qin Shan's one directly disconnects the network.

However, the Chinese Union did not inform the European Union about this matter. After all, if Britain were to collapse so easily, how could the Chinese Union continue to extract value from the European Union? Therefore, the built-in shielding effect of these special full-frequency jamming devices was randomly activated during operation, and even the instructors and technicians sent by the Chinese Union were unaware of it.

So things got like this: the Empire's GEASS guild members kept finding the enemy affected by GEASS one minute, then suddenly unaffected the next, and then back to normal the next. It was driving both sides crazy. Were you affected by me or not?!

On the battlefield, we're all about the thrill.

The two sides were once again locked in a tug-of-war, but this time it was inexplicable. Moreover, because Qin Shan's internet connection was constantly dropping, the Akasha Sword, the operating system in the C world, kept showing system malfunctions. This was clearly a creation left behind by a more advanced civilization, and neither VV nor CC could fix it. So, Emperor Charles has recently begun to worry about whether his ideals can still be realized.

Will this thing break down halfway through?

When your hand is controlled by others, things become strange. However, Qin Shan's attention is not entirely on the Empire and the European Union at the moment. He is carrying out a comprehensive transformation of the Central Union. When the time is right, a new People's Republic of China will be born.

The primary task at present is anti-corruption.

There's no way around it. Corruption is something that will inevitably happen no matter what methods you use, how much technology you employ, how much supervision you conduct, or how many policies you formulate, as long as human nature remains the same. Power seeks benefits, benefits collude with power, and then there are networks of relationships, power-money transactions, forming large and small interest circles that harm the masses.

But Qin Shan is now very mature and never thought he could eradicate corruption through a few major campaigns. In terms of wisdom, the old regime had a model; in terms of ruthlessness, Zhu Yuanzhang had the means. But both couldn't avoid the demise of their policies after their deaths. There's no need to be sad; this is the normal situation. The role of most people is to maintain the existence of civilization and the operation of society. The vanguard that drives civilization forward is always a tiny minority. In fact, in many cases, those who can maintain the status quo are very rare. Even if you are given a large fortune, you may not be able to keep it; that's the norm. Otherwise, there wouldn't be the saying that wealth doesn't last three generations.

This is like a carp trying to leap over the Dragon Gate; if it fails, it dies.