“I’m glad to have signed such a significant agreement with your country!”

After signing the Treaty of Polynesia on behalf of the Japanese government, Japanese representative Kazumoto Matsuda extended his right hand to German Foreign Minister Bilo with a smile on his face, while Japanese envoy Hirota Hirota smiled respectfully.

"It should be said that our two countries have made a good deal. The strategic vision and negotiation ability of your government are really enviable!" Holding the other party's small hands, Bilo always felt awkward. He didn't like to stand up and lower his head and talk to the Japanese, but the Japanese representative seemed to like to use his height to "advantage" to make the Germans "lower" in front of themselves again and again.

"Mr., please tell your country's respected emperor that our emperor and government are happy to stand with the powerful Germany. According to our agreement, our main fleet that is cruising in the central Pacific will enter the Polynesian Islands before Christmas and send a squadron to Clipperton Island as soon as possible." After gaining enough benefits at the negotiating table, the Japanese finally got excited.

Bilo just smiled slightly. For Germany, which had just swallowed half of France and all its colonies, those French islands were just the tip of the iceberg. When they defeated Britain, there would be more colonies waiting for Germany to receive and digest. With France's reparations and British wealth, Germany's future is feared by everyone.

Although Germany and Japan signed a secret agreement, the US government received this information that worried them shortly after the agreement was signed.

Norfolk Military Port, United States.

"Hey, I am Major Slitton, the officer on duty! You are...oh, General! Hello! Yes, yes, they set sail at 10 a.m., and now there have been... more than 6 hours! We confirmed to Lieutenant General Conway at that time, and he said that the fleet had been approved to leave the port! Yes...yes!"

When he answered the phone, Major Slidon, the officer on duty of the Atlantic Fleet, had already sweated from behind. He quickly called Lieutenant General Kang Wei, the deputy commander of the fleet, but no one answered the phone. When Slidon hurriedly opened the door of the duty room, a cold wind blew in, causing the strong American man in a military coat to tremble.

Slitton ran back and forth in the corridor like a soul-lost hunting dog. The clouds of war were far from floating above the United States. As Christmas approached, most naval officers were allowed to go home and reunite with their families. After the fleet handover ceremony two weeks ago, the Americans paid much less attention to the fleet that now belonged to Britain. Even if the British fleet set sail and returned to Britain, only a few American naval generals came to see him off. Before the fleet could leave the harbor, these people were busy with their own affairs. As a result, there were not even a few people in the command of the huge Atlantic Fleet.

"Lieutenant Colonel, are the patrol ships escorting the British fleet out of the port back?"

Slitton finally met a lieutenant colonel in charge of port defense. He asked impatiently while saluting.

"Major Slitton, what happened? Is it that British man still owed you money but didn't pay it back?" The lieutenant colonel had a completely relaxed expression. You should know that before the new warship was launched, the naval officers and soldiers of the Atlantic Fleet could enjoy a long period of leisure time and pay for their salary. Many people were considering whether to join the military observation group to watch the battle in England, or to be instructors who were behind the country for a period of time to make extra money.

Slitton was not in a joking mood at all. He gasped, "No, the naval commander called me in person just now and asked us to stop the British fleet. No matter what method is used, we must keep those warships in the United States for the time being!"

"What a joke! That British fleet has now sailed out of the US territorial waters! The patrol ships we escorted them out of the port had already returned two hours ago! What happened? We should rush to leave that fleet in the port?" The lieutenant colonel was completely confused. Although the warships had not been partially modified according to the requirements of the British, the British themselves asked to drive the fleet back to the British in advance. If there were any quality problems in the warships, the British themselves would be responsible for it in the future.

"I don't know the specifics, but the general's tone is very serious and urgent, and it doesn't seem like he is joking at all!" Poor Slitton was just an ordinary officer on duty. What he had to do was to convey the orders of his superiors to the entire fleet, rather than ask why.

"That's really bad! Even if we set out now, we will at least have to catch up with the British after dark! But just these warships in our hands..." Lieutenant Colonel looked at the port outside the window, and there were only twenty petite warships still stationed in the cold wind harbor. The entire Norfolk military port became much deserted after the British fleet left. If the British insisted on continuing to move forward, these warships could not stop the huge fleet.

"No matter what, we have to try it! Lieutenant Colonel, can you prepare all the fast-speed warships to sail first? I will find the Lieutenant General and other generals as soon as possible!" Sriton looked at the Lieutenant Colonel who was thinking in anticipation.

After a few seconds, the Lieutenant Colonel gritted his teeth, "Then... OK! I'll inform the First and Second Patrol Fleets and the First Destroyer to set fire and anchor, but without the direct orders of the superiors, they cannot leave the port! Major, I wish you good luck, I will wait for your news in the dock duty room!"

"Lieutenant Colonel, thank you!" Slitton finally breathed a little relieved, but it was not easy to find the generals. He felt that he would notify Lieutenant General Conway first.

Americans are overwhelmed by finding people, while Germans are looking for things with all their might, looking for explosives with certain power.

"This should be the arsenal that the British prisoner mentioned before!"

Helim stood in front of a warehouse that was not tall or large. It seemed that the arsenal of the vault defenders was very small. He took a rifle from a commando and smashed the lock on the door with a buttstock. Then the slightly rusty lock fell to the ground with a clang. With the efforts of the two commandoes, the door of the arsenal was creaking and pushed open.

"Ahem..." As soon as Helim walked into the warehouse, he was choked by the dust he brought. There was only a pile of things covered with canvas. A thick layer of gray had accumulated on the canvas. It seemed that the defenders here had been disbanding the battle formation for a long time, and it was reasonable to be killed by the commando in one go.

After the dust sinks again, Helim took a deep breath. He had been in the army for ten years and was very familiar with the smell of guns and ammunition.

"It seems that there is something we are looking for here!" Helim said, pointing at the pile of things, "Raise the canvas on it first!"

The commandos held their breath and lifted the canvas from behind and forward. More than a dozen neatly arranged wooden boxes appeared in front of everyone, and the boxes said "British Army, be careful and easy." Helim took a bayonet and took the lead in prying the box that was closest to the outside. What caught his eye were small square light yellow boxes.

"bullet?"

Helim, who had not seen the medicine, was not too disappointed, because the commando also had to replenish ammunition.

"Corporal, move this box of bullets to the car and let everyone take it themselves later!"

The second box was a rifle bullet, and Helim frowned and asked the commandos to move it away.

The third box is a machine gun bullet, which Helim asked to move back to the convoy to replenish the machine guns in the commando.

Helim pried open a box behind with a little depressed depression, and then he discovered something meaningful, which was a box of mines filled with medicine.

"God! It seems that the British have deployed minefields on the other three sides outside the front of the vault. It is an extremely wise choice to attack from the front!" Helim said with emotion. Although there are barbed wire on the other three sides of the vault, they did not notice the sign of minefields when they observed before.

After prying all the boxes open, the commandos still didn't see the shadow of the medicine, but 8 boxes of mines were also considered good substitutes. As for the other boxes, they were rifles and machine gun bullets, as well as a box of parts used to repair doors in various parts of the vault.

When Helim and the others returned to the vault with these mines, Karen and others' mission to transport gold was over. He asked the commandos to place the remaining four boxes of zha medicine at the door of the vault, but it was a bit difficult to use zha medicine to blow up the vault with zha medicine.

"Captain! There should be no problem with these!" Helim put the mine next to the medicine with a smile, then glanced at the piles of gold nuggets left in the vault. He didn't know if he would have the chance to see so much gold in the future.

"No matter whether it can successfully blow up here, everyone is ready to retreat!"

Listening to the dense gunfire sounds in the distance and the sound of shell explosions, Karen knew that the blocking forces were under increasing pressure. As long as the navy continued to blockade the British Isles, the British would not want to transport the gold here.

On the blocking position north of the vault, the battle was still going on fiercely.

"Second Lieutenant, another British infantry came behind!" Siegrt lay in a single bunker and shouted loudly to Lieutenant Tobias, who was half a meter away from him.

"Do they have cannons?"

After a round of bullets, Tobias retracted into his own bunker and reloaded the bullets.

Sigt held up his telescope and looked for a while, "No! Just a large group of infantry running out of breath!"

Before Tobias could say anything else, a shell that exploded near them interrupted their conversation. So far, the British in front of them only had two small-caliber artillery, which was the cavalry artillery brought by the third cavalry unit. The wheels were very large but the power was very small, but it still caused quite a lot of trouble to Tobias' soldiers. The German snipers had no choice at that distance.

Since the arrival of the first batch of British cavalry, the blocking battle of Tobias's troops has been fighting for nearly half an hour. In this half hour, three British cavalry units and two army units have arrived one after another. At this time, more than two thousand British soldiers had gathered in front of the commando, and reinforcements behind were still coming.

The road hundreds of meters ahead of the commando's blocking position was covered with corpses of cavalry and war horses. At least 400 British infantry and cavalry died, but the commando itself also suffered more than one-third of the soldiers. What's more, the German soldiers brought less ammunition.

"Second Lieutenant, prepare to retreat! We will have no chance to get out of the battle when the British cavalry rushed up!"

Seeing the British army re-arraying in the distance to launch a joint charge of cavalry and infantry, Sigt said worriedly. As an excellent spy, he felt that he had more important tasks to be carried out in the future, and the commandos here were also excellent soldiers who should survive.

"Still for a few more minutes! We must stick to Captain Karen and his friends evacuated the vault!" Tobias replied firmly, "It's better, you take the injured soldiers here to retreat first. I and the others behind the palace. This will benefit everyone!"

Sigt thought about it. The energy spent on the country and the organization to cultivate themselves was far greater than that of ordinary soldiers. He rationally said that his duty was not to fight the enemy on this face-to-face battlefield with ordinary soldiers, so he agreed to Tobias' suggestion. The blocking position chosen by the commando was between two woods. Walking more than ten kilometers eastward was the estuary of the Thames River, and going westward was the inland area. No matter where he walked, as long as he could escape from the battle, these commandoes would become ordinary "British Army soldiers". It would not be so easy for the British to find them again.

"Then we retreat to the west!" Sigt said as he signaled that more than a dozen minor and serious injuries on the left position on the highway began to retreat to the woods to the west. He saluted Tobias and then quickly hid into the woods. It was winter, and most of the leaves before the fallen leaves had fallen, and only some evergreen trees remained green. The colors of the woods here are made of yellow-brown and green. The yellow British uniforms on the commandos provided good cover for their retreat.

"Good luck!" Tobias glanced at their retreating figures quickly, and then turned his eyes to the British soldiers moving forward.

Shortly after Sigate and others retreated into the woods, a loud bang came from the south, and soon a red signal flare also rose slowly in the sky to the south.

"Great! The operation was successful!" Siggart looked at the blocking position with the gunshots again, and then led the other wounded soldiers forward at the fastest speed. However, with several seriously injured, the commando that retreated first was not fast.

"Wow! It's a good effect when it opens!" Helim waved his palm and slapped the smoke and dust in front of him. Because there was not much medicine, the main building on the vault had not completely collapsed, but the road to the underground vault had been blown up. It seemed that it would take some time for the British to dig through the vault.

After leaving a burst of blue smoke and dozens of cattle and horse manure, the convoy carrying more than two tons of gold left the Royal 11 vault and quickly turned off the country road on the side of the road. Then dozens of commandos jumped out of the car and used engineer shovels and other tools to bury the wheel marks left after the convoy passed. Although doing so would not completely cover up the traces of the convoy, it would at least allow the British troops behind to spend more time finding the direction of the convoy.

"second lieutenant……"

A commando stumbled and bowed to the side of Tobias. The British cavalry and infantry in front of them were struggling to attack here. This was also the largest attack by the British so far on the commando's blocking positions. Although cavalry kept falling off the horse and infantry fell to the ground, the commando's blocking was obviously unable to do so.

Tobias looked at the watch. It was already 5 minutes before the troops occupying the vault issued a retreat signal. "Okay, let's start retreating! Everyone plans in advance, the people on the left position on the highway retreat westward, and the people on the right position on the highway eastward, each heading to the scheduled joint location! Discard heavy machine guns, ammunition boxes and other debris, and everyone evacuated lightly!"

Not only these German commandos were evacuated as planned. The British special fleet, which Churchill personally commanded, was also advancing towards the British mainland as quickly as possible. Among them, the fastest cruiser opened the way in front of the fleet, followed by the backbone of the fearless battleship and armored battleships. The destroyers were distributed around the battleships and transport ships to be responsible for alerting and towing submarines. The fleet's formation did not seem to have obvious defects, but the speed of 10 knots gave Churchill a headache. However, only at this speed. These sailors who were still unfamiliar with their own battleships had enough time to correct their operational mistakes. Moreover, the transport ships in the fleet were full of cargo, so they couldn't get up even if they wanted to.

"Reported, the cruiser of the Knights sent a signal that it found a freighter flying a German flag in front of the fleet. Major Mick asked for instructions on the next move!"

After the communications officer finished reporting, Churchill smoked his cigar expressionlessly. The former Navy Minister's brain was busy at this moment. In the more than a month before the war, German merchant ships completely disappeared from the Atlantic Ocean. Even German cargo ships heading to Norway and Sweden were significantly reduced. Now this situation just reversed. Most British merchant ships are now lying quietly on the cold seabed, and the captains of German submarines are silently waiting for the British shipyard to build the next cargo ship as soon as possible.

After spitting out a large smoke ring, Churchill said coldly, "No need to warn, just sink it!"
Chapter completed!