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"I would expect the next prime minister, Tony Blair, Major's successor, to be a little more interesting."

Chapter 500 has no follow-up referendum

However, the most unexpected situation happened to Salmond. After the referendum bill was submitted, the British government unilaterally announced that there was a problem with the establishment of the Scottish Parliament. All the preparations made by Salmond were offset by a single sentence from the central government.To make matters worse, when the Scottish Parliament was cancelled, "Della Villie", an oil "tycoon" in the North Sea oil field, also called to announce the cancellation of financial support for the Scottish National Party, which was of no use to Salmond. Different from another blow.

This is a great shame to Salmond, and even the whole of Scotland.Prime Minister John Major's drastic move was seen as a stumbling block to Scottish national independence.The Scottish Independence Party issued a manifesto in public to fight to the end for the independence of the Scottish nation.

Although the sky is still gloomy and snowing, it can't stop the enthusiasm of the Scottish people.Salmond stood on Parliament Square east of the intersection of Bank Street and George IV Bridge. The snowflakes fell on his shoulders and never melted. Fight this war to the end, fight for Scottish independence to the end, and never compromise.

Salmond stood on the podium and looked around. The eyes of the people in the audience were fanatical. Before they were taught how to behave by bullets and armored vehicles, they hoped to unite all the Scottish people. Come on, now is the time for all to put aside their internal struggles and fight for independence.

"I am standing here today for the same reason you are standing here. The weather cannot resolve our anger, our roaring cannot stop our future, even if dictators aim their guns at us! Salmond waved his fist, and his body language during the speech was vividly expressed by him, "But we will never be afraid. Freedom will eventually lead the Scottish people to independence and victory! Victory belongs only to us! It belongs to the Scottish people!" "

"Victory is ours alone, long live Scotland!"

"Long live independence!"

There was warm applause from the audience, and some people have started to shout slogans with Salmond. These people are all nationalists who can do anything for the independence of Scotland.Salmond is very satisfied with this effect, which shows that the people have been incited, and as long as they are instigated to start riots, Salmond's independence plan can be regarded as a part of realization, so as to force the British government to make concessions.Although he is more inclined to use moderate negotiating methods in exchange for Scotland's independence.

"Let us stand up now and protest in the streets, protest at the Houses of Parliament. Let the British government know that the will of the Scottish people cannot be violated. Let the bureaucrats in Downing Street know the strength of our Scottish people. Now let us take up the said The slogan, starting from Parliament Square, let the whole of Britain feel our anger, our anger!"

Salmond's radical slogans incited the emotions of all the audience. Compared with the restraint advocated by the Scottish Labor Party, Salmond's approach of watching the excitement is not too big a deal, and he is going to turn this demonstration into a large-scale demonstration. riot.This put pressure on the British government to demand more rights.

There was a dense crowd in the audience, and the parade began.Holding banners of Scottish independence in their hands, they marched from south to north on the street.Many Scottish ultra-nationalists were mixed in the parade. They also tried to undermine the British government's ruling methods and express their political demands through this parade.

At this time, the anti-riot police with shields were already on the other side of the street. Except for some people equipped with tear gas and anti-riot guns, the rest were armed with batons.They will never let the parade go one step further.

The weather was very cold, but it couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the Scottish independence activists. When they saw the police standing in front of them, their anger exploded instantly. The Scottish people who chanted independence slogans cursed at the riot police. Picking up rocks and throwing them at them, and even preparing Molotov cocktails from the backpack, ready to deal with the Scottish police attack.

The crowd did not know who chanted for the independence of Scotland, and the parade team began to rush forward to the police force. They tried to break through the iron wall that hindered their independence and welcome the independence and new life of Scotland.They took wine bottles, iron rods, bricks, everything they could use, in order to deal with the explosion-proof police.

A bloody conflict begins.

The violence gradually intensified.

At this moment, the commander of the riot police waved his hand and began to move towards the rioting crowd. They wanted to stop the riot in the bud. In other words, it was time for these people to get out of here.The Molotov cocktail shattered on the ground with a clear sound, and the splashing flames stained the clothes of the riot police. The flames began to engulf the person closest to it, and were drawn into the burning hell.

The clearing was more bloody and cruel than ever. The batons of the anti-riot police smashed on the heads of the marchers, and many people were beaten to death.Anti-riot guns fired bullets at the crowd, and those who were hit fell to the ground in pain. Tear gas made the demonstrators retreat while wiping their tears.

And the instigator of all this just listened to the sound of sirens sounding throughout the city of Edinburgh, and watched the shaking and blazing shots of reporters on the TV news, and did not speak for a long time.

Salmond turned off the TV. Before the British government issued a notice to properly solve the problem, he did not consider going out in public, and forced the British government to compromise by retreating.

In his view, this demonstration is spontaneous and has nothing to do with the Scottish National Party. He just wants to use this demonstration to put pressure on the British government, hoping that the other party can change his position and attitude and consider a referendum Whether the bill is passed.

However, Salmond obviously didn't know that there was another force hidden in this incident, and he was going to completely fail Salmond's plan to blackmail the British government and pull him into an irreversible abyss.

The KGB had prepared a gift for them long ago, and this gift was to provide the Scottish ultranationalists with a force guarantee for riots.Let the conflict across Scotland go as extreme as the Northern Irish Republican Army.

At this time, the whole of Scotland began to fall into a state of panic.

Chapter 5 and One: Fire in the Backyard

The situation in Scotland is slowly slipping to the brink of getting out of control. It's not that Blair doesn't want to stop the turmoil in Scotland, but the more the suppression goes down, the more fierce the resistance encountered by the riot police.From the beginning of Motolov cocktail burning, bottles, to later small-caliber pistols, and the resistance of the Scottish Resistance Army became organized and large-scale. The nationalist resistance is crushing and beating.

In the end, as a last resort, the army can only be dispatched to maintain order, because the police are no longer facing ordinary independent nationalists, but planned and premeditated saboteurs.

Of course, behind all this is the conspiracy of the KGB. De La Ville is not a person who likes to put all his eggs in one basket. It will activate another pawn in his hands, Scotland's ultra-nationalist forces.Organize them from a state of loose sand into a guerrilla force that can be used to deal with the regular army, and it is also a strong force.

As for how the forty Kalashnikovs and pistols found their way into Scotland, De La Villier said British ports were always suitable for covering up various overseas criminal activities.After careful training, the Scottish Freedom Brigade, which represented the victory of Scotland through armed struggle, became the savior of Scotland.

This is the first time since the Irish Republican Army that there have been signs of an armed independence struggle within the UK.After the British Parliament passed the proposal to abolish the Scottish Parliament, the contradictions and frictions between the two parties became more and more frequent.

Prime Minister John Major was shocked when he heard the news. He had no idea that the suppression of the Scottish independence march would turn into an armed struggle. When he saw the Scottish armed forces shooting on the street from the TV news personnel, mistakenly thought that it was back to the period of dealing with the Northern Irish Republican Army.

Prime Minister Major made a phone call to General William's house. He is very angry now, because this is completely inconsistent with General William's promise that all problems will be resolved in a short time.

When the other party picked up the phone, Prime Minister Major was greeted with an angry accusation, "I just want to know why this is inconsistent with what General William said, and he promised to solve all the problems in Scotland within a week at the latest. Why now? Is it turning into a conflict and a war?"

This means that Prime Minister Major failed to solve the Scottish problem once and for all, but provoked the determination of the Scottish people to oppose the central government, and also made those who still had illusions about maintaining unity completely biased towards the independent faction of Scotland.

The voice of General William on the other end of the phone seemed a little tired, and he hurriedly apologized to Major, "I'm sorry Prime Minister Major, because I really didn't expect their resistance to be so fierce, and we even thought they were just a group of people who didn't It's just a mob of any organization. But after fighting against the soldiers of the Royal Scottish Regiment these days, we found that these people have good military training, not like ordinary armed personnel, but more like professionally trained soldiers , and these people are very proficient in guerrilla tactics, so..."

"So you're saying that these people are someone else's intentional conspiracy against us?" Prime Minister Major was taken aback for a moment. He had no idea that there was actually a bigger conspiracy hidden behind this turmoil.But which country will cause such a turmoil in the UK with such painstaking efforts?

General William was silent for a while, he was organizing his words, explaining his great discovery to the prime minister, "and the strangest thing is, at least four to five weeks of rigorous training is required to reach this level, which means they The layout was already in place before the Brexit referendum started. This chess game is very delicately arranged, and every point is pinched very accurately. It is so accurate that it makes people feel scared, as if the other party always knows our next move. Where we are, we don't have any power to fight back. And if we can do this, thinking about the whole of Europe, it seems that few people can do this."

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Prime Minister Major's first thought was Yanayev, the most insidious Soviet leader in Europe.A fearsome leader who can always count on the opponent's next move.

If this is the case, then this turmoil is not accidental, maybe there are foreign forces instigating the Scottish national independence forces.But it’s hard to say if it’s not the Soviet Union. The friendly trade activities between the two sides are still maintained. Prime Minister Major doesn’t want to tear his face so quickly.

At least I don't want to meet each other when I was in office.

More importantly, what should Prime Minister Major do now to clean up the mess.Hand over to the next prime minister?It is estimated that the successor who took over the mess had the urge to die from the beginning.

Originally, they wanted to solve the Scottish problem in the shortest possible time and let them keep their own place in the next few years, but obviously the forces behind the Scottish independenceists did not want them to go through this handover smoothly.

General William awaited Prime Minister Major's final decision.Whether to continue to maintain pressure, or to take other measures.

"Repression."

Prime Minister Major said, "Continue to increase the input of the Royal Scots' troops, and we must nip this group of people in the bud. I don't want to repeat the tragedy of the 80s."

"By the way," Prime Minister Major added, "to distinguish the independent crowd from the extremist militants, we only need to fight and suppress the extremist armed forces, and then take measures to win over others. I think in a few days I will , or the new British Prime Minister will negotiate with Salmond."

"Negotiations on Scottish independence?" asked General William.

"Yes, the negotiations on the Scottish issue are destined to be an uphill battle." Major said with a wry smile, "The final result of the referendum depends on the will of the people, not a result that Salmond can control. Now I can What I have done is to keep delaying the time for the referendum, and wait until the Brexit incident is stable before starting other related work. So now I have worked hard for you, General William."

The solution to the Scottish problem can only be delayed, and the longer it is delayed, the less hope of Scottish independence.

"I will fight to the end to safeguard the unity of Britain, and I will never back down."

General William clenched his fists. The Nazi bombing did not bring Britain down, but today it may lose to his own people.

The Prime Minister hung up the phone without speaking.

He was thinking about a question in his mind, how to retaliate against that force once the truth was found out.

Chapter 5 Baikonur

In the hot semi-desert area of ​​Kazakhstan, there is the largest military base in the history of the Soviet Union, with a length of 80 kilometers from north to south and a width of 128 kilometers from east to west.In addition to dozens of launch pads, the base also has 5 launch control centers and 9 ground tracking stations.It has witnessed many first aerospace achievements in the history of the Soviet Union, and has made indelible contributions to the research and development of Soviet ballistic missiles. Baikonur is equivalent to the synonym of Soviet aerospace and aviation, in the history of human progress.

This is the first time Yanayev set foot on the desert of Kazakhstan. The military base hidden in the desert has carried too many joys and sorrows in the history of Soviet spaceflight.From the N1 launch vehicle to the Buran spacecraft stored in a reinforced concrete warehouse, Baikonur Cosmodrome is the witness of this Soviet era.

Outside the car window is the uninhabited desert. The scorching weather and scorching land almost wiped out all living things, leaving only the endless yellow sand and Soviet soldiers patrolling back and forth.Because this satellite launch symbolizes another step forward in the Soviet Union's aerospace industry, it is impossible for Yanayev not to appear in the launch command center at such a critical moment.And because of the appearance of Yanayev, the alert level of the entire Baikonur has been raised to the highest level. Everyone does not want to see Mitrofan Ivanovich Neze, the first commander of the Soviet Union's Strategic Rocket Army. Lin's tragedy was played out at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.