Churchill did not feel terror because of the death threats uttered by Colonel Heidworth before him. Given Churchill's experience, if someone were going to kill, they would have acted long ago rather than wasting breath. The Colonel appeared to have much to say, likely because this action was a spontaneous outburst rather than a planned operation.

Earlier, Churchill hadn't had time to think deeply, but now, following this line of reasoning for a moment, he asked with a serious expression, "Colonel, you didn't encounter any resistance along the way, did you?"

Colonel Heidworth, after all, had been forged on the battlefield. Hearing this, he quickly arrived at a judgment similar to Churchill's. Before he could even ask, he saw Churchill already standing up. "Follow me. Those who want to conspire will be here very soon!"

As Churchill expected, as he led Colonel Heidworth and the dozen or so soldiers following him out through the back door of 10 Downing Street, a great commotion broke out at the front door.

Churchill took no chances. He led these men, who had originally intended to execute him, straight to the Admiralty. Although some members of the Admiralty might be among those who wanted to eliminate him, Churchill believed that most of the Admiralty's upper echelons were merely at a loss, not so foolish as to believe that by getting rid of Churchill, the next Prime Minister could sign a peace agreement with China.

By the time the group reached the entrance of the Admiralty, Churchill was somewhat out of breath, but Colonel Heidworth, who was beside him, had stopped in his tracks. Churchill turned and said, "Colonel, I believe your goal is to stop the war and seek peace. If you can find a channel to contact China now, you can do so. If you don't have one, I suggest you either protect my safety now or go back. The reason I am still Prime Minister is that those at the top do not want to surrender, nor do they want to bear the responsibility for defeat. Even if a new Prime Minister is replaced, what they do will be no different from me."

At this point, Churchill said confidently, "Because those people are even less firm and even more inexperienced."

Hearing this, Colonel Heidworth's murderous intent rose sharply. It was clear that Churchill intended to continue his policies, and the very reason Heidworth and the other soldiers had rushed to the Prime Minister's official residence at 10 Downing Street was to prevent Churchill from continuing.

Seeing Colonel Heidworth raise his pistol, even though Churchill was in no mood to laugh, he was almost amused by the Colonel's simplicity. Facing this Colonel who was as simple as a fool, Churchill asked, "Colonel, were some of your comrades supposed to attack the Admiralty?"

Although Colonel Heidworth was somewhat simple in politics, he was not stupid; he immediately understood Churchill's meaning. The group of military personnel who had been in contact were deathly angry after hearing Churchill's broadcast, and combined with their previous discussions, they were to launch separate attacks on key personnel and important departments.

Since Heidworth could rush into the Prime Minister's residence, if other places were also unprepared, the Admiralty should have been breached by now, or at least be in a state of combat. Yet Heidworth had smoothly entered 10 Downing Street, while the Admiralty had not been subjected to a surprise attack—even a fool could sense something was wrong.

Colonel Heidworth could accept dying to change the current critical situation. However, being killed after being deceived was not the life ending he desired.

Seeing several soldiers emerging from the Admiralty with weapons and heading toward them, Colonel Heidworth steeled his heart and put away his pistol. "Prime Minister, we part ways here." With that, he led his soldiers back. Although killing high officials was important, finding the traitors was Heidworth's strongest thought at this moment.

Just as Churchill had expected, the Admiralty had not yet decided to kill him. The several officers and soldiers who hurried over had all seen Churchill before; they immediately saluted and escorted him into the Admiralty's offices.

As soon as they entered, the officer in charge asked, "Your Excellency, was that group just now your escort?"

Given Churchill's temperament, he certainly would not let off those who had threatened him. But he suppressed the urge to have Heidworth arrested; what needed to be found now was the actual leader of the rebellion, not the incited underlings.

The First Lord of the Admiralty was bloodshot. Seeing Churchill enter, he saluted and immediately said, "Prime Minister, the Americans have basically agreed to implement the plan for the Atlantic Sea Defense Line. Germany fully supports this plan..."

Churchill, having served as First Lord of the Admiralty himself, quickly recalled this plan through the First Lord's narration. In the plan, the British, American, and German fleets would unite to patrol the North Atlantic and prevent the Chinese fleet from entering.

Long ago, Britain and Germany had cooperated on submarines. In addition to building hundreds of submarines, Germany had also completed four Bismarck-class battleships. The Americans still had more than 40 aircraft carriers. At least on paper, the Atlantic Defense Line plan had sufficient equipment.

On paper was one thing, reality was another. Now China had occupied the entire Africa, Spain had been completely resolved and joined the Chinese camp. Italy had lost Sicily, and Mussolini was imprisoned. It was estimated that before long, that group of spineless Italians would surrender and join the Chinese camp.

Although France had not joined China, it had withdrawn from the Allies. Although the French were very proud and refused to follow China, France's own role could be ignored.

Canada in northern America had been completely occupied by China. Canada no longer existed, having been divided by China into five indigenous nations. And using these nations as bases, they were carrying out a saturation bombing of American industrial areas like the Great Lakes.

China had taken Greece and stationed troops on the Bulgarian border, already beginning to engage with the Nazi group. Churchill believed that the current American "basic agreement" to execute the Atlantic Line was most likely American prevarication. Because the result of executing the Atlantic Line would only lead to the American fleet being exhausted, and it could not change the war situation at all.

Since he understood the Americans were bluffing, Churchill pretended to agree with the weary, bloodshot First Lord, listening to him talk about vague plans that seemed to give Britain hope but were actually impossible to realize.

At this moment, Churchill had to cooperate with the First Lord. Because if Churchill rejected this plan, the British Navy would have to consider dealing with the Sino-Japanese naval offensive with its own strength alone. Let alone the Chinese Navy, even the Japanese Navy, which possessed 12 aircraft carriers, was not something the British Navy could handle. If the British Navy were forcibly ordered to leave port for battle, it would likely be like the end of World War I, when Germany's demand for the navy to execute a suicidal offensive led to the German naval mutiny, triggering a mutiny in the British Navy.

Just an hour ago, hadn't Colonel Heidworth led troops into the Prime Minister's residence? Churchill didn't care if the Colonel's purpose was for revolution. Because in Churchill's view, Heidworth's starting point was just that he didn't want to die in vain under orders. If an attack order were given to the Navy, the British Navy would also feel they were being ordered to commit suicide.

The First Lord finally finished explaining the latest progress, then opened his mouth wanting to say more, but ultimately closed it and fell into silence. Seeing the First Lord in such a state, Churchill felt a bit more relaxed. This reaction proved that the First Lord also knew that this so-called "prospect" was just an imagination and did not mean he believed it could succeed.

This was good. If the First Lord really took the "Atlantic Defense Line" seriously, it would prove that Churchill had been blind in choosing him.

The reason Churchill listened here, besides wanting to give the people in the Admiralty an illusion that the situation was still running, was that he was waiting to see who would come to fetch him first. Whoever came first, that person must be the one who wanted to get rid of Churchill, or at least a member of that group.

After waiting for a while, no one came to see Churchill. Instead, gunfire was heard in the distance. London's public security had deteriorated severely lately, with gunfire every day. Although this gunfire was very dense, it did not surprise the First Lord.

Churchill waited a while longer until the gunfire finally weakened. At this point, the First Lord's telephone rang. The caller was Churchill's secretary. On the phone, the secretary, with extreme panic, confirmed that Churchill was safe and unharmed, and then asked Churchill to stay at the Admiralty and not return, or to go directly to see His Majesty the King.

After hanging up the phone, Churchill's hatred for the mastermind of this matter grew even stronger. Although he still couldn't be sure who did it, the mastermind's shrewdness was considerable, not in a hurry to come out.

The last time a British Prime Minister was assassinated was in 1812. For over a hundred years, the submissive British people had been quite honest during Britain's era of glory, completely forgetting how to assassinate a great figure. The mastermind behind this clearly belonged to those whose skills were unpracticed, incapable of organizing an effective assassination.

However, precisely because of this, Churchill was even more annoyed. He did not want to die as a failure and an assassination victim. In the end, Churchill accepted the secretary's suggestion and went to pay his respects to the King of Britain.

His Majesty looked even thinner. He asked Churchill whether the King should lead the guards to fight the Chinese troops invading London.

Churchill felt the King's reaction was a bit affected, so he frankly told King George VI, "Your Majesty, if you participate in the battle, you will likely engage with black troops."

Hearing that he might be killed by black troops rather than by the currently most powerful and fierce Chinese troops in the world, George VI immediately stopped talking about participating in the battle.

Only then did Churchill probe, "Your Majesty, this servant feels a great responsibility for the war and hopes to be dismissed."

George VI's expression clearly became hesitant. Churchill had long felt that the King wanted to dismiss him, and this confirmed it. However, George VI remained silent for a while before saying, "Prime Minister, what you have implemented is the will of the British people. Even if there is responsibility, the responsibility does not lie with you."

After these official words, George VI asked, "Prime Minister, have you considered your own solution?"

Churchill knew George VI wanted to negotiate peace. Now the capitulationists in Britain no longer expected to get back lost colonies at the negotiating table; at this stage, they only wanted to withdraw from the war like France.

Churchill replied, "Your Majesty, China demands that we settle the crimes of colonialism. From what I have heard, this includes apologizing to the people of countries and regions where Britain launched colonial wars, punishing living colonial officials who committed crimes, tearing down statues of colonialists, and returning cultural relics looted through colonial wars to those countries. In short, China wants to define Britain's behavior."

Henry VI (Note: Raw says Henry VI, likely George VI) closed his eyes in pain. He felt that if China were to define Britain's behavior, he would rather die.

Churchill knew George VI would certainly think so, and the thoughts of the British upper class were the same as the King's, which was why those cowards refused to withdraw from the war. Once these guys accepted China's conditions, their bodies would be hanged, and their reputations would be nailed to the pillar of shame in history. Rather than dying like that, these people would rather drive the poor British wretches to die together on the battlefield.

However, some of the softies at the top now didn't want to die anymore and wanted to get rid of Churchill and then take power. This idea was absurdly ridiculous because none of the softies in the British upper class dared to say they were willing to accept China's demands, and the new Prime Minister wouldn't dare either.

Seeing that the King did not have the idea of getting rid of him, Churchill rose to take his leave.

The King of Britain did not want to get rid of Churchill, but the King of Italy very much wanted to get rid of the Italian Fascist Party. After dismissing Mussolini and imprisoning him in a mountain palace, the King of Italy and the Italian peace faction had numerous meetings with the World People's Liberation Army (WPLA).

Ultimately, the Italian side received a response: "Only by looking at Italy's performance can we decide whether to recognize the current Italian political system and government."

This made the Italian upper class feel immense pressure. Not recognizing the Italian political system meant denying the political system of the Kingdom of Italy. If the WPLA fought its way into Rome, it would certainly overthrow the King and establish a republic.

Not recognizing the Italian government meant that the current Italian government would inevitably be regarded as an illegal government and become war criminals along with Mussolini.

But what the Italian government hoped for was to withdraw from the Allies and the Fascist alliance like France, maintaining neutrality until the end of the war. If Italy were forced to join the Chinese side, heaven knows what demands China would make on Italy.

Although the Italian upper class had joined forces to get rid of Mussolini, they themselves were still fascists. Many members of the Italian Fascist Party began to consider joining forces with Mussolini. Just then, news that Mussolini had been rescued by German special forces reached Rome, shocking the Italian upper class.

The process of Mussolini's rescue was very simple. Many members of the Italian Fascist Party did not admit defeat; they provided the Germans with the location where Mussolini was imprisoned. Germany dispatched a small plane to land on a small patch of level ground on a steep mountain peak. When the death-defying German special forces rushed into the villa, the guards watching over Mussolini were shocked and subsequently surrendered.

The German special forces brought Mussolini onto the plane, took off again against the biting mountain wind, and flew back into German territory relying on superb flying techniques.

This news had just shocked the Italian upper class when Hitler ordered German troops into northern Italy.

From the perspective of Sicily, the Italian peninsula were all northerners. However, regional views are relative; even on the Italian peninsula, there were northerners. Turin, Milan, Genoa, and Venice were all in northern Italy. In the eyes of Romans, northerners referred to the north composed of these several important cities.

The Italian troops in these areas could be said to have surrendered at the sight of the rolling German troops. Soon, Mussolini returned to northern Italy, which his old German friend Hitler had fought for him, and once again became the leader of Italy.

But Mussolini's return actually allowed the Italian upper class in Rome to reach a consensus, which was that they must join the Chinese side.

Germany's occupation of northern Italy was largely to help Mussolini. If Germany had abandoned Mussolini, the member countries of the Nazi alliance would certainly worry that the Nazi Party would also abandon them.

Similarly, the mountainous terrain of northern Italy also helped the Nazi group complete a defense line centered on the mountains. If Mussolini were allowed to gain a foothold, the entire Italy would become a battlefield.

Although it was now considered a very decent hair color to be blonde in Italy, long gone were the confident days of the Italian Republic and Empire when seeing non-black hair was considered a barbarian. But Italy was still an ancient civilized country and knew very well what an Italian civil war would bring.

At this time, if one wanted to protect Italy, one had to let the WPLA go to the front line to fight to avoid fratricide among Italians.

Thus, on November 15, 1944, Italy announced its joining of the global anti-colonial and anti-fascist camp, becoming the first country in all of Europe to actively change camps. Although Spain was the first country in Europe to join the anti-colonial and anti-fascist camp, Spain's new government was only formed and joined after the entire territory had been liberated.

The Italians demonstrated the heritage of an ancient civilized country, changing the facade with the old government.

At the same time, the Italian Parliament passed a series of fascist laws, such as the abolition of the Anti-Communist Law, re-recognized the legal rights of the Italian Communist Party and the left wing, and invited the Italian Communist Party to join the cabinet. They also promised to hold new national elections after resolving northern Italy controlled by Mussolini's fascist faction.

Although members of He Rui's government did not know what happened in another space-time, they all knew of Italy's switching sides in World War I. Everyone couldn't help but sigh that this group of Italian guys were indeed very clever; when it came to choosing sides, Italy really never missed.

Compared to Italy's betrayal, the more important good news for He Rui's government was that He Rui's health seemed to be improving rapidly. At least the medical team believed that He Rui's internal bleeding symptoms had shown significant improvement. Although the location of the bleeding could not be determined in the end, from other signs, even if the internal bleeding had not completely healed, it had at least been greatly alleviated.

The cessation of internal bleeding meant that He Rui no longer frequently had low-grade fevers, and his physical strength increased rapidly. At least He Rui could walk in the yard every day.

If they weren't worried that He Rui's going on vacation to other places might trigger unpredictable changes, everyone would certainly vote to let He Rui leave the four provinces of mountains and rivers where smog was once again frequent.

But no one thought there was anything wrong with this. He Rui was someone who could not sit idle. After his health improved, He Rui began to resume a bit of work. Everyone had a great many things they wanted to consult He Rui about.

Li Runshi's status gave him the best opportunity, so he brought the latest report on Britain to see He Rui. After He Rui finished reading the document, Li Runshi asked point-blank, "Chairman, we are working hard to mobilize the British masses, but with little success. Should we really take the destruction of Britain as our only means at this stage?"

"Haha, Runshi, the Qing Dynasty was so rotten, yet it persisted from 1852 (Note: Raw says 1952, likely 1852 or similar) to 1911, holding on for another sixty years. If the Qing were like Britain, would the Qing have been overthrown?" He Rui did not give a direct answer but raised a question.

"Then what should be done?" Li Runshi was indeed a bit anxious and simply asked for the answer directly.

He Rui only then replied, "We continue to point out our solutions to the British people. As long as the British people recognize our demands, they will make a choice. Bombers carrying bombs and leaflets are the same flight, aren't they?"