Chapter 274: Pan-European Action

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy again, and the second hand was slowly turning.

"Doesn't he like gold Galleons very much?" Ragno probed: "I heard that those armaments and early warning equipment are also produced by his factory in China. Moreover, the boy has been hiring magic residents from all over the country to exchange local Muggle currency for gold Galleons in our branch every day since he was a child. We can..."

"Impossible." The chief goblin waved his hand and shook his head as if he had heard the worst advice: "As long as you have seen the financial statements of the Nama family in the magic world, you will find that they never evade taxes, and they will take away most of the deposits on the same day after they are received, leaving only the minimum required balance. This has been the case for more than ten years, proving that they are very rule-abiding, do not like corruption and fraud, and are full of vigilance against goblins. The most important thing is that he has received nearly half of the military expenditures of various Western magic circles as advance payments since last year, and although this military expenditure may decrease in the next year, it is obtained from the Muggle society, which can be said to be inexhaustible. Can the wealth of our goblins be compared with the entire Western Muggle society?"

Bodrick was furious. "This is not okay, that is not okay. Do we really have to bet on the lives of our entire family and bet that the Ministry of Magic will not be able to bear excessive casualties and compromise?"

"Not the entire family." The chief goblin said with a wry smile: "Use communication magic to inform the communities and let the women, children and the elderly surrender. It is enough for our branches to fight to the death. I will issue the final task to each branch later - the goblins will never be slaves."

Two hours later, Diagon Alley, surrounded by Aurors.

"Report, all magic disruptors have been activated, and there is no malfunction." An Auror wearing a helmet reported to the chief.

The chief put on a helmet, and the more than 200 Aurors present also wore helmets and black armor. Their identities could only be identified by the ranks and numbers on their shoulders.

The commander nodded to his subordinate, casually checked a nearby silver cube, and said with satisfaction: "All Aurors should withdraw from Diagon Alley immediately and stay outside to maintain the basic defense line."

"But if the goblins rush out, they may cause irreparable damage to the streets..."

The subordinate wanted to argue, but the commander raised his hand to stop him: "This is an order!"

"Yes, Commander Weasley!" The subordinate saluted with a British military salute and began to organize the Aurors to retreat.

The commander looked at the gate of Gringotts and murmured: "Ragno, don't make a mistake... Aaron's methods are not something you can bear... Quickly persuade your compatriots to surrender together."

In London, there was no wandering passerby on the nearby Muggle streets.

The residents living in this area all obeyed the call of the officials and followed the troops to evacuate the area.

According to local media reports, the troops temporarily conducted exercises here to forcibly clear all uncooperative residents.

However, if the media still had their cameras, they would have been able to capture a large number of unknown tanks that had filled Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road, with their gun barrels all pointed at the back of a bar that ordinary people could not notice, locking onto an area that Muggles could never break into on their own.

Don't think that Diagon Alley is really located behind Charing Cross Road in London. The wall of the Leaky Cauldron is just a portal connected to another space.

The real Diagon Alley is also in an unmapped and undetectable location, and even the Ministry of Magic cannot say where it is hidden in the UK.

Wizards cannot walk out of this community on foot. The first time they come here, they need to use the Floo Network, Portkey, Knight Bus or an entrance like the Leaky Cauldron. The second time, they can use the impression to Apparate here, or ride a broom through a designated area like the entrance of the Leaky Cauldron. Riding a broom out of Diagon Alley will also teleport to an area near the entrance.

Therefore, the communities in Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley were like being cast under a variant of the Fidelius Charm. Only the old people could bring in the newcomers. The designated entrance was like a fireplace without Floo powder. The edge of the community, including the sky, was also included in a large Floo network without Floo powder.

Now, the direction pointed by the army's gun barrels was exactly the transmission interface temporarily opened by the Ministry of Magic. Through the permanent entrance feature near the Leaky Cauldron, the artillery fire was sent to the marked location in Diagon Alley - Gringotts Wizarding Bank.

After the operation, these temporary interfaces would of course be erased by the Ministry of Magic, and the Muggle authorities would not expect to take advantage of these loopholes.

A large number of black-armored men in medieval robes were on guard near the tanks, and some oriental faces were going in and out of the turret hatches, carrying out the final debugging.

If there were Chinese military fans who could stay here, they would be able to tell that these were also first-generation tanks that were almost retired or had already been retired.

This was not a subsequent improved version, but the original version that was actually scrapped, but was only transformed by enchantment.

Last year, Chen Bin underestimated Voldemort's strength and suffered from insufficient firepower, so Captain Chen has since suffered from "fear of insufficient firepower".

From now on, regardless of whether you can hit the target or not, first let the retired tanks within the quota be pulled to the production line for magic modification, and if necessary, you can also fire a hundred guns at the same time.

You can imagine how much resentment Captain Chen had in the battle of the cemetery! "Second Battalion Commander! Where is your fucking artillery?"

Due to the urgency of this operation, Chen Bin was not able to get enough even if he cleared out all the inventory, so he asked the Monk Administration to arrange a large number of people. No matter whether the tank was the first or second generation, improved or prototype, whether it could be driven or not, as long as it was scrapped, it would be modified.

That is, the modern facilities inside were dismantled and smashed, leaving only the engine, mechanical transmission system, driving system and ammunition supply system. The only things that were really modified were the gun barrel and breech block, which were enchanted with imported wood from Southeast Asia. As long as they could ensure that the barrel would not explode, they could do whatever they wanted.

What communication system and sights, temporarily attached an oriental spell to fool around, all of which were slowly restored to the permanent rune array after the battle.

The original design of the tank required 4 people to operate together, but Chen Bin only asked the witch decision-making group to provide gunners and loaders, and even the tank was pulled here by truck after the suspension spell.

To put it bluntly, these iron guys don’t even have a decent protective magic now, and they need the Aurors around them to cast the armor spell to protect them.

To put it more bluntly, they are more than 40 fixed turrets. The reason why the engines continue to rumble is that the wooden barrels and breech blocks need the magic power output by the engine to support their consolidation-type attached pattern arrays, otherwise the magic shells will explode inside the tank before they are fired.

Chen Bin got out of one of the tanks, and after checking the runes and engine performance, he didn't even dare to fire a single bullet and hurriedly escaped from the cab.

Not to mention that he has no scientific research spirit. He is neither a science and engineering man nor involved in the research and development of the project. At most, he is just an investor. Being able to go to the front line to do the final safety inspection is already worthy of the European magic world.

Last night, Chen Bin contacted the representatives of various countries stationed at the school through the patron saint and provided a solution to the fairy bank this time: cannons fire!

This prototype magic modified tank was completed in the summer vacation two years ago, but it is useless for attacking single soldiers. Even the worst combat wizards can rely on Apparition to dodge. It will definitely trigger their crisis premonition when facing Death Eaters. Even in a space where Apparition is prohibited, they can still dodge through black smoke. Don't imagine that the shells can touch their armored shields.

However, in the crisis of the global goblin bank, these turrets dedicated to attacking the carving castle can be used.

Gringotts is not the only wizard bank in the West, but other banks with different names are also run by goblins, so they can be regarded as one.

At present, wizard banks in magic communities in various countries have at least ten magic disruptors arranged outside, which are also called silver boxes by Aurors.

This one cubic meter metal block has only one function - to continuously release disordered magic fluctuations to interfere with any magic that breaks through space.

Even though the magic systems of house elves, human wizards and goblins are different, the magic that produces space jumps still cannot escape the most basic magic law - the stability of space.

The Anti-Apparition Charm that Voldemort cast in the Cave of the Inferi only targets the human magic system, just like he figured out the principle of human jet planes and made a space that cannot be jetted.

Chen Bin's silver cube is much more crude and simple, but the effect is more comprehensive. It's like whether it's ancient kites, modern hot air balloons, modern airplanes, or flying insects and animals, it's impossible to take off in a level 17 super typhoon.

Of course, Voldemort couldn't adopt this plan under the conditions back then.

There is no confidentiality device in the silver cube. Inside it is a specially reinforced tank engine stuffed with a traceless extension spell, and it is filled with half a ton of magic solution as a power source.

Don't ask how to liquefy diamonds or why carbon can store magic after being converted into liquid. Chen Bin doesn't know any of them.

In the early stage, it was the research of alchemy and enchantment masters, and in the later stage, it was with the help of the friendly support of Chinese weapon refiners.

He and Li Xiuhui only need to wrap the magic-charged diamonds and solutions with magic cloth regularly, and then send them to the enchantment factory in Dongguan City to produce finished products.

In the cemetery battle last year, the more than 200 black cubes were the original version of this device, but Voldemort calculated the weakness of the material being too poor and destroyed it.

This time, the silver cube is five times thicker, and the surface is also covered with countless anti-magic pressure rune arrays. If you want to use saturated magic power to make the engine break down, then use up the diamond solution inside first!

Basically, anyone can make this simple thing, what they lack is endless magic power.

Moreover, half a ton of solution can only maintain interference for 20 days, and the poor material may turn into powder after 15 days. Voldemort would not be so stupid as to interfere with the cave for less than a month, right?

In this pan-European operation, the refiners specially synthesized hundreds of tons of artificial diamonds, but Chen Bin, Yi Sha and Li Xiuhui could only enchant more than 20 tons of diamonds a day at most, and they also cleared out the original dozens of tons of solution.