Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After spending a day going through various procedures, Liang En and the others quickly entered a state of search. Considering that the target this time was relatively large, in addition to Fan Meng, they also called in the White Knight. core team.

Now the number of White Knights has expanded to more than 600 people, but most of them have not yet passed the engineering test. Only a few people like this core team can be trusted to participate in the treasure hunt.

"Our target this time is the treasure lost by the Legion Bank during World War II. If we find it, the price of this treasure may be between a few hundred million and a dozen euros."

After gathering everyone, Liang En and the others quickly arrived at a park on the outskirts of Paris. After confirming that there was no one around, Liang En first introduced the mission.

"This doesn't sound like a small sum. It would definitely be a good thing if we could find this wealth." As soon as Liang En finished speaking, Louis, the leader of the White Knight Team, said excitedly.

Louis is actually now one of the main persons in charge of the White Knight Security Company, and he basically no longer personally leads the frontline activities.

But because the situation this time was really important, he personally led the team here and once again assumed the role of front-line commander.

"Yes, this is indeed a small fortune, but it is not a simple matter to find out where these things are now." Liang En was happy to see that morale had been boosted.

According to the previous rules, as long as they can find the treasure together, the participants will receive bonuses of varying amounts according to their contribution and position, so now these people seem more excited than Liang En.

The target they are looking for is related to the Czech Legion after the end of World War I, and the whole thing can start from the outbreak of World War I.

After the outbreak of World War I, both the Czechs and Slovaks saw the hope of gaining independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Therefore, in 1914, Czech expatriates living in Russia immediately formed a National Council and declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire the following year.

The Czechs hoped to win the trust and support of Britain and France by actively cooperating with the Allies in fighting, and strive to gain independence with the help of the Allies after winning the war.

In 1915, a Czech battalion was established in the Kiev Military District, affiliated with the Third Army of the Russian Army. In the autumn of the following year, the Czech battalion was expanded into the Czechoslovak Infantry Brigade, which became the predecessor of the Czech Army in the future.

In March 1917, while the Czechs were working on the front line, the February Revolution broke out in Russia. The Tsarist Russian government, which was beleaguered internally and externally, was overthrown, and Tsar II was forced to abdicate.

The Russian Provisional Government that was established subsequently saw that the Czechs were so capable of fighting, and allowed them to absorb prisoners of war to expand their troops. Soon, the strength of the Czech Legion increased to 40,000.

Eight months later, the October Revolution broke out, and the Soviet Russian government immediately began peace talks with Germany and Austria. In order to force Soviet Russia to accept harsh conditions, in February 1918, the German army launched the last major battle on the Eastern Front.

Under the attack of the German "Operation Boxing", the Russian army suffered a disastrous defeat. The German army, which encountered almost no decent resistance, was invincible. At one point, it reached Petrograd, and the Soviet Russian government was forced to move its capital to Moscow.

On March 3, 1918, Lenin signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, and Soviet Russia withdrew from the war. At this time, the Czech Army was in an embarrassing situation. Soviet Russia, which had withdrawn from the war, no longer needed them to fight on the Eastern Front.

Consider that heading west is the battlefield. So after negotiations, the Czech Legion chose to go east into Siberia to Vladivostok, and then return to Europe by ship.

Under normal circumstances, these eager Czechs would choose to return to their hometown safely, but no one thought that something unexpected would happen later. On May 14, 1918, at Chelyabinsk Station, a conflict broke out between Czech regiments heading east and Hungarian prisoners of war returning west.

The local Soviet regime then arrested some Czech legionnaires and prepared to execute them. In order to rescue their comrades, the Czech Legion stormed the station and subsequently occupied the city of Chelyabinsk.

Trotsky, the People's Commissar of Military Affairs of the Soviet Union, ordered all Czech Legion personnel to be disarmed and arrested. For fear of being betrayed by Soviet Russia to the Germans, the Czech Army refused to surrender its weapons and fell out with Soviet Russia.

In this way, with the armed conflict between the Czech Legion and the Red Army, the "Czech Legion Rebellion" recorded in history began. In the next two months, the entire Siberian Railway turned into a battlefield.

The Czech Army marched eastward while occupying the cities it passed through. At the same time, the White Guards, with the assistance of the Czech Army, controlled most of the Siberian Railway from Lake Baikal to the Ural Mountains.

In the early battles with the new Soviet Red Army, the well-trained Czech Army achieved successive victories. By September, the Czech Legion and the White Guards cleared the Red Army along the entire railway line.

A few days before the capture of Yekaterinburg, the local Cheka executed the entire family of the last Tsar Nicholas II, who was detained there, before retreating based on orders from the highest level, fearing that the Tsar would become the banner to gather various forces.

However, in the autumn of 1918, the situation began to turn against the Czechs. The Soviet Red Army turned to counterattack, occupying Kazan on September 10 and Samara a month later. The Czech Army suffered a lot of casualties during the battle.

In the summer and autumn of 1919, Kolchak's army collapsed under the attack of the Soviet Red Army. On November 14 of that year, the Soviet Red Army occupied Omsk, the capital of the Kolchak regime.

With the defeat of Kolchak's army, the Czech Army retreated eastward along the Siberian Railway. In the process, the Czech Army, which was not adapted to the Russian winter, suffered serious attrition.

This incident severely damaged the morale of the Czech Army, so on February 7, 1920, General Maurice Yanan, the head of the French military delegation in Siberia, who arranged a way out for the Czechs on behalf of the Allied Powers, and the leader of the Czech Army, Sirovich On the order of the general, Kolchak and others in Nizhnevtinsk were handed over to the local authorities of the Irkutsk Socialist-Revolutionary Party.

According to a more credible account, at this time the Czech Legion seized the gold bricks in Kolchak's hands and took out seven of the wagons as "buying money" in exchange for a safe exit.

In the spring of 1920, various units of the army were sent to Vladivostok in the Far East, and were subsequently repatriated from there.

On January 15, 1920, the first ship carrying the Czech Legion sailed from Vladivostok. On September 2, the last batch of Czech legionnaires left the port of Vladivostok and arrived in Prague on November 20.

A total of 67,739 people, including family members and children, evacuated Russia with the Czech Army. An estimated 4,112 Czech legionnaires died in Russia.

After the legion returned home, its leader Sirovi and many others became the backbone of the newly founded Czechoslovak army. Members of the Czech Legion also used the gold they intercepted to set up a bank called Legion Bank.

This bank existed for decades until it was confiscated by the Soviet government at the end of World War II, and the insurance company controlled by the previous duke family also spent a large amount of money on it.

"According to the information collected so far, only a small amount of this wealth is gold that was taken out, while most of it is various personal belongings from that year."

After briefly introducing the source of this wealth, Liang En quickly explained the details of this goal. Because the insurance company had paid the compensation back then, these things had been transferred to Liang En's hands, but it was more troublesome to find them.