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Once news of the Battle of Warsaw's conclusion spread, all of Europe boiled over. Newspapers scrambled to clear space for the report.

Not long ago, the Prussian Army had just scored the "Warsaw Victory." The uninformed public had always believed the Prussian Army held the upper hand around Warsaw. Such a shocking reversal was simply hard to accept.

It was especially difficult for the speculators who had bought Prusso-Polish Federation war bonds to accept this cruel reality.

Protesters had already taken to the streets of London, while the stock exchange was surrounded by enraged crowds three layers deep on the inside, three layers deep on the outside, and who knew how many more layers in between.

They had been "swindled," so naturally they wanted justice. Only a small number of these people had bought in from the beginning; most had been talked into boarding the ship later, taking the bag at the peak.

After the Prussian Army proclaimed its "Warsaw Victory," British media outlets had unanimously favored the Prusso-Polish Federation to win the war, sending the war bonds issued by the Berlin Government soaring along with it.

Facts proved that capitalists' bargains were not so easily taken. If the Prusso-Polish Federation had truly been on the verge of winning, why would they have exited the market?

At Karmaka Securities Company, which had handled the agency issuance of Prusso-Polish Federation bonds, aside from a few frontline employees, the company's executives had long since vanished without a trace.

"Smash it!"

No one knew who shouted it, but the speculators, blinded by fury, broke through the security guards' interception and began venting to their hearts' content. The few unlucky employees left behind became scapegoats, brutally manhandled by the crowd.

Fortunately, the stock exchange was a key defense zone for London police. The violence