Chapter 450: Battle of London

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"Boom!" A shell hit a building in central London. The explosion caused this already crumbling building to finally collapse in the dust, and the rising dust filled the air, a few blocks away. Clearly see the ground shaking here.
In the basement, a few strands of dust fell due to the violent shock. Churchill leaned on his chair and looked at the huge map of the London city, where he could really see the current situation and really know his current situation.
When he was far from the battlefield, he always complained about why the front-line troops were so unbearable, and he retreated after a few days of German offensive. Now that he was on his own, he remembered the world war he had experienced, and then he remembered how much pain and pain it was to spend an hour in the war.
London is a very large city. The German attack on the outskirts of the city is actually more than ten kilometers away from where Churchill is. However, some long-range cannons can still patronize the blocks above him, and those cannons are all without exception. Seized weapons from the British team.
The Defense Command called over an hour ago. The Germans were less than 300 meters away from the line. Some German grenadiers were attacking buildings near them with "building demolition devices". The sound of an explosion shaking the mountain.
Imagine that the large-scale civilian grenade and the Germans had died together, but there were occasional suicide explosions from all corners of the city. The Germans have long been aware of the attacks carried out by the citizens with grenades, so the British citizens of London were also extremely cautious.
In all cases, the citizens surrendered, they asked to raise their hands at a long distance, and then they were searched to confirm that there was no problem before being escorted to the rear, but there are still various records showing that the German team arbitrarily shot and surrendered for convenience. Of ordinary civilians in London.
After receiving a telegram from Akado, Lundstedt experimented with a new type of attack tactics in London. This tactic is to quickly assault into the city, and then retreat back to the original line of defense after the attack, turning the ruins into ruins. The area is given back to the opponent.
Then use the advantages of artillery and aircraft to repeatedly suppress this area, and annihilate the British soldiers who wanted to regain their positions in the terrain area that they have long been familiar with. The attack speed seems to be slowed down, but it can effectively kill British soldiers. Such repeated attacks on a corner of the city consume the defensive strength of the entire city and achieve the purpose of consuming the opponent's vital forces. And the area that was repeatedly let out has long been a ruin. It is no different from the wild, so there is no so-called street fighting advantage, and the combat method is more suitable for the German troops.
But the British are not fools. After repeatedly fighting for a few blocks, they began to stop meaningless counterattacks, and did not try to recapture the lost positions. The two sides insisted on your coming and going. A dozen is a whole day. .
The difference is that there are fewer and fewer German casualties and more and more British civilian casualties. And London, the capital city of Britain, one of the largest cities in Europe, has become a bare ruin.
It ’s no wonder that British civilians cursed their government. France, which is also a defeated country, Paris is still there intact. The citizens must endure the harassment of German patrols, and London, England, is now ruined. How much is the end, only God knows.
The British are not fools, and the Germans are obviously not. The German infantry on the front line became more sophisticated and more skilled. The training plan of the Supreme Headquarters was carried out in an orderly manner. About 20,000 veterans familiar with city operations had been transported back to their home countries to serve as the instructors and backbones of the newly formed troops.
And the Germans began to use various methods to narrow the gap in street fighting. They used the "building demolition device" to smash the buildings suspected of having the British army, and used the Frederick rocket to launch a cold arrow assault volley on a certain area. This kind of repressive play was not enough for the British defenders. A small loss, because of luck, at least three battalions of British soldiers were once covered by German rockets and lost at least 700 veterans.
Originally fighting in the city like this was adding pressure to the logistics, but Germany seized many British artillery, at least filled the short board of artillery firepower in the UK, and the obtained fuel saved the German transport ship a lot of space for transporting The shells of the terrible rocket artillery, so the German ammunition that attacked London was still sufficient.
Instead, the British supply began to stretch. The United States suspended some assistance to the United Kingdom because the British royal family fled to Canada. This caused the British defenders to fall into an embarrassing situation with no supplies-the bullets are okay to say that there are some reserves that can be used for emergency, heavy weapons The equipment is completely eliminated from the source.
The m3 tanks in the United States are completely out of stock, and the current lack of heavy anti-tank weapons in the UK has directly led to the unstoppable defense around London. The armored forces of the A Group Army swept along the border of the suburbs of London and easily completed the work of enclosing the British capital. . Smoke billowed over the Thames and the British capital was at stake.
Churchill was not busy running away. He was still under the subway in central London, in his underground office. The British have about 100,000 defenders in London who can withstand World War I, and there are about 100,000 people who make up together temporarily. These men guarded Churchill's London and the last line of defense of the former British Empire.
What has war brought to this city? The glass of the hospital was shattered and broken by gunfire. Although it was already March, it was not too cold outside, but the elderly and wounded lying on the hospital bed could only helplessly wait for their last moment to come . German artillery shells do not have long eyes. More than one hospital has been hit by shells, and more than one room full of civilians has shook and collapsed.
British soldiers were like moles, looking for food in ruins and dusty buildings. They were covered in dust, carrying rifles carefully from one side of the street to the other, and then got into the door of the building , Step by step, walked up the creaky stairs, opened the locked door with a butt, and searched for something that he could use.
Warm blankets, some condiments or money that the owner has no time to take away, and some much-needed ammunition-many people left the grenades distributed by the government at home, they did not intend to die with the Germans, more people chose Leave the flight or surrender directly. The expected death scene in the city did not appear. More common civilians who were struggling to die were squatting in the bomb shelter and waiting for their final destiny.
These British defenders who searched for houses were no different from being thieves. They had to avoid German shells and snipers, then take what they needed and try not to take their own lives. Sometimes luck is not so good. When they kicked the door with their feet, the air was permeated with stench. The owner's body had been rotten for a long time, and it looked like it could make people sick for a few hours.
Even worse, they kicked the door or opened the drawer and were blown into the sky by grenades or mines. Sometimes it was a strange mine buried by other British defenders. Sometimes it was a trap set by the German special forces a few days ago. .
But like everyone, they also need to be alive, and they need to eat when they are alive, and they need supplies and supplies. It is pitiful that they are much more miserable than the Germans. The Germans have supplies on time. Although they are often late, they will always be better or worse.
Churchill has been staring at the map for almost three hours. The buildings that were destroyed in ruins were originally marked with red pens, but because of the increasing number of red marks, this poor London map is now bright red . On the edge of the bright red, the divisions of several formed British infantry divisions are distributed in several directions, but they are getting closer and closer to where he is. He got up slowly, only to find his feet were numb, and he hadn't seen the gray sky of London for days.
"Secretary!" He shouted, but no one agreed. He froze a little, and then he limped out of the room and saw a second lieutenant staring at himself with a confused look.
"What about Miss Jones? Didn't she come to work today?" Churchill stared at the lieutenant officer and asked in a slightly hoarse voice.
"The Prime Minister ... I didn't see her, and I didn't see her yesterday ..." The second lieutenant said nervously: "Many people couldn't find it. Miss Benny in the engine room died yesterday from the German artillery bombardment. Major Tony didn't this morning. Leave what you say. "
"What about you? Why don't you leave?" Churchill knew that the young second lieutenant was in the telegraph office and was responsible for sending and receiving telegraph documents in the prime minister's office.
"Sir ... I didn't receive an order to leave." The second lieutenant whispered.
Churchill nodded, very satisfied with this answer. This was perhaps the most gratifying thing he had heard in so many days, so he smiled and patted the young man ’s shoulder, took the telegram in the hands of the young lieutenant, and asked, "Where did it come from?" telegram?"
"Sir, it's a telegram from the royal family from Canada." The young second lieutenant's voice was even lower, and this tone made Churchill feel something awkward.
He hurriedly opened the telegram and saw the content above. After reading only a few words, he felt the sky turn around and fell to the ground as soon as his eyes were dark. After the young lieutenant called for help and shouts anxiously, the telegram landed slowly.
The above content is indeed a word of heart: you have suffered unprecedented losses and fiasco during your time as British prime minister, so as the king of the British empire, I announced the dismissal of your British prime minister.