Chapter 454: Iceland

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London, England. Maybe the city will soon become London, Germany, but at least in Churchill's mind, it will always be London in England. Churchill stood at the door of the basement, watching the black smoke rising from the exploding shells in the distance, looking at the debris at his feet and the three hanged British officers a few steps away.
The bodies of the three men were hanging on the streetlights, and the sign that I was a coward was hanging on their chests. These officers were all people who tried to escape or retreat from their lost positions. But the most crucial point is not that they are really weak, but that they question Churchill ’s leadership. Just after receiving a telegram from His Majesty the King, they wanted to overthrow Churchill's leadership, but they were noticed in advance by Churchill and sent someone to hang them.
Now Churchill is still speaking in the south of England, because most of what remains here is his confidant and diehard. They declared to the outside that the king's order was false, and the radio broadcast had been controlled by the Germans, encouraging people to continue to resist until the last moment. However, relying on the devastated southern part of the UK, how to contend with the hundreds of thousands of troops of the A Group Army supported by Germany?
Failure, for Churchill now, is just a matter of time. He looked back, looked at the soldiers behind him, and pointed lonely at the bodies of the three men. "Let's put it down, choose a cemetery and bury it."
The gray sky of London is nostalgic. Churchill smiled bitterly, watching his soldiers untiring the rope from the pole to get the body, and suddenly felt that he should never complain that the sky in London was always gray. Because even the gray sky, it seems that the sky of the motherland is better than the sky of the occupied area.
However, he couldn't help but sigh, because another round of German artillery shelling began. Under the of several soldiers and officers, he returned to the dim basement and returned to the cruel reality. The German team is only 700 meters away from where he is. This distance allows even a 60mm mortar to be easily shot.
"The Prime Minister ... we do n’t have to stay here. If you want, we can leave soon and go to Brighton. We board the ship in the southern region and then retreat to the southwest Cornwall peninsula." Churchill, behind him The officer suggested: "As long as the frontal defensive area is shortened, there should be no problem in guarding the Cornwall Peninsula with the troops in our hands now."
"Don't persuade me anymore." Churchill waved his hand and said, "I know you are for my own good, and I am very grateful. But your advice ignores one point. If London is lost, what is the point of our resistance?" As long as the German team occupied London, the United Kingdom would be completely over. At that time, even if we held the Cornwall Peninsula, no one would be willing to follow me. "
There is another problem that Churchill did not explain, that is, the combat effectiveness of the German armored forces. In the city, it is fairly fair to say that once on the field battlefield, who can say that he can defend the defense line? At that time, it was not a fateful end, but if I escaped from London, where would I fall back?
In fact, he still holds power here, and the royal family or other British forces have not fallen into the ground. This is also part of the reason: The Scottish regime represented by Chamberlain hopes that Churchill will hurt Germany and fight for the status and stability of the future northern British government. Another reason is that the British royal family is struggling in Canada, and they also need time to find their true shelter.
North crossing Canada bluntly stated that it was just an expedient measure. The homeland that the British government was really looking for was Iceland, which is Iceland's overseas possession of Denmark. The British royal family has deployed troops in the south and is deploying a huge plan to uncover the golden cicada. This plan is to attack Iceland, occupy it and settle there.
About 2,000 British soldiers have landed in Iceland now, and the residents of the island have not resisted decently. The German navy was busy hunting big fish near Britain, and did not bother to find a small British unit in a place like Iceland. By the time the Germans realized that the British were preparing to establish a base in Iceland, it was too late.
A total of 10,000 British people were transferred from the British mainland to Iceland for defense. Even the United States had hoarded strategic supplies that should have been sent to the British mainland. Some British fighter forces also fled here, forming a considerable number of Icelandic air defense forces.
In order to support the United Kingdom not to move the back garden of the United States in Canada, the United States even deployed 4,000 volunteers and was transported to Iceland with weapons and equipment as mercenaries. These troops were ordered to help Britain control and consolidate Iceland's defenses. By the time the German navy discovered the British and American attempts, the actual strength of the British in Iceland already exceeded 20,000, and there were more than 300 fighters.
Obviously, it is not realistic to attack Iceland in this situation, and Germany had to reapply, ordering the German submarine force to go north and start a new round of strangling the Icelandic shipping route. Obviously, this strangling operation is not very effective, because Iceland is actually far away from Norway and the British mainland, and the submarine travels to the west of Iceland to fight very far, which is naturally more difficult than blocking Britain.
The United Kingdom seemed to regard Iceland as their forward base to counterattack the British homeland. Hoarding supplies and training troops in Iceland expanded the troops to a scale that made the Germans a headache. On March 20, The number of British defenders on Iceland expanded to 23,000, and they were organized into two integrated infantry divisions. They were even equipped with 110 brand-new American m3lee tanks.
Originally, there were not many residents on Iceland, so at this moment, the entire island was basically British combat troops, and the amount of supplies was much less. In fact, even the total amount of supplies to maintain 50,000 British troops for a week ’s battle It ’s not as good as the food that a London in Britain needs every day.
Therefore, the British defenders on Iceland are obviously unrealistic, especially when the German naval power is not drawn from the British mainland, it is more like a fantasy. It is not an easy task to organize the landing forces to retake Iceland again. Now the German transport ship is going all out to maintain the supply of the British A Group Army, and there is simply no power to mobilize combat forces and supplies to distant Iceland.
"The navy can guarantee the landing operation, but it is expected that 3,000 soldiers will be lost, and the navy cannot guarantee the transportation mission of the Icelandic garrison." This is the original saying that Rydell said to Akado, and naturally it was indirectly sentenced. The death penalty planned for landing in Iceland.
Another wordless news is that the Army ’s calculated results are more pessimistic than the Navy ’s. The results of the three landings have failed twice and won once. Kettle's B Group Army will pay 10,000 people for this landing, and after the victory, Germany will also maintain a garrison of up to 5,000 troops on Iceland. This scale will be a breeze for the United States or Britain to recapture Iceland.
Of course, the plan given by the Air Force is simpler: bombing Iceland with butcher bombers is fine, but it can only rely on naval aviation for escort. As for the effect of the bombing, Dick and Catherine, the two air force chief commanders, are very pessimistic: there is no decent industrial system on Iceland. Except for attacking some airports, it is a waste of bombs.
Finally, the commanders of the navy, army, and air force agreed that the contradiction focused on the German navy. If the German navy is strong enough to run across the Atlantic in the future, the British team in Iceland will not be a threat; of course, if the German navy cannot complete the task of blocking Iceland in the future, even if it is captured now, it will also be in the future. Because the navy is weak.
Therefore, the German side took an indifferent attitude towards the movement of the Icelandic British team. Akado can't come up with any good way to deal with the British team in Iceland. He can't guarantee that his troops can successfully land across hundreds of kilometers and can't completely block the Icelandic route to trap the British.
In fact, the British royal family or the orthodox British government in exile at this moment is quarreling with local rulers in Canada. In fact, as a British colony, Canada has already exercised most of its independent sovereignty in the past few years. Now the British government is preparing to return to Canada, which is obviously a move that makes local rulers very dissatisfied.
Therefore, the British royal family met a soft nail in Canada. In addition to declaring support for the British government against Germany, Canada was not even willing to provide a region for the British to return to the country. Therefore, after the British exile government arrived in Canada, it did not announce the relocation of the capital. Kind of news.
In the end, the representatives of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom signed a secret agreement in Washington. The United States sent the materials supporting the British homeland warfare to Iceland and the United Kingdom to establish a forward-looking base in Iceland and continue fighting with Germany there. This British counter-attack plan has contributed, but the British royal family must "get out of it"; the British promised to leave North America and no longer do things like move capital in Canada.
The name of this agreement is the "U.S.-UK-Canada Alliance Agreement." This agreement allowed the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to jointly deploy counterattack forces in Iceland. Of course, another result of this treaty is that because he lost his job in Canada, Montgomery was ordered to go to North Africa. As the chief of staff of the British army in North Africa, he officially began to face his longtime rival Rommel.