Chapter 404: Lamentation of the prime minister

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The door of Churchill's office was knocked, and a blonde female secretary put the document on the desk in front of the prime minister and turned away. Recently, Prime Minister Churchill's mood is getting worse day by day, so no one wants to stay in the Prime Minister's office and get upset.
The British Prime Minister raised his eyelids to look at the thick stack of reports, and knew that there was nothing good about it today, so he had to pick up the top report and began to read it-these things must be dealt with anyway, Although they are all documents of mourning, they are insensitive after reading a lot.
Sure enough, this is a loss report of an fleet, which stated that a transport fleet numbered 96 was attacked by the other party on the way to the UK, and the loss was heavy. This has always been an old saying. If the British transport fleet has lost no hour, then Churchill will be surprised.
But looking at it, Churchill's already numb face appeared a heavy look. It ’s not because the loss of the No. 96 transport fleet is too great. After all, the transport fleet that was annihilated by the army in the hands of Dunnitz ’s wolves these days is not without it-Churchill was surprised by the way the fleet lost this time, or The Germans' methods of attack turned out to be different.
Originally, more than nine of the losses of the British Transport Fleet were caused by German submarines. These haunted wolves were commanded by a middle-aged man named Dunnitz. They used hordes of tactics to attack the British fleet at night. Britain caused irreparable losses.
This kind of tactic that has made the British headache has not found a good confrontation method. The Germans have played a new trick this time. The outermost periphery of the transport fleet is generally the destroyers of the Royal Navy. These destroyers are responsible for driving German submarines to ensure that most ships in the core of the transport fleet can reach the UK smoothly.
But this time the destroyers were attacked. A "new aircraft-like weapon flying in the sky directly hit the British warships, sinking those destroyers alerting on the outermost periphery." The report mentioned that this new weapon can accurately strike To British warships, you can even change the flight path halfway.
And the report said that this strange aircraft that would automatically hit the British destroyer appeared on two major British routes at the same time, sinking 5 ships including a light cruiser and 3 destroyers, and was shot. The notched transport fleets were undoubtedly attacked by submarines that night and suffered heavy losses.
The report said the weapon was called "flying torpedo", "suicide plane", and "Akkado's dartboard". Most of the weapons claimed to be a new type of weapon launched by a German submarine. But none of Churchill's staff was a fool. They ruled out the possibility of a submarine launching from clues.
After reading the report, a weapon expert called to the Prime Minister ’s office gave his own conclusion: "Mister Prime Minister, this weapon should be launched by a destroyer or cruiser, not a submarine weapon."
He pointed to several black shadows taken and said: "It can be seen from some blurry photos that this weapon takes into account aerodynamics, but does not consider the need to travel in sea water, and the frequency of use of this weapon is obvious It is much rarer than the number of German submarines, so I analyze that this is a guided weapon launched by warships. "
"It doesn't matter what it launched from." Churchill sighed. "My concern is whether it will appear on our routes on a large scale! Will it completely cut off our transportation lines."
Churchill couldn't help but worry. On average, every two British merchant ships from New York, the United States, were to be sunk, and about one-third of American aid supplies sank into the icy Atlantic. The British used life-saving equipment in exchange for islands and military port bases, but they lost half of them before they even started.
The three armored forces expected to be established by the United Kingdom could not be put in place because of the delay in supply. Only one is now formed. The other two are also called armored forces, but they do not even have half of the German armored equipment. The remaining 20 infantry divisions and more than 300,000 troops are "First World War infantry" with only light weapons and artillery. Only the heavens know what kind of results can be achieved by the battle-hardened German troops.
Poor Montgomery's clever women could not cook without rice, and even suggested that the British royal family go to Egypt or Canada to "watch work". Although this proposal was rejected, it has been shown that the British senior generals are not optimistic about the Straits Defense Line.
On the beach, the British province ’s frugally arranged 75 minefields have been scrapped by the German Navy and the Air Force, and 17 of them have been scrapped; only 9 of the 33 mine-blockage areas on the sea are still intact. Relying on those shore defense artillery and trench barbed wire, not to mention military generals like Montgomery, even Churchill did not believe that he could take the Germans into the sea.
So the question before Churchill is not whether it can prevent the Germans from landing, but the Germans on the British Isles. So he promulgated the "British War Commands that Must Guard the Homeland" which vowed to turn Britain into a on earth. This command is actually very simple. All old inventory equipment and weapons that are too late to be distributed to the frontline combat troops are sent to British civilians, so that they can fight against the German regular army regardless of sacrifices.
The combat department expects that 1.5 million British civilians will die in the battle against the Germans. Montgomery is even more pessimistic. He feels that once Germany is madly retaliated and the British act is used as an excuse to tear up some international conventions, there will be 3 million British people Died of war.
And Montgomery is not optimistic about these so-called "blocking operations". He once told Churchill: "These civilians are not trained and will be slaughtered in front of the regular German army, and these civilians lack the support of heavy weapons and face the German armored forces. The role it can play is very limited. "
At that time, Churchill ’s answer made Montgomery almost curse: "The limited effect means that there will still be an effect ... These civilians have killed thousands of people, even if they can only destroy a German tank, then they have won some time for the British. What we lack , It ’s just time. "
In fact, to put it bluntly, what the United Kingdom and Germany are fighting now is not the strength of the military, nor the quality of technology, nor the contradiction of popular sentiment-the fight between the two countries is time! Germany hopes to seize the time to win the United Kingdom in one fell swoop, and Britain hopes to delay the time so that the USSR and the Soviet Union can respond to the siege of Germany. It is so simple.
Churchill and Montgomery made every effort to ensure that Germany was dragged into the quagmire of war. Montgomery secretly deployed the only armored army in a hidden area in the south of England. Once the Germans landed, he would command this army and another elite infantry army to rush to the German beachhead and fight to be disabled by the German Air Force. The Germans must also be taken to sea.
Because he knew that Germany seemed to be rich and wealthy, and like Napoleon ’s France, it seemed invincible. It was nothing more than the courage to land once. As long as the losses were fought to bring Germany down to the sea, then Britain would be completely thorough It's safe. By that time it was a war and a war, it was all the British who had the final say.
In some seas suitable for landing, Britain began to lay out a defense system a century ago, except that in some places the fort and defense facilities are too old to adapt to the needs of modern warfare, but many places can still be used. It saves a lot of time.
The original fort was changed to an "open-top" machine gun position, the original machine gun position was reinforced into a trench, and the original open space was laid with barbed wire, plus a few artillery pieces, even if it was a fairly strong coastal defense position.
There are too few troops in Britain, and fewer soldiers are trained and fighting, so Montgomery has been strengthening the southern coastline defensive positions in a sequence of filling holes. He put his elite troops on the second line, hoping to concentrate his superior strength. The German team returned to the sea.
However, his army has an inevitable disadvantage, that is, the quality of the armored forces. The original British armored forces were all lost to Dunkirk. Now the armored forces in Montgomery are only trained for less than 15 days. New recruits, and the weapons in their hands are quite different from the equipment of their German opponents: relying on American equipment such as m3lee to challenge the German leopard tank, which is itself a frustrating thing.
The Navy ’s support to the British anti-landing is very limited. The King George V and the Wrath carrier are being overhauled in the northern port. The Counterattack has become the only battleship in the British mainland, which is considered lucky. For the USS Ark, the British navy ’s power is not as good as half that of the German navy.
And the landing site will definitely be within the combat radius of the Luftwaffe. At this time, if the Navy interferes with the landing, it will be the same as the performance of the Luftwaffe. And the British Royal Navy, who has been beaten with courage, is also a question of whether it will be brave.
Thinking of these problems, Churchill immediately had a big head, and he really wanted to throw the burden back to Chamberlain, but the old sly and cunning guy would definitely not stand up at this stage-at first I expected to have today's ending, only to play a trick gold cicada shelling.
Speaking of the golden cicada shelling ... Churchill seemed to think of something. He picked up his pen and began to write a report. He also had to learn Montgomery and persuaded the king to take royal members to Canada to inspect the production line of the new hurricane fighter.