Chapter 367

On January 29, 1938, Lord Goth left Dunkirk in a submarine and returned to England. This also marks the complete abandonment of nearly 200000 troops in Dunkirk by the British side. But the army is still fighting hard, because the British command is very simple - fight to the last soldier.

When the Lord returned to the port of England, he saw what it meant to be devastated. There were several destroyers and gunboats in the harbor of the Royal Navy of the British Empire. In the distance, the berths of battleships, which used to be crowded with warships, seemed so empty.

In a short period of one month, Britain has successively sunk six battleships and three aircraft carriers, accounting for almost half of Britain's main battleships in active service. Even if we take into account the warships that have been transformed and put into immediate service, almost one third of them are still higher.

We should know that although the British navy is huge in number, the areas to be protected are also huge. The British government still maintains a strong maritime power in the Far East, where war is pressing; In the Indian Ocean, in order to frighten the nearby colonies, there is also a large fleet of ships; Canada, Africa, the Mediterranean and the South Atlantic provide Britain with abundant resources. At the same time, they also involve more than half of the British navy.

So now, although the British and German navies still have an advantage in terms of overall strength, in the waters near the North Atlantic Ocean, Britain has completely lost its sea and air supremacy. Even when the other three British King George V Class Battleships are submerged, the British navy has no advantage.

At this moment, the ramilis is on a mission in the Indian Ocean, the determination is in Africa, the Nelson is on an escort mission in the Mediterranean, the Rodney is operating near the Strait of Malacca, the Queen Elizabeth is in the South Atlantic, the revenge is in the Far East of Asia, and the only remaining counterattack is being refitted.

The Royal Oak and the warrior are protecting the glory and fury in the North Sea while avoiding the German Navy. So when Lord Goth looked at the berth of the battleship, there was only one battleship, King George V, alone and pitiful.

One new battleship, two old battleships and two less advanced aircraft carriers are all the main forces of the British Navy's local fleet. Of course, in terms of the number of cruisers and destroyers, Britain still has some advantages, but on the main combat ships, Britain and Germany have never been so close.

In addition, although the number of British cruisers and destroyers is large, most of them are nailed to the route between the North Atlantic and the United States by German submarines. The actual number of local destroyers and destroyers is even less than that of the German Navy.

Just as Lord Goth was staring at the only British King George V battleship in a daze, a British soldier on the Dunkirk front was sitting listlessly in the trench with his rifle in his arms, holding his lunch box in his hands in a daze.

The clear soup in the lunch box is no different from the boiling water, and there is a lot of dust just dropped in because of the shelling at the bottom. That piece of moldy bread has been swallowed for a long time. After all, who is hungry for a long time will not care about the quality of the food, right?

His face was full of fatigue, and the German attack seemed to be a little slower, not as fierce and intensive as the previous days. However, some well-informed officers are talking about the Navy. It is said that for the sake of the war in dunkerk, the Navy lost almost one third of its main warships in the North Sea World War I.

As a British army, although he did not know how many warships and sailors there were in the British navy, the number of warships in Britain, who always claimed to be the first navy in the world, should not be in the minority? Ten? Twenty?

In short, it was a failure, and it was a terrible failure. This is his most intuitive understanding of naval failure. Of course, another thing also proves how tragic the Navy's failure was. Since January 27, the ships that came to carry people to retreat have almost disappeared. Occasionally, at night, one of them, all civilian ships, never came to Dunkirk again.

He took a few mouthfuls of the clear soup mixed with sand and soil in his lunch box, and then he poured the rest under his feet and cleaned it up a little. Then he stood up in the trench and laughed with the dead comrade in arms who had been dead for a long time, and looked at the opposite position.

It seems that the German over there is still eating, which makes the British soldier smell a delicious food. Even though he has heard that German food is very scarce, most of the food is mainly potatoes and vegetables, but now he is hungry and thinks potatoes are the ultimate delicacy in the world.

In the afternoon, the British soldier didn't wait for the fierce fighting and fighting the day before, and the German tanks didn't appear in front of him. Those terrible killing machines reaped the lives of the British soldiers by hundreds of thousands, and burned the best tanks in Britain. So those German tanks were one of the most terrible weapons of war he had ever seen - because there was another equally terrible weapon called Stuka.

I don't know what time it was in the afternoon. Anyway, when the British soldier was dozing in the trench, his platoon leader took people to inspect. The British platoon leader kicked his men up with his toes, and then talked about ammunition and weather.

"Sir, why didn't the Germans attack this afternoon?" Asked the British soldier, who stood up and stood at attention“ The people above are negotiating. If there is no accident, we will lay down our arms and surrender. " The platoon leader has a good relationship with the company commander, who happens to be the younger brother-in-law of the division commander, so the company has always been a grass-roots unit with good information, otherwise it would be impossible to know the news of the Navy's defeat. Yes, after all, there was no accident. Almost an hour after the platoon leader left, the cheers of shaking earth and mountains came from the distance. The German positions even sang war songs, with laughter and laughter. Just when the British soldier didn't know what to do, the platoon leader showed up in time again and told him that he could lay down his arms and wait for the German to surrender. On January 30, hundreds of thousands of British and French troops surrendered, and general kammerlin shot himself in his headquarters. Britain and France are crying, but Germany is boiling. Dunkirk's surrender, nothing can stop the pace of the German southward, more than a million German troops, singing a song of triumph, rushed to Paris, the capital of France. Charles de Gaulle in the hands of the 10th armored forces retreat, until the suburbs of Paris to stop the pace of their own rout. More than 70000 British soldiers in France, on the other hand, received a strange order to give up their own defense lines and control areas, concentrate in the coastal cities of France, and then get on the leaving ships and return to the British mainland. 300000 French soldiers who had just been mobilized had to use their rifles and bayonets to try their best to prevent 3000 German army tanks from entering their capital. There was a lot of lamentation in France and the government was in chaos. At this moment when France has been besieged, another amazing news comes that Italian leader Mussolini can't help but make a move. The speed of Germany sweeping Europe is too fast, which makes the Italian leader feel that if he doesn't make a decision, he will watch Germany take advantage. So an hour after the surrender of Dunkirk, Italy could not wait to declare war on Britain and France.