Chapter 434

The weather in England can't be sunny all the time. Naturally, it can't be cloudy all the time. After several consecutive days of wind howling, the sun appears in the sky again. Finally, the weather in the three British islands is cloudy and clear.

The huge and terrifying group of German butcher strategic bombers arrived on schedule and appeared over Britain, dropping hundreds of tons of bombs in various regions. Numerous Stuka bombers and stuka-2 bombers repeatedly attacked the positions of the British garrison, easily blowing up the positions of the British garrison into a sea of fire.

The haze and gale called "Churchill weather" by the German soldiers disappeared, so the German aircraft carrier fleet once again swaggered, the landing site was once again unimpeded, and the German fleet with all-out transportation added tens of thousands of people to each unit of a group army.

Once again, the British soldiers realized an old Chinese proverb: Feng Shui turns in turn. Their cannons were destroyed by Stuka, their positions torn by German panzergrenadiers, their lives crushed to mud by German tank tracks.

Montgomery's troops have been frustrated continuously on the whole front. The German troops have encircled Bangui again, and a large number of German troops have appeared in the rostovt area. Obviously, at this time, the German a group army is not only using some conspiracy, but also taking advantage of the strongest sea and air superiority to seize this important port city from the British garrison.

In fact, rostovt is not a large port city, but it is obvious that rostovt can be regarded as a very huge port for the small German port cities like Buckton and wells.

What's important is that rostovt is closer to the Netherlands and Belgium, and the German transport routes will be greatly shortened. In this way, the German team landing in Britain will be more quickly supplemented, and the life of the British garrison will be more difficult.

British commanders seem to have been unable to think of a more difficult situation: Germany has controlled four military airports in the landing area, more than 400 fighter planes of various types from the German air force have been deployed to Britain, the German Air Force's support is more timely and accurate, and the frequency of bombing Britain is more intensive.

The 230000 German troops have been on the British mainland, and the local forces that Britain can use now are about 300000 - you know, most of the elite troops that Britain can fight have entered the POW camp in Dunkirk, and the troops that fled back to the British mainland, together with the original reserves, can only fight about 100000 people. After so many days of hard fighting, the number of soldiers who can fight is about 100000, There are only about 50000 people left in this 100000 strong British army.

The remaining 250000 so-called British soldiers, most of whom had never been on the battlefield for a day, fired five shots at the target in the rear, and then marched to the front line to be "recruits" for training. These soldiers were farmers with guns and students. Montgomery could not imagine the result of these temporarily formed troops bumping into German armored forces in the field.

In fact, what Montgomery did not want to see happened in the British front line. Almost even the division commander of the new 24th division was appointed on a temporary basis, and almost all the troops were recruits. This unit encountered the 5th German light armored division in the front of setford. After only 45 minutes of fighting, 2100 British soldiers were killed and 3800 others were captured. As a result, the whole defense line collapsed and setford became a front-line City exposed to the German army.

It is very difficult to evaluate the combat effectiveness of these temporarily replenished troops. Sometimes these troops will be quite tenacious. Although their combat capacity can't catch up with the main force, they can be described as "make do"; Sometimes, these troops will collapse at the first sight, and their combat effectiveness is almost the same as that of the National Day parade, which makes the front-line commanders extremely helpless.

What Montgomery can do is to break up some new troops as far as possible within the scope of his authority, fill these troops into the existing combat forces, and try to keep every combat force in his hands at a combat level as far as possible.

This can not be attributed to the confusion and ignorance of the British troops. Instead, the officials in the rear were pushed and forced by the king and the prime minister to make a bit of a dilemma. Your majesty and the prime minister will not listen to you. How many additional soldiers have been filled into the existing combat forces? They only care about the size of the British forces.

In fact, this is a kind of self consolation in a state of madness. Just as Hitler was unwilling to admit that his troops had been destroyed before he committed suicide, Churchill is now unwilling to admit that the British front-line troops are on the verge of collapse. What he asked most every day was how many divisions were formed and where they were deployed after they were added to the front line.

Within the prime minister's operational intelligence command, there are already 71 divisions of combat troops on the British map. It is reasonable to say that the total strength of the United Kingdom should be at least 900000, but the actual situation is that the British troops can only maintain around 300000.

The reason is that in the supplementary report on recruits provided to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Britain has formed 31 new divisions of combat forces. However, these newly formed "combat forces" were all "under manned divisions" with about 7000 troops at the beginning, and then they became 4500 troops, and then they were reduced to 3000 troops. Even later, the 69th independent division of Britain had only 1500 troops, It was about the size of a regiment, and the 70th independent division was sent to the front line without even 1400 people.

It is conceivable that the combat effectiveness of the British front-line combat forces has declined. It is also conceivable how important Montgomery is now holding more than 30000 British elites. But that all changed with the arrival of February 23. After a hard street battle, the German army finally won the first large port city of rostovt. The 20000 British defenders of greater Yarmouth finally fell without fighting. The Bangui defenders also announced to give up resistance a few hours later. Only three days later, the famous speech "from Bangui to greater Yarmouth" delivered by Prime Minister Churchill, The inspiring Bangui victory and the restoration of Great Yarmouth have become loud slaps in the face of British politicians. The despondent king of England replaced Montgomery's position as commander-in-chief of the front line and ordered Lord Goth to take command of the British front line forces again. He immediately attacked the German forces and recaptured all British territory. As a result, the British counterattack started only two hours before it was forced to turn to defense. The elite British troops collapsed in the face of the subsequent German attack. On February 24 alone, they lost setford, the central defense Town, and Yili, the transportation hub. On February 25, newmarkit was captured by the German army, and the German front-line forces were close to Cambridge, an important city in the north of London. On February 26, the German group a troops occupied alderberg, and then the British counterattack in berry st Edmonds was defeated by the German 2nd Armored Division. On February 27, the German flag was put up in the city of berry st Edmonds and stomachit. Later, the British garrison in Ipswich surrendered, but the street fight did not officially end until March 1. The German offensive troops were attacked by British civilians for the first time. Ipswich was later killed by German retaliation, with 7000 civilian casualties. Felix stoy was later occupied by the German army, the British port city of harige was blocked by the German controlled Felix stoy coastal artillery because of the distance, and then sadbury surrendered to the German armored forces. The British garrison managed to stabilize the defense line near the river in the south of sadbury, relying on the embankment to establish a fairly stable defense system. The German Army established a firm line of defense along the USS River in the Western defensive zone, and also confronted the British Army across the river in the southern region. In the middle of the two river lines, Cambridge, a famous British city, was located. Everyone knows that as long as the German army takes Cambridge, it will be able to fight all the way along the railway and road to Harlow, the northern gateway of London, and then London will become the bag of the German a group army. The British king and Churchill are even more dissatisfied with Goth than Montgomery. However, Montgomery is on the way to Canada by boat, and it is too late to recall him. So an unknown British veteran Willis was ordered to take over the front-line command of the British garrison. As soon as he took office, the veteran explained his own operational thinking, that is, to stick to the end of the world. He gave up all counterattack plans and ordered the British garrison to set up a solid defense system. However, at such a critical juncture, a negotiator found the embattled British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and submitted a so-called "sovereignty claim" that made Winston Churchill want to lift the table. He hoped that Britain could give up the control of Northern Ireland and understand Ireland's demand for independence. Although Ireland's national strength was despised at the peak of Britain, and the island of Ireland was regarded by Britain as half of its own backyard, now that the United Kingdom is swimming in the shallows, the knife poked in the back is a bit fatal. At this time, the British government really realized that its side was far from being a real monolithic one, and the real killing tactics of the German government were also revealed. Akkado knows that it is not worth the loss and the cost to occupy Britain completely, but it is much more comfortable to divide Britain with some friendly forces. Another Ally Germany has found is Ireland, which has always been reluctant to be lonely behind Britain. Akkado promised Ireland to give up the Scottish mountains as a buffer zone to establish a new "Britain", and this regime, like Vichy's French government, will join the German led steel axis alliance and become another puppet regime of Germany.