Chapter 454

London, England. Maybe this city will soon become London in 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 of the exploding shells in the distance, the debris at his feet and the three British officials hanged a few steps away.

The bodies of the three men were hanging on the street lamps, and the sign that I am a coward was still hanging on my chest. These officers were all those who tried to escape or lose their positions. But the key point is not that they are really cowardly, but that they question Churchill's leadership. Just after receiving a telegram from his majesty, they wanted to overthrow Churchill's leadership, but Churchill noticed in advance and sent someone to hang them.

Now Churchill is still in the south of England, because most of what he left here are his confidants and loyalists. They claimed that the king's order was false, that the radio had been controlled by the Germans, and encouraged people to continue to resist until the last moment. But relying on Britain's devastated southern region, how can it compete with the hundreds of thousands of troops of the a group supported by Germany?

Failure, for Churchill now, is only a matter of time. He looked back at the soldiers behind him, pointed to the bodies of the three men and said, "put it down, come on, choose a cemetery and bury it well."

The grey sky of London is missed. Churchill gave a wry smile and watched his soldiers hurry to untie the rope from the telegraph pole and remove the body. He suddenly felt that he shouldn't have complained 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 enemy occupied areas.

However, he could not help feeling, because another round of German artillery attack began. Escorted by several soldiers and officers, he returned to the dark basement and the cruel reality. The German team is only 700 meters away from his place in a straight line. Even 60 mm mortar can be fired easily from this distance.

"Prime minister... We don't have to be stuck here. If you like, we can leave soon and go to Brighton. We'll get on the boat in the South and back to Cornwall Peninsula in the southwest Behind Churchill, an officer suggested: "as long as we shorten the frontal defense area, there should be no problem for us to hold the Cornwall peninsula."

"Don't try to persuade me any more." Churchill waved his hand and said, "I know you're doing it for my good, and I'm very grateful. However, your proposal ignores one point: what is the point of our resistance if we lose London. As long as the German team occupied London, Britain would be completely finished. At that time, no one would want to follow me even if we held the Cornwall peninsula

There is another problem that Churchill did not explain, that is, with the combat effectiveness of German armored forces, it is still easy to say in the city. Once in the field, who can say that he can defend the defense line? At that time, it will not be a losing end, and if I run away from London, where can I go in the end?

In fact, the fact that he still holds power here, and the fact that the royal family or other British forces have not fallen into the trap is also part of the reason: the Scottish regime represented by Chamberlain hopes that Churchill can beat Germany and win status and stability for the future Northern British regime. Another reason is that the British royal family is struggling in Canada, and they also need time to find their real home.

To put it bluntly, going north to Canada is just an expedient. Iceland, the overseas dependency of Denmark, is the real home that the British government is looking for. The British royal family has deployed troops in the South and is deploying a huge plan to attack Iceland, occupy it and settle down there.

Now about 2000 British soldiers have landed in Iceland, and the residents of the island have not made any decent resistance. The German Navy is busy killing big fish near Britain, and has no leisure to go to Iceland to find trouble for small British troops. By the time the Germans realized that the British were ready to build a base in Iceland, it was too late.

A total of 10000 British people were transferred from the British mainland to Iceland for defense. Even the United States hoarded strategic materials that should have been sent to the British mainland to Iceland. 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 dispatched 4000 volunteers to Iceland with weapons and equipment as mercenaries. These troops were ordered to help the United Kingdom control and consolidate the defense line of Iceland. By the time the German Navy discovered the British and American attempts, the actual strength of the British in Iceland was more than 20000, with more than 300 fighter planes.

Obviously, it is not realistic to launch an attack on Iceland under such circumstances, and Germany has to do the same thing again, ordering German submarine troops to go north and start a new round of operations to strangle Icelandic transport routes. However, it is obvious that this kind of strangulation is not very effective. The reason is that Iceland is far away from Norway and the British mainland. The submarine's distance to the west of Iceland is very long, which naturally makes it more difficult to blockade Britain.

Britain seems to regard Iceland as a forward base for their counterattack against the British mainland. By hoarding materials and training troops in Iceland, they have gradually expanded their troops to a scale that makes the Germans quite headache. On March 20, the number of British defenders in Iceland increased to 23000, and they were organized into two integrated infantry divisions, Even equipped with 110 new American m3lee tanks.

Originally, there were not many residents in Iceland, so at this moment, the whole island is basically British combat troops, and the amount of supplies is much less. In fact, even if the total amount of supplies for 50000 British troops in a week's combat is not as much as the amount of food that a British London needs every day. Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic to trap the British garrison in Iceland, especially when the German naval forces are not all extracted from the British mainland. It is not easy to organize landing forces to recapture Iceland again. At present, German transport ships are sparing no effort to maintain the supply of the British army of group A. there is no power to transport combat forces and materials to distant Iceland“ The navy can guarantee the launch of landing operations, but it is estimated that 3000 soldiers will be lost, and the Navy cannot guarantee the maintenance of Icelandic Garrison's transportation mission. " This is what he said to akado. Naturally, he indirectly sentenced him to death for landing in Iceland. Another piece of dumb news is that the army's calculation is more pessimistic than that of the Navy's. two of the three landings have failed and one has won miserably. Keitel's group B army will pay 10000 people for this landing, and after the victory, Germany will maintain a maximum of 5000 troops in Iceland, which will be easy for the United States or Britain to recapture Iceland in the future. Of course, the air force's plan is simpler: Bombing Iceland with butcher bombers is OK, but it can only be escorted by naval aviation. As for the effect of the bombing, Dick and Catherine, two air force commanders, were very pessimistic: Iceland had no decent industrial system, and they were wasting bombs except attacking some airports. Finally, the commanders of the Navy, the army and the air force agreed that the conflict was concentrated on the German Navy. If the German Navy is strong enough to cross the Atlantic in the future, the British * team in Iceland will not be a threat; Of course, if the German Navy is unable to complete the task of blockade of Iceland alone in the future, even if it seizes Iceland now, it will be lost in the future because of its weak Navy. Therefore, the German side took a laissez faire attitude towards the development of Iceland's British team. Akado can't find a 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 he can't completely block the Icelandic route, trapping the British on it. In fact, the British royal family, or the orthodox British government in exile, is now quarreling with the local rulers in Canada. In fact, Canada, as a British colony, began to exercise most of its independent sovereignty a few years ago. Now the British government has come to Canada to prepare for its restoration, which obviously makes the local rulers very dissatisfied. Therefore, the British royal family met a soft nail in Canada. In addition to declaring that it supported the British government against Germany, Canada was not even willing to provide a place for Britain to recover. Therefore, after arriving in Canada, the British government in exile did not announce such news as moving its capital. Finally, the representatives of the United States, Canada and Britain signed a secret agreement in Washington, D.C. the United States transported the materials supporting the British operation to Iceland, supported the United Kingdom to establish a frontier base for the restoration of the country in Iceland, and continued to fight with Germany there; Canada also contributed to the British counterattack plan, but the British royal family must "go away"; Britain promised to leave North America and not move its capital to Canada. The agreement is called "the United States, Britain and Canada trilateral alliance agreement", which allows the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada to jointly deploy counterattack forces in Iceland. Of course, another result of this treaty is that Montgomery lost his job in Canada, so he was ordered to go to North Africa. As the chief of staff of the British army in North Africa, Montgomery began to fight against Rommel, his lifelong enemy.