Contrary to the Japanese's enthusiastic hope of expanding the scale of the war, the British interim Prime Minister, Duke Gott, is now focused on how to withdraw from the war as soon as possible.
After arriving in Northern Ireland, Gott did not relax because of the short-term safety.
On the contrary, he immediately inspected the military defense situation in Northern Ireland and gave instructions one by one. As a result, he found that the defense situation here was a complete mess!
Compared with the original English Channel Defense War, today's Irish Sea Defense War has no reassuring changes.
Since there was no original plan to fight in Northern Ireland, the military strength and material reserves here were in a mess. As a large number of British troops moved from the island of Great Britain to the island of Ireland, the situation here became even more chaotic and complicated.
Gott walked out of his Prime Minister's Office and planned to wander around Belfast, the new British capital, just to relax.
He walked through the corridor of the government office building, walked down the stairs step by step, and walked straight to the door.
It has to be said that compared to the Ministry of Defense building in London a few days ago, everything here is completely different. There is no complete office building after the bombing, and the office staff are in order. No one has to worry about the possibility of a fire at any time.
Air raid warning, after all, the Germans had never bombed the island of Ireland until now.
Gott walked to the entrance of the first floor of the office building. Here, there was a group of neatly dressed guards standing at attention with guns in hand.
"What a fine military appearance. When I was in London, I haven't seen a guard without dust on his uniform for a long time." Gott said to himself with emotion.
"Prime Minister!" The soldiers on duty saw Duke Gott coming out, stood at attention and saluted.
Needless to say, these soldiers should be the troops who originally stayed in Northern Ireland. They had probably been under the jurisdiction of the branch in Northern Ireland before.
Gott has many identities: Duke, Commander, and Prime Minister. There is nothing much to say about the identity of Duke, which was recently conferred by the royal family.
And if it were the troops that Gott brought back from London and recruited from the island of Great Britain, under normal circumstances, the officers and soldiers would call Gott "Commander".
Only the garrison soldiers recruited on the island of Ireland would prefer to be called Gott, the nominal interim prime minister.
"Thank you, I thank you for everything you have done for Britain." Gott looked at these Northern Ireland soldiers and suddenly felt touched. If it weren't for the land of Northern Ireland across the sea, if it weren't for the
The withdrawn troops and the garrison in Northern Ireland can be reorganized into a powerful force. The British Empire has probably been declared subjugated by now.
At the last moment, Gott chose to give up the Battle of London. It wasn't that he didn't want to fight, but it was really unacceptable that half of London on the north bank of the Thames was turned into ruins.
The war has been fought like this, and Churchill, who was most enthusiastic about the war, was already in a state of semi-madness. In the entire UK, it is estimated that less than one percent of the people still want to continue the war.
"I'm going for a walk, you don't have to follow me." After saying goodbye to the group of soldiers on duty, Gott walked onto the connecting road in Belfast alone.
Different from the London street scenes he was familiar with a few days ago, everything here was too peaceful.
Although they knew that the war was coming, there were still many pedestrians and civilians on the road who continued to work hard to maintain their normal lives.
Perhaps thanks to the Allied aircraft, the island of Ireland, which has relatively little strategic significance, has not been bombed once. The people here can at least live their lives as normal people.
They are in a war, but at least they have not been affected by the flames of war. Prices are indeed ridiculously expensive, but at least everyone's relatives and friends are still alive. When you get up every morning, you don't have to think about who you know.
Left again.
Moreover, they don't have to be like the people in London who have to live in narrow, crowded air-raid shelters all day long, living in an ugly, wet and dark environment. The people here also have their own home and their own house where they usually live.
You can sleep, you can settle down, you can come back every morning in your familiar bed.
"What a beautiful city..." This place, which was just an ordinary city, made Gott, who had just escaped from the war, be fascinated by it!
Last night, Gott looked at the map of Britain in his office all night long. The Irish Sea that separated them from the enemy looked so short and so close on the map.
Compared with when he fought in London, Gott has now reorganized the island of Ireland into a mixture of regular troops and National Guards, as well as a mixture of conscripted troops from Great Britain and Ireland, and can barely fight a round.
270,000 troops for defensive warfare.
In addition, they also received 30 M2 light tanks that the Americans urgently transported to the island of Ireland.
For the Americans, the M2 light tank has been withdrawn from combat in their own army and is used as a training tank. The reason why they chose to transport this tank to the British to fight against Germany was actually because the Americans could not bear it.
Can't live with the losses on the Atlantic shipping line.
Dönitz's submarine has sunk an American transport ship carrying at least 300 American tanks. It is no exaggeration to say that the German submarine force destroyed a British armored division aided by the United States.
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As a result, the Americans began to calculate their own gains and losses quite painfully. Anyway, they were selling tanks to the British, and the British would definitely choose to buy them if they came (anyway, they could pay in advance, which is equivalent to owing money first)
Get the goods).
So, instead of shipping good tanks and then being 90% sunk, it would be better to ship a lot of defective tanks.
In other words, if the Americans send a batch of outdated tanks that they themselves don't use to the British cannon fodder, they won't feel bad even if they lose them.
Although Americans don't feel bad, Gott's flesh does!
Those who died were all British people, citizens and soldiers of the British Empire. They were all British flesh and blood!
All these cannon fodders are wasted here in vain. When the war is truly won, it will only be the final victory of the Americans or the Germans. What is left to Britain is nothing more than a ruins riddled with holes after being burned by the flames of war.
Such a victory is meaningless.
What's more, even if they continue to resist, they may not be able to wait until victory!
"The war should have ended long ago." Gott glanced again at the city that had not yet fallen from the shells and was not stained red with blood. After a long time, he sighed and said to himself: "This damn war, really