This is the most real battlefield. There is no such thing as shouting to encourage comrades to go crazy in the drama. There is no such thing as a sea of people attacking and defending. There are people who put their faces on the ground and pray to continue to live. When they are hit, they will cry and run, how ugly their posture is, but this is really a battlefield. It is a real battlefield.
Unlike those German armored forces that quickly raided thousands of miles a day, the German infantry were responsible for encirclement and suppression of enemy troops surrounded by armored forces, and their battles were often to capture those complex terrain and targets where the enemy was stationed.
These soldiers have no tanks and armored vehicles to cover them, and they lack military fire support, and they have to pay a heavy price for every step forward, but they have still completed all the military arrangements for them.
Their own practical actions have proved that the German army is not the first-class in the world with armored forces, and their own sacrifices have won the respect of all German generals.
Whether it is muddy country roads or urban ruins, whether it is vast forests or endless mountains and mountains, German infantry are persevering to prove to the world that they are "the first army in heaven"
Lack of ammunition and replenishment method * * team persisted for three hours and surrendered on an unprecedented scale-a French elite infantry division was stationed here to surrender to the German 7th Infantry Division, and about 100 French soldiers laid down their weapons.
At noon, French soldiers nearby surrendered one after another, except for a few who resisted. These French soldiers gathered in groups to share some unpalatable food from the Germans, but their faces did not show the expression of the defeated. Because of hunger and lack of ammunition, they showed great optimism about being able to have a full meal after surrender.
Friedrich school received a flag symbolizing the honor of an army from a French major general. His suburban headquarters heard that the French army was resisting him head-on and finally surrendered. A few minutes ago, he led his chief of staff and guards into this small town with guns still ringing.
German war correspondents surrounded the commander of Victory German School. He wore a long coat, and his coat was not neat. Friedrich had all kinds of scraps hanging on his chest, which made him look no different from a grocer.
He was wearing a pistol and a Sam Browne belt, carrying a big leather bag with a map and a telescope on his chest. This dress made him look a little funny, but his face was tired and excited with a smile.
And the officer who handed over his army’s flag was full of frustration.
German journalists will certainly not miss such a wonderful moment. They immediately pressed the shutter and the magnesium light "Bang" sounded to record this moment full of contrast.
Chapter 343 343 rotten stand
Churchill looked at the information in his hand and felt that after the arrival of the Emperor in 193, he never had mercy on the poor country of the British Empire.
Chamberlain left and handed over an unprecedented mess to Churchill, the king of England and his ministers. Although he was very reluctant to give his strength to such a former navy minister who defeated the navy again and again, there was no other candidate who dared to take over the mess, so that Churchill could take over the prime minister of the British Empire
But now Britain is like a giant with a long illness. At present, the bad state can’t be completely cured by changing a leadership class. Only then did he know that the problems he faced were several times larger than those faced by the Secretary of the Navy.
First of all, the most deadly thing is still the threat of the Atlantic submarine. He receives news that a transport ship was sunk by a German submarine almost every few hours, and these news have become more and more dense and deadly recently.
German submarines are being deployed on a large scale and have adopted an attack method that allows them to resist. These submarines flock to the vast Atlantic Ocean and chase their prey like wolves. Any transport fleet that is found will be attacked by German submarines on a large scale at night, even if it is escorted by destroyers.
In just a few days, Britain has lost three destroyers leased from the United States and more than a dozen transport ships. These days, the sinking record is almost broken every day. Compared with the German losses, the losses of hundreds of thousands of tons of British transport ships and destroyers are negligible. In exchange for sinking a German submarine, Churchill is most depressed by the poor record. The number of German submarines is three times less than that estimated by the British Navy.
Before the war, the British navy evaluated the German navy. They thought that the German navy had at most five submarines and many small tonnage offshore models. However, in fact, the German navy had 146 submarines at the beginning of the war, and more than 90% of them were large tonnage ocean attack models.
These submarines do not include the captured Dutch navy submarine, one Danish submarine, two Polish submarines and three submarines, all of which were transported by German designers and design and manufacturing institutes. The German navy is familiar with them, so in fact, the total number of mobile submarines in Germany is amazing, 151, far less than the British estimate.
Of course, when Churchill was struggling to deal with German submarines, he had to fight against William’s military port, which put pressure on the British soil fleet by berthing the German high seas fleet. That’s actually four fleet carriers. Britain’s active aircraft carriers and battleships are only barely competing with this German fleet
The threat of the sea has not been able to deal with the land collapse, which has made Churchill miserable. Lord Gott has handed in his resignation several times, but Churchill has not replied to these resignation letters because there is no suitable candidate to come to the present.
The British and French troops have lost all the way, and now the Belgian border is surrounded. Hundreds of thousands of troops in the narrow Dunkirk area have no food, no supplies, no ammunition and oil, let alone break through, and it is difficult to hold on.
The 150,000 British expeditionary force was trapped in the defense line, and every day, it was urgent to urge the supplies to be reported, which made Churchill’s suicide heart have everything from food to quilt to artillery weapons, from oil to accessories to supplementary soldiers. It seems that the British and French allied forces became poor overnight.
What makes Churchill not white is that the northern part of France swept away, and the German armored forces did not invest in the battle of encircling Dunkirk. However, the Germans were still unstoppable, and the French and British troops were rarely able to stop the German attack in all directions for even a few hours.
So Churchill organized the navy to carry out the "launching operation" to rush the British expeditionary force to retreat to British soil, but the plan was full of difficulties at first. First, the Minister of the Navy said that the sea was made near the English Channel, and then the British army announced its efforts to cover this operation. It seems that all efforts will be lost, and the British Empire can watch its troops become German prisoners.
Of course, if the navy is inferior but still has a fighting capacity, although the army is almost collapsed, it is far away, so Churchill can bear the pain of the army.
The performance gap between the hurricane fighter and the original fighter was made up by British engineers. It can be said that the present situation is a good stage, but it happened that the German strategic bomber attacked London at this time.
The original performance was very advanced, and many fatal problems were exposed in the process of intercepting the new German strategic bomber by hurricane fighters, which also made this interception a great failure. The king was furious and asked Churchill, the newly-appointed prime minister, about the defense problems near London, which made Churchill very faceless after just a few days.
However, this is not just that there is no problem. Britain’s actual defense preparation is indeed very backward. The situation of the shortage of major generals in the soil defense has made Churchill have a headache when he got the report
The first is the fact that the British soil defense forces are backward in equipment. It seems that most of the whole troops rely on listening devices and naked eye observation to warn the sky along the tactics and equipment during World War I.
Second, anti-aircraft guns are old and backward. Most of the anti-aircraft guns are equipped with backward weapons. The shooting speed is slow and the shooting height is limited. There is no way to deal with the new German strategic bomber. Of course, a small number of troops are equipped with Bofors anti-aircraft guns to make up for the lack of low defense, but high defense Britain is like a naked woman.
Obviously, it is unrealistic to replace a large number of anti-aircraft guns in a short time to strengthen their own defense level. Churchill also paid attention to the development of fighters that can attack and retreat and defend.
After all, the improvement of the fighter plane has been completed due to the needs of the war, but the firepower of this new hurricane fighter plane needs more improvement. So Churchill almost immediately ordered the enterprises and design departments to strengthen the firepower of the hurricane fighter plane from a 77 mm caliber machine gun to four 2 mm caliber machine guns.
Order 10,000 anti-aircraft guns to strengthen the defense forces in southern England, purchase two hurricane fighters to make up for the technical gap of the German army, and immediately develop a generation of fighters, which require performance beyond the existing fw19d fighters in Germany … Churchill reached a series of orders in one breath, and he felt that it was impossible to complete the order.
However, there are two problems that he needs to solve most urgently. These two problems can not be solved without delay. The first problem is that the defense capacity of the British capital is rising rapidly; The second problem is how to stabilize the production of high-fighter aircraft in raw material transportation lines.
He is worried that once German bombers appear on a large scale and threaten British industrial production areas, he will not have enough fighters in his hands to face these terrible "bomb dropping machines"
What is even more frightening is that if the British industrial zone and the big city London become targets at the same time, he will have to disperse his own hands to deal with the overwhelming German bomber forces at the same time, so that Britain will fall into a complete disadvantage and even Lian Haijun will be implicated.
If you enter this vicious circle, Britain will be completely finished. Transportation can’t meet the needs of industry to increase production, and industry can’t meet the losses of war. The losses of war make it more effective for the army to ensure the smooth transportation lines. If you really enter this cycle, it’s hard to say whether Britain will surrender and whether it can keep the country.
So today, at this moment, Churchill had to send a message to American President Roosevelt again, asking the United States to continue to assist Britain in war materials, including a p36 fighter, and also asking the United States for five destroyers and two cruisers.
Moreover, at the end of the newspaper, he noted that four p36 fighters and two destroyers should be rushed to Britain first-that is, Britain would carry out "launching operation" to let Britain withdraw 150 thousand troops to resist the possible cross-sea invasion by Germany.
However, Churchill was very disappointed by the reply from the United States. Roosevelt said that he could provide Britain with two p36 fighters and 12 destroyers, but his weapons and equipment could not be replenished until the United States expanded its production capacity. These commitments were far from being thirsty for Britain to face the situation alone.
Now he must fulfill his promise, because in his speech in London, he declared that Britain would inevitably respond to the German bombing. In his speech, he declared that every time Britain was hit by a bomb in Germany, it would return hundreds of bombs to Germany! However, it was not until the actual exercise that it was discovered that Britain could fly to Germany. The bomber in Berlin now returned the drawings.
However, the situation did not allow him to think more. He decided to follow the advice of several members of Congress and ministers to make the military take-off bombers attack the German strategic target William Port without proper fighter escort and respond to the German bombing of Berlin.