Four Hundred and Thirty Four Carve Up

The weather in the UK cannot be sunny all the time, and naturally it cannot be cloudy all the time. After several days of howling winds and winds, the sun appeared in the sky again, and the weather in the British Isles finally turned from cloudy to sunny. △￠

The terrifyingly huge group of German butcher strategic bombers arrived as scheduled, appeared over the UK, and dropped thousands of tons of bombs in various areas. Numerous Stuka bombers and Stuka-type bombers repeatedly assaulted the positions of the British defenders, easily blowing up the positions of the British defenders into a sea of ​​flames.

The haze and strong wind called "Churchill weather" by German soldiers disappeared, so the German aircraft carrier fleet once again showed off its power, and the landing site was once again unimpeded.

With ammunition replenished, the Friedrich rockets roared again, and the British soldiers finally realized an old Chinese proverb: Feng Shui turns in turn. Their artillery was destroyed by Stukas, their positions were torn apart by German Panzergrenadiers, and their lives were crushed into mud by German tank tracks.

Montgomery's troops suffered continuous setbacks along the entire front. The German troops had re-encircled Bungie, and a large number of German troops appeared in the Lowestoft area. Obviously, the German Army Group A at this time was not only using some kind of conspiracy, they were just It is necessary to use the most powerful sea and air advantages to capture this important port city from the hands of the British defenders.

In fact, Lowestoft is not a large port city, but it is obvious that Lowestoft can be regarded as a very huge port for small port cities such as Bakton and Wells in the hands of the German army.

The important thing is that Lowestoft is closer to the Netherlands and Belgium, and the transportation line of the German army will be greatly shortened. In this way, the German army that landed in the UK will be replenished more quickly, and the life of the British defenders will be even more difficult. difficult.

The British commanders seem to be unable to think of a more difficult situation: Germany has already controlled the 4 military airports in the landing area, and more than 400 fighter jets of the Luftwaffe have been deployed to the UK, and the support of the Luftwaffe is more timely. It is also more accurate, and the frequency of bombing the UK is more intensive.

230,000 German troops have landed on the British mainland, and the British can now use about 300,000 local troops-you must know that most of the elite British troops that can fight have entered the prisoner-of-war camp in Dunkirk, and the troops who fled back to the mainland Including the original reserve team, the number of people who can fight is only about 100,000. After so many days of hard fighting, the remaining number of this 100,000 British army is only about 50,000.

Most of the remaining 250,000 so-called British soldiers have not even been on the battlefield for a day. They shot 5 shots at the target in the rear, and then lined up to the front line as "recruits" for training. Even if the peasants with guns are still alive, Montgomery can't even imagine the result of these improvised troops colliding with German armored troops in the field.

In fact, the situation that Montgomery least wanted to see had already happened on the British front. Almost even the division commander of the new 24th Division of the British Army was appointed temporarily, and the entire unit was almost all recruits.

This force encountered the German 5th Light Armored Division on the front of Thetford. The battle lasted only 45 minutes, and the British army killed 2,100 soldiers and 3,800 were captured. As a result, the entire defense line collapsed, and Thetford became a front-line city exposed to the German army.

It is difficult to evaluate the combat effectiveness of this kind of temporary supplementary troops. Sometimes these troops will be quite tenacious. Although their combat capabilities cannot keep up with the main force, they can be described as makeshift; The festival parade was almost the same, which made the frontline commanders helpless.

What Montgomery can do is to dismantle some new recruits as much as possible within the scope of his authority, fill these troops into the existing combat troops, and try to keep every combat force in his hands at the same combat level as possible.

This really can't be blamed for the confusion and ignorance in the replenishment of British troops, but the group of officials and gentlemen in the rear were a little confused by the urging and persecution of the king and the prime minister. His Majesty the King and the Prime Minister will not listen to what you say, how many supplementary soldiers have been filled into the existing combat troops, they only care about the size of the British troops.

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

In the Prime Minister's Combat Intelligence Command, there are already 71 divisions of combat troops on the map of the United Kingdom-it stands to reason that the total strength of the United Kingdom should be at least 900,000 now, but the actual situation is that the British troops have been able to maintain only Floating around 300,000.

The reason is that in the supplementary report on recruits provided to Prime Minister Churchill, the United Kingdom has newly formed 31 new divisions of combat troops. It became 4,500 people, and was later compressed to 3,000 people. Even later, the British Independent 69th Division had only 1,500 people, which was about the same size as a regiment. to the front.

From this, one can imagine how the combat effectiveness of the British frontline combat troops has declined, and one can also imagine how important the more than 30,000 British elites in Montgomery's hands are now.

But with the arrival of February 23, all this has changed. After arduous street fighting, the German army finally captured Lowestoft, the first large port city. The 20,000 British defenders in Great Yarmouth finally surrendered without a fight. The Bungie defenders also announced their abandonment of resistance a few hours later. Just a few days after Prime Minister Winston Churchill's famous speech "From Bungie to Great Yarmouth", the inspiring Bungie victory and the recovery of Great Yarmouth became a resounding slap in the face of British politicians.

The distraught King of England replaced Montgomery as the commander-in-chief of the front line, and ordered Lord Gort to take command again to lead the British front-line troops, immediately counterattack the German army, and regain all the British territory.

As a result, the British counterattack was forced to switch to defense after only 2 hours of counterattack. The elite British troops collapsed in front of the ensuing German attack. On February 24th, they lost the central defensive city of Thetford in a row. Germany, Yili, a transportation hub. On February 25, Newmarket was captured by the German army, and the German frontline troops were approaching Cambridge, an important city in the north of London.

On February 26, the troops of the German Army Group A captured Aldeburgh, and then the British counterattack at Bury St. Edmunds was foiled by the German 2nd Armored Division. On February 27, Bury St. Edmunds and The German swastika flag was planted on the head of Stowmarket. Subsequently, the British defenders in Ipswich City surrendered, but the street fighting did not officially end until March 1. The German offensive force was attacked by British civilians for the first time, and Ipswich was subsequently massacred by the German army in retaliation. Casualties as many as 7000 people.

Felixstowe was then occupied by the Germans, and the British port city of Harwich was blocked by the Felixstowe coastal defense artillery under the control of the Germans due to the distance. Sudbury then surrendered to the German armored forces. The defense line was stabilized near the river in the south of Bury, and a fairly stable defense line system was established by relying on embankments.

The German army established a solid line of defense along the Ouse River in the western defensive zone, and confronted the British army across the river in the southern area-in the middle of the two river defense lines was the famous British city of Cambridge. Everyone knows that as long as the German army captures Cambridge, they will be able to reach Harlow, the northern gateway to London, England, along the iron road, and then London will completely become the possession of the German Army Group A.

Losing troops on the front line one after another, losing cities and land, the King of England and Churchill were even more dissatisfied with Gott than Montgomery, but at this moment Montgomery was already on the boat to Canada, and it was too late to recall him.

So Willis, a little-known British veteran, stepped in and took over the front-line command of the British defenders. As soon as the veteran took office, he clarified his combat thinking, which is to stick to it until the end of the world. He gave up all counterattack plans and ordered the British defenders to start deploying defenses on the spot and set about establishing a solid defense system.

But at such a critical juncture, a negotiator found the struggling British Prime Minister Churchill, and submitted a so-called "sovereignty claim" that made Churchill want to overthrow the table, hoping that Britain could give up the area controlled by Northern Ireland and understand Ireland's independence appeal.

This is tantamount to adding insult to injury. Although Ireland's national strength was not at all appreciated in the UK, and the island of Ireland was also regarded as half of its own back garden by the UK, but now that the British tiger has fallen into the Longyou Shoal in Pingyang, this is stabbed in the back The knife is a bit of a deadly meaning in it. It was only at this time that the British government really realized that its side was far from being monolithic, and only then did the German government's real killer move come to light.

Acador knew that completely occupying Britain would be outweighed and costly, but it would be much more comfortable to carve up Britain with some friendly forces. Another ally that Germany has found is Ireland, which has been unwilling to be lonely behind the United Kingdom. Akado promised that Ireland would give up the Scottish mountains as a buffer zone to establish a new "Britain", and this regime, like the Vichy French government, would join the German-led Iron Axis Alliance and become another German puppet regime.