A puff of green smoke slowly rises, creating different shapes in the air, and below is a fat man sitting on a sofa thoughtfully, he is the current Prime Minister of the British Empire, the most famous fat man on the British Isle - Winston Churchill. Sitting next to him were the core figures of the British Empire's decision-making hierarchy after the start of the war, and today they focused on hearing a briefing from Major General Stuart Menzies, nicknamed "Big C" and now head of MI6.

"You mean, Hitler was going through the Great Purge?"

"That's right, judging by the facts that have been publicly announced by the German side and the intelligence we have gathered, this is an internal purge of an unusually large scale. According to incomplete statistics, there are currently 1 Imperial Field Marshal (Goering), 6 Field Marshals (Witzleben, Loeb, Kruger, Brauchitsch, Bock and Milch), 15 generals or generals (Beck, Hopner, Halder, etc.), as well as hundreds of officers and above the rank of major, and many civilian representatives, including former Minister of Economy Shacht, Leipzig Mayor Godler, Prussian Minister of Finance Johannes Bobbitz, Ambassador von Hassel, and State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Baron von Witzsäcker, etc. It is said that there are also some big names whose names have not yet been officially revealed, such as our old rival Canaris. Menzies appeared relaxed in front of these big men, and kept talking, "From what we have learned, there are quite a few organizations and personnel of anti-Nazi forces in Germany, and most of them are concentrated in key departments such as the army, finance, and foreign affairs. The vast majority of these anti-Hitler forces were gradually accumulated after the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, intertwined with all kinds of figures such as leftists and rightists, but no Communists have yet been found. It is not that the Communists did not oppose Hitler, but that they were fundamentally against the whole country. These small anti-Hitler groups had their own different demands and ideals, had completely different ideas and ideas for the future development of Germany, did not have a unified program and plan of action, and the only starting point and position guiding their actions was to oppose Hitler. This is particularly evident within the armed forces, where the opposition forces, most of which are members of the officer corps with veteran qualifications, have accumulated considerable contradictions in the course of Hitler's usurpation of military power, gross interference in military affairs, and dictation of operational plans. ”

"Hitler purged nearly a third of the marshals, one-sixth of the generals or generals, and hundreds of generals, what did he want to do in one go?" Clement Attlee, leader of the Labour Party, wartime deputy prime minister and minister of state affairs, asked in confusion, "Just for the sake of the 'treason' who don't know what's being called?" ”

"Some say it was a German-style purge ...... Or rather, another night of long knives. Menzies replied cautiously.

"In any case, this result shows that the split within the Hitler group has become clearer, especially since the attempted bombing at the Eagle's Nest base camp reinforced this persecution mentality, which is really good - we didn't do it, did we?"

"No, Mr. Prime Minister, although I would love to take the credit."

"You can try to do that, too." Churchill waved his hand nonchalantly, "Whether it succeeds or not, it is good to frighten the great dictator, if we can get him to launch a purge every time, our efforts to weaken the Nazi clique will have a multiplier effect, because after a few more times he will not be able to find a general who can fight for him, and the combat effectiveness of the army will decline rapidly - just like Stalin once did." ”

Churchill habitually took two puffs of his cigar and continued: "The most notable name among these is Goering! This is a figure who followed Hitler and was his personally appointed successor, whose role and status are not at all comparable to that of Röhm and his ilk. The fact that he has now been killed on such a ridiculous pretext as the 'head of the traitorous group' speaks volumes about the seriousness of the struggle within the Nazi clique, and I think that the top brass of this regime would be trembling if not everyone else was in danger......"

Menzies added to the Prime Minister's statement: "At present, the power of the Hitler clique is further concentrated, except for Hitler himself, Himmler, Speer, Goebbels, and Bauman almost all the power, especially Speer's status has risen rapidly, and after the launch of the general mobilization system, almost all economic power, known as the 'economic head'." Hitler himself was also commander-in-chief of the army and air force, and also controlled the main forces of the navy through Dönitz, and promoted the little-known Zeitzler to the post of chief of the army general staff. After the purge of this group of senior officers, he now has no control over the army and trust in the officer corps has been reduced to a minimum. ”

"This is the funniest joke I've ever heard, an army corporal can be the commander-in-chief of the army and air force at the same time." Churchill laughed, "I'd like to hear your thoughts, can we make some articles out of this?" ”

"Maybe add a Rommel to these names." Robert Anthony Eden, who is foreign minister and a key figure in the Conservative Party, reminded.

"Rommel?" Hearing this name, the Prime Minister of the British Empire could not help frowning, and for two years he had to see this name from the lost telegrams almost every quarter, and it became the last person he wanted to face, and he asked in surprise: "He was also against Hitler?" Why? Isn't he the Führer's favorite? ”

This is the case, one of the people arrested this time is an army colonel named Stauffenberg, he turned out to be Rommel's right-hand man in North Africa, and this time he returned home with Rommel not only to assist him in managing and training the German reserve army, but Rommel was also ready to promote him to the main person in charge of the reserve army, but he was found to be a conspirator, and he was not an ordinary peripheral person, and belonged to the core figure of the coup d'état in the Czechoslovak incident that year...... Rommel is said to have been hospitalized because of the incident, but it is unknown whether he really fell ill or was taken other measures. Menzies said regretfully, "The hospital is so tightly sealed that our people can't get in." ”

This sentence reminded everyone of the Munich incident directed by former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Churchill's face was very ugly, and he scolded indignantly: "This is the so-called evil consequence of bringing us peace for a whole generation, if he had been tougher at that time and cooperated with anti-Hitler people in Germany, how could there be this war?" ”

Most people did not echo Churchill's outrage, but felt that he was not kind enough - and I didn't see you desperately opposing it at that time.

What does this mean? This shows that the warmonger on the other side is going crazy again. Seeing that the venue was dull, Churchill couldn't help but stand up, "I have always been strange about Hitler's move to remove Rommel, thinking that he arranged for Rommel to return home for more important combat missions, especially after the change of the commander of the 6th Army on the Russian Stalingrad side, the commander of the reserve army is nothing more than a transitional position, but combined with this information, it can be completely reassured......

"Prime Minister, a telegram from the Eighth Army." As soon as Churchill sat down, the confidential secretary whispered a reminder from the side.

"Has Montgomery attacked the enemy?"

"Attacked."

"Won against Guderian?"

"No, there isn't."

"What, lost?" Churchill was completely unaware of this outcome, and stood up in astonishment, the cigar ash falling from his trousers.

"Not either." The attendant suddenly showed an indescribable expression, "The telegram is here, you better take a look at it for yourself." ”

Churchill took the telegram suspiciously, and when he looked at it closely, he was furious and threw the paper on the table in hatred. The telegram first told him that he had captured 40,000 men of three Italian divisions in one fell swoop, boasted that the captured Italian officers were as many as "a few acres", and then embarrassedly claimed that they had not been able to catch the main force of the German troops in the battle but had let them slip away, and finally implicitly stated that there had been some degree of losses in the battle, including more than 300 tanks, more than 250 aircraft, and a large amount of supplies and supplies, hoping to be replenished as soon as possible. Alexander and Montgomery stated that they would continue to pursue the enemy once reinforcements were in place.

Churchill's face quickly became gloomy, he was also a veteran politician who had been an admiralty, had been on the battlefield, and had the "experience" of the great defeat in the Dardanelles against the Turks in World War I. Thinking of the "one-size" losses, he immediately sensitively linked the two - which showed that the Germans had not only slipped away but also bitten the Eighth Army hard, and now Montgomery had blamed the Italians for all these losses, as if the latter were the source of their heavy losses. If the Italians were really able to fight like this, there would be three divisions of tens of thousands of prisoners? No kidding, he knew what the Italians were in the last war.

"Let you delay the fighter plane and lie about the military situation......" The fat man's temper was really strong, and everyone didn't know what was going on, so they could only look at each other.