Contrary to the enthusiastic desire of the Japanese to expand the scale of the war, Britain's interim prime minister, Duke Gott, is now preoccupied with how to withdraw from the war as soon as possible.

After coming to Northern Ireland, Gort did not begin to let up because of his brief safety.

On the contrary, he immediately inspected the armament and defense situation in Northern Ireland and gave instructions on each one. As a result, he found that the arming situation here was a mess!

Compared with the original English Channel defensive battle, today's Irish Sea defensive battle is simply not worth reassuring changes.

Since there was no intention of fighting in Northern Ireland, the military strength and material reserves here were a mess. With the transfer of large numbers of British troops from the island of Great Britain to the island of Ireland, the situation here became even more chaotic and cumbersome.

Gort walked out of his prime minister's office and prepared to take a break in Belfast, the new capital of the United Kingdom.

He walked through the hallway of the government office building, down the stairs one step at a time, and walked straight to the door.

I have to say that compared to the London Ministry of Defense building a few days ago, everything here is very different. There is no full-fledged office building after being bombed, orderly office staff. None of them had to worry about the air raid siren, which could be sounded at any moment, after all, the Germans had never bombed the island of Ireland so far.

Gort walked to the entrance of the first floor of the office building, where a group of neatly dressed guards stood guard with guns in hand.

"What a good military appearance, when I was in London, I hadn't seen a guard without ash on my uniform for a long time." Gort said to himself with a relaxed sigh.

"Prime Minister!" The soldiers on duty saw Duke Gott come out and saluted.

Needless to say, these soldiers should have been in Northern Ireland in the first place, and they probably had been under the jurisdiction of the branch on the Northern Irish side before.

Gort has many identities: duke, commander, prime minister. There is nothing to say about the identity of the duke, which has just been sealed by the royal family.

In the case of troops recruited from the island of Great Britain that Gott brought back from London, the officers and men would normally call Goth "Commander".

Only these garrison soldiers recruited on the island of Ireland would prefer the title of Gort as the titular prime minister.

"Thank you, I thank you for all you do for the UK." Gott looked at these Northern Irish soldiers, and suddenly had a feeling of emotion, if it weren't for the fact that Northern Ireland was still on the side, or if it wasn't for the fact that the withdrawn army and the garrison of Northern Ireland could be integrated into a powerful force, the British Empire would have been declared dead by now.

The Battle of London, at the last moment, was still abandoned by Gort. It's not that he doesn't want to fight, but it's hard to accept that half of London on the north shore of Thames is also in ruins.

The war was fought like this, and Churchill, who was most enthusiastic about the war, was already in a state of semi-madness. It is estimated that there are less than one percent of the people in Britain who still want to continue the war.

"I'll go for a walk, you don't have to follow." After saying goodbye to the group of soldiers on duty, Gort walked alone to the pick-up road in Belfast.

Unlike the London street scene 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, and they continued to try to maintain their normal lives.

Perhaps thanks to Allied aircraft, not once did they bomb the relatively strategically important island of Ireland. The people here can at least live like normal people as they are.

They are at war, but at least they have not been affected by the war. It's true that prices are ridiculously expensive, but at least everyone's friends and relatives are still alive, and they wake up every morning without thinking about which familiar person is gone.

And they don't have to spend their days in cramped, crowded bomb shelters, ugly, wet and dark, like the people of London. People here also have their own home, they have their own house where they usually live to sleep, they can settle down, and they can come every morning in their familiar bed.

"What a beautiful city...... "This place was originally just an ordinary city, so that Gort, who had just escaped from the war, was fascinated!

Last night, Gort looked at a map of Britain in his office all night. The Irish Sea, which separated them from their enemies, looked so short and so close on the map.

Compared with when he fought in London, on the island of Ireland now, Gort has reorganized the 270,000 troops that are mixed with the regular army and the National Guard, and also from the conscription army of the island of Great Britain and the island of Ireland, barely able to fight a round of defensive warfare.

In addition, they received 30 M2 light tanks that the Americans urgently delivered to the island of Ireland.

For the Americans, the M2 light tank, in their own army, has been formed out of combat sequence and is being used as a training tank. The reason why they chose to transport this tank to the British to resist Germany was that the Americans really could not afford the losses on the Atlantic transportation line.

Dönitz's submarine had sunk at least 300 U.S. transports carrying a total of 300 U.S. tanks. It is no exaggeration to say that the German submarine force brutally knocked out a British armored division built with the aid of the United States!

As a result, the Americans also began to calculate their gains and losses quite painfully. Anyway, they all sell tanks to the British, and the British will definitely choose to buy them if they don't refuse to come (anyway, you can advance it, which is equivalent to owing money to get the goods first).

Well, it is better to transport a good tank and then sink it by 90 percent, than to transport a whole bunch of defective products.

In other words, the Americans sent a batch of backward tanks that they themselves did not use to the British cannon fodder, and they would not feel distressed even if they lost them.

Although Americans don't feel distressed, Gort hurts!

The dead are all British, the people and soldiers of the British Empire, and they are all British blood and bones!

That's all but the cannon fodder is meaninglessly consumed here, and when the war is really won, it will only be the final victory of the Americans or the Germans. What was left to Britain was nothing more than a ruined ruin that had been burned by the war.

Such a victory is meaningless.

What's more, even if they continue to resist, they may not be able to wait for victory!

"The war should have ended a long time ago." Gort glanced at the city that had not yet fallen shells and was not stained red with blood, and after a long time, he sighed and said to himself: "This damn war should have ended a long time ago!" ”