"Look at this telegram...... "General Alexander, who had just become the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, received a report of defeat in the North Sea from the Admiralty in the third hour after he officially took office—the Royal Navy's home fleet suffered heavy losses and was unable to cover "Operation Dynamo", so he was forced to shrink the remnants of the North Sea warships and retreat to the port.

Receiving such news, Alexander even had the heart to find a pillar and crash it headlong to death.

His predecessor, Lord Gott, after leaving such a mess, actually swaggered back to the country to be suspended for trial?

After losing the battle, he could still return home first, but he didn't make a mistake, but he had to stay in the ghost place of Dunkirk and live and die with the position.

Coexist with your sister! What kind of bullshit logic is this?

The meaning of the Admiralty is already obvious, there is no ship, it can't cover you, and if you want to return home, you will find a way yourself.

However, without the cover of warships, the remaining 180,000 people still want to withdraw to the country on a transport fleet, isn't that nonsense? The Germans only needed to send a small destroyer fleet to annihilate all the transport formations without any warship cover.

With such a huge transport fleet, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to escape the detection of German maritime reconnaissance planes. But if you can't avoid the detection of the Germans, wouldn't letting the convoy set sail be tantamount to sending the people on board to death?!

At this time, whoever stays in Dunkirk is the one who is wronged. Goth was lucky to go first. But Alexander was tragic, he had no chance to leave!

"General! German paratroopers were spotted in the east, attacking the blocking positions we had set up from behind, and were now successful. The chief of staff of the command, who followed Alexander when he was the commander of the First Army, could not help but remind: "At this time, the German armored forces have no obstacles and can rush to our headquarters at any time." ”

No one can understand Alexander's pain now, except himself.

What is this called? Is there such a trick!

"Let the troops waiting to board and evacuate the beachhead not wait in vain," after thinking for a long time, Alexander only came up with such a way that was not the solution: "Tell them that the transport fleet will not come to pick us up because of the loss of support from the sea." All troops can now only return to their combat posts and prepare for defensive operations. ”

Let the group of cleanly routed soldiers who are in a hurry to return home, have no will to fight, and even their equipment has been discarded, return to their positions to fight the elite German paratroopers? Alexander's instructions were clearly unrealistic even to his staff.

"General, let these troops come back to fight....... I'm afraid it's going to be very difficult. A combat staff officer, who was younger than most of the people in the makeshift command room, took two steps forward, walked up to Alexander, and stammered his report.

"Yes, those troops piled up on the beachhead are not only chaotic now, but it is difficult to find the corresponding officers to mobilize them." Alexander's adjutant couldn't help but remind himself of this old fellow at this time: "Besides, many of them, in order to reduce the weight of the ship, have already discarded their weapons and equipment everywhere, and even if we really mobilize them at this moment, this is a group of soldiers who have no weapons to use, and they can't stop the German attack." ”

In Alexander's current command post, there are few people who can find out their own strengths, and there are many people who can find out their own weaknesses and shortcomings. The battle has been fought like this, and to tell the truth, it is all about shortcomings, who can blame it?

Most of the officers in the command post were transferred by Alexander from his military headquarters when he was in the First Army of the Expeditionary Force. For his subordinates, Alexander can be said to know very well, even when the entire army of the ally Belgium surrendered, one or two of his subordinates were still extremely optimistic.

But today, things have really developed to the point where there is no hope. There were no reinforcements on land, and the retreat plan at sea was forced to be suspended, and the current British expeditionary force in France was already a veritable lone army.

Waiting for their end, it can only be destruction!

Alexander's heart at this second, just like his name, is really "stressful". The troops he commanded were indeed elite troops, but that was a month ago!

The current expeditionary force is a defeated army, whose morale has collapsed, and the commander has changed on the spot, where is there still a little bit of elite?!

A staff officer who also wanted to report bad news stepped forward, and also wanted to point out what was wrong with the commander's idea of mobilizing the beachhead troops like his previous colleagues, but before he could speak, Alexander, who discovered his thoughts, grabbed the collar of the staff officer's military uniform, stared at him and shouted loudly: "What else do you want to say!" Is it so interesting to find my mistakes! As far as you know, it's a group of routs, and my dignified lieutenant general doesn't know?! ”

Exhaling two heavy breaths of turbidity, Alexander gritted his teeth and said sullenly: "You say, out of the more than 100,000 troops on the beachhead, what other troops can I mobilize?" Do you transfer all the officers of my command to the front line to fight the blockade?! ”

In a hurry, General Alexander, who was medium-to-chubby, amiable and polite on weekdays, and revered by countless officers, couldn't help but roar like a lion at this moment.

He is not an idiot, how could he not know the simple and understandable truth that those staff officers can see. However, his duties forced him to fight by all means to deal with the Germans, who had already gained the upper hand.

That's right, the more than 100,000 troops on the beachhead have become the "five scum of war." But as the supreme commander of the British Empire Expeditionary Force, even if he knew that the rest of his men were all war scum, Alexander had to send them to block the German army. Otherwise, once the position is lost, he will not be able to explain to the country.

"It's all to blame on those idiots in the Admiralty, who were beaten up by the newly formed German Navy not long ago, and their training on weekdays is all at home?! The construction of a large number of warships for them is simply a serious waste of defense funds! In the midst of the exposure, Alexander, like his predecessor, Lord Gott, vented his bad feelings by accusing the Navy of insults.

It's a pity that blaming the Navy can't change the status quo after all. Alexander's indiscriminate scolding did not arouse the morale of his subordinates, nor did he give a feasible plan.

"Commander, we can't go on like this!" A colonel's staff officer, who originally worked under Gort and now followed Alexander, the new commander, suddenly stood up nervously at this moment: "Since the way back to the north has been cut off, then you should command the whole army to immediately break through to the south and get in touch with the French troops in the south with the French First Army!" ”