Churchill's last words, although decadent, were tantamount to giving Goth a chance, a chance to lead the implementation of the relocation of the capital!

This should not have been something that he should have considered as an army commander, but how to hold off the frenzied attack of the Allied army in London and keep the capital of the British Empire.

But Gott was already well aware that he could not complete the task of defending the capital, and unless the capital was replaced, the capital of the British Empire had no hope of being preserved.

With the loss of the English Channel, Britain had lost the capital to counter the Allied armies. Whether it is the German Army or the French Army, the combat effectiveness is recognized as strong, far exceeding the level of the British Army.

Now the choice before Lord Gott, and the whole British Empire, is that the government moves its capital to Northern Ireland, and uses the Irish Sea and the Charles de Gaulle French army on the Isle of Man, with a slight chance of success.

If you have to fight a road duel with the armies of Germany, France and Norway in London, even if you rely on street fighting to drag the enemy, it will only delay the fall of the capital of the British Empire, and there will be no change in essence.

This is not alarmist, but a well-established fact at the top of the UK as a whole.

The most direct proof of this is that after Gort walked out of Churchill's office and announced on his behalf that he was ready to move the capital to Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, the vast majority of British politicians were quite willing to deal with coordination.

Obviously, these British officials also knew that London could not be defended, and even if they had the Thames to rely on, the British army would not be able to resist the German and French armies on land.

Therefore, after hearing Lord Gott's talk about the relocation of the capital, the officials simply burst into tears and laughed, and one by one they jumped out excitedly and were ready to help.

Gott's proposal to move the capital was only from a military point of view. Without the coordination and operation of government officials, the relocation of the capital would not have been possible.

Just transporting a unit under Gort's command from London to Belfast is not called moving the capital, this is called withdrawing troops.

The significance of moving the capital is not as simple as transferring one or several troops. For the relocation of the capital, the most important thing is to relocate the government institutions of the capital to ensure the transfer of the center of the country. As for taking a couple of armies from the capital, on the contrary, it was an additional task carried out by the way.

Transferring the army to this, Gott has the ability to do it himself. But to take away government agencies and related officials, it takes professional politicians to do it.

Fortunately, those politicians are very cooperative.

Perhaps because these Churchill officials did not want to fall into the hands of the Germans, they all took the initiative to support Lord Gott's idea of moving the capital.

After all, when Churchill was in power, these people were able to sit in official positions, and after the Allies occupied the capital of LinkedIn, the German head Reinhardt estimated that he should support Moseley, the leader of the British fascist alliance, in his hands.

It is no secret that the German special forces went deep into London and the legendary robbery of Moseley, which is no secret among the British high-brass.

Although Churchill immediately issued instructions to block the news, the news was not sealed up among the British high-level, but became more and more bizarre.

Some officials even believe that the whole of London is full of "fifth columns", and it is the fifth column that robbed Moseley.

The term "fifth column" originated in the Spanish Civil War.

At that time, Franco's Spanish National Army troops and Rommel's German Expeditionary Force simultaneously launched an attack on Madrid, which was under the control of the Republican Army.

At that time, a British journalist asked Franco what he thought would be the first force to capture Madrid.

In the face of this tricky question, it is actually not easy to answer. It stands to reason that the capital of Spain should be the first to be recaptured by the Spanish troops under Franco. But judging from the situation, the most likely to enter Madrid first at that time was clearly the Seventh Panzer Division under the command of Rommel.

In the end, Franco's mechanism resolved this dilemma, without going against the facts and without losing face for the Spaniards.

He replied to the British journalist: "The first to capture Madrid was the fifth column. ”

It is known that Franco had only four columns of troops at that time. And this so-called fifth column refers to the traitors and traitors of the Republican Army who support Franco inside Madrid, the capital of Spain.

So, after the British journalist brought this phrase back home, the British began to use the fifth column as a synonym for the enemy's inner line.

Moseley's swaggering rhythm from London by the Germans once again evoked the British memories of the fifth column.

Many Britons believe that London, the capital of the United Kingdom, is like Madrid, the capital of Spain, and is full of insiders and spies who have been ambushed by the enemy.

And some British politicians even talk about this issue, claiming that if the capital is moved to Belfast, where there are fewer internal moles, maybe the situation will be much better.

Those politicians claimed that London had long been targeted by the Germans and that there were many insiders in ambush. But Belfast, the administrative center of Northern Ireland, is different, it is relatively marginal, not easy to be taken seriously by the Germans, and it will not be ambushed by the Germans in advance.

Of course, the voices and reasons for moving the capital to Belfast are far more than that.

Many politicians believe that Belfast, as the political and cultural center of Northern Ireland and the largest industrial city, has a rich heritage and a very high level of industry, and can completely replace London's position.

On the one hand, Belfast has the largest number of airports in the whole of Northern Ireland, which can accommodate most of the aircraft evacuated from the island of Great Britain, and the fighter units can be stationed nearby, and can better surround the new capital.

Belfast has the southwest side of Belfast Bay, the largest seaport in Northern Ireland. With proper transport arrangements, it is possible to centralize the personnel and important equipment of London's major institutions to the Port of Belfast in a very short period of time, and then quickly move to Belfast.

The new capital's excellent environment, coupled with its renewed possession of the Irish Sea, provided the island with another natural defensive position. This has met the dual needs of political officials and the military, and it is simply the best choice to move the capital.

After the capital is moved, the British capital will be back in operation away from the front line. And the security and defense pressure of the new capital will also be instantly superior because of the barrier of the Irish Sea.

Thus, when the Allied forces had just captured Harmsworth Park and Lambeth Hospital in south London, and had not yet advanced to the River Thames, the British government, located on the north bank of the Thames, had already begun the work of moving the capital.