With the complete surrender of the three major governments within the United Kingdom, that is, the three British governments, the Allied troops soon entered the major cities of England, Scotland, and Ireland, occupying the transportation hub of the United Kingdom.

In Africa, Montgomery's Commonwealth forces submitted surrender applications to the German, French, and Italian commands of Rommel, Belunte, and Garibaldi, respectively, and made official contact with all the armed forces along the Egyptian border.

After the Atlantic barrier was officially formed, Reinhardt's work was suddenly much busier.

For example, a lot of things that have not been able to be done before are now piling up all at once.

First of all, for this time and space, the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Japan, Italy, and other powers actually used sacks to transport scattered materials, and they were piled up in the cabin in a mess, and Reinhardt actually wanted to make a big change for a long time.

Coming from a naval background, his first thought was the use of containers, one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, to increase the capacity of sea transport and simplify the construction of transport ships.

It's a pity that before Britain completely surrendered, the invention of the container, because it was very easy to crack and imitate, was more conducive to the United States to send aid to Britain.

However, after the British surrendered, Reinhardt, who was eager to connect and improve the efficiency of shipping on the eastern side of the Atlantic, could finally come up with the "golden idea" of the container with confidence.

On the day after the United Kingdom of Great Britain announced its surrender, that is, on the day Montgomery surrendered in Africa, Reinhardt made a special trip to gather Speer, and used the engineering drawing skills that he had forgotten almost in his previous life to sketch the appearance of the container in his previous life on manuscript paper.

Then, Reinhardt also marked some details that need to be paid attention to, such as specifying the size of containers according to the width and length of cars and train cars, and using containers of different colors to formulate classification and use, etc.

The advantage of the container is that it can be transferred on the way without moving the goods in the box, and it can be directly reloaded. And the speed of loading and unloading is accelerated, and it can be directly and conveniently reloaded from one means of transport to another. In this way, the loading and emptying of the cargo is convenient.

In addition, the container has the advantages of large volume, many goods, unified specifications, stacked in the port and on the ship, saving a lot of space, and being used repeatedly for a long time, which is equivalent to allowing Germany to increase the transportation efficiency by more than 10% in vain without adding a transport ship!

Britain was originally a seafaring power, and Germany, which inherited the maritime heritage from Britain, has more than doubled the efficiency of shipping after getting the addition of container technology!

And the most direct benefit was that the huge amount of winter clothing that the German army needed on the Eastern Front was further solved.

In history, in the first winter of Germany in the Soviet Union, it was with 400,000 sets of fleece pants seized in France, plus its own emergency winter clothes to ensure that the people who withdrew still had combat effectiveness.

In this life, the German army still captured 400,000 sets of velvet pants in France, and later, after the signing of a peace treaty between the German and French governments, the French factory and some small factories under the German Rheinland consortium jointly undertook an order for 2 million sets of fleece pants.

But these 2.4 million sets of fleece pants are far from enough on the Eastern Front.

In addition to the German army, even Romania, Bulgaria, and some Allied troops sent by Italy and Spain had to be helped by Germany to buy winter clothes.

The troops sent by Norway and Finland are okay, their troops are not large, and they can also take care of the winter clothing of the troops.

Now, the Allies have seized a large number of fleece pants in Britain, and preliminary estimates have more than 500,000 sets.

With containers, these winter clothes can be quickly transported from the British Isles to the European continent, and then relied on the developed railway network of Germany and France to be transferred to the eastern front troops in a timely manner.

Of course, the Allies are not a single unilateral and crazy claim from Britain. In order to stabilize the law and order in the occupied areas, so that the production capacity of the occupied areas can be restored as soon as possible for the use of Germany, and at the same time, in order to promote the atmosphere of goodwill between Britain and Germany, Reinhardt also ordered the launch of food aid to Britain.

Previously, due to Dönitz's wolf pack tactics, the Anglo-American route sank to the bottom of the sea with a large number of transport ships every day, losing supplies in vain. The British government, which is unable to achieve self-sufficiency, has greatly reduced the proportion of food in the US aid list in order to import as many weapons and ammunition as possible.

As a result, most of the people in Britain have not eaten a full meal for a long time, and are in a state of hunger all day long, receiving the little relief food distributed by the government.

Anyway, the convoy had to go to England to bring back winter clothes and some sophisticated equipment, as well as better weapons and ammunition (for equipping some small countries in the Allied countries), so when the convoy went to the UK, it was not a waste of capacity to bring some canned luncheon meat by the way.

At the same time, it was not easy for Germany alone to feed the British refugees, so Reinhardt summoned his most loyal English puppet government, Prime Minister Moseley, and instructed him to promote a single-stern rowing trawl technique. This highly efficient fishing technique, which was supposed to have been created by the Danes eight years later, was developed by Reinhardt in advance to help Moseley solve his food problem.

When Moseley led the English government to promote single-stern trawling, the British Isles would not continue to suffer from famine, but would be able to supply Germany with a very large amount of canned fish.

Since Germany has long developed the northern oil fields, and the Romanian oil fields have also been trying to supply, the German army is not short of gasoline supplies on the Eastern Front for the time being. In addition, the British navy had already failed, and the German warships of the "big oil users" had been able to save some oil, so Reinhardt was not in a hurry to transport the oil reserves seized from the British back to Germany for a while.

In addition, the huge scale of buses in Germany has also been replaced by charcoal cars under the control of the government. Although the speed is a little slower, it saves a lot of fuel. As a result, Germany's oil reserves have become somewhat abundant.

When France's Algerian oil fields feed back to the European continent, Germany will have a larger import channel.

In this way, Britain's oil reserves, which remain in Britain as an Atlantic barrier, are turned to oil reserves, and the merit of the Imperial High Seas Fleet is actually more appropriate.

As for the rest, there is one of the most representative emergency combat rations, chocolate. As far as the statistical arrangement of the German logistics department is concerned, the calories of chocolate are sufficient, but the quantity cannot meet the demand at all, and German cocoa still has to be imported.

Therefore, the Western Front conquered Britain, in fact, the greatest benefit to the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Front was that their chocolate rations could be guaranteed.