England, the announcer of Radio London looked at the manuscript in his hand, his voice trembled a little, and asked, "Sir...... This...... Is this also going to be broadcast? ”

The manuscript he was holding in his hand had something remarkable written on it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info So he just looked at it and felt like he was going to cry.

Although the German occupation zone across the coast began to hype about sinking the Royal Navy's Pride Hood yesterday, he did not believe it.

Not only him, but many British people listened to the German radio as a joke, and they thought that their country's naval warships were invincible.

But at this moment, he got a press release, which turned out to be exactly the same as the content of the German radio.

"Did the Germans really sink the Hood?" The radio announcer asked his boss in a depressed voice.

His boss was also helpless, nodded and said, "The official has confirmed that this kind of thing can't be hidden." The Germans have been propagandizing for a day, and we can't come up with anything too good. ”

Yesterday, the entire naval command was busy, and everyone was thinking about how to hide such a painful defeat.

It was said that the Germans were lying when the photographs of the battleship Hood were published in the newspapers to prove that the battleship was not sunk.

Some people also believe that it is safer to keep silent about this matter and let time dilute everything than to lie and deceive the masses. Even if it is exposed, it will not be angered by the masses.

Anyway, the Hood itself is a battleship serving in the H Fleet, and it is not unusual for no one to see it on the mainland.

Unfortunately, the Hood really sank, and it sank in the icy North Atlantic with hundreds of officers and men.

Including the Commander of the Search Fleet Fleet, John? Three generals, including Tovey, were killed, and more than 30 officers of the rank of lieutenant were killed in battle.

Coupled with the hundreds of ordinary soldiers who sank with the battleship, they can't hide it without notifying their families, right? If this is concealed, it may really cause trouble.

And...... It wasn't the Hood that sank, but the Prestige and Nelson, and thousands of soldiers were killed.

Especially the Prestige, in the entire battleship, there were 1,273 people on board, and none of them survived. In addition to the sudden explosion and sinking of the battleship, the icy sea water was also an accomplice.

At dawn, it was raining heavily, and the waves on the sea were huge, which affected the search and rescue and search work. In the end, only a few dozen bodies were recovered, and no survivors were found.

By the time the British rescue ships arrived at the area where the Prestige had sunk, they had not found a few bodies floating at sea.

Even if the corpses were alive when the Prestige sank, they were already dead after an hour of hypothermia.

If you add to this the loss of the aircraft carrier Eagle, and the loss of the Nelson, the loss of more than 2000 people, how can it be concealed?

Therefore, in desperation, the Navy Command simply became single. Without any cover-up, they directly announced the defeat in the naval battle.

Another reason for this is to make things bigger, so that the prime minister and other departments can also share the anger of some of the masses.

"Let's just broadcast it like this, after all, this is the truth, and the superiors didn't mean to let us hide it, so we can only operate it truthfully." After the boss said this, he walked out of the broadcast studio with his head down.

Soon, the radio station began to broadcast the news that shocked all the British: "The battlecruiser Hood was sunk by the enemy in the battle the day before yesterday, losing 510 crew members. ”

"The battle cruiser Prestige was sunk by the enemy in the battle the day before yesterday, losing 1273 personnel. The Nelson was sunk by a German submarine with a loss of 203 crew members. ”

"The aircraft carrier USS Eagle was sunk by an enemy submarine with a loss of 114 people. John? Admiral Tovey killed in action......"

"O my God! How is this possible? We lost a fleet? Standing next to the radio, an Army soldier exclaimed in disbelief.

Beside him, an army second lieutenant also had the same expression of disbelief: "Is the person who is broadcasting crazy?" The Germans sank so many of our battleships in one day? ”

"How powerful is the German fleet?" A young British infantryman leaned against the head of the bed and asked the veteran not far away.

The veteran shook his head and replied, "I don't know, but this broadcast must be true." ”

This is the barracks behind one of the British Army's coastal defensive positions, where the soldiers are resting after a drill.

After the loss of the Dunkirk retreat, and tens of thousands of people were transferred for reinforcements in the Mediterranean, the remaining veterans have become the backbone of the coastal defense force.

It's just that these backbones are demoralized and lack heavy weapons. They even have American-made tanks, and most of the soldiers only have rifles in their hands.

"Sir!" A soldier walked to the door of the barracks, looked at the second lieutenant sitting in the corner, stood up and saluted, and then opened his mouth to announce: "The battalion commander has called you to a meeting!" ”

As he got up, the lieutenant patted the dust off his body, then glanced at the radio, which was still announcing the loss with sad emphasis, and walked out of the doorway.

When he reached the battalion headquarters, he saw the ensigns and lieutenants coming from all over the place. The officers greeted each other and then shared precious cigarettes.

With a gloomy expression on his face as he walked into the conference room, the battalion commander threw the papers in his hand on the table and looked at his men.

"Gentlemen, the intelligence services anticipate that the German Army may land within the next 72 hours, so the order says that the leave will be canceled and the entire coastal defense level will be raised." When the battalion commander opened his mouth to say this, the low voice of discussion became noisy.

Raising the alert level and canceling vacations can be very bad for morale. Everyone already knows the news of the defeat of the navy, so this time it is possible that they will really have to face the attack of the German army.

So everyone was nervous, not knowing if the battle would actually happen next. No one wanted to fight on land with German soldiers, and even in 1944, the Allies were reluctant to face the German Army.

Knowing how passive Montgomery was during Operation City Garden, you can understand how weak the British Army was against the German troops at this moment.

"Get your soldiers into the front-line defensive positions, and each company has to sort out their ammunition and come to the battalion headquarters to get additional supplies." The battalion commander began to write on the blackboard what needed to be confirmed.

This included an additional base of ammunition, as well as spare Bren light machine guns, as well as household items that had been distributed.

"Sir! If we need to be stationed on the position, we must be provided with food for at least two or three days, right? A company commander raised his arm and asked.

Now, the food in the barracks is distributed on time every day, and there is simply no way to save it. In such a state, as a grassroots soldier, of course, they are very anxious.

Another officer also raised his hand and asked his own question: "If the Germans threw tanks at the landing site, we lacked enough anti-tank weapons, how to cope?" ”

The question he asked made everyone even more confused, the entire infantry battalion had only one mortar, and this mortar did not yet have enough ammunition.

Anti-tank weapons were even more lacking, and the most powerful in their hands were the heavy machine guns hidden in the beach bunkers and the light machine guns arranged in the trenches on both sides.

If the tanks of the Germans appeared on the beach, their defensive positions would be as weak as a blank sheet of paper. Not to mention repelling the enemy's attack, even whether it can hold out for an hour is a question.

There is not enough to eat, there is not enough ammunition, there is no heavy armament...... Problems of one kind or another plagued the British Coastal Guards, and made every commander feel haggard.

"The mobilization order has been given, and then each infantry company will be reinforced with 20 reinforcements, all of whom are equipped with rifles, which is the biggest reinforcement for us." The battalion commander reluctantly opened his mouth and said the countermeasures of the people above.

Only light infantry could be provided, the food problem could not be solved, and more ammunition could not be provided, and everyone still had no hope of victory in the possible outbreak of the German landing operation.

In fact, the situation in the barracks is already good, because they at least have a reserve of food to supply regularly.

In the north of England, there is already a serious crisis due to lack of food. The total annihilation of the TC transport fleet was only the beginning of the collapse of the British transport system.

With the heavy losses of the CK-1 fleet, the shortage of various supplies in the British mainland began to become apparent. Looting and vicious hoarding began to occur in various localities, including grain.

The already scarce supplies were frantically purchased by the irrational civilians, and the purchase restrictions became a dead letter, and the shortage of materials became even more irreconcilable.

If it weren't for the arrival of the CK-1 fleet at the seaport, which brought supplies to more or less alleviate some of the pressure, the British logistics cycle would have collapsed.

But now, although it is barely maintaining the phenomenon of collapse, the material management department is not doing well.

The shortage of supplies is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing, which happens in the dispatch department of the organization of the transport fleet.

Because these British officials found that the number of ships they could dispatch was drastically decreasing, and the rate of construction and replenishment of ships was already far outpacing.

In other words, the number of active ships in service that Britain has is shrinking, and British blood is drying up. And these lost merchant ships cannot be added to the next round of transportation plans.

In other words, the next round of transportation and replenishment will only be less than the current transportation of supplies, which is the real fatal key......