146 This is your Hood
"This campaign has cost us all the soldiers of the expeditionary force, thousands of artillery pieces, and the ports on both sides of the Strait have fallen into the hands of the Germans, and it is already obvious that Germany will launch a new offensive against our country and France. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
"The war between Belgium and France has become a regret for the ages, the strength of the French army has been weakened, the Belgian army has been completely annihilated, and our strength is still relatively strong in comparison. Now it is time to test the strength of the British and German naval and air forces, and there are many people who believe that our navy and air force have not played their due strength, and I firmly deny this! ”
"The English Channel is completely blocked by German mines, a large number of fleets of the Royal Navy are inaccessible, and our air force has long been out of sorties, you know, we have dispatched all our aircraft, we have dispatched all our pilots, they are outnumbered, but definitely not this time!"
"In the coming period, we may suffer even more serious losses, and most of the defensive lines that once convinced us have been breached, and many valuable mines have been occupied by the enemy. From now on, we must be fully prepared to endure even more serious difficulties. For defensive wars, it must not be considered a foregone conclusion! We must rebuild the Expeditionary Force, we must rebuild the Expeditionary Force, we must strengthen the national defense, we must reduce the defense forces at home and increase the striking force overseas. In this great war, France and Britain will unite and will never give in, never surrender! ”
It is undeniable that Churchill's speech was exciting, and he himself firmly believed that his speech would restore the confidence of the people, and when the speech ended, he was waiting for the people to cheer, he was waiting for the people to shout the slogan of never giving in!
It's just that at the moment when his speech ended, there was a sudden unexpected commotion in the crowd, and the eyes of most of the people at the scene were looking behind Churchill and at the English Channel, which was close at hand!
Turning around to look at the eyes of the people, the shadow of a large barge appeared on the sea level, and the reason why it was judged to be a barge was entirely because the ship did not have a large superstructure, and it looked like an ordinary flat-topped ship.
After the afternoon of the 15th, there was no longer a shadow of British ships in the English Channel, the Luftwaffe occupied the entire strait, and the British Air Force could not leave the British mainland with anti-aircraft gun support.
But at this time, a barge, a lone barge, floated from across the strait, this is absolutely impossible to be the fleet of the Germans, if not the fleet of the Germans, then there is only one possibility, this is most likely a ship returning from Dunkirk, but I don't know for what reason they have been completely occupied by the Germans in Dunkirk for a day. It was only after the night that we returned to Dover.
Churchill took the telescope handed by his assistant, and because of the distance, he could not see what was on the ship, but he seemed to see several people standing at the bow of the ship waving in his direction, as if he was having some difficulty.
Churchill seemed to sense that something was unspeakably wrong, but he quickly put this doubt behind him, because at this time there was such a ship that most likely escaped from Dunkirk!
"God help me!"
As a near-perfect politician, Churchill knew that this was an opportunity given to him by God, and as soon as he had just finished such an important speech, a ship was ushered in from Dunkirk, and there should be soldiers of the expeditionary force who had escaped back on board, although for unknown reasons, it seemed that the ship had lost power, but this was not a good opportunity to make a big fuss?
"Send someone to get that ship back! Fellow citizens, God is watching over us, let us go to the port to meet the returning soldiers! Let's go and greet our heroes, let's kindle the fury of revenge, let's pay tribute to the departed heroes, and with our hands send the Germans across the Channel to hell! ”
Following Churchill's orders, one of the last remaining tugboats in the port of Dover quickly unmoored and anchored to the 'barge carrying the soldiers of the expeditionary force', which had lost power and was drifting at sea, while the people followed Churchill closely to the dilapidated docks.
I don't know if it was really favored by God, but when the British were about to go to the rescue of the barge, the German bombers disappeared!
The tugboat quickly approached the barge and quickly threw the cable to the bow of the barge, and the people on the barge quickly took the cable to hold the two boats together, and then the tugboat pulled the boat to the dock.
When the people on the tugboat approached the ship, their hearts were full of doubts.
There were several large holes in the hull, and the ship was obviously under heavy attack, but the draft of this ship was a little too shallow, and there was only one possibility, and that was that the interior of the ship was basically empty, and why was it a ship with a pointed head?
The bow of the barge should not be so sharp, this should be a ship specially designed for the deep sea, it is impossible for a barge to have this kind of design, and the accents of those people on this ship are indescribably strange.
But apparently the joy of someone coming back alive quickly diluted this doubt, after all, when the generator plan was made, but whatever ship was requisitioned on the coast of England, maybe the ship belonged to another country?
The tow boat was headed to the dock, and everyone was watching from afar, while the people on the tug were looking ahead, not noticing that the crew members of the boat behind them had already gone around the stern and jumped into the water and disappeared.
The tugboat approached the dock with that barge, and the people were already crazy, but at this time some professionals standing on the dock couldn't help it!
This is simply a warship! It's a warship belonging to the Royal Navy!
It's just that this warship doesn't know what it has gone through, it seems that it has been completely destroyed, and I'm afraid the interior has long been empty!
By the time the ship approached the dock infinitely, and the tugboat was ready to untie the cable and turn to jack to assist in docking, the unusually dead silence of the ship finally made Churchill realize that something might be wrong!
He wanted to give the order to block the people, to block the ship, he couldn't let the people see the truth about the ship, but it was too late, and the crazy people had already rushed forward, risking their lives to stand on the edge of the dock and wait.
When the tugboat received no response, it cut the cable on its own and began to push the ship sideways, allowing the ship to quickly dock.
At the moment when the ship finally landed, the people began to climb towards the ship with everything they could, wanting to meet their hero. But when they finally climbed aboard the ship, they saw an empty shell with a dense mass of corpses, on which was placed a huge banner: "This is your Hood, this is a gift from your government, this is the result of your insistence on interfering in European affairs against the German people!" ”
...... (To be continued.) )