Chapter 351: True and False Engine Plan
There is an old saying in the East, which is called to stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood. Fastest updates
There is also a proverb in the West that if you stop your loss in time, you will not be considered a complete failure.
Of course, no matter how justified these words are, running away is running away. Even if we put it another way of saying that it is a retreat, in its essence, it is still an escape. No matter how disciplined and organized the retreat is, it is still an escape.
However, Churchill can't do that much now. In his eyes, the "strategic shift" of 200,000 elite British expeditionary forces is much better than the 200,000 elite troops being wiped out by the Germans on the French mainland.
You know, at the beginning, they sent this expeditionary force to fight in France with the belief that they would win. Among them, the 3rd Division and the 50th Division are all meritorious divisions in the traditional sense, and they are the most elite forces of the British Empire. The other 8 divisions, all of which were first-class divisions in the British Army, were the backbone of the British Empire's forces on the road.
This was originally a luxurious lineup used by Britain to prop up the façade, and it was used to promote and boast after the victory. However, he was copied from the back of the main force of the coalition and was in a desperate situation; At the moment when Belgium fell and the German army approached the core of France, no more optimistic people would dare to talk about victory.
A few days ago, the stupid French commander Gammelin actually tried in vain to get the Royal Air Force of the British Empire to throw more planes into their bottomless pit, and use the sacrifices and losses of the Royal Air Force to redeem the rotten situation.
Stupidity! Very foolish!
Now that the Allies have lost their chances of victory, each member state will definitely find a way out for its future. Belgium had no way to escape, and the battlefield was on its own territory, so it could only drag the incomplete army to continue to shed blood and sacrifice.
The French, who are trying to fool Britain into continuing to send them planes, are they not also trying to gain a glimmer of life for their own country?
As for the British Empire, knowing that the coalition forces had lost and was decided, they also threw a fart fighter plane on the French mainland. It's too late to withdraw the 200,000 elites that have been invested in the country!
Churchill was glad that he would fool him into tricking him into getting people out of the encirclement and putting them back out of the encirclement. In fact, he was not referring to the French rear, but to the British mainland.
The elite of the 200,000 expeditionary force is estimated to be about 150,000 now, and if they don't withdraw, there will be even fewer left. So Churchill decided not only to withdraw, but also to withdraw as much as he could.
He had already fooled Gammelin with a half-truth "Plan for the Generator", claiming that the French would send part of the army and cooperate with the remnants of the Belgian army to stop the German pursuers on the periphery. The main force of the British expeditionary force, together with the main force of the French army, would take the opportunity to withdraw from the three ports of Calais, Buren and Dunkirk on the French coast at a rate of 10,000 men per day to withdraw troops outside the German encirclement.
The reason why this plan is half-true is that it concealed from the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Gan Molin, the whereabouts of an important part of the retreating British army!
In the plan that Gammelin saw, Britain concentrated all maritime transport vessels, including barges, tugboats, cargo ships, passenger ships, fishing boats, motorboats, and even private yachts, and carried out the withdrawal operation together with a large number of ferries gathered from the French civilian population, under the cover of 1 cruiser, 8 military destroyers, and 26 converted warships including the "Dragon Spirit" drawn from the Royal Navy. (In fact, there are only 25 converted warships left, because the Dragonling has been destroyed by Lengheimer with a Leopard tank in Pronaygang, but the news has not spread for a while.) )
The above parts are all in the real plan.
The part that is concealed, in the second half of the section.
The first troops to be evacuated were all officers and soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, and they would return directly to the British Isles and become part of the British Empire's defenses again. And almost after the withdrawal of the British troops, they began to rush troops outside the encirclement for the French. The destination, also the British Isles.
After that, the French part of the army willing to return to France, the British Empire would send them back to the French mainland to fight. Units that did not want to return to China were also allowed to join the British Empire's home defense forces, and the British Empire paid them, resettled them in residence, and became part of the British armed forces.
Blatantly digging into the wall!
The army that France used to defend the motherland was poached into Britain as Britain's national defense force. For France, this is tantamount to betrayal! For the desperate Three Kingdoms Alliance, it is even worse!
However, it is good for the UK. It is reasonable for any country in the alliance to think about a way out at a critical juncture, at least, from the point of view of their own country!
In war, there is not so much righteousness. In an alliance, the interests of the country always take precedence over the interests of the allies.
Everything will be tested by war, including selfishness, greed, stupidity, meanness, cowardice, and malice.
Churchill, who orchestrated all this, knew very well that since the French allies had lost the glory and power of the world's first army in the past in the test of war, Britain, as an ally, would have an excuse to abandon this ally that had lost its usefulness.
If falling into the ground could make things better for the British Empire, then it would be a matter of course.
These parts of the fall into the hole are the parts that the British ** Ministry concealed from the Allied Forces Command, but they are also the parts that are tacitly known by the entire British wartime cabinet leadership.
Under Churchill's leadership, these British leaders had come to realize that the French battlefield was no longer the place they had envisioned would bring the Second World War to an end, let alone the fall of the Third Reich. This is a protracted war, and the elite units of the British Expeditionary Force, which still have at least 150,000 troops left, are too important for the British Empire!
The empire on which the sun never sets is no longer as invincible as it was a few decades ago. This seemingly behemoth-like superpower was already on a downward spiral in the war decades ago.
Why does Britain desperately provoke other countries to oppose each other, and tirelessly play with its policy of balance of power on the European continent. And why was it that in such an important European Armageddon, the British Empire could only come up with an expeditionary force of 200,000 men and rely on the strength of France and Belgium to fight the German army?
The reason is very simple, Britain has reached the point of declining!
The victory in the First World War did not bring the revival and prosperity that the British Empire imagined. On the economic front, Britain has changed from a creditor country before the war to a debtor country after the war, the international financial center has shifted from London to New York, and the status of the "empire on which the sun never sets" has existed in name only.
Especially in the last world war, British merchant ships suffered heavy losses under the attack of German submarine forces, which caused a heavy blow to its shipping industry, which led to a decline in British trade. To make matters worse, Britain's former economic lifeline, the colonies, had already seen a lot of runaway phenomena on the eve of World War II.
Norway's defeat has dealt a blow to the declining empire and directly contributed to the resignation of former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. If the expeditionary force again staged the same crushing defeat on the French mainland as the Norwegian battlefield....... This so-called superpower will inevitably be the first to collapse in morale!
Thinking of this, Churchill was even more convinced of the necessity of what he had done. Sitting in his office, the new fat prime minister of the British Empire, grabbed the phone in the corner of the desk with his fleshy right hand, and issued an order to cover for the betrayal: "Inform Gammelin that the Royal Air Force will provide them with a new batch of troops to support them." These air units will be used in the "Engine Plan", and their army must also be more energetic. Right! It's all about the Union! ”
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