On the first day of June 1940, Winston Churchill, the new Prime Minister of the British Empire, reluctantly stood in the House of Commons to deliver a speech.

Dunkirk was defeated, and it was quite ugly. In the end, even the expeditionary force's attempt to retreat failed to materialize.

Wars are not won by retreat, but if the defeated army fails to even retreat, then there is no hope of winning the war in the future.

Perhaps because of his obesity, Churchill was particularly clumsy when he walked today. No one can say for sure whether the main culprit for the Prime Minister's state of affairs is his bloated size or the annoying war situation on the front line.

"You can begin," Churchill motioned to the members of the House of Commons to quiet down, waving his hand, "and let me make a review of everything so far." ”

In the original time and space, the "Operation Dynamo" continued at this time, until the final successful withdrawal of the main British army and part of the French army.

But now, the retreat operation has been terminated, and the vigorous "Operation Dynamo" has only evacuated more than 4,000 British officers and soldiers, most of whom are officers and soldiers of the logistics troops, which will not be of much help in the future war. As for weapons, baggage, artillery trucks, and countless military supplies and combat equipment, they also became trophies of the German army.

In Dunkirk alone, the British and French forces discarded a total of 1,200 artillery pieces, 750 anti-aircraft guns, 500 anti-tank guns, 63,000 vehicles, 75,000 motorcycles, 700 tanks, 21,000 machine guns, 6,400 anti-tank guns, and 500,000 tons of military supplies.

Perhaps, it won't be long before these equipment, which originally belonged to the British army, will be used by the German army to fight Britain itself.

To be able to speak calmly at such a moment, what is needed is a very cheeky face and extraordinary eloquence!

"Although we lost this battle, we will never surrender, we will never give in, we will fight to the end!" In contrast to the general pessimism of parliamentarians, Churchill made it clear from the beginning that he was the main body of the struggle to the end.

Churchill was well aware that the more the situation was eroded, the less pessimism could be mentioned. On the contrary, he wanted to celebrate with great fanfare and make this failed withdrawal a successful operation.

It is okay to say that it is to make black white, and it is okay to say that it is to deceive oneself and others without shame. In short, only by inspiring people first can we lay the foundation for future struggles, and any discouragement will be taboo!

Of course, as a mature politician, Churchill certainly would not be foolish enough to say that his actions were successful. The members of the House of Commons are not fools, and they want to convince them, step by step.

"We have to be very careful not to talk about this rescue as a victory. I understand that wars are not won by retreat. However, it is particularly important to note that there was a triumph in this rescue. "Churchill's voice is very calm and gives a natural sense of reliability.

In addition, he chose the most tactful way to sum up the defeat, which made the parliamentarians feel impeccable.

After all, what others say is true, and it sounds very pertinent, without obvious deliberate exaggeration of certain ingredients.

"This victory was won by the Air Force, and many soldiers who returned did not see our Air Force in action, they only saw enemy bombers escaping the cover attack of our Air Force. That's why they underestimate the achievements of our Air Force. Here's the reason for this, and I'm going to tell you about it. ”

Without giving everyone a chance to think about it, Churchill immediately used a way to divert attention and put forward the Air Force, which had the best record in the world.

Of course, the RAF's record is actually not pretty. In order to cover the retreat operation, the British Air Force flew an average of 300 sorties a day to cover the retreat. But in the past three days, more than 140 fighters have been lost, which can be said to have hurt the heart.

However, compared to the Royal Navy's defeat in the North Sea and the Army's expeditionary force's abandonment of Dunkirk, the Air Force has become the tallest of the short.

"This victory was won by the Air Force. Many of the soldiers who returned had never seen our air force in action, only enemy bombers that had escaped the cover of our air force. They underestimated the achievements of our Air Force. Here's the reason for this. I'm going to tell you about it. ”

The foreshadowing is basically in place.

Next, Churchill began to make up stories in three parts, seven points in fiction, and ninety points in the rhythm of imaginary storytelling.

"This was a major test of the strength of the British and Luftwaffe. The purpose of the Luftwaffe was to make it impossible for us to retreat from the beaches, and to sink all the thousands of ships that were concentrated there. To this end, they had done their best, but they were finally repulsed; They were thwarted in carrying out their tasks. We evacuated thousands of our troops as planned, and they paid four times as much as they inflicted on us······ This has proven that all our aircraft of various types and all our flight crews are better than what Germany has! ”

This is typical nonsense. Let's not say that the British Royal Air Force did not inflict four times the losses of the British Army on the Luftwaffe, and that the air supremacy over Dunkirk has always been maintained in the hands of the German army, can you guess whether the Royal Air Force will succeed or not?

If it really caused such a big loss to the Luftwaffe and still could not earn air supremacy, wouldn't it mean that the total base of the Luftwaffe was so huge that it still had a strong combat capability despite the huge losses that the British side believed.

How terrifying must the total number of fighters of the Germans be?!

"The pilots of the Royal Air Force are good, they are the ones who make Operation Generator run smoothly!" At this moment, Churchill didn't care whether the story was reasonable or not, anyway, the Luftwaffe's losses would have to wait a long time to be confirmed. Even if Germany now officially publishes a data on losses, he Churchill can be said to have fabricated the data for the German estimates, fake data for the sake of morale.

What Churchill had to do now was convince everyone that the Royal Air Force was strong, far superior to the Luftwaffe. At least, let everyone believe that now.

The navy has already lost its face at home, and the myth of the invincibility of the imperial navy has been broken by them one after another. Norway's small defeat is allowed to be explained, but the big defeat in the North Sea is really intolerable.

A naval battle, with the loss of 6 battleships, 12 cruisers, 21 destroyers, and eighty percent of carrier-based aircraft on four aircraft carriers. With such a loss, it is impossible to make up for it in less than ten years.

Not to mention the creation of a battleship, cruiser, it will take several years at the earliest. Even after the construction is completed, there will still be sea trials, and it will have to be staffed, and the officers and men will have to familiarize themselves with the battleship and run in the training, and it will take at least a year or more.

Even those hundreds of aircraft carrier-based aircraft are not likely to be replenished in a short period of time. Without carrier-based aircraft, what is the use of leaving 4 aircraft carriers empty for the home fleet? Training as a target for the German Navy?

Everyone knew that the Royal Navy was battered and would not recover. Then the defense of the homeland has to rely not only on the Royal Air Force, which is "equal" with the Luftwaffe.

At this time, who else should Churchill brag about if he did not boast about the Air Force?