The Canadians were more cheerful and replied that they could immediately organize three battalions to support the British Isles. Even the ships transporting these troops have already escorted the fleet, and they can contract them together.

However, the reinforcements of the size of these three battalions are estimated to be of little effect.

But in the spirit of talking better than nothing, Churchill still stubbornly held back his anger and accepted the Canadian government's fake three battalions of reinforcements.

As for the New Zealanders, they didn't have many troops in the first place, and it was not very realistic to wait until they were ready to send a large force to the rescue.

The remaining small states, small countries, and small tribes are either not armed at all, or they are surrounded by strong enemies, and they even have problems with self-preservation, not to mention sending troops to help Britain fight against Germany.

In this circle, the only ones who have made an effective substantive response are the Australians.

Australia, the Asian version of the "chosen nation" with an incomparably superior geographical location, is similar to the United States in that it has a unique geographical defense advantage.

Although Australia's army is more wasteful than the 300,000 troops of the United States.

However, being far away from the mainland, inconvenient transportation, difficult transportation, and being isolated overseas, this series of geographical disadvantages actually became a super advantage for Australia to protect itself in the war.

Relying on the isolation of the surrounding island chain from the sea, Australia is not enough to attack, but it is more than enough to defend.

It may be that when you are full, you will not be able to do anything, and when you have absolute security, you will always want to do something big.

As a result, Australia, which thought that its homeland defense was impregnable, provided 2 infantry divisions for the Commonwealth suzerain, which can be described as a model representative of the Commonwealth of Soldiers.

But in fact, the British Empire was already crumbling, and the British Commonwealth was gradually becoming a loose union.

After the First World War, the British power was weakened, the people of the colonies demanded independence, national liberation movements arose, the contradictions between the mainland and the Dominions also intensified, and the colonial system gradually collapsed.

In order to salvage the decline, Britain was forced to recognize the Dominion as independent in domestic and foreign affairs. Dominions and suzerains form the Commonwealth of Nations, which is "loyal to the king", with equal rights and no subordination to each other.

The Commonwealth is not a country and does not have a central government.

Unlike Reinhardt, the head of the German state, the king of Britain has no right to interfere in the internal and foreign affairs of other member states.

The Commonwealth has no authority, and the United Kingdom and its member states only exchange high commissioners to represent diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level.

While the British propaganda slogan on its "Empire Day" was: "One King, One Flag, One Army, One Empire." ”

However, the empire consisted of six white dominions, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfoundland, and a vast colony of Great Britain.

The empire at that time, looking for the empire that it used to be!

Later, the Westminster Act enabled the Dominions to achieve complete diplomatic equality on the basis of their domestic freedom.

The British Empire was substantially transformed into the Commonwealth.

Unlike in the First World War, the six white Dominions were no longer obligated to unconditionally support Britain in the war. Whether or not to participate in World War II depends entirely on their own choice!

In the end, although Ireland chose neutrality, it still agreed to organize Irish volunteers to reinforce the British army, which could be regarded as a lot of assistance to Churchill.

After all, Ireland was the closest to the UK, and the reinforcements could easily be transported to the south of England to strengthen the defenses.

With the support of Australia and Ireland, it can be regarded as a reassurance to Churchill and give him a temporary breath of relief.

Of course, Churchill didn't believe that the Australians had much fighting power to speak of.

He just used the seemingly ineffective Australian "savages" to replace them one-to-one with two divisions of elite, well-trained, loyal, reliable, and combat-ready British Empire soldiers scattered in various colonies, so that the total number of British regular troops in the British Isles was enough to make up for four divisions.

People all over the world know that crossing the river and demolishing bridges is the strength of the British, but this time the Australians would not have imagined that Churchill had already begun to dismantle bridges before crossing the river.

Of course, although Churchill had already put together four divisions of the regular army, he also knew very well that with the combat effectiveness of the British Army, these four divisions would not be of much use, so it was a joke to use these troops to defend the English Channel.

Churchill then had to pin his hopes on the self-sacrifice of the British people.

That's right, like the desperate Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War, Churchill has now begun to vigorously form the National Guard!

The so-called National Guard is actually a militia, and the National Guard is just a nice name given to him by Churchill.

The members, who ranged in age from 16 to 60, had little military training, and many were even touching a gun for the first time. To put it bluntly, it is to arm ordinary civilians to resist the German invasion.

The weapons they hold are even more varied, from standard rifles to homemade shotguns, from breech powder guns to breech-loading flintlock pistols, from self-defense revolvers to palm mines, covering almost a whole century of European hand-held firearms development history.

Of course, Churchill didn't want these militiamen to be stupid enough to give heads to the German professional army.

Churchill's plan was reasonable, he just wanted to arm some civilians and use them as a reserve for counterattacking the German landing troops.

As long as the regular officers and soldiers of the three battalions supplemented by Canada and the batch of officers and soldiers sent by Ireland in the name of volunteers can be dismantled and added to this group of militia like a gap, this militia can become commandable and complete the task of emergency rescue operations of the reserves.

Taking advantage of the fact that the German army had not gained a firm foothold at the beginning of the landing, it seemed that it was also a way to use the National Guard, which was not a pity to lose money, to undertake the sacrificial task of short-handed combat with the help of the regular troops of the coastal defense troops.

Well-trained troops, providing accurate fire support from a distance.

The National Guard, which had a large number of long-range fires with unreliable accuracy and could only be effective in close-range combat, rushed forward to fight the German troops for losses and bloodshed.

Typical of each other's strengths, Churchill even felt a little clever.

However, Churchill didn't like this kind of cleverness for the end of the road.

After all, if it weren't for the desperate situation, no one would mobilize civilians to be cannon fodder.......