Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Dusk was approaching, and the British officers and soldiers in the Nottingham barracks were sitting around the camp as if they had lost their backbone.

Nottingham's soldiers waited in the barracks for the radio to sound, and decadence was like a strong spiritual poison that passed silently through the crowd.

At sunset, the dim afterglow is reflected on people's faces, and many people's eyes show sad feelings, but the hand holding the gun can only be slowly released. There was silence all around, no one showed any intention of talking, everyone had a similar mood, everyone knew what was going to happen, maybe only silence could achieve inner peace.

Suddenly, the sound of electricity passing through the barracks rang out very clearly, and then, the familiar voice of Commander Goth on the radio:

“…… Our army has shown in the war that the people of the empire are strong, brave, upright and tenacious, however, although the army of the United Kingdom is brave and good at fighting, and the people have the courage to sacrifice themselves for the country, but the continuous war has caused great losses to the United Kingdom, and if the war continues, the British Empire will face more brutal casualties......" With Gort's announcement, the soldiers bowed their heads one after another.

In fact, before hearing the final result, rumors that the government moving to the island of Ireland would choose to surrender had been circulating in people's ears for a long time.

Now, the dust has finally settled, and Britain has not escaped the condemnation of the god of fate in the end.

In addition to the National Guard camp in Nottingham, there are countless smaller military camps throughout the north of England that are also playing out the same scene.

Although the German army does not yet occupy all the territory of LinkedIn, it does not even occupy most of LinkedIn. However, the situation in the world has become home-bound, so that the three major British governments have unanimously chosen the path of defecting to Germany.

On the same day that the three governments simultaneously announced their surrender or surrender to Germany, Spain urgently declared war on Great Britain.

Franco's inglorious declaration of war was somewhat of Mussolini's declaration of war against France, which had surrendered to the Germans.

Franco, who was anxious to reap the benefits of the established benefits before the signing of a peace agreement between Germany and Britain, urgently mobilized seven divisions of Spanish infantry, and after concentrating a large number of artillery and Spanish bombers, attacked the British Gibraltar area.

Gibraltar is located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula and is a possession of Spain. The reason why this area of Spain became a British enclave is due to the fact that during the War of the Spanish Succession more than 200 years ago, the British army took advantage of Spain's internal weakness to capture Gibraltar in one fell swoop.

For more than 200 years, Spain had been bitter about losing Gibraltar and later launched two large-scale sieges of Gibraltar in an attempt to recapture it.

However, until Gibraltar became an important base of the British Navy, the Spanish army was not able to recapture it.

And with the decline of the Kingdom of Spain and the establishment of the British Empire's global supremacy, the idea of retaking Gibraltar by force became increasingly unrealistic for the Spaniards.

It was not until the Germans defeated the Anglo-French forces and France surrendered that Reinhardt met Franco for the first time and asked for permission for the Germans to control the Strait of Gibraltar through Spanish territory in order to cut off communication between Britain and the Western Mediterranean. At the same time, the Spanish army could be supported by a Luftwaffe air force, with the Spanish army as the main force, to take Gibraltar in one fell swoop.

Despite Franco's apparently pro-German attitude, he refused Reinhardt's request. After all, he was a cautious speculator, and although the Third Reich was in full swing at that time, the empire still had strength.

Of course, it was attractive to take the opportunity to recover Gibraltar, but Franco was afraid of the powerful British navy and feared that if he had just taken the British "enclave" Gibraltar, the British side would probably counterattack and occupy the Spanish "enclave" of Canary Islands.

In this way, for Spain, there are gains and losses, which is equivalent to working in vain.

However, because Mussolini was very active at that time, he took the initiative to guarantee Reinhardt, undertook all the military tasks of the Allies in the Mediterranean, and vowed to rebuild the Roman Empire and turn the Mediterranean Sea into an inland lake of Italy. As a result, Reinhardt's deal with Franco was terminated indefinitely.

Today, it is obvious that the fall of the British Empire is imminent, and how much benefit can be reaped at this time is his own. Moreover, Spain did not have to worry about a collapsed empire to take revenge on itself.

Franco rode the wall at both ends before, and he couldn't see through the battle between Britain and Germany, hoping to profit from both ends. But now, the British have lost, and not making a hard deal on them really does not fit Franco's nickname of the king of speculation.

But the ideal is very full, and the reality is very backbone.

Almost following in Mussolini's footsteps, Franco did not win any military victory over Britain this time.

Because of the operation of the British army for many years, the fortress of Gibraltar became extremely difficult to breach, and the seven divisions of the Spanish Army, supported by the double fire of artillery and bombing, attacked in turn, but did not make any substantial progress.

For the first time, however, Spain sent a regular army to fight against the countries of the rival camp with the victory or defeat of the Allied members. The significance of this is even more meaningful than the capture of Gibraltar!

It would be a sad thing for anyone to fight against the Allied military bloc now.

Looking at the long list of names on the list of the Allied bloc, it is estimated that the heart of the Stalin in the East is cold: Germany, Italy, Spain, Vichy France, Norway, Romania, Finland, Bulgaria, Great Britain (all three governments have declared a strong intention to join the Allied bloc)...... If you don't want to add pro-German countries like Greece and Yugoslavia, or maybe the Netherlands, which is surrounded on all sides by the members of the Allied bloc.

Moreover, Turkey, a regional power in the south of the Soviet Union, has also been somewhat dishonest in its recent movements. The three Baltic states in the north also had some intention of catering to the German army in order to drive away the Soviet army.

In this way, the situation of the Soviet Union seems to be really bad.

Although most of his allies, that is, a large number of young brothers who follow Germany, are not very powerful small countries, even Spain, Turkey, Britain, France, and other former powers, their current strength is far from their peak state.

However, these countries only needed to surround a sufficiently strong German army, and it was also enough for the USSR to feel a strong threat.