In general, John was quite sympathetic to the British plans for the defense of the homeland. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He knew that the parts that he felt were a little too cruel were also forced to do so.

For example, the Air Defense Command, in a report on the deployment of air defense observation posts and firing points, referred to such a set of data. To provide adequate protection for the major cities and important industrial areas, docks, railway junctions and material warehouses, they needed at least 2,232 large-caliber anti-aircraft guns and 1,860 small-caliber anti-aircraft guns. And the reality is that there are only 79 anti-aircraft guns in the entire London area.

In this case, the Air Defense Command had to switch to small-caliber Lewis machine guns and try to place some large naval guns on railway survey cars. Although not as effective as professional anti-aircraft guns, the red-hot metal storm they fire can at least force the attacker to fly a little higher, reducing the accuracy of the bombardment.

These anti-aircraft weapons also have a drawback, shell fragments will rain down on the streets. The Air Defense Command had to designate steel helmets as the basic equipment of the troops. Of course, the British citizens who were hiding in cellars and bomb shelters didn't care. They love the sound of the cannons, which makes them feel less like a passive target.

In addition to the lack of sufficient anti-aircraft weapons, the rest of the work of the Air Defense Command was relatively good. What John admires most is the system of air raids that they are piloting in London.

The Air Defense Command recruited a group of civilians, one in six of whom were women, to assist them in the early warning of local air raids. Whenever a bomb falls on an urban area, the first person to arrive at the scene is the chief of the air raid in that area. They will first identify the location of the "accident" and then report to the Air Defense Command duty post on the results of their assessment of casualties and the likelihood of survival.

In addition, they organized a group of construction workers, surveyors and engineers into a heavy rescue team, which was responsible for working with the fire brigade to rescue those buried in the rubble of the building. In order to deal with the aerial bombs equipped with time-delay fuses, they also drew elite forces from the royal sappers to form a professional bomb disposal detachment.

Of course, the British were not completely passive, and they also prepared a number of counter-attack plans, some of which were quite creative.

For example, they recently set up a new organisation headed by Hugh Dalton, Labour's Commonwealth MP and coalition government's Secretary of State for Economic Operations, the Special Operations Committee (SOE). The task of this committee was to stir up revolution and social chaos in the German occupation zone, to use all ungentlemanly means to help Britain win the war, in a word, to "burn Europe".

Although initially, the military, especially MI6 (MI6), which has a department specialized in sabotage, made it clear that they were opposed to the creation of an SOE, believing that it invaded their territory. But in the end, they compromised.

Today, the "outlaws" recruited by Dalton have carried out a series of sabotage activities in Europe with the cooperation of MI6, and have achieved some definite results in France, the Netherlands, and Poland. John noted that SOE's attacks were not limited to military targets, but also included some government officials and civilian facilities. Unexpectedly, the British, who have always prided themselves on being gentlemen, also turned into terrorists.

As for the British military, they also prepared their own plans for a counterattack. For example, air raids on northern French ports, as well as several important German industrial bases and transportation hubs, as well as naval attacks on Germany's Baltic Sea routes.

Still, John was a little surprised to see the Royal Air Force put the previous bombing of the Soviet Caucasus oil fields on the agenda of Operation Lance.

The British are ready to bomb the USSR! Perhaps in the eyes of some in later generations, this seems a little incredible. But in 1940, it was not so incomprehensible. At present, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany have always played the role of a pair of "good friends" on the international stage, and the two sides have cooperated happily.

Since August 23, 1939, when the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact and jointly partitioned Poland, the Caucasus oil fields began to provide a steady supply of crude oil to Germany. At present, the vast majority of the oil needed by the German Nazis comes from Romania and the Soviet Union.

As early as the early stage of the French campaign, the French were the first to come up with the plan "Operation Lance". The British and French air forces planned to send more than 100 bombers to take off from air bases in Iran and Syria, as well as from the territory of equally anti-Soviet Turkey, to destroy oil facilities in Baku and Batami and cut off the Germans from the Soviet Union. However, because the French lost so quickly, the plan was aborted before it could be implemented.

Now, the Royal Air Force has even brought up this plan again. According to the information, the British reconnaissance plane had already taken off from the Iraqi airfield and completed the preliminary reconnaissance work of the operation. A group of Blenheim bombers is also preparing to enter the Mosul base in Iraq.

Good guys, are the British going to die to the end, ready to single-handedly take on the "Soviet-German" alliance? Or did they think that the Soviet Union might turn to Germany and use it to threaten Moscow not to take sides openly?

But one thing John is sure of. At best, the British bluffed, scaring and scaring the USSR, not daring to really do it. When there was still France to use as a backing, they didn't dare to do it. Now that one Hitler is enough for them, do they really dare to provoke another Stalin?

John remembers that during the Cold War, there was an opinion in Soviet historians that Germany invaded the Soviet Union because the British repeatedly threatened the Soviet Union to blow up the entire Caucasus oil fields without cutting off oil supplies to Germany. For the sake of their own energy security, the German Nazis launched the "Barbarossa" plan, wanting to take this oil field into their own hands. It seems that this argument is clearly aimed at driving a wedge between Britain and Germany, and there was once quite a market in Europe.

By the time John finished reading the last document, it was already past six o'clock in the afternoon. Before he knew it, he had been in the confidential room for a day, and even lunch was brought by Captain Wilson. After taking a sip of the already cold coffee in the cup, John stood up, moving his muscles and bones as he cleaned up the punch cards on the table that recorded various data.

John's purpose in coming to Britain this time is very clear, to collect evidence to prove to those MPs that Britain has the determination and ability to persist in fighting. Determination is good to prove, anyway, it is an ethereal thing, and emotional material is not hard to find. The key is how to prove the capabilities of the British.

In John's view, nothing is more convincing than solid figures. He's ready to help the British settle accounts.