Although Churchill is widely regarded as the least war-gifted leader of World War II, he was the most psychotactic leader.

Whoever has worked his way through the world's most complex British politics can become an expert in psychological tactics, and Churchill clearly had a better talent than any other politician. He is keenly aware of what people are thinking, needing, and liking, and is able to use the simplest and most direct way to do what they like.

So, when the clouds of war loomed over the British Isles, he stepped into the seat of the British Prime Minister with a tough posture that was incomprehensible to others. Because he knows that the people need a tough prime minister to show up, and they need someone to give them a sense of security.

Now, at a time when defeatism and pessimism are pervading the country, he has chosen to start with minor issues to boost the morale of the people, and it seems to have worked.

The National Guard could only be a joke in front of the regular troops, but Churchill had no choice. The first question now is how to make this group of civilians psychologically brave soldiers, otherwise even if they are fully armed, civilians will still be civilians, and they will only become targets for enemy hunting.

If you want to turn a group of civilians into soldiers, you must first make them look like soldiers at least in appearance. Churchill was ready to work on this first, and he gave the armed forces a good-sounding name, and then issued them uniform uniforms. The crisp wool uniform is now the only military supply that can be openly supplied in Britain, after all, it is the world's oldest textile power. There is never a shortage of fabric.

Then a variety of gorgeous regimental emblems were designed according to the establishment, so that these scattered civilians could really feel the existence of such a team. Finally, there is the essence of Churchill's psychological tactics, and he issued those teams with exquisite and beautiful ornaments and badges. Completely designed by him, it caters to the old-fashioned aesthetic tastes of the British people.

Although these insignia and ornaments were inexpensive, they accurately hit the itch in the English psyche, and made their already exuberant sense of ancient honor burn under the trigger of this physical form, and continue to burn in an even more vigorous state. Receiving a special badge that belongs only to their own team is a delight to every member of the National Guard, an honor that has previously only been awarded to the most elite British troops.

Time. A sense of pride pervaded their bodies, and carrying forward and perpetuating this honor became the goal of most members of the Self-Defense Forces, and killing the Germans became the most popular slogan on the lips of these would-be soldiers who were ordinary people half a month ago. In the eyes of the soldiers of the Self-Defense Army, who are full of longing for honor. The German invasion no longer seemed to be fearful, and the German ** team no longer seemed to be so strong, they no longer worried about when the Germans would start landing, and even began to look forward to it in their hearts.

Churchill succeeded in boosting the morale of the National Guard. But he also knows a little bit about it. Morale is not an indication of combat effectiveness.

Although the morale of an armed force can have a role in increasing combat effectiveness in battle, this growth is very limited and not sustainable at all.

Numerous examples of battles have proven that once a battle is at a disadvantage or even just a stalemate, the morale of the soldiers can drop at an astonishing rate until it collapses.

Slogans such as the narrow road meet the brave win will only work if there is not much difference in the quality and quantity of the troops of the two sides. If the troops are inferior in quality or quantity, this slogan can become an accelerant for the slaughter of their own soldiers.

The history of world warfare has recorded countless tragic encounters, many of which met on narrow roads, and the victorious side would only be the well-prepared and more numerous side, not the side with the loudest slogans and the most morale.

Then again. Encounters should be avoided by all commanders, and it would be foolish enough to have your troops meet each other. If this commander is still superstitious about psychic powers like the Brave Victory, then he can only be called a bastard.

Churchill was an idealist, but that didn't prevent him from having a practical vision, and he didn't believe that high morale alone could withstand the Germans' flood of armor. But in the current situation, he had to choose to be a bastard.

Because in the brutal war, mental strength can indeed play a role in some ways, such as in the use of certain tactics that used to be cursed by soldiers pointing at their backs.

On land, Churchill feared the German Army's almost endless armoured armour, and Britain now desperately lacked the forces to stop the German armoured flood, especially in terms of hardware. The British Expeditionary Force took nine out of ten of the anti-tank weapons from the army's stockpiles and dumped them all in France, including their operators.

The anti-tank weapons that were now left in Britain were the rarest of treasures, and even the most important defense of the Dover coast had only three anti-tank guns, and they were so short of ammunition that the soldiers had to be trained to simulate firing every day.

Another effective weapon in the British army's weapons sequence is the anti-tank grenade, but the range is only 100 meters, the penetration is very limited, and the soldiers who operate it must be rigorously trained, otherwise the hit rate will make the commander vomit blood.

The British army also had some anti-tank guns, but unfortunately, after the French battlefield test, these anti-tank guns could not penetrate the armor of the main tanks of the German army at all, and could only deal with some lightly armored or unprotected vehicles.

There were several ordinary artillery pieces that could fight the German tanks, but the number was also pitiful, there were not enough artillery units for the three infantry divisions, and there was also a lack of corresponding anti-tank shells.

The crisis caused by the German tanks led the army to frantically search for easy alternatives, and all sorts of whimsical inventions were born, the simplest of which was considered the most effective, the sticky bomb.

The so-called sticky bomb is a spherical glass bottle containing 1.25 pounds of gelatinous nitroglycerin explosives. It has a wooden handle, a friction fuse that lasts for 5 seconds, and a cloth covered with adhesive glue around the glass ball. The outside is covered with a tinplate shell.

The principle of this weapon is this, first of all, this thing is thrown by manpower, and the weight is relatively real, so in order to hit the target, the soldier must get close enough to the tank.

If he had not been beaten into a sieve by a tank machine gun when approaching a German tank, then this lucky guy could have removed the iron casing from the outside of the bomb and pulled the firing rope to ignite the fuse. He then rounded his arm and smashed the large grenade into the tank's armor plate.

He had to throw it with all his might, or the lucky man would have to climb into the tank before the five-second fuse burned out, once the bomb's glass ball hadn't shattered. Then you can use your hands or tools, but you have to smash the stubborn glass ball anyway, otherwise the bomb won't be as effective as it should be.

At the same time, you must also pay attention to the technique when throwing, because the outside of this thing is coated with sticky bird glue that makes birds desperate. Once glued to their own clothes. Unless you can strip yourself naked in five seconds, you'll just have to watch the thing blow itself to pieces.

If the glass ball successfully smashes into the tank's armor plate, the viscous nitroglycerin explosive inside the glass ball will stick to the tank like a puddle of snot, and after five seconds, the fuse will fire, and the explosion will be powerful enough to blow through the 25 mm thick armor plate.

The bomb was a satisfying force, but it brought a small problem, the lucky one had to complete the above complex work in five seconds and jump more than ten meters before the grenade exploded, or he would be doomed with the tank. But. It seems that the British authorities have selectively ignored this minor issue.

As a result, this anti-tank weapon, which was almost as close as a suicide bomber, was distributed to the National Guard and the Army. From here, we can see how far the embarrassment of the British side has reached. You must know that in Xu Jun's original world, this thing was a dangerous weapon that was completely resisted by the British army, and it was all buried and destroyed before World War II ended.

In addition to sticky bombs, the National Guard was also armed with a British version of the "Molotov cocktail" bomb, a white phosphorus incendiary flask that was identical to the Finnish product except for its composition, including the instruction manual.

The method of using the "Molotov cocktail" is very simple, just light it and throw it at the hood of the tank, burn the fuel that will ignite the engine leakage, burn the engine circuitry, consume oxygen to stop the engine, and stop the tank anyway. Once the tank is hit, the valiant SDF soldiers can do whatever they want with the de-powered German tank, if the other side does not have a helper to watch the excitement.

Another "powerful" anti-tank weapon of the National Guard-specific is the Northova launcher, a smoothbore explosive projectile. Its main body is a smoothbore barrel, that is, an ordinary iron pipe, with a simple bolt, about 6.6 inches thick, with a simple rod-shaped front sight, a simple door with a series of small holes in it, the maximum range is about 180 meters, the cannonball can be a grenade or the British version of the "Molotov cocktail", fired from a paper cartridge filled with black powder, and the fire is triggered by an old-fashioned musket with a copper fire cap, which is actually an enlarged old-fashioned flintlock pistol. Anything that comes out of it is almost always rolling in the air, so you can't expect its accuracy, but the National Guard soldiers seem to like the launcher and often drag it around for maneuvering, after all, it's the only heavy firepower they have.

The National Guard also issued the simplest and most powerful anti-tank weapon that would turn all German troops into a dish-tasting weapon, the metal crowbar.

A valiant Self-Defense soldier ambushed the side of the road with a crowbar, and when a triumphant German tank drove by, the heroic Self-Defense soldier jumped out with a crowbar in his hand, and tucked the crowbar between the tracks of the speeding tank and the load wheels, and better yet, between the wheels of the driving wheels.

Then there was a "click", the German tank track broke, the driving wheel stuck, the engine stalled, lying on the spot, the heroic Self-Defense Army soldiers looked up to the sky and roared, climbed on the tank and smashed open the hatch to wreak havoc.

Whether the real situation will be the same as in the textbook is explained by the military as no German tanks on hand to test, so it can only be speculated, although the soldiers of the National Guard seem to have generally believed in the practical value of this tactic.

When Xu Jun learned this "terrible" information, he couldn't help but sigh, the guys on this island in Europe are mad dogs, and the guys on that island in Asia are really not enough to see.