When the capital of the British Empire was finally surrounded by the Allied forces of Germany, France and Norway, Churchill and his entourage had to face their inevitable fate, one by one, a shameful defeat.

Although the British leadership under Churchill's control maintained a scathing appearance of steely power, no one reiterated Churchill's most famous dictum: "We will never give up." But only a handful of die-hards really believed that Britain could still win the war, or negotiate an acceptable peace.

Rather, there are many more who believe that Churchill would really use the British army overseas to continue fighting after the British island or a large part of it has been conquered and starved.

The Allies had made it abundantly clear that they would not negotiate with Churchill and his henchmen, and German Führer Reinhardt made it clear that he wanted Britain to surrender unconditionally. If the British side is unwilling, Germany and its allies will not mind fighting until the British government is willing.

At this time, together with Canada, Australia and other countries in the British Commonwealth, were unwilling to stand up for the British, and even had a great hope of dismissing the suspicion of relations.

Even a discerning person can see that the ship of the British Empire is about to sink.

In London, Churchill scoured all the available troops. In addition to the total number of tanks, which were less than 200, only 140,000 men under the command of Lord Gort remained. Most of these troops were improvised patchwork units of the National Guard, the police, the factory security regiment, and so on.

Gort scattered the few regular troops in his hands into those patchwork troops, hoping that with the help of them, they could hold London and use street fighting to hold back the Triple Alliance for a long time.

In addition to this, there was a 7,000-strong Free French army in London, led by Charles de Gaulle.

De Gaulle's troops, mainly deployed on the banks of the Thames, joined the Thames defense sequence while also defending their headquarters on the banks of the Thames.

This Free French government, recognized only by the British government, was probably the most supportive of the Churchill regime in the world. Of course, they had no choice but to support Churchill.

France (Vichy France), which was mixed with the Central Powers, recently attacked London with the German army, and it can be said that there was a lot of confusion within the Central Powers. The original seat of the French Third Republic in the League of Nations is now the seat of the French State under Petain.

For de Gaulle, no regime could support Britain, but his Free French regime had to support Churchill's British government. For, without the support of England, his Free French government would be useless.

For the sake of his own power, de Gaulle had to join forces with Churchill.

However, de Gaulle also clearly saw that London was already a dead end, and there could be no future for staying.

So, he intended to make some kind suggestions to Churchill for better resistance in the future.

For example, temporarily moving the capital to the island of Ireland and using the channel barrier to re-establish a line of defense.

De Gaulle was also a general, and he learned a lot from the French campaign and later the defense of the English Channel.

In his view, from a military point of view, moving the capital to Northern Ireland, uniting with the Republic of Ireland, which is also a Commonwealth country, and jointly relying on the strait to fortify, has a much better chance of success in countering the Allied forces on the other side of the Irish Sea.

From the time the Triple Alliance successfully landed on the island of Great Britain, de Gaulle had already considered the next retreat.

As a former French general, de Gaulle was well aware of the German army's combat effectiveness and breakthrough power on land, and besides, the German army also had General Weygand, whom even De Gaulle once admired, commanded the French army to assist.

The French army, which was once known as the world's first army, plus the German army, which is the strongest army in the emerging world. The armies of the two joined forces to fight on land against the British Army, the weakest army in Europe, and the outcome was largely unsuspenseful.

In addition, the British government did not even have much of a home army, so it could only rely on the more unreliable militias such as the National Guard to fight the German and French armies, which were experienced in combat.

Lose the English Channel, and London will actually be unable to hold on.

Fortunately, the geography of the United Kingdom is special after all.

As a country established within the British Isles, the United Kingdom mainland includes not only Scotland, England and Wales on the island of Great Britain. It also includes Northern Ireland in the north of the island of Ireland.

The Republic of Ireland in the southern part of the island of Ireland, which also happens to be a Commonwealth country, has not had a good relationship with the United Kingdom, but it is not completely without hope of unity.

For example, all the remaining remnants of the British mainland air force will be assembled and transferred to Northern Ireland, and the remaining warships of the Royal Navy's home fleet will be unified into the Irish Sea, and the loser will surround the island of Ireland.

Then, while using the desperate resistance of the city of London, the poorly trained National Guard was transported from the north of the island of Great Britain to Northern Ireland, where military training was intensified in an effort to turn these militias into real soldiers.

It doesn't take much, just to train 100,000 National Guards, plus about 10,000 British troops to be evacuated to the island of Ireland. With the help of the remnants of the Royal Air Force and the remnants of the Royal Navy, it was far easier to defend the tiny island of Ireland and prevent the Allied Powers from landing than to fight the Allied forces on the land of Great Britain.

Moreover, Charles de Gaulle was able to provide 7,000 trained Free French soldiers for the future defense of the island of Ireland. The Republic of Ireland, in the southern part of the island of Ireland, can also undertake most of the defense of the entire island.

The only area that really needs to be defended is the north-eastern region, which occupies a small half of the island of Ireland.

Then tens of thousands of recruits were recruited from the six counties of Northern Ireland, 14,000 square kilometers of land, and 1.7 million people, and the police and local garrisons in Northern Ireland were reorganized into tens of thousands of troops.

In this way, even at this point, Churchill and de Gaulle could run to Northern Ireland and raise an army of more than 150,000. Make good use of the remaining air force and navy, do a good job of coastal defense, and prevent the landing of Allied troops, and then we will have the capital to continue defense.

Of course, de Gaulle would have been happier if Churchill had been willing to flee with the Free French government to Canada, where he would form a government in exile as a brother and brother.

In short, in any case, de Gaulle would never have been willing to stay in London and wait for his death. Even if they were separated from the Germans by a river thames across London, and the area of London on the other side of the Thames, it would not be reassuring.

De Gaulle was reluctant to defend a narrow Thames compared to the wider Irish River.