Things did not go as Churchill had predicted, and the drama took place in the southwest of England, where the British defenders in Portsmouth and other areas gave up resistance and welcomed the Germans directly into the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Perhaps it was because the German bombing had brought too much suffering here, or perhaps it was the prolonged state of hunger that wiped out the will of everyone here to resist.

In short, the British commander laid down his arms and, with the naval fuel hidden in Portsmouth, as well as a wide range of weapons and ammunition, surrendered to the Germans.

Not only Portsmouth, but also Ferham, Southampton and other areas, surrendered to the Germans, giving up resistance.

"We are short of food and need a lot of field tents if we can. People here are starving, and for God's sake, we need help. A British general looked at Field Marshal Liszt, who had come to accept the surrender, and said what he wanted.

"We can provide some food, but this must be in addition to securing the supplies necessary for military operations......," replied Liszt, taking the other man's military flag.

As the supreme commander of the front, he has the right to agree to some conditions. For example, instead of going to concentration camps, these British soldiers were allowed to serve their sentences in French prisoner of war camps.

But when it comes to food, this thing has to be cautious. After all, the Germans' own transportation capacity was still insufficient, and it was impossible to help the British solve the problem of food.

If this spreads and a few more cities are surrendered tomorrow, then the German army will not have to fight London, and it will consume all its transportation capacity to help the British transport food for disaster relief.

"We have 30 torpedo boats and gunboats here, plus fishing boats and other transport ships, even passenger ships, that can help transport food......," the general suggested.

Even if Britain had been crushed, the remaining sea capacity would have been so strong that the Germans would have envied it. In ruined Portsmouth alone, there were hundreds of small ships hidden by the British.

The fact that so many ships could go from enemy to aid as long as they were supervised by the Germans was something that Liszt was happy to see.

The British were really miserable by the German war, and Liszt saw Portsmouth, which seemed to be a dead city, and the people here really seemed to be living in hell.

Because it was an important military port, it was heavily bombed by the Germans. Because it was abandoned for a time, the departure of the British Navy made it lose its original strategic value.

Ports that have no value, of course, will not be given priority to replenish supplies. So most of the people here can barely maintain a living level, which is not comparable to London at all.

Where there is a gap, there is resentment. The people of Portsmouth felt that their homeland had been abandoned, so they hated the Germans, but they also hated the other British.

Hunger makes them compromise with the aggressor, and hatred makes them cooperate with the aggressor. Liszt nodded, agreeing with the bold idea.

"If you can use your own ship and allow my men to follow it and supervise it, then nothing will be a problem." When the German field marshal got what he wanted, he naturally behaved very generously.

Being able to capture Portsmouth as quickly as possible, and capturing a large amount of fuel, weapons and ammunition, was undoubtedly very important for Germany's next move.

The key is to save time, and Liszt's time is very precious. Getting the British fuel in good condition was great news for him.

As for the lack of food in the country, this is not in his consideration. Sending some inferior foodstuffs, such as brown bread, to Britain to relieve the locals and ease relations, this is something that the Führer is very willing to do.

Doing it yourself and asking the other person to do it first are two different things. What's more, the other side even had to help the Germans transport supplies, which was simply a pie-in-the-sky thing.

"Mr. Marshal, I think you have seen our current situation, we are really very short of food, so we will not play any tricks." The general promised.

He pointed to the sea in the distance and promised Liszt: "As long as it is not military supplies, tents, food, quilts and other materials, we can carry them." ”

"That's great, I want to resume the route between here and Cherbourg as soon as possible, do you have any opinions?" Although Portsmouth was bombed beyond recognition, it still had some of its own throughput, much better than Dover.

With the port in control, Germany finally gained a firm foothold in Britain. And the control of Portsmouth also completely cut off the problem of the British Navy attacking the landing grounds.

Because the coastline was wide enough, it was almost impossible for British torpedo boats and other small boats to sneak up on the German fleet at night.

In the eyes of the German seaborne troops, this news was the real good news. As long as Britain's home fleet does not move, then Britain will not have much left to block the English Channel.

Another major gain for the Germans was that the Germans had already controlled a large enough area of land that naturally there were more field airfields to use.

With these field airfields, the Luftwaffe has begun to try to deploy its own fighter jets on British soil to better defend the areas it has occupied.

At present, these field airfields have not yet formed a scale, and the pressure on the British army is relatively small.

Once these field airfields are fully operational, soon areas such as Liverpool and Birmingham will have to withstand intensive German bombardment.

Things went faster than anyone expected, and the British soon assembled a flotilla. Just like what they did more than half a year ago, the Germans did not expect it.

At Dunkirk, neither Goering nor Hitler could have predicted that the British would be able to gather so many convoys to cross and fed the English Channel overnight.

At that time, they transported 300,000 people in one go, creating a miracle in the history of shipping.

This time, in order to get more supplies from Germany, British ships were once again mobilized. It didn't take long for the British to find more than 200 ships of all sizes.

"You may not believe it, but in a moment we have a fleet of 30 ships. For these ships to sail to Cherbourg, they need the cover and restraint of the Air Force! A German officer in charge of liaison said into the radio with a smile in his eyes.

The fact that Germany had to arrange for planes to escort the British fleet sounded like a joke in World War II.

But it really happened, on the afternoon of February 19, 1941, it really happened.

The British arranged their fleet as large as they could, and somewhere to get a naval gunboat to escort them.

More than 100 German soldiers were placed on the gunboat as required, and the British sailors and naval officers on it combined were only a pitiful 30 people.

Then, under the watchful eyes of the British and Germans, the fleet left Portsmouth in a majestic way, stepped on the corpse of the battleship Queen Elizabeth, and sailed out of the bay.

"Prepare as much food as possible, quality is not important, quantity must be guaranteed." On the radio, Liszt personally contacted the senior German admirals sitting in Cherbourg.

The other party was really confused, and the navy never dreamed that the army could find ships in Britain to join the transport, and they found 30 ships as soon as they looked for them.

"Are you sure that this fleet that came to Cherbourg is under the control of our army?" Until the fleet set sail at Portsmouth, the German naval commanders were not quite convinced of such a strange thing.

The British Royal Navy's transport ships helped the German Navy run sea transport...... Speaking of this, it is estimated that the British Navy will not be able to keep the word royal on the top of its head, just like the army.

The German garrison in France, which had received the order, was also very busy now, and they had to concentrate some grain and transport it to the port of Cherbourg, and use British capacity to rush more supplies to England.

"Carry as many tents as you can, and force them to transport at least one boatload of ammunition away! That's our bottom line! Inside the port, the officer in charge of the arrangements ordered loudly.

"The gunboats of the British could not enter the port under any circumstances! If they don't listen to the arrangement, let the Air Force sink it! "Another officer has a vicious security mission, and he must ensure the absolute safety of Cherbourg.

Maybe in a few days, Cherbourg's geographical location will not be so dangerous. Once the British Cornish Peninsula was occupied by the Germans, Cherbourg was relatively safe in its geographical position.

It's just that Cherbourg has a large number of mines laid by Britain and France and Germany on both flanks, and it will take some time to fully restore the pre-war throughput capacity.

The entire fleet was covered with German flags, and German soldiers stood on the deck, no one imagined how quickly they would be able to return to France in this way, away from the brutal front lines of the war.

The waves on the sea are also insignificant at this moment, and the journey home is always so smooth and pleasant.

In the sky, the escort or, more intuitively, the German planes monitoring the ships, with powerful bombs hanging from them.

If these ships did not obey the German Navy's arrangement, these Stuka bombers would immediately transform from bodyguards into deadliest killers.

Unexpectedly, there were no British torpedo boats at sea to make trouble, and the British really did not have the troops to make trouble in this area.

The torpedo boats were all in Portsmouth, and most of them had already surrendered and became trophies of the Germans. The remaining warships were not absent, but they were afraid of air raids and could only deploy to farther places, losing Portsmouth as a transit point and not being able to continue deep into the landing waters of the German army.