At three o'clock in the afternoon, Tan Renhao first received a telegram from the naval headquarters, and at random he ordered the communications officer to tune the radio to the international public communication channel, and after a loud noise, the voice of the British prime minister sounded in the loudspeaker.At three o'clock in the afternoon of April 16, 27, the British king first announced his surrender to the Allied bloc, and then, on behalf of the British cabinet government, the British prime minister announced the end of the state of war in Britain, and demanded that the British troops in all parts of the country surrender to the Tang Empire and other Allied powers, and accept the military control of the Allied powers.

Before the British Prime Minister's declaration of surrender was over, Tan Renhao received a telegram from Jiang Zhongmin from the British port of Pontesmouth, saying that the Fifth Task Force had safely escorted the landing fleet and transport fleet carrying five Marine Divisions to several British ports, and that the Fifth Task Force had also successfully entered the port of Pontsmouth and had mastered the sea control of the English Channel. Jiang Zhongmin will send officers to other British naval bases to take over the remnants of the British Navy with the Marines. In addition, Task Force 5 will closely monitor the activities of the German forces on the other side of the strait.

Hereunto. Tan Renhao breathed a sigh of relief. Jiang Zhongmin sent the telegram after entering the port of Pratsmouth, which was different from the planned place, probably because Jiang Zhongmin considered that the British government had not officially announced its surrender, so there was no need to rush to send the telegram. Other than that, everything else is planned.

According to the relevant local action plan, the first five Marine Divisions to arrive in the United Kingdom will focus on controlling the military bases in the southern part of the United Kingdom, including several important military ports such as the port of Portsmouth. and RAF ground airfields, deployed as ground radar stations along the southern coast of the United Kingdom. and is responsible for the military control of the British Royal Army ground barracks. This was the most important step of action, and it was only at this time that the British government announced its surrender. There is a high risk of a military conflict during the operation, so Task Force 5 will remain in the English Channel, monitoring the movements of the Germans on the opposite side and providing support to the Marines if necessary.

After the British Prime Minister announced his surrender. The expeditionary air force of the Tang Empire, which was deployed in the Spanish occupation zone, was to be the first to deploy at least 500 combat aircraft to British airfields. In addition, the expeditionary air force will also dispatch about 1,200 aircraft to transport the troops of the 3rd Army Infantry Division. These 3 army infantry divisions will be mainly responsible for occupying large and medium-sized cities in LinkedIn. At the same time, he was responsible for taking over the surrender of British troops.

It can be said that the two days after the official announcement of the surrender of the British government were the most crucial. According to the Imperial Army and Navy ground projection capabilities. It will not be possible to deploy more troops to Britain in these two days. Even on the afternoon of the 16th, Lei Shaoqing had already ordered another group of transport fleets to stay in Ceuta and Tangier to set off, but this transport fleet carrying three other marine divisions and a large number of living materials could only reach the British port on the night of the 19th at the earliest. In addition, the expeditionary aviation sent almost all the forces that could be used, including the use of heavy bombers to transport fuel and ammunition to British airfields. Therefore. Three army infantry divisions were sent to Britain in two days, which was already the limit of airlift capacity at that time.

During these two days, the British navy, army, and air force will surrender to the Tang Imperial Marines and Army units in the occupied areas. And accept temporary detention until the situation calms down. British soldiers will be released. During this period, the British army would not necessarily hand over their weapons in the old-fashioned way. In order to keep it secret, the British government did not announce the surrender in advance, so the resistance of the British army will definitely be quite serious, and if it is not good, there will be a mutiny.

What worries Tan Renhao the most is the possibility of the German intervention operation. Tan Renhao was extremely impressed by the German airborne troops' actions in Italy, and if it were not for the German airborne troops' ability to quickly dispatch, they would not have done so much tricks in the matter of the British surrender. Two days before the surrender of the British, the number of Imperial troops arriving at the British was limited. There is no way to control all British military bases, and to station in all British towns. In this case. If the Germans intervened and forcibly sent airborne troops into the British language. That would lead to the failure of the whole operation. Because of this, after receiving Jiang Zhongmin's telegram in the afternoon, that is, before the evening, Tan Renhao ordered the fleet to turn around and go to the English Channel. If the Germans were to force their way into Britain, then he would have to be prepared to intercept the German transport planes, and even if there was a military conflict with the Germans, he would not be able to back down in the slightest.

As a matter of fact. Tan Renhao and others overestimated the speed of the German airborne troops' ground sorties. After Britain announced its surrender, the German government first expressed its dissatisfaction through diplomatic channels, after all, Germany was also part of the Allied territory, so it had the right to enter Britain. Deployment of occupation forces in the UK. But the problem is that the Germans first placed the Tang Empire in Italy together with the Persian Empire, and their protests were naturally much weaker.

By the night of the 18th, when the First Fleet had reached the northern part of the Bay of Biscay and was dispatching fighter jets to patrol the English Channel, the German airborne forces were still not dispatched. Over the course of two days, there were several encounters between the fighters of both sides over the English Channel, and there were several serious provocations. But none of them led to a military conflict. There was no aerial firefight.

In fact, the German Airborne Forces were not able to go out if they wanted to. In planning the military operation to occupy Italy, Germany took great pains, in addition to trying to deceive the Tang Empire and the Persian Empire in terms of intelligence, the German airborne troops also made preparations more than a month in advance. There is too much ground preparation to send several airborne divisions thousands of kilometers away, not to mention the fact that these troops are assembled on the ground. As well as the deployment of transportation machines that need to be put into operation, it needs to be carefully and comprehensively planned and deployed.

At that time, a German airborne division was about 14,000 officers and soldiers at full strength, while the main German transport aircraft could only transport no more than 40 paratroopers at a time, and even if it was a large transport, it could only transport 60 paratroopers. In this way, even if only one paratrooper regiment is delivered at a time, at least hundreds of transport aircraft need to be dispatched at the same time. In addition, hundreds of transport planes had to be put into operation for the transportation of war materials, weapons and equipment in the relevant places. Judging from the situation of most airports in Europe at that time, the 240 transport aircraft needed to be deployed in at least 4 large pilots, and at least 20 airports were needed to support it. In addition, there must be enough fuel reserves on the airfield, and it is necessary to prepare in advance, so that the German airborne troops still need to do a lot of preparation work before the dispatch, and it will take a lot of time.

In addition to logistical support, the main German airborne troops were all in Italy at that time, because of the poor traffic situation in Italy, the German ground troops planned to replace the airborne troops could not be deployed in place until at least the end of April, and it would take time for the airborne troops to return to the base, and at most they could only have the ability to make another sortie in early May. In addition, as the Tang Empire's fleet had seized sea supremacy, the Germans gave up their plan to storm British territory in early April, and did not intend to fight with the Tang Empire on the issue of British control, so when Britain announced its surrender, the Germans did not deploy many transport planes on the airfields in northern France.

Just as it was impossible for the Tang Empire and the Persian Empire to turn against the Germans on the question of Italy, it was impossible for Germany to turn against the Tang Empire on the question of the British land, especially if the Tang Empire was extremely tough, unless Germany was confident that it would defeat the Tang Empire. Otherwise. It would have been impossible for Germany to really oppose the Tang Empire on the British question. In other words, Tan Renhao's concern about the Germans was completely unnecessary. On the contrary, in these few days, it was not the Germans who really caused trouble, but the British soldiers who were unwilling to surrender.

On the afternoon of the day when the British King and Prime Minister announced their surrender, riots broke out at the British naval base in the interior of Port Aberdeen. Unwilling to surrender, the young officer led a group of unreasonable, betrayed sailors who broke through the docks guarded by the gendarmes and prepared to force their ships out of the harbor. Fortunately, the Marines, who had already received the surrender order at that time, quickly controlled the exit from the harbor and cut off the pipeline to transport fuel to the battleships, so that the dozen or so British battleships were not able to leave the harbor. But then, in a fit of rage, officers and soldiers rushed into the dock and began to destroy the three Avantgarde-class battleships that were being repaired. By midnight, a large number of British marines. As well as the arrival of the gendarmerie troops, the officers and soldiers of the rebel site were compressed into the port area. By the time the Imperial Marines arrived at dawn, the British officers and men in the rebel area had scuttled more than a dozen warships.

The "Aberdeen riots" were just a fuse. With the officers and men of the Navy first making trouble the next day in the northern part of England. That is, the pilots and ground crews of several RAF bases in the Scottish Highlands also began to make trouble. These officers and soldiers made secret contact on the night of the 16th. After dawn, the pilot forcibly boarded the plane and took off, and then the ground crew began to destroy the airport's infrastructure. In the morning, Task Force 5 dispatched two squadrons of ground fighters to suppress the British pilots in the riot. And there were several air battles with the British pilots of the rebel land. It was not until noon that the situation subsided, and almost all 120 rebel pilots were eliminated, and the rebel ground crews were quickly brought under control, many of whom were punished with the most severe punishment for treason.

The Royal Army, which was responsible for guarding the British homeland, did not make much trouble, but in London, Liverpool, Manchester. There were small riots in places like Birmingham. Except for some engineers who blew up the military facilities at the base and destroyed the weapons and equipment before the arrival of the Tang Empire's occupation troops. And in addition to disposing of ammunition and supplies, the main problem is the emergence of a large number of deserters. Deserters appeared in the Royal Army regiments almost everywhere. In some places, there was even only one company of officers and soldiers left in a battalion, and the officers and men in other places secretly left the troops after the British government announced its surrender. Most of these deserters returned to their homes, and after the war, these people were not punished, after all, there were too many deserters. In addition, a very small number of people left the United States on the last ships to leave the British port and continue the war as part of the American army. And of these people, except for the part where they died in the war. Most of the rest of the land remained in the United States or went incognito. After the end of the war went to a neutral country.

In addition to the army, there was also a great deal of unrest in the British government. Although the behavior of these government officials is not as aggressive as that of the military, the impact of the situation is enormous. Like what. When the Marines arrived in Swansea on the evening of the 16th, the British officials here had already taken prisoners, and at that time, there were about 500 officers and soldiers of the Tang Imperial Navy in the British prisoner of war camp, and the only list of prisoners of war was kept in Swansea! As a result, until more than thirty years after the end of the war, the Tang Empire did not figure out how many prisoners of war remained unidentified. After the war, the British government even set up a special department to investigate the identity of prisoners of war, which was responsible for assisting the Tang Empire and other countries to investigate those prisoners of war who had been imprisoned in Britain.

The most outrageous thing happened in Fort William, Scotland. It was the largest British prisoner of war camp, where at least 5,000 German and Persian allied prisoners of war were held here. The Imperial Marines arrived at Fort William on the evening of the 18th, but they were presented with a hellish scene: the entire prisoner of war camp was in ruins, countless corpses lay on the ground, the air smelled of charred corpses, and thousands of seabirds pecked at carrion! The British officers in charge of the POW camps are gone!

Postwar. The Tang Empire and other countries set up a special "Fort William Massacre Investigation Committee" to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the mass killing of prisoners, and 12 British officers and government officials involved in the case were punished. The culprit of this incident, the commander of the British prisoner of war camp who fled to the United States at that time, was also found more than ten years after the end of the war, and was finally sent to a military court, becoming the last local war criminal sentenced to death by the war court.

The sudden surrender of the British government caused such chaos in Britain that even many British civilians were unable to adapt quickly to the dramatic change. In any case, the defeat of the British, and the fact that the Tang Empire had become the only British occupying power, were the best results. As for the problems that were exposed during the British surrender, they actually provided experience and lessons for the Tang Empire, and similar situations could be avoided when dealing with similar incidents in the future. Sea Soul Volume 23 Springboard for Progress Section 11 The Finality of England