After the heroic Poles launched an attack on the Germans, Germany was initially slightly confused, and the Polish "preemptive" offensive disrupted the German offensive plan.

However, the Polish side did not have a corresponding follow-up offensive plan, and the tactics they used were the same as those of the First World War. Even when the Polish cavalry tried to tear through the German defensive line, the backward techniques and tactics made the Polish army completely ineffective in the face of the orderly German defense and counterattack.

The Germans quickly adjusted their military plans, and the original three-pronged siege continued. The German army, led by armored forces, was overwhelmed, and the Air Force took only a short time to deal with the Polish Air Force. The tactics that contained the wide frontal depth and low-altitude integration of later generations were simply not something that Poland could resist. Within a week, the Germans had completely lost their command of the Polish army under the blow of the air force, and the German vanguard rushed all the way to the city of Warsaw.

At this time, the Soviet Union also stabbed Poland in the back, and the Soviet army also began to attack the Polish side. Germany and the Soviet Union soon carved up Poland, and Poland, which had been restored for 20 years, was once again destroyed. This time the destruction of the country is more complete than the last time, and the Kingdom of Poland still exists last time, but the king has become the Russian Tsar. In this partition of Germany and the Soviet Union, Poland completely ceased to exist.

On June 28, 1939, Winston Churchill, the British Admiral in India, received the news and immediately flew back to England. This incident made Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain disgraced, but the cabinet did not have many opponents of Chamberlain. Britain didn't understand why Poland's teammates were so strange and took the initiative to attack Germany.

The newly formed anti-China alliance was wiped out within half a year, and Britain is now considering whether to declare war on Germany. There are those in parliament who advocate a declaration of war, and there are those who oppose it. After all, after the end of the First World War, many Britons scolded the prime minister at the time. It is foolish to think that Britain will start a world war in order to shield a murderer. Regardless of the attitude of the local Serbian government, the Serbs assassinated the Austrian archduke. If this kind of thing were left to Britain, Britain would not be more tolerant than the Austrians.

The same is true of this time, Britain did give Poland some security guarantees, but Poland itself acted first against Germany, so Germany's actions cannot be called excessive.

Churchill, as a representative of the hard-liners, was angry when he heard this kind of "bullshit rhetoric" in Parliament. "Evil communism has merged with evil fascism! At such a time, do we have any choice but to stand up and completely extinguish these two evil nations? ”

This is also the opinion of some British parliamentarians, but there are still a large number of British parliamentarians who are quite uneasy about whether there will be another all-out war. In the last European war, Britain consumed millions of soldiers on the battlefield. This time Britain was not mentally prepared to pay such a price.

And the Admiral Winston Churchill said frankly in Parliament: "We must fight the enemy to the end before we die to the last Indian." ”

Such an oath made some British hardliners want to laugh. In the last war, Britain used a lot of colonial troops in order to be able to gather cannon fodder to launch a charge. After drugged them, the black troops in particular looked energetic. But the Polish campaign took place suddenly, and the process was just as sudden, and the Germans easily wiped out the Polish army in one week with a tactic that had never been seen before, and divided Poland in three weeks.

Soldiers are not puppets, if you still need submachine cannon fodder in the last world war, in the past 20 years of military science and technology development, cannon fodder has really become cannon fodder, and there is no possibility of even coming in handy. So some parliamentarians immediately expressed their opposition.

It's not that the British have any mercy for the dead cannon fodder, and it costs money to transport it to Britain and send them to their deaths. If these people are just sent to death in the literal sense, it is a loss-making business.

Since they were raising objections, they spoke very harshly, and one member of the parliament asked very unkindly: "Your Excellency, Lord of the Admiralty, before letting the Indians settle Germany and the Soviet Union, can they let them settle China, which is closer to India?" ”

Churchill was by nature a man of great profuseness, or a shrewd speculative rogue politician, and such a person who has no shame at all is useless in such irony. As if he had not heard, Churchill continued to agitate, "Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are Britain's greatest enemies, and now Britain must use all its forces to deal with these two great enemies." ”

Most parliamentarians could understand Churchill's idea that even if the Western Pacific was lost, the British Empire would still be the British Empire. But without Britain's say in Europe, Britain is nothing. Can a narrow English Channel withstand a future European hegemon? The British have never been so optimistic.

Some MPs have already found that Britain cannot afford to go to war with China, Germany, and the Soviet Union on three fronts at the same time unless a stronger force intervenes in the war. There seems to be only one such external force, and that is the United States.

While Britain was arguing, bad news came one after another. The first is that China has made new moves in the Indian Ocean. Chinese submarine forces raided the British Navy on the island of Diego Garcia, two heavy cruisers were sunk and one battleship was heavily damaged.

Diego Garcia Island is the largest and southernmost coral island in the Chagos archipelago in the central Indian Ocean, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Britain made it an important naval base in the Indian Ocean. The astonishing performance of the Chinese Air Force allowed the British fleet to actually leave the Bay of Bengal and enter the waters of western India. The British port on the island of Diego Garcia became an important British naval port. But the British never expected that the Chinese submarine would attack this place directly.

The incident was simple, the British warship set off from the military port here and hit the Chinese submarine force head-on. Because they didn't want the Chinese submarine force to be ambushed so far away, the British side focused its attention on the surface of the sea rather than on the water. Such a small mistake had catastrophic consequences, and the Chinese submarine forces were definitely prepared, and after a round of shooting, four British warships were shot. These warships of the late World War I were poor at protecting against torpedo attacks. One of the two sunken heavy cruisers was unable to save the warship after seven hours of hard work.

Diego Garcia Island is too far from a base that can be repaired, and the situation of this warship is simply not going there. The deputy commander of the Royal Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet, stationed there, chose to sit on the beach, hoping to ease the difficulty of salvage in the future. In the end, the beaching was unsuccessful, and only one of the masts of the warship could still be seen at high tide, and the others sank completely into the water. Britain had only such an "88 Fleet" in the Indian Ocean, and in the blink of an eye, it lost a quarter of its strength.

The bad news didn't end there, as on July 1, China raided Port Blair on the east coast of South Andaman Island in the Indian Ocean. It is the most important port and city in the entire Andaman Islands. The defenders of Port Blair said that China had dispatched a large number of paratroopers to carry out airborne operations. By the afternoon of July 1, the last telegram from Port Blair was from the magistrate's residence and office, "The Chinese army has surrounded us, and we can no longer resist." ”

The Andaman Islands are located between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. It is separated from the mainland by about 220 kilometers in the north across the Preparris Strait. It is separated by the 10th Degree Strait to the south and the Nicobar Islands. There are a total of 204 islands, mainly the Lesser Andaman Island in the Northern, Central and Southern Regions, some of which have no permanent population. With an area of 6,461 square kilometres, the largest island is Central Andaman Island.

The archipelago passes through the Strait of Malacca to enter the Indian Ocean, or from the Kra Canal, which China is digging. The attack on the Andaman Islands proves that China has been resolute in its approach to the Indian Ocean. Even if the German threat was imminent, many British parliamentarians who opposed the current declaration of war on Germany directly demanded that Britain fight China first. And do not start a war with China, Germany, the USSR at the same time.

Chamberlain was never a war-fearing politician, and at this stage he was well aware of the need for war with Germany. If Britain had an allied pact with Poland, the French simply signed a security pact with Poland. Sure to guarantee the security of Poland.

Due to Poland's accession to the British alliance, France could not leave Britain alone in any anxiety about the partition of Poland. After all, Poland was an ally of the British, and the French could not afford not to be in a hurry with the emperor and the eunuchs. Recently, the French have been asking the British to express their position every day, and the British have been forced to be anxious.

Chamberlain knew very well that if war was not declared on Germany at this time, given the recent enthusiasm between Germany and the Soviet Union, he would not expect to succeed in bringing disaster to the east. At that time, the British not only lost face, but also lost their insides.

The politician was so clever that Chamberlain, after detailed consultations with members of his own party, did not choose to start a war, but chose to resign.

After Chamberlain's resignation, Churchill Chubby, the British Admiralty's secretary, who supported a hardline stance on Germany, was appointed prime minister by the British king to the new cabinet. At the first Cabinet meeting, Churchill repeated the words he uttered during the Battle of Singapore, "I have nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat for you." You ask: What is our purpose? I can reply in one word: victory, to fight for victory at all costs, no matter how terrible, no matter how far and difficult the road, to strive for victory, because without victory there can be no survival. "The House of Commons ultimately showed its support for the Churchill government by an overwhelming majority of 381 votes to 0.

On July 7, 1939, the Churchill government officially declared war on Nazi Germany. In the election campaign, Churchill still showed the shrewdness of the British, he did not declare war on the Soviet Union, and no matter how loud Churchill shouted, it did not mean that he dared to be enemies of China, the Soviet Union, and Germany at the same time.

Immediately after the declaration of war, Churchill flew to France for talks with the French Prime Minister. The French treated Churchill arrogantly, but eventually declared war on Germany on 9 July. However, France only declared war on Germany, but not on China. The French meant that they could wait and see if the British could later regain military superiority in the Western Pacific, and that would be too late to declare war.

On the same day that Britain officially declared war on France, an urgent message reached Britain. The Chinese Air Force carried out airborne operations in Colombo, the capital of Ceylon, and on July 10, Colombo was captured by China. The British Warrior Cabinet felt unprecedented pressure.