At this time, the British Army's home defense force consisted of 22 infantry divisions and 1 armored division. This is the strength of the local defense, but these 22 divisions are not fully mobilized, the strength is only half of the full division, and the artillery firepower is only one-sixth of the previous one.

Churchill was really troubled by this, and the Chamberlain government did not make any preparations for war. In fact, in history, Britain only began to slowly send soldiers to France's Maginot Line a week after the German-Polish attack on Poland, and when the French campaign broke out, Britain only sent more than 300,000 British troops to France in eight months to participate in the sit-down war.

The current hawk Churchill, of course, will not let such a thing happen, he must do something about it, immediately issue a national mobilization order, first fill these 23 divisions, and then immediately send them to France to fight. It will take a month or two at the earliest to replenish the troops, and the expansion of the new force must also be accelerated.

It seems that the inertia of history is still strong, even Churchill, the most hard-line hawk, although he wants to start a war against Germany immediately, but he has no troops in his hands, Britain has not made any preparations for war, and there is a serious shortage of weapons and equipment, it seems that he can only find the United States to support some weapons and equipment, otherwise the new British troops can only be bare-handed.

For ten days and a half months, could Churchill just wait for Britain's preparations for war? Of course not, Ondet's damned German attack on Scapa Bend in the British Empire and want to escape back to Germany unharmed, this is absolutely intolerable to Churchill, and Onde must not be allowed to return to Germany smoothly, and must be resolutely annihilated. To this end, Churchill immediately summoned the British wartime cabinet and the main leaders of the three armed forces to arrange a plan to annihilate Ondet.

In addition to members of the wartime cabinet, the meeting was attended by Field Marshal Allen? Brooke, Air Marshal Charles? Potter, Lord of the Admiralty, Dudley? Pound was the main participant in the meeting, and the others could only be regarded as observers, and Churchill pointed to the map on the table and said:

"If you look at the map, this is Scapa Bend, and there are only two ways to get back to Germany from the Atlantic, the first is to go around England and go back to Germany from the English Channel. The other is from the Arctic Ocean to the Norwegian Sea back to Germany. The little mongrel of the Krupp family can only choose to return to Germany from the Arctic Ocean to the North Sea, and he will always go through the English Channel, which is definitely a dead end.

Let's take a look at a few of our allies on this route. Iceland. Norway. Denmark and the Faroe Islands (belonging to Denmark), these allies can provide us with airports, and everyone can see how we can annihilate this little mongrel that provokes the majesty of the British Empire. ”

Churchill gritted his teeth. And it has always been Churchill's habit to speak dirty, and it has not aroused the disgust of these so-called English gentlemen.

At this time, Field Marshal Brooke would not speak, because the matter of annihilating Li Mo's aircraft carrier fleet was purely a matter of the air force and navy, and it had nothing to do with him, and he certainly would not jump out and talk nonsense at this time.

Marshal Pound, it's not easy to speak, the main force of the British home fleet was killed by others, and now Pound is a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and it is difficult to protect himself, and the British Navy really can't go to sea to pursue the fleeing German aircraft carrier formation without an aircraft carrier, and the task of annihilating the German aircraft carrier formation is best completed by the air force, of course, it is okay to send a little submarine.

Air Marshal Portal, seeing that others were reluctant to speak, had to stand up and express his opinion himself:

"Mr. Prime Minister, we still have more than 2,000 planes of various kinds in our air force, and there are two fully staffed air divisions, these two air divisions have five fighter regiments with more than 800 fighters, and three bomber regiments have more than 480 bombers.

According to the route we just analyzed, we can deploy these two air divisions in four places, the first location is the Faroe Islands, the second location is Iceland, the third location is Norway, and the fourth location is Denmark. ”

Now Brooke had a reason to speak, and quickly took over the conversation and said:

"No, we must not disperse the use of troops, this has always been a taboo, you must know that the German aircraft carrier formation has sixteen aircraft carriers, at least nearly five hundred aircraft, our Hurricane aircraft is slightly inferior to the BF109 in terms of performance, and the Spitfire fighter is about the same as the BF109, but the number of Spitfire is too small, only five squadrons. If we disperse our forces, we will not be an opponent of the German aircraft carrier formation at all.

In addition, there is the problem of the venue, the airport in the Faroe Islands is relatively small, and it can only park more than 100 planes at most, and there is only one airport on the island, how can we put more than 1,200 planes in our two aviation divisions? There is no way around it. It's the same with Iceland, which has a civilian airport and a military airport, and it can't put down all our planes.

Only Norway and Denmark have enough airports to park these planes, so let's analyze which of these two countries is more suitable for us to suspend planes and make our annihilation plan more successful.

Denmark borders Germany, and Germany is close to each other, and there must be a lot of eyeliner where Germany is, if more than 1,000 of our planes suddenly fly to Denmark, the Germans will understand what we are going to do even if they are fools? Will we be able to make a successful raid in this case? Maybe before we launched the annihilation operation against Ondet, the German bombs flew over our heads, so we must not go to Denmark.

The most important thing is that Norway has several large military airports in the mountains, where there are few people, and it is very convenient to block the news, so that we can unknowingly launch a sudden fatal blow to the Onde aircraft carrier formation that is about to arrive at the door of Germany. ”

"Bang bang bang...... Good...... Good...... Marshal Brooke, you have a very incisive analysis, what do you think of Marshal Brooke? ”

Churchill took the lead in applauding Field Marshal Brooke, and others followed, Field Marshal Brooke did analyze it very well, and it had to be admired, and there were also capable people among the British generals. Don't look at the enemy as a fool, and when you belittle your opponent, you are also belittling yourself, as the great man once said: "Strategically value the enemy, tactically despise the enemy." ”

"I agree...... I also agree......"

Now that everyone agreed, Churchill began to announce the order:

…… (To be continued......)

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