For Britain, Christmas in the winter of 1939 was particularly sad.

Britain was an island nation, and food and many supplies needed to be imported from overseas, but the Imperial Navy had been defeated in the past three months of war. Not to mention the Battle of Norway, in which the high-speed fleet was wiped out, in the Atlantic, Dönitz's sea wolf pack, which had more submarines than in history, was frantically hunting down the British convoy in the Atlantic. Due to the threat of German surface attack ships, the British convoys were unable to carry out group escort and had to disperse and act alone, with the result that these scattered steamers became the easiest prey for German submarines.

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From the declaration of war on the Soviet Union and Germany in October to Christmas, in just two and a half months, the British Empire lost a full 75-ton tonnage of transport ships in the Atlantic, and the entire British shipping industry was hit hard. This is reflected in the domestic situation, where the supply of goods in the market is severely restricted.

On December 24, in a villa on the outskirts of London, the famous British movie star Vivien Leigh held a small family party at home, and she gathered the repertory troupe she formed in Britain this year to hold a New Year's party at home.

On Christmas Eve in 1939, the food on the table of the British people was many times more shabby than in previous years. A large amount of supplies were sunk in the sea by Dönitz's "sea wolves", and the supply of supplies on the market was severely restricted.

However, the Christmas dinner held at Vivien Leigh's house was relatively gorgeous. In addition to imported beef from Argentina, red wine and truffles from France. In addition to the beautiful fruit cake, there are some Chinese dishes that Vivien Leigh loves very much. During the days when she was Lin Han's plaything, Vivien Leigh's most "beautiful" memory was that she ate a lot of delicious Chinese food with Lin Han.

In Britain, where supplies are becoming increasingly tight, it is Vivien Leigh's American economist Maria who can get these supplies. This is a woman with great powers, and it is with her help and encouragement that Vivien Leigh got rid of Lin Han's control and ended her fate as a plaything. Before the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, she had the foresight to hoard a lot of supplies in Britain, and after the outbreak of war, she also made a fortune by speculation.

Two days before Christmas Eve. Maria with a crate of eggs. When twenty pounds of frozen beef, a box of fruit, and a bunch of luxury consumer goods from the black market came to Vivien Leigh's house, her housekeeper and cook screamed at the sight of the precious food.

In recent years, Vivien Leigh's development in Hollywood has been very smooth. Lin Han and Hannah registered DreamWorks Film and Television in the United States. With her as the heroine, several acclaimed and popular movies have been made one after another. and won her the title of Oscar actress in a row.

Two of the most famous of them. One is "Gone with the Wind", which grossed more than $350 million worldwide, and the other is "Broken Blue Bridge", which appeared in this era two years in advance.

The time point of the plot has been changed from World War II to World War I. The rest of the content is similar to the original. However, there are some private goods that the Germans want to infiltrate.

For example, the movie added a "real plot" in the late stage of World War I, when a large number of American soldiers came to Europe to participate in the war, and when they temporarily lived on British soil, they "slept" on the "wives" of British soldiers who were fighting on the front line. In order to reflect this plot, some small plots and small characters were specially added to the movie. For example, the actor has a good friend, he and the protagonist participated in World War I together, and the two survived the war together. When the male protagonist returned home after the war, he found that his fiancée was forced to become a female branch girl because of life, and finally deliberately crashed into a car and died at Waterloo Bridge (this is the original movie plot, readers who have watched this famous drama know it, so I won't write this plot to cheat the number of words). And the little story of the supporting role of the newly added male protagonist's friend is that his friend has been in the war for three years, and when he comes home from the war, he finds that his wife has a big belly at home, and the "father" of the child in the belly seems to be an American soldier.

This is the "private goods" instilled by Lin Han and Hannah into the British with the help of movies.

"Men are fighting for other countries abroad, but the women in their own families are so destitute that they want to become prostitutes."

The film was released under the guise of anti-war and was a huge success in the UK after its release. It resonated with many British "green hat veterans" who had similar experiences and participated in World War I. When the movie was released, it coincided with the outbreak of the Sudetenland crisis, and the anti-war voice in Britain was already very strong, and this film added a lot of momentum to the "anti-war" and also added a lot of help to Germany's peaceful annexation of the Sudetenland.

And the influence of this film is so great that it even exceeded Lin Han and Hannah's initial expectations.

In October 1939, shortly after Britain declared war on the Soviet Union and Germany, the British Parliament, in order to suppress the anti-war voices at home, even passed a law to protect "military marriage" in wartime, stipulating that when soldiers participated in the war on the front, adultery with their families was illegal and should be severely punished. And this bill was started because of the movie "Broken Blue Bridge", which was called the "Waterloo Act" by the British. (The place where the heroine commits suicide in the movie is called Waterloo Bridge.) ）

The fate of the famous movie star Vivien Leigh is also bumpy in this historical plane compared with history. When filming "The Legend of King Arthur" in Germany, she was forced to "unspoken rules" by Lin Han, the producer behind the scenes, and then became Lin Han's plaything for a long time.

The entertainment industry has always been rampant with sewage, and after Vivien Leigh entered this industry, as the cash of Lin Han and Hannah, the two prepared several movie scripts suitable for her in recent years, and Vivien Leigh has become more and more famous in the international film industry in recent years. Later, under the instigation of her economists, Vivien Leigh gradually began to have the idea of breaking away from Lin Han's grasp. Finally, one day, she plucked up the courage to tell Lin Han that she had a sweetheart and wanted to marry him, using this as an excuse to end her fate as a plaything.

When Lin Han entered the entertainment industry and became popular with a bunch of young female stars and singers, when enjoying their youthful and energetic bodies, one of the promises he gave was that as long as they met their true sweethearts in the future, they could ask him to leave. Not only will he not stop him, but he will also give a "dowry".

In this regard, Lin Han generously agreed.

After filming "Soul Broken Blue Bridge". Vivien Leigh ended her contract with DreamWorks in July 1939 with her "historical" husband, Lawrence Brown. Oliver got married and then returned to England to begin performing in theatre, which she loved most. For her, the years when she was Lin Han's plaything were really bad memories, and she never wanted to step into the troubled waters of the film and television industry again.

Vivien Leigh is an excellent actor on the screen, but in terms of drama performance, she is quite bad, and after returning to China for half a year, most of her several drama performances have failed. business investments. He also misjudged the shape and was repeatedly frustrated. The savings earned from making movies in the past have been spent almost after half a year's tossing.

By October 1939, the war in Europe had broken out. Vivien Leigh, who has suffered successive setbacks in her theatrical career, is preparing to leave the UK. Returned to Hollywood in the United States to seek development.

That's when it happened. Maria, the female economist who encouraged Vivien Leigh to break away from Lin Han's control in the United States, found her and persuaded her to stay in England to develop.

Maria, a second-generation German-American. In her forties, she is not only Vivien Leigh's economist, but also her psychologist and life coach. When filming in Germany, Vivien Leigh was forced by Lin Han to uncover the rules, leaving a lot of psychological trauma, and it was with Maria's encouragement that Vivien Leigh regained her strength, and then had the courage to break away from Lin Han's grasp. (About this plot,There's it in the fan.,Get the author group to get the full order to grab the picture to me)

Vivien Leigh accepted Maria's offer to stay in England for development during the war. Maria prepared several classic plays, and by constantly moving around the barracks to perform plays, Maria regained her success and rose in popularity in Britain.

Vivien Leigh's success in theatrical performances is due to good scripts, and those scripts are all classic scripts that Hannah picked out from later generations. Second, the timing is good. Historically, after the outbreak of World War II, Vivien Leigh left the United Kingdom to develop in the United States, a country that was on the verge of crisis, but she fled from the battle, which made her suffer a lot of despise in the United States. Later, although Vivien Leigh also returned to England to perform in the labor army, Bi Yi had lost the first hand. And in this historical plane, Vivien Leigh did not make this mistake.

On the evening of December 24, Vivien Leigh's house in London was brightly lit. Since Germany has not launched a single air raid on Britain since the war, there is no curfew and night lights in London. Had it not been for the growing supply of goods in the market, and the tens of thousands of death notices issued in a single day not long ago, perhaps the British would not have realized that war was coming.

Vivien Leigh's dinner lasted until ten o'clock, when the guests left. The next Christmas, Vivien Leigh took her theatre troupe to a hospital in London to give a theatrical performance for the wounded British, and her businessman and best friend, mentor Maria, went with her.

In London's hospitals, most of the wounded were from the navy, having been wounded in the Norwegian naval battle not long ago. Vivien Leigh's performance there was warmly welcomed by the wounded soldiers. In the past three months, it is precisely because of her high-profile "response" to the government's entry into the war that Vivien Leigh has received strong support from the British government, and her popularity has skyrocketed in the UK, and she has even been praised by the British as the country's "war" spokesperson.

Germany, which was at war with Britain, was the famous German soprano and sports star Hannah who was the "national goddess" they held for the war - of course, Hannah had much more than that. Interestingly, in the movie "The Legend of Arthur", Hannah plays King Arthur, Vivien Leigh plays her wife Gnavie, and now Britain and Germany are at war, but the two sides push the "couple" on the screen to the foreground together as the spokesperson of their own country's war image. If you count the "Li Huamei" who played Lancelot in the film, there are even more "big shots" related to real wars in that movie.

Vivien Leigh's performance in the hospital was a "big success" as usual, originally this kind of labor performance, the audience was not for watching the performance, for the audience of soldiers, the meaning of psychological comfort is far more than the meaning of viewing, more to let the soldiers in the war have a spiritual sustenance. After the performance, Vivien Leigh took photos with the members of the repertory troupe and the wounded soldiers in the hospital, and even held a small dance party in the hospital.

During this process, Maria only acted as an assistant to the wounded soldiers and the officers in the hospital.

While Vivien Leigh danced with the British officers in the garden of the hospital, Maria stood in a corner of the garden. Chatting with a wounded soldier with the rank of major.

The major had just the right leg injury, and the doctors did not allow him to play sports.

The Major felt very sorry that he couldn't dance with his idol stars.

Maria kindly said to him:

"We're going to Scapa Bay next month, so you should be able to leave the hospital then, right? Maybe I'll see you there again, too. ”

The colonel replied, "Well, that's right. ”

"On which warship did you serve?"

"It's the Glory, and he's sunk the military department to transfer me to the Queen Elizabeth. I'll report there on the 15th of next month. ”

Maria sighed, "Well, our plan is to go to Scapa Bay on the 17th to perform, and I hope you don't go to sea on that day, otherwise we won't meet you." ”

"Definitely not."

The Major replied categorically.

"We're going to have a big move at the end of the month, before that," he explained. The Queen will always be there. ”

Maria patted her chest. Smiled and replied, "That's good!" I'll make sure she dances with you when the time comes. ”

Afterwards, Maria specially called Vivien Leigh to take a photo with the major officer, and then happily parted ways.

Two days later. A telegram written in ciphertext was sent from England to the Netherlands. It was then transferred from the Netherlands to Germany.

The text of the telegram translated read: the end of January next year. There will be a heavy operation in the British Navy.

Maria's other identity is that she was a high-ranking spy planted in England by the German Gestapo Guò Vivien Leigh.

She encourages Vivien Leigh to terminate her contract with DreamWorks and encourage her to break away from Lin Han's control. It was completely at the behest of Lin Han and Hannah. When Vivien Leigh led her repertory troupe to perform all kinds of labor performances in various barracks on the British front, Maria also followed her everywhere in and out of various sensitive departments of the British army, taking the opportunity to collect all kinds of sensitive information.

Like in the movie 007, the agent infiltrates the enemy base camp and opens the safe to steal information, which is mostly just the plot of the movie. Intelligence work in the real world is often obtained by infiltrating the enemy's intelligence personnel and inadvertently stealing them through this kind of private "chat".

The British troops on the front line had no resistance to Vivien Leigh, the "English goddess", and with her cover, Maria's intelligence gathering work was very smooth.

During Christmas, when Maria followed Vivien Leigh in England to various sensitive locations of the British army to collect intelligence, British Churchill was staying in the United States, chasing the "cactus" Ghana President "begging grandpa to tell grandma" in the style of "fighting the autumn wind" and asking for assistance.

In October 1939, after the outbreak of war in Europe, the United States once again ushered in the "war dividend" that it had been "waiting for" for a long time.

After the end of World War I, Germany was resisted by the Treaty of Versailles, and it was precisely because of the continuous blood transfusion of the United States behind the scenes to help it restore its economy, and more than $40 billion in investment and loans flowed into Germany from the United States within ten years, helping Germany to restore its economy, industry, and military industry, and Hitler had the capital to start a world war in 1939.

The engines of German fighters, whether they are DB601 liquid-cooled engines or BMW 801 engines of FW190, are imported from the United States. Germany imported 50,000 tons of tetraethyl lead resistance from the United States before the war, and without these things, German planes would not have been able to fly at all.

As for a series of technologies, such as coal-to-oil technology and synthetic rubber technology, the United States "generously" "sold" to Germany in the form of "loans."

Lin Han often said that the more we study the economic exchanges between the United States and Germany before World War II, the more we will come to the idea that World War II was actually launched by the United States to raise the vicious dog of Germany.

In this plane, the United States plays the same role as it did in history. At this point, the President of Cactus Ghana picked up the vicious dog of Germany and bit Britain, and then took the opportunity to make a fortune in the war in the same way as Roosevelt, and even more blatant and unconcealed than him.

In December 1939, less than three weeks after Churchill took office as Prime Minister, he flew across the Atlantic to the United States in an Atlantic airliner to ask the President of Ghana for help.

At this time, France had not yet been defeated, and there was a "calm" on the land on the Western Front, and although Britain and Germany were fighting each other in the French sky and the Atlantic, they were in a "state of peace" of "sit-down war" on land.

Churchill's request for help to the United States was mainly to ask the United States to send battleships to carry out "commercial escorts" for the Anglo-American Atlantic trade routes. After the Battle of Norwegian, the British high-speed fleet suffered heavy losses and its ability to hunt down German raiding ships was almost completely destroyed. The new George V-class battleships are now only a half-finished product, and it is impossible to serve without a year, and even if they do, they will face the weakness of insufficient numbers. Theoretically, in the coming year, those two Shann-class battleships will have no "ships" to make in the Atlantic.

It's just that Churchill's trip to the United States did not go well.

Taking advantage of World War II to drain Britain's blood marrow so that the United States could use it to reach the top of the world, the American red-necked style of Cactus Ghana is the same as Roosevelt's, but more explicit.

After Churchill met with the President of Ghana, the President of Ghana first received him warmly. During this period, the British delegates, who arrived in the United States with Churchill, brandished banknotes and procured supplies everywhere in the United States. It's just that when the British were purchasing supplies, they were depressed to find that many of the materials they wanted had been ordered in advance by others.

The people who fought with the British for these supplies were the British allies in Asia, Japan.

PS: It's terrible, the serial number of the chapters in this chapter is written incorrectly, it should be chapter 249, and I actually wrote chapter 239,

I can't change the name of the chapter here.

It's Monday, so I'm going to give it a thumbs up. I'm writing a chapter and will update in the middle of the night. (To be continued......)