A few days earlier, as the situation in Belgium had deteriorated, the British had begun to plan an "engine operation" to withdraw the expeditionary force from the port of Tongguò and break out of the German encirclement.

However, on the 18th, the surprise attack of the German Navy directly smashed the "generator" that had not yet begun to work.

On the 18th, the daytime air combat operations ended in a crushing defeat for the British and French air forces, and the unfavorable news of the defeat spread throughout the British Isles that night through the German broadcast to the British. The embarrassment of the Anglo-French forces in the Dunkirk region is no secret to the present Britain.

And before Churchill went to the Navy headquarters building for a meeting, his staff gave him an idea:

"If the army cannot be withdrawn as planned, and the hundreds of thousands of expeditionary forces are wiped out, it will be difficult for the citizens of the British Empire to support the country in the war in the days to come."

"If the British Empire were to withdraw from the war in such a wolf way, we would lose a qiē forever."

Compared to the same period in history, if the situation in Britain is a hundred times worse. In Central Asia, the Soviet Red Army now occupies all of Afghanistan and extends into Pakistan. On the eastern side of the Indian Peninsula, the liberation of China from Guò lasted for half a year, and the road was built little by little to the Indo-Burmese border. In this half-year-long "step-by-step" operation, the entire northern part of Burma has been completely controlled by China, and the southern part of the country has been heavily infiltrated. The area controlled by the British Empire in Burma is now limited to a few large "node" cities near the coast.

In May, it was rumored that several indigenous warlords in Myanmar, who used to be as obedient as dogs, are now rushing to hug the CCP's "thighs", and their betrayal of the British Empire and the defection of new masters have been put on the table. There is news that says. The Chinese side is prepared to allow the Burmese warlords to establish their own states in the form of "national autonomy". Following the loss of China in 1936, Burma, another British colony in Asia, was on the verge of dismantling.

And the jewel in the crown of the empire on which the sun never sets, the Indian peninsula, China and the Soviet Union after half a year of hard work, one east and one west. It has also extended its tentacles to India.

As for the war in West Asia, after two months of war, Turkey suffered heavy losses under the blows of hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army. Although the Soviet Red Army suffered heavy losses in the course of the war, the situation of the Turks was even worse. According to the information from the Turkish side, the Turks were ready to give in and agreed to the Soviets' offer of "leasing" to the Soviet Union dozens of kilometers of land on both sides of the strait passage and allowing the Soviet Union to establish a military base in Turkey.

The wars in Western Europe had just begun, but the British Empire's colonial system around the world was now in tatters. It's almost over.

In today's Britain, to paraphrase a common saying, it has almost reached the point where there is nothing to lose.

It stands to reason that the British Empire should make peace with Germany now, and then go back to dealing with the burning crisis in India. But it is now clear to the top of the British government that the British Army, even against China and the Soviet Union, will not be able to take advantage of the conflict in India. More importantly, the British government was instigated, or pressured, by the Americans.

The upper echelons of the British Empire were clear about one thing: now was the time to make peace with the German armistice. Even if Hitler kept his promise, there would be no more war between the two sides. But Britain alone still could not defeat the alliance of China and the Soviet Union.

China has a population of 450 million, and the Soviet Union has a population of 180 million, and the war with these two countries, even if it is only against one, Britain is not confident that it can take advantage of much. Not to mention two.

Make peace with Germany now, and the British Empire will still be finished.

The only hope of the British was to draw the United States into the war and let the Americans "help" them solve the three countries of China, the Soviet Union and Germany. And the only chance for the British government is that in the process of settling the three countries of China, the Soviet Union and Germany, the Americans themselves have suffered a lot. Fall together with China, the Soviet Union and Germany, and then the "-stirring stick" Britain will have a chance.

How could the US government fail to see that little bit in the heart of the British government headed by Churchill. However, the current US President Ghana has been propped up by the chaebols of various parties in the United States. The plutocracy needs the United States and Canada to intervene in the war, they need the United States to end the war, they need the United States to arm on a large scale, to arm on a large scale, to participate in the war on a large scale.

During Churchill's third trip to Washington, the U.S. government, headed by President Cactus Ghana, prescribed the British a dose of tiger and wolf medicine that could "save lives".

The prescription is: continue the war with the Germans, and when the U.S. government has sorted out the anti-war voices at home, the U.S. will join the war and fight alongside the British Empire.

One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, and the governments of Britain and the United States are also becoming more and more frenzied to brush the lower limit.

On the evening of the 18th, before Churchill went to the naval building for a meeting, he deliberately broadcast the state of the Dunkirk area and the daytime war report to the civilian population of the British Isles.

Then, as in history, a large number of civilian ships began to gather along the coast close to the Channel side after seven o'clock, especially in the Dover area, which is closest to Dunkirk. A large number of civilians spontaneously organized themselves and prepared to risk breaking through the German blockade and rushing to Dunkirk to rescue the expeditionary force.

The British government's top brass did this out of a very dark psychology: the German navy now controlled part of the sea control of the area of Dunkirk, while the British and French forces, after a day of hard fighting, barely occupied a section of coastline about 10 kilometers long near the channel side. Even if the port of Dunkirk was not obtained, it was possible to withdraw some of the troops along the coastline of Guò as long as small boats could dock - but not too much.

Although this stretch of coastline is not a good port and the population throughput is limited, it would be good to be able to evacuate a few more years of the current miserable situation in Britain.

Rather than withdrawing the troops in distress, the real dark idea of the British government was that after the news of the front line was revealed to the people, a large number of citizens spontaneously organized a large number of private ships to participate in the rescue operation out of patriotic enthusiasm, and the German navy in that area would inevitably intercept it in the process.

At that time, the open sea of that coastline will become a terrible slaughterhouse. A large number of civilians who spontaneously organized rescue efforts will then suffer heavy casualties.

Where there is war, there is death, and death produces hatred, and hatred exacerbates war. The dark thought in the minds of Churchill and his staff was that in the course of such a "spontaneous" rescue of the people, they would inevitably be blocked by the Germans. There would be a large number of "civilian" casualties, and then with a little propaganda from the state plane, it would be easy to paint a horrific picture to the population: a horrific massacre in the English Channel, with thousands of civilian bodies floating in the sea.

When the time comes, the voice of "revenge" from the people will overwhelm the voice of "peace." Let the British Empire continue to "gamble" on the table of this war.

Historically, in order to protect the British army's deciphering of the Ennig code, Churchill could sacrifice a Coventry, but with prior knowledge, let it be bombed indiscriminately by the Luftwaffe. And in this plane, in order for the people to continue to support the war, Churchill did not hesitate to send "patriotic" British civilians to the altar.

That stretch of coastline, which was barely controlled by the British and French forces, was not easy to follow by sea. During daytime air battles, under the cover of Luftwaffe fighters. The Germans dropped a large number of mines here with airplanes. In the battle of the surprise attack on Dunkirk in the early morning, among the German ships that followed the surprise attack, there were also two minelayers that laid a large number of mines off the coast of Dunkirk, although one minelayer was later sunk by the British Navy's torpedo boats in the process of withdrawing after laying mines, but the Germans still completed their tactical mission.

Churchill knew from the navy that the mines dropped by the Germans were very targeted. During the daytime battle on the 18th, the British Navy scooped up a small number of floating mines from the sea, but found them upon inspection. Most of these mines can be evaluated as "shoddy" bargains, and the craftsmanship is extremely backward. There is hardly any scientific and technological content.

Except for a small number of mines laid by needle warships and large ships, most of the mines are drifting mines with a total weight of less than 20 kilograms.

These light floating mines, used to bomb warships or large ships, are obviously not powerful enough, but they are used to deal with those civilian and civilian, hundreds of tons or even dozens of tons of small sampans. But it's more than enough.

In fact, these mines are prepared for small sampans of less than 100 tons.

Lin Han and Hannah from the future know very well what the historical Generator Operation is all about. The British were able to successfully withdraw more than 300,000 Anglo-French troops from Dunkirk in a matter of days, and they could not have done without a large number of civilian ships organized by the people themselves.

Historically, due to repeated bombing by the Luftwaffe, the port facilities in Dunkirk were severely damaged, and it was extremely difficult for the ships used for retreat to dock if the tonnage was slightly larger. It can only be transferred by a large number of small boats. In addition, a large number of self-organized light civilian ships ran back and forth between Dover and Dunkirk, and rats moved hundreds of troops out of Dunkirk little by little.

The success of the historic generator scheme is entirely the result of the "participation of the whole people" in the UK.

Hannah and Linhan, who knew this history, where could they have given the British a chance to "recreate" a miracle. Long before the war, Hannah ordered the Admiralty to develop this extremely cheap lightweight drifting mine.

These small and lightweight mines are made of wood and usually have a charge of only fifteen kilograms. Due to its small size and light weight, a minelayer of several hundred tons can easily carry thousands of them, and it is easy to pull out a huge blockade belt at sea.

Although this kind of light mine has the shortcomings of being too powerful and easy to sweep away, its technical level is probably similar to that of a product from 50 years ago. However, the advantage is that it is easy to manufacture, low cost, easy to produce in large quantities, and very suitable for mass deployment in an emergency.

It is very easy to eliminate this old-fashioned and backward drifting mine, and the British only need to send minesweepers and bring equipment such as minesweepers to sweep a large number of them like sweeping the ground. But this will take time, and it will also require sea dominance.

At the time, the British had no one, and the latter had to ask the German navy, which was nailed here like nails, if they agreed.

For Hannah and Linhan, this product, numbered S mines, could achieve the tactical purpose of the design as long as they could hinder the British civilian rescue ship for one night.

After dark, the Luftwaffe continued to sort, dropping more S mines outside the coastline controlled by the British.

At ten o'clock that night, at the mouth of the Thames River in London and the port of Dover, Britain and France assembled two cruisers, fifteen destroyers, and more than thirty torpedo boats, and sailed together for Dunkirk. Earlier, the French also sent a fast fleet consisting of one cruiser, four destroyers, and more than a dozen torpedo boats from the mainland port to set off in advance to rush to the same target as the British.

These fleets were followed by more than six hundred civilian and semi-military vessels of all sizes. From private yachts, police patrol boats to small fishing boats, most of them are "small sampans" with a tonnage of less than 100 tons.

Operation Generator began.

The battle still starts in the air. Before the fleet could be dispatched, a group of old Swordfish attack planes burst into fire with fire, targeting the two old former dreadnoughts that had deliberately sunk in the shallow waters of Dunkirk. If the two former dreadnoughts are not destroyed, even if the British and French forces recapture the port of Dunkirk, they will still be unusable. What's more, nearly half of the coastline occupied by the Anglo-French forces on British land was within the range of the naval guns of these two ships.

During the daytime air raids, the British Air Force tried every means to attack the two former dreadnoughts, but under the effective interception of the Luftwaffe, only a small number of aircraft were able to fly over and drop fire, but the effect was extremely poor. And the Swordfish attack aircraft sent to carry torpedoes were depressed to find two problems when they launched the attack.

The first is the problem of high tide and low tide in the sea, the two old former dreadnoughts deliberately ran aground on the beach, and the draft of the entire hull was only one or two meters at low tide, and the air-dropped torpedoes were directly planted under the water.

The second is that their parking position is "too good", and there are three "unwanted" modified merchant ships on the side that have washed and stranded together, becoming their natural lightning barriers. A small number of Swordfish who had managed to take advantage of the high tide to break through the interception of the German planes were depressed when approaching, and found that it was difficult to find an unhindered angle to fire torpedoes.

Therefore, the British plane's daytime attack did not achieve its tactical purpose, except for damaging a modified merchant ship that had deliberately washed the beach and ran aground. So at 9:40 a.m., the British Air Force took off from Dover with two waves of 12 Swordfish attack planes each, preparing to break through at low altitude to bomb the two former dreadnoughts, in addition to the Wellington medium bombers and the "Handsome Warrior" night fighters that had just been developed and put into production.

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