"Lord Kork, General Hauke, and the commanders of the Polish Brigade,

You have now reached the point of exhaustion.

Your foreign aid, the British Royal Navy, was completely wiped out on the afternoon of the 25th of last month. The Royal Navy, once known as the world's largest navy, is now a thing of the past. Now that the sea route is completely blocked by the Third Reich Navy, there is no hope for you to wait for reinforcements to come to the port of Narvik and pick you up by ship.

After the fall of the port of Narvik on 3 March, the navy of our Third Reich sent hundreds of tanks and tens of thousands of soldiers to Narvik. Forces from Trondheim in central Norway are also approaching the area. As for the escape to neutral Sweden, it has also been firmly blocked by the airborne forces of the Reich.

Not a single British plane has been seen in the skies of Narvik since March 3, and all you can hear is the death screams of Stuka and the harvesting of the HS129 plough. The sky and the sea of Narvik are now under the control of the navy and air force of the Third Reich, and the land is about to be taken over by us."

In the prime minister's office at 10 Downing Street, the nasty German-made Siemens radio continued to release "poison gas" to broadcast bad news.

Churchill, who sat on the radio and listened to the radio, had lost nearly ten pounds in the past ten days. The news of successive defeats has tormented the prime minister of the "Sunset Empire" to the point of inhuman form.

What was being broadcast on the receiver was the "Letter of Urging the Anglo-French Forces of Narvik" issued by the German Navy, Army and Air Force.

The 27,000 British, French, and Polish troops abandoned in the Narvik region because of the total destruction of the navy are now on the verge of annihilation.

After the Royal Navy was nearly completely wiped out in the Third Norwegian Battle on 25 December, the Nordic campaign, which lasted nearly 50 days, soon entered the closing phase.

After that battle, the Germans gained absolute supremacy of the Norwegian Sea, and soon the German navy launched a campaign to seize the port of Narvik from the sea.

The Scharn sisters, who had been wounded in the Third Norwegian Naval War, did not immediately return to their German home port for maintenance. Instead, they docked at the nearby port of Bergen for temporary minor repairs. In the battle on the 25th, the two ships together ate a total of 185-inch shells and a 16-inch shell, and their bodies were also heavily scarred. However, considering that the British Navy no longer has large surface warships, the two ships are not in a hurry to return to China for repairs.

After spending three days in the port of Bergen, simply undergoing repairs, replenishing the secondary and anti-aircraft guns that had been damaged in the naval battle. Soon departed from the port to take part in the campaign to capture the port of Narvik.

Having lost the control of the Norwegian Sea, the 27,000 troops left in the Narvik area by the Anglo-French forces were all turtles in the urn, and there was almost no escape.

On 2 March, the German Navy, under the cover of the Schahn sisters' cannons, had a landing site, and by 3 March, the German Navy had cleared the Narvik waterway of mines, and then a large number of destroyers with a shallow draft entered the waterway. Under the pressure of eighteen 406-mm guns behind him, coupled with the cooperation of naval aviation, the port of Narvik was captured on the same day.

The Anglo-French forces guarding the harbor had no fighting spirit at all under the double blow of German naval guns and aircraft bombardment, and after less than an hour of support, they completely broke out, and the Germans easily occupied the port of Narvik.

In this battle, the British, French, Polish and other multinational coalition forces, which were full of fighting spirit because of the defeat of the British Navy, did not even do a good job of destroying the port facilities when they fled. This made it more convenient for the Germans to follow up.

The remnants of the British army then retreated inland. Continue to resist. At the same time, a large number of mountain units of the German Army landed in Narvik by sea in Guò.

On this day, Oslo Airport in southern Norway sent a large number of transport planes, carrying more than 2,000 paratroopers, to be airborne along the railway line connecting the Norwegian and Swedish borders, in addition to 16 Junkers transport planes successfully landing on a frozen lake nearby. A reinforced company of mountain howitzers was delivered.

On this day, about 2,000 SS soldiers with "traveling passports" traveled from Sweden to Norway via the Guò railway.

With the tacit consent of the Swedish government, this SS elite, which entered Norway "for tourism" from Sweden, brought with them large quantities of ammunition and supplies. They will and the Airborne Forces. Blocked the passage of the Anglo-French troops into Sweden.

On March 4, the Germans established a field airfield in the Narvik area, taking advantage of the facilities left behind by the British. A large number of JU87 Stuka bombers and HS129 plowers were soon transferred to the area, and on this day, the landing Germans also obtained twelve 25-ton No. 3 tanks by sea.

The Battle of Narvik soon entered the "garbage time" of its end.

After the Germans captured the port of Narvik, the remnants of the Anglo-French forces advanced along the iron to the Swedish border, and their only chance of survival was to flee into the "neutral country" Sweden, but this passage was blocked by airborne troops and SS troops entering Norway with tourist passports.

Although the German Airborne Forces and SS were stuck in the escape path of the Allied forces, they only had artillery such as mountain howitzers, and lacked tanks and heavy artillery. However, the Nordic region is mountainous, and in March, the snow is more than 1.5 meters thick. The mountainous terrain and the snow cover make it difficult for tanks to move here.

After the Anglo-French forces occupied Narvik, they sent 98 tanks here, one-third of which were the bulky Mathilde I and II tanks. As a result, this bulky infantry tank simply could not move an inch in the Narvik region. When the Anglo-French forces abandoned Narvik and retreated eastward, these bulky infantry tanks were all abandoned. A small number of French S35 tanks were also terrible here, and were largely abandoned during the retreat due to mechanical problems and road accessibility, and eventually all became trophies of the Germans.

The only thing that came in handy was the Vickers six-ton light tank, which was heavily used in the Chinese theater and barely managed to be used in the poor mountainous and snowy terrain of the region. However, the terrain was a natural anti-tank position, and the weakly armored Vic tanks could not be used as arrows for an armored assault here. Its weak armor was undoubtedly exposed in battle, and the Vickers tanks suffered heavy losses from the light anti-tank weapons in the hands of the German airborne troops and the SS, and the Anglo-French forces had already lost air supremacy. The weak top armor of the Vickers tank even pierced through the 129 mm machine gun of the HS13.

The Anglo-French attempt to flee into Sweden was soon met with a humiliating failure.

By 8 March, nearly 20,000 British and French troops had landed on the sea in the west and the airborne troops and SS troops in the east, encircled in a narrow area less than 50 kilometers from the Swedish border.

Then, on March 9, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill broadcast from Germany to Britain and heard a letter of surrender from the Germans to the Narvik garrison.

On 12 March, Lord Cork, the British commander of the Battle of Narvik, and the French General Cork, ordered their troops to lay down their arms and surrender to the Germans, ending the Norse campaign that lasted nearly two months.

The British, French, and Polish multinational forces that landed in Narvik had a total of 27,000 men before the war, and at the end of the battle, more than 19,000 were captured and about 2,000 were killed. And the remaining five thousand people were "missing" in the war.

In fact, most of the more than 5,000 missing people were scattered and fled in the mountains and forests during the eastward retreat to Sweden, and because of the great borders of Norway and Sweden, the German airborne troops and SS could only block the main passages. Among the defeated Anglo-French forces, a large number of people still entered Sweden by scattering and fleeing.

In the month after the war, the Swedes received more than 2,000 "illegal immigrants" one after another. In northern Europe in March, it is still extremely cold. Most of the remaining who were not "received" froze to death on the way to Sweden, and their number is estimated at around three thousand.

In the decades that followed, the remains of dead soldiers could often be found in the forests as local Swedish and Norwegian hunters hunted and skied in the mountains.

The Lieutenant Chock, who was guarding the radar station, was one of the British troops who had been lucky enough to escape to Sweden via the Guò path. When the army retreated to the east, he deserted and did not participate in the main force to break through the Guò railway line.

Before the war, Lieutenant Jock was a skier, and he used his pounds and rifles to exchange a local hunting family for the most important equipment for snow escape: a sled, and then successfully escaped to Sweden.

After entering Sweden, he was taken in and covered by a local farmer, and was not directly handed over to the Swedish government, who detained the soldiers who had escaped the British and French for a long time under the guise of "illegal entry" because of German pressure, and did not release them until a year later.

After the war, Lieutenant Jock wrote a book about his escape, and later someone made a movie called "Escape from the Ice Field" based on his experience, which recorded this tragic history.

After the end of the Nordic Campaign, Churchill, who was anxious, flew directly to the United States again on 15 March. In less than four months after becoming prime minister, Churchill flew to the United States for help, and the embarrassment of the British Empire in this war was evident.

On Churchill's trip, in addition to urging the Americans to deliver the four battleships as soon as possible, another idea was to draw the Americans into the war against the Soviet Union and Germany as soon as possible.

However, although the upper echelons, including the president of Ghana, were very involved in the war in Europe, Uncle Sam was still hesitant in the face of the terrible combination of the Soviet Union and Germany.

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