The Royal Navy was completely annihilated, and the French Rose Mansion at this time was also full of sorrow and fear.

In October 1939, after the outbreak of war in Europe, in addition to declaring war on the Soviet Union, the French government also did another thing to do was to ban the French Communist Party at home, arrest its leaders and persecute leftists in the country.

On 25 July, Churchill delivered a speech to the Nationalists on national radio, declaring that "the British Empire will continue to fight to the end, and will never seek peace alone because of the defeat in the naval war."

But in this era, the promise of this thing is the most unreliable, and besides, this fiasco, how long Churchill, the prime minister, can sit in this position, no one can say.

That night, the French Prime Minister Dara and Churchill exchanged a whole night of transnational telegrams to discuss the topic of how the war should continue, and at this juncture, the United States from the west also sent a "forced needle" telegram at a critical moment, renewing the breath of the British and French two patients who were about to die.

However, the Americans' "mouth cannon" support is only a mouth cannon after all, and real money and real material support is the most realistic. The biggest headache for Britain and France now is the safety of shipping in the Atlantic after the total destruction of the Royal Navy. In addition, another "small problem" is the fate of the nearly 30,000 British, French, Polish and Czech allied troops who were "abandoned" in Narvik, Northern Europe.

In the last days of February, both Britain and France were in a state of intense precaution. In front of No. 10 Downing Street, a large number of people gather every day. There are all kinds of voices calling for peace talks, those calling for revenge and continuing the war, and those demanding that Churchill step down and get out.

Churchill did not step down because of the defeat of the Navy.

One is because he is thick-skinned enough, and the other is because no one in the country is willing to take over this mess now. The third is the support of the "American cousin" from across the Atlantic.

On 26 February, the President of Ghana made a public speech in which he claimed that Britain needed a strong prime minister, and that the current prime minister, Winston Churchill, was more than capable of doing so, and announced that the U.S. government was considering selling the two additional battleships, the Wyoming and Arkansas, to the British.

The battleships Orming and Arkansas were both "old ships" built before the explosion of World War I. It's the "old man" who is already old and about to lose his teeth. When Churchill made his second trip to the United States a month ago, the Americans wanted to kill Kaizi and sell the two old ships to the British, but Churchill refused.

But now the strength of the overall navy's capital ships has temporarily fallen to the sixth in the world, and the capital ships are even inferior to the "British Empire", which is one of the three small powers in South America.

But what the ordinary British and French people don't know is. Before the announcement of the sale of the two old warships to the British, there was a great deal of debate within the US top brass about whether or not to sell the two Nevada-class battleships to Britain as agreed in January. The main reason was that the Americans believed that with the current state of the British Navy, which was completely crippled, selling two obsolete and old battleships to the British government was just a gift to Germany. It would be more threatening to hold these two battleships in the hands of the United States itself.

Although this opinion is not wrong, in the current situation where the capital ships of the British Navy are completely destroyed, if the Americans do not "pull the British cousin" again. The British, who had been cornered by the German navy in the Atlantic, were very likely to have a direct truce with the Germans. In order to kick the British out of the war. The terms of the peace talks put forward by Germany under Hannah's control were very lenient: Germany did not want a penny of war reparations from the British, but only demanded the return of the African colonies that had been taken away during the First World War to Germany, which was not a very harsh condition.

There is an old Chinese saying that a three-year-old child holds gold in the city, how can he not be coveted.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British Empire was known as the empire on which the sun never set. Its colonies are spread all over the world, and the land "the sun never sets" all year round. The huge colonial market brought a hundred years of hegemony to the British Empire. And what supports the hegemonic status of the empire that never sets is its world's first navy.

While the Royal Navy maintained its position as number one in the world, whether it was the Yankee American cousin across the Atlantic. It is also Germany, the challenger to Central and Northern Europe to the east, although they salivate with suspicion as they look at the fat of the huge colonial market in the hands of the British Empire, but they can only shrink their necks and honestly wait for their opportunities.

The British Empire's downward spiral and eventual collapse began with two challenges from Germany, a "second-hand" European country during World War I. And in this plane, where history was shattered beyond recognition by the time-travelers, the British Empire collapsed years earlier than in history.

Less than five months after the start of the war in October 1939, the Royal Navy, the world's largest army, was completely wiped out.

Great Britain without a navy is like a beautiful woman walking in the red light district in the middle of the night without clothes, surrounded by vicious wolves with fierce eyes and trying to reach out to her.

After March 1940, the British Empire was now weakened to the extreme.

The most capable of snatching the British Empire was his "little cousin" the United States of America.

It's just that the Americans have gotten almost what they want through the Anglo-American Washington Agreement, which was signed not long ago. Turn your face at this time. Then he rolled up his sleeves and went down to "rob" like Su De, this kind of eating is too ugly on the first hand, and it has to seem a little unnecessary to do so.

What is more important is that now China, the Soviet Union and Germany are jointly working, which makes the United States jealous. Savvy Americans, too, do not want to get involved in the war too early, at least at the right time. According to the Americans' cunning mentality of stealing opportunities, they originally imagined that they would have chosen to pick peaches when the warring countries were indistinguishable and exhausted, as they had done in World War I, so as to exert the least effort and obtain the greatest benefits.

Before the war, the United States continued to transfuse blood to Germany, helped Hitler to carry out armaments, and provided a series of advanced technologies such as aircraft engines, aviation fuel, and coal-fired oil, as well as huge commercial loans of more than 40 billion yuan. Reenact the "script" of the First World War.

In October 1939, the war in Europe began as the Americans had expected, but the emergence of the Traveler, with the help of Lynch, the smasher of history, united the Soviet Union and Germany, the sworn enemies, and then the British Empire, known as the world's largest navy. In three naval battles in less than three months, the British lost a bizarre succession, and in just three naval battles, the British defeated their century-old family at once.

The defeat of the Royal Navy was so complete and crisp that it was completely unexpected by everyone.

This "other people's house" war, which the Americans have been "preparing" for a long time, was not staged at all according to the script that the Americans had expected.

After the end of the Third Battle of the Norwegian Sea, the Germans took advantage of the victory to hand over an olive branch to Britain for peace talks, and the conditions put forward were also reasonable and not harsh, while the Anglo-German peace talks were really successful. This is the last thing the Americans want to see, and the president of Ghana, after urgent discussions with his aides, can only increase his support for Britain at this crucial point, so as to return the "war script" to the line they envisioned.

Therefore, the upper echelons of the United States, headed by the President of Ghana, discussed to the end, and in view of Britain's current poor strategic situation, they still agreed to the deal and "kindly" sold two additional Russian-class battleships to the British for emergency relief.

In addition to supporting the British in the sale of warships, the U.S. government also undertook the British order to convert several merchant ships into escort aircraft carriers. And that's not all. From the end of February, the U.S. government used official force. They began to secretly manipulate public opinion and change the public's perception of the war in Europe.

In the field of propaganda, the first thing the US government did was to bring up the nuclear contamination incident in colleges and universities that caused a sensation in the world a few years ago. Make a big fuss, and the spearhead is pointed at the current Soviet Union and Germany.

Preparations for the propaganda of public opinion before the war in Europe began to involve the United States more deeply.

Britain and France spent the last days of February in trepidation and grief, and on March 1, news came out that Britain, the United States, and France felt like a bolt from the blue.

The USSR struck.

On March 1, the Soviet Union, which had already declared war on Britain. It ended the state of "pseudo-war" that had been declared without war for the past five months, and on this day showed its ferocious claws.

At six o'clock in the morning of 1 March, Soviet planes taking off from Tajikistan bombed the few British military bases in Afghanistan, and on the Afghan border, tens of thousands of Soviet Red Army, driving tanks and cars, crossed the border in a mighty way and entered Afghanistan in a big way.

The British government, which was attracted to Europe with all its troops, could not use extra troops to defend the key areas of northern India and Pakistan at this time, and could only watch as more than 100,000 Soviet Red Army troops moved south as if they were in nowhere.

It is only because of the backward transportation in Afghanistan and taking into account the factor of logistics and supply, the Soviet Red Army did not have too many troops entering the Afghan region, "only" about 200,000, but even these 200,000 troops were not able to cope with the British Empire, which needed to open up battlefields in South Asia, Central Asia, and Europe. Britain, whose main ethnic group had only 40 million people, controlled colonies all over the world, and its defects of being too large and underpopulated were undoubtedly evident in this war.

The reason why the Soviets did not go all out in Afghanistan was due to Stalin's cautious thinking. The biggest enemy of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and Pakistan entering the Indian Ocean was not the British army, but the local transportation environment, and the long supply lines were the biggest enemy of the Soviet Red Army's high-speed advance. In 1940, when the regularization of the Soviet Red Army was still in progress, Stalin did not intend to spread the stall too large all at once. In this wave of the offensive of the Soviet Red Army, the Afghan region of Central Asia is not the main battlefield direction, but the offensive direction that it really attaches importance to is Russia's century-old feud and the Turks, who have the "good name" of "the sick man of West Asia". The attack on Afghanistan was only to contain the British, who were already overwhelmed by the British, so that they could not support the Turks.

On the third day after the fall of the British Royal Navy, the Soviet government formally demanded to Turkey to "lease" land within 50 kilometers of both sides of the Bosphorus, and at the same time demanded that Turki return the land that was "disputed" between Russia and Turkey.

Of course, Stalin's appearance was extremely ugly.

On March 3, negotiations between the Soviet Union and Turkey rightfully failed. When the Soviet Union declared war on Turkey, the million-strong Soviet Red Army, which had been waiting for a long time, crossed the Soviet-Turkish border and launched an all-out attack on Turkey.

At this time, Turkey had long been frightened by the heavy casualties of World War I. During the war between Turkey and Russia during World War I, Germany was still "backing" it behind its back. But during this World War II period, which was changed beyond recognition by Lin Han, the Turks sadly found that now they can only rely on themselves to face the claws of the "polar bear".

As early as 1939, after Britain and France declared war on the Soviet Union, in order to contain the Soviet Union, Britain and France secretly supported a lot of Turkey's arms, and in 1940, the support was much stronger. So the Buffalo fighters that supported Finland were also sent to Turkey.

However, in the face of the huge pressure of the million-dollar Soviet Red Army, the little military aid from Britain and France was really a drop in the bucket and could not play much of a role. Under the fierce blows of the million-strong Soviet Red Army, the Turkish army was soon crushed and a large part of the country fell. The progress of the Soviet Red Army in Turkey was relatively smooth, and its desire to open up the Bosphorus and Dardanelles and extend its claws into the Mediterranean was just around the corner.

Changes in Central and West Asia, after the fall of the British Royal Navy. The first ripple effect was triggered.

The second ripple effect is Japan.

Shortly after the end of the Third Battle of the Norwegian Sea, on February 27. Tabun Yamaguchi and Chiaki Matsuda, who had the privilege of observing the entire process of the final destruction of the British Royal Navy on the flagship battleship Scharnhorst, received a telegram from the Emperor of Japan urgently summoning him to return home.

The German Navy, which was originally extremely weak, relied on the help of the "gods" to completely annihilate the British Navy, which was known as the first before the war, in three naval battles in less than three months, such a brilliant result. It makes the Japanese, who also have the possession of "gods", itch to see it.

Before the three Norwegian naval battles, Japan's top brass, especially in the navy, was apprehensive about a war with the United States. However after three naval battles in the Norwegian Sea, the German navy was strikingly impressive. But the Japanese found out that they also had such a powerful "big killing weapon" in their hands.

The gambling nature of the Japanese, who have always liked to "gamble on the fortunes of the country", has resurfaced.

The capital ships of the British Royal Navy have been completely wiped out, and the long passage of tens of thousands of kilometers from the west coast of the Pacific Ocean to the Suez Canal in the Indian Ocean is almost an "ownerless" road. The empire on which the sun never sets without a navy, a huge colony, is now just a "three-year-old child with gold in the city". The British Empire, now facing the challenge of the Soviet Union and Germany in Europe, is no longer able to protect itself, and has no flaws in Asia.

As long as the Japanese wanted, grabbed, and occupied, almost all the land on both sides of the long channel from the west coast of the Pacific Ocean to the Suez Canal was taken and demanded.

The best thing is that the U.S. Navy, which originally gave the Japanese the most headache, wanted to sell warships to the British at this critical juncture, and the U.S. Navy was also greatly reduced in strength in the short term, and with the help of the gods and Nadeshiko, compared with the glorious victory of the German Navy with the help of the gods, now those in the Japanese top who know Li Huamei's cunzài, in their eyes, even the terrible American giants seem to have become like paper figures, as if they can be poked down with a light stab.

On 1 March, when the Soviet Red Army entered Afghanistan, an FW200 passenger plane, carrying all the crew members of the Japanese naval observation group that had experienced the Norwegian naval battle, took off from Berlin and flew eastward, all the way east, crossed the border of the Soviet Union, refueled and replenished at its domestic airfield, and after a one-day flight to the Far East, and finally landed in Tokyo, Japan, on 3 March.

Most of the people in these Japanese observation groups are the captains of the Japanese Navy's warships and even the commander of the fleet, and this trip to Germany brought back the valuable experience of the actual combat after the combination of the ship spirit and the warship, and also gave the Japanese dwarf the courage and self-confidence to challenge Uncle Sam.

The biggest obstacle for the Great Japanese Empire, which was already hungry and dizzy, to enjoy the British Empire's beef feast was the United States of America, which had made a lot of profits through the Anglo-American Washington Treaty.

The Japanese, who had regained confidence in their own strength, finally could not bear it anymore after the collapse of the British Navy.

After a long flight across the world, the captain of the future battleship Yamato, Chiaki Tada, and the captain of the aircraft carrier Musashi, Tarumi Yamaguchi, were both exhausted at this time. When the two staggered off the four-engine FW200 airliner, they were surprised to find that the commander of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, was actually at the airport to greet them.

As soon as they met, Yamamoto Isoroku asked the two of them straight to the point: "Is it true that the Royal Navy has been wiped out as the telegram says?" And the losses of the German Navy were really very minor? ”

"Yes!"

Yamaguchi looked around and found that there were several other high-ranking naval officers around him who didn't know Yamato Nadeshiko's zài, and they were all members of the team who went to Germany with him to observe his companions.

Yamamoto Fifty-six said: "There is no need to taboo them, it is time to let them know the truth about Your Excellency Yamato!" ”

"What's going on, Your Excellency Commander, what are you talking about?"

The conversation between the two immediately attracted the attention of their colleagues who got off the plane.

Yamamoto Isoroku explained to these people: "Come with me to meet His Majesty the Emperor, there are some truths, and it is time to explain them to you." ”

Soon, the high-ranking naval officers of these observation groups were sent by special car to the residence of Emperor Takahito Mikasa in Tokyo. Since Emperor Hirohito was destroyed by Hayashi Han and his residence had become a murderous residence, Emperor Takahito did not want to live in that "ominous place", so his original residence, Mikasagu Palace, gradually replaced the Imperial Palace and became the emperor's residence and center of activities.

In Mikasa-nomiya, the group of Japanese Navy officers who had returned from Germany met with a full circle of Japanese high-ranking officials, and then a protracted secret meeting was held here.

At this meeting, the captains of these future Japanese battleships or aircraft carriers finally knew all about the existence of the "god" of Yamato Nadeshiko (Li Huamei), and because they understood why the German Navy's fleet at that time had so many incomprehensible "unreasonable" behaviors during the trip to Germany, they finally figured out the truth about why the German Navy, which was obviously in a weak position, could so easily win three unprecedented naval battles in a row.

Finally, after the Japanese officers of the observation group had finished telling the story of the Battle of the Norwegian Sea, Emperor Takahito excitedly said to the Japanese officers in the room, "Fortunately, we also have one of such gods in the Great Japanese Empire!" The German god was possessed on the battleship Scharnhorst! And we, the patron saints of the Empire of Japan, are on the battleship Yamato! ”

Since Japan abandoned its mainland policy and was determined to reconcile with China, and at the same time took advantage of World War II to go south to seize the colonies in the South Seas, the strength of the Japanese navy was rapidly recovering with the help of British and American loans.

Today's Japanese Navy, the cutting-edge battleship Yamato, is nearing the completion stage, and it will be launched for sea trials in June at most, and with the help of the ship's soul possession, the construction speed of the Yamato battleship with a design tonnage of up to 64,000 tons is beyond everyone's imagination.

The Musashi aircraft carrier will be launched for trial operation in April this year, and the two cranes: Zuihe and Zuihe aircraft carriers will be officially put into service in May, and the keels of the two aircraft carriers, Feilong and Canglong, are also planned to be laid in March, which is also ahead of schedule.

Since Li Huamei entered the upper echelons of Japan as Yamato Nadeshiko, the Japanese Navy has received all the good news in the past year. With the help of Li Huamei's "historical prophet," after the outbreak of war in Europe in October 1939, Japan made a lot of money in the international financial market in the past six months, relying on the dividends of the war and the pre-war speculation of the "prediction" of the war, and the money was quickly invested in naval construction.

The only headache for the current Japanese government was that the British Navy had fallen a little too soon. The strength of the Japanese navy, which had been battered by the Chinese war, had not yet fully recovered to its peak state. Faced with the tempting aroma of "British beef" feast, for the time being, I can only endure and can't stretch out my hand. (To be continued......)