Today's third update

Cactus Garner wants to draw the United States into the war in Europe, and the premise of his vision is that he can only do so after the success of the third presidential company. Now is the sensitive period of the US presidential election, and the Republicans have long been blood-red in their eyes in order to compete for the presidency, and they are stubbornly staring at the mistakes in Ghana's policy. When the Republicans came to power, the consortium standing behind them would not oppose a war with Germany, provided that it was carried out by itself.

During this time, the Germans, after winning the French campaign, also cleverly launched a series of diplomatic offensives. The representative of the German ambassador to the United States has repeatedly called on the US Government to mediate the war between Britain and Germany, and has even stated with great august that as long as Britain and Germany can cease the war and restore peace, they will be able to reduce France's war reparations for the sake of Europe's long-term peace and stability. It was precisely through this explicit method that the Germans constantly released friendly balloons to the Americans, and even after the US Navy's "all-sail escort" incident was brutally slapped in the face, it did not change.

If the British are not pulled, it will be difficult for the British to support the war when the sea is cut off, and if the British are pulled, there will be a big crisis in Ghana's dream of a third presidential re-election. Whether or not to send a fleet to protect the British ships in the Atlantic has now become the biggest headache for Cactus Ghana.

While Cactus Garner was having a headache over whether to pull his British cousin again, Churchill was so anxious that he almost pulled out the hair on his head.

On the 23rd, Ghana received a telegram from Churchill for help, but did not reply for a long time.

At eight o'clock that night, in the Prime Minister's office at 10 Downing Street, Winston. Churchill and his chatters were listening to the German-British radio on the radio.

This time, the German attack fleet went to sea on a high note. It was broadcast to the British radio, and the whole of the British Isles was now shaken by this news.

What it means when such a powerful fleet enters the Atlantic, the nightmare the British have already experienced once a few months ago. At that time, if it were not for the Americans pulling a hand at the critical moment, the British government at that time could hardly support it and agree to the Germans' demand for peace talks.

But now

In today's German radio broadcast to Britain, in addition to once again announcing the news of the dispatch of the surface fleet, the Germans also handed out an "olive branch of peace" to the British in a high-profile manner.

"For the past ten months. The war that took place between Britain and Germany was a completely tragic war. ”

"Germany's war against Poland was only an attempt to recover Danzig, which had been forcibly ceded by the Paris Peace Treaty during World War I, and was the result of the brutal oppression of Germany by the criminal Paris Peace Treaty after World War I. After recovering the lost territory of Danzig, if most of the German troops had withdrawn from Poland and re-established the Republic of Poland on the old lands. ”

The so-called re-establishment of the Republic of Poland refers to the two nascent "states" established by the Soviet Union and Germany in their respective Polish-controlled districts after the end of the French campaign in June. The distinction between Germany-supported federal Poland and Soviet-supported democratic Poland was nothing more than a "Polish version" of West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) and East Germany (GDR).

As a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Germany to avoid war, Poland, the stepping foot of Europe, was split in two by the Soviets and Germans and "resurrected" in a comical way. The Soviet Union and Germany recognized the two nascent "East Poland" and "West Poland" for the first time. And China recognized the two countries a little later.

The Polish question, the causes of the war, and the responsibility were nothing more than clichés about the "old things" that Britain and Germany blamed each other, but the "strange smell" revealed by the Germans to the British radio made Churchill even more frightened.

"The reason why the British government has continued this war even now. It was entirely the result of the British government being kidnapped by the military-industrial complex at home. ”

"To this day, not a single German bomb has fallen on the cities of the British Isles. But over the past two weeks, night bombers from the British Air Force have repeatedly bombed German cities? ”

"Why is this happening? This is not the last madness of Churchill, who lost all his pants in the successive defeats of the previous wars, but the result of the implicit instruction of the British capitalists standing behind him. Because they want to see the Luftwaffe bombing the British Isles indiscriminately! If you don't destroy, you can't build! Do not destroy the city. Where there will be reconstruction, the reconstruction of the destroyed city will bring huge benefits to the capitalists who built it. So they instructed Churchill, the lackey reactionary of the British bourgeoisie, to brutally inflict atrocities on the German people when Germany had already unilaterally declared that it would not attack British cities. Delusional to provoke Germany to retaliate, to bomb cities against bombed cities, to continue the war that should have ended"

The bombing of Germany in the radio was the attack of British bombers on Kiel, Germany, in early July, and the targets of the bombing were local shipyards and ports. However, due to the effective interception of the German night fighter unit, only a small number of planes broke into Kiel that night and threw down the bombing order, causing insignificant losses but bringing more than 10 casualties.

At that time, the British Air Force only attacked military facilities such as shipyards and ports, but the Germans deliberately avoided this in their broadcasts to the British. When Churchill ordered the bombing of Kiel, he did not have in mind that he hoped to provoke the Luftwaffe to retaliate, as the Germans had claimed, so as to provoke the British civilian population to "feel the war and continue" the war.

However, it is clear that the Germans saw through his intentions. What really frightened Churchill compared to his own intentions was the tone set by the German broadcasts to Britain about the war, which was full of the smell of "Bolshevikism", and they did not simply put the responsibility for the war on the British government, but on the British army salary.

"Not only Britain, which is now hostile to Germany, but even the United States of America across the ocean, a country that once proclaimed itself free, has now been kidnapped by the military payrolls. For the American military wage earners, the war in Europe is what they dream of. The best way for the American capitalists, composed of Morgan, DuPont, Rockefeller and other military-industrial complexes, to get more huge profits, is for the United States to do it himself. Take part in this war in Europe. Let's try to imagine how much the U.S. government will have to spend taxpayers' money to arm these soldiers and participate in this war when tens of millions of American soldiers go to war."

The German radio to Britain was full of "Bolshevik" flavors, and almost made Churchill and the British people who were in front of the radio mistakenly believe that they were listening to Soviet radio and not German radio. They didn't just call Churchill a "lackey of the military-industrial complex." Even the "quasi-allies" of the British, the Americans, who pulled the shelf, hacked hard.

When China intervened in the war in 1935, there was a rumor in Europe that Hitler was in fact a deeply hidden Bolshevik, and now this rumor is about to turn into a truth rather than a joke.

Originally, Churchill was counting on Britain to hold on to the British Isles, and then wait for the situation to change - like the historical Napoleonic War, wait for the Germans to be unable to hold on, and then attack the Soviet Union with the same hot-headed as Napoleon. In history without a time-traveler, Churchill's delusion came true a year later. But this history, which was ruined by Lin Han's biggest variable, drove directly towards the fork he least wanted to see.

After the end of the French campaign, nearly 180,000 British troops were captured by the Germans, and the Germans allowed the families of these captured soldiers to visit them in Germany through the neutral countries, and provided favorable conditions for hospitality - even allowing the British prisoners of war to "spend the night" with their wives. This was also one of the small means used by the Germans to induce the British to negotiate peace. Germany's preferential treatment of British prisoners of war was even praised by the International Red Cross, so much so that the international image was very good.

However, Churchill wanted to see it. It is not a "humanitarian" Germany, what he needs is a Germany that is "brutal and inhumane" and "tortures and kills prisoners of war". In this way, the British people can continue to support the war.

What disturbed Churchill even more was the news that Bolsheviks from the Soviet Union had appeared in large numbers in the British prisoner of war camps from the families of those who had been smuggled to Germany to visit the captured British soldiers. These English-speaking Bolsheviks and German "thinkers" spent their days in the camps preaching Bolshevik rhetoric to British prisoners of war, and they all described the war as an "unjust" war "waged by the British government for the benefit of the military wage family."

Churchill was not afraid of a fascist and racist Germany. But he was incomparably afraid of a more and more red, more and more socialized and Bolshevized Germany. After the French War, the anti-Hitler officers in Germany who had secretly contacted Britain before the war broke off contact for a time, but recently there are signs of a resurgence of this contact. The reason is also that they are beginning to feel uneasy about the fact that Germany is "getting redder".

"Damn Hitler!"

At the critical moment when the British Navy was about to attack the French Navy, the German Navy suddenly entered the Atlantic Ocean with a high profile, which also caused Churchill a headache.

The British Empire could not afford to risk the French Navy joining the German Navy. The fact that Darlan had recently received sixty planes from the Germans was even more unsettling to the British, and it was the last straw that overwhelmed Churchill and made him determined to solve the problem for the French navy.

Although Darlan did not believe that the British would attack his fleet, the corresponding precautions did not stop at all. According to British intelligence, the French fleet, which is now stationed in North African ports, is doing everything possible to strengthen the defense of the ports. And the news from the French side that the newly formed Vichy French government, with the permission of the Germans, is recently sending a batch of anti-aircraft weapons to North Africa. The longer the time dragged on, the less likely it was that the British would want to deal with the French fleet by means of a sneak attack.

At the critical moment when the German fleet entered the Atlantic, the Royal Navy went to Africa to attack the fleets of its former allies, and the political and diplomatic consequences were so great that it was difficult for Churchill to make up his mind.

At the afternoon meeting, Churchill asked the personnel of the navy if they were confident of defeating the German fleet that had broken diplomatic relations in the Atlantic, and the answer was no.

Although the number of aircraft carriers on both sides is two-to-two, and escort carriers can be supported if needed, the British Navy has too many shortcomings and shortcomings. First of all, the battleship is old, and the speed is insufficient, and it is not possible to give full play to the speed advantage of a high-speed aircraft carrier.

In addition, there was the question of the technical superiority of the night shelling of the German battleships, which feared the British the most. Before this difficulty was solved, the warship was transferred to the sea "half the time" in the dark of night, and playing a game of "hide and hide" with the German attack ship was no different from suicide.

The rebuilt British Navy is now riddled with internal problems.

The dreadnought aircraft carrier was just an unfinished product that drove ducks into a sedan chair, and the sailors on the ship used a lot of newcomers. The men and ships have not been adjusted to the best and most suitable state, and now is not the time for a decisive battle with the German Navy.

The navy told Churchill very bluntly that they were not sure that they would be able to defeat the German navy in the Atlantic.

Churchill's only hope was that the Americans would be able to block the guns for the British, but he encountered the "unfortunate event" of the US presidential election. For the sake of the people's votes, Cactus Ghana does not have the courage to end up at this juncture.

The question of the safety of shipping in the Atlantic and the question of the French fleet are two fatal problems that are on the table at the same time, and they are both big problems that must be solved immediately and cannot be delayed.

"Does the dignified empire on which the sun never sets have to bow to that sinister German mustache?"

At the evening meeting, Churchill thought sadly about the question.

In the original history, the British were able to support their refusal to negotiate peace after the French campaign, and that was because the Royal Navy was still there, still had the confidence, and could see the hope of future victory.

But this plane is different, the sun never sets on the glory of the empire, the Royal Navy has been beaten to the near total destruction by the opponent and forced to rebuild, while the Germans are still pressing on step by step. Despite the support of the Americans and domestic capitalists, the British people's endurance for the war was reaching its limit.

Churchill believed that if sea shipping was cut off again as it had been a few months ago, it would be more difficult to supply domestic necessities, and that this string would break in the hearts of the people at any time.

Once this string breaks, it will be the day Churchill will step down, and it will also be the beginning of the Anglo-German "peace talks", and he, Churchill, will become the great sinner of the empire on which the sun never sets, and he will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history. (To be continued......)

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