On the evening of the launch of the counterattack on the Eastern Front, London.

After ending the battle with the French goddess over the Channel, Charlotte? After Roosevelt had washed up, he went to Downing Street to prepare for a meeting with the top of the coalition forces, although the intensity of the fighting over France was not high, and it was not so much a life-and-death war as a tacit battle of the gods - at least for Charlotte.

The British were trying their best to kill the French goddess, but Charlotte only paid a minimum of mental strength, anyway, the task was to "contain the French goddess on the mainland", and there was no need to fight to the death.

Even so, after two months of continuous fighting, Charlotte still felt that her mental strength was beginning to show some signs of exhaustion. If she could, she really wanted to be like the other gods, and after the battle, she would relax and leave all these troublesome duties to others to do. But apparently this was an extravagant expectation, and among Charlotte's men, the smart enough were often ambitious, and the loyal ones were not good enough to reassure Charlotte to hand over a qiē to them.

Therefore, Charlotte is somewhat envious of those lucky people who can leave other affairs to their capable husbands and go to the battlefield without any baggage.

After the car stopped at Downing Street, Charlotte glanced at herself in her glasses one last time to make sure she was not tired, then she opened the door, rolled out of the car with her wheelchair lightly, and then waved to the London crowd waiting on Downing Street to catch a glimpse of the President of the United States - Charlotte found that there were significantly fewer Londoners coming to watch today than yesterday, and in fact, the number of onlookers is always decreasing these days.

Probably everyone has gradually become accustomed to the fact that a Yankee is a goddess to defend the British Empire.

Charlotte was guided by Churchill's young chamberlain, who was said to have a baronial title, into the Prime Minister's residence, wheelchair through the corridors at a slightly faster pace than the average person, and then into the conference room, which was a mixture of Baroque and Rococo styles.

Winston Churchill was already waiting at the other end of the rectangular conference table, on either side of which the top brass of the British government and army, as well as the generals of the U.S. European Command, were already seated, waiting for Charlotte.

"How's it going, gentlemen?" Charlotte asked in a pretended relaxed tone, "I see that your expressions are very strict." ”

"Mr. President, although you may be very tired after a day of fighting in the sky, I still want to tell you the bad news that Lin Youde launched a counterattack on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea early this morning."

"Oh? Did he get reinforcements from new armored units? Charlotte asked, frowning.

"No, judging by the telegram from the command of the Eighth Army, he used the counterattack launched by the infantry."

"Mechanized infantry? He got a new Chasseur Division? ”

"No, it's traditional infantry, he even used a Turkish cavalry division."

Charlotte raised her eyebrows in surprise, then laughed, "Hahaha, interesting." I see, traditional infantryman, we all thought he would fight back with armored troops, but he was played with a gorgeous trick, this guy is really amazing. ”

Charlotte had been very concerned about Lin Youde's "pro-campaign" before, and when she saw that the Eighth Army reported that Lin Youde had placed all the armored units and mechanized infantry divisions (armored hunters) on the attack front of the Eighth Army, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "Even I was deceived by him, I only repeatedly confirmed the location of his armored units and armored chasseurs, and then I thought I had peace of mind. Hahaha, so there's nothing to excuse yourself right now, this guy outsmarts all of us. Charlotte put away her smile and then frowned, "We despised him too much, too much from the beginning. Knowing that he was the founder of Germany's new military doctrine and the mentor of Manstein, Guderian, and Rommel, how could we confront him with a force that had no advantage in forces and whose commanders did not have much to accomplish? ”

"General O'Connor is a good general......" The British Army general who was present at the meeting couldn't help but say something to his colleagues, but he was interrupted by Charlotte as soon as he spoke.

"But he obviously can't beat Lin Youde."

"We are not sure to lose this battle yet," Eisenhower began, "and if we can break through the German defenses now on the front and make it to the sea, then we will have an undoubted victory." ”

"Lin Youde knows this too, Ike!" Charlotte said loudly to Eisenhower, "He knows it very well! If in the past his retreat was all premeditated action, then now on their defensive line, the Eighth Army will encounter real resistance, Lin Youde has two armored chasseur units transferred from the Eastern Front, that is the elite German army that was once born and died, and he is a fanatical admirer of Lin Youde, such a unit will fight to the death to the last man once it receives the order to resist. ”

Eisenhower pursed his lips and looked at Charlotte without retorting.

Charlotte sighed.

"Ike, I know you oppose the over-deification of the German army's will to fight, but the fact is that the units in the German army formed by Lin Youde have established NERV organizations at the grassroots level, and the soldiers have also been screened, and they are basically from those middle- and lower-class German families who have lived a good life because of Lin Youde's reforms. They all worship Lin Youde without brainwashing, and vow to defend their spiritual master. The fanatical fighting spirit of these troops should never be underestimated. ”

"I won't underestimate them, Your Excellency." Eisenhower said in a sincere tone, "It's just that such troops are a minority in the German army after all, and we know that there are ten well-organized armored divisions called 'zigtou divisions', and there are twenty-one armored chasseur units, which is exactly one-tenth of the three hundred and fifteen divisions in Germany." ”

"Okay, it doesn't matter, let's move on to the current situation. What other way did that Mr. O'Connor deal with the situation than to stab the Germans head-on? ”

"He is ready to use the last remaining armor in his hand to counterattack Lin Youde in order to recapture Bill Cavert and the surrounding mountain passes occupied by Lin Youde's paratroopers." Although Churchill was a civilian official, after all, he had experienced the war and spoke of military deployment clearly, "and we are also prepared to reinforce the Eighth Army with two brigades, which will be in place within seventy-two hours." ”

"Seventy-two hours sounds like a short time, but it's actually been three days, isn't it, and this kind of 'trick' is useless to all of you, Mr. Prime Minister." Charlotte replied unceremoniously.

Churchill just used the old trick of propaganda, saying that three days will make everyone feel that "I rely on it for so long", and saying "seventy-two hours" will give people a feeling that "it will be solved soon", after all, in the intuitive feeling of ordinary people, hours are shorter than days.

But all of you here will not be misled by this little trick, and they all know how long seventy-two hours is for a rapidly changing battlefield.

"Can't you think of a way again?" Charlotte questioned a table of British, "Can't you move troops from the canal zone next door?" And the troops guarding Aqaba can't move? ”

"There are no troops in the Canal Zone, and the armored brigade that the Eighth Army is now drawn from is the only mobile unit in the Canal Zone. As for the troops in Aqaba, whether they were transported by land or by ship, it would take several days to reach the battlefield. We now have to send troops from the El Alamein Line to support the Eighth Army, which would have to cross the vast desert, cross the Nile Valley, and then be transported by transport ship across the Suez Canal. Three days is already very fast, in fact ......"

"Actually, you're not sure you'll get this unit in three days, are you?"

Churchill gritted his teeth, and then replied in an unwilling tone: "Yes, Miss President, three days is the most optimistic estimate." ”

"And what about the paratroopers? Can we use our paratroopers to recapture and defend that city called Bill or something? ”

"No, Miss President, it's too far for us to cross such a long distance for the Airborne Forces. What's more, this road is still the defense area of the Allied forces, and it will be intercepted by the Allied air force. ”

Charlotte let out a long sigh.

She suggested one last possible response: "What about Kamihime?" How about throwing in a ground battle with Kamihime? ”

"According to current intelligence, the Turkish Shenji has reached the front line, so now we have no advantage in terms of Shenji, I'm afraid there is no way to conduct a ground battle. If the Italian goddess stationed in Crete also comes to help, our army will be at a disadvantage. ”

Charlotte was silent, and it took a while for her to break the dull atmosphere she had created herself: "Doesn't this mean that whether it can be reversed or not can only depend on the creation of the Eighth Army that is now fighting?" ”

"Yes," replied Churchill, in a very stern tone, "as Ike has just said, if the Eighth Army can penetrate the enemy's front, or reopen the road from Canal Zone to Abu Ogra, then Lin Youde's offensive will be broken and his strategy will be ruined." ”

"If you can't get through, or if you can't get through," Charlotte took over, "then Lin Youde will once again have a record worth boasting about, not only will his reputation within the Human Innovation Alliance increase, but his influence on those neutral countries will also increase, and the Human Innovation Alliance may be able to attract new allies." And you, having managed to reverse the sluggish morale of the people, will be dealt another heavy blow, and even if there is an alliance with us, it will not be possible to avoid the resurgence of the idea of defeat in Britain. ”

Winston Churchill let out a long sigh and said to Charlotte: "You are right, once Lin Youde wins, our losses will not only be the main force of the Eighth Army and the Suez Canal Zone. The credibility of the government will plummet again, and the people's trust in the British army will plummet, which will inevitably create a series of problems. I'm ready to deal with these problems, though, and no matter how bad it is, it won't get worse than when Isabella betrayed us just now. ”

(Damn SERB, at this time, he opened a closed beta in the battleship world, and it was clear that he wanted to stop me from updating, but I won't lose to that dead bald one!) No, it won't! ）