The Royal Navy, as Lin Youde had predicted, recalled the fleet in Scapa Flow, provided air supremacy with Shenji, and returned to the North Sea.

But while the British were busy preparing for a surprise attack on the naval fleet by Lin Youde's air force, Lin Youde's dive bomber and fast bomber units bombed the piled up supplies in Bremerhaven. Unlike the previous night attack by light rapid bombers, this time the Air Force chose to attack at the best time during the day, first using horizontal bombing to weaken ground anti-aircraft fire, create smoke, and block the view, and then dispatch dive bombers to attack.

Although the smoke also blocked the view of the dive bombers, the stack area for stacking supplies was large, and they were all filled with supplies, so it would be nice to drop the bombs according to the terrain roughly judging the location.

Judging from the photographs taken by the reconnaissance planes after the bombing, Lin Youde's staff officers roughly destroyed 60 percent of the supplies piled up in the harbor.

The British were forced to draw war sums from the front to strengthen the defenses of Bremerhaven and the supply lines from Bremerhaven that sailed up the Weser River to Bremen.

After the British did this, the air force deployed in Hanover dispatched rocket-mounted BF109s to attack the British supply routes. They took a low-altitude safari, using the terrain to hide from the British warriors and sentry posts, raiding every village they came across that appeared to have British troops stationed, and destroying all kinds of vehicles with rockets and machine guns.

The British suddenly found that the battle queen troops in their hands were simply not enough, after all, the British army has always believed that using anti-aircraft fire to deal with the flying battle queen is a loss-making deal, and the battle queen should be handed over to the war queen to deal with, and the anti-aircraft firepower of the army's ordinary troops is enough to have a little anti-aircraft machine gun meaning. Moreover, in the perception of the British military leadership, the anti-aircraft machine gun is enough to deal with fixed-wing aircraft, and there is no need for rapid-fire guns at all, and such expensive things as rapid-fire guns should of course be provided to the war girls.

As a result, they now found themselves unable to deal with the completely metal-skinned German fighters that came in from the raid, and had to rely on the anti-aircraft fire of the battle girls.

At the same time, the railway workers in the British-occupied areas refused to continue to serve the British army, and the entire railway network system was directly paralyzed, and they also spontaneously burned a number of locomotives, leading the British army's plan to use the German railway network for supply directly bankrupt.

Fortunately, at this time, the British army was not advancing very deeply in Germany, and it was barely able to supply the front-line troops.

But by the time the clock was mid-July, the British troops on the Hamburg front were running out of ammunition.

**

On July 20, 1938, Isabella convened the Imperial Council again.

As soon as the wartime cabinet members and generals had come in, Isabella made a gesture, and the old butler, who was already waiting by the wall, immediately activated the gramophone that had been temporarily placed in the conference room.

After the brief murmur passed, a high-pitched melody came out of the phonograph's loudspeaker.

The high-spirited melody conveys the passion surging in the composer's heart to the listener in a simple and direct way, and makes people involuntarily think of the marching column marching against an incredibly powerful enemy. After a few passionate stanzas, the music changes and softens, and the image in people's minds instantly changes to the scene of the farewell of the father and the young man who is about to set foot on the battlefield, but this scene is not sad, but full of enthusiasm, and the people of the hometown are encouraging the young people to fight bravely.

Then the tune changed again, and it became high-spirited again. The high-spirited main theme is followed by a rapid violin fugue to accentuate the tense atmosphere. There is no doubt that this passage depicts a battlefield in which young people follow one after another.

Finally, the eight-minute piece ends with a horn that symbolizes victory.

When the song was over, the room was silent, and no one could guess the queen's intentions. All of you here are gentlemen with elegant hobbies, and although many of you are not proficient in music, you can still say the name of some famous symphonies at the beginning. But no one knows the name or origin of this music.

Isabella waited a few seconds before saying, "Great tune, right?" I was about to be moved, and I really felt the emotion it conveyed. The only regret is that this piece is a new piece that Lin Youde has just completed, and this record was forwarded by him to our embassy in Switzerland through Guò Switzerland. ”

Isabella pulled something out of the butler's hand who was back behind her and slapped it on the table: "And he also included a postcard made of his signed photo!" He wrote on the postcard: 'This is an impromptu work of inspiration for me, I only rehearsed with the Vienna Orchestra for two days before making the record, and there are inevitably some flaws, I hope you like it!' ”

After reading Lin Youde's words, Isabella slapped the postcard on the table again.

"While we were in distress, he was conducting the orchestra rehearsals! And do you know what it's called? IT'S CALLED THE-THRONE-ROOM! Throne Room! He's going to go to London and capture me alive! ”

Isabella gasped for air.

At this time Winston Churchill said, "Your Majesty, they have not yet entered London, and if you are angry, you are in his hands." ”

"Yes, I know, I know Sir Churchill." Isabella glared at Churchill, "I'm just asking you to feel my anger as well, so that you can come up with a plan that will change the situation in a practical way." ”

As soon as Isabella's voice fell, Field Marshal and Chief of Staff William? Edmund? "Actually, we already have a preliminary plan, and we plan to open up land access with Belgium to our occupied areas in northern Germany, so that we can use the railway line through Belgium and the Netherlands to replenish our troops," Ironside said. ”

"I already know the general idea of this plan, and I am concerned about how long we can get this line of transportation open."

"The Netherlands have a very small standing army, and although mobilization is already underway, we estimate that they will not have more than 30 divisions available for combat."

"Thirty divisions!" Isabella sighed, "So your opinion is for me to devote all of the newly formed troops to this operation to open up the supply lines, right?" ”

"Yes, with the Belgian troops, we will have an absolute superiority over the Dutch army. And if we want to make a breakthrough faster, we have to take some extraordinary measures. Ironside said.

"Tell me about it." Isabella frowned slightly, but she was clearly interested in what Ironside was talking about.

"We can send out the Divine Queen and directly suppress the Dutch Queen and the Warrior Queen's troops, so that the entire offensive campaign will be over in a few weeks."

Isabella raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Do you mean to let me and the remaining Shinji attack?"

"Yes, Britain is not directly threatened at the moment, so there is basically no problem without a god queen for a few weeks. We can also draw a Divine Queen from the sea to join the first wave of assaults, so we have a three-to-one advantage......"

"Now the two goddesses of the fleet are already on standby in turn, and the Germans often make some feints to force us to let the goddess take to the air, so both naval goddesses have accumulated considerable fatigue," Winston Churchill shook his head, "I don't approve of the navy continuing to draw the goddess into battle, they need enough rest." Unless we call back from the Mediterranean to Grania, who is crushing the Mediterranean fleet, then the Italians will not be ready to move. ”

The strength of the Italian navy in this time and space is no worse than in the previous plane, but there is only one naval goddess who can fight with the fleet, so it has always been on the defensive in the Mediterranean.

In addition, although Italy was not drawn into the League of Human Renewals by Lin Youde because of its fascist dictatorship, it is widely believed that Mussolini was inclined to Lin Youde. Moreover, the Italians had long wanted to show their strength in the Mediterranean, and even if there was no alliance with Germany, the Italians would have taken advantage of the opportunity when Britain withdrew the naval goddess stationed in the Mediterranean.

Winston Churchill's words silenced the room again, but Isabella immediately broke the silence: "No problem, a two-to-one advantage is enough." ”

"If it's just two to one, the German side may send Shenji to support ......"

"Then let Brigitte intercept them over the German mainland." Isabella paused and took a deep breath, "I think this idea is very good, the current situation, some people in the country have already sensed that something is wrong, and those NERV infiltrators are inciting the people's anti-war feelings, and my personal campaign can effectively boost the morale of the country." At the same time, the rapid opening of land supply lines can also immediately solve the urgent need. ”

Winston Churchill stared at Isabella's side face for a few seconds, then nodded, "Since His Majesty has already decided, then I support this decision." Even if we don't end up taking Hamburg, we have to leave a way out for our troops. It's a bit dangerous to go by sea now, and the coast of the North Sea is a bit far away from us. The Germans have sunk more than twenty of our cargo ships in the last two weeks, and if they were to sink ships full of troops while retreating from the sea, even if they sank only a few, the impact on morale would be fatal. ”

"Very good, then that's ......"

Isabella was about to say "just like that", but was interrupted by Ironside.

"Your Majesty, there is still a problem with the implementation of this plan, our attacking troops can only be on the road in Belgium, and the logistics can only be unloaded in Belgium, which is more than twice the distance of sea shipping directly in Calais, and you know, we don't have enough ships now, which means that the supply efficiency of our army will be reduced by half. In the case of enough boats, we can of course unload wherever we want......"

"I see." Isabella sighed, "Charlie blocked our way, you mean to say that, right?" ”