While Lin Youde's troops continued to board ships and go to Turkey, fierce battles between the Russian and Turkish troops continued. After several days of fighting, the Russian army finally made a breakthrough near Kabakcha, and the Russian cavalry drove straight through the breakthrough and tried to smash Huanglong, but was attacked and strafed by the international column aviation regiment, which had been strengthened many times in a few days, and suffered heavy losses and had to stop the operation.

Taking advantage of this gap, the Turkish army quickly adjusted its defenses and formed a new and fragile line of defense in front of the Russian army.

From the perspective of another time and space, the Russian army at this time was still an army at the level of World War I, and the restrictions on the development of conventional tactics by the gods and warriors and magic techniques were particularly obvious in the Russian army.

At this moment, like the army of World War I, they were advancing slowly on foot after gaining a breakthrough, while their logistics troops crawled with difficulty on the Turkish soil, where the level of transportation was very backward, using mules and horses to pull heavy wagons.

Except for the cavalry, they did not have any strength to quickly expand the results of the battle after the breakthrough and seal the victory, and now they had to endure the air raids of the international column air force.

The Russian army has never seen such an effective air attack, and they began to call the "Lightning" dive bomber roaring down from the sky the "twin demons", and the scream attached to the demon's dive became the roar of the demon in the eyes of the Russian army.

At first, the Russians also used the battle queen to enforce air alert, but the girls did shoot down quite a few German planes, but soon they were tired enough to have to apply to the Russian high command to rest in the rear.

So the Russian army had to stop using the battle queen to carry out air alerts and patrols, and instead let the troops use their own anti-aircraft weapons to counterattack the Germans, but the Russian troops were only equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, and even small-caliber machine guns were very few, and there was no way to pose a threat to the whizzing dive bombers.

After discovering that the Russian army had withdrawn to rest and recuperate, the International Column Aviation Regiment intensified its air attacks on the Russian army, pouring hundreds of tons of explosives on the Russian army every day, and the escort 109 also rushed to a low altitude and strafed with its 20 mm cannon and 13 mm machine gun, causing a large number of casualties to the Russian infantry.

After the last resort, the Russian high command had no choice but to order the troops to rest in concealment during the day and march out at night, but the Turks who were familiar with the terrain would also come out at night, and the two sides often fought together at night.

The Russian offensive was once again delayed, and the Russian army was only about 60 kilometers away from Istanbul, but it took them a few days to shorten the distance to 40 kilometers.

The British officer, who had arrived in Istanbul to inspect the war, and now an officer of the International Column, reported to the Queen of England: "The German air force has shown its remarkable effectiveness, and the shape of the war may once again be subject to a radical change." We must immediately devote sufficient efforts to the development of military aircraft in order to narrow the gap between us and the German army. ”

**

Isabella? Victoria put the telegram from Istanbul on her desk and looked up at her ministers.

"Your military observers seem to have a great appreciation for the German air forces," Isabella looked at the Minister of War, "I wonder if this man's opinion is reliable?" ”

"Colonel Raul is a pragmatic soldier, and if he says that the Germans are very efficient, then I think it should be true, and the German air force is indeed strong enough to deserve our attention."

"That's just because the Russians' war concubines consumed a lot of mental energy in the battle with the Turkish war concubines, and they picked them up," the War Secretary's voice just fell, Neville, who has the name of "the queen's new favorite" in political circles? Chamberlain spoke, this inexplicably appreciated by the Queen, and soon replaced the old minister Churchill, who had experienced the last war, and the rising star in the political world actually stood behind the Queen, completely like the Queen's favorite confidant, "Your Majesty, I don't think we need to be too nervous, the British Empire's war queens are stronger than the Russian war queens in terms of strength and quantity, and they will not give Germany any chance to take advantage of those new toys." ”

Isabella raised an eyebrow slightly.

Isabella had long found out that Chamberlain could always grasp her ideas, and then follow her ideas to advance the topic, this person does have some skills in managing finances, but this style of pandering to her boss still makes Isabella not like it. Of course, Winston Churchill, who always likes to disagree, is more annoying in comparison, so Isabella does not regret replacing the fat man with Chamberlain, but recently, Isabella has always been involuntarily suspicious, suspecting that Lin Youde's suggestion was actually correct.

- Reuse Churchill, away from Chamberlain.

At that time, Lin Youde's words were to the effect that after Isabella returned to England, she kicked Qiu Fat away in anger and replaced Chamberlain, now that I think about it, this may have fallen into Lin Youde's trap - he deliberately made a correct suggestion, and then laughed at the angry Isabella running in the wrong direction.

But Isabella will never bring Churchill back, at least not yet.

If this is Lin Youde's trap, then if she backtracks and gets Churchill back, isn't it tantamount to admitting defeat to Lin Youde and admitting that she fell into the trap?

Isabella secretly made up her mind that she must find a way to prevent Chamberlain from becoming prime minister in the next general election - but this seems to be a bit difficult, after all, Chamberlain has done a good job in the position of chancellor of the exchequer, and the support of the people and capitalists is quite high.

Even if Isabella was the queen, she could not interfere with public opinion and forcibly prevent the people from voting for Chamberlain. All she could do was put forward a man who could compete with Chamberlain — the Queen, under the constitution, had the right to sign an order to make her favourite a candidate for the general election.

But now Isabella has not found the one who can compete with Chamberlain.

Winston Churchill might have could, but Isabella hated him more than Chamberlain.

Whenever she thinks of this, Isabella will always sigh involuntarily, why is there no strong man like Lin Youde in the UK, otherwise, she can follow Viola's example, marry the strong man directly, and then enjoy the leisurely life that belongs to the lady - in Isabella's cognition, Viola, who married Lin Youde, must now be a happy wife regardless of political affairs, and only show up in place of her husband when needed.

sighing and sighing, Isabella still has to fulfill her duties as a queen and continue to deal with a huge number of official affairs day after day, and among these official duties, the most headache for Isabella is the so-called royal council.

Yes, this is the meeting that is taking place right now.

Isabella turned her head to the side and glanced at Chamberlain out of the corner of her eye. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who sensed the Queen's gaze, straightened his back, looking like he could go to the soup for the sake of the motherland and the Queen.

Isabella thought to herself, you're wrong about me this time.

"Mr. Neville, I don't think I agree with you," Isabella shook her head, "I'm a god, I know the combat effectiveness of the warlords, and if the performance of the Germans is really similar to the data guessed by the Military Intelligence Agency, then even our girls will probably be able to completely defend against the attack of German planes." Moreover, I know Lin Youde's military thinking very well, he emphasized striking at those weak parts that the war queen could not take into account in the vast battlefield, and now it seems that his air force was born for this purpose, and we have to be vigilant. ”

"Your Majesty, you're right, I just lost my consideration." Neville? Chamberlain decisively changed his words, "Your Majesty really knows everything about the Oriental man who is in charge of Germany, and I can only sigh to myself." ”

Isabella sighed, she looked at the current prime minister and said: "I think the time should immediately start thinking about raising the status of the Royal Air Force, you prepare a draft of the establishment of the Minister of the Air Force in the Cabinet, and raise the status of the Air Force to the same ......level as the Navy and Army."

"That's a bit too much, isn't it?" The Admiralty Chancellor interrupted the Queen, "The Germans have done well on the battlefield, but Mr. Chamberlain has just said that it is only because the opponents are Russians, and the Russians do not know that they will be attacked by such effective air attacks, and that the Russian army is equipped with planes that are far behind the other powers." Now that we all know what the German planes are capable of, we will not be unprepared. Take the navy as an example, the hedgehog-like anti-aircraft artillery group on our ship has to avoid even the battle girls, not to mention those fragile small planes. I think that we can just equip the current Royal Air Force with some fighters whose performance is no less than that of the German 109 fighters, and it should be enough to deal with it. ”

Isabella frowned, making no secret of her displeasure.

"I did this not only to deal with the German air threat, but also to hope that in the future the British army would also have the air support that the Turkish army now receives on the battlefield. It is hoped that one day in the future, when we need to deal with any crisis, we can also send the air force over first like Lin Youde to buy time for the arrival of our troops. ”

"Your Majesty," said the Minister of War at this time, "even if there is no Luftwaffe, the Russians will stop at the city of Istanbul, because ordinary troops will not be able to deal with Shenji, and once the Turks send Shenji, the war will enter the stage of Shenji fighting." This phase will never be less than a week, and we have plenty of time to transport troops to land. ”

Isabella looked back and forth at the Secretary of State for War and the Secretary of the Admiralty, her face full of helplessness.

"Your Majesty," the prime minister, who had not spoken, stepped in to take on the role of peacemaker at this time, "I know that you appreciate Mr. Lin Youde very much......

"I don't appreciate him that much," Isabella corrected angrily, "but many of his views coincide with mine." ”

The prime minister hurriedly nodded, and then continued: "Even if we don't raise the status of the Air Force and appoint a Minister of Air Force, we can still develop new aircraft for the Air Force and expand the size of the Air Force." ”

Isabella pursed her lips and held back for a few seconds before agreeing with the prime minister's statement.