Churchill was indeed excited when Russia invaded Poland, and he excitedly convened a wartime cabinet meeting to discuss a counterattack, and held a series of public lectures in which he declared to the public that the war would soon end "in a manner acceptable to the British Empire."

But now, almost a month has passed since the start of the Russian offensive, and they haven't even seen the roof of Warsaw.

Winston Churchill's interest cooled down, and he had to face the reality that Britain was now in extreme hardship and hardship.

Although the British Empire was able to survive the German army by transporting supplies from cargo ships by small boats to open sea anchorages, such days were almost destined to last long.

Churchill had hoped that the Luftwaffe's offensive mine-laying operations would weaken after the war between Germany and Russia, but a month later, the Luftwaffe continued to drop a large number of mines on British ports every day.

Of course, the impact of the Russian offensive can still be felt, for example, the intensity of the German attack on the British airfield has been greatly reduced, but by this time the British Air Force has already had problems with the replenishment of fighters - even if the navy has always put steel and other industrial raw materials in the highest priority transshipment, but the inefficiency of this transshipment operation itself makes this highest priority setting very weak, not only can not meet the demand at all, but also give those pan-humanists hidden in the slums a pretext to encourage the people.

Another effect of the start of the Russian offensive was that the Germans reduced the frequency of rations to the British people.

Speaking of this airdrop ration operation, Winston Churchill simply hated it. Whenever those German "humanitarian relief planes" with red crosses appeared in the skies over London, Churchill couldn't help but scold Lin Youde for being shameless.

At first, Winston Churchill thought that this airdrop operation was simply stupid, and thought to himself, isn't this equivalent to being an enemy? So he did not hesitate to order the forcible recovery of what the Germans had thrown, and then the government would redistribute it uniformly.

He also openly ridiculed Lin Youde's "whimsical move" at a cabinet meeting, talking about how Lin Youde's naivety would inevitably lead to failure.

But it didn't take long for Winston Churchill to taste the power of Lin Youde's hand.

As the domestic supply situation deteriorated, the masses were no longer cooperating with the government's actions, and they resorted to hiding cans and other supplies dropped by the Germans, and clashed with the police and militia who went to collect them. At first, Churchill did not hesitate to crack down with an iron fist, but after a while, the British government could not even guarantee the treatment of its own violent organs, and the families of the police and national soldiers had to reduce their rations.

Then the police began to sympathize with the common people, starting with the police at the grassroots level, more and more police refused to carry out the task of collecting German airdrops, and the national militia, who were even more unreliable than the police, even disobeyed the orders of entire companies.

Later, Winston Churchill had no choice but to cancel the order to hand over the German airdrops, and instead sent troops to loot supplies that were not directly thrown into the ghetto. He added patrol boats on the Thames, and as soon as the German humanitarian relief planes arrived, these boats appeared on the Thames in droves, relying on their own mobility, to recover all the goods that the Germans were still on the Thames.

But the people of London soon found a way to deal with it - they demolished some houses, removed the timber from the building, and drove them into the Thames as stakes, and forcibly isolated a "drop zone", on the border of which there were young girls standing guard with old ladies or old men, and when they saw the government ship approaching, they cried: "Are you really going to take the food out of our mouths?" Are you really going to watch us die? ”

Either the young child looked at the people on the boat with big watery eyes: "Uncle, we are so hungry, let's eat something good today, please come back tomorrow." ”

In this way, the blocking stake and soft nails actually defeated the water collection team composed of retired members of the Royal Navy.

Churchill really had no choice but to break the jar and break it, no longer care about these things, and turned desperately to propaganda that the current difficulties were caused by the blockade of the Germans, and that they should not be deceived by the sugar-coated shells of the Germans.

But Churchill soon discovered that this propaganda was of little use, and that the fact that "the Germans were airdropping food on us" was much more aware than the blockade carried out by the Germans out of sight, and that the cans with German were far more effective than the dry appeals in the newspapers.

By February, the civilians of London had carved out a large open area in the slums, and every day when they heard the roar of German planes in the sky, they lit fires in the open field to direct the Germans to drop supplies.

Although Churchill repeatedly stressed to the civilians that such an act would also provide target designation for the Luftwaffe, the British government's cohesion among the civilians was now at its lowest level, and no one paid any attention to Churchill's orders.

It was only then that Winston Churchill realized that Lin Youde's move was likely to lead the British government to collapse from within.

After realizing the viciousness of this trick, Churchill began to shout at his mother every day at the old German planes that dropped humanitarian supplies, and once impulsively wanted the British Red Cross to replace the Red Cross emblem.

Now that the Germans have reduced their humanitarian airdrops to Britain, Churchill is immediately feeling the pressure.

British civilians seemed to believe that the Germans had stopped the airdrops because the British government had intercepted the planes, and a large number of civilians poured into the streets of London in protest. As a result, Winston Churchill had to get the venerable goddesses to come forward and assure the masses that the government must not use the goddess to intercept the German humanitarian rescue planes, and in order to increase credibility, Churchill had to ask the government's official newspapers to publish reports such as "The British army is now completely unable to prevent German planes from entering British airspace without relying on the goddess."

According to Churchill, a government that has to admit its incompetence in its own official media is nothing short of self-defeating.

But Churchill didn't expect that Lin Youde still had a backhand. About a week after the frequency of the drops was reduced, the Germans began to send a small number of planes to drop leaflets, which explained that the reason for the reduction was the Russian attack, and the Germans had to transfer their aircraft on humanitarian missions to the Eastern Front for combat missions.

Along with the leaflets, photographs documenting the so-called "atrocities committed by Russian troops in Poland" were also dropped, and the British government's photographic experts believed that these photos were basically faked or posed, but the masses did not believe the words of these government experts at all.

As a result, a magnificent anti-war and anti-Russian movement was set off throughout the British land, and riots broke out in some particularly bad cities.

Churchill, who was overwhelmed by this qiē, felt that he had aged ten years all at once.

And this morning, the leaflets dropped by the German planes have added to the tiredness and frustration that had been haunting Churchill.

The leaflet featured a photograph of Isabella in a German women's uniform, standing on a magical armor and looking through a telescope, accompanied by text declaring that Her Majesty Queen Isabella had decided to put aside the differences and prejudices between the two countries and join the fight against the evil Russian Empire as a representative of the United Kingdom.

On the back of the leaflet, it was written that, at the request of Queen Isabella, the Luftwaffe would reduce the number of aircraft used in mine operations and resume the delivery of humanitarian relief supplies to Britain.

After reading the flyer, Winston Churchill tore the paper to shreds and threw it into the wastepaper basket next to his desk.

Regardless of the Minister Arthur? Seeing this, Greenwood said to Churchill: "The intelligence services are verifying the authenticity of this matter, I want to ......"

"There is no point in verifying anymore, whether this matter is true or not, Lin Youde will achieve the effect he wants." Winston Churchill interrupted Arthur, "Where the hell did this guy get all these dastardly tricks!" He's just- damn it, despicable Oriental! ”

It was only after a curse that Churchill realized his gaffe and said to the only two people in the room at this time, Secretary of State Arthur Greenwood and Secretary of State Cunningham, "I'm sorry. I seem to have accumulated too much stress. ”

Greenwood and Cunningham looked at each other.

Then Greenwood said, "Winston, you can vent your feelings to us as much as you want, but in public you have to be as tough and confident as ever." There are still a lot of people in the British Isles who think Britain should be victorious, and we were in a difficult situation in the last war, but in the end we survived. As long as you keep going, things will turn around. ”

"Yes, I know." Winston Churchill took a deep breath, then looked away from Arthur? Greenwood turned to Cunningham, "As long as we break through this damn German mine blockade, we'll be much better." Has there been any progress in the Navy's investigation of such mines? ”

"While I'd love to tell you some exciting news, unfortunately, no." Cunningham's expression was very heavy, and there was a hint of self-reproach, as if this qiē was all his fault, "The Germans have moved the range of minelaying outward, they seem to have adopted new mines, which can work in deeper water, and it is now more difficult for us to shoot down German fighters and capture mines." ”

"That's right." Churchill muttered to himself, and then suddenly laughed, "It's really interesting, we obviously have the ability to fight again in both the war and the gods, according to the previous view, we are still far from defeat, but I didn't expect that the Germans just used a mine with a technology that we didn't know, and pushed us to the precipice of defeat." Many years ago, when we laughed at Lin Youde's assertion that technology was used to replace the war queen and the god queen, I am afraid that we would never have imagined that things would turn out like this, right? ”

Arthur? Greenwood and Cunningham were silent, with the exception of Churchill continuing to laugh self-deprecatingly.