Prime Minister's Residence, 10 Downing Street, London, United Kingdom

The latest owner of this residence, Conservative Party leader, Stanley? Count Baldwin reached out and rubbed his temples, feeling his head hurt.

Not so long ago, he had just defeated his old political rival for more than a decade, James, the leader of the grassroots Labour Party. Ramsay? Former Prime Minister MacDonald, who became the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, also inherited a mess left by MacDonald.

One of the most conspicuous troubles in the midst of all this troubles was the ambiguous relationship between the beauty-loving Crown Prince and the American widow Mrs. Simpson – an undishonorable relationship that quickly made the relationship between the Crown Prince and his father, King George V, extremely rigid. Neither of Edward's parents would accept Mrs. Simpson, and his brother Prince Albert repeatedly suggested that Prince Edward find another match, and the influential Anglican Church also expressed fierce opposition...... But the problem is that Edward and Mrs. Simpson remain unmoved!

If this family dispute continues, I am afraid that it will eventually affect the ownership of the throne - so, although very bad at dealing with such a messy family dispute, out of the duty of a courtier, Stanley? Prime Minister Baldwin reluctantly walked between sides, and after several attempts to reconcile the relationship between the royal father and son, Zuihou found that he was indeed not the material: it seemed to be the work of a priest!

Of course, the family disputes of the English royal family, although they are exaggerated in the tabloids, do not hurt the country's vitality after all. More concerned by politicians. Or is it the economic situation that is still sluggish - the capitalist economic crisis has been going on for six years, causing unspeakable and terrible disasters to the British Empire, as well as severe social and political upheaval. Although there has been a slight easing since then, it has not yet returned to the desired level.

And the various open and covert battles between the United States and Britain around the hegemony of Shijie made Britain feel more and more overwhelmed by the responsibility of leading Shijie, and began to be a little inadequate...... Fortunately, the prolonged economic depression has also severely constrained the United States' ability to intervene in foreign countries, forcing the United States to carry out a global strategic retreat and fall back into isolationism in recent years. It also gave Britain a temporary breather.

Regrettably, the tide of global competition between the United States and Britain has just come to an end, and the haze of war has risen from the horizon again.

In Europe. The crisis of the war was not yet obvious, and although Hitler of the Nazi Party had taken sole power, the weak German Army was not enough to wage a large-scale foreign war. Although the Soviets took advantage of the economic crisis to obtain a large amount of industrial machinery from the United States and Europe. Greatly increased their industrial capacity. But their borders are too far from the heart of Europe to really shake the "peace under Britain".

However, in Asia, Britain has stepped into the fire pit of war on its own initiative, and has fully felt the pain of war.

-- Thousands of British warriors, valuable ships with a total displacement of more than 300,000 tons, were lost to a "police operation"!

The old and sick former Prime Minister MacDonald was completely crushed mentally and physically by the various bad news coming from the battlefields in the Far East. The prime minister's throne was handed over to his old rival, Count Baldwin. However, although the new Prime Minister Baldwin established a wartime cabinet, he was able to deal with the repeated failures of the Far East intervention. It's also at a loss. And the latest terrifying information made him feel like he was in hell......

At this moment, he was talking to Winston, who had just been promoted to Lord of the Navy. Winston Churchill discussing the latest information on the Far Eastern battlefield.

“…… The entire city of Hiroshima disappeared in the explosion, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people were reduced to ashes, and at least a few hundred acres of land were burned to glass. The Etajima Naval Academy, across the water from Hiroshima City, and the Kure Port Fortress not far away, were almost razed to the ground. ”

Churchill smoked his pipe and pointed to a map of Japan on his desk and said, "...... Sasebo, Kure Port, and Yokosuka, the four main bases of the Japanese naval empire mainland, have been destroyed in three, leaving only one base with the least important status. Even the Etajima Naval School, which trained personnel for the Japanese Navy, was finished...... In the future, we will no longer have to worry about the threat of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ”

“…… In its place, there was a threat from the Bolsheviks to all civilized nations! An atomic bomb capable of destroying a country in one shot...... Damn it! How did these yellow-skinned monkeys who had just cut off their braids come up with such a superweapon that threatens Shijie's peace? It's not scientific! ”

Prime Minister Baldwin said sullenly that this out-of-control situation of "whack-a-mole and big tiger" really made him feel terrible -- after attending the Manila conference and signing the "Far Eastern United Anti-Anti-Tiger" policy. At the time of the Treaty, most British gentlemen thought that this was just a law and order operation to suppress the colonial unrest and defend commercial interests, but it was only after the outbreak of war that the British government realized what a mistake it had made to underestimate the enemy.

So far, the losses paid by the Royal Navy in China have exceeded that of the Battle of Jutland that year!

All the interests of the British Empire in the Yangtze River valley in China were completely wiped out with the blockade of the Yangtze River estuary by the Chinese Bolsheviks.

Worse still, this was just the beginning - the British Empire's shili and strongholds in other parts of China were being gradually destroyed.

“…… Whether it is scientific or not, these red elements are destroying our Far Eastern Shili range step by step, Mr. Prime Minister. ”

Churchill puffed a smoke ring and said, "...... The other latest news is that the Chinese Red Elements have completely destroyed the local government forces in the Chinese province of Guangdong, raided the provincial capital of Canton, and, in spite of international influence, used force to capture the British and French Concessions on Shamian Island in the city of Canton, and the Chinese garrison surrendered after a symbolic resistance - for they had only six Scottish officers and eighty Indian soldiers in total; The French, on the other hand, slipped away on a boat as soon as possible. As a precaution, the British expatriates in the Gulangyu Public Concession in Xiamen also organized an evacuation of themselves and retreated to Hong Kong along with the British expatriates from other parts of China...... The next battlefield is Hong Kong, and that's almost no doubt ......"

“…… How prepared is our army for the upcoming battle of Hong Kong? Do you have a chance of winning? Prime Minister Baldwin asked.

“…… The Imperial Admiralty has mobilized a second large expeditionary fleet: the aircraft carriers Athletic and Glory, the battleships Royal Oak and Revenge, as well as six cruisers and twenty-two destroyers, fifteen auxiliary vessels, one hundred and twenty aircraft of all types, and twenty-five thousand army forces, mainly indigenous forces, - for which the Empire has been emptied of almost all of its base in India and Malacca......

Churchill replied, a little melancholy, "...... As for the odds...... Before I learned that the Chinese Red elements possessed the atomic bomb, I would probably have said 'yes' with confidence. But now...... Alas, in any case, I understand only one thing - England will not allow an easy retreat! (To be continued......)