On August 16, 81_812664, the battlefield of London became lively again after almost three days of silence, and more than 200 German bombers of various types appeared in London, which had no bombing value, and Army Group A suddenly began to care about casualties, and the attack became ferocious and extremely destructive.

A quadruple self-propelled anti-aircraft gun appeared in the center of London under the protection of hundreds of German troops, and the impatient German army raided several important buildings in the center of the city with a 30 mm cannon, and when the Germans attacked a piece of ruins in the city center, they erected a large flag representing Germany there.

The battle continued on this day, and the Germans tried their best to begin to sweep away the British defenders inside house by building, and the British soldiers defending London only then remembered that the real combat effectiveness of the German army was not as gentle as it had appeared a few days ago.

All areas of suspicion were greeted by napalm, as the fire in London, which had been weakening and subsiding, was burning again, and even more violently than a few days earlier. German soldiers jumped over the burning buildings and rushed to another battlefield in droves.

Without saying a word, Rundstedt looked at two documents in his headquarters, one was the Führer's order to capture London at any cost, and the other was the incomplete casualty statistics he received in the past two hours.

He knew that Führer Accardo would not have signed and issued such an order had it not been for the intractable trouble. He had the impression that the Führer cared more about the casualties of the soldiers than the generals at the front, and that the Führer of the Reich was a little inexplicably petty in terms of the loss of soldiers, as Marshal Brauchitsch had explained in private, and the marshal attributed the Führer's habit of caring about casualties to the fact that the Führer was from a low class of soldiers, because of his own personal experience.

The fact that the Führer can now give orders at any cost indicates that there are some troubles in the country that need to be resolved by a quick victory in the war. As the commander of an army group, Rundstedt was clearly not an idiot, and he immediately understood that the high-intensity war had raised the tide of anti-war sentiment at home.

People are really complex creatures. When the national disaster is at the head of the nation, often a slogan can make countless people support, at that time it seems that everyone is duty-bound to throw their heads and spill blood, as the so-called rise and fall of the country is responsible. However, when the country is strong and gets out of the crisis, the same people and the same things can no longer get applause and encouragement, and everyone will be eager to live a good life, and they will not have the slightest interest in expanding their territory and dominating the world.

Accardo did not excessively use ethnic hatred or promote radical racism, and the benefits of this were naturally enormous, and this decision allowed Germany to maintain due sanity and tolerance in the war, and to remove the label of "unjust war" from Germany in advance. On the other hand, it also alleviated the sequelae of war inertia on Germany, and avoided the stagnation and collapse of Germany's domestic economy once the war stalemate.

But there is actually a disadvantage to doing this, and this disadvantage is that the national sentiment is not incompletely incited, and the reserved reason and tolerance begin to reflect on its own gains and losses in the course of the war, so Germany now lacks the fighting mentality that was originally instigated by Hitler, so this embarrassing situation has emerged.

In fact, under Accardo's rule, the Germans did not rely on complete distortion of emotions to launch wars of expansion. In the early stage, Accardo mainly relied on inciting the people to overthrow the Treaty of Versailles to gather popularity, which means that Accardo relied on the prestige brought by breaking the Versailles system on his own. In the later period, the fundamental impetus for German expansion was the distribution of benefits by Accardos to satisfy the capitalists, whose support was the cornerstone of the German million-strong rampage.

Accardo, who understands the history of the "Great Germans", has always wandered on the fringes of nationalism, with the expanded concept of "Granddeutsch" By obscuring and exploiting dangerous racism, he succeeded in gaining unprecedented status and popular recognition, absorbing the support of both fanatics and intellectuals, which was the fundamental reason why he was able to defeat the Nazi Party, which relied solely on fanatics: he did more and more radical for the country than the Nazi Party, so the fanatics turned to support him, but he was gentle on domestic contradictions, so the intellectuals were optimistic about him, so he was able to overcome Hitler, who was in the limelight, and became the head of the country...... Now that he has taken the benefits, now he must also suffer the troubles and consequences of incomplete "ambiguous racism".

Because he did not often use the Nazi Party's radical strategy of strictly controlling domestic public opinion and unabashedly excluding dissidents, he did not arrest those who opposed him on a large scale, nor did he make great efforts to silence them. He had seen too many heroes who sacrificed their lives for the sake of this country, and he admired people like Sickert and Carl Benz, so he was reluctant to kill people who also loved this country.

So these pressures now passed through Accardo's shoulders and pressed on the British home front, General Rundstedt. The Germans had already lost a full 2,000 soldiers after two hours of frenzied attack, and if they continued at this rate, the Germans would have lost at least 15,000 troops before today's attack stopped.

Another question that made Rundstedt feel helpless was, what was the use of the London that had been defeated in this way? It was already in ruins, the factories had been destroyed, the palaces had collapsed, and the original millions of citizens were estimated not to be even a tenth of the people left, so that the symbolism of such a London was probably greater than the actual significance.

Looking at Wen Jiàn in front of him, he stood up and shook his head and sighed. The operational staff officer came over to comfort the general, who had been looking old for a few days: "General, this is the meaning of the Supreme Command, we just need to carry it out." ”

"Of course I know what to do. I just don't think it's necessary. Rundstedt looked very emotional, and as he walked to the window, he continued: "I know that Berlin needs a message to end the war, and even if London is only a symbol, it must be brought down as much as possible. As soon as the war here ends, then the Führer of Berlin will be much better...... However, sacrificing soldiers in vain is a pity after all. ”

"General, we have sworn allegiance to the Führer. The staff officer thought for a moment and persuaded the old general: "Compared with the time when we served the German Emperor, we are in a situation that is many times better - at least the Führer treats us as a life, not as a material to be expended, and that is enough." ”

How could Rundstedt, who had experienced the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme, not know how cruel the war had been, and of course he knew that the battle he commanded now could be regarded as a military exercise compared to the kind of battle that relied purely on human life and blood. Thinking of this, his mood was slightly better.

With a cough, he patted the staff officer on the shoulder gratefully, and then walked back to the front of the battle map, and he looked somewhat better as his troops gradually compressed the area of central London. Let's end it quickly, as long as we take this place, we can declare the war against Britain over. He thought silently to himself.

In fact, the British did not want to continue fighting like this for a long time, because the war was fought in their homes, and whatever was broken, it was their own. Someone has long compared Paris in France, which is also patronized by Germany, but the treatment is very different.

Paris is now almost unscathed, and the German army in Paris is also very restrained in its own actions, so whether it is defeated or occupied, in fact, it does not bring much pain to the civilians of Paris, France, on the contrary, London in England is different, and it is almost razed to the ground! Therefore, many British people are reflecting on whether it is right or wrong for them to resist so desperately.

Since we firmly believe that we can win, we might as well take it back in the future! This is what many people think, and if they don't say it, it doesn't mean that they don't think so.

Just as Rundstedt was struggling with how to get through the fierce street fighting, there was a knock on his office door.

"Come in!" the general and the staff officer turned their heads at the same time and looked at the young officer who had walked through the door.

"Long live Führer Accardo, Rudolph!" the officer who came in saluted before he said, "General, the commander of the 29th British Garrison Division stationed in south London sent a letter of surrender, and he was willing to surrender to us. ”

"Oh, that's good news, are you sure they really want to surrender?" Lundstedt was stunned for a moment, then immediately ecstatic. In France, he had not seen a division surrender of the enemy, but this time it was obviously more significant: the surrender of the British army at this time showed that the opponent's determination to fight to the death had wavered, and once the will of one side wavered in this kind of desperate battle, then it was not far from collapse.

Soon the news was confirmed, and the Germans made an exception and sent the commander of the 1st Infantry Corps nearby to receive the British surrendered division commander in person, and held a solemn surrender ceremony. On the instructions of Accardo, the surrendered division commander was appointed honorary mayor of the German city of London.

The division's positions were quickly handed over to the Germans, and the southern line of defense in London completely collapsed, and the British defenders, who had held out just two hours earlier, were instantly defeated