Churchill looked at the information in his hand and felt that after God came in 1938, he never had mercy on the poor country of the British Empire.

Chamberlain was gone, handing over an unprecedented mess to Churchill. Although the British king and other ministers were extremely reluctant to hand over power to such a former naval secretary who had caused the navy to be defeated again and again, there was no other candidate who dared to take over the current chaos, so Churchill had to take over as prime minister of the British Empire.

However, the current Britain is like a giant that has been sick for a long time, and the current bad state cannot be completely cured by changing a leadership team. Churchill only learned at the outset that he had a problem countless times greater than the Lord of the Admiralty.

First and foremost was the submarine threat in the Atlantic, and he received news that a transport ship had been sunk by a German submarine almost every few hours. And lately, these messages have become more dense and deadly.

German submarines were being deployed on a large scale and were using a method of attack that he could not help but use, and these submarines operated in groups across the vast Atlantic, chasing their prey like wolves. Any convoy that was discovered would be massively attacked by German submarines at night, even with destroyer escorts.

In just a few days, Britain has lost 3 destroyers on lease from the United States, as well as a dozen transports. These days, the daily sinking record is being refreshed, almost to the point of collapse. The losses of the German army in comparison with them are really negligible, and the British used the losses of hundreds of thousands of tons of transport ships and destroyers in exchange for the pitiful record of sinking a German submarine. What frustrated Churchill the most was that the number of elusive German submarines was at least three times higher than the British Navy's previous estimates.

Before the war, the British Navy evaluated the German Navy, and they believed that the German Navy had no more than 50 submarines, and most of them were small-tonnage offshore models, but in fact the German Navy had 146 submarines at the beginning of the war, more than ninety percent of which were large-tonnage ocean-going attack models.

These submarines do not include the captured 10 submarines of the Dutch Navy, 2 Danish submarines and 3 Polish submarines. And these submarines were designed and built by German designers, so the German Navy was familiar with the use of them. Thus, in fact, the total number of submarines at the disposal of the Germans is a staggering 151, far from the small estimated by the British.

Of course, while Churchill was struggling to deal with German submarines, he also had to contend with the pressure on the British home fleet caused by the German High Seas Fleet anchored in Wilhelmsport. That's a real 4 fleet aircraft carriers, and the aircraft carriers and battleships that Britain can now use are only barely competing with this German fleet.

There was no way to deal with the threat at sea, and the rout on land was so painful that Lord Gott had submitted several resignations, but Churchill had not yet approved these resignations because there was no suitable candidate.

The British and French forces had retreated and had now lost all of Belgium and were surrounded in the narrow Dunkirk area. Hundreds of thousands of troops have no food, no supplies, lack of ammunition and oil, let alone break through, it is difficult to even hold on.

The 150,000 British Expeditionary Force was trapped in the defensive line, and the daily telegrams urging for supplies made Churchill want to commit suicide. From food to clothing to artillery shells and weapons, from fuel to accessories to replenishment of soldiers, it seems that the British and French forces have become poor overnight, lacking everything.

What Churchill did not understand was that in northern France, the German armored forces that swept through Qiē were not engaged in the siege of Dunkirk, but the German army was still unstoppable, and the French and British forces were rarely able to stop the German attack in all directions for even a few hours.

So Churchill began to organize the navy to carry out "Operation Dynamo" to rush the British expeditionary force back to the British mainland. But the plan was fraught with difficulties from the outset, first with the Admiralt's claim that it would not be able to secure naval supremacy near the English Channel, and then with the British Air Force declaring that it was unable to cover the operation - it seemed that all efforts would be in vain, and the British Empire could only watch its troops become prisoners of the Germans.

Of course, if the navy, although inferior, still has the strength to fight a war, and the army, although it is almost collapsed, but it is far away, then the pain of the air force is unbearable for Churchill.

The Hurricane fighter has just entered service, and the original fighter performance gap has been made up by British engineers, and the current form can be said to be a good stage. However, it was at this time that German strategic bombers attacked London.

The Hurricane fighter, which was originally thought to be very advanced, exposed many fatal problems in the process of intercepting the new German strategic bomber, which also made the interception very unsuccessful. The king was furious and asked Churchill, who had just become prime minister, about air defense near London, leaving Churchill very faceless after only a few days in office.

However, this is not just a matter of losing face, Britain's actual air defense preparations are indeed very backward. The situation of the major general of the vacant soldiers in the home defense gave Churchill, who got the report, a headache.

First of all, there is the reality of the backward equipment of the British air defense forces, and most of the entire unit seems to be using the tactics and equipment of the First World War, relying on microphones and naked eye observation to guard the sky.

The second is the obsolescence and backwardness of anti-aircraft guns, and most of the anti-aircraft artillery units are equipped with backward weapons, with a slow rate of fire and limited high firing, and there is no way to deal with the new German strategic bombers. Of course, a small number of troops equipped with Bofors anti-aircraft guns can be regarded as making up for the lack of low-altitude defense, but in the high-altitude defense system, Britain is like a woman without clothes.

Obviously, it is unrealistic to replace a large number of anti-aircraft artillery pieces in a short period of time to strengthen the level of its own air defense, and Churchill has no choice but to focus on the development of fighters that can attack, retreat, and defend.

After all, the improvement of the fighter has been completed because of the needs of the war, but this new type of Hurricane fighter needs greater improvement in firepower. So Churchill almost immediately ordered the relevant enterprises and design departments to reduce the firepower of the Hurricane fighter from eight to seven. 7 mm caliber machine guns, reinforced to 4 20 mm caliber cannons.

10,000 anti-aircraft guns were ordered to strengthen the air defenses of the southern regions of Britain, and 2,000 Hurricane fighters were purchased to bridge the technological gap with the Luftwaffe. The next generation of fighters was immediately developed, requiring performance that surpassed Germany's existing FW-190D fighter jets...... Churchill gave a series of orders in one breath that even he felt was impossible.

But there are two other problems that he needs to solve most urgently, and these two problems cannot be solved by delay. The first question is how to rapidly improve the air defense capability over the British capital, and the second question is how to stabilize the transportation routes of raw materials and increase the production of fighter jets.

He feared that once the German bombers appeared on a large scale and began to threaten Britain's industrial production areas, he would not have a sufficient number of fighters at his disposal to meet these terrible "aerial bombers".

What was even more terrifying was that if Britain's industrial districts and the big city of London were to be targeted at the same time, he would have to disperse his already weak fighter force to deal with the overwhelming German bomber force at the same time. As a result, Britain would be at a complete disadvantage, and even the replenishment of the navy would be affected.

If Britain enters this vicious circle, it will be completely finished: transportation cannot meet the increase in industrial production, industry cannot meet the war losses, and the war losses make the army even more unable to ensure the smooth flow of transportation routes -- if it really enters this circle, it is difficult to say whether Britain can keep the country, let alone surrender to the peace.

So today, at this very moment, Churchill had to send another telegram to US President Roosevelt, asking the United States to continue to provide British war materials, including 1,000 P-36 fighter jets, and also asking the United States to provide 50 destroyers and 20 cruisers.

And at the end of the telegram, he indicated that at least 400 P-36 fighters and 20 destroyers should be rushed to Britain first - so that Britain could carry out "Operation Dynamo" and get Britain to withdraw 150,000 troops against a possible German cross-sea invasion.

But the American reply disappointed Churchill, and Roosevelt claimed that Britain could only supply 200 P-36 fighters and 12 destroyers. Other weapons and equipment will have to wait for the United States to expand its production capacity before it can be replenished. These promises were far from quenching the thirst of the near, and Britain had to face the current situation alone.

Now he must fulfill his promise, because in his speech in response to the German bombing of London, he declared that Britain would inevitably respond to the German bombing, and in his speech he declared that for every bomb that Britain received from Germany, it would give Germany hundreds of bombs in return!

However, he did not allow him to think too much, and he decided to heed the advice of several members of the National Assembly and the ministers, and ordered the air force to take off bombers and bomb the German strategic target Wilhelmshaven without suitable fighter escorts, so as to respond to the German bombing of Berlin.

Churchill sat behind his desk, grabbed the telephone on the corner of the desk, and gave the plan he had ordered to prepare: "Hey, Air Force Command, I'm Prime Minister Winston, Churchill! Take off bombers, attack German ports, and the retaliation will begin immediately!"