Chapter 438: 438 The defeat is like a mountain

81_81266 It seems that the German high command has an unwritten rule: when fighting a favorable battle, use armored troops to fight, good steel is used on the blade, and the invasion is like fire in a single march of three thousand miles; The grenadiers, just like Napoleon's Praetorian Guards, are not good-looking, but they have a sky-swallowing momentum.

Unlike the German Army in another time and space, in this time and space, Accardo made the German industrial system full of horsepower early on, and discovered Augustus, a "first assistant" in the world, and Jeryn, Nike, Cassia, Speer and others in their hands are all first-class industrial integration wizards, so the family background of German grenadiers is much stronger than that of their counterparts in another life.

Accompanied by assault guns on both sides of the road, the 1st Infantry Division under the 1st Mechanized Corps of Army Group A, Germany's most elite infantry division, these dusty German GIs can be said to be the pride of the entire German Army.

Compared to the SS troops, who shouted "Long live the Führer" at the beginning of the battle, and whose fighting strength was unbelievably stubborn, but whose losses were staggering, the Wehrmacht units looked much smarter. If the SS fought on loyalty to the Führer Acador, the Wehrmacht fought on the "technology" that was embedded in their bones.

These German grenadiers fought bravely and tenaciously to the extreme, they took pride in fighting the hardest and most unwinnable battles, and they rejoiced that they could be the most trusted troops of the German Führer.

However, the British counterattack in recent days has really baffled these German soldiers - compared to the previous situation in Norwich, the British resistance or counterattack can be described as weak, and the momentum of fighting for every inch of territory has disappeared, replaced by a thousand miles of weakness.

After taking Cambridge, Rundstedt let the Germans defend in place and wait for the British counterattack, but after waiting for a whole afternoon, the British did not have the courage to recapture Cambridge from the German ** team, and the German Army Group A also ushered in a short but valuable period of recuperation.

They also sorted out the British supplies they had seized these days. Compared with Montgomery's steady and steady attack, Goth's forced attack was actually a huge flaw for Rundstedt, and this commander of Army Group A, whom Accardo liked very much, obviously belonged to the kind of "ruthless character" with real materials, he seized the loophole of the British forced counterattack and ate the living force of the British troops in one go.

Moreover, he used a quick assault to cooperate with the decapitation operation of the special forces and the destruction of the rear, and captured most of Montgomery's rear supplies that had not been lost on a large scale. These included a small amount of food stockpiled near Norwich, as well as fuel and ammunition, and even some airfields and railways and roads that had not had time to be destroyed by the British. It can be said that the British troops after Montgomery's departure were simply half of the German logistics transport brigade.

The loss of these supplies also made the distribution of supplies in London, England, even more stretched, which also caused the current embarrassing situation of no troops to fight back. It's not that the British don't want to fight back, but they simply don't have a way to fight back. It was like Germany in 1945, waiting passively for the Allied attack, and could not come up with any effective means of counterattack.

Britain had hundreds of thousands of troops, but they had to hold much more land. The 100,000 troops in the direction of Peterborough were unable to move at all to prevent the Germans from crossing northward to the Uss River, and the 50,000 men in the direction of Bedford were equally unable to move in order to prevent the Germans from advancing westward. Tens of thousands of coastal defense troops will be deployed along the long coastline, and at least 100,000 will be needed to meet the Germans in the London area.

Now not to mention Churchill, the British prime minister who should have been deposed by His Majesty the king a long time ago, even the king did not believe in any nonsense such as driving the German army into the sea. Whether the British can hold London or not seems to have become a question. The plan to mobilize the people to burn jade and stones has caused panic throughout London, and now the British royal family has canceled all plans to make public speeches for fear that some British people will throw grenades on the podium.

India's colonies are on the verge of moving, Japan is eyeing Hong Kong, Australia is fighting with the United States in order to completely get rid of British control, and even the Mediterranean region of North Africa, which Britain has always regarded as its lifeblood, is also at war -- now Britain has to look at Canada, its only colony, which is still quiet and honest.

Of course, Britain's westward trip to Canada actually offended the United States, and as the only power in North America that is blessed with natural resources, it is impossible for the United States to let Britain continue to rule in Canada. Therefore, the British side has been struggling to discuss with the United States about the British royal family's westward trip to Canada, and even the interests of Asia have been given to the United States, and they have turned a blind eye to the affairs of Australia.

As far as the United States is concerned, Germany's unification of Europe is just one more competitor, but Britain's westward trip to Canada is preparing to sleep on the couch of the United States. So Roosevelt did not let go of his mouth this time, and he made a public speech, hoping that Britain could fight the German army to the end on its own soil.

However, after all, the bloody war requires "blood" to fight, and Britain's sea transportation lines can barely be satisfied with the consumption of air battles and the normal survival of their own country, and now after changing to a large-scale land battle, the terrible attrition has completely collapsed that fragile transportation line.

Dönitz is the last killer weapon of the German Navy, and President Roosevelt of the United States has already judged this matter, but this US president will not say it, and British Prime Minister Churchill does not dare to say it -- the total number of ships sunk by German submarines in the British Navy in just half a month from February 14 to March 1 felt that the world was spinning after watching it.

Having lost the food on the plains and some of the strategic materials of the front-line army, and the loss of all the elite troops, what was left of the British government was now completely unable to affect the overall offensive of the landed German army.

Moreover, as the German offensive in the south became more and more sharp, and the whole front was getting closer and closer to the southern part of Britain, German bombers could take off from the Dunkirk area more frequently to support the German forces in Britain. As the German-controlled front-line airfields became more and more accurate, and the Luftwaffe support became more and more timely, the 100 Hurricane fighters that had been accumulated with great difficulty were not lost in the battle to intercept the Butcher strategic bombers, but were slowly consumed in the air battle with the German ace pilots flying the FW-190D fighters flying from the British mainland.

The promise made by the Americans to the British was very simple, that is, as long as London could hold out for three months, then the United States would continue to send strategic materials to Britain, and countless fighter planes and tanks would help Britain drown the 300,000 or even 500,000 German troops on its own soil, and Britain would eventually win the war against Germany.

But even the most optimistic Churchill was not sure that he would hold London for three months, and he didn't even know if Britain was to be reduced to ruins, and if all British colonies were turned into Americans, the war would not be considered a victory for Britain.

What scared the British royal family and Churchill himself the most was not the growing number of hundreds of thousands of German landing troops, but the two louder and louder voices from the north. Ireland is leaving behind the royal family and the Churchill government in the north of England and is making all-out contact with the Scottish rulers in the northern mountains, preparing to divide Britain with Germany.

In fact, the German Führer is throwing an olive branch to Scotland in the north of Britain, claiming that he is willing to rule the British mainland with the British and Irish who are "aware of current affairs", and the future British mainland will be divided into Ireland, Scotland, and the southern part of the German-controlled Britain, and the new Britain and Ireland will be an important part of Germany's "European steel axis".

Although the German Führer did not offer many decoys, the military superiority of the German grenadiers at gunpoint and under the tracks of the German armored forces was more convincing than the pale assurances of the United States. These people were also waiting for a moment when the German soldiers would enter London, that is, when they would step out of the background and come to the forefront. Like the Vichy government in France, they are ready to bet on both sides to bet on their own future.

And these people are the people who really want the British royal family and Churchill to die, once they stand up, they will divide the British colonies and make the entire British Empire a mess, although these people can't help much in the German camp, but they can really harm Britain and make Britain spit out the last breath of blood. These people are the real ones who have not succeeded enough to fail, and they are a handful of scum that Churchill hated more than the German Führer.

Some of the people in power in Britain are beginning to regret that they did not make peace with Germany immediately after the disastrous defeat at Dunkirk, and they regret that they had let the British Royal Navy enter the war and lost the advantage of their home fleet. But at such a time, no one dared to be the first to stand up and veto the decision of the royal king, and no one dared to challenge Prime Minister Churchill, who was not far from death. They were all waiting, waiting for the moment when the Germans would take London.

But now Churchill and His Majesty the King of England are in no mood to care about these ideas, they are risking a turn against the United States, transporting an elite division to Canada and handing it over to Montgomery, who is just gaining a foothold there, and they are helping to send the remaining British Royal Navy to organize an attack on Danish Iceland, and send 30,000 British troops there to make their last bet