In the darkness of the night, an old British destroyer, with its lights flashing, quietly approached a dilapidated dock. The half-destroyed pier was riddled with craters on both sides, but it was also densely populated with anti-aircraft guns.

This was the last dock in Dunkirk where large ships could dock, and the Allied fighters had lost a full 90 of them to protect the pier. In order to ensure the foolproof operation of this pier, more than 100 anti-aircraft guns were arranged here.

On the docks, the black pressure was full of panicked British soldiers, their ammunition had been looted and supplied to the front-line covering troops, and their guns had also been taken away and used to be used by the troops of the French Royal Highness, after all, the French ammunition and the British were not very versatile, so the French troops who received the British ammunition had to take a batch of guns.

So apart from the ferocious French and British troops on the periphery, in the core of Dunkirk, most of the rest were poor soldiers who did not even have guns and ammunition. Once the Germans had breached the weak perimeter line, the British and French forces had no choice but to surrender.

After the British destroyer leaned on the dock, he hurriedly lowered his hanging ladder, so the starving British soldiers began to slowly board the destroyer under the command of the officer, which was the British "dynamo operation", with all the power that could be used, to save the blood and blood of the British Imperial army.

Sadly, however, the daytime operation failed miserably, and on the first day of Operation Dynamo, the British sank 1 cruiser, 7 destroyers and 20 transports. These poor warships were sunk off the coast of Dunkirk by the German Navy's aircraft carrier fleet, and the 20 Swordfish torpedo bombers that went to attack the German fleet never returned, making the British break the idea of annihilating the German High Seas Fleet with air force.

Therefore, the work of rushing to transport troops, which was already a race against time, can now only be carried out at night, so that the losses are reduced to a tolerable level, but the efficiency is only one-third or even less of the original.

Don't assume that all operations at night are safe, at least not in front of the Luftwaffe. In order to hone the bombing level of the bomber formation at night, the DO-217 bomber formation and the Butcher strategic bomber unit often visited Dunkirk at night, although the bombing accuracy was average, but it severely slowed down the retreating troops of the British army.

The weather conditions this evening were very bad, with clouds and some light rain, so when the destroyer arrived at night, the Luftwaffe was not in the skies over Dunkirk.

"Major General Montgomery, it is a great pleasure that you have been promoted this time and transferred back to England as commander of the 3rd Army of the Home Army. On the edge of the docks, Lord Gott sighed and said to Montgomery, who was about to leave Dunkirk, "I always have a hunch that this time we are doomed. ”

The sea breeze blew on Montgomery's face, making him feel a chill in his emaciation. Montgomery looked at the black-pressed soldiers who were boarding the ship and preparing to flee back to England, and said helplessly to Lord Goth: "Whether I can hold my ground in England depends on how many soldiers you can withdraw this time. You must know that even if the king ordered the mobilization of the whole group, we would not be able to train so many elites for a while. ”

"I heard that the production of Hurricane fighters is ramping up, and I hope there will be no more problems this time. Lord Gott was a little depressed, and under his men, the British Empire's nearly 150,000 troops were defeated, and now at least 50,000 men were now lost in Dunkirk, which made him look a little aggrieved, because after all, the battle was not commanded by him, but by the French general Gammerin, who was the loser.

Montgomery nodded and said approvingly: "I know that once France is defeated, the bombing path of the Luftwaffe will be shortened by hundreds of kilometers, and whether it can hold the territory of Britain depends only on whether the air force can hold the sky." ”

"Nelson's spirit tells us, don't be too pessimistic in everything! The British Empire has no hurdles that cannot be overcome!" said Lord Gott, "I will hold out to Dunkirk until the last second, and hope that the navy can win this war like a man." ”

"I can't control this, and I can't manage it. Montgomery said: "I'm more worried about whether we're going to lose the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal if the Italian forces in North Africa fall into trouble if the French have problems." ”

"If we lose the Suez Canal, the rest of the day will be difficult. Hearing Montgomery say this, Gort's mood also became complicated, once Germany and its quasi-ally Italy started to think about the Mediterranean, then Britain could literally cut off more than half of the shipping lines, a situation that Britain could not see far away.

Germany also has a poor Romania to provide a steady supply of oil, and if Britain loses the Suez Canal, then the oil from the Middle East, the raw materials from India, and even the rubber and other materials from the Far East will have to take a detour to the Cape of Good Hope -- if France falls, even if it goes through the South Atlantic, it will not be safe.

In this way, Britain has been reduced from a blockaded country to a blockaded country, and the British Empire, which is only a small island in itself, is not as capable of resisting the blockade as Germany as a continental country, so once Germany has completed this strategic goal, Britain will be more passive than ever.

"The German Führer is a veritable master of strategy. Gort sighed again, and he suddenly felt that he hadn't sighed more than in a month in his life. Ever since he led LinkedIn's 150,000-strong army into Belgium, it seems that bad luck has never left him.

Of the thousands of brand-new tanks that were discarded along the way, there are now less than 200 left, and these 200 tanks will still be thrown here, and not a single one of them will be shipped back to China. The artillery and cars were lost, and even the tents and medicine were given to the Germans all the way.

Gort felt a bit like the captain of the German transport brigade, and he went to great lengths to send something to the Germans all the way if the Germans lacked. Now that the Germans were short of tens of thousands of cheap laborers, Gott knew that through the efforts of Ganmalin and himself, they saw that the hole had been filled by the Germans.

If Accardo can survive Gott's assessment, he may be triumphant, and he has really put it into practice in this world with the conclusions he has drawn from repeatedly studying the German strategy and tactics of World War II in his previous life. It seems to have worked well, and it can make the United Kingdom, which has won and never lost, so anxious.

"I'm more worried that Germany will play harder. Montgomery said: "If these Germans co-opt the Turks and directly threaten the oil fields of the Middle East, this is the most fatal thing." If they deploy a long-range air force in Turkey, with those broken anti-aircraft weapons in the Middle East, we will have to wait at least twenty years if we want to use oil from the Middle East. ”

"Wouldn't it be so? Wouldn't Germany offend all the countries of the Middle East?" would that German Führer Accardo have such a stupid trick?" asked Gort, somewhat disbelieving.

"If he does, it's really ruthless. Montgomery frowned and said: "He is not even afraid of a war against our British Empire and France, and he is still afraid of offending those local snakes in the Middle East? As long as he destroys the oil fields, even if that part of the Middle East turns against us and completely turns against Germany, what can support us? If not, he will have to make up some more things for us." ”

"Then I'll send a telegram to Prime Minister Churchill, at least let him stabilize Italy, win over Turkey, and see if there is any hope...... Can the current state of affairs be maintained...... "Lord Gott, seeing that a crew member was coming to urge Montgomery to board the ship, said this, and took his lieutenant and staff officer, and walked back.

Looking at his back, Montgomery noticed that Lord Gott's back seemed to be a little hunched. He followed the two crew members who had come to pick him up in the opposite direction, and boarded the destroyer back to England in the sea breeze.

Ironically, the British destroyer was actually leased from the United States, old and backward. Compared to the new German destroyers, these American destroyers do not seem to even take advantage of artillery battles, let alone other capabilities. It's just that because of the need to maintain the number of its navy, Britain had to exchange overseas military bases for these rags.

Standing on the bow of the ship, Montgomery could not help but sigh with emotion: When did the British Empire have weakened to such an extent? When the war came, the seemingly powerful Anglo-French alliance collapsed in an instant, and the victory was surrendered to the already weak Germany in less than a month. What's wrong with this world? Is it because I'm still in a dream and haven't woken up?

The sea was pitch black, like a giant beast with a bloody mouth, as if it could devour a thing, and the destroyer slowly sailed to the wide sea in a pitch black light, which had stopped countless invaders, and even Napoleon was afraid of the English Channel, but now it was a desperate situation from which the British and French forces could not retreat.

"God, please bless the British Empire through this difficult time!" Montgomery closed his eyes and felt the sea breeze lapping on his cheeks, the salty air made people more awake, and the shaky deck under his feet, Montgomery was not comfortable with the land.

Once again, Lady Luck revealed her true identity through the prayers of some people. Montgomery's destroyer made it all the way back to England, and just after this destroyer, four British transports that were returning home with a full load of men were sunk by German submarines, causing huge losses of more than 5,000 people - these soldiers, including the crew, fell into the icy waters, and only 19 survived because of their inability to swim and the freezing temperatures.