81_81266When Rundstedt woke up from his sleep, the sky had just grayed and brightened slightly. The German general had not yet washed his face and brushed his teeth when he heard the good news that the British defenders had launched a frantic counterattack against the German defenders in order to regain the lost positions south of the city.

This is undoubtedly good news, and in urban warfare, the troops who are stuck in place are always able to suffer fewer casualties. He pushed open the window of the headquarters, then took the text handed to him by the staff officer, read it carefully, and the details made him even more excited.

British soldiers in many areas launched a decisive counterattack, and the soldiers did not have any bullets in their rifles, and the Germans calmly repelled these attacks. Such a counterattack allowed the Germans to annihilate at least 3,000 British soldiers in an hour, but it was clear that these bulletless units were not the main force of the British defenders.

"The surrender of the 29th British Garrison Division did not affect the British garrison much in fact, but their jurisdiction was a relatively safe area of London, England...... So much so that the British defenders hid a lot of ammunition reserves in this area. "Rundstedt found this key point last night by counting the supplies handed in by the surrendered British troops.

This is the main reason for the collapse of the British defenders, the lack of food troops can hold out for a few more days, but if there is a lack of ammunition, then it is clear that this army lacks the most basic combat effectiveness. So the British counterattacked south at any cost, so the British troops pushed out all the troops without ammunition and counterattacked.

"Let a few specialized special operations teams in street fighting slowly enter these areas to clear them, and our troops will attack here and here, and cooperate with their actions. Let's see if the special operations team can find Churchill in these suspicious areas. Thinking of this, Rundstedt pointed to a few marked locations on the map and said to his combat staff officer.

"Yes!" the staff officer nodded immediately, then turned and walked out.

Churchill also walked out of his office at this time, passing by the secretary's room, and then walked through the corridor, step by step up the stairs, and out of his air-raided basement. I don't know why he suddenly wanted to go out for a walk, maybe it was because he didn't seem to breathe the air on the ground for 3 days.

He walked out of the deep bomb shelter, and on both sides of the soldiers who had fallen asleep on the ground due to fatigue, no one noticed that his commander had just passed by them, and it was not until he reached the mouth of the bomb shelter that Churchill saw two soldiers standing guard on duty.

"Prime Minister!" the two soldiers greeted Churchill as they saw him come out, standing upright and whispering a greeting.

"Thank you, thank you for the one you have done for the UK. Churchill looked at the two young soldiers and suddenly had a sad feeling: "If you don't build yì, accompany me to go up for a walk?"

The two men hurriedly woke up a few soldiers around them, and after leaving the people standing guard, the remaining few accompanied Churchill to the subway station. The lights were still on near the bomb shelter because of the generator working, but by the time they got to the subway station, it was already dark.

A few miner's lamps lit up listlessly, illuminating the desperate faces around them. The civilians huddled together and watched in horror as their prime minister walked past them.

"Mr. Churchill. A little girl holding a rag doll stood timidly beside Churchill's lap, raised her head and called out to Churchill: "When will the war end?"

Churchill was stunned for a moment, then bent down, touched the little girl's head with his hand, barely squeezed out a smile, and replied softly to the little girl: "It will be over soon." Disasters will soon pass, and God will bless you all. ”

He straightened up and watched the little girl run back to her mother, and then he continued to walk to the area where the wounded were parked.

Compared to the refugees, it is much more lively. Many of the wounded were moaning in their sleep, and two doctors were amputating the wounded not far away, and they were now extremely busy with their work after yesterday's battle had cost the British defenders dearly.

In the midst of screams one after another, a doctor with a mask covering his face used a saw blade to cut the injured man's arm back and forth, and his feet were littered with unknown shoes, feet or arms. Of course, there were many more of these severed arms along the deep railroad tracks, and there were piles of stinking corpses.

Churchill watched a young man whose arm had been sawed off die on the operating table because he was not rescued in time, and watched as two doctors directed the soldiers who helped to dump the still warm body into a deep pit on the subway tracks.

Without saying a word, he walked to the staircase that led to the ground next to the subway station. He walked up step by step, and when he walked through the subway exit, he suddenly felt that he had become much more relaxed.

Last night, around a building 50 meters away, the British defenders and German soldiers engaged in a fierce battle, and the result was that after paying the price of more than 70 soldiers, the British defenders held their positions.

Churchill glanced at the building in the distance, and when he looked at it on the map last night, it seemed very close, but now when he actually looked at it, he felt that it was still far away.

Accompanied by several soldiers, he walked to a 140-millimeter howitzer stacked next to the subway entrance, and looked at the empty ammunition boxes that were discarded all over the ground, as well as the artillerymen and infantrymen sleeping on the ground with their heads resting on the ammunition boxes. They were so tired that a few people who came to them couldn't get them to open their eyes.

In the distance of the street, there was an American M3LEE tank, which was one of the few heavy weapons in the hands of the British army, which had repelled some German infantry attacks yesterday, and today retreated to the street for fear of being destroyed. The turret of this tank was covered with canvas and disguised as a pile of ruins so that it would not be discovered and destroyed by Luftwaffe aircraft.

"The war should have ended a long time ago. Churchill looked at the red blood stains on a destroyed anti-aircraft gun, reached out and stroked it, and found that the blood stains had dried up and did not cover his fingers, and sighed and said: "This damn war should have ended a long time ago!"

"Prime Minister!" a sergeant following him stepped forward and whispered, "Let's go back to the basement, the Germans may shell this place at any time." The soldiers here are your loyal followers who are willing to die here for the sake of the British Empire. So you can rest assured that we will fight until the last moment. ”

"Chamberlain was right, we have to leave some blood and bones for the British. There is a famous saying that 'those who are ready to die are entitled to live', and I now think that is true, that we should let those who are willing to die for the British Empire live. Churchill muttered, patted the sergeant on the shoulder, and said another sentence, which made the sergeant's whole person stunned for an instant: "You have to live too!"

By the time the sergeant had reacted, Churchill had already walked back, carefully bypassing the sleeping soldier and back to the entrance to the subway station, where a sign of an air-raid shelter was hung and swayed slightly back and forth in the breeze.

Looking at the signs swaying back and forth in the wind, Churchill thought of the current British Empire, the British emperor reorganized his cabinet in Iceland, declared that he did not recognize the Chamberlain government or the Churchill government, and claimed that he would lead the army back to England. Whether it is true or not is true Churchill is not to comment on it, but the matter of setting up another mountain is really a foregone conclusion.

Chamberlain established a British government in the northern mountains, similar to the Vichy regime in France, which was set up on the thighs of Germany. Although it was suspected of betraying the country, it did have the support and support of a part of the British people who wanted to stop the war. After all, as long as the British flag does not fall, a truce is a very attractive option.

I'm tired, so go on. Churchill shook his head helplessly, raised his feet and walked down the steps, step by step towards the slightly dimly lit entrance of the subway. As he was about to enter the darkness, he suddenly stopped, raised his head with difficulty, and looked at the gray sky of London, and he had a premonition that he might never see the London sky again.

After this glance at the sky, he did not stop any longer, and walked straight down the stairs, past the field hospital, past the refugees, and Churchill did not dare to look at those scenes, because he was afraid to forget the empire that had been so large and so powerful that it was incomparably strong, and he was afraid that he would remember the fact that this empire had collapsed in his own hands.

When he stood at the entrance to the deep dugout, the sleeping soldiers there had already woken up, and these soldiers were leaning against the wall, sitting in groups of three or five on the stairs, and when they saw Churchill return, some of them stood upright, and some of them did not move their buttocks. When a person can face death calmly, the status of former prime minister is not enough to make him honestly afraid.

"It's 7 o'clock in the morning. Gentlemen. As long as you hold out until 5 p.m., you've completed your mission. Churchill looked at his men and said, "At 5 o'clock this afternoon, I will give the order to stop the resistance, and all the areas I can command will surrender to the Germans." ”

Everyone couldn't believe their ears, and they stood there silently, looking at the former prime minister, who had been extremely tough and declared that he would never surrender. Suddenly, someone began to cry, sobbing one after another in the silence.

"Gentlemen, think of our compatriots in Iceland, think of our compatriots in the mountains of northern England, our efforts have not been in vain, and will never be in vain!" said Churchill with a smile: "I have a hunch that the Germans will not win this war!"