In the United Kingdom, in a small conference room next to the Prime Minister's office, Britain's most powerful people are holding an important meeting.

Beneath a huge portrait of the King of England, a minister pressed his hand to the conference table and said, "Isn't the war between France and Germany the goal we have always wanted to see?"

"That's true, but we don't want to see a weak France and a weak Germany killed a weak Soviet Union with a desire to move westward. Another politician in a suit spread his hands helplessly and said, "We now, at least now, need a slightly stronger Germany to guard the eastern door for the whole of Europe, don't we?"

"Merkel's envoys also assured us that they were preparing for war with the Soviet Union and that the German army needed time to expand its numbers and equipment. ”

Churchill snorted, "Oh my God, how many more men and equipment do they have to build? I bet they now have at least 2 million troops, twice as many as we do." Their assurances you still dare to use as a justification, and all that bullshit Führer's assurances have been proven to be lies in the end!"

"You are the Lord of the Admiralty, and in fact you know best what the Germans threaten us! The last time their navy poured out, they were scared away by our fleet. One minister said optimistically: "In fact, Germany did deliver two of our giant battleships, which were of very good quality, and there was a good precedent for our two countries, at least in terms of naval cooperation." ”

"Say that to the German High Seas Fleet. Churchill exasperated: "They don't build battleships because their Führer bets all his bets on aircraft carriers." Our intelligence officers inside the Kiel military port found out that they were building two more aircraft carriers, and if you count the two that have already been launched, the Germans are going to build at least six aircraft carriers, which is not good news for us!"

"Churchill's concerns are not unreasonable, and I propose to speed up the technical upgrading of naval aviation. At least we can no longer let the Luftwaffe fighters do whatever they want over Europe. An old minister nodded and said, "This must be done as much as possible." ”

"Both the Army and the Navy had technical problems with their fighter programs, with the Navy insisting on the Roc with a rotating turret, and the Army not being satisfied with the Dreadnought of the same design. A person in charge of the technical side introduced.

Churchill said with a displeased face: "I have heard about the navy, but we already know very well about the FW-190D fighter that the German army put into operation in Poland, and the performance of this single-seat fighter is really good, compared to our aircraft watches are very average." ”

"We once smuggled two ME-109C fighters exported from Germany from Spain, which are very advanced, so I used to build a large-scale imitation of the relevant departments. However, considering that there are various reasons for the problem of operational identification, many ministers and technical departments insist on studying our own fighters. "So we started working on a new fighter project, codenamed 'Spitfire'. ”

As early as 1936, the British began to develop new fighters stimulated by the Spanish Civil War, initially choosing the Dreadnought and the Roc fighters, both with unique turret designs - although many military personnel always felt that these aircraft were not as powerful as the German single-seat ME-109C fighters.

So at the beginning of 1937, the British company Rolls-Royce provided a more powerful aero engine, and a new fighter project began at the same time, and a single-seat fighter called Spitfire was designed. The fighter had the speed and combat performance to be on par with the German counterparts, and had few drawbacks other than the complex wings that made the aircraft somewhat expensive to build.

However, the British also made corresponding changes compared to the German fighters, and the British fighters adopted 12. The 7 mm machine gun was the main weapon, because the British designers and the military believed that the German fighter's 30 mm nose cannon with a 20 mm wing cannon had too little ammunition to be suitable for prolonged aerial combat.

Under the leadership of Accardo, the FW-190D fighter series was divided into two basic models from the beginning, one was a high-altitude interceptor fighter equipped with a liquid-cooled engine, equipped with a large-caliber cannon specially designed to deal with bombers, and a low-altitude combat fighter with an air-cooled engine, equipped with a 30 mm nose cannon and four 13 mm machine guns.

Apparently British intelligence officers had only seen the German high-altitude interceptor FW-190D fighters, so the British always believed that the Luftwaffe fighters did not have enough bomb loads. In fact, Luftwaffe pilots generally preferred to use a four-gun aircraft configuration, because they did not have to rush back to base to replenish ammunition frequently, and could stay in the air for a longer time.

So the military was satisfied with the design of the fighter and decided to purchase 1,500 of them, but the aircraft was slow to progress due to the lack of senior designers, and the first test flight was dropped a few months ago. This left the Spitfire a long way from service – a time when Britain had to rely on the Dreadnought and the Roc against the German FW-190D.

"Now I'm curious to know, when will this newly tested Spitfire be ready for service?" asked Churchill.

"If the test flight had gone smoothly and the military had continued to invest money, it could have been put into service around the beginning of 1939. The man replied.

"His Majesty's technical advisers advised us that before 1939 it would be better for us not to engage in a frontal armed conflict with Germany, so as not to inflict unnecessary losses on the Royal Army and the Royal Air Force. Another minister added: "Moreover, His Majesty the King and the Prime Minister are more interested in luring Germany eastward." ”

"But now that Führer has mobilized his army and is preparing for a frenzied war with France, it is not in the fundamental interests of the capitalist countries. The British Chancellor of the Exchequer sighed helplessly: "I suggest that we must contact Merkel and ask him to find a way to persuade the former who lives in Germany to give up the crazy war against France." ”

After all, this time the French forces did launch an all-out attack, and no one could tolerate such an attack. The Foreign Chancellor apparently had little hope for such a plan at such a time: "Not to mention the German Führer, who was interested in sovereignty and nationalism and its extremes." ”

Churchill coughed twice: "I think it is more difficult to convince the other side, the French have suffered a big loss this time, they have lost at least 2,000 men in this attack, in this case will they give up revenge lightly?"

"We are threatening and making amends on both sides to find a way to complete the plans of His Majesty the King and the Prime Minister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer thought for a moment before he said: "We sanction the French economy, and then promise the French to mobilize 10 army divisions, and they will compromise, and on the other hand, we will use the navy to blockade Wilhelmshaven, and promise the Germans to smuggle a batch of rubber and steel to them." ”

"Then there's nothing to be nervous about. They will all compromise on this. The European continent would not have shed blood when the USSR attacked Poland. An old minister spoke hoarsely: "This time it is the French who have left us alone, and this is a very bad omen, and we might as well be more partial to the Germans this time." ”

Sure enough, the Germans did not relent, and Führer Accardo issued a general mobilization order, announcing the completion of all-out war preparations by 1939 and the expansion of the army to 3.5 million men. Accardo once again made a speech, claiming that France was playing tricks behind the scenes in disregard of the general cause, and secretly supported the communist *invasion* of Europe.

However, the British diplomatic envoy contacted the German Foreign Office in Turkey, and they promised Merkel to provide Germany with steel, rubber and oil, and asked Germany to cancel the war mobilization order and abandon its crazy plan to attack France.

On the other hand, however, the attitude of the French relieved the British diplomats, and the French commander-in-chief assured the British that they would not send any troops to provoke Germany, and that they were willing to facilitate the good offices of the British government, and the French troops stationed in Luxembourg retreated 10 kilometers back as a gesture of goodwill.

The retreat of the French troops eased tensions on the Western Front, and the Germans did not take advantage of the victory, they stopped in the border area and did not cross the German-French border into the Maginot Line. This move apparently gave the British government enough face, and on the same day a smuggling steamer carrying the Turkish government sailed from the port of the Mediterranean to Wilhelmshaven, Germany, laden with rubber, under the watchful eyes of German diplomats.

Führer Accardo's posturing once again achieved good results, and the goal of starting the war on the Western Front in 1938, which Germany had tried so hard to maintain, was finally achieved with the help of the British government, and the army generals led by Brauchitsch breathed a sigh of relief, and the naval commander Raeder, who was trapped in Wilhelmsport, cried with joy, and he now completely believed that Accardo was the soul of the German navy.

A war on the Western Front that seemed to be about to break out disappeared, and the Poles, who were looking forward to a war between Germany and France, finally believed in the fact that they had been betrayed, and the French fulfilled some of their obligations as allies slightly, but gave up at the last minute. Warsaw was now isolated, and the Soviets had broken through the Soviet-Polish border without backup, and a large number of Polish refugees poured into the German-occupied zone, as the Soviet Red Army from the East was clearly more ferocious than the Germans.

At this moment, Accardo is concerned about the expansion of the paratrooper unit in Studente, and he has split the original 1st and 2nd paratrooper divisions and divided them into the newly formed 5 new paratrooper divisions, which are now training hard at the foot of the Alps to hone their skills for the future of the world.