December 26, Republic 2782 (1941), Edinburgh, England.

Edinburgh, the ancient city north of the British Isle, has become the temporary capital of the British Empire for the second time, well, for the second time. Although the British government has not announced it now, the royal family and cabinet, various important departments, and embassies of various countries have moved here.

There's no way, Erdezi's missiles are so hateful that you can't stay in that place in London. The Germans on this plane have played with the F series ballistic missiles and the V series cruise missiles, and they have increased the range of these missiles to about 500 kilometers, although the hit rate is still relatively impressive, but it is no problem to use them to bomb cities.

London has been bombed twice in three days, and no one can stand it.

Speaking of which, the reason why the two sides became like this was completely caused by Qiu Fatzi, a fool who pretended to be smart. In fact, at the beginning of the war, neither side aimed at the city, whether it was strategic bombing or whatever, it was basically aimed at military targets and strategic targets such as military camps, bridges, railways, stations, factories and warehouses.

At the beginning of the war, the Battle of Britain began, but the German aircraft were superior in performance and numbers, and the British Royal Air Force was completely suppressed. In addition, Germany had the means to deal with radar jamming, which greatly reduced the efficiency of British air defense.

The German bombing of radar stations and airfields was secondary, and the most important thing was that without radar early warning auxiliary command, Britain had no way to assemble fighters at a designated position at a specified time, so as to create a local numerical advantage over the German fleet. In the absence of a precise target position vector, the fighters taking off from each airfield could only carry out a wave attack because of their different positions, and in the face of Germany's huge numerical superiority in air forces, the British fighters were consumed at a very fast rate, and more than 250 fighters were lost in seven days.

Qiu Fatzi, who had just come to power, was in a hurry. If this continues, the British air defense will be completely wiped out. This is not possible, no matter what means are used, it is necessary to keep the British fighter forces. Originally, he had already figured out a way to wait for Germany to take on the notoriety first, but now he couldn't wait. In order to give his air force a respite, he immediately called the RAF Bomber Command and ordered the bombing of the city of Berlin.

In this way, British bombers bombed Berlin for a week in a row. Bombs were dropped in urban areas, not on factories and warehouses.

However, the British bombing actually did not have much effect, first of all, because the number of sorties was small, only a dozen or dozens of planes, and the number that could penetrate the defense and reach the sky over Berlin was even smaller. And at night it was impossible to aim, and finally there was interference from German anti-aircraft guns and night fighters, so its effect was very low, about a dozen or dozens of people killed and wounded.

To put it simply, Qiu Fatzi was not attacking Germany, but deliberately trying to distort the building, deliberately letting Germany retaliate against him, and putting the target of the attack on the city, so that the Royal Air Force could get a respite.

Churchill's "crooked building" was indeed successful, and the bombing of Berlin made the mustache jump to his feet, and he immediately ordered the Luftwaffe to retaliate against the opium cattle. As a result, German bombers began to bomb London in the hundreds, and the people of London suffered heavy casualties. However, the British Air Force was given a chance to respite.

However, Churchill did not have long to laugh. The angry mustache made the Luftwaffe load the newly developed coagulation ****** and metal powder incendiary bombs, and the British cried. As a result, casualties in London rose dramatically, and on 22 April 1940, a massive bombing of 400 planes was carried out by the Germans using all of these two new incendiary bombs, which set off a third of London. The British later counted more than 50,000 dead and missing, and that was the result in a single attack. Qiu Fatzi touched the great white shark this time, and he miscalculated.

And once such a throat-cutting war is played, Britain, which has a small population, a relatively small number of fighters and bombers, and a relatively long distance, is at a great disadvantage. By this time, Churchill had begun to regret his decision to bomb Berlin, but it was too late to regret it, so he had to order the air force to step up the interception.

Fortunately, after the British planes were replenished, the losses of the Germans also came up, and in order to reduce the losses, they also reduced the bombing of aircraft, and began to bomb London and other cities with missiles.

Qiu Fatzi did it to himself this time, and he got rid of it, so everyone couldn't stay in London, so he had to move to Edinburgh. However, even Edinburgh is not completely safe, although it is outside the range of German missiles, but the German heavy bombers can be bombed. Therefore, even in this ancient city, a lot of anti-aircraft bunkers and underground bunkers have been built.

At this time, Qiu Fatzi was in the interim prime minister's office, but the target of his madness today was not the Germans, but his ally France.

"Shame! Shame! These cowardly French roosters! They dare to make peace with Germany privately, this is a betrayal! This is a betrayal of the allies! This is a betrayal of the Entente!" British Prime Minister Qiu Fat Man was like an excited bull, foaming at the mouth and scolding the French.

Sir Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Admiral Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and several other bigwigs also sat on the sofa with black faces.

They received very unfortunate news from Geneva today that the French were carrying out peace negotiations with Germany behind their backs.

Admiral Ironside also said: "No wonder the French have behaved so negatively in the past two months or so, and they have completely failed to work! I know that the French are not reliable at all!"

If the French make peace with Germany, our situation in Africa will be devastated, and we will certainly be denied the use of French North Africa as a logistics base and a supply route. The most terrible thing is that the Germans will be able to concentrate all their forces in Europe against the Reich! This will be a catastrophic consequence! The situation will deteriorate in general......"

"Anthony, is there any hope that France will change its mind?" asked the fat man through gritted teeth at Aiden.

"It's hard, Winston......" Aiden spread his hands and shook his head, "According to the information we know, the French really don't want to fight, and now the French people have a lot of resentment against our empire." There was a rumor that spread very quickly in France, and it was said that we had deliberately provoked this war in order to frame France, and to deliberately let France and Germany fight each other......"

"Damn, how can there be such rumors? Are the French idiots? They actually believe such ridiculous rumors!" Qiu Fat Man cried out angrily.

Well, although the British have been engaged in this kind of digging and burying people for a long time, and they don't know how much they have done to pit their teammates and sell their teammates, but this war is really not intentional on their part, and the British themselves don't want to fight. That's right, the attitude of the British towards the North Sea oil fields is that they are ready to eat alone, that is, they are ready to deliberately disgust Germany, and they will not be given half a hair, but who knows that the mustache's reaction to the oil fields will be so strong? This guy actually played according to the rules, and directly flipped the table, and said that he would fight.

Qiu Fatzi felt that he had been wronged, well, of course, he also had a lot of plans to pit France by the way, but he didn't have time to use it yet.

“...... Uh......" The corners of Aiden's mouth twitched, embarrassed to speak.

With so many years of friendship between Britain and France, it would be strange if the French did not believe this rumor, because the British had indeed done many similar things, and they could not wash them away. Truth be told, the French were no less hostile to the British than they were to the Germans. Even if the upper echelons knew the truth, they wouldn't think so, but those middle and lower echelons didn't think so.

Fat Qiu also thought of this, and couldn't help but turn green. If the French did leave, the British would not have had a good time. Even though the US-led Western Treaty has now joined the war group, Germany has also joined a Third International led by the Soviet Union. If it weren't for the limited projection capacity of the Soviet Union and the fact that the Yankees were not afraid of death entangled Zhukov's army, the Suez Canal might not be able to be saved.

"If France makes peace alone, then the United States will have to invest more. Otherwise, we won't be in a good situation. In addition, we have to inform the British and American troops in North Africa that they are ready to take North Africa. If the French really make peace, we will immediately take action against North Africa, and North Africa must be in our hands!" Qiu Fat said viciously.

As soon as these words came out, except for Admiral Ironside's calm expression, the faces of several other bigwigs changed greatly. Aiden hurriedly dissuaded: "Winston! The French are just preparing to be neutral, even if they withdraw from the war, they will only remain neutral, and if we do this, we may push France to the Soviet-German camp." ”

"Hmph, since they made peace alone, they betrayed us, so it is also appropriate to be punished. Moreover, since the French do not want to fight, they will not go to war with us for a North Africa. Moreover, we can say that we are borrowing it temporarily......" Qiu Fat said slyly.

"Also, immediately bring under control and disarm the French officers and soldiers who have withdrawn to Britain. This group of people is also a bargaining chip, and I don't think the French will sacrifice these 50,000 elite soldiers in vain. There is also the control of all the French merchant ships anchored in our ports...... "Qiu Fatzi added.

Everyone thought about it, what Qiu Fatzi said seemed to make sense, since the French didn't want to fight, then give them the stairs, then they would also pretend to be deaf and dumb.

"It's a pity that the main French fleet is now anchored in Toulon and Marseille, otherwise we would have had a chance to capture these ships. They had 8 battleships and 3 aircraft carriers. This has a significant effect on the Royal Navy. Qiu Fatzi sighed regretfully.