Great time travel

Chapter 642 1 Different Battles

Chapter 2, Different World War II

Late night, September [-], [-], London, England

The capital of the British Empire during the war years was in a state of depression and dilapidation. Due to insufficient fuel and electricity, most of the once bright street lights had been extinguished, and shops closed early.Also due to gasoline rationing restrictions, there are very few cars on the street. The occasional car, truck, and red double-decker bus mostly carry soldiers, and all of them are equipped with ugly gas generators.There aren’t even many bicycles on the street—it’s too dangerous to ride a bicycle in the dark under the black lights.Occasionally, there are a few pedestrians, also in a hurry, and rarely say hello to each other.

This is London, the imperial capital during the war. Even though it has been far away from the bombs of the Luftwaffe, it is still suffocatingly cold.

It was a difficult time for all Britons, with six brutal years of war draining almost all the wealth of the British Empire.The last good things that could be found were given to the army by Churchill's war cabinet, and all that was left for the common people were rags.

Nothing disappeared from the market except a little ration of flour, salt, and turnips.No gasoline, no fruit, no cloth, no tea, no sweets, no chicken, no toilet paper, no soap and shampoo, and people wear hats even in summer to cover their dirty hair.Women's favorite cosmetics are nowhere to be found, only beetroot juice can be used instead of red lipstick.Then use anything from suntan lotion to onion skin to color the legs and draw stitches with brow pencil in place of the nylon stockings you can't buy—it's better than nothing.

The stomach of the British was even more hit. The food supply during the war was very scarce, and even vegetables were not enough to eat, because the food produced by British farmers could only meet 30% of the country's needs, and the lifeline of shipping was always in the German submarine. under the threat of.The ration of tea and coffee is almost zero, forcing the British to drink afternoon tea without tea.An entire generation of British children born between 1940 and 1945 have never seen a banana.

In fact, what the British lacked during the war was not only bread, tea and fruit, but also meat. Steak and pork chops have become luxury goods that cannot be reached. Pigeons, rabbits, and even the former pet guinea pigs and cats Dogs are on the table because the people are so hungry, the cat and rat trade is getting bigger, the ingredients in the sausages are getting more dubious, and more and more people are becoming vegetarians.In order to lead by example, or at least for show, the British royal family also had to treat their stomachs badly, and served spam luncheon meat in those luxurious gold and silver tableware...

However, many Londoners couldn't even eat luncheon meat, so they had to turn their gardens into vegetable gardens, pull out roses and tulips, plant onions and cabbages, and start raising rabbits, chickens and even chickens in their homes. Pigs, to slightly increase their food supply.

However, what is lacking in the kitchen is not only ingredients, but also fuel—during the war, there were quotas for coal, kerosene, gas, and electricity, and in many cases, even with ration tickets, you may not be able to buy things. Many people have been forced to take crooked ways: when night falls, there are always thieves stealing and cutting down trees in parks in London, forcing the government to urgently organize night tree protection patrols...

Therefore, in order to ensure the fuel for the kitchen and allow themselves to eat cooked food, instead of drinking blood like barbarians, the whole family can only grit their teeth and take a cold bath in winter, or huddle together in the cold winter wind to keep warm... …and even people’s cooking utensils have been taken away by this brutal war, as the government calls on people to donate aluminum pans that can be melted down to make aircraft parts.Next, paper was also rationed in wartime Britain, and the quota was very low. Many people who received letters had to write replies directly on the back of the letter in order to save paper.

In short, all factories are producing arms, all ships are transporting military supplies, everything is being used to fight, and even the people on the streets are deserted, because young people are conscripted to Africa, to West Asia, Going to India, Southeast Asia, and Europe to fight wars, middle-aged men and women work overtime in factories, and even underage students are given a lot of voluntary labor...

Day after day, year after year, facing the snowflakes of death notices and ubiquitous shortages, these proud imperial subjects on the British island have cooled down from the patriotic enthusiasm at the beginning of the war. Knowing what a protracted general war really means—this is not a legendary story described in operas and epics at all, but a horrible torment like hell, a cruel gamble with countless flesh and soul as chips, Everyone's family, happiness and life are gradually being swallowed up by it, and finally turned into a few meaningless cold numbers.

But until now, it is too late to regret it. The tragic end after Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were defeated in the last world war is still vivid for the British at this time.In order to avoid such bad luck, they can only grit their teeth, resign themselves to their fate, and work hard to the last moment.

Finally, Berlin fell, Hitler committed suicide, and Mussolini became a prisoner. Although there is a Japanese dwarf jumping in the east, it is half a world away, and the islanders of Great Britain generally have nothing to do with it. Feeling - the affairs of the Pacific Ocean, let the Yankees deal with it!

Great Britain has been at war for six years, and the subjects of the empire are too bitter and too tired to bear any more suffering from war.

Unexpectedly, after the demise of Nazi Germany, the dawn of peace was still far away. Churchill, a hysterical war lunatic, had just finished fighting the "brown plague" of the Nazis. "Started a contest, and hastily dispatched hundreds of thousands of British boys to the European continent in an attempt to grab territory from the Soviets... I thought that because of the relationship between the "anti-fascist allies", the Russians should not dare to tear their faces directly, but who knew that Stalin That bearded man was even crazier, brazenly attacking his allies without giving him any face!

From summer to autumn, several consecutive big battles were fought, and the ill-prepared British army retreated all the way in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. More than [-] young men were stuffed into Soviet prisoner-of-war camps to peel potatoes.Even the large fleet that the British are proud of has suffered a devastating blow in Dutch waters!

Although Britain implemented very strict news control during the war, as the ruling center of the British Empire, the citizens of London can still inquire about a lot of increasingly unfavorable bad news through various channels: for example, the Grand Fleet has returned from the Netherlands. The Empire's European Expeditionary Force is conducting its second Dunkirk retreat, and the Soviets blatantly dropped nuclear weapons on the Grand Fleet on the Frisian Islands off the coast of the Netherlands...

A series of bad news that can be called landslides made the British people who had been tortured in the war for six years infinitely depressed, and the endless mountain of corpses and bloody seas seemed to make the bravest British gentleman feel timid. In his heart, he quietly retreated.

However, that belligerent fat man sitting at No. [-] Downing Street has a mind like granite, as stubborn as ever...

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[-] Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the British Empire

After listening to Admiral Montgomery's report and sending him back to rest, Winston Churchill collapsed on the sofa with a black face.Compared with the beginning of the war, he now has white hair, deep wrinkles on his forehead, blue veins on the back of his hands, and doctors have already warned him about his health... But the stubborn Churchill still He refused to leave his post and insisted on staying until the final victory.

So, he coughed violently a few times, spit out a mouthful of old phlegm, covered his aching heart, turned around and looked at the map of Europe hanging on the wall.

Although the "Second Dynamo Operation" is currently going very smoothly, the [-] British expeditionary forces that have withdrawn from the battlefields of Belgium and Paris are boarding ships in Dunkirk and returning to China, and have not been opposed by the Soviet Red Army and the French Red Guards. Further attacks, but this does not improve Mr. Prime Minister's mood in the slightest.

For Churchill, the guy who is most hostile to the Bolsheviks, the situation in Europe shown on the map today really seems like hell is coming!

——From Paris, Berlin, Rome to Athens, dazzling red flags are being raised one after another in various famous cities and ancient capitals in Europe.

That group of red demonic flames started from Moscow in the east, swept across most of Europe, and completely shattered the old order of the continent.The once invincible Nazi German army, since the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, has lost the vigor of the previous blitz against France.The menacing "Barbarossa plan" hit a wall only as far as Minsk and Leningrad to the east.And the useless German navy was defeated by the very weak Red Navy on paper in several battles in the Baltic Sea, and even the route between Germany and Sweden was cut off.

Next, in the long tug-of-war, millions of Nazi German troops were pushed back step by step by the Bolsheviks, and burned to ashes little by little.And the red plague also broke through the border restrictions, crossed the natural moat of the Carpathian Mountains, and spread wildly throughout Europe.

By the early spring of this year, when Hitler, the arrogant mustache, was surrounded by a Berlin bunker, cursing and waiting to die, the Soviet Red Army had swept across the entire Eastern and Southeastern Europe, as well as a part of Northern Europe, swallowing Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and Yugoslavia came to Venice and knocked on the northern gate of Italy.The westernmost forward of the Red Army has planted its battle flag in Hamburg on the shore of the North Sea, while the southernmost Red Army has drunk horses in Athens and washed its military boots in the warm Aegean sea.

The French Reds in Paris also launched a riot in early February, expelled the German troops stationed in France that had been transferred to nothing but empty shells, established a second Paris Commune, and rapidly expanded in all directions.Even in the three low countries of Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands, many red elements emerged. Taking advantage of the political vacuum created by the collapse of Nazi Germany, they organized armed riots in major cities in an attempt to establish a Soviet regime.

Seeing that all of Europe is in danger of being instantly dyed red by the Bolsheviks, and the traditional "Continental Balance of Power" policy in London's Whitehall is about to come to naught, Churchill, a hardcore anti-communist, can no longer sit still, even though the US allies are still hesitant Uncertainty, the United Kingdom hastily assembled 20 troops alone, and led Charles de Gaulle's "Free French Movement" organization to send troops alone to launch multiple cross-sea assaults on the coastal areas of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

When the first batch of British troops landed in Calais and other places, Berlin had already fallen, and the news of Hitler's suicide was quickly spread. The various German troops in a state of collapse basically did nothing in front of the large-scale landing of the British troops. Effective resistance is either to disperse in a herd, or to disarm and surrender.Then, out of fear of the French Reds entrenched in Paris, the Vichy French government led by Marshal Pétain also expressed his willingness to cooperate.

But the problem is that although the remaining Nazi German army is vulnerable, the red thugs that swarmed all over France and the Low Countries made the British army with limited troops feel stretched.In such a desperate situation, Churchill actually ordered the rearming of part of the disbanded Nazi German army, driving them to cooperate with the British and French troops to brutally suppress the Reds, and massacred Amiens, Le Havre, and Nantes... This short-sighted and stupid approach made the image of the British army and de Gaulle very bad in the minds of a considerable part of the French people. However, at the beginning, the above strategy seemed to be quite successful-under Churchill's needlework, it finally made de Gaulle and de Gaulle. Petain reluctantly stood together and formed a counter-revolutionary alliance to encircle and suppress the "red plague".

Then, Montgomery's British Expeditionary Force, Charles de Gaulle's Free French Movement and Pétain's Vichy French government, together with a small number of Nazi German troops incorporated by the British army, launched a joint siege on the newly born French Red Guard, step by step. The living space of these French red elements was finally surrounded in the city of Paris, sitting in a sad city, dying, relying on a small amount of Soviet air-dropped supplies, barely surviving.

But the really fatal problem is that Churchill seriously underestimated the determination of the Soviets to defend the French red regime.After defeating Nazi Germany, the madman Stalin didn't seem to hesitate at all, and raised his sword against the British troops stationed in the Low Countries.Facing hundreds of thousands of red steel torrents, the unstable British army was about to collapse in the Netherlands.Churchill, who was in a hurry, had no choice but to ask the United States for help, and at the same time quickly ordered the large fleet assembled in Scapa Flow to go out to cover the fleet carrying the reinforcements to the Netherlands, and then in an encounter off the coast of the Netherlands, defeated The Soviet fleet rushed out of the Baltic Sea.But then it was bombarded by an atomic bomb dropped by the Soviet Air Force!And it was the successive bombardment of two atomic bombs!

——The United States just tested a successful nuclear weapon in July this year, but the Soviets put it into actual combat in August!

Moreover, the first victim of the Soviet atomic bomb was not the German, Italian and Japanese fascist Axis, but the British guy who was an anti-fascist ally with the Soviet Union... When the news spread in Germany and Italy, almost every Individuals have a speechless feeling of insanity...

But in any case, under the mushroom cloud of the Soviet atomic bomb, the British army on the Dutch and Belgian battlefields inevitably collapsed.The encirclement encircling and suppressing the Second Paris Commune was also torn into pieces by the Soviet Red Army, which drove straight in, and completely collapsed.

After the second Dunkirk evacuation, the British Expeditionary Force remaining in France was less than 3 people, and they were scattered and trapped in a few seaport strongholds such as Bordeaux, Le Havre, and Brest. The general morale is low, and they are in a state of panic all day long. Even the local French red guerrillas are reluctantly suppressed.If the Soviet Red Army kills, it is estimated that only God knows how many hours they can hold on...

Looking at Europe, which was almost turning red on the map, Churchill really felt a splitting headache and a lot of sadness.Now this fat man is not only worried about the future and destiny of the British Empire, but also worried about his reputation and political life behind him.

——What many people don’t know is that, from the legal and factual point of view, among the giants of World War II, Churchill is actually the most powerful.

After the outbreak of World War II, in order to deal with the unprecedented crisis of war, with the enactment and passage of the Imperial Defense Act, Churchill's British government reasonably and legally obtained a huge power unprecedented in British history, able to control any British citizen And foreigners living on British territory can do whatever they want, and even decide their life and death at will-because every British citizen swears unconditional allegiance to the king!

Therefore, this National Defense Act clearly stipulates that when His Majesty the King of England is in order to maintain public safety, defend the homeland, maintain public order, or effectively conduct any war that His Majesty may participate in, or to maintain indispensable supplies of public life or Labor, His Majesty's subjects should place themselves, their services, and their property at His Majesty's disposal.The King of England has obtained the free requisition of any personnel, material, industrial and mining enterprises in the British territory, and the property of every subject.And the power to kill every British life.As the king's first minister and de facto national leader, British Prime Minister Churchill also gained the same power at the same time.As long as he and his wartime cabinet passed a resolution, any order issued by Downing Street and the Ministry of War must be implemented without compromise, no matter how absurd and unreasonable the order is.

What is dictatorship?Is this called real dictatorship?When Hitler was still wrestling with the Junkers and the plutocrats, and Mussolini was still entangled with a bunch of royalists and aristocrats, big and small, busy with each other, Tojo While Yingji was still scratching its bald head trying to balance the various contradictions between the young and old, the army and the navy, the emperor and the chaebol, Churchill, the prime minister of the British Empire, who was known as the model of democratic politics and the cornerstone of the free world, became created a more deserving dictator than any of the fascist leaders above.

In this way, during the entire World War II, Churchill was really powerful and invincible in the country, and his power was comparable to the former Lord Protector Cromwell.He can intervene in any work he thinks is beneficial to the war, expropriate land and factory materials at will, mobilize funds at will, recruit personnel, and order factories to produce the equipment he wants.Ordering the police to arrest anyone he considers dangerous, pardoning criminals at will, and ordering executions at will, no one but the King of England can stop, and in most cases, the King has no right to interfere with it.

However, Churchill was not a real saint after all. He did not forget to use his power for personal gain during the war, and made many stupid and absurd decisions. blood.Every British person sees these things, but they dare not speak out, but silently remember them in their hearts.Once the war is over and the relevant provisions of the National Defense Law become invalid, then Churchill, who has accumulated countless resentments and hatred, is likely to be immediately thrown off the altar, kicked out of the government, and even kicked out of the political arena—it is not because the British are too ungrateful, But freezing three feet is not a day's cold. Whatever cause Churchill planted in the past, he will eventually reap the fruit.

Perhaps it was also because of a vague premonition in this regard that after the fall of Nazi Germany, Churchill recklessly insisted on being an enemy of the Soviet Union and continued to maintain the country's wartime state...and then brought even more terrible and devastating disasters to Britain.

At this time, although the state of wartime is not over yet, Churchill has fully felt the flames burning under his buttocks-"...you have been sitting here for too long and have done nothing good. Hey! Get out of here, we I don't want you." This is Cromwell's famous quote.It's what he said when addressing those bureaucrats who eat vegetarian food.It was Churchill who delivered these words to Mr Chamberlain a few years ago.And in today's newspaper, some damn reporters actually threw these words back to him intact, which made Churchill's heart ache like being pricked by a needle.

For such scolding, Churchill felt very aggrieved.Since he became the Prime Minister of the British Empire, facing the complicated situation at home and abroad, and facing this cruel world full of wars, in order to save the "Empire on which the Sun Never Sets", a century-old colonialist shop, he has definitely spent a lot of effort and effort. Running back and forth, I think it's not too much to describe it as "make every effort to govern, and manage every day".Is there anything to blame for what he has done?

——Although the effect of all these efforts does not look very good: first of all.During his tenure, the traditional continental balance of power policy of the British Empire was completely bankrupt, and the European continent fell into the clutches of the German Nazis and was about to be stained red by the more damning Russian Bolsheviks.The former boy, the United States, suddenly became its own boss. Although it killed Germany, which was considered the number one threat by the British Empire, the result of such efforts was to replace its neighbor with a more terrifying and powerful Soviet Union. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a loss outweighing the gain.

Then, the various overseas colonies of the British Empire were also full of wars during his tenure.In the first year when Japan declared war on Britain, Hong Kong, Burma and Malaya all raised the sun flag, and the Singapore fortress, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build, failed to defend for a few months.Today, the Australian mainland and all the Pacific islands are almost lost, and the rest of the territory is garrisoned by the US military.

New Zealand and Canada are still British colonies in name, but in fact they have already become the sphere of influence of the Americans.A group of rebels in the South African colony even colluded with the Boers, obeyed London's orders, and refused to contribute to the British Empire. However, the British Empire, which was extremely weak, had nothing to do with them. It could only watch the South African authorities start to dominate The sweet dream of black Africa.

Even the crown jewels of the British Empire, the colonies of the Indian subcontinent, are now rife with war.Under the temptation and funding of the Japanese, the radicals of the National Congress and the monarchs of various local states have erected anti-flags one after another, and even poor settlers such as Afghanistan and Nepal have stretched out their greedy black hands to the rich India.The territory that the British army can still control in India is only a small narrow area from Delhi to Mumbai, and the port of Mumbai is attacked and blocked by the Japanese fleet from time to time, and it may be wiped out at any time.

Only the few colonies in Black Africa with the Mi Zi flag flying are still stable for the time being. Unfortunately, those black uncles are generally very poor and cannot earn much money. It is difficult to provide much support for the great cause of war of the British Empire, and the government is also There are not many cargo ships to ship the bananas they produce...

——The colonial empire established over the centuries is rapidly disintegrating, and the huge wealth accumulated over the years has also been exhausted by the war.Faced with such a situation where the building is about to collapse, every subject of the British Empire is naturally very heartbroken, and they are full of resentment towards the incompetent prime minister... But Churchill still feels that all this mess is not his fault: if you don’t believe it, try another person ?It's definitely much worse than what I did myself!

What made Churchill even more vigilant was that such remarks against him had actually broken through the strict wartime news control and began to be popular in the market. This kind of law also depends on people to implement it.If everyone adopts an attitude of indifference and non-cooperation, no matter how strict laws and regulations are, they will only become a dead letter.

Obviously, there are already such bad signs in today's British political circles.

And Churchill was also very clear that His Majesty's dissatisfaction with the recent series of failures had almost reached a certain limit.

However, even though he was about to be overwhelmed by the saliva of the people, Churchill was still determined to bite the bullet and continue to perform his duties, and strive to maintain the crumbling imperial hegemony... Of course, he also resolutely refused to give up the huge power he had held in his hands for more than five years ...

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After taking a short breath, Prime Minister Churchill cheered up, called the female secretary, called his chief of staff and most trusted military adviser, General Hastings Ismay, and began to discuss the latest European The situation on the battlefield, and the nuclear weapons of the Soviets.

"...The remaining warships of the Grand Fleet after the nuclear explosion, as well as a few surviving merchant ships carrying reinforcements, have all successfully returned to the Scapa Flow anchorage. However, according to the on-site inspection after the experts boarded the ship, except Except for the few destroyers that were far away from the explosion center at that time, almost all the remaining surviving ships were severely contaminated by radioactivity, and at least three months of decontamination operations were required before they could be restored to active service. Some of them were seriously polluted The ship has been judged to be scrapped, and cannot even be dismantled and returned to the furnace...

Moreover, the crew members of the ships, whether they were the navy or the army, all showed symptoms of radiation sickness on a large scale, and their pathological manifestations were basically consistent with the top-secret information urgently sent by the United States.Our medical system is doing its best to treat these unfortunate boys, but the cure rate cannot be guaranteed..."

"...This is a nightmare. Isn't it? A super weapon that none of us have mastered, but in the hands of the evil Bolsheviks!"

With a cigar in his mouth, Churchill exhaled a smoke ring, "...It seems that the Royal Navy is temporarily hopeless. What about the ground battlefield? Apart from the smooth progress of the second Dunkirk retreat, in France Is there any good news from the front line?"

"...I'm afraid it's all bad news, Your Excellency. First of all, Marshal Zhukov of the Soviet Union held an entry ceremony in Paris today to show off his victory to the world. Then, according to the latest information two hours ago, Orleans was just captured by the Soviet army. The gates to the south of France have been opened. Next, French workers in Lyon rioted this morning, drove out the local police and army, and basically took control of the city."

General Ismay replied, "...the French sailors in the naval port of Toulon have rioted and are fighting fiercely with the suppressing military and police. Marshal Pétain is almost unable to control his soldiers. Prime Minister Laval moved the government to When we arrived in Toulouse near the Spanish border, we were ready to cross the Pyrenees and go into exile at any time. The city of Vichy, where the government was originally stationed, also experienced mutiny and riots today, and the specific situation is still unclear."

"...It's all bad news. Where is De Gaulle? Where is this guy?" Churchill continued to ask.

"...after the collapse of the Paris siege, General de Gaulle abandoned his army and fled to Bordeaux on a train. This guy has just sent us a telegram, begging for more support, preferably to send a 'shroud The planes' came over, and his troops seemed to be bombed badly by the Soviet Air Force. Also, General Pétain's men were reluctant to provide them with supplies..."

"...Not to mention that we don't have 'planes that cover the sky' at all, even if we really have so many planes, how can they be used in the face of the Soviet atomic bomb?" Churchill irritatedly put out his cigar Yan, "... Has the General Staff worked out any countermeasures on how to prevent the Soviets from attacking the British mainland with nuclear bombs? Both the parliament and the king are very concerned about this."

"...Your Excellency, nuclear weapons are a completely unfamiliar new thing to the Empire. Except for the on-site witnesses in the Dutch sea area, we only have a small amount of information provided by the Americans for reference, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. ..."

General Ismay did not directly answer this question, but hesitantly excused his colleagues in the staff department until he was glared at by Churchill before he said the truth in embarrassment, "...Well, according to the opinions of experts, as long as We would be able to shoot down every Soviet aircraft that flew over Britain and, um, German missiles that might be captured and modified by the Soviets, and we would be able to protect the holy land of the Reich from the threat of Soviet nuclear weapons."

"...Isn't this nonsense?" Churchill was immediately amused, but he also knew that such a thing is simply difficult for others, so he just laughed and cursed, and changed the subject, "...except for the French front, What's new in other battlefields?"

"...The situation on the Norwegian battlefield is as bad as that on the French front. The paratroopers we dropped to Oslo, the capital of Norway, have lost contact. It is estimated that they were either annihilated or surrendered. A battalion ordered to be stationed in Bergen, the Red Army who had just landed I have been expelled from the urban area and are wandering in the wilderness. I may not last for a few days. Only the troops stationed in the port of Narvik in northern Norway have not found any enemies yet, but they are not welcomed by the local Norwegian residents. If If the Soviet Red Army calls, they probably can last for a week at most..."

"...Well, with the big fleet paralyzed, Norway is doomed to fail... What about the situation in the Mediterranean?"

"...The Greek government-in-exile has returned to Crete, which we took over, and has drawn up three battalions of armed forces. It is currently conducting low-intensity battles with the Greek red guerrillas on various islands in the Aegean Sea. Today Just took control of Rhodes Island..."

"... that's enough! You should be clear, I'm not talking about small troubles in Greece. As long as the Russians' Black Sea Fleet can't get out of the Dardanelles, we will definitely have the upper hand there! But in places like Greece , Even if you have the upper hand, it doesn't make much sense! I'm asking about the situation in Italy! Is it possible to open up a second front to contain the red plague there, and drag our unmotivated American ally into the water by the way?"

"...It's very difficult, Your Excellency. In order to support the French battlefield, we only had one brigade left in southern Italy. Moreover, they have been forcibly transferred by Eisenhower to Naples, which is far away from the front line of the Roman confrontation. It is said that they are still closely monitored by the US military. .

Then, in North Africa, we do have more troops, but it is almost impossible to cross the Mediterranean without the US military, and the Arabs there are not very safe... Your Excellency, IMHO, unless we can With the accurate statement and practical support from Washington, otherwise, it will be impossible to drag the US military into the chariot just by playing some small tricks. ’ General Ismay concluded.

"...Washington's clear support... is easier said than done!" Churchill smiled wryly, "...If it is military supplies, the Americans have been providing us with them. But if they send troops to fight the Soviets, they still have not defeated Japan. Under the circumstances... this is too difficult!"

Looking up at the European map full of small red flags on the wall, Churchill once again had infinite helplessness and bitterness in his eyes, "...the status quo of the empire's military cards is almost exhausted, Next is the work of politicians and diplomats... Eden should be back from Russia soon, right? I wonder what conditions Stalin will ask him? I hope the Bolsheviks are not more greedy than the Nazis..."

——At this moment, Churchill seems to have forgotten an old saying: Don’t try to get what you can’t get on the battlefield at the negotiating table...

So, on the next morning, Churchill was furious again after reading the Soviet terms brought back from Moscow by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.

"... This... This... What exactly does Stalin want to do? Does he think of himself as the Emperor of Rome?"