Imperial Overlord

Britain, the announcer of Radio London, looking at the manuscript in his hand, his voice trembled, and he asked, "Sir... this... is this also broadcast?"

The manuscript he held in his hand had something remarkable written on it. So he just looked at it and felt like he was going to cry.

Although the German occupation area across the coast started to trumpet yesterday that it had sunk the Royal Navy's Pride Hood, he didn't believe it.

Not only him, but many British people listened to the German broadcasts as a joke. They believed that their country's naval warships were invincible.

But at this moment, he got a press release, and the content on it was exactly the same as the content of the German broadcast.

"The Germans really sank the Hood?" the radio announcer asked his boss depressedly.

His boss was also helpless, nodded and said: "The official has confirmed this, this kind of thing can't be hidden. The Germans have been publicizing it for a day, and we can't come up with a good solution."

Yesterday, the entire Naval Command was busy, and everyone was thinking about how to hide such a tragic failure.

Some say the Germans are lying by publishing a photo of the USS Hood before the battleship to prove that the battleship was not sunk.

Some people also think that it is safer to keep silent about this matter and let time dilute everything than to lie and deceive the masses. Even if it is revealed, it will not be angered by the masses.

Anyway, the Hood itself is a battleship serving in the H fleet, and no one has seen it in the mainland, and it is not unusual.

Unfortunately, the Hood really sank, and it sank in the icy North Atlantic with hundreds of officers and soldiers.

Three generals, including John Tovey, commander of the search fleet on the Hood, were killed, and more than 30 lieutenant-level officers were killed.

Coupled with the hundreds of ordinary soldiers who sank with the battleship, we can't hide it without notifying the family, right? If this is concealed, it may really cause trouble.

And... it wasn't the USS Hood that sank. Counting the USS Prestige and USS Nelson, thousands of soldiers died.

Especially the Prestige, the entire battleship, with 1,273 people on board, did not even survive. In addition to the sudden explosion and sinking of the battleship, the icy water was also an accomplice.

It was raining heavily at dawn, and the waves on the sea were huge, affecting search and rescue and job hunting. In the end, only dozens of corpses were salvaged, and no survivors were found.

When the British rescue ships arrived at the area where the Prestige sank, they did not find a few bodies floating at sea.

Even if these corpses were still alive when the Prestige sank, they were long dead after an hour of low temperature.

If you add the loss of the USS Eagle, the loss of the USS Nelson, and the loss of more than 2ooo people, how can it be concealed?

Therefore, in desperation, the Naval Command simply became a bachelor. They made no disguise and directly announced the news of the failure of the naval battle.

There is another reason for doing this, that is to make things bigger, so that the minister and other departments will also share the anger of some of the masses.

"Let's just report it like this. After all, it's a fact, and the superior didn't want us to hide it, so we can only operate it truthfully." After saying this, the superior walked out of the studio with his head down.

Soon, the radio station began to broadcast such a news that shocked all the British: "The battle cruiser Hood was sunk by the enemy in the battle the day before yesterday, and lost 510 crew members."

"The battlecruiser Reputation was sunk by the enemy in the battle the day before yesterday, with a loss of 1,273 men. The USS Nelson was sunk by a German submarine, with a loss of 2o3 crew members."

"USS Eagle sunk by enemy submarine, 114 lost. Admiral John Tovey killed..."

"My God! How is this possible? We lost a fleet?" A 6th Army soldier exclaimed in disbelief, standing beside the radio.

Beside him, a second lieutenant of the 6th Army also had an unbelievable expression: "Is the broadcaster crazy? The Germans sank so many of our warships in one day?"

"How powerful is the German fleet?" A young British infantryman leaned on the head of the bed and asked the veteran not far away.

And the veteran shook his head and replied, "I don't know, but it must be true to broadcast like this."

This is the barracks behind a coastal defensive position of the British 6th Army. Soldiers are resting after their exercises.

After the losses of the Dunkirk retreat and the deployment of tens of thousands of people to reinforce the Mediterranean, the remaining veterans have now become the backbone of the coastal defense force.

However, the morale of these backbones is low and they lack heavy weapons. They even have tanks made in the USA and most of the soldiers only have rifles in their hands.

"Sir!" A soldier walked to the door of the barracks, looked at the second lieutenant sitting in the corner, stood at attention and saluted, and said, "The battalion commander asked you to go to a meeting!"

While getting up, the second lieutenant patted the dust on his body, then glanced at the radio that was still broadcasting the loss with sad emphasis, and walked out of the door.

When he got to the battalion headquarters, he saw the second lieutenants and lieutenants coming from all over the place. The officers greeted each other and shared precious cigarettes.

The major battalion commander walked into the conference room with a gloomy expression on his face. He threw the papers in his hand on the table and looked at his men.

"Gentlemen, the intelligence department expects that the German 6th Army may be able to board the 6th within the next 72 hours, so the order said that the vacation should be cancelled and the entire coastal defense level should be raised." When the battalion commander said this, the low The discussion became noisy.

Raising the alert level, canceling vacations, it's really bad for morale. Everyone already knows the news of the defeat of the navy, so this time it is possible to really face the attack of the German 6th Army.

So everyone is very nervous, not knowing if the battle will really happen next. No one was willing to fight with German soldiers on the 6th ground, and even in 1944, the Allies were still reluctant to face the German 6th Army.

Knowing how passively Montgomery was beaten in Operation City Garden, you can understand how guilty the British 6th Army at this moment was when facing the German troops.

"Let your soldiers enter the front-line defense positions, and each company must organize its own ammunition and go to the battalion headquarters to receive additional supplies." The battalion commander began to write the content that needed to be confirmed on the blackboard.

Including another base of ammunition, as well as spare Bren light machine guns, and divided daily necessities.

"Sir! If we need to be stationed on the ground, at least provide us with food for two to three days, right?" A company commander raised his arm and asked.

Now, the food in the barracks is rationed on time every day, and there is no way to accumulate it. Such a state, as a grassroots soldier, is of course very anxious.

Another officer also raised his hand and asked his own question: "If the Germans are throwing in tanks in 6 games and we lack enough anti-tank weapons, what will we do?"

The question he asked added to the confusion. There was only one mortar for the entire infantry battalion, and that mortar didn't have enough ammunition.

There are no anti-tank weapons. The most powerful ones in their hands are the heavy machine guns hidden in the beach bunkers and the light machine guns arranged in the trenches on both sides.

If the German tanks appeared on the sand, their defensive positions were as fragile as a blank sheet of paper. Not to mention repelling the enemy's attack, it is a question whether it can last for an hour.

Not enough food, not enough ammunition, not enough heavy weapons and equipment... Such and other problems plague the British Coast Guard and make every commander feel haggard.

"The mobilization order has been issued, and then each infantry company will strengthen 20 supplementary soldiers. They are all equipped with rifles. This is the biggest reinforcement for us." The battalion commander said helplessly and said the countermeasures of the people above.

It can only provide light infantry, can't solve the food problem or provide more ammunition, everyone still has no hope of winning against the potentially explosive German Deng 6 battle.

In fact, the situation in the military camp is already good, because at least they still have food reserves that can be supplied on a regular basis.

In northern England, there has been a serious crisis due to lack of food. The annihilation of the t transport fleet was only the beginning of the collapse of the British transport system.

With the heavy losses of the K-1 fleet, the shortage of various materials in the UK began to become obvious~www.wuxiaspot.com~Including food, looting and vicious hoarding began to occur everywhere.

The already insufficiency of materials has been frantically purchased by the irrational civilians, and the purchase restriction has become a dead letter, and the shortage of materials has become even more irresistible.

If it wasn't for the arrival of the K-1 fleet at the port, the supplies brought by it more or less relieved some of the pressure, and the logistics cycle in the UK would collapse.

But now, although it is still barely maintaining the phenomenon of no collapse, the material management department is not doing well.

The shortage of materials is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying thing, it is born in the organization and dispatching department of the transport fleet.

Because these British officials now have a sharp decrease in the number of ships they can dispatch, and the rate has greatly exceeded the construction replenishment rate of ships.

In other words, the number of active-duty ships in the UK is shrinking, and British blood is drying up. And these lost merchant ships cannot be added to the next round of transportation plans.

That is to say, the quantity of supplies transported in the next round will only be less than the materials transported now, which is the key to the real fatality...