The Third Reich in Desperation

PS: Before I knew it, I had written 400 chapters of Desperate Situation.At this critical juncture of a million words, Feiyu quietly asked for a count of votes and a reward.Maybe, the agreed five shifts will turn into ten shifts at the end of the month.

Body 4 Chapter [-] Churchill Speeches

On the first day of June 1940, Churchill, the new Prime Minister of the British Empire, stood helplessly in the House of Commons and delivered a speech.

Dunkirk lost, and it was pretty ugly.In the end, even the expeditionary force's attempt to retreat failed.

Wars are not won by retreating, but if the defeated army fails to even retreat, then there is no hope of winning the war in the future.

Perhaps due to his obesity, Churchill looked particularly clumsy when he walked today.No one can say for sure whether the chief culprit of the Prime Minister's state is his bloated body or the annoying battle situation on the front line.

"It's time to start," Churchill waved his hand, signaling the members of the House of Commons to be quiet: "Let me review everything so far."

In the original time and space, the "Operation Dynamo" at this time continued until the main force of the British army and some French corps were successfully withdrawn.

But now, the evacuation operation has terminated. The vigorous "Operation Generator" only evacuated more than 4000 British officers and soldiers, most of whom were logistics officers and soldiers, which will not help much in future wars.As for weapons and supplies, artillery trucks, countless military supplies and combat equipment, they all became the spoils of the German army.

光是敦刻尔克一带，英法联军就总共丢弃了1200门大炮、750门高射炮、500门反坦克炮、6.3万辆汽车、7.5万辆摩托车、700辆坦克、2.1万挺机枪、6400支反坦克枪以及50万吨军需物资。

Perhaps, it won't be long before these equipment that originally belonged to the British army will be used by the German army to hit the British themselves in turn.

To be able to speak calmly at such a moment, what is needed is an extremely cheeky face and extraordinary eloquence!

"Although we have lost this battle, we will never surrender, never give in, and we will fight to the end!" Unlike the general pessimism of the congressmen, Churchill was the passionate subject who made it clear from the beginning that he would fight to the end.

Churchill knew very well that the more erosive the situation was, the less pessimistic sentiments could be mentioned too much.On the contrary, he wants to celebrate with great fanfare, and make this failed withdrawal operation a blunt speech as a successful operation.

It’s okay to say that you want to turn black into white, or you want to deceive yourself and others without shame.In short, only by inspiring people first can we lay the foundation for future struggles. Any discouragement will be taboo!

Of course, as a mature politician, Churchill certainly wouldn't foolishly turn right and wrong right from the start, insisting that the action was successful.Members of the House of Commons are not fools, if you want to persuade them, you must proceed step by step.

"We must be very careful not to describe this rescue as a victory. I understand that wars are not won by retreat. But there is a victory in this rescue, and this should be especially noticed." Churchill's voice was very Calm, giving people a natural sense of reliability.

In addition, he chose the most euphemistic way to sum up this failure, which made the congressmen feel impeccable.

After all, what others said were all facts, and they sounded very pertinent, without obviously deliberately exaggerating certain elements.

"This victory was won by the Air Force. Many soldiers who returned have never seen our Air Force in action. What they saw was enemy bombers that escaped our Air Force's covering attack. Therefore, they underestimated our Air Force's achievements. Here is the reason for this, and I must tell you about it."

Without giving everyone a chance to think about it, Churchill immediately used the method of diverting attention to bring up the air force with the best record.

Of course, the record of the Royal Air Force is actually not good.In order to cover the retreat, the British Air Force dispatched an average of 300 fighter sorties per day.But after 3 days, the loss of more than 140 fighter planes alone can be said to be heartbreaking.

However, compared with the record of the Royal Navy's defeat in the North Sea and the Army Expeditionary Force's abandonment of Dunkirk, the Air Force has become the tallest of the shortest.

"This victory was won by the Air Force. Many, many soldiers who came back never saw our Air Force in action, they saw only enemy bombers escaping our Air Force's covering attack. They underestimated our Air Force's achievement. About this matter , and here is the reason. I must tell you about it."

The foreshadowing is done at this step, and it is basically in place.

Next, Churchill began to make up stories with three points of reality, seven points of fiction, and ninety points of imaginative storytelling.

"This was a great test of the strength of the British and Luftwaffe air forces. The purpose of the Luftwaffe was to make our retreat from the beach impossible, and to sink all the thousands of ships that were congregated there. To this end they worked with all their might but at last they were repulsed; they were thwarted in the execution of their mission. We took the army back as planned by thousands, and they paid four times the losses they inflicted on us. . . . it has been shown that all our aircraft of every type and all our flight crews are better than the Germans have!"

This is typical bullshit.Not to mention that the British Royal Air Force did not cause four times the losses of the British Army to the German Air Force. It is said that the sky over Dunkirk has always maintained air supremacy in the hands of the German Army. Can you guess whether the Royal Air Force will succeed or not?

If it really caused such a big loss to the Luftwaffe and still can't earn air supremacy, wouldn't it mean that the total base of the Luftwaffe is so huge that it has withstood the huge losses considered by the British side and still has a strong level of combat effectiveness.

How terrifying should the total number of German fighters be? !

"The pilots of the Royal Air Force are all good. It is them who make the generator operation go smoothly!" At this moment, Churchill doesn't care whether the story is reasonable or not. Anyway, the loss of the Luftwaffe will not be confirmed until a long time later.Even if Germany officially announces a loss data now, he, Churchill, can be said to be the data that the Germans estimated to fabricate and reduce, and it is a fake data to boost morale.

What Churchill has to do now is to convince everyone that the Royal Air Force is powerful and far surpasses the Luftwaffe.At least, let everyone believe so now.

The navy has already lost face. The myth of the imperial navy's invincibility has been broken one after another by them.Norway's small defeat allowed an explanation, but the Beihai defeat really couldn't be tolerated.

In a naval battle, 6 battleships, 12 cruisers, 21 destroyers, and 80.00% of the aircraft on the four aircraft carriers were lost.It is impossible to make up for such a loss in ten years.

Not to mention the manufacture of a battleship or cruiser, it will take several years at the fastest.Even after the construction is completed, sea trials and manning are still required. It will take at least a year for the officers and soldiers to familiarize themselves with the warship and run-in training.

Even if it is the hundreds of carrier-based aircraft, it is not possible to replenish them in a short time.Without carrier-based aircraft, what is the use of leaving 4 aircraft carriers empty in the local fleet?Target training for the German Navy?

Everyone knows that the Royal Navy has been injured and it is difficult to recover.So the defense of the homeland does not have to rely on the Royal Air Force, which is "equally divided" with the Luftwaffe.

At this time, who else should Churchill brag about if he doesn't brag about the Air Force?

Main Body Chapter 4 Churchill Speech

"When Operation Dynamo was formulated, we estimated that we could only evacuate 3000 people." Churchill waved his arms and shouted to the full seats of parliamentarians: "It can be said that we have completed the task now, and we are still here." Overfulfilled the original mission!"

Fatty Qiu's ability to say this is enough to prove that his skin is not much thinner than Reinhardt's.Almost the entire local fleet was used, involving the main force of the Royal Air Force, and the large-scale withdrawal of troops related to the fate of the 20 expeditionary force was just to withdraw the strength of a reinforced regiment? !

After transporting 4 people, it is said that the original plan was to transport only 3 people.Does that mean that 3 people were transported back, and the original plan was only to transport 2 people back?

Not to mention such a large-scale operation, just to withdraw 3 people is unreasonable. Even if all the staff officers who formulated "Operation Dynamo" had their heads flooded, they tried their best to transport 4000 logistics officers and soldiers back to China. , the actual price paid for this action is completely unacceptable.

"When the prime minister approved the plan, I remember that he didn't say that now." A tall and thin member of parliament sitting in a seat, talking with another member sitting next to him, said: "At that time , What he said was trying to save combat manpower and retain enough defense forces for the homeland. As a result, only some non-combatants were sent back, so he changed his mind immediately.”

"Eric, stop talking, you bastard." The senator sitting next to the tall senator stopped him and said, "Listen carefully, we'll talk about it when we have something to say."

It can be seen that the two are very familiar with each other, so they will talk to each other at this awkward time.

"All right, all right, I'm just feeling emotional." Eric shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Although I know that Mr. Prime Minister's words are to boost morale, I just feel a little self-deceiving and uncomfortable."

Looking at his old friend, the other congressman paused, then lowered his voice, and said softly, "I feel the same way."

Maybe fat people are relieved after all, or because of the amount of meat, the skin will thicken accordingly.At this moment, Fatty Qiu ignored the whispers of the congressmen below, but continued to speak loudly on his own: "Someone told me that Mr. Reinhardt has a plan to invade the British Isles. Without the army of the expeditionary force , what shall we do with them?"

Churchill's words struck a chord among MPs.It is no secret that the expeditionary force is all the elite drawn from the British mainland.Losing the 20 elite of the Home Defense Army, many people feel uncertain about the possible future landing of the German army.

However, Churchill, who considered himself a good orator, was here to solve the problem and inspire people.Regarding the worries about the German landing, he gave a classic example of comparison: "What I want to say is that in the past, people often made such calculations. The last person who made such calculations was Napoleon Bonaparte! But After he stationed in Ronye for a year with his flat-bottomed boat and large army, his plan completely failed."

As expected of Churchill, he used Napoleon's previous failure to cheer up the hearts of the British MPs at the moment, and he achieved the best effect in an instant.

Who is Napoleon? He led the French army of that era and defeated the European multinational anti-French alliance that was several times larger than himself five times. Either directly or indirectly, he almost ruled most of the entire Europe.

Even Germany, which is extremely rampant now, did not submit to Napoleon's feet obediently at the time when its predecessors, Prussia and Austria.

But it was this conqueror of continental Europe who could not even defeat Germany, but in the end he was defeated in the battle with Trafalgar in the British duel.Napoleon, who has always been good at winning more with less, was defeated by more than less in front of the famous British general Nelson alone.

You must know that even so, Napoleon also defeated the Austro-Russian coalition forces in the 6th week after the defeat and achieved a brilliant victory.However, victory is victory, but Napoleon never dared to move to the British mainland.

"The strength we currently have in the UK is many times stronger than our strength at any time in the last war. Now we also have a strength that is strong enough and stronger than ever before." The fact that there is a Royal Air Force in the country must have had an advantageous effect on the question of defense against a possible German invasion of our homeland."

Churchill, who is good at amplifying his own advantages, continued to pull out the Royal Air Force, the only good card he could play.

Not only that, he also showed great ambition: "But we cannot be satisfied with defensive warfare, because we have obligations to our allies. We must reorganize, under the command of the heroic commander-in-chief, Lord Gott , relaunch the British Expeditionary Force, and fight back to the European continent!"

Planning a grand future when the country has just failed, painting a beautiful blueprint, and leading the people to fight for it sounds a bit like what Reinhardt did 20 years ago.