In the evening of the same day, the German Radio Berlin proudly broadcast a long report: "German citizens! We interrupted the scheduled program to report an amazing news to you: Our battleships achieved amazing results in the Atlantic Ocean.
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sumeng The battlecruiser HMS Hood, which the British Navy is proud of, was sunk by the powerful artillery fire of the Imperial battleship Bismarck and the battleship Tirpitz. Another British battleship HMS Prince of Wales was also sunk
With multiple injuries, sooner or later the Hood will follow the footsteps of the Hood and sink on the ice-covered bottom of the Denmark Strait. In addition,
, our powerful navy also sank 2 British heavy cruisers and 3 British destroyers. Many British sailors died in vain in order to obey the orders of Churchill and his Jewish group. Let us extend our heartfelt congratulations to the head of state. Only he
Only then can we lead us from one victory to another, a nation, a country, and a leader!"
The news of the sinking of the Hood spread throughout the world, and the British morale and people's morale suddenly suffered a heavy blow. The Army lost, the Air Force lost, and now even the Royal Navy, which had always been proud of it, also lost, and the largest ship was sunk.
The battleship HMS Hood, what does Britain need to rely on to defeat the Germans? Although the British Royal Navy suffered greater losses in the Battle of Toulon Bay, at least in terms of exchange ratio, it can be barely promoted as a victory, but this time the Battle of Denmark Strait
both sides
The exchange ratio was a shocking 0:6. No matter how much it was whitewashed, it was difficult to satisfy the people. Even Prime Minister Churchill, who was deeply supported for his tough stance on Germany after taking office, encountered a crisis of confidence for the first time. Some anti-war people and politicians
British citizens who lost loved ones during the war gathered outside his official residence and shouted slogans asking him to end the war. Even some people who also advocated toughness against Germany also asked Churchill to step down in order to "replace with a more capable prime minister."
In fact, the failure in the Battle of the Denmark Strait was just a trigger. Since the outbreak of the European War, Britain's repeated failures have made it increasingly unbearable for the British people who have always been tenacious. If the losses from the war with China before the European War are also included,
The total number of deaths, prisoners and missing persons of the British army (including Commonwealth and colonial armies) has exceeded one million, of which the British Turkish army has a permanent reduction of no less than 500,000 (Historically, the British Turkish army during the entire World War II also
(400,000 died), Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth member states lost more than 150,000 troops (less than 100,000 in history). And now it is less than a year since the outbreak of the European War. Such a rapid loss rate has a huge impact on the population.
The limited United Kingdom was really overwhelmed. What made the British even more dissatisfied with Churchill was that despite the death of so many people, the British army was defeated again and again on various battlefields, with no victory in the war in sight.
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However, Churchill also asked for this. Due to his series of decision-making mistakes, Britain now has to fight with far more enemy countries than in history. In addition to Nazi Germany, there are also two countries, Red China and the Arab League.
A powerful enemy. Relatively speaking, although China started war with Britain earlier, due to diplomatic considerations, after occupying the Indo-China Peninsula
Later, they did not launch a large-scale attack on India, the most important British colony. They only used the Red Parties in Nepal, Bhutan and India to create some trouble for the British colonial rule in India. So the situation was not bad; on the contrary, they had nothing to do with the British before.
Krim, shortly after reaching an agreement with Germany, led his troops to launch a full-scale attack on British-controlled Egypt and Sudan.
Since both Turkey and India are facing huge military pressure, it is inevitable that a lot of British troops in the Middle East have been withdrawn. In addition, Krim is a rare person in the century (unparalleled in the hundreds of years of anti-colonial history in the world, saying that
It is not an exaggeration to say that the military genius is not seen in a century.), and even dispatched an army of no less than 500,000 people, and
The cooperation between the German Air Force and the armored forces resulted in the elimination of more than 30,000 British troops and a large number of colonial troops in Egypt and Sudan in less than 20 days. It also forced several warships in Alexandria that were too late to evacuate to sink in the harbor.
, Xiaozhu was overjoyed after hearing the news and personally sent him a congratulatory message.[
After drinking the Suez Canal, Krim was not satisfied. He quickly divided his troops into two groups. He personally led the main force across the canal to attack the British and French colonies and vassal states in the Middle East. At the same time, he detached a partial division to go south to liberate North Sudan. Churchill
He was shocked when he learned that Egypt had fallen. Since Turkey had sent reinforcements at that time, he could only withdraw 100,000 British troops and 100,000 Indian troops from India to strengthen the strength of the British troops in West Asia to recapture the strategically important Suez Canal as soon as possible.
But Churchill never expected that the British army in the Middle East, with a total strength of more than 300,000, and the full support of many vassal states and tribal chiefs, would still be defeated by the Algerian-German coalition. Later historians believed that the main reason for this situation was
There are three reasons. First, Krim’s outstanding military talent and the bravery and proficiency of his officers and soldiers.
Secondly, the German air force and an armored division that came to the rescue showed their performance. In particular, one of Rommel's armored divisions was at home in the flat desert terrain of West Asia. With the cooperation of the air force, it dealt a heavy blow to the British army, and Rommel once again dealt a heavy blow to the British army.
He became famous and was promoted to the commander of the African Corps by Mustache, who had long admired him. At the same time, he broke the
Third, Krim has now become a great hero in the hearts of the people of the vast colonies and semi-colonies in Asia, Africa and Latin America, especially the lower class people. This is especially true in the Arab world, although the chiefs of West Asia generally sit on their butts.
On the side of the colonists, but their soldiers were all from lower classes, and the Muslims were not as good as the East Asian peoples.
With such obedience, the British Arab servants frequently mutinied and defected when fighting the Arab army. The battle was impossible to fight. So many captured British officers and soldiers after the war thought that if only the British army fought, they would not be able to fight.
Without these so-called "friendly troops" who stab you in the back from time to time, even if you still can't win, you can at least lose a little better.
The British army in the Middle East was indeed defeated unfairly, but no matter how many reasons there were, it could not change the reality that Britain had lost control of the Middle East. After Krim swept across the Middle East with his troops, the entire east coast of the Mediterranean, including the Suez Canal, fell into the Axis
Soon after, with the help of the German "Dora Cannon", Spain struggled to capture the Fortress of Gibraltar, which led to the collapse of the Mediterranean Sea (mainly in southern Italy).
The 300,000 British troops in the Eastern Mediterranean islands such as Crete and Crete were completely sealed inside. Not only were they unable to receive external reinforcements, but they were even cut off from supplies. This made their morale unprecedentedly low. In addition, there was a situation in other battlefields.
Another bad news came. Most of these British troops gradually laid down their weapons within three months, and the few troops that resisted to the end were all annihilated. (To be continued.)