Imperial Overlord

The prime minister's residence in London, when Churchill issued a series of orders today, is still complacent that his Mediterranean fleet has survived.

Cunningham saved the Mediterranean fleet and Churchill's shaky political life. At least now Churchill has a little respite, allowing him to continue sitting in the prime minister's seat and presiding over the big picture.

Another reason why Churchill can sit firmly on the Prime Minister's throne is because no one wants to take over the current Prime Minister's position. This location is now a hot potato, keeping all those who coveted it away.

As power plants were bombed to rubble, diesel-powered London neighborhoods became tigers devouring oil reserves.

The large amount of fuel consumed every day made the United Kingdom, which originally had a large amount of fuel reserves before the war, felt it was difficult.

One of the main reasons is that dozens of large-scale oil storage facilities in the southeastern part of the British Island have been systematically damaged by the Luftwaffe. The fire there has not been completely extinguished, and the fuel inside has been completely scrapped.

Millions of tons of all kinds of oil have been wiped out, which has reduced Britain's domestic oil reserves to an all-time low. The blockage of sea transportation lines further exacerbated the speed of oil consumption.

Replenishing fuel oil has become an extravagant hope, and using local reserves has become the only way out. On the premise of maintaining the production of factories in the north, maintaining the operation of cities in the south has become a problem that Churchill has to consider now.

Limiting food has become a difficult decision to have to make. The British side had no choice but to reduce the food supply to a historically low level.

All the native population, including the army, can only maintain the level of starvation and struggle. And a large number of transport ships can only give priority to transporting steel and petroleum rubber from the United States to ensure the continuation of the war.

"There will be a solution in the end!" Churchill, sitting in his seat, cheered the crowd of frowning officials below him.

His subordinates were not at all interested in his rhetoric: the victory was far away in Gibraltar, and the crisis on the homeland had already been exposed.

At this time, no matter how brilliant the victory, everyone is most concerned about the practical issue of when the limited supply will be cancelled. That inspiring approach of winning, which seemed to work two months ago, is outdated now.

When hungry, no one cares about winning or anything. No matter how invincible the Mediterranean fleet is, if it cannot send food to the mainland, it will have no effect.

"Sir... Our current food gap has widened to 17%. If this continues, we will adopt a stricter food supply system within two months." An official pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose. Helplessly, he reminded his Prime Minister.

On the other side, an army general was also extremely depressed. He opened his mouth and said to Churchill: "Mr. Prime Minister, the grassroots of the army have begun to be dissatisfied with the supply of things, and the amount of compensation and food distribution vouchers in arrears is increasing. This is going to cause chaos..."

In order to build an army that could stop the German army from landing on the mainland as soon as possible, the United Kingdom promised many preferential policies when recruiting.

For example, one of the items includes, joining the British Army, the government will provide 300 kilograms of food compensation vouchers for military families, which will be distributed within one year.

But now, three months have passed, and these compensation vouchers are still in arrears, and none of them have been issued.

It is easy to print these compensation vouchers, but it is difficult to exchange these compensation vouchers. British executives who don't want to consume a lot of grain reserves have been pretending to be deaf and mute to suppress this matter.

The problem is that now this matter is about to be overwhelmed, and the decision to reduce the food supply quota once again makes the grassroots soldiers begin to question and ask the high-level officials to fulfill their original commitments as soon as possible.

The consequences of drinking poison to quench thirst began to be revealed little by little. A series of measures that the United Kingdom was forced to implement finally pushed all the contradictions to the logistics, and then broke out like this.

"There is no way to hide this matter... Because the civilian level has been involved, the German side will soon know that our supplies are in short supply... What kind of choice the other party will make, we can't speculate." The officer opened his mouth and talked about the issue of confidentiality.

Churchill has now been confused by complaints and doubts from all sides, and he has no mood to control the Germans' actions.

He waved his hand and said, "Now, we have two things to do! The first is to use the Mediterranean fleet as soon as possible to **** the transport fleet more reliably! The second is to get more American aid. !ASAP!"

"The United States has given us everything it can give us, including the M3 tanks that they themselves did not equip." The diplomat said sarcastically when he heard this: "Unfortunately, these latest weapons and equipment have been Our people were left in the desert."

The M3 tank and the M3lee tank are both tanks that have just been in service in the United States. Most of the equipment that was finally produced was thrown into the Tanta by Auchinleck.

To say that the scumbag of the United States is really willing to pay for the cost, the new equipment was given to the United Kingdom first, and they are still using outdated junk... In order to drain the last drop of blood from Europe, the Americans can be regarded as doing their best...

"How can you say that? If it wasn't for the delivery of supplies being a month late, how could General Alan Cunningham fail?"

"Okay! That's enough!" Churchill saw that this meeting was about to turn into a slander meeting, and he slapped the table and shouted, "Shut up!"

Originally, when he burst out with his majesty, everyone should be silent, but now, the people on both sides stared at each other, and it took a few seconds to withdraw their eyes.

"Find a way to get the United States to build a kind of transport ship for us. The more the better... Our current losses can no longer be made up with our own productivity. We need someone to help us share part of the production!" Churchill said helplessly. Come up with your own countermeasures.

He looked at the British foreign affairs officials, paused and continued: "Steel can no longer be transported to the mainland, so use this steel to start producing ships on the spot... Now that's all we can do. "

"Understood! Mr. Prime Minister." The official of the foreign ministry nodded. That was all he could do, so he didn't need to refuse.

"I will try my best to get the United States to support us with more tanks and aircraft...including the latest -40 fighter jets." Finally, the diplomat added: "But I need some words to strengthen the high-level American opinion on us. confidence."

"I have sent a new general to Africa to command the battle. He will replace General Auchinleck and become the commander of the newly formed British 8th Army!" Churchill said his own countermeasures.

He looked at everyone in front of him and said the name of the person he had chosen: "General Montgomery, who will become the commander-in-chief of the Middle East defense area, command the 8th Army, and prevent Rommel from entering the Middle East!"

Before everyone in the room could say anything, the sound of the air defense alarm began to echo, the anti-aircraft guns on the ground began to roar, and the shells were shot into the sky.

The explosion sounded from far to near, and everyone began to get nervous. An officer pushed open the door of the conference room, walked quickly to Churchill's side, and said, "Sir, what the Germans airdropped was not... it was a photo of Rommel in Cairo."

After Churchill heard the news, he was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand and let the officer who sent the message exit his conference room in a depressing manner.

"The Germans didn't bomb, they dropped the propaganda leaflets to occupy Cairo." Churchill looked at his men who were still terrified and said.

In the streets and alleys, countless flyers fell from the sky like snowflakes, one after another fell on the ground, and then rolled with the breeze.

Some were even transferred directly into the Thames waters and flowed downstream along the river.

Through the bright glass window, Churchill even saw a flyer hit the glass and then fall onto the balcony outside the window, with the words in huge black letters: "Victory! Cairo!"

Hearing that it was not a bombing, the faces of the officials were obviously much better, and they were no longer so scared when they heard the sound of anti-aircraft guns outside.

"Sir~www.wuxiaspot.com~ We must collect these leaflets! We can't let the mood of defeat continue like this..." An army general spoke up, persuading Churchill.

How could this be prevented? The fool also knows that the news has leaked out, and how can it be possible to prevent the spread of the news of the fall of Cairo when there are countless German spies following the fire?

Churchill didn't speak. He looked sideways through the glass and saw the flyer on the balcony, which was just spread on the ground of the balcony.

On the flyer, in addition to the victory slogan, there is a huge photo that has become unclear because of too much printing.

In the photo above, Rommel is standing in the car, with the streets of Cairo behind him. The buildings on both sides of the street are covered with the German **** flag, and there are several German trucks parked in the distance.

Although Rommel's face is not very clear due to the quality of printing, Churchill can still see a smile on this face.

His eyes are not very good, and he should not be able to see the expressions of the characters on the flyer at all, but Churchill still felt that he could see clearly, and he even suspected that he was in a dream.