Imperial Overlord

Things did not develop as Churchill expected. Dramatic events occurred in the southwest of England. The British defenders in Portsmouth and other areas gave up their resistance and directly welcomed the German army into the city. . fastest update

Maybe it's because Germany's previous bombing has brought too much suffering here, or maybe it's the long-term starvation that has wiped out the resistance of everyone here.

In short, the British commander laid down his weapons and surrendered to the Germans with naval fuel hidden in Portsmouth, as well as various weapons and ammunition.

Not only Portsmouth, but also Fareham, Southampton and other areas surrendered to the Germans and gave up their resistance.

"We are short of food, and if we can, we need a lot of field tents. People here are starving, and for God's sake, we need help." A British general looked at Marshal Liszt, who came to accept the surrender. stated his request.

"We can provide part of the food, but this must be in addition to ensuring the materials needed for military operations..." Liszt took the other party's military flag and replied.

As the supreme commander of the front line, he has the power to agree to certain conditions. For example, let these British soldiers not go to concentration camps, but to serve their sentences in French POW camps.

But when it comes to food, this thing must be cautious. After all, the German army's own transport capacity is still insufficient, and it is impossible for the British to solve the problem of eating.

If this is spread, and a few cities will be surrendered tomorrow, then the German army will not have to fight London, and helping the British to transport food for disaster relief will consume all their own transport capacity.

"We still have 30 torpedo boats and gunboats here, plus fishing boats and other transport ships, even passenger ships, all of which can help transport food..." The general gave his own advice.

Even if the United Kingdom was defeated, the remaining sea capacity was too strong to be the envy of the Germans. Just in the ruins of Portsmouth, there are hundreds of small ships hidden by the British.

As long as so many ships are arranged to be supervised by the Germans, they can turn from enemies to helpers, which is something Liszt is happy to see.

The British were really devastated by Germany's broken war. Liszt saw Portsmouth, which seemed to be a dead city. The people here really seemed to be living in hell.

Because it was an important military port, it was heavily bombed by the Germans. Because it was once abandoned, the departure of the British Navy made it lose its original strategic value.

Ports that have no value, of course, will not be given priority to replenish supplies. Therefore, most of the people here can barely maintain a living level, which is incomparable with London.

Where there is a gap, resentment breeds. The people of Portsmouth felt abandoned in their own country, so they hated the Germans, but also hated the other British.

Hunger makes them compromise with the aggressor, hatred makes them cooperate with the aggressor. Liszt nodded and agreed with the bold idea.

"If you can use your own ship and allow my people to follow the ship to supervise, then nothing will be a problem." The German marshal will naturally be very generous when he gets what he wants.

Being able to occupy Portsmouth at the fastest speed and seize a large amount of fuel and weapons and ammunition is undoubtedly very important for Germany's next move.

The point is to save time, and Liszt's time is invaluable. He got the fuel of the British army intact, which was great news for him.

As for the lack of food in the country, this is not in his consideration. It is something the head of state is very willing to do by dispatching some brown bread and other inferior food to the UK to help the locals and ease the relationship.

Doing it yourself and asking the other person to do it first are two completely different things. What's more, the other party even has to help the German army transport supplies, which is simply a good thing that falls from the sky.

"Mr. Marshal, I think you have seen our current situation. We are really short of food, so we will not play any tricks." The general promised.

He pointed to the sea in the distance, and promised Liszt: "As long as it is not military supplies, tents, quilts, and other supplies, we can carry them."

"That's great. I want to resume the route between here and Cherbourg as soon as possible. Do you have any opinion?" Although Portsmouth was bombed beyond recognition, part of its own throughput is still reserved. Much better than Dover.

Taking control of this port, Germany finally has a firm foothold in the UK. The control of Portsmouth also completely cut off the problem of the British navy harassing the landing site.

Because the coastline is wide enough, small ships such as British torpedo boats can hardly attack the German fleet by night.

In the eyes of the German Sealift Corps, this news was the real good news. As long as the British Home Fleet does not move, there will be few British troops left to block the English Channel.

For the German army, another major gain is that the German army has controlled enough land, and naturally there are more field airfields that can be used.

With these field airfields, the Luftwaffe has begun to try to deploy its own fighter jets on British soil to better defend the occupied areas.

Now these field airports have not yet formed a scale, and the pressure on the British army is relatively small.

Once these field airfields are fully operational, areas such as Liverpool and Birmingham will soon be under heavy German bombardment.

Things were moving faster than anyone had imagined, and the British were quick to organize a fleet. Just like what they did more than half a year ago, the Germans were unexpected.

At Dunkirk, neither Goering nor Hitler expected that the British would be able to gather so many transport ships to and from the English Channel overnight.

At that time, they transported 300,000 people in one breath, creating a miracle in shipping history.

This time, British ships were again mobilized in order to get more supplies from Germany. It didn't take long for the British to find more than 200 ships of various sizes.

"You may not believe it, but we formed a fleet of 30 ships in a short time. These ships need to be covered and restrained by the Air Force to sail to Cherbourg!" A German officer in charge of liaison cried and laughed at the radio side said.

Germany had to arrange for planes to **** the British fleet, which sounded like a joke in World War II.

But this thing really happened, on the afternoon of February 19, 1941, it really happened.

The British arranged their fleet as large as possible, and from nowhere found a naval gunboat to **** them.

According to the requirements, more than 100 German soldiers were arranged for custody on the gunboat, while the British sailors and naval officers above were only a pitiful 30 people.

Then, watched by the British and Germans, the fleet left Portsmouth in a mighty manner, stepping on the corpse of the HMS Queen Elizabeth and sailing out of the bay.

"Prepare as much food as possible, the quality is not important, the quantity must be guaranteed." On the radio, Liszt personally contacted the senior German admiral in Cherbourg.

The other party was really confused, and the Navy never dreamed that the Army could find ships in the UK to join in the transportation, and they found 30 ships as soon as they were found.

"Are you sure that the fleet coming to Cherbourg is under our army's control?" Until the fleet was in Portsmouth, the German naval commanders didn't quite believe that such a strange thing would happen.

The transport ship of the British Royal Navy helps the German Navy to run sea transportation... If this matter is said, it is estimated that the word "royal" on the top of the British Navy's head may not be able to keep the same as the Army.

The German garrison in France who received the order is also very busy now. They have to concentrate some food and transport it to the port of Cherbourg, and use the British transport capacity to rush to transport more materials to the UK.

"Carry as many tents as possible, and force them to transport at least one boat of ammunition away! This is our bottom line!" In the port, the officer in charge of the arrangement ordered loudly.

"The British gunboat can't enter the port anyway! If they don't listen to the arrangement, let the air force sink it!" Another officer arranged a security mission viciously, he must ensure the absolute safety of Cherbourg.

Perhaps in a few days, Cherbourg's location will not be so dangerous. Once the British Cornwall peninsula was occupied by the Germans, Cherbourg's location was relatively safe.

It's just that there are a large number of mines laid by Britain, France and Germany on the flanks of Cherbourg~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It will take some time to fully restore the throughput capacity before the war.

The German flag was laid on the entire fleet, and there were German soldiers standing guard on the deck. No one could imagine how quickly they could return to France in this way and stay away from the brutal front line of the war.

The turbulent waves on the sea have become insignificant at this moment, and the journey home is always so smooth, which makes people feel happy.

In the sky, escorting or, to put it more intuitively, German planes monitoring these ships, with powerful bombs hanging on them.

If the ships didn't obey the German navy, the Stuka bombers would instantly change from bodyguards to deadliest killers.

Unexpectedly, there were no torpedo boats in the British sea to make trouble, and the United Kingdom really did not have any troops that could make trouble in this sea area.

The torpedo boats were all in Portsmouth, most of which had been surrendered as German trophies. It is not that the remaining warships are not, but they are afraid that the air attack can only be deployed to a farther place, losing the transfer station of Portsmouth, and unable to continue to penetrate the German landing waters.