In the underground command center of the Prime Minister's residence on Downing Street, a bunch of people sat withered as if they were lost. They didn't know what to say about each other, and the air was dull and almost solidified.

Originally, everyone was in good mood these days and even at noon that day, because there were always some good news in the chaos:

The first good news is that the German anti-radar bombs found a preliminary response to shut down the aircraft as early as possible, reducing the radar station losses to 15-20%. In addition to the non-stop repairs in the past two days, the southern radar network barely recovered to more than 70%. More importantly, the German army stopped air strikes with anti-radar bombs that day because the 1,000 hail was used up.

The second good news is that the new generation of jet "Vampire" fighter jets was successfully developed. This jet is equipped with the "Little Fairy" turbojet engine of De Havilland, which adopts a distinctive double-tail beam aerodynamic layout, inheriting the traditional wooden cockpit of the mosquito bomber. The 4-door 20mm Sispanno cannon and engine are installed in the central cabin, with two tail beams located on the left and right, and the three are connected in series by a single wing of a small sweep angle trapezoid.

The reason for adopting this design is that the early jet ducts suffered serious losses to jet thrust, so the stubby and short TA183 also adopted this feature. This little fairy engine has a single thrust of nearly 17 kiloN, which is only about the same thrust than the latest mass-produced BMW004h engine (me-262) in Germany. Compared with the use of the Ta-183, the 20 kiloN thrust of the newly-shaped Hes-011f engine is not too big. In the Roll-Roy company, there is still 22 kiloN nyon engine with a 22 kiloN engine that is close to the success of research and development.

The German side's R&D speed is faster than the UK. In addition to the 27 kilo-n-thrust db016 engine with nearly success, there is also a 34 kilo-n-thrust bmw018 engine under development. From the overall overall R&D progress, Germany's leading advantage in the field of jet engines is 9-12 months, and its leading advantage in the field of jet practicalization is 16-20 months. Of course, the technical paths of Britain and Germany are different. The UK is both centrifugal and Germany are axial flow. They can be called the leading explorers in their respective fields, far ahead of other countries.

In fact, the British cabinet was extremely dissatisfied with the US's reluctance to allocate the Meteor Jets. When the British mainland repeatedly encountered German jet groups playing tactics, it was urgently necessary to introduce jets to compete. The Air Force even proposed that even if the outnumbered people were shot down, it would be more powerless than watching the enemy fly around but unable to do anything.

According to the information learned from the British delegation to the United States, there are as many as 200 meteor jets produced by the US military, and there are 50 British Air Force pilots in training. They can be trained in critical moments. However, the United States has clearly made it, but it either has an excuse for insufficient quantity, personnel training, or transportation difficulties. Anyway, it is not allocated for various reasons. Marshal Deer of the British side proposed that even 50 aircraft can boost morale, but he did not expect that the Joint Conference thought the time was not ripe and directly refused.

General Potter was so anxious that he said that since strategic air transport was not safe, it would be okay to use a submarine to transport three meteor scattered parts from the United States? The US side could not refuse, so she just hummed and said she was mobilizing the submarines for shipment, but it was not set off until the 26th, which made the Royal Air Force feel desperate.

At this time, the vampire jet was born, as if it gave everyone hope again. When delivering the Meteor aircraft project to the United States, Gloucester, which was in charge of the development, was actually unwilling to hand over it, but the government's executive order was unable to (Meteor R&D expenses were supported by the government). In contrast, De Havilland was much more bizarre and failed to successfully suppress the vampire project on the excuse of test flights (also a government project). Some senior executives of the Royal Air Force were willing to keep a move, pretending to be unaware of it, let alone report it, but the money was given to them in the name of studying mosquito-style subsequent modifications. Later, some of the personnel who did not go to the United States were also accepted by De Havilland, and the two companies worked together to study, so the project has been staying in the UK.

In terms of technical indicators, the vampire speed has reached a level similar to the me-262, with a longer range (nearly 1,400 kilometers). Other performances have their own advantages, but because it only uses one engine and has a large number of wooden components, the manufacturing cost after mass production is much lower than the me-262, which is basically comparable to the ta-183. Now, as good news, it has been reported to Porter in a grand manner, Churchill pretends not to know the trick, and the instructions are listed as the highest priority to accelerate the manufacturing equipment.

The third good news is about the rockets. British technicians have successfully collected various pieces of pieces through cleaning the wreckage. They even dug out an unexploded complete product from the Thames based on the guidance of enthusiastic citizens. This rocket was not known because it was water in or plunged into the mud. In short, it was not exploded. Except for some parts corroded by fuel, the rest were well preserved. Before reporting to Churchill, the three military tyrants Brooke, Pound and Porter privately reached an offensive and defensive alliance in view of the anger they were exposed on the Meteor Jets: they only reported to the Prime Minister about the first half of the collection and sorting of rocket wreckage. They did not reveal to the cabinet and the Americans that they had complete rocket products in their hands. Even if it was the wreckage, the Americans would have to exchange for things!

The fourth good news was sent by Spruins, saying that after the fleet set off from South Africa, everything went smoothly. Not only did it not encounter any German submarines, it also successfully avoided German reconnaissance aircraft in southern Madagascar and entered the Indian Ocean. At present, the specific location of the fleet is 2,300 kilometers southeast of Reunion Island (formerly French, now in Germany), and it is expected to enter the heart of the Indian Ocean in another week. Spruins decided to pull out the nail of the British Indian Ocean Islands (now occupied by Japan) first, and then break in strongly. Pound and Fraser studied the chart and believed that as long as the Indian Ocean Islands and the Maldives were broken, the power of the fleet would not be blocked later.

At noon, I received the last good news: Cunningham sent a telegram saying that he discovered the German fleet and was ready to attack. Pound, Fraser and others believed that our side had many planes this time and the pilot experience was not bad. He should have some advantage in fighting. Fraser even optimistically expected that he could achieve at least 2 ships on the other side and lose 1 ship.

But unexpectedly, the situation took a sharp turn a few hours later. The Germans launched an attack as if they were on the verge. The tf46 first lost an aircraft carrier, and then nearly 200 attack waves were knocked out half of the opponent's fleet without even touching the side of the opponent's fleet, and the rest were forced to retreat. This made everyone very anxious, but no rescue method could be used. The local area had no way to rescue. Pound hoped that the Royal Air Force could dispatch strategic bombers to help, but after careful consideration, Potter refused. First, because the Royal Air Force's large aircraft hid in the north of Britain in order to avoid German bombing. The single flight of the Royal Air Force exceeded 2,000 kilometers and flew for 5 hours. When it arrived, it became dark. Second, practice proved that strategic bombers used anti-aircraft guns to kill mosquitoes, and it was useless at all.

This is not an excuse, and Pound and Fraser also gritted their teeth and accepted it. Then bad news kept coming, first the USS Ticonderoga abandoned the ship, then the British and American fleets divided the troops, then Cunningham was hit by the second round of attack, Bumblebee was severely injured, and George V was in the thunder. At this time, cabinet officials and military officials were still hoping that Cunningham could bring the fleet back, even if the aircraft carrier was lost, it would not matter. As long as two George V-class and 20,000 experienced Royal Navy officers and soldiers could be saved, when the new local warships became army in a few months, the Royal Navy still had the strength to fight at least on paper would be stronger than Italy.

In the evening, the confidential secretary sent a telegram. Looking at his sad expression, he knew that the news was not good, but no one expected that it was a farewell call from Cunningham.

Marshal Pang De cried in tears and shouted in dismay: "It's over...it's over...the Royal Navy is over...the Great Britain is over!"

Fraser staggered to the corridor, covered his face and cried, crying bitterly.

Porter and Marshal Brooke hugged their heads and cried bitterly. Although the army and the air force were not happy with each other and quarreled over resources and equipment, they really came to a desperate moment. When they thought that the Royal Navy, which had supported the British Empire to dominate the world for 300 years, was completely wiped out in one day, everyone was sad.

Churchill shivered and cursed, "Idiot Cunningham, who the hell asked him to cover up the Americans..."

Pound stood up in anger and slapped the table and cursed: "Winston, who the hell did you agree to form the British-American joint fleet? When the Royal Navy was dominating, the Americans didn't know which bathtub they were staying in!"

Churchill was going to fight back, but when he saw that everyone was casting an angry look, he knew that the public was outrageous and had to let go: "Okay, okay, I'm idiot, I'm a fool, what do you think you should do now?"

"See a way to continue contacting warships, at least protect all the officers and soldiers as much as possible and come back..." Brooke sighed, "If you don't want to surrender, you can prepare for your country's defense and don't worry about anything else."

"Surrender?" It was as if a heavy blow made Aiden and Attlee stunned. Although the two of them were swaying about the peace talks, they were still stunned when they heard the word surrender and stood there in a daze.

"No! You can't surrender! We still have 3 million troops, tens of thousands of aircraft, and several warships. We must persevere! Persist to the end!" Churchill yelled like crazy, "Now we surrender, we will be a slave to the country that is destroyed. We would rather die than be a slave to the country that is destroyed! The British Empire will fight to the last person!"
Chapter completed!