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Chapter 52: The Line of Defense (5)

Messerchmidt's reconnaissance plane was upset by the ugly appearance of the British army below, and swung its wings to turn inland. Flying over a towering forest belt, the eyes suddenly became clear, and a rural landscape was clear. Because it was close to the strait, the terrain was flat, with large grasslands and wheat fields, lonely trees and bushes of shrubs spread out in a scattered manner among the gentle slopes. One or two wooden houses and a mill with huge water wheels stood by the small lake among the rice fields. The river was flowing, the gray bark roof, and the brick chimneys at the corners of the wooden roof were still emitting a slight blue smoke. The whole picture was fresh and natural, which was pleasing to the eye.

Then the two Germans saw the ditch, a huge ditch... and then there were a vast area of ​​British soldiers jumping around the ground. The anti-tank trenches in front of them were almost completed, more than five meters wide and more than four meters deep. The excavated soil piled up on the side facing the strait, forming an artificial steep dam. The entire trench stretched for several kilometers, and was obviously ready to continue to extend forward.

Before the pilot could exclaim the magnificent construction project, the German reconnaissance plane was attacked like a storm. The attack came from an infantry position at the forefront of the anti-tank trench, but it was not the army soldiers who fired, but a group of cheerful mobs.

The British National Self-Defense Force has now expanded into a giant, and the total number has exceeded the total of the current British regular armed forces. In peacetime, this is completely unacceptable to the government. It can be seen that these armed forces are composed of rural civilians, spontaneously managed by themselves, and have very free autonomy, just like the militia and rangers when the United States was founded. Once something happens, it can be replaced by the country.

One million and a half million people, any country in Europe, are a force that cannot be ignored. The British government can ignore its expansion and continue to push and arm them. The reason is that the British government is well aware of the weaknesses of this team.

If these people leave the government's coordination, they will be completely a mess. The base seems to be extremely large, but in fact they are divided into tens of thousands of squads. Although they are all named as a certain battalion of XXX, the fact is that the largest team is only more than 200. The small team only has a dozen village men and wild men. If this kind of armed force does not have a unified organization and command of professional soldiers, it will be a mob. Once there is a problem, a command can easily kill each other, and it will not cause any big waves.

Most of these people are very knowledgeable about war. Many people have never touched weapons. What supports them is the national pride and so-called patriotism of the British. More of them is the fear of the destruction of the existing rhythm of life and the fear of the invaders. People have inertia, especially the British, and inertia has been engraved into their bones. They are accustomed to orderly arrange their lives according to the schedule, and live a calm and peaceful life every day according to the schedule. Of course, they also like to accept new things, but they have to be based on the fact that the thing will not affect the rhythm of his life. Otherwise, any change will be dangerous and reckless. Any new thing must be strictly proved unless it has become fashionable. If it is not clear, then wait and see if something has happened to the idiot in the neighbor. If that guy doesn't die, I will buy one too.

British people are gossip animals and are keen on interpersonal communication, but their social circles are very fixed. If outsiders want to join, unless they have guaranteed someone in the circle or have a certain popularity, they have to go through a very long inspection period. Once the social circle is destroyed or disintegrated, it will be the end of the world for the British.

The citizens of the British Empire were proud, and the unprecedented sun never set, the empire was dominated by the global dominance, the navy overturned the Netherlands and Spain, the army defeated Germany and France, and led the world's technological trend for decades after the Industrial Revolution. The professors of Oxford, Cambridge, were full of scholars and scholars, and had a lot of literary and artistic heritage. Although they lost their hands in the United States and lost their face in South Africa, they still found their face in the end. The British Empire's citizens' brand is still very popular outside, even a London gangster can still dominate the beach in the Far East. Therefore, any act of challenging the pride of the British and intending to smash the golden sign of the British Empire will fight back at all costs.

And now, the killing Germans tied up what the British hated the most.

Britain was once ruined by the Great Depression, but the overall impact on the British in the countryside was not great. Twenty years of peaceful and peaceful days had already given them enough inertia. The news that Germany was about to invade this time completely disrupted this peaceful rhythm of life.

Various propaganda brochures were sent in the government, and relatives from the city took their families back to the countryside to bring all kinds of real and fake gossip. Radio stations laughed and scolded the sky. The country tabloids were full of weird rumors. The new German head of state was a fallen angel, the German soldiers were bloodthirsty monsters, German soldiers burned, killed, robbed, killed and surrendered, German tank armor was strong and powerful, German cannons were fired, and German cannons were destroyed for dozens of miles, and no matter the walls, people and animals were all turned into powder.

The villagers were excited and sat around the tavern every day to discuss. For example, "How can you live this day? It doesn't matter if the Germans go to London to burn, kill, loot, but running to my village affects me to drink afternoon tea by the river every day. How can I bear it! This must be fought with the Germans. Jack and Anne in the village have all gone to participate in the Air Force. Now I am the only one of the three gangs. They are all killed by the Germans. I am fighting with you! The newspaper said that the British Empire has raised us gentry for many years, and the Day of Righteousness is today. I think it makes sense. Tomorrow I will go to Glasgow to buy a boat ticket to America, and go there to summon prostitutes. I summon 100,000 British expatriates to form a volunteer army to serve the king..." That's about this.

Churchill's self-defense army's convening order was like a timely rain in Jiaoyang, which gave these panic-wrenching and helpless villagers and gentry a goal. That night, British villagers in the British land were running around and shouting in the village roads and roads in Ditou Village, the countryside, as if they were having a festival, the German devils were coming, and the villagers picked up weapons and fought with the devils... In more than a month, the self-defense army of 1.5 million people was mobilized. It can be regarded as a model in the history of British mobilization, and it is unprecedented and has no future.

In the face of various fierce weapons of the German army, it is useless to rely solely on more people. Letting these villagers rush forward like this can only let the Germans pull the trigger and pull tenosynovitis. Therefore, the first thing to do is to arm them, and also give them the necessary training and appropriate tactics. The British government positioned this team as an auxiliary force to cooperate with regular army troops to fight, sluggish the Germans' actions, consume the Germans' strength, disrupt the Germans' attack rhythm. The private expectation is that these people can cause countless troubles to the Germans, and it is best to let the Germans shed enough blood. In the end, the Germans were forced to sign a truce agreement that could be seen.

The British government knew very well that unless the Germans could be prevented from getting ashore, once these beasts set foot on British territory, they would rely on the defensive power that the British locals had. There was no hope of winning. Defeat was inevitable, and it was not that ugly to pursue the loss. Churchill had long been aware of this. He did not expect the army to defend the city of London. He was ready to stay in the semi-underground command bunker on Downing Street until the German soldiers rushed in. He asked his bodyguard to send a 11.23mm pistol bullet to his big head at the last moment. This was also a proud person. Like Hitler, he would never allow himself to fall into the hands of the enemy.

Originally, the government in exile was a choice. However, because the reserve funds were robbed and beaten away by the Germans, how miserable would a government in exile without money be. The British saw too much. Once upon a time, Britain was the first choice destination for governments in exiled countries. If there were no such governments in exiled politicians in exiled royal families, how could Britain have been able to stir up shit in the past? Now it was Britain's turn to go into exile, so it really had to consider and consider research. Because it was not money, it was under someone's roof, and it was weak and strong. If the Germans built a pro-German government, the exiled group would be tragic in minutes. What's more, the British could play the card of family affection in the end, and at worst, let the royal family come forward to kneel down. After all, Windsor was surnamed Weiting before.

All the bigwigs in the government have their own plans. Churchill is very clear, but he must stand on the side of public opinion. With his unyielding personality, he will never allow surrender without a fight. This kind of thing happened during his tenure. He is Churchill and must be famous in history.

Although the army's weapons were not enough, Churchill still forced out a batch of old-style rifles that were replaced and sealed. However, the base was too terrifying. If these rifles were thrown down, they could not even splash. In the end, after all, the team was armed, four more of them were cold weapons, and half of these cold weapons should actually be divided into agricultural tools.

Within more than a month, various rural workshops began to crazily manufacture various local guns and cannons. The British blacksmith's craftsmanship is world-famous. If the materials are sufficient, they can use a maxim by hand. Various inventors in the countryside have also made their brains. Weird and weird weapon designs are emerging one after another. It is unclear whether it is easy to use or not. Anyway, they are either using it themselves.

The British squire were among the best armed groups of the Self-Defense Forces. Most of them had long family genealogies. Many of them had titles, land and factories, various businesses, fixed income, and did not worry about their livelihoods. Therefore, most of them had a hobby of hunting.

British gentlemen loved hunting too much. I recalled the glorious era when British hunters killed the whole world. The British lived to kill the flooded Indian tigers into rare animals, and countless other extinct rare birds and beasts. White rhinos, lions and African elephants were their favorites on the African grasslands. The British have always advocated that Chinese people like to treat diseases with rhino horns, but no African rhino died at the hands of Chinese people. The rhinos died at the hands of British hunters were indefinitely counted. British hunters went to Africa to slaughter rhinos. They did not cut off the rhino heads, they made specimens and hung them on the wall to show off, or sold them to other local tyrants to hang them on the wall to show off. Lions, elephants, bison and wildebeests, kill whatever they encountered, and soaked them.

They did not hunt for life, they hunted for entertainment and excitement. In order to hunt these beasts, British gunsmiths prepared unparalleled killing tools for these rich people, exquisite beast rifles, large-caliber shotguns, long-range sniper rifles, single-tube double-tubes, pump-moving bolts, lever crankshafts, and each one is expensive and dangerous crafts.
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