0p0 Third Reich Episode 423
Third Reich Episode 423
For de Gaulle, any regime can not support Britain, but his free French regime must support Churchill's British government.Because, without the support of Britain, his free French government is useless.
For his own regime, de Gaulle must join forces with Churchill.
However, de Gaulle also clearly saw that London is already a dead end, and it is impossible to have a future if it stays.
Therefore, he intends to make some well-meaning suggestions to Churchill for better resistance in the future.
For example, temporarily move the capital to the island of Ireland, and use the strait to block and re-establish a line of defense.
De Gaulle can be regarded as a general, and he learned a lot in the French campaign and later in the defense of the English Channel.
In his view, from a military point of view, moving the capital to Northern Ireland, uniting with the Republic of Ireland, which is also a Commonwealth country, and jointly relying on the Strait for defense, will have a much higher chance of success in countering the Allied forces on the other side of the Irish Sea.
Ever since the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms successfully landed on the British Isle, de Gaulle had already considered the next retreat.
As a former French general, de Gaulle was well aware of the German army's combat and breakthrough capabilities on land. Moreover, the German army also had General Weygand, whom even de Gaulle admired so much, commanding the French army to assist.
The French army, once known as the world's largest army, and the German army, the strongest army in the emerging world.The armies of the two joined forces to fight on land against the British Army, the weakest army in Europe, and there was basically no suspense in the ending.
In addition, the British government does not even have a large local army, so it can only rely on the less reliable National Guard and other militias to fight against the experienced German and French troops.
Lose the English Channel, London can no longer hold on.
Fortunately, the geography of the UK is special after all.
As a country established within the scope of the British Isles, the British mainland not only includes Scotland, England, and Wales on the British Isles.Also includes Northern Ireland in the north of the island of Ireland.
And the Republic of Ireland in the south of the island of Ireland, which happens to be the Commonwealth of Nations, although the relationship with the United Kingdom has not been very good, but it is not completely without hope of union.
For example, the small amount of remaining air force in the British mainland will be assembled and transferred to Northern Ireland, and the remaining warships of the Royal Navy's local fleet will be dispatched to the Irish Sea, and the loser will surround the island of Ireland.
Then, while using the city of London to resist desperately, the insufficiently trained National Guards were transported from the northern part of the British Island to Northern Ireland, where military training was carried out in an effort to turn these militias into real soldiers.
It didn't take much, just enough to train 10 National Guardsmen, plus about 1 British Army troops who were evacuated to the island of Ireland.With the assistance of the remaining Royal Air Force and the remaining Royal Navy, it is far easier to defend the small island of Ireland and prevent the Allied Powers from landing than to fight hard on the land of the three Allied forces of the Allied Powers that have already landed on the British Island.
Moreover, de Gaulle can also provide 7 well-trained free French soldiers for the future defense of Ireland.The Republic of Ireland in the south of the island of Ireland can also undertake most of the defense tasks of the entire island.
What really needs to be defended is only the northeast area, which occupies a small half of the island of Ireland.
Then from the 6 counties of Northern Ireland, 1.4 square kilometers of land, and a population of 170 million, tens of thousands of recruits were recruited, and the police and local garrisons in Northern Ireland were reorganized into tens of thousands of troops.
In this way, even at this point, Churchill and de Gaulle can go to Northern Ireland and pull up an army of more than 15.Make good use of the remaining air force and navy, do a good job in coastal defense, and prevent the Allied troops from landing, and then you will have the capital to defend.
Of course, if Churchill was willing to flee to Canada with the Free French government and form a government-in-exile together as a brother-in-law there, de Gaulle would be happier.
In short, in any case, de Gaulle would never be willing to stay in London to die anyway.Even if they are still separated from the German army by the Thames River across London and the London area across the Thames River, that will not make people feel at ease.
Compared with the wider Irish River, de Gaulle is really unwilling to guard a narrow Thames River.
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De Gaulle soon applied for a meeting with Churchill.
And Churchill was so busy at this time that he didn't have time to meet Charles de Gaulle, who wanted to persuade him to move out of London.
After the request for an interview was rejected, de Gaulle found a good old man in London, Lord Gort, quite flexibly.
"Commander Gott, please help me."
As soon as they met, de Gaulle, with the help of an interpreter, expressed his request to Gott.
But he heard that some time ago, Gott used his position to help a general named Montgomery escape to North Africa.
De Gaulle still knew a lot about the situation of the British army in North Africa.
Wavell stopped the attacks of the Italian and German troops one after another, and also took care of the French garrison in Algeria in the middle.Garibaldi, Berente, Rommel, these famous generals from all over the world, failed to take down Wavell's troops.
To be sent to North Africa, to Montgomery under Wavell's command, was extremely lucky in the eyes of de Gaulle.
De Gaulle also heard that as soon as Montgomery arrived in North Africa, he took over the command of three Egyptian divisions and part of the Australian army, and he was very lucky.
From the hellish British mainland to the heavenly British-controlled area in North Africa, and immediately got a reinforced army to command.
For Montgomery's situation, apart from envy, de Gaulle could not think of a second emotion.
After the envy passed, de Gaulle thought of the key person who brought Montgomery such good luck-good old man, Lord Gort.
Lord Gort, who commanded the entire British army, undoubtedly had great power and favor.Montgomery was able to be sent to Africa largely because generals at all levels were selling face to Lord Gott.
In De Gaulle's view, whether he can walk or not, the final thing to see is whether he can get the help of Lord Gort.
"What do you need me to do?" Lord Gort gave a kind reception to De Gaulle who came here specially to find him.
After all, the other party is also the leader of a country. Although it is the leader of a country recognized only by the British government, it is still a leader after all.
The leader of Free France came to him in person, and Gott had no reason to refuse.
"Help me persuade Prime Minister Churchill to leave London. You and us should change positions of resistance." De Gaulle said with firm eyes.
"Leave our capital?!" Gott was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head a few seconds later, and sighed, "Leaving here, where can we go?"
"Go to Northern Ireland, or go to Canada!" De Gaulle was waiting for this topic, and he quickly seized the opportunity to interject: "It is easier to use the strait for defense than to use these buildings in London. I believe Commander Gort understands it yourself. It is very difficult for your army to defeat the Confederate army in land combat."
"Use the Irish Sea, or the Atlantic Ocean? This is a good military suggestion." Lord Gort nodded lightly, resting his chin with his hand.
As a purer soldier, he is more aware of the convenience of defense brought by the transfer of defensive positions than de Gaulle.
Moreover, after de Gaulle immediately talked about the idea of transporting away part of the National Self-Defense Forces and the Army, conducting military training in 6 counties of Northern Ireland, and at the same time recruiting and reorganizing the local army of Northern Ireland, it aroused Lord Gort's interest.
"In this way, we can indeed prepare a reserve force of more than 15." Lord Gott nodded thoughtfully after hearing all of de Gaulle's suggestions.
Hearing what Gott said, De Gaulle was immediately overjoyed.
However, Lord Gort's next words immediately discouraged de Gaulle.
"But the prime minister probably won't agree to the government's evacuation of London. His mind has become more and more abnormal recently, and he always clamors to destroy London together..."
Gott's lost speech: "Prime Minister Churchill's recent orders have become more and more inexplicable and unbearable."
"He ordered to rebuild the number of troops lost in Dunkirk, but we have no weapons, equipment and personnel... The pressure from the Prime Minister is too great. My colleagues and I have to lie to the Prime Minister. These units that didn't exist were actually formed and went to war."
Churchill used these non-existent troops to counterattack, of course there would be no results. The troops on the front line would collapse faster without support.The collapsed troops did not dare to report to Churchill, so these troops have always existed, and will be taken out by Churchill to support other British troops next time.
"Now the prime minister thinks that we have assembled 9 divisions of the Reconstruction Army Infantry Division on the banks of the Thames, under the command of Lieutenant General Smith. But in fact, Lieutenant General Smith has only about 2 National Guards who lack military training. Doesn't have any counterattack power at all..."
Lord Gort's words are already very clear. Churchill, who is still living in a dream, is now dreaming of the dream of Lieutenant General Smith commanding 9 reserve divisions to counterattack, and he will not be willing to flee to Northern Ireland at all.
After all, this is the fault of Lord Gott and the others. Who told them to lie to Churchill that the troops have been formed.