Chapter 811 (1/2)

In the early 1940's, the sea was no longer as calm as before.

In fact, since September last year, a brutal naval battle has been waged between Germany and Britain.

This war was initiated by the German. After the formal declaration of war between Britain and France, the dwarfs ordered a total blockade of Britain.

At that time, he ordered in a tone of worry, anger, uneasiness and fanaticism: ”if you can't let it die in battle, you'll be trapped on an island.”

That night, the British passenger ship Athena to the Caribbean was torpedoed by a German submarine, killing more than 100 people, including more than 20 American citizens.

Based on this incident, Washington, D.C. will mobilize several large passenger ships to safely take citizens from all over Europe back home.

Two days later, three more large luxury liners, important British vessels, were sunk off the coast of Spain.

If the attack on the merchant ship was merely to annoy the British, the attack on Scarpa Bay in October was a formal challenge to the Navy.

In October, the important British naval base, Scarpa Bay, was bombed by German aircraft, and the warship ”Royal Oak” sank.

The incident immediately aroused the reaction of the British Admiralty, and the British retaliated.

Churchill, then Secretary of the Navy, visited Scarpa Bay and held talks at admiral Forbes's flagship to discuss counterattack.

The meeting finally decided to strengthen water barriers and obstruct ships, establish mine areas and increase patrol boats in the unprotected Eastern channel of Scarpa Bay.

In addition, artillery positions will be arranged to control the entrance and exit. In order to prepare for air attack, the Navy Department plans to add 92 heavy anti-aircraft guns and 60 light anti-aircraft guns to ensure that the enemy aircraft can't launch attacks on their heads without fear.

The base will also add a lot of long-range searchlights, defense balloon network and so on.

Churchill hopes that these arrangements will be completed by March this year, and that the threatened fleet will be re launched.

Until these deployments are completed, Scarpa bay can only serve as a temporary naval refueling station.

At this time, the whole of Europe was in a ”strange war”, that is to say, Britain and France ”declared not to fight” against Germany.

Strange war is what the French call it. The Germans call it ”sit in” and the British call it ”false war.”

No one knows how long this will last, but countries are trying to end this seemingly absurd ”war.”

In order to realize his ambition and complete the deployment of the Navy, Churchill took the initiative to ease the relationship between the two sides with Chamberlain.

The Chamberlain and his wife were invited to visit the naval base, arranged for them to visit the defense deployment in Scarpa Bay, and listened to Chamberlain boast about how his father had invested money to develop land here at the end of the last century and earned a lot of money.

In fact, in this period, because of the change of identity and the different patterns, Churchill agreed with Chamberlain's ”bringing disaster to the East” plan.

He was happy to see the war passed on to the Soviet Union, and let Germany and the Soviet Union fight each other to death.

When he spoke to the outside world, his evaluation of the Soviet Union also changed, although he used many vague words to cover it up.