Tooms is a Scottish recruit who joined a new division of the Scottish National Guard only yesterday.

In the wing he joined, the company commander who led the team was a middle-aged man. It seems that this middle-aged man arrived just a few days earlier than him.

On their first day in the dormitory, Thomas and the others moved into a large, messy dormitory.

It is a crowded former factory dormitory with a total of eight bunk beds. As a result of the advent of war. All sorts of factory quarters were requisitioned and used as barracks for the National Guard.

For these newly recruited soldiers of the National Guard. The Scottish side organizes emergency training sessions on a daily basis. Training will continue from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. And even so, their training is not at all up to the level of the regular army.

"When I was recruiting, I heard that training ends at eight o'clock and five o'clock every day. But now, we are pulled up at five o'clock every day, and the training is not over at eight o'clock. Tumes complained during the new day's training.

He had just been pulled out of bed, and it was still about five o'clock in the morning. And this is the third day that Thomas has been pulled up for morning exercise.

"You're not the only one who didn't wake up so early. I advise you to take the time to rest in the car and start training later. The company commander from Tumus lectured.

The company commander's so-called rest in the car is actually a little nap in the violently shaking truck.

And this is already the biggest benefit of the Scottish National Guard, who can at least travel to the training ground by truck every day.

In England all trucks were requisitioned to the front. The newly recruited National Guard had to walk on their own feet to get to the training ground.

"I don't have a big opinion about getting up so early. What really makes it so hard for me to accept is that there are only two loaves of bread for breakfast every morning. Just this breakfast, how can we train all morning. "From Mom continues to complain.

"Nothing to complain about? This is already the best. You know, in the National Guard camp in England, they only had a loaf of bread for breakfast. Moreover, many civilians now do not have access to food distributed by the government, not even bread. The company commander seemed to be very open-minded.

"When we train later, everyone will be serious, and I'll see if I can get an extra egg for everyone at noon." The company commander is very considerate and ready to fight for everyone's welfare.

However, before Tumus could cheer happily. The company commander continued: "Don't be too happy, the rations of each unit are rated. It's a matter of luck to get more food, if you have more food in the kitchen, you can get more, and if not, there's nothing I can do. ”

The company commander really didn't lie to them.

Since the German Imperial Navy. After the defeat of the British Royal Navy, Britain's sea lines were no longer guaranteed. Dönitz's wolves roam the Atlantic. The British Navy's convoy was mostly confined to the harbor.

Although under Churchill's strict orders, the British convoy still sent many batches to and fro between Britain and the United States.

However, the effectiveness of the protection of these convoys is not optimistic at all. In most cases, they will be sunk by the Germans along with the transports they are protecting.

Due to the large number of warships of the British Royal Fleet, the number of sea areas with frequent British transport and weak submarine defenses increased.

In addition, Dönitz's submarine base was relocated to the north coast of France, and the submarine "wolf pack" was further used to carry out a full-scale attack on Britain.

In February alone, before the German landing, German submarines sank a total of 72 British ships totaling 117,500 tons.

Even Winston Churchill admitted: "In war, my greatest concern is the threat of submarines...... For me, the fighting in this area is more worrying than the fighting on the road in England. ”

After all, on land, Churchill could also use the National Guard, using a large amount of cannon fodder to delay time. However, once the sea transportation line is broken, the British Empire, which has become an isolated island, will be cut off from the sea blood transfusion line on which it depends.

After all, 50% of Britain's strategic raw materials and grain need to be imported, and all of them rely on sea transportation!

The Atlantic shipping route was now on the verge of collapse, leaving the British who could not support themselves with supplies.

Britain not only had to import strategic raw materials and food, but also imported large quantities of arms. When the British retreated from Dunkirk, France, they discarded a large amount of weapons and equipment, and in order to slightly compensate for this huge gap, Churchill bought half a million rifles, 900 cannons and 80,000 machine guns from the United States in one go.

However, the things were bought, and the price of the transaction was paid, but the things could not be shipped now!

Not counting guns and ammunition, 240 of the 270 cannons that were shipped to the British mainland in advance were sunk to the bottom of the sea by German submarines along with the transport ships.

The most embarrassing thing is that the 30 American guns that were lucky enough to arrive on the British mainland were actually transported separately from the shells. The transport ship, which was transporting shells, was not so lucky to be sunk to the bottom of the sea.

In a sense, Britain is also the father of American history. This time, the Americans cheating on their fathers could simply make Churchill mad.

Most of the British army's newest ammunition depots were built in coastal areas. With the advance of the German army, the ammunition reserves along the coast were basically lost.

Now the Americans send artillery instead of shells, which is equivalent to sending a bunch of war art to the British army to display.

Although the Americans are not to blame for this, it was the artillery transports that were sunk by German submarines. However, in terms of results, Britain actually suffered a big loss in this arms deal.

Even the arms carriers cannot be guaranteed, and the grain carriers are even more helpless.

"I heard that tonight's creamy mushroom soup has been canceled, and only salt water will be served." On the truck, the well-informed company commander revealed to the recruits.

"Last night I cursed the chef for making the soup more and more diluted, and today they even canceled the soup!" Tumus wanted to cry without tears.

"I want to ......vomit from those cookies," he whimpered, covering his face in pain.

Two palm-sized loaves of bread in the morning, and a bag of tasteless biscuits at noon and at night. Originally, the only thing I could look forward to a little bit of cream mushroom soup was a few nights ago, but it seemed that because the supplies were getting more and more tight, I didn't even have one soup a day.

The soldiers had to nibble on biscuits in salt water to replenish their salt.

"Get out of the car, get out of the car!" Once he reached his destination, the company commander became the serious trainer again.

Although this training was of little use, the Scottish recruits to the National Guard were still pulled out of exhaustion every day...... It's as ugly as the British government, which is still dying.