876 tough choices

Elizabeth can be said to be one of the more bullish queens of the United Kingdom, even if she has no contribution, she is also the most famous "super long standby queen" in history.

The queen remained in the world until 2017, surviving Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and even Khrushchev...... In the end, even the immortal Castro survived, and she is still there.

Her Majesty is now sitting behind a table, staring at the crude food in front of her.

He was in India and got the news that Singapore was occupied by the Japanese army...... This is not good news for her.

The Japanese army had occupied almost all of the British strongholds in Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Burma......

These places used to be loyal to her, but now they are enemy territories!

The worst thing is that it is not Germany that occupies them, but another country, Japan! A country that the British Empire has always supported and even connived!

In order to create trouble for the United States in the Pacific Ocean and to create turmoil in Asia, Britain has always secretly supported Japan.

It provided loans to Japan before the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, so that Japan could hold out until the time of the decisive battle with the Qing Dynasty. Without the British loan, Japan would not have had the money to fight a Sino-Japanese naval battle.

Of course, Germany lent money to Japan to win the Russo-Japanese War, and the fool Wilhelm II broke the foreign policy left by Bismarck at that time, and played basically hooliganism.

As a result, a good deck of cards from Germany before the First World War was played into a bad ending like the First World War.

If the United States had not let Germany go at a critical moment, Germany would not have even had a chance to fight World War II.

Britain, on the other hand, not only helped Japan before the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, but also sided with Japan in the Russo-Japanese War.

Before the First Sino-Japanese War, China's plan to raise funds to buy cruisers from South American countries was also undermined by the interference of Japan and Britain.

is such a small Japanese follower who has been developing under the wings of the British Empire, and he has turned over so brazenly and become a hegemon in Greater East Asia......

The most terrible thing is that now this new hegemon not only covets the big cake of China, but also punches kindergartens in the United States and kicks nursing homes in the United Kingdom!

"Now we are in a very passive situation, even though we have 400,000 Indian soldiers, they are becoming more and more difficult to control." Mountbatten looked at Her Royal Highness who was worried about her heart, and said with difficulty.

Away from home, their grip on India is weakening little by little. This can be clearly felt from the fact that more and more soldiers are being recruited in India and that they are getting better and better armed.

Today, India has at least 700,000 troops, scattered across Iraq and Iran, as well as India and Burma.

With so many soldiers, it is already very powerless to rely on less than 100,000 British soldiers to govern and control.

Not to mention the fact that they are required to fight and persevere on an increasingly brutal battlefield.

The current position of the Australian expeditionary force is also awkward, after all, the Japanese army is now also threatening the Australian mainland, and these Australian troops that are transported to India are half-hearted.

"General Montgomery's defensive line in the northwest can no longer draw troops, and if the Germans attack, they will soon collapse." Mountbatten was reluctant to even mention the Northwest Theater.

Although there were about 300,000 British troops in Iraq and Iran, these troops were so low in combat effectiveness that they could not stop the German attack.

As soon as Rommel had supplies to cross the desert, then he would see an Anglo-Indian garrison that was practically barely combat-ready.

Most of these troops have only light weapons, few artillery, and limited ammunition. They had no choice but to abandon Iraq and retreat to India......

However, Iraq is a place that the British government-in-exile cannot give up! The presence of oil resources there is the fundamental reason why India is barely able to sustain itself now.

In other words, as soon as the Germans attacked, the government-in-exile on the Indian side would have to figure out how to escape.

Not to mention struggling, they did not even have basic defensive capabilities - the only advantage was that the terrain made it difficult for the Germans to organize an offensive for a while.

Moreover, not only was Rommel ill, but the main direction of the German attack was also placed in Moscow, and the upper echelons were very interested in developing Saudi Arabia, but they were cautious about attacking Iraq.

"The good news is that we can hold out until August, both in the Iraqi direction and in the Myanmar direction." Mountbatten gave a very reliable timetable.

On the one hand, the German war in Moscow will not end abruptly before September, so Iraq is absolutely safe until September.

On the other hand, the Japanese army did not dare to attack in Burma in the rain, so the defense line near Burma was also very safe.

Now, all the government in exile can do is wait and see what happens, waiting for a day when a choice will be made.

"Can we just wait? General Mountbatten. Without eating the food in front of her, Queen Elizabeth asked.

After several months of study and observation, she has figured out some of the ways of the current situation. She is not a political novice, she has been exposed to politics for more than ten years, and she is very sensitive to politics.

"Yes, Your Highness! We can only wait and wait for the results to come out. Mountbatten admired the princess and nodded in reply.

Of course he knew that it was not easy for him to come out and provoke the girder of the government in exile with his young shoulders.

"If Germany takes Moscow first, then we should start negotiations with Germany to end the current standoff." Elizabeth looked at Mountbatten and said with the same difficulty.

The generals who fled included Montgomery and Auchinleck, Phillips and Mountbatten, plus her royal daughter Elizabeth, who would probably have to give up their power by then.

It is already the best destination for them to return to the UK safely to become a rich man, which is equivalent to drawing an end to their political career.

However, they had no better choice, and if they did not surrender to Germany, they had to consider surrendering to Japan......

But rather than surrender to Japan and then serve as cannon fodder between Japan and Germany, it seems wiser for the British government-in-exile to return to the bosom of the motherland.

"The U.S. side is afraid that we will turn to Germany, so the support has increased recently, but unfortunately they are a bit far away, so the supplies are not so ......timely," Mountbatten said depressedly.