John? Greer? Sir Dill has been very depressed lately, and he really wants to quit his job and rest at home for a while. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Now he was standing in front of Prime Minister Churchill, listening indifferently to the other party's recent strange things about the army.

"I'm really convinced of the strange things your army has done recently! Don't you just know how to do anything serious? Churchill looked at Dill and yelled as he slapped the table.

Recently, Mr. Prime Minister seems to be in a bad mood, so he slaps the table to vent more and more often to his subordinates. At first, he would apologize when his temper subsided, but now he is too lazy to use words to appease others.

"You are under constant martial law and preparing for war...... In this case, the food has to be distributed on time. Churchill said this in a skeptical tone.

He had the same divine eyes, staring at John? Greer? Sir Dill didn't withdraw his gaze until he stared at him uncomfortably.

"Sir! The Germans are moving frequently, and if we don't respond, the enemy risks taking advantage of our slack to land...... "Johan? Greer? Sir Dill swallowed his spit and replied with difficulty.

During this time, communication with the Prime Minister became increasingly difficult, and the German Navy put more and more pressure on the British Navy.

In late November, Lütjens went on his third Atlantic hunt, sinking at least 100 British transports. Such losses have made it difficult for Britain to sleep, and it has even reached the point of collapse.

Factories that had finally migrated to the northern mountains began to slack work, and many industrial products were already in short supply. Many experimental weapons were forced to be cancelled, and many more were discontinued due to lack of raw materials.

"Each and every one of you perfunctory me with the pretext of the landing of the Germans! But I'm talking about the material conservation system now! It's the system! Churchill seemed to be stimulated, and suddenly burst into a rage.

His hysterical shout, his voice echoed throughout the office: "The army should save food consumption!" How many times have I said that! Minimize your food consumption! Minimize! ”

At present, the oil consumed by Britain itself can no longer be transported from the oil-producing areas of Myanmar and other regions. Even if there were, it would be necessary to bypass the Cape of Good Hope in Africa.

Therefore, in the last ten days, the British oil inventory has begun to seriously decrease. has been reduced to 75% of the original reserves.

This is November, when the German army has just begun to break the war in the Atlantic, and if it continues into December, Britain's oil reserves will fall to 30% of their original level.

This figure may seem like there is still a surplus, but it is the total amount of strategic reserves of a country! With such a low number of reserves, it can already be said that the ammunition is exhausted.

At the same time, because Norway was occupied by Germany, the iron ore that Britain itself needed was basically imported from the United States, which was farther and more expensive than the previous import route, and the key was that it took longer.

As a result, steel is consumed faster than oil, and there is now only half of the steel reserves left in the UK mainland.

Copper, a rare metal, and other precious metals, are also produced almost non-in the UK. These things are now in short supply, and even the share of the military industry cannot be satisfied.

But you know, these problems are not the most deadly, because they are all industrial resources, and if they don't have them, they can't support the war, but they can't make much of a mess.

But the serious thing is that Britain produces almost no grain, and nearly ninety percent of the wheat it needs can only be imported. More than 80% of meat products are also transported by sea.

It is a pity that these things are food that is consumed every day, and the British can live without fighters or tanks, but they cannot leave food for a moment.

Before the war, food reserves were not very large, because no one would have imagined that Britain's lifeline would be cut off so easily.

Food shortages have led directly to instability in the country, as well as anti-war sentiment. Many Britons began to want to end the war, but their voices were silenced by Germany's harsh terms of peace.

Before the start of World War II, Britain relied on shipping about 70 million tons of goods to the mainland every year to keep the country running, but now this total has been significantly weakened.

There used to be thousands of British transports sailing the Atlantic every day, but now that number has dropped to less than 700 as a large number of ships have been sunk.

Churchill had to consider the possibility of defeat, and the quality of his breakfast had dropped significantly, so he naturally knew how unsatisfactory the inferior people were.

What annoyed him even more was that the Germans blocked almost all the channels of peace talks, and the other side seemed to really want to end the British country with a complete victory.

"Sir...... It was originally the responsibility of the navy to maintain sea transportation, but now the enemy's fleet is wreaking havoc on the seas, which has seriously affected the operations of our army and air force. "John? Greer? Sir Dill put the blame on the Navy.

At the mention of this, Churchill became even more upset. How could Britain not be angry that the most powerful navy, which was the most invested navy on weekdays, was now being pressed and beaten by the German navy, which had only a few broken ships?

You must know that the military expenditure of the German Navy in the past few years is not enough for a fraction of the British Navy. Now, with just one aircraft carrier, the entire situation in naval warfare has been changed, how can this not be a headache.

"I don't care whose responsibility it is...... Give me a way to reduce the total amount of food used by the army! Churchill knew that reasoning was unclear, so he took the rogue trick of course.

There is an old saying in ancient China that the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. Although John? Greer? Sir Dill did not know this, but he knew a simple truth: if you want a horse to run fast, you must not give it grass.

Now Prime Minister Winston Churchill has gone so far as to come up with the idea of military rations, which is obviously shaking the foundation of the army. So John? Greer? Sir Dill had to stand up and fight for his army.

I saw him close to Churchill, leaning into his ear and saying, "Mr. Prime Minister, the army is already compressing. But if a soldier runs out of food, there will be chaos! ”

Now the British mobilized troops, not counting Burma, India, the Middle East and other regions, just the local defenders, there are as many as one million.

It may sound like a huge number, but there are less than 500,000 people who have actually experienced the tempering of war and have been well trained.

These forces were scattered along the long coastline, and after reinforcing some ports and major cities, there really wasn't much left.

And the other 500,000 so-called armies were just gathered and barely supported by eating imperial food. Counting on these troops to fight alone is completely fanciful.

Even such a unit is a unit that has been recruited with great difficulty. If you let them mess up on their own, things will be much more complicated.

On the one hand, the British Army does not have the title of "royal", and this unit is already famous for making trouble and killing the emperor, and it is not impossible to really make some extremes at this moment.

On the other hand, without the assistance of these second-rate troops, the main force would really have to be scattered and deployed on the coastal defense line -- there were not many mobile troops, which was a taboo for the defense.

"Something out of order! Out of the mess! That's the saying again! Churchill was clearly impatient, he had had enough of the frequent threats of late.

Dowding wants more pilots, more planes, and Churchill can't give them. As a result, Dowding said that if this continues, the Air Force will not be able to guarantee the operation, and there will be chaos.

This sentence still lingered in Churchill's heart, and as a result, the Army's John? Greer? Sir Dill said this again, and he naturally became angry.

"Keep half a portion for breakfast, cut back on meat and eggs, and replace it with more affordable brown bread." Churchill gave his opinion.

This was the second time since November that he had cut the Army's food supply standards, so Sir Deere was very resistant: "Sir! Cutting the food supply twice a month would be disgusting to the soldiers. ”

"What can I do?" Churchill sighed helplessly, and said slowly: "You can arrange this matter secretly, and try to delay the ...... by cutting corners."

"Okay...... In addition, the training ammunition of the new 3 infantry divisions, please urge the logistics department to ...... "Take a step back on the issue of eating, John?" Greer? Sir Dill was prepared to recoup his losses on other fronts.

Ammunition has also become a scarce commodity due to the lack of quantity. In order to arm three divisions of ammunition from above, Sir Dill summoned great courage.

As soon as he heard that he was asking for supplies again, Churchill felt that his head was about to become two big. He pointed to the shipping schedule on the table, gritted his teeth and said, "See for yourself, if you can find a ship to transport your ammunition, I will approve it!" ”

The ammunition production capacity of the United States is being liberalized little by little, but although the ammunition materials are piling up on the east coast of the United States, the number that can be transported to the United Kingdom has been reduced exponentially.

In June and July 1940, most of the supplies sent by the United States to Britain were ammunition and other munitions. But then in August and September, the situation became dominated by steel.

In order to rush to build the battleship Prince of Wales, and to build more aircraft and anti-aircraft guns, Britain imported a large amount of steel and rare metals that were in short supply at that time.

Although it was already stretched thin at this time, Britain's losses were largely due to the increased capacity after the war mobilization, and did not touch the bottom line of the minimum total amount of transportation.