After dark, the pubs in Dover Harbour are filled with civilian ship crews hired by the Royal Navy.

The employees of merchant ships requisitioned by the Royal Navy who had been idle for several days had been idle on shore because of the German mine closure and the fact that the merchant ships were unable to sail.

And those who look so tired that they have lost their souls, no need to ask, must be the crew of the small boat in charge of the minesweeping of the harbor.

At this time, the crew members who participated in the minesweeping were talking to each other, whispering about the recent rumors.

"I've heard that a lot of people in Liverpool have been eaten by the Germans' military octopus."

"Nonsense, what I heard was that she was eaten by the Shenji sent by the Germans, and the Navy dispatched Shenji to capture the German Shenji who was making trouble, but the other party can dive, and she can't be found at all when she is active underwater."

"I have the latest news, the Navy's Shenji was caught and eaten by the Shenji sent by the Germans!"

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Rumours like these circulated in every tavern in Dover and other coastal cities, and no amount of government and navy notices or loudspeakers could stop these creepy rumors from spreading.

Many civilian ships that were tasked with the task of clearing mines began to grind foreign workers and refused to work too far away from the port, and even the breakwaters leaving the port could be worn for half a day, and the speed of the mine-sweeping operations was greatly reduced, and the channel could only be cleared in the afternoon when the sun was setting in the west.

However, every time the channel was cleared, there would always be one or two very unlucky mines among the merchant ships that carefully drove into the channel, so frightened that the ships following behind them hurriedly turned around and fled, while the ships that walked in front drove slowly and moved into the harbor little by little.

Since the Germans began mine-laying operations, the cargo throughput in British ports has been drastically reduced to one-fifth of normal conditions, again because the Germans have mainly blockaded large ports.

Ports facing the English Channel are largely locked down on the UK mainland, especially the major ports of London, Southampton and Portsmouth.

The port of London was mainly based on the Thames, where the Germans heavily mined, and in addition to dive bombers, the German Navy also dispatched its own seaplane brigade. The mouth of the Thames River is very wide, and it is safe to mine in the middle of the estuary at night, basically as long as there is a female fox in the air, there is no need to worry about the threat of British flying warriors, so the Germans use slow and slow seaplanes in this area for minelaying operations, and dive bombers in the waters close to the shore.

This kind of mash-up processing has led to a surge in the efficiency of mine-laying.

The British also used cruisers to defend the estuary, but one was sunk by mines, and the Royal Navy had to withdraw the cruiser from the area, leaving the central part of the estuary with the task of air defense to the destroyer fleet. The Royal Navy's destroyer fleet showed a high sense of responsibility and combat quality, shooting down several German Navy seaplanes with the aerial rockets of the female fox.

Subsequently, the Germans changed their minelaying strategy and began to lay a large number of anchor mines at the mouth of the Thames River to increase the navigation danger of destroyers.

On 27 October, the French Navy's battleship Dunkirk appeared at the mouth of the Thames, shelled Royal Navy warships patrolling the estuary under the cover of the Luftwaffe, and attacked some of the shore installations at the mouth of the Thames. The British destroyer carried out a surprise attack on the French ship, firing a number of torpedoes but not making a hit.

After this day, from time to time, the French Navy would appear on the coast of England and shell the shore. The British Navy, fearing a joint attack by the Luftwaffe and the French Air Force, did not enter the English Channel to meet the French fleet.

This made the French newspapers jubilant, and for the first time since Nelson had beaten the French navy, the French enjoyed the thrill of raising their eyebrows at sea - although they had only bullied the enemy targets on the shore that they could not resist.

All in all, the ports of the British mainland facing the European continent were blocked by mines and the French navy that carried out guerrilla warfare, and not a single ship could sail in.

And the situation in the harbors on the back of mainland England in the shape of pig's kidneys is not much better.

Liverpool was the key blockade target of the German army, and the Germans directly blocked the mouth of the Mersey River with mines, not only blocking the port of Liverpool but also scrapping the inland port of Manchester, which relied on the Mersey River.

The Royal Air Force and the Royal Warrior Sisters had been trying to prevent the Luftwaffe from dropping mines on these ports across the British mainland, but the British Air Force in this time and space had no radar, and the ground could not provide guidance for fighters in the air, and Blenheim, which was used as a night fighter, did not have radar equipment, making it difficult to detect German aircraft groups attacking at night.

However, the British soon published an article in the Bulletin of the Royal Academy of Sciences on the use of radio waves to detect flying objects, and although the person who published the article had gone to Germany, many of his students remained in England and continued to adhere to the teacher's research.

The British rushed to produce the radar at an astonishing speed, but unfortunately they could not be put into use before the end of 1938.

By November 1938, the British government was struggling, factories had bottomed out their raw material stocks, major cities were beginning to implement food rationing, and even large cities such as London were running short of wintering fuel, because the coal mines lacked the resources to maintain coal mining facilities.

Churchill's economic advisers reported to him worriedly that if this situation continued for another two to three months, Britain would naturally collapse.

Churchill could inspire with impassioned speeches, but he could not meet the basic needs of the people who were waiting to be fed. The people are very simple, they cannot meet the basic needs of life, and all kinds of lofty righteousness have no meaning for the people. The people are realistic, and democracy and freedom are only the demands of the full.

Any social movement that does not aim to feed and clothe the people will inevitably fail, and in the same way, any government that cannot feed and clothe the people, no matter how correct its righteousness is and how universal its values are, will surely perish.

Churchill certainly understood this, but the German blockade was far more effective than he could have imagined, and now even the self-proclaimed resourcefulness was at a loss.

He knew that the most fundamental solution to the problem was to crack the secrets of the mysterious new weapons of the Germans and find a way to deal with them. For more than half a month, the Anti-Blockade War Committee personally headed by Churchill. At first, they tried to dig up the information they wanted from the captured German pilots, but it turned out that the Germans did an extraordinary job of secrecy, and the pilots really didn't know anything about how the weapons they dropped worked.

The Commission then investigated each of the downed German planes to find complete samples of the Germans' secret weapon, but each time they were disappointed - the Germans apparently had some kind of safety device attached to the secret weapon, and they all exploded after landing with the plane.

Churchill's experts believed that the German safety system might work by detecting whether there was water after hitting the fuse, so they dispatched the Flying Warriors, and after seeing that the German plane was hit and began to fall, they immediately rushed to the predetermined place of the fall with a water tank on their backs, and sprayed water on the wreckage as soon as possible. After a few nights of attempts, a warlord successfully completed the mission, but the Germans' secret weapon exploded.

Immediately afterwards, the experts believed that the German plane that fell in the water should be salvaged, but it was difficult to salvage in the water, and it was necessary to visually determine where the plane fell, otherwise it would be completely impossible to fish in the vast sea, but the Germans were all mine-laying at night, and there were few sightings when falling at sea.

The Commission's men had been working since late October, and it wasn't until mid-November that they finally received an accurate sighting report.

This is where the second problem comes: the water off the coast of Britain is now inexplicably full of ferocious fish such as sharks and killer whales, and working in the water a little further from the coast will attract a large number of sea beasts.

In order to protect the salvage site, the British had to send out the battle concubine. On the first day, the British divers managed to locate the wreckage of the German plane and put the cable on it, but the next day, before their crane boat could be in place, the cable was cut.

At that time, the British warrior queen immediately drove into the water with a magic armor in a makeshift modification - in fact, it was to seal the ordinary magic armor, add an oxygen tank, and tie a cable.

Not long after she dived, the Royal Navy sailors guarding the ship heard her scream, and the cable was cut.

A few minutes later, a little girl jumped onto the boat carrying the body of the British warrior queen who had entered the water, arranged the body on the deck under the surprised gaze of the British, and put a brightly colored starfish on her chest, and was about to turn around, but she changed her mind again, took out a sea cucumber from her pocket, and put it on the corpse's face. Then the little girl returned to the sea with a satisfied face, completely ignoring the barrage fired by the British soldiers.

Churchill, who was more energetic, ordered the Shenji to cover the salvage operation, but then Churchill found that it was useless for the Shenji not to go into the water.

**

Mary? Brigitte is in a state of anxiety.

She hovered over the operation area in the magic armor, watching the crew members below go about their work.

"How long are you going to grind?" She couldn't resist turning on the radio and loudly questioning the crew below.

"I'm sorry, Master Brigitte, but our cables have been cut again." The male operator's helpless voice came over the radio, "The enemy's god must still be underwater, can't you think of a way?" ”

As soon as the operator's words fell, Brigitte fired an energy weapon at the surface of the sea, and a large amount of seawater was evaporated, forming a wall of vapor mist several meters high. Brigitte moved her arm and sent the wall of vapor mist around the area, and the surrounding sea water rushed in to fill the space left by the evaporated seawater, and the resulting waves caused all the boats in the area to jolt up and down.

"Lord Brigitte!"

"Wordy, didn't you tell me to do something? This will at least drive the local gods away! Hurry up and give me a job! ”

Brigitte turned off the radio and let out a long sigh.

"Damn Lin Youde, he actually asked me to do this kind of thing here! And the damn Xia Li, if she hadn't fallen to Lin Youde, we wouldn't have been so miserable! ”

If the Luftwaffe had taken off from the Netherlands, then Britain would have fared much better, but unfortunately now the Luftwaffe is taking off from France, and it is said that the airfield in Cherbourg is about to be built, and when the German minelayers are transferred to that airfield, it is estimated that the entire port around the Irish Sea will be blocked.

Although she was reluctant to admit it, Brigitte knew that now that the era of air power had arrived, the little mosquitoes who were once despised by the war queens and goddesses began to sing the leading role.

"Isabella turned out to be right, she knew that I would come forward to support her in developing the Air Force." Brigitte sighed, "I don't know how Isabella is doing in Germany, it's good that she wasn't abused by Lin Youde." ”