In the evening of the same day, the German radio station Berlin triumphantly broadcast a long report: "German citizens! We interrupted the scheduled program to report to you the astonishing news: our battleships had achieved an astonishing record in the Atlantic. The British Navy's proud battlecruiser HMS Hood was sunk by powerful artillery fire from the Imperial battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz. Another British battleship, HMS Prince of Wales, was also wounded in many places and would sooner or later follow in the footsteps of HMS Hood and sink to the bottom of the drift ice in the Danish Strait. In addition, our mighty navy sank 2 British heavy cruisers and 3 British destroyers, many British sailors lost their lives in order to obey the orders of Churchill and his Jewish clique, let us extend our heartfelt congratulations to the Führer, who alone can lead us from victory to victory, one nation, one nation, one leader! ”

The news of the sinking of the Hood spread all over Shijie, and the morale of Britain and the people's morale were suddenly dealt a heavy blow, the army lost, the air force lost, and now even the Royal Navy, which has always been proud, lost, and sank the largest warship, the Hood, what did Britain rely on to defeat the Germans? Although the British Royal Navy suffered greater losses in the Battle of Toulon Bay, it could at least barely be advertised as a victory in terms of exchange ratio, but the exchange ratio between the two sides in the Battle of the Danish Strait was a shocking 0:6, and it was difficult to satisfy the people no matter how much it was whitewashed, and even Prime Minister Churchill, who was deeply admired for his toughness against Germany after taking office, also encountered a crisis of confidence for the first time, and some anti-war activists and British citizens who had lost their relatives in the war gathered outside his official residence and chanted slogans for him to end the war. Even some people who are also hard-line on Germany have demanded that Churchill step down so that he can "change to a more capable prime minister"

In fact, the defeat of the Battle of the Danish Channel is just a fuse, since the outbreak of the European War, Britain's repeated defeats have made it increasingly unbearable for the tenacious British people, if even the losses of the war with China before the European War are counted, the total number of deaths, captures and disappearances of the British army (including the British Commonwealth and colonial troops) has exceeded one million, of which the British native army has been permanently reduced by no less than 500,000 (400,000 British native troops died during the entire World War II in history), Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth members have lost more than 150,000 troops (historically less than 100,000), and now less than a year before the outbreak of war in Europe, so the rapid rate of losses is a bit overwhelming for the United Kingdom, which has a limited population. And what made the British even more unhappy with Churchill was that despite the fact that so many people died. The British army was defeated again and again on various battlefields. There is absolutely no hope of victory in the war

But Churchill also brought it upon himself, as a series of decision-making mistakes meant that Britain now had to go to war with far more enemy countries than in history, with the exception of Nazi Germany. There are also two strong enemies, Red China and the Arab League. Relatively speaking. Although China and Britain went to war earlier. However, out of diplomatic considerations, after the occupation of Indochina, they did not launch a major attack on India, the most important British colony, but only used the Red Party in Nepal, Bhutan, and India to create some problems for British colonial rule in India. So the situation is fine; On the contrary, Klim, who had not had much trouble with the British, led his army to launch a full-scale attack on British-controlled Egypt and Sudan shortly after negotiating with Germany

Due to the enormous military pressure on both the mainland and India, the British army in the Middle East was inevitably siphoned off, and the Krim was once in a century (Shijie's centuries-old history of anti-colonialism is unparalleled, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a hundred years old). In less than 20 days, the main force of the British army in Egypt and Sudan and a large number of colonial troops were eliminated, and several warships in Alexandria that had not had time to evacuate were sunk in the harbor.

After drinking the Suez Canal, Kerim was not satisfied, and he quickly divided his troops into two routes, personally leading the main army to cross the canal to attack the British and French colonies and vassal states in the Middle East, and at the same time detached a detachment of troops to the south to liberate North Sudan. Churchill was shocked when he learned of the fall of Egypt, and because he could not afford to send reinforcements at home, he could only withdraw 100,000 British troops and 100,000 Indian troops from India to strengthen the British army in West Asia to recapture the strategically important Suez Canal as soon as possible.

But Churchill never imagined that the British army in the Middle East with a total strength of more than 300,000 troops, and the full support of many vassal states and tribal chieftains, was still defeated by the Argentine and German forces. Later historians believe that there are three main reasons for this situation: first, Klim's outstanding military talent and the courage and skill of his officers and soldiers; Second, the Luftwaffe and an armored division that came to the aid performed well, especially Rommel's armored division because of the flat desert terrain of West Asia and was like a fish in water, and with the cooperation of the air force, it dealt a heavy blow to the British army, and Rommel became famous again, and was promoted to the commander of the Afrika Korps by the mustache who had long admired him, and at the same time was exceptionally promoted to army general; The third is that Kerim has now become a big hero in the hearts of the vast number of colonial and semi-colonial people in Asia, Africa and Latin America, especially the lower classes, especially in the Arab Shijie, although the chieftains of West Asia generally sit on the side of the colonizers, but their soldiers are basically from the lower classes, and Muslims do not have the same obedience as the East Asian nations, as a result, the British Arab servant army mutinied and defected at every turn when fighting with the Arab coalition army, and this battle could not be fought at all. So much so that after the war, many captured British officers and soldiers believed that if only the British army met the battle and did not bring these so-called "friendly troops" who stabbed in the back from time to time, even if they still could not win, they would at least be able to lose a little better

It is true that the British army in the Middle East has been unjustly defeated, but no amount of reason can change the reality that Britain has lost control of the Middle East. After Klim's army swept through the Middle East, the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, including the Suez Canal, fell into the hands of the Axis powers, and soon after, Spain conquered the fortress of Gibraltar with the help of Germany's "Dora cannon", which led to the 300,000 British troops in the Mediterranean Sea (mainly distributed in southern Italy and Crete and other eastern Mediterranean islands) were completely blocked inside, not only unable to obtain external reinforcements, but even cut off supplies, which made their morale unprecedentedly low. Coupled with one bad news after another from other battlefields, most of these British troops laid down their arms within three months, and the few units that resisted to the end were all annihilated. (To be continued......)