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Chapter 679
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: 0.033s Scan: 0.021sAlthough what Royce said was all perverse, his perverse eventually moved the people!
The mentality of the lower-class people is not that complicated. They must think of their own interests first.
If the war continues, they may be killed by shells and bombs, they may starve to death, or they may be conscripted into the army and killed by stray bullets on the battlefield!
In short, there are countless ways to die waiting for them, and the longer the war lasts, the greater the probability of their death!
So at this time, surrendering to Hans and helping Hans end the war has become a necessary means to safeguard their own interests!
Moreover, Royce’s perverse and heretical theories just now successfully reduced the resistance in the hearts of the people, making them feel that what they did was not treason, but helping or even saving their country!
Those who are stubborn and continue to resist meaninglessly are the real traitors!
The members of the People’s Party were soon convinced. They began to contact their acquaintances in the army according to Royce’s instructions. While developing these people and letting them join the People’s Party, they also extracted various intelligence from them, and then reported it to Royce, who then reported it to Hans’s contact personnel stationed in the British Army!
As a result, a large amount of intelligence poured into Hans at once, making Hans more aware of their troop deployment and personnel distribution than the British Army itself!
Just when the British Army was still having a headache about the erosion of the southern occupation, bad news came from the north again!
Although the Eagle Sauce people had warned the British Army a few days ago that the German army might set out from the Fairy Tale Country and land in the eastern part of the British Army!
However, because the coastline in the eastern region is too long, it is impossible to invest so many heavy troops on such a long coastline like the southern defense line!
So even if the British Army knew that the German army would attack from here, it could not defend the German attack 100%.
Five million troops may seem like a lot, but once they are dispersed, they are not enough, especially when the southern region has already started the war, the army of the British Empire is even more insufficient!
The German army will not understand the difficulties of the British Empire, they will only take advantage of your illness to kill you!
So, when the intelligence provided by the People’s Party showed that the British army’s defense in the eastern region was empty and the lack of troops was passed to the hands of Hans’s liaison personnel, they immediately reported this information to the mainland!
After getting this information, Manstein did not hesitate. After asking Mainz for permission, he immediately sent a telegram to Model, asking him to set off immediately and land on the beach in the eastern region of the British Empire!
44. The German army set out from the country. In the early morning of April 25, Model’s Second Army of 100,000 people landed near Edinburgh, an important town in the north of the British Empire, and immediately began to attack Edinburgh!
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland. Although the population here is less than 20,000, it is the largest city in Scotland and the most important city in the northern region of the British Empire.
If the German army captured this place, it would be a disaster for the British army, because Edinburgh is located at the throat of the northern part of the British Empire. After taking this place, as long as the German army can capture Glasgow, the connection between Scotland in the north and the British Empire will be completely cut off!
Although the northern region is a sparsely populated wilderness for the British Empire, once the German army occupies this place, two-fifths of the British Empire’s land area will be gone!
In addition to the areas occupied by the German army in the south, half of the British Empire’s land area has fallen!
This has a greater impact on the political blow to the British Empire, so the British Empire cannot accept the fact that the German army captured Edinburgh.
After learning the news, the British government immediately issued a death order to the defenders in the Edinburgh area, asking them to hold their positions to the death. Even if they fought street battles with the German army, they must not lose Edinburgh. At the same time, they asked the British army in the north to rush south and rush to Edinburgh as soon as possible!
It was meaningless for these troops to continue to stay in the north at this time, and once the German army captured Edinburgh, their retreat would be cut off. At that time, these troops would either collapse on their own or be annihilated by the German army. In short, if they continued to stay in the north, the ending would definitely not be good!
Model was good at defense but not attack. He saw that the British army was in a desperate posture, and the reinforcements from all over were running madly to Edinburgh, and the British army in the north seemed to be ready to run away.
So he decisively gave up the attack he was not good at, unexpectedly occupied Stirling, and then set up camp on the spot, and built defense lines in the north and south directions, posing a posture ready to hold on!
Although Stirling is only a small town with a population of only over 10,000, the location of this place is quite critical. It is located in the middle of Edinburgh and Glasgow, just blocking the passage to the north and south.
The German occupation here is enough to block the passage of the British army in the north to the south. They don’t need to attack Edinburgh at all to achieve the same effect!
There are quite a few British troops in the north, at least 250,000. Except for a few British troops in the west who can retreat from the sea, the rest of the British troops can only retreat to the south.
After Model captured Stirling, he immediately called the Air Force to blow up the Forth Bridge near Edinburgh, cutting off an important channel on the strait, so that if the British army wants to go south, they can only pass through the Stirling area.
And in the case of the German army stationed here, if they want to go, they must first defeat the German army and break through the German defense line before they can pass!
However, the number of British troops in the north is small, and the garrisons are scattered. Some of them arrived in Stirling in the morning of the same day, and some did not arrive until the evening of the next day!
Because of the uneven personnel and the fact that the advantage in military strength is not particularly great, it is very difficult for them to break through the German defense line head-on, so the British army in the north sent a request for help to the Fog City, hoping that the German army in the south will cooperate with them to attack the German army from both the north and south directions!
The British government in the Fog City really didn’t want to abandon this army. They had lost hundreds of thousands of troops since the war began. If these more than 200,000 people were eaten up again, then their five million troops would have lost at least more than 10%!
Considering that the German troops landing at this time were not many, and the real hard battle was still to come, any army was extremely valuable and could not be easily abandoned!
Therefore, the British government was forced to order the British troops that had been reinforced to Edinburgh and Glasgow to go north and attack the German troops stationed in the Stirling area together with the British troops in the north!
Model was not afraid that the enemy would not attack, but was very much looking forward to seeing the British army coming to die!
After the British army began to attack the German army, they immediately realized that they were in trouble!