On the morning of May 3, 1942, the British, who had just encountered a defeat at the Celtic Sea, harvested the fruits of victory in Dundalk, near Northern Ireland, the Free State of Ireland.

This is the first failure of the German Nazi Superman in this war in the land battle! It is also the first victory of the British general Montgomery in World War II.

Amid the rumbling guns of the British army, Montgomery, who had just been promoted to commander of the army, left his front command headquarters in Newry-Morn, Northern Ireland, in an AE armored command vehicle, and headed towards the northeastern city of Dundalk.

Although he received support from more than a dozen German 38t tanks and hundreds of fully armed German troops, Dundalk's Irish defense line still failed to last until dawn and collapsed under the attack of the British 11th Armored Division and the 3rd Infantry Division. The Irish and their German friends dropped the city of Dundalk and a large amount of weapons and ammunition after dawn, and retreated in panic along the Dundalk-Dublin highway.

Now on the road from Newry Moon south, there were tanks, armored vehicles, towed cannons and loaded with soldiers, as well as many soldiers walking in and horse-drawn artillery in the UK Army was fully motorized at the beginning of the World War. After the war began, it obtained a large number of American trucks and armored vehicles, and produced many of them themselves. There were enough vehicles to allow Montgomery's troops to move in automatically.

But now there is a relatively shortage of fuel, and most of the infantry have gone from motorized to mules and horses... In fact, even mules and horses are not big enough. Most of the infantrymen are walking in, while their baggage is mainly transported by railways, as if they have returned to World War I overnight.

However, this did not affect the high morale of the officers and soldiers. Although the prospect of the war was very bleak, most British soldiers were quite optimistic.

Sitting in Montgomery, who looks ugly and looks a bit like a coffin, can feel this blind optimistic atmosphere, and it can also be understood. Soldiers who have received two or three years of rigorous training but have not really experienced the baptism of war will feel that they are very powerful. Moreover, they have just won the first battle and are now on the land of Ireland. As long as they can win small victories one after another, morale and experience will continue to accumulate, and the combat effectiveness of the troops will become stronger and stronger. After all, the training and weapons received by the officers and soldiers of the 12th Group Army are not worse than those of the Germans, and they should not be defeated.

At this time, a team of dejected Irish prisoners of war were escorted along the road and passed by the British infantry walking south. The British soldiers immediately started to curse.

"Irish Pig!"

"The inferior Irish!"

"I deserve it!"

"Go to die!"

Hearing these words, Montgomery couldn't help but frown. He was half Irish!

However, he did not blame his soldiers for their rude words, because they were indeed Irish people who made the mistake. They were willing to fall, gave up their pride as a subject of the British Empire, and bowed to the humble and cruel German Nazis. This was unforgivable, and they would pay the price.

And the price is that the entire Ireland Island will be turned into ruins in the war! This will become a battlefield for bloody battle between Germany and the British team, just like northern France and Belgium in World War I. If the British army can severely attack the Nazi army in Ireland, no, as long as the British army can fight a cruel and long war of attrition with the Germans in Ireland and put the Germans in the quagmire, Britain will win!

Because Germany still has a huge worries behind the Soviet Union!

Now the gist tsar must have stretched his neck and looked at the battlefield in Ireland, right?

...

When Montgomery thought of Stalin, the great man of G-ism stood in front of a carved pipe and hung on a huge Irish military map hanging on a wall of his office in the Kremlin.

On the map, both Dublin and Cork Bay were marked with eye-catching Nazi ten thousand signs, while a small rice flag was posted next to Belfast in Northern Ireland. A huge blue arrow extended from Belfast to Dundalk in the Irish Free State.

At the same time, there is a long black arrow on the sea south of Ireland, which extends from Brest in northeastern France to Cork Bay in Ireland. This is the lifeline for the Germans to transport supplies and troops to the Ireland Islands. If it is cut off by the British Royal Navy, Germany will lose the Battle of Ireland.

Unfortunately, the local fleet of the British Royal Navy was defeated again in the Battle of the Celtic Sea in the early morning of May 3. According to the report of internationalist fighters entering the Royal Navy, the British were defeated by a secret German weapon, losing one battleship and three heavy cruisers. Now even the berth of the local fleet has moved northward for more than a hundred kilometers.

It seems that the British cannot count on their navy now, but can only rely on their army to resist the German invading army.

"Comrade Pavlov, Comrade Zhukov, what do you think of the Battle of Ireland? Who will win? How long will it take?"

Stalin whispered to Pavlov, the commander of the Western Military Region of the Red Army who was standing behind him, wearing a straight military uniform and wearing a rank of general, and Zhukov, who had just returned to Moscow from the Far East to serve as the Chief of Staff of the Red Army.

General Pavlov, commander of the Western Military Region, first answered the question. He was promoted to commander of the Western Military Region since the Battle of Poland, commanding the confrontation between the most powerful military region of the Soviet Red Army (the front army was in wartime) and naturally spent a lot of energy to study the German army, and the easiest to speak for the combat effectiveness of the German army.

Pavlov said: "Comrade General Secretary, I think the battlefield in Ireland will become a huge meat grinder! Because Ireland is an island that is not connected to the European continent, very close to the British Isle and relatively far from the European continent. The British can quickly transport troops to the Ireland Island, while the transportation of German reinforcements and logistics supplies will be much more difficult."

He paused and said in a very affirmative tone: "So I think that until the British Army exhausted most of their strength, they would not admit defeat on the Ireland Islands, because that means the end of the history of the British Empire!"

"Comrade Pavlov, you mean that the Germans will pay a heavy price on the Ireland Islands, but will they win in the end?"

"Yes." Pavlov nodded with certainty, saying, "If we don't go to war against Germany, the Germans will win. Maybe hundreds of thousands of Germans will die in battle, but in the end they will win."

"Why?" asked Stalin.

"Because the reactionary ruling class in Britain did not have the determination to shed the last drop of blood to defend the motherland!"

Pavlov frowned and said, "In fact, some of the British ruling class and the German ruling class are not mortal enemies, but relatives! They all belong to the corrupt and declining European aristocratic circle, and are now just fighting for dominance, rather than the life-and-death struggle of one class overthrowing another.

According to the information we have, the highest ruling class in Britain is already preparing for escape and compromise. Princess Elizabeth, the heir to the throne of the British, will become the leader of the compromise faction, marrying her cousin and her nephew, who is also the son of German Emperor William III, thus allowing the Hohenzollern dynasty to enter the Isle of Britain. Her sister Princess Margaret has now arrived in Canada and will become the monarch of Canada in the future and become the leader of the escape faction... So among the highest ruling class in Britain, there are only the escape faction and the surrender faction, and there are no ones who really want to resist to the end. This situation determines that Britain will eventually lose the decisive battle in Ireland unless the Soviet Red Army participates in the war in time."

Stalin nodded, thinking that Pavlov's analysis was very reasonable, and then he half turned around and looked at Zhukov. Both generals who were very optimistic by Stalin, Zhukov and Pavlov had completely different qualities. General Pavlov was more like a strategist and could look at military issues from a considerable height. This made Stalin very appreciated and easy to communicate with Pavlov.

Zhukov is a pure soldier. He will not stand at a very high strategic height and start from political issues to study military affairs. For Zhukov, military is military affairs, and it is enough to analyze the number of troops, training, morale, logistics, weapons and equipment, etc.

"Comrade General Secretary, the situation is that the Germans' landing on Ireland has been successful," Zhukov said. "Then they just need to transport troops, supplies and equipment to the Ireland Island step by step, establish air force and naval bases, deploy aircraft that threaten Lorne Bay, Clyde Bay and Liverpool Port, and then advance steadily and can win without causing too much casualties.

But time still takes a lot of money, delaying tactics and waiting for change is the only thing the British can do."

"So do you think the British can drag out a change?" Stalin took a sip of cigarettes and looked at his two beloved generals.

This question is difficult to answer. Zhukov brows nervously, as if he was thinking hard. Although Pavlov led his troops far away in the Western Military Region, he was very clear about Stalin's thoughts. He immediately replied: "The key to whether it is possible lies in the British themselves. If they are brave enough to resist firmly on the Ireland Island and attract enough German troops from the European continent to Ireland, then the changes may be very likely to be caused."

Stalin nodded and looked at Zhukov who did not say a word. Zhukov frowned and said, "Comrade General Secretary, we must find ways to understand the most accurate situation on the battlefield in Ireland, otherwise we cannot figure out how much troops the Germans have invested in Ireland. Therefore, I hope to lead a high-standard military delegation to Britain and go to the battlefield in Ireland to see the situation there with my own eyes."
Chapter completed!