Chapter 1577 – One Hour and Twenty-Two Minutes

The EEC was coming over to the British side, which was good news for the current UK, which could finally gain the advantage of Argentine public opinion in favor of Latin American countries on top of the Commonwealth of Nations.

There are still a few murmurs, which come from countries with a similar system to the Soviet Union, from the Baltic to the Pacific, but can the enemy’s word count?

“What anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism are all farts, and when we finish this war, all the so-called anti-colonial voices of justice will obediently shut up.”

Alan Wilson took a book and flipped through it looking unconcerned, then as if he remembered something, “I heard that the Chinese history textbooks are going to be revamped this year, order a set back for me. Let’s see how far the study of history in the new era has come.”

Unsurprisingly, it should be that the new edition of the maps should appear, and it will be different from the previous textbooks, and what’s different on the specifics is probably that in the case of the Yuan Dynasty, the northern border goes straight to the Arctic Ocean.

It’s certainly not relevant to Britain, which has no territory in the Arctic Ocean, but he reckons the Soviets would be interested.

While the main fleet had arrived on Ascension Island, the war still hadn’t officially started, as the task force, centered around missile battleships and centaur carriers, was still halfway there.

The battle plan had been finalized, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands had to be captured, otherwise the British air power would not be able to threaten the Argentine mainland, even if Buenos Aires was a coastal city, and the Vulcan strategic bombers could not be expected to come back every time they went out across half the Atlantic Ocean dropping a few tons of bombs.

If you want the Typhoon and Gale to be a threat to the Argentine mainland, you can’t use these two fighters without taking the two islands down. Unlike the original history, the UK didn’t have any Sea Harriers in hand to use.

In the time waiting for the Teshun fleet, the Organization of American States again Peruvian President Belaunde as a representative, stepped in to mediate for the Anglo-Argentine conflict, and the United Nations Secretary General Perez de Cuellar also participated in, after General Haig for the two countries of the military conflict to mediate.

Have reached this point, even if Mrs. Thatcher agreed, he would not agree, but the arrival of the task force will take time, in the diplomatic etiquette point of view, can talk about nothing can not be negotiated.

At the same time to pay tribute to the mediator, with the Queen Victoria class aircraft carriers as the main force of the sub-fleet, has already departed from Ascension Island, the goal is to first capture the South Georgia Island, as a base for the counter-attack.

At the time of the departure of the detached fleet, the hard-core British traitor, the Secretary General of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom in the United States, was still on the phone with Washington, “Our aim is, of course, to march forward with our chests proudly puffed out, and the Argentines will be crushed without a fight, but a little bit of the real thing must be brought out as a deterrent, or the Argentines will not be afraid of us, and the position of the United Kingdom will be very difficult to deal with. ”

This argument is like Nehru’s belief in 1962 that if only the Indians took a firm step to express India’s bravery, some great power would give way. It seems to mean almost the same thing.

This war doesn’t even require the Argentines to bluff themselves, the British side has already chosen the subject matter to shape public opinion, which is simply that Argentina under the military government has a strong will to fight, that as a country led by a military leadership, Argentina has seen many battles and the morale of the whole country is unprecedentedly high and is ready to fight to the death.

British citizens must understand that there is a price to be paid for defending national interests, and it cannot be expected that as soon as the British Expeditionary Force arrives, the Argentines will collapse without a fight.

The tension in public opinion was diametrically opposed to what Alan Wilson was saying to the Americans at this time, words in which Noble Authority had not conceded defeat, but by implication indicated that Britain was very much afraid of the gutter.

In the face of this rhetoric of Alan Wilson, Washington expressed understanding as before the Gulf War, even the United States itself did not expect an unprecedented victory, the Pentagon predicted that Britain to recapture the island of Ma, which has been defended by Argentine forces, how to take four-figure casualties.

Looking at it this way, Britain’s caution was just understandable, while the Pentagon also suggested to Reagan that it might be worthwhile to watch from the sidelines to see if Britain, the former world hegemon, still had any martial prowess left by the end of the day.

This is the question that has always interested the United States, is the old father still viable now? The world doesn’t have the Suez Canal War as a reference, instead the US fought the Korean and Vietnam wars which the world has seen seem to be less than stellar in terms of combat power.

Argentina as Latin America’s second strongest, at least Argentina is so self-definition, can fight with the United Kingdom to what extent, or let the United States from all walks of life is very interested.

Even American public opinion had a discussion about it, arguing that although Britain had taken out its strongest post-war force, it was impossible for Britain to win easily with a laborious army and an Argentinean garrison waiting for an easy victory.

“There’s one or the other of such remarks, and they all collect pounds.” Homeless Alan Wilson, facing Arnold who came out to find himself proudly stood up his chest, and again began to be like Chang Gong possessed, decisive, “Is it your mother told you to come to me to go home.”

“Uh, not really. It was I myself who came to see my father. It’s still hard on father until big brother is back safe and sound, and you have a place to stay anyway.” Arnold shrugged skittishly, like it was okay to pay attention to Princess Margaret’s personal life, it wasn’t a problem.

“First time your mother has ever messed with me for this long.” Alan Wilson sighed quietly and patted his youngest son’s shoulder in complaint, “Good son, you should be on my side. You and I are both men.”

Good punch! Arnold stood in awe, but standing in awe doesn’t change anything, “There is no way I can get father to go back, right now mother is in a rage, and me being on your side is just one more sacrifice, so let’s just have good wishes, and my brother will come back after he establishes his merit, and all things will be fine.”

“You are such a good son to me.” Alan Wilson smiled like a grinning tiger and looked at Arnold in a different light, what a good boy with a flexible moral bottom line, so much for sacrificing his father as well?

The supreme authority on homelessness, and a shortage of people to take in? Hepburn, for example, has a strong interest in hosting the Cabinet Secretary, if not for his recent busy schedule, he also had to go to Monroe’s side to receive foreign friends, every day in Hepburn’s also no problem.

Arnold’s heart was clear on this, his father had indeed sacrificed too much for this country.

Then greeted a bright girl to bring the car over, Alan Wilson was very pleased to ask his son, “What’s the name?”

“Elizabeth Hurley.” Arnold truthfully told him that he also met her from a beauty pageant, but instead of participating in the pageant, she happened to appear among the pictures he took while practicing his photo-taking skills.

With the Task Force approaching Latin America, the Atlantic Fleet was ready to begin operations, targeting the island of South Georgia, which was part of the Falkland Islands and also the location of Britain’s Antarctic research base, so there were runways on the island that supplied airplanes to take off and land, and retaking the island of South Georgia would provide a base for the land-based fighters that could not take off and land.

South Georgia was close to Antarctica, more than 1,000 kilometers from the Isle of Man and more than 2,000 kilometers from the Argentine mainland, making it safe and secure for the next operations.

The island garrison of only two hundred people, compared to the size of the island, landing on the British army is not a difficulty, the biggest difficulty is not to anger the seals on the island, the island’s seals walrus is far more than the number of Argentinean defenders, because the main fleet is too large a target, from the air and is more dangerous, the Special Boat Squadron shouldered the task of landing, through the small landing craft from the sea to land.

In the air, there were anti-submarine helicopters as a cover, more than forty British soldiers in the warships of the task force under the cover of naval guns on the island, and quickly launched an attack. This caught the unprepared defenders by surprise, and without understanding what was going on they became prisoners, which doesn’t even count as an engagement.

But beyond the battlefield there is a battlefield, the war of public opinion is just as important, in London received the news Allen Wilson, simply do not care what the facts are, directly call to let the major newspapers to prove the reliability of the United Kingdom, “Special Boat Squadron a battle sealed, one hour and twenty-two minutes to take the island of South Georgia. The British Empire is invincible, and I expect to see such reports at once.”

Alan Wilson would have been quite disappointed if the only hegemony of public opinion that hadn’t suffered the slightest loss couldn’t do this, taking South Georgia was extremely beneficial to Britain, at least Britain had a landing point for land based fighters to come ashore and threaten the Falklands now.

For the British citizens who had been slow to receive movement since leaving port, even the tiniest bit of happy news could make them let go of the fear of not hearing anything at all.

The news of the victory of the capture of South Georgia came at the right time, and the whole of England was thrown into a frenzy, and even the poorest patriot in the East End of London would have puffed out his chest with pride at the news of England’s recapture of South Georgia.

“It is true that the British have been out of war for too long.” The US Secretary of State, General Hague, is a military man, so how could he not know the inside story, and the Pentagon is unanimous in its opinion of this battle to retake the island; there is nothing worthwhile to be said about it, unlike the British media’s claims of a god-awful war.

At least for the time being the U.S. military, which is ready for peanuts and melons, doesn’t feel like getting into the thick of the action, but they do recognize that the British Expeditionary Force has a landing spot, and the subsequent impact is still significant.

As for what one hour and twenty-two minutes to take South Georgia, that’s pretty ridiculous and nothing more than a form of spiritual victory. Understandably, there was no need for the United States to expose Britain’s great internal declaration.

President Reagan’s face is inevitably disappointed, this is not the war she envisioned, so far it can be called boring, is the big show in the back?