"Prime Minister, the Germans have halted their offensive. On the other side of the Appalachian Mountains, they have stationed more than four hundred thousand troops to confront us," David Margesson reported.
Prime Minister Churchill nodded. "We cannot let down our guard. Assemble our forces and prepare our defenses, especially around the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. Guard against the Germans launching landing operations with the Marine Corps."
The German Marine Corps had delivered a stunning performance in this war, repeatedly crushing the coastal defense troops of the American-British Allied Forces with ease.
"Yes, Prime Minister." David Margesson nodded.
"Gentlemen, what should we do now?" Prime Minister Churchill asked.
The American-British Allied Forces had suffered crushing defeats on the Nova Scotia peninsula and in New Brunswick province. The American military had lost several hundred thousand men, while the British Army's losses were no smaller. Indeed, if the British Army's losses on Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island were included, its total casualties had already approached one million. Before the war, the British Army had numbered only one million in total. Although more than a million additional troops had been recruited after the outbreak of war, that was already the limit of their mobilization capacity. After losing the homeland, sparsely populated Canada simply could not allow the British Empire to build a formidable military force.
Prime Minister Churchill no longer had much confidence in this war. Though the Americans' military strength appeared formidable, it seemed to be nothing more than figures on paper. In actual combat, they were still utterly vulnerable, easily defeated by the German military.
Originally, Prime Minister Churchill had hoped to rely on the United States to defeat Germany, then counterattack and recover the homeland and those colonies occupied by Germany. Now, it seemed that all of it had