Chapter 119
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July 7, 1940
Southern British Isles, Wiltshire – Bulford Under the command of General Bernard Law Montgomery, 50,000 British troops, including the 3rd Infantry Division and hastily supplemented Home Guard, were facing Charles de Gaulle's French Army of 200,000.
The once quiet and peaceful small town in southern Wiltshire was now blanketed in gunshots, shouts, and screams.
“Kill those cursed traitor bastards!”
With eyes glinting with hatred and vengeance, the British troops fired their machine guns wildly, and the French soldiers trying to break through the trench line were turned into chunks of meat and fell in rows.
The fairly sturdy trench line, established by Montgomery's order as soon as the French landed, was forcing considerable losses on the French Army despite their numerical inferiority.
“Behind us is only our homeland to be trampled! If we must die, let's die fighting!”
The hastily conscripted Home Guard was abysmal in terms of training and everything else, but unlike in the original history, they were properly provided with rifles and equipment.