"Hastings is going to betray the Edinburgh Association!"
Edinburgh is a well-known city in the United Kingdom, and the Association is an alliance of some military officials, politicians, and tycoons, established in 1897. Funnily enough, Hastings's father, Claude John, after being promoted to Marshal in 1946, also became the ninth president of the Association...
Europeans and Americans like to form these kinds of societies and groups; it's not very magnanimous.
After hanging up the phone, Admiral Hastings actually regretted it.
He shouldn't have mentioned surrender...
It was just a moment of recklessness...
His family was too deeply tied to the United Kingdom; it was impossible for him to betray them.
Lost and disoriented, he slumped back into his chair, then vigorously rubbed his face and stood up to rearrange tactics—if they couldn't win, they'd break out!
They absolutely couldn't let themselves be encircled and annihilated here.
