Chapter 892 French Rapist

After Britain and France failed in the war on the Belgian border, they were already at a disadvantage throughout the war.

It is precisely because of this that the Germans can free up their hands to carry out more and larger strategies.

When they could act unscrupulously, the Germans finally exposed their huge ambitions.

In mid-July 1936, a German army group set out towards Denmark and launched an undeclared war against Denmark.

The Danish government was forced to declare war on Germany and join the Quadruple Alliance of Britain, France, Austria, and Australia.

This is not over yet. The Germans obviously have more than just Denmark in their sights. They even have certain thoughts about Sweden and Norway.

Although the three Nordic countries are relatively less developed than Central and Western Europe, their land area is quite vast. Precisely because of such a vast land area, the three Nordic countries have a large amount of mineral resources and other materials, which Germany is currently in urgent need of.

If it were at the beginning, the Germans could also purchase certain supplies from the three Nordic countries through peaceful means. But after the war broke out, the British strengthened their blockade of the Baltic Sea, and it was not so easy for the Germans to obtain enough supplies.

Moreover, it is summer and the Baltic Sea is still a warm ocean. But when winter comes, a considerable part of the Baltic Sea will be covered by ice, seriously affecting the movement of the fleet.

In order to ensure adequate sources of supplies at all times, the Germans decided to directly incorporate the three Nordic countries into their own rule.

Anyway, we are already at full war with Britain, France and Australia, so we don't need to care about the negative impact that attacking the three Nordic countries will have on Germany.

Of course, the two Mediterranean countries of Latvia and Estonia are also on Germany's attack list.

In just half a month, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia and Estonia successively declared war on Germany, and Germany also began a feat of challenging almost the entire Europe alone.

Although this seems crazy, we have to admit that the combat effectiveness of the German army at this time was extremely powerful.

Especially when European countries were not so fanatical about war, the crazy German army seemed to be on the hook and was sure to win every battle.

As of July 27, 1936, Germany had successfully occupied the Netherlands and Denmark, and Latvia was also in danger.

On July 28, the Allied Powers Conference, led by Britain and France, was held in London. Australasia and many European countries participating in the war participated in the conference.

At the meeting, the French representative proposed a proposal to unite to fight against Germany, and said very seriously: "If France fails in this war, no country will be able to stop Germany, which has occupied most of Europe."

This still makes sense. Even the powerful British Empire could never stop the German Empire that occupied France alone.

The French representative has only one purpose, and that is to ask more countries to join this war and stop Germany's crazy expansion.

It was obvious that Britain and France had their best hopes in Australasia.

Compared with other countries, Australasia is obviously the most powerful non-European country and the country most likely to change the pattern of European wars.

But Australasia cannot let its soldiers sacrifice in vain, which involves the issue of distribution of benefits after the war.

Obviously, if you want Australasia to send more soldiers to help France, France must give up some of its interests.

The day's discussions did not yield much results, but after the talks ended, the French representative found the Australasian representative and raised relevant issues of interest negotiation.

French representatives stated that if Australasia is willing to send more troops to help France, the French government is willing to cede Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean as a price and allow Australasia to establish a naval base in the Comoros Islands.

It can be seen from the map that these two islands are located in the western Indian Ocean and are distributed around Madagascar in an east-west pattern.

If naval bases can be established on these two islands, it will indeed greatly strengthen Australasia's control in the Indian Ocean.

But it is obvious that it is not attractive enough to Australasia, as if it is as useless as eating it and it is a pity to discard it.

Australasia's diplomatic representative John smiled and said: "Australasia has no intention to compete with the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, nor does it have any demands for the islands in the western Indian Ocean."

However, John smiled and said that if France was willing to hand over the jurisdiction of the Republic of Texas to Australasia, Australasia could do more to help its allies.

Compared with the two small islands mentioned by the French, the land size of the Republic of Texas is much larger.

What's more, Texas not only has large reserves of oil and other materials, but also has a large population, which allows the French to gain huge benefits every year.

Its market value alone far exceeds the two islands mentioned by the French. Not to mention that a lot of supplies from Texas will flow to France, and the value of the benefits brought by these supplies is inestimable.

After the two men discussed all night, they finally changed the plan to send troops to Australasia to support more weapons and equipment, and dispatched a military guidance group to help the French train their troops faster.

After all, Britain and France are obviously stronger now than in history.

Britain, France and Australia almost divided half of the United States, and the improvement of the strength of the three countries was very obvious.

Although the British got the most essential areas, the three areas they got were not much different for the French.

Although they could not completely control the three republics like the colonies, they could still interfere in internal affairs and even make the three republics declare war on Germany through the influence of public opinion.

That's right, in addition to pinning their hopes on the colonial army, the French also expected the three republics to form a large-scale army to help France defend its homeland.

However, as a country that advocates freedom, the United States's restraint on the people is not as high as imagined.

Even if it is divided into multiple countries, each country's control over its own citizens is not so complete. Speaking of which, because France and the three republics have already concluded an alliance, within a few days of the outbreak of the war between France and Germany, the three republics have successively declared war on Germany.

But the problem is that up to now, the conscription progress of the three republics has not been smooth.

According to the French plan for the three republics, within one month, the three republics will jointly provide at least 500,000 new soldiers, and after three months of training and half a month of transportation, they will land in France four months later.

But at present, according to the conscription progress of the three republics, let alone providing 500,000 troops, even providing 150,000 troops is so barely enough.

More importantly, compared with France, the United States pays less attention to military training.

These American soldiers who enlisted are pure recruits and have not even received much military training.

This also means that if they want to have a certain combat effectiveness, they must spend more time training.

It has been three months since the outbreak of the war, but the army of barely more than 150,000 formed by the three republics is not yet combat-capable.

This is also the reason why the French asked Australasia to send a military guidance group. If there is no help from Australasia, it will probably take at least two months to make these 150,000 people combat-capable.

For the current European battlefield, two months is enough to change a lot.

Considering the time of transportation from the United States to Europe, it is a question whether Paris can still be under the control of the French government in three months.

Therefore, after receiving the support of Australia, the French government made a bold decision, which is to expand the more than 100,000 troops to 200,000 and then quickly go to France.

In France, they will undergo intensive training for about a month and then officially go to the battlefield.

In order to win this war, the French are also willing to go all out. In addition to the 200,000 troops from the United States, there will be 300,000 new recruits from France and colonies, who will train with them and join the war together.

In just three months, the total number of French army has exceeded 2 million and is moving towards 3 million.

If the large number of soldiers who died in the war is counted, the total number of soldiers invested in this war by France has actually exceeded 3 million.

Germany has even more people invested in the war. At present, the total number of troops has exceeded 4 million and the total number of troops has exceeded 5 million.

Austria is undoubtedly the worst among the great powers. At the beginning of the war, Austria assembled an army of millions, and was even able to delay Germany for a short time.

But after Czechoslovakia and Slovakia were successively annexed by the German Empire, the Austrian Empire seemed powerless, and the mobilization of the army was also somewhat slow.

At present, Austria has only about 500,000 combat troops left. Only Vienna is holding its breath in the entire empire, and other places are dead.

If Britain and France cannot help the Austrian Empire in other places in the war, or cannot directly send troops to relieve the pressure of the Austrian Empire, I am afraid that the first great power to surrender in this war will be born.

On the British side, it is also frantically preparing for the next attack.

Although the mobilization of the British mainland is relatively slow, fortunately, the colonies are spread all over the world. At present, the total number of troops in the entire British Empire is comparable to that of Germany.

In the British mainland alone, there are already nearly one million land forces. Of course, more than 300,000 of them are the joint forces of the Dunkirk evacuation. They are resting in the UK and waiting for the opportunity to counterattack next.

In fact, from the perspective of army size, the number of British, French and Austrian armies is not inferior to that of German and Italian armies, so theoretically they can still fight.

But in terms of army combat effectiveness, the gap cannot be made up by the number of infantry. Among the three countries of Britain, France and Austria, France should have the stronger army combat effectiveness.

But France did not attach importance to armored forces before World War II, and the gap became apparent when facing Germany, which had a large number of armored forces.

Although the British Empire had armored forces of sufficient size, the combat effectiveness of British Empire soldiers was relatively low, and it could not compete with Germany's armored forces.

As for Austria, as a country sanctioned after its defeat in World War I, Austria lagged behind other powers in the research and development of armored forces and air forces.

On August 1, 1936, the German Prime Minister issued a "Letter to Soldiers", inciting the German army to step up its actions and occupy the French capital of Paris as soon as possible.

In this document, the German Prime Minister declared that the offensive against Paris would be the largest battle in human history and would determine the fate of the German Empire and France.

With the release of this "Letter to Soldiers", the German troops on the front line were also mobilized in large numbers and marched towards Paris, France.

Only on the next day, in the early morning of August 2, a large number of German bomber groups appeared outside Paris.

Germany and Italy launched a super-large-scale air strike, attacking many important military and civilian targets in France.

The most important bombing was naturally Paris, the political center of France. In particular, the air force bases near Paris suffered a devastating blow from the joint German and Italian air forces and were severely damaged.

Hundreds of French fighters were blown up before they could take off, and hundreds of pilots were killed and injured in this air strike.

On the same day, more than 1,000 German tanks ran rampant, and hundreds of thousands of German troops approached Paris quickly as if there was no one in the world.

The French army deployed nearly 500,000 French troops on the line from Amiens to Reims, attempting to use these 500,000 French troops to delay the German army and delay more time for the training of the French army in the rear.

But the French government underestimated the impact of successive failures on the morale of the soldiers. After being bombed by the French Air Force, the French army on the second line of defense seemed to have lost its fighting spirit, and even the attack on the German army seemed weak.

It took less than a week for the German army to easily break through the line of defense from Amiens to Reims and advance towards the super-large city not far away.

At this time, the atmosphere in the French government was already quite subtle.

Although the war faction argued for France to participate in this war, judging from the current results of the war, the war faction's proposition has undoubtedly made France weaker.

What's more, if the war continues, it will only increase casualties for France at present.

Especially after the second line of defense was breached, the peace faction once again vigorously promoted its own theory, and said that what France should do at this time is to end this war that should not have happened with as little loss as possible before Paris was breached.

The quarrel between the war faction and the peace faction once again made France chaotic, especially when the participation of Britain and Australasia did not change the war situation, some French people seemed to have the idea of ​​retreating.

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