Madagascar is located in the southern hemisphere, southeast of the African continent and southwest of the Indian Ocean, and is the fourth largest island in the world.

The Tropic of Capricorn runs through the southern part of the island, and most of the island is located in the tropics north of the Tropic of Capricorn, across the Mozambique Channel from the African continent, which is only 400 kilometers away from the continent at its narrowest point.

In 1898, Madagascar became a French colony.

As the French governor of Madagascar, Edmond Pierre was always full of resentment about his life on the island of Madagascar.

One of the sources of resentment is that I have closed up on the news, and I only see old news every day.

The only way to get real news is to crouch around the radio every day and listen to the news from radio stations around the world, but the unstable signal makes Governor Pierre miserable.

When he thinks about his life of isolation, Pierre misses France and the beautiful scenery of the Seine River even more.

The oppressive life made Pierre develop a good habit, that is, swimming.

Only the beautiful Sunshine Coast and the charming swimsuit beauties can make Monsieur Pierre forget the boredom in his heart.

To satisfy his hobbies, Pierre spent most of his time not living in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, but in the port of Tamatave on the east coast.

That morning, Pierre spent more than an hour on business, taking a routine ride to the beach for a swim.

After changing into swimming trunks, Pierre swam in the sea for more than half an hour, lay down on a beach chair, drank juice, and read old news in the newspaper.

His Excellency the damned brother-in-law in Germany was seriously injured by the Japanese, and he knew the news.

This Luftwaffe general, General Student, actually used poison gas on the Japanese, which was so vicious that it completely matched the brutal image of the German soldier in his memory.

Poisoning is the old business of the Germans, and the last time the Germans used poison gas on a large scale was in France.

How did the Japanese not kill the damned "Your Excellency Brother-in-law" with that shot, God also has injustices.

Pierre's resentment towards someone did not arise out of thin air, and as time went on, the story of Chen Dao's prediction that Germany would take out France in eight weeks before the Battle of France became widespread, and the French who were close at hand naturally heard this rumor.

In the spirit of the incorrect attitude of leniency and strictness, Pierre, like most Frenchmen, did not reflect on why France, under the German attack, even with the help of the British expeditionary force, finally held out for only seven weeks and one day before kneeling in front of the Germans and surrendering with their hands raised. Instead, he resented Chen Dao for making predictions and telling the truth.

Pierre flipped through the newspaper, looked at the old news on it, and picked up the juice on the table next to him again with his right hand, but stopped.

What was that? Plane?

In a backward area like Madagascar, where airplanes are a luxury, and there are few planes taking off and landing in normal times, how can there be such a loud noise?

A cacophony of sounds came from the beach, and Pierre put down the newspaper and juice and looked out into the sand.

The crowd that had been swimming in the sea rushed out of the sea and ran onto the beach, looking back at the sea in the distance from time to time.

Pierre covered his eyes with his right hand, squinting his eyes to look at the sea in the distance, and large black dots appeared on the originally empty sea, and it seemed that a fleet was approaching.

A deafening noise fell from the sky, and Pierre looked at a group of planes flying overhead.

The fleet consisted of eight aircraft, which were oddly styled, with propellers long above the fuselage and the fuselage that looked like a large tadpole.

The flock was not very close to the ground, and on the fuselage of the planes in the flock, Pierre clearly saw a logo that terrified him.

Iron Cross! It's the Iron Cross! This is the plane of the Germans, and the fleet in the distance is certainly the fleet of the Germans.

Damn, why did the Germans appear in Madagascar, didn't they fight the Japanese in Burma?

Pierre jumped off his beach chair and hurried to the beachside locker room, scrambling to put on his suit and trot to the parking lot.

When Pierre's car rushes out of the beach, the scene on the sea changes again.

In the huge German fleet, the cranes on the four landing craft carriers worked hard to lift the landing craft loaded with soldiers and tanks into the sea.

After the landing craft fell to the surface, it started its motor and rushed to the beach where Pierre was once located.

In 1940, with the formation of the German Marine Corps, the design and construction of landing craft carriers and landing craft were also put on the agenda.

Finally, based on the hull of the Admiral-class heavy cruiser, the German Navy designed a landing craft carrier called the Blue Whale class.

After the completion of the Blue Whale class, the standard displacement is 12,600 tons, which can carry a regiment of marines, and can carry two landing craft of different sizes, and the number of landing craft to carry varies from 80 to 120 according to the ratio of the two landing craft.

The first wave of landing craft rushed onto the beach at a speed of nearly 10 knots, the front hatch opened, and the soldiers of the 3rd Division of the German Marine Corps rushed onto the beach, and in the hulls of fourteen landing craft, Bobcat light tanks rushed out.

The Marines easily occupied the empty beach, followed by the tanks, and marched to the port of Tamatave, on the east coast of the island of Madagascar, north of the beach.

The beach is less than ten kilometers from Tamatave, and in less than an hour, the soldiers of the Marine Corps took control of the port of Tamatave without resistance.

The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and two destroyers escorted the two transports into the harbor, and the soldiers of the 230th Infantry Division of the German Army rushed into the harbor along the gangway.

Trucks of various types and assault guns No. 3 were unloaded on transport ships, and the soldiers of the 230 Infantry Division rode in trucks, followed by assault gun No. 3, and quickly marched deep into the interior of the island of Madagascar, with the capital Antananarivo, a hundred and fifty kilometers away, the primary target.

When the 3rd Marine Division and the 230th Infantry Division joined forces to take control of the island of Madagascar, Pierre sat in his office in Tamatave with his head down.

Outside the office door, two heavily armed German soldiers stood around the door.

On Pierre's way back to Tamatave from the beach, a group of German soldiers burst onto the road and stopped his convoy at gunpoint.

The German soldiers landed in a helicopter on the island of Madagascar first.

Their original mission was to monitor whether there were any French troops marching towards the beach from the direction of Tamatave, only to encounter Pierre, who was returning from the beach.

In a poor rural area like Madagascar, where people who could ride in cars were either rich or expensive, the German commando captain immediately decided to intercept the convoy.

The combined combat strength of Pierre and his subordinates was only 5, and they had no courage to resist in the face of a group of militants with a combat strength of 120.

His homeland, under the German attack, did not hold out for eight weeks. He himself was interrogated by the Germans, and he could not hold out for even eight minutes before confessing that he was the French governor in Madagascar.

About an hour after Pierre was placed under house arrest in the office, the door to the office was opened, followed by two soldiers, and two men in suits walked into the office.

The man in the suit at the head looked to be in his forties, looking at Pierre with a hint of arrogance and banter in his eyes.

He extended his right hand to Pierre and introduced himself: "I am Gustav von Rosenburg, German Ambassador to the Republic of Madagascar, and it is a pleasure to meet you, Monsieur Pierre. ”

Pierre shook hands with Rosenberg stiffly and asked in surprise, "What Republic of Madagascar?" It was a French colony. ”

Ambassador Rosenberg said: "The Republic of Madagascar, the name of the country chosen by the German government for the people of Madagascar, has brought independence and freedom to the people of Madagascar. As of today, Madagascar and France do not have any affiliation.

Mr. Pierre, I would now like to call your troops in Madagascar at once and ask them to lay down their arms so as not to cause unnecessary casualties. Then wait for our army to take over the barracks, and we will soon arrange ships to send them home. As for you, I kindly remind you that it would be advisable for you to send a report to your Government as soon as possible explaining the situation here, and then to apply to your Government for the post of French Ambassador-in-Madagascar, which you are familiar with and should be able to adapt quickly to this new post. ”

"You ······ You are aggressing and trampling on French sovereignty. Pierre blushed and craned his neck to call out to Ambassador Rosenberg.

"No, no, no, we are the liberators of the Malagasy people, a division of justice. Whatever means you used to violently colonize the people of Madagascar, we will use whatever means we will use to liberate them from your hands and bring them independence and freedom.

Now, you can call, and when you're done with the garrison, then contact the highest-ranking person among the local natives, and I'm going to meet with him. I'll give you ten minutes to call, and now the countdown begins. ”

Pierre wanted to show his tough guy side, but under the cold gaze of two German soldiers, he finally chose to give in.

In the evening of the same day, the warships of the second aircraft carrier fleet of the German Navy approached the port of Tamatave one after another.

The commander of the fleet, Rear Admiral Hans von Hersmann, flew into Tamatav by helicopter to meet Ambassador Rosenberg, the commander of the 230th Infantry Division and the commander of the 3rd Marine Division.

After the greetings, Major General Hersman said: "This operation can only be described as a drill at best, and the French really have no courage to resist and are very boring." As ordered, I will remain here for two more days until you have full control of the island of Madagascar. ”

Major General Hersmann landed on the island with a group of advisers from the German military.

The advisory group, consisting of advisers from the German Army, was tasked with taking over the indigenous forces on the island of Madagascar and assisting the government of the soon-to-be-formed Republic of Madagascar in the formation of its own national defense forces.

Advisers from the Luftwaffe are about to embark on a trip around the island to find a place on the island where a large airfield can be built.

Advisers from the German Navy planned to conduct a survey of Madagascar's ports to find port cities suitable for expansion into large military ports and the construction of submarine bases.

SS advisers were ready to look for German hearts among the island's natives, hoping to join the SS Foreign Legion.

In the evening of the same day, Germany liberated Madagascar from Vichy France, and the news of the establishment of the Republic of Madagascar spread all over the world with radio waves.

When the countries of the world were digesting the news of the sudden establishment of the Republic of Madagascar, in the port of Mumbai in western India, on the ship Prince Eugen Xiangrui, Chen Dao and Mandol were side by side, looking down at the map on the table.

"The first batch of guests I have to wait for has arrived, and tomorrow evening, there will be a second batch of guests to come, and the day of our return to China is not far off."

"The two passages from the Atlantic Ocean into India, Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, we already control," said Mandol. Now through Madagascar, we can indirectly control the route from the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian Ocean, half of which is now our backyard, and the other half, depending on whether we can control the passage from the direction of Malacca to the Pacific Ocean. ”

"In our future plans, the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea will become the inland lakes of the Axis group, and the Indian Ocean will become our backyard. Now the back garden is half finished. Whether the other half will be completed or not depends on the two guests I will meet tomorrow, and I hope they will not disappoint me. ”

After a pause, Chen Dao said worriedly: "To be honest, these people all grew up drinking the water of the Ganges, and I am not optimistic about their combat effectiveness, at best, they are a group of guys with only five combat strength. ”

Mantuo Phil stared at Chen Dao vigilantly, "You······ Writing a script again? ”

"Yes, after the French, I will write a script for the British, and devise a routine."