Chapter 150: Poor France

Berlin, Germany, the capital of the Führer.

Ludwig hurried towards his office in Lyon, with a report in hand.

"Long live the Führer!" The guard at the door raised his right hand and gave Ludwig a standard German salute.

"Long live the Führer!" Ludwig saluted the guards in return, then stopped in front of the door and knocked on it, "Führer!" I'm Ludwig. ”

"Come in." A male voice came from the room.

Ludwig pushed open the door and walked over to Lyon's desk.

"Führer! The latest battle report. Ludwig respectfully handed the report to Leon.

Leon took the battle report and flipped through it carefully.

"Good, our lads are great." Leon looked at the gratifying results in the battle report and said with a smile, "Oh, the forward units of the Wehrmacht's 6th Panzer Division have all driven to the Rhône?" ”

"Yes, my Führer." "But the 6th Panzer Division was too far forward, and intelligence showed that the two French Panzer Divisions stationed in the Colmar section of the Maginot Line were being assembled, and they were showing their intention to launch a second offensive." ”

"Then let our boys rest and rest, let them stop attacking and stay where they are." "As for the French, don't worry that they will launch a second attack, Daladier is now in a difficult position to protect himself." ”

At the same time, Paris, France.

Daladier looked at the demonstration that was taking place not far away and sighed lonely.

"You say, did I really do something wrong?" Daladier asked his secretary.

"I don't know, sir." The secretary shook his head.

"Well, I'm going to take the blame and resign." Daladier gritted his teeth and said.

"Blame for resignation? Hehe, you think beautifully! The door to the office was pushed open with a bang, and a middle-aged man walked in with a team of gendarmes, and said to Daladier with a sneer, "Mr. Daladier, due to your wrong leadership, we have lost nearly 30,000 soldiers in vain. In accordance with the Supreme Constitution, I regret to inform you that from now on you will no longer be the President of the French Third Republic, and you will be judged by the people! ”

"Lebrun?!" Daladier looked at the visitor and said in surprise, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"What this means is that you are now a sinner in France." Lebrun leaned into Daladier's ear and whispered, "It was you who provoked the war, and the cabinet was forced to agree to this plan under pressure from you." ”

Darla looked at Lebrun in disbelief for the first time, and after a moment, he roared: "You bastards, this plan was agreed to by all of us, and you have a 'credit' for this!" How can it be my fault now?! ”

"Take him!" Lebrun ignored Daladier's roar and gave a faint order to the gendarmes beside him.

When the gendarmes heard the order, they rushed forward, twisted Faraday's hands behind his back, handcuffed him, and escorted him out the door.

"You can't do that! Guardsman! Guardsman! The secretary shouted and pounced on Daladier.

Lebrun kicked the secretary to the ground with a hard kick, then took out a pistol and aimed it at the secretary, saying: "I almost forgot about you, you also know the inside story!" ”

With that, he fired several shots at the secretary.

Not only the secretary, but almost everyone who knew the inside story and was on Darla's side suffered all sorts of surprises.

Two days later, all the "French volunteers" withdrew to the country, and France also issued an official statement about this "spontaneous incident", although this statement was four days late.

In the statement, France apologized to Germany and stressed that everything that happened was a "personal act" of Daladier and a small number of high-ranking military officers and had nothing to do with the French government.

How could Lyon, on the German side, let go of this good opportunity to "blackmail" France? Immediately after the French statement was issued, he ordered the German Foreign Ministry to issue a statement strongly condemning France's interference in the internal affairs of other countries and demanding that France give Germany a satisfactory answer, otherwise Germany would come to seek justice with its own hands.

In order to increase the pressure of public opinion, Lyon himself even went into battle and delivered a passionate and heartfelt speech in front of the Reichstag building, and the people of all countries who listened to this speech were furious, and marched everywhere to put pressure on their own country, asking their country to help Germany, a "poor" country.

The Wehrmacht and the German SS, which have always been good at seizing opportunities, did not sit idle, and they used this as an excuse to carry out a new round of military expansion, with the Wehrmacht adding two new armies with a total of 12 divisions and 200,000 men, and the SS adding four grenadier divisions with 72,000 men.

Of course, because Germany's production capacity has recently been tilted towards the air force, a large number of attack aircraft, fighters, dive bombers, medium-range bombers and other front-line aircraft, and the limited tank production capacity has to be given priority to the existing armored forces, so the new armored forces are empty, but only equipped with a small number of tanks for training, this group of unlucky people will have to wait until the end of 38 to be fully equipped.

Yes, Lyon expected to complete the pre-war mobilization by the end of '38, and expected to completely reorient the German economy to a wartime economy and carry out a national mobilization around 1940, rather than after the Battle of Kursk in 1943, as in the previous life.

Germany was busy knocking on France, and its allies, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Spain, were not idle.

Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Spain were accompanied by a German condemnation statement, and France and Spain, neighbors of France, immediately began to expand their forces.

Spain ordered two new battleships and 800 ME109 foreign trade models from Germany on a first-come, second-delivery basis.

Italy built two new "Vittorio Veneto"-class battleships, namely the third ship "Roma" and the fourth ship "Imperial", and in terms of land, Italy formed 10 new divisions with a total of 160,000 troops, and added 100,000 troops to the Franco-Italian border, with the appearance of "since you don't give Germany face, don't blame me for not giving you face".

Since Czechoslovakia does not share a border with France, there is nothing he can do to put pressure on France, but his own boss is bullied by France, so he can't just let France go, right?

As a result, Czechoslovakia, at the behest of Lyon, placed an order with the factory for 3,000 "Stalker" tank destroyers.

The European fierce men expressed their positions one after another, which made France feel that the matter was very serious, and they had to turn their eyes to Britain, hoping that Britain would help them speak.

Chamberlain was half angry after knowing the meaning of France, I advised you not to beat you at the beginning, but I was beaten all over the head, and I came to me when something happened?! Let's play!

Poor France saw that no one was willing to help them, so they had to send people to Lyon for "peace talks" and signed a series of "unequal treaties" before finally turning the matter over.

Berlin, Germany, the capital of the Führer.

Ludwig hurried towards his office in Lyon, with a report in hand.

"Long live the Führer!" The guard at the door raised his right hand and gave Ludwig a standard German salute.

"Long live the Führer!" Ludwig saluted the guards in return, then stopped in front of the door and knocked on it, "Führer!" I'm Ludwig. ”

"Come in." A male voice came from the room.

Ludwig pushed open the door and walked over to Lyon's desk.

"Führer! The latest battle report. Ludwig respectfully handed the report to Leon.

Leon took the battle report and flipped through it carefully.

"Good, our lads are great." Leon looked at the gratifying results in the battle report and said with a smile, "Oh, the forward units of the Wehrmacht's 6th Panzer Division have all driven to the Rhône?" ”

"Yes, my Führer." "But the 6th Panzer Division was too far forward, and intelligence showed that the two French Panzer Divisions stationed in the Colmar section of the Maginot Line were being assembled, and they were showing their intention to launch a second offensive." ”

"Then let our boys rest and rest, let them stop attacking and stay where they are." "As for the French, don't worry that they will launch a second attack, Daladier is now in a difficult position to protect himself." ”

At the same time, Paris, France.

Daladier looked at the demonstration that was taking place not far away and sighed lonely.

"You say, did I really do something wrong?" Daladier asked his secretary.

"I don't know, sir." The secretary shook his head.

"Well, I'm going to take the blame and resign." Daladier gritted his teeth and said.

"Blame for resignation? Hehe, you think beautifully! The door to the office was pushed open with a bang, and a middle-aged man walked in with a team of gendarmes, and said to Daladier with a sneer, "Mr. Daladier, due to your wrong leadership, we have lost nearly 30,000 soldiers in vain. In accordance with the Supreme Constitution, I regret to inform you that from now on you will no longer be the President of the French Third Republic, and you will be judged by the people! ”

"Lebrun?!" Daladier looked at the visitor and said in surprise, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"What this means is that you are now a sinner in France." Lebrun leaned into Daladier's ear and whispered, "It was you who provoked the war, and the cabinet was forced to agree to this plan under pressure from you." ”

Darla looked at Lebrun in disbelief for the first time, and after a moment, he roared: "You bastards, this plan was agreed to by all of us, and you have a 'credit' for this!" How can it be my fault now?! ”

"Take him!" Lebrun ignored Daladier's roar and gave a faint order to the gendarmes beside him.

When the gendarmes heard the order, they rushed forward, twisted Faraday's hands behind his back, handcuffed him, and escorted him out the door.

"You can't do that! Guardsman! Guardsman! The secretary shouted and pounced on Daladier.

Lebrun kicked the secretary to the ground with a hard kick, then took out a pistol and aimed it at the secretary, saying: "I almost forgot about you, you also know the inside story!" ”

With that, he fired several shots at the secretary.

Not only the secretary, but almost everyone who knew the inside story and was on Darla's side suffered all sorts of surprises.

Two days later, all the "French volunteers" withdrew to the country, and France also issued an official statement about this "spontaneous incident", although this statement was four days late.

In the statement, France apologized to Germany and stressed that everything that happened was a "personal act" of Daladier and a small number of high-ranking military officers and had nothing to do with the French government.

How could Lyon, on the German side, let go of this good opportunity to "blackmail" France? Immediately after the French statement was issued, he ordered the German Foreign Ministry to issue a statement strongly condemning France's interference in the internal affairs of other countries and demanding that France give Germany a satisfactory answer, otherwise Germany would come to seek justice with its own hands.

In order to increase the pressure of public opinion, Lyon himself even went into battle and delivered a passionate and heartfelt speech in front of the Reichstag building, and the people of all countries who listened to this speech were furious, and marched everywhere to put pressure on their own country, asking their country to help Germany, a "poor" country.

The Wehrmacht and the German SS, which have always been good at seizing opportunities, did not sit idle, and they used this as an excuse to carry out a new round of military expansion, with the Wehrmacht adding two new armies with a total of 12 divisions and 200,000 men, and the SS adding four grenadier divisions with 72,000 men.

Of course, because Germany's production capacity has recently been tilted towards the air force, a large number of attack aircraft, fighters, dive bombers, medium-range bombers and other front-line aircraft, and the limited tank production capacity has to be given priority to the existing armored forces, so the new armored forces are empty, but only equipped with a small number of tanks for training, this group of unlucky people will have to wait until the end of 38 to be fully equipped.

Yes, Lyon expected to complete the pre-war mobilization by the end of '38, and expected to completely reorient the German economy to a wartime economy and carry out a national mobilization around 1940, rather than after the Battle of Kursk in 1943, as in the previous life.

Germany was busy knocking on France, and its allies, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Spain, were not idle.

Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Spain were accompanied by a German condemnation statement, and France and Spain, neighbors of France, immediately began to expand their forces.

Spain ordered two new battleships and 800 ME109 foreign trade models from Germany on a first-come, second-delivery basis.

Italy built two new "Vittorio Veneto"-class battleships, namely the third ship "Roma" and the fourth ship "Imperial", and in terms of land, Italy formed 10 new divisions with a total of 160,000 troops, and added 100,000 troops to the Franco-Italian border, with the appearance of "since you don't give Germany face, don't blame me for not giving you face".

Since Czechoslovakia does not share a border with France, there is nothing he can do to put pressure on France, but his own boss is bullied by France, so he can't just let France go, right?

As a result, Czechoslovakia, at the behest of Lyon, placed an order with the factory for 3,000 "Stalker" tank destroyers.

The European fierce men expressed their positions one after another, which made France feel that the matter was very serious, and they had to turn their eyes to Britain, hoping that Britain would help them speak.

Chamberlain was half angry after knowing the meaning of France, I advised you not to beat you at the beginning, but I was beaten all over the head, and I came to me when something happened?! Let's play!

Poor France saw that no one was willing to help them, so they had to send people to Lyon for "peace talks" and signed a series of "unequal treaties" before finally turning the matter over.