After the surrender of France, Europe rarely achieved a short period of peace, but this peace was only superficial, and all countries without exception were making their own small calculations.

The Germans were using rotational rest to make their long-tired soldiers recover, but most of their unit headquarters were transferred to England, and all the shipyards (including those that had just been cut from France) were working hard to produce landing ships, and this heavy move was undisguised, as if to say to the British: "Lao Tzu's next target is you, wait!" ”

In the face of Germany's fierce eye, the British naturally did not slack off, they frantically recruited and expanded their troops, so that their total number of land forces reached 2.5 million, and at the same time built a large number of radar stations and coastal fortifications along the English Channel, almost every inch of the beach was filled with steel horses, sharp angles 45 degrees obliquely pointed to the sky, waiting for the arrival of German landing craft.

After the surrender, the capital of the new France was Vichy, and although Petain made the official name of the country France, everyone still used to call it Vichy France. On the first day of the establishment of Vichy France, the first reparations of about 10 billion Reichsmarks were paid to Germany with gold and Reichsmarks, and as soon as this money was spent, the economic situation in France immediately took a turn for the worse, and the ratio of francs to Reichsmarks dropped rapidly from 2 to 1 to about 2.5 to 1.

Vichy France on this side was uncomfortable, and the Free France led by Charles de Gaulle on the other side was also uncomfortable, and it took him a lot of effort to gather all the troops that fled to Britain, but if you count carefully, there are less than 20,000 people, not to mention the counterattack on the French mainland, and even to maintain law and order in Britain......

However, for de Gaulle, there is good news, that is, many French colonies in West Africa, such as Cameroon, Congo, Ubangi, Gabon, etc., declared that they recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle's Free France and pledged allegiance to him, while most of the colonies in North Africa chose to deny the legitimacy of Free France and swore allegiance to Vichy France because they were too close to the European continent and feared that the 200,000 Italian troops stationed in Ethiopia would attack.

In addition to these colonies, the colonies of the South Pacific and the Caribbean coast chose neutrality, but unfortunately they were under the military deterrence of the United States, so they still had to secretly pay for resources to de Gaulle.

After France's surrender, a certain island country in East Asia immediately waved the banner of "*****" and disregarded the condemnation of the international community to send troops to occupy France's colonies in Southeast Asia, writing the word shameless to the extreme.

In terms of looking back at the Axis powers, Germany's excellent record undoubtedly stung the heart of Mussolini, who often called himself the "mentor of Lyon", who once openly declared that he would lead the Italian troops into Paris first, but his troops had just crossed the Alps, and Paris and the whole of France fell under the iron heel of Germany - which made him very faceless - so he was busy with the deployment of troops recently, gathering the most elite Italian troops into Albanian territory, determined to do a big thing, in his own " Little Brother Lyon" and other Axis brothers to earn face back.

In addition to the frequent movements of these Western European countries, a giant bear in Eastern Europe is also gathering troops and quietly preparing for war.

This giant bear is the Soviet Union.

It turned out that Stalin's ability to take charge of the huge country of the Soviet Union was not by luck or pure iron and blood, but by wisdom, so he knew very well what Germany was thinking.

Although there was still a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, Stalin understood that the treaty was really not binding on a country, after all, the German volunteers had already beaten many Soviet soldiers in Finland, and it was only a matter of time before the treaty was torn up.

Therefore, in order to let Lyon weigh well before trying to tear up the treaty in the future, he transferred many troops from the Far Eastern Military District to the Soviet-German border and the Soviet-Finnish battlefield.

To tell the truth, he really didn't want to go to war with Germany now, because the Soviet Union was now in the third five-year plan, and its military production capacity was getting higher and higher year by year.

Second, although the Soviet Union launched the industrial relocation plan to the east in the 20s, the industrial migration of an entire country can be completed so easily, so the industrial center of gravity of the Soviet Union is still in the west.

The third is that he is a little stunned, especially after the almost perverted dominance of the German army on the battlefields of Western Europe.

Speaking of Germany, after the surrender of France, Lyon held a grand celebration banquet at the Führer's estate, which invited not only senior German officers, but also many soldiers with outstanding military achievements.

At the celebration banquet, Lyon personally handed over a beautiful field marshal's scepter to the most important general in the French campaign - the commander-in-chief of Army Group A, the main force of the German army, and the German army general Rundstedt, and he became the second marshal of the German armed forces and the first marshal of the Wehrmacht!

In addition, Lyon also promoted a large number of generals who performed well on the battlefield, including traditional officers, such as Kleist, commander-in-chief of the German armored group, was promoted to army general, Liszt, commander of the 14th Army of the German Wehrmacht, was promoted to army general, and Bock, commander-in-chief of Wehrmacht Army Group B, who gave the final blow to the Maginot Line, was promoted to army general, and so on.

At the same time, more Führer officers were promoted, such as Manstein, Chief of the General Staff of Army Group A, who was promoted to General of Infantry, Guderian, Commander-in-Chief of the First Panzer Group of the Wehrmacht, who was promoted to General of the Panzer Corps, Rommel, Commander-in-Chief of the Second Panzer Group of the Wehrmacht, who was promoted to General of the Panzer Corps, and Keitel, Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces, was promoted to General of the Army, and so on.

The Führer officers were promoted more than the traditionalists, and this phenomenon was naturally thought by the traditionalist officers that Lyon favored the Führer, but fortunately, the traditionals still accounted for the majority of the highest-ranking officers in the German army, and the Führer's officers promoted by Lyon had excellent records, otherwise they would have made trouble directly at the celebration banquet.

At the end of the celebration banquet, Lyon stood on the podium, first of all, of course, once again to thank all the soldiers for their dedication to the country, and then he announced the first and second Führer's orders since the end of the French campaign - the comprehensive reorganization of the German Army and the official issuance of the war national debt Mifu coupons!