After the parade, while the German troops were cleaning up the remnants of the French army east of Paris, Charles de Gaulle flew to Bordeaux, the new French capital, with Churchill's promise of little practical meaning that 'Britain will always stand with France'. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, as soon as he landed, de Gaulle apparently encountered a problem: Paul Renaud had resigned as Prime Minister of France, and the government was now in charge of Henri Philippe Pétain, the leader of the Lords and Peacemakers.

Even, when de Gaulle stepped off the plane, the first news he received was that Petain had sent someone to ask Germany for peace and had ordered all his troops to stop resisting.

De Gaulle did not leave the airport, he had remade up his mind, the current France was no longer the France he hoped for, he would never want to see France reduced to a client state of the Germans, the great French Empire could fail, it could lose the war, but it could never lose to the Germans, let alone choose to give up resistance and sue for peace with the Germans when it was clear that there were still dozens of divisions!

Re-boarding the plane, in the midst of the turbulence, the 'French hero' took to the skies again and headed straight for the British Isles, vowing that one day he would return to France with his team, and that he would trample Germany under his feet.

As soon as he flew back to London, de Gaulle asked Churchill to arrange a speech for him, and then found a way to transmit the recording of the speech to France.

Without much preparation, the legend of French history went straight to the record.

"From the facts I know, you must believe me when I say that France has not yet failed! Please contact the officers, soldiers and civilians who still live on French soil. Whatever happens, trust me. No matter what happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished, and the flame of hope in France will never be extinguished! ”

However, it is clear that this recording of his was not widely disseminated in France, and the Petain government, in order to show the sincerity of the peace talks, immediately declared de Gaulle a traitor, claiming that de Gaulle wanted to betray the interests of the entire French people for his personal interests, and wanted to keep the French people next to death all day long.

In fact, even if Petain did not specifically let people intercept the transmission of the recording, nor did he declare de Gaulle a traitor, the current de Gaulle really can't make any waves.

The historical de Gaulle was indeed a figure, and the Free France he led played a significant role in the Normandy landings, but it was only the historical de Gaulle, not the current de Gaulle.

Historically, de Gaulle's starting point was not low, because immediately after he flew to London, he gained command of 100,000 French troops and more than 30,000 Belgian troops who had come to England from the Dunkirk retreat, and he also received the full armament of the British and even the Americans.

But the question is, what does De Gaulle have now?

The miracle of Dunkirk did not happen, and he could not have received the full support of Churchill or Roosevelt without a single French soldier in the British Isles.

Roosevelt now has an attitude of sitting back and watching the tiger fight, and he hopes that Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union will all collapse, and then the United States will reap the benefits of the fisherman.

As for Churchill, well, Churchill at this time was just using De Gaulle as a symbol to encircle his supporters and tell them that their allies were still fighting.

But in reality, Churchill himself was facing serious troubles.

At the instigation of Halifax, the British public's views on the war were already deeply polarized, and some people firmly supported Churchill and supported him to continue the war, and they hated Germany.

But others have already pointed the finger at France, a former ally, and in their opinion, if the French had not insisted on binding Britain, hundreds of thousands of British expeditionary forces would not have died in a war that had nothing to do with their own country.

Well, Petain had already made a request for peace, and had ordered the troops to stop resisting, and such an order made the German soldiers lose interest in continuing the offensive, and since they wanted peace talks, then sit down and talk.

But Heydrich was not the French negotiating envoy first, but Mussolini......

Mussolini is now more anxious than Petain, he didn't expect the French to surrender so easily, his Italian army has not really played a combat effectiveness on the battlefield, if Germany and France negotiate at this time, then the Italians can get only a handful of benefits, and may even get nothing, so Mussolini's trip is not to negotiate with his allies what specific conditions to put forward to the French, but to hope that the war will continue.

At least he had to wait for his Italian army to win a battle or two, and even if he couldn't occupy much of the French land, he couldn't let the French army negotiate with them while they were still on their own territory.

However, Heydrich saw through the Italians through this battle.

He would not give Mussolini a chance, recalling the evaluation of Italy that Li Ling had told him, Heydrich became more and more convinced that he could not wait, and with the current state of the Italian army, I am afraid that he will never be able to finish fighting France.

Because when the German army occupied the whole territory of France, the French army also occupied the whole territory of Italy......

But as a military ally, Heydrich can't say too badly, after all, he has to take care of the face of this ally, and although Italy's performance in the war is really too disappointing, the Italian navy can still do it, and in addition, as the only supplier of cannabis, the raw material for the production of duroldin, an indispensable and even somewhat luxurious and scarce narcotic drug in the army, Germany obviously still needs to use Italy at this time.

"The war will definitely stop, and I will return all the places you have occupied to the French, and I will also ask them to give you part of the reparations. That's the biggest deal I've ever been able to give. Mr. Mussolini, you have to see the situation clearly......"

Heydrich's short five words of 'see the situation clearly' made Mussolini feel uncomfortable like eating a bedbug, but he could only hold back, because he had no choice, Heydrich's meaning was already so obvious, if he still wanted to make any demands, I was afraid that it would completely anger Heydrich, and it would definitely be worth the loss for Italy.

Sending Mussolini away, Heydrich immediately brought Li Ling over, and it was better to let Li Ling personally take action to negotiate this kind of thing.

At the beginning of Li Ling's negotiations with the Soviets, everyone couldn't understand why Li Ling would make some seemingly loss-making deals, but the final result proved that it was the most correct!

This kind of thing related to the future development of Germany, such a heavyweight negotiation, absolutely requires Li Ling to come out in person, except for Li Ling himself, Heydrich believes that no one will be able to understand what Li Ling is thinking!

(To be continued.) )