Chapter 354: Military Parade in Paris

February 15, fine. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

The sky was clear and cloudless, and it was a rare good weather.

On this day, the whole of Paris is bustling with activity.

For the past few years, France has been covered with dark clouds, and today, it is simply a rare good weather.

This year is also commemorative, if in a few months, on July 14, the French Third Republic will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the fall of the Bastille.

Founded in the ruins of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, the French Republic survived the political turmoil of the 19th century, the First World War, and 1939.

But now, throughout France, the top is in turmoil.

Why has France been appeased all these years? Because the top of France has always been divided.

In particular, in 1936, after the leftists united and came to power, they issued a series of policies that intensified the class contradictions in the country as never before, and the government had no time to pay attention to international affairs in order to solve the problems brought about by the reforms at home.

And just this year, French politics is at the height of its division, and the leftist Popular Front has largely fallen apart. The French section of the Workers' International has been sidelined by the radical Republican Party, and the French GC Party has withdrawn from the coalition because of its opposition to the appeased Munich Agreement.

France, under the dark clouds of political division and war, has made them hold a grand celebration and military parade today, and the theme of this celebration and military parade is to unite the country and defend the motherland.

On this day, Paris is bustling with activity, and the Palais de Chaillot was built for the 1937 Paris Exposition, a brand new building that welcomes countless crowds.

In the distance, there is the famous Eiffel Tower, if you look at it from the tower. You can clearly see the pomp and circumstance here.

The banks of the Seine, facing the Palais de Chaillot, were filled with salute soldiers of all colors from the French colonies, and the steps to the platform from the banks were lined with children dressed in pure white.

The square in front of the Palais de Chaillot is decorated with tricolored ribbons everywhere.

In the center of the square are three 30-meter-high towers, symbolizing the freedom, equality and fraternity of the republic.

In front of the three towers is the rostrum, the façade of which is decorated with a huge tricolor coat of arms drawn by a tricolor ribbon. As far as the eye can see, the entire venue becomes a sea of red, white and blue.

The ceremonies here are quite lively, and a few streets away, the Champs-Élysées is solemn.

"Look, our army is coming!" One of the participants raised his camera and looked at a team coming in the distance, this team, all riding tall horses, was the honor guard at the front of the parade.

And in the back, there are the various armed forces.

One by one, the tanks rumbled up, the engines in the tail emitted black smoke, and walked in front of the avenue, and when they walked to the rostrum, they saluted in unison, and ushered in a burst of cheers.

Tank! In this era, if you say the most brilliant, it is definitely the tank!

The audience looked at the advancing tanks and felt the strength of their country.

The queue of tanks, went one after another, British, French, light, medium, everything, just tanks, there were three hundred and fifty of them!

The phalanx of the military parade, marching from the Arc de Triomphe along the Champs-Elysées to the Place de la Concorde, the audience was fascinated by it, and at this moment, there was a rumbling sound in the sky.

"Look, that's our plane!" The audience looked up and watched one fighter plane after another fly by in the clear sky.

This time, Britain and France were under the capital, and the ground forces dispatched 30,000 men, and the French Air Force and the British Royal Air Force also dispatched a joint formation of 350 fighters to carry out the flight display.

One by one, the queue walked for a whole hour, and the roar of the planes in the air was almost constant!

All this makes people think about it, and similar grand military parades are probably only comparable to the victory parade in World War I in 1919.

Our country is strong, and we are absolutely capable of defending our homeland!

When the celebration and military parade were over, French Prime Minister Daladier gave a speech at the Palais de Chaillot.

"This military parade shows that the people of France have united under the banner of defending the country and showing their determination to defend peace and freedom."

"We have the most powerful army in Europe, we can protect our country, and we can maintain order in Europe!"

"We will not watch the situation in Europe continue to deteriorate, and here we warn Germany that if we do not remove the iron hoof from Poland, we will declare war on Germany!"

The tone of the Ladadi is quite harsh, the French army, with three million, is the most powerful army in Europe, all along, France has only wanted peace, but now, if Germany continues to insist on going its own way, it can only be war!

"Today's parade, including our French and British troops, will go to the Maginot Line, if Germany is still unrepentant, then we can only use war to let Germany know their mistakes!"

Gotta be tough!

France and Britain have always stood together, and in the future, a large number of British troops will come to French soil to participate in this punitive war against Germany!

Britain and France, there will be no more retreat.

Compared to the Radadi's exuberance, the military is not so optimistic.

Just after the parade, de Gaulle, Hebart and others jointly put forward an opinion on the equipment of the armored troops.

The existing tanks are all lagging behind, and if you want to attack the German, British and French armies, you must have more advanced tanks!

In the second half of last night, de Gaulle, Hebart and others discussed until dawn, speculating on various data on German tanks based on the performance of German armored forces, and then submitted a detailed report.

British and French tanks must reach the scale of 40 tons! The tank should be equipped with an engine of at least 500 horsepower and a long-barreled gun of more than 17 pounds, completely restraining the German tank.

This report took a lot of effort on the part of De Gaulle and Hebart, but when it was submitted, Radadi casually threw it aside.

"Continue to allocate funds and improve our Maginot Line!" Radadi's gaze looked at the map on the wall, and he was very emotional.

France, does not want to fight, or an offensive battle, for the French army, how advanced tanks, not urgent, the most important, is to improve the Maginot Line!

This military parade, of course, was for the Germans to see, to tell the Germans that Britain and France were already angry, and if the Germans did not stop, Britain and France would really declare war.

Dead Führer, you fight Poland for a few days, it is enough, at most, according to the current occupation zone boundaries, let Poland cede some land to Germany, forget it.