On September 17, 1942, the Japanese-Soviet war was still raging, the Japanese combined fleet continued to besiege the Vladivostok fortress of the Soviet and Russian troops, and the combined corps of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the Korean Army also approached Vladivostok step by step from the land, and hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides launched a fierce fight on the Amur Peninsula, and in distant Europe, in the center of this unipolar hegemony, Berlin, people's attention was completely attracted by another major event, that is, the coronation of the new emperor of the German Empire. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This extremely grand coronation ceremony greatly surpassed the coronation ceremony of the old emperor Wilhelm II 54 years ago, both in terms of size and influence. After the orthodox coronation ceremony, nearly 100,000 soldiers of Germany and its allies held a military parade under the Brandenburg Gate, and more than 800 warplanes enveloped the entire city in a deafening roar.

The next day, Kaiser William William sailed to Wilhelmsfin in northwestern Germany for a special naval parade to crown the new emperor. A total of 400 ships from 16 countries, including the German Navy, took part in the parade on an unprecedented scale. The layman sees the excitement, and in the eyes of the insider, this is not just a ceremonial parade, but a rehearsal of the large-scale mobilization of the Allied Navy, the ships of various countries from the invitation to arrive in Germany in a whitewashed attitude, the interval between before and after is only one month, considering that some ships are from the other side of the Atlantic, and the naval ships of Southeast European countries such as Croatia and Romania need to bypass most of Europe, such a gathering speed is already very efficient!

Because of the proximity of the voyage, the Irish reference fleet had been anchored for two weeks at Williamshaven. As a hardcore ally of Germany, Ireland has basically poured out the main naval force this time, which also gives the outside world an opportunity to reassess the strength of the Irish navy.

The nominal flagship of the Irish Navy is still the old German-made battlecruiser "Belfast", although this warship born in the dreadnought era is equipped with a lot of advanced auxiliary equipment, its combat mode and combat performance obviously can no longer meet the needs of modern naval warfare, and the air force represented by the Superior-class aircraft carrier "St. Patrick" is the real sword of the Irish Navy -- after the end of the Pacific War, the naval community has fully realized the core position of aircraft carriers in modern naval warfare, in view of this, The Germans decisively terminated the construction program of the Frederick-class fast battleships and the Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers, and the six Frederick-class battlecruisers and the four Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers that had already begun construction were all converted into aircraft carriers, except for the two that were dismantled on the spot with a lower construction progress. By the end of the 30s, the German Navy had more than 50 regular aircraft carriers in service, and 22 large aircraft carriers of more than 30,000 tons......

As a member of the German royal family, King of Ireland and Wales, Natsuki and his brothers boarded the German royal yacht "Hohenzollern" and attended the sea parade with Kaiser William. Four hundred ships of all sizes made the huge Wilhelm Bay seem more crowded than ever, and it took the emperor's yacht more than three hours to complete the whole parade. In the process, Natsuki's gaze wanders back and forth between Kaiser William Jr. and the reference ship. For Xiao William, who stood at the peak of his life, he did not have the slightest jealousy in his heart, but some envy and some worry. Although he had taken over the military and political power of Germany more than ten years ago, he was constrained by the emperor and the parliament, and he could not apply his personal will to the statecraft as he wanted, and the regency and pro-government were like the difference between the first mate and the captain. A few months ago, William Jr. had just celebrated his sixtieth birthday, although his health was good, and it didn't seem a problem to live another ten or twenty years, but this age was like the twilight of the day, no matter how beautiful the sunset and sunset were, it couldn't change the fact that the sun set and the moon rose.

Looking at the map of the world today, the first thing that can pose a threat to the foundation of the German Empire is Japan, which is not inferior to its native population, the population of the occupied areas, the structure of resources, and the reserves of resources, and has strong military strength and huge industrial potential. When William Jr. was still the crown prince, he vowed to return the ambitious Japanese to the pre-1932 state, so that they would be just a regional power like the United States today.

The second is the ******** special Soviet Russia, whose extremely seductive "red ** power" once deeply worried European countries during the two economic crises in the twenties and thirties. In order to contain the development and expansion of Soviet Russia, the Germans invested huge manpower and material resources every year to maintain their large Eastern European defense line, even so, in the armed conflict in the Caucasus and Greater Persia, Germany and its allies still experienced the power of the iron fist of Soviet Russia.

Taking advantage of the majestic prestige of the coronation parade, the Allied navies underwent a major readjustment in deployment under the leadership of Germany, the Allied Navy's joint operations fleet was renamed the Allied Grand Fleet, with the head of the Allied Powers rotating presidency assuming the nominal commander of the Grand Fleet, the Allied Naval Joint Operations Command was changed to the Allied Grand Fleet Staff Headquarters, and the Atlantic Fleet, the North Sea Fleet, the Mediterranean Fleet, and the Indian Ocean Fleet, which were originally divided by region, were renamed the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Fleets, and the 5th Fleet was added.

This adjustment was without warning, and there was news that the German Navy would be stockpiling large quantities of war materiel at naval bases in the Persian Gulf and South Asia, and it was speculated that Kaiser William's first important move after his accession to the throne was to eliminate the hidden danger of the Japanese Empire challenging Germany's unipolar hegemony by force.

However, in a secret meeting attended only by the heads of the Central Powers, William Jr., the newly enthroned emperor, made it clear that Germany would not take direct military action against any of them until the end of the war between Japan and the Soviet Union unless the security of Germany and its allies was threatened, but that Japan's military build-up in Northeast Asia created an excellent opportunity for the white man to retake Australia. At the request of the Australian government-in-exile, Germany would support the return of the white resistance to Australia and, if necessary, send volunteer troops into the war. Allied countries that support and participate in the German-led aid to Australia will be compensated for war damage according to World War II standards and share in the rewards promised by the Australian government-in-exile.

Most of the allied countries expressed their stance on the spot to participate in the German-led action to aid Australia, but the prime ministers of the two major southern European countries politely refused the invitation of the new German emperor, and they probably did not expect that the actions of Italy and Austria-Hungary in recent years to bypass the League of Nations sanctions resolution and fornicate with the Japanese have already made the arrogant Germans hold back their anger.

Austria-Hungary is one of the traditional powers in Europe, spanning Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southern Europe, with a vast territory and a large population, the prosperity of the machinery and instrument manufacturing industry, the strength of the steel and arms industry, ranking among the top four in the world, the total reserves of resources, the huge mobilization of total troops, and the top four in Europe, with a wide variety of agricultural products, ranking first in Europe, and the advanced technology of heavy artillery weapons produced by the Škoda Arsenal is far ahead of the European powers. After the First World War, this decaying behemoth was like a dead tree in spring, and the continuous development of the industrial economy and the continuous increase in the scale of trade made this dualistic monarchy, which was full of social defects and profound ********, present a different peace and tranquility in the more than 20 years after the war, but the hidden dangers were not eradicated, but only covered up by the illusion of singing and dancing. At the suggestion and instigation of the German side, several influential Austrian civil society groups denounced the backward peoples in the empire as "lazy, stupid and sluggish", dragging down the kingdom of Austria, which was dominated by Germanic people, and even called on Austria to join the German Empire, thus forming a great Germanic empire. The Hungarians have long been accustomed to such accusations and criticisms, but this time the Hungarian authorities reacted very strongly, petitioning the Austrian emperor to severely punish the restless elements who undermined the unity of the country, otherwise they would consider holding a referendum on whether the Kingdom of Hungary would become independent from the empire on the premise of continuing to honor the Austrian emperor as monarch. Hearing this news, all walks of life in Austria were in an uproar, and the Hungarian people supported the Hungarian government's statement. This was not chaotic enough, as the Serbs, who had gained independence in 1882 and had been reoccupied by Austria-Hungary during World War I, took the opportunity to become independent, and the situation in the Slavic areas of the empire became destabilized. At this point, the Austrian Emperor's army was too busy maintaining order at home to take care of affairs outside the empire.

The Kingdom of Italy was established after the unification of Italy in 1861 and was the first country after the Roman Empire to control the entire Italian peninsula. After more than half a century of operation, Italy in the 40s has rapidly developed from a third-rate country with agriculture as the main country and a large number of economic, political and social problems in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to a quasi-first-class power in the industrial and military fields, with a per capita income of two and a half times that of Austria-Hungary, and the world's top five major industrial indicators, and is committed to improving its international influence and voice. Unlike the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy is a single nation state with Italians as the absolute main body, and its internal contradictions have been greatly alleviated with the development of social economy and the improvement of its political structure. The Republic of Turkey, which had replaced the Ottoman Empire's rule over Asia Minor and the Middle East, was also secretly instigated by the German side, and forcibly sent troops to occupy several large oil fields invested by Italian companies in the Persian region on the grounds that several Italian companies that were extracting and refining oil in the Persian region had crossed the border and did not abide by local folk laws and regulations, and extorted a large amount of deposits and indemnities from the Italian side. The Italian government was furious, but due to German obstruction, their efforts to put pressure on Turkey through the League of Nations did not work, so they mobilized their own troops stationed in the Persian Gulf to try to take back the oil fields from the Turks, but not only did they fail, but several troops were disarmed by the Turks!

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