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Chapter 1507 shocked the world

At 7 o'clock in the morning of 2 March, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo, commander of the Japanese Suicha Front, suddenly assembled eight divisions, three mixed brigades, seven independent mixed brigades, and 15 puppet army divisions, totaling 500,000 troops. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to the truce of several months, the officers and soldiers stationed in the three places were not vigilant, and they were caught off guard, in just one day, the northern part of Shanxi all fell, and after the Japanese invaders achieved their operational objectives, they slowly advanced into the last barrier of the hinterland of Shanxi, Yunzhongshan, Hengshan and Wutai Mountain Passes, and once again burned the flames of war to the land of Sanjin.

An Yi, who was in Xinjing, received an urgent report from Lu Yixuan, and immediately asked the General Staff to study and judge the situation, and concluded that it was very likely that the Japanese army would launch a large-scale offensive before entering the Far East to test the true strength of the squadron. If they can take this opportunity to take Shanxi and occupy Shaanxi in one fell swoop, then immediately stop the plan to advance northward, follow the old path of the Mongols to invade the Central Plains, bypass Sichuan from Shaanxi, take China's rear industrial base, block international supply lines, and then attack the hinterland of the two lakes and the south of the Yangtze River, so as to achieve its strategic goal of annexing China. If it hits a wall again, then it will honestly retreat, stick to the defensive line, and ensure the smooth implementation of its "northward expansion" plan.

Under these circumstances, An Yi agreed to Lu Yixuan's request to mobilize the first-line army of Niangziguan to fight north, but ordered that a division must be left in the Jingcheng area to monitor the movements of the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang nearby. While ordering the air force to quickly come up with an operational action plan to support Shanxi, An Yi also personally sent a telegram to Deng Xihou, commander of the 22nd Group Army, and Sun Zhen, deputy commander of the 22nd Group Army, who were assisting in the defense of Jingcheng, promising that as long as the Sichuan army could firmly block the eastern gateway of Shanxi, when the war on the northern front was over and the main force of Lu Yixuan's troops returned to Niangzi Pass to garrison, they would be rewarded.

Deng Xihou replied that there was no one in the Sichuan army who was afraid of death, and the headquarters would live and die together with Niangziguan, even if the battle was to the last person, the Japanese would not be allowed to enter Shanxi.

At this time, all of An Yi's attention was on Germany, waiting for the changes in the situation in Europe, and then determining the next plan of action.

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At seven o'clock that evening, Hitler's new official residence on Forth Strasse in Berlin was brightly lit.

The head of the German High Command, Wilhelm. Keitel, Hitler's military adjutant Schmunt, and the staff officers of the General Staff gathered in a small conference room next to Hitler's room, warm by a blazing fireplace, waiting for Hitler's order to march into the Czech Republic.

At this time, Hitler was in the reception room, waiting for the arrival of Czech President Hacha.

Over the past week, diplomats from Budapest (Hungary), Bucharest (Romania) and Warsaw (Poland) have visited Hitler several times. With the revelation of the Munich Agreement, the leaders of the neighboring countries of Czechoslovakia, like Hitler, also took a keen interest in the territory of this deplorable country facing the fate of dismemberment, and reached a final plan for the dismemberment and sharing of Czechoslovakia, and today, Hitler will announce the final decision to Hacha.

As the minutes passed, Hacha appeared in front of the Prime Minister's Office, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czech Slovak Chevarkovsky, a total of thirty-six "Adolf. Hitler's "Banner Guards" soldiers, like prisoners, brought Hacha and his Foreign Minister to Hitler's reception room.

When the two entered the room, the door was shut, and Hitler stood in front of the sofa, not at all inclined to greet him, as if a king was waiting for his courtiers to see him.

After a cold greeting, Hitler motioned for the two to sit down on the sofa next to them, and Ribbentrop, Goering, and Stuka, state secretary of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, came out of the small room in the reception room, and according to the resolution of the Supreme Council of the Nazi Party, Stuka would henceforth rule the Czech Republic on behalf of Germany.

Ribbentrop took out a document and handed it to Hacha for review. Kazakhstan's face turned pale: this was a declaration declaring the annexation of the Czech Republic to Germany, which, once signed, would cease to exist as a sovereign state.

"No! There's absolutely no way I'm going to sign on this! Hacha said resolutely.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense, and Hitler said dismissively: "I am only informing you of a predestined thing, even if you don't sign, our troops will enter the Czech Republic, and our bombers will bomb Prague into ruins!" Think of your people dying because of your stubbornness, and the children who are going to lose their lives forever...... How can you bear this? ”

Hacha's face was pale, and he glanced at Foreign Minister Chevarkovsky, thinking about the appeasement and indulgence of Britain and France towards Germany, and then thinking about the ugliness of the neighboring countries in the past few days, and finally said weakly: "Well, I hope that you can guarantee the safety of our people's lives and property, and do not deprive them of their independent rights!" ”

"That's nature! After the annexation of the Czech Republic to Germany, all Czechs were subjects of the Reich, and I would naturally treat them equally! Hitler said solemnly, and no one noticed the faint mockery hidden in his eyes.

Hacha trembled his hands, signed his name on the statement, and then informed the Prague government of the signed document by phone, and ordered the Czechoslovak army to lay down their arms and let the German army enter.

At half past nine in the evening, Hacha left the Führer's capital.

Half an hour later, Hitler's motorcade was speeding towards Anhalt, the train already warmed up and steaming in steam. This time, Heinrich. Heelam and Reinhard. Heydrich was to accompany Hitler to the Czech Republic, where he would be responsible for a thorough purge of the anti-German forces in the Czech Republic.

On the train, Hitler received the news that the armies had marched in and that the Czech Republic had become Germany's possession. Hitler and his entourage got off at a railway station near Reichenberg in the Sudetenland, got into the special car that had already been prepared, and the convoy headed for Prague.

At midnight, the convoy passed through the sleepy quiet streets of Prague, with neon lights flashing in the shop windows, and Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS soldiers on both sides of the street saluted respectfully. Finally, the convoy stopped at the Castle Hill Palace in Prague, where Hitler got out of the car and looked at the silhouette of the historic palace above the city of Prague with a proud smile on his face.

Hitler walked into the old palace, which was once the office of the Czech President of Snowvac, and walked in the footsteps of Ferdinand the Great, who waged the Thirty Years' War, and lived as a conqueror.

At 12 o'clock at noon the next day, Germany officially declared its ownership of the Czech Republic, saying that the annexation of the Czech Republic by the German Empire was entirely a goodwill act at the request of the Czech people to quell the riots and border oppression in their territory, and called on the whole world to understand the choice of the Czech people and respect the righteous act of the German government.

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Just when people were speculating about where Hitler would extend his hand next, at half past eight o'clock in the evening of Chinese time, the Republic of South China issued a telegram:

Saigon, the largest city in Cochinchina, was peacefully liberated a few days ago. After a long period of communication, in line with the principle of seeking common ground while reserving differences and looking at problems from the perspective of development, the French Governor of Annam, Jule. Admiral Brevier felt that he could no longer support the war in Annam, and at the same time felt a conscience disturbed by the massacre of the people of Nanhua over the years, and was unwilling to continue to bear the charge of murder and unconditional surrender to our army.

Subsequently, the 200,000 troops of our People's Liberation Army were stationed in Saigon, and 90,000 French soldiers who had laid down their arms were taken to the barracks where they had been temporarily built to wait for the French Government's rescue, while the French Naval Expeditionary Force, which was composed of the former French Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, Annam Fleet, and North African Fleet, thought that it had been strengthened at home and resisted stubbornly, and the entire fleet, including transport ships, totaled more than 100 warships, were bombed indiscriminately by more than 1,000 bombers of the Air Force of our Anjia Army, and all of them sank in the waters of the South China Sea.

The South China Government urges the French Government to start consultations with the South China Government as soon as possible on the issue of French prisoners of war, actively deal with the aftermath, and deal with the problems left over from history. At the same time, the South China Government is telling those countries that want to attack the idea of South China after the formal withdrawal of the French forces, and that the South China army has full confidence in defending the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the motherland, and that any act of infringing on South China's territorial waters, airspace, and territory will be regarded as a provocation against South China and will be resolutely dealt with without mercy!

The electrification of Nanhua also made the whole world look sideways.

After all, in this era, there are not many countries that can come up with thousands of bombers for combat in one go, in other words, not to mention the strength of South China's navy and army, but just judging from the number of bombers possessed by its air force, I am afraid that only Germany, Japan, the United States, and the Soviet Union can compare with the four countries in the world today.

Of course, many people are questioning the authenticity of this telegram, after all, even in an old imperialist country like France, all the fighters combined, there are only more than 400 fighters, and South China, which only relies on the support of China's southwest military industrial enterprises, has what qualifications to compete with France?

In addition, it is inconceivable that the colonial governor of a country, when its ground forces have just been replenished and the situation is not exhausted, suddenly orders the surrender of the troops, and his subordinates follow the order, especially when the French colonial army still has a sea retreat.

Could it be said that before that, Jule. Did Brevi's Egyptian generals already know that the Chinese air force was going to attack the French warships, and their confidence was shaken by this?

Of all the Western countries, the most confused and confused are the French people.

Most people learned the news of the fall of French Annan through the newspapers the day before yesterday, and before they could consider the impact on their lives, the French Foreign Ministry urgently refuted the rumors. Bonnet claimed that he had been in contact with the military and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, that the Cochinchina region of French Annam was still firmly in the hands of the colonial government, and that the tone of preaching that Saigon had long since fallen was a shameless slander against the country with ulterior motives, in order to divert the attention of the French people and cover up its dirty methods. France hopes that the countries concerned will pull back from the precipice and not try to challenge the limits of France's patience, because that would mean war.

After hearing about Germany's annexation of Slovak in the Czech Republic this morning, and thinking of the tough language spoken by Bonnet at the press conference the day before yesterday, almost all the French people understood where the news from the media came from, and just as the deceived and insulted people began to spontaneously besiege the newspapers and magazines that were the advocates of Nazi action, and many news media workers were clinging to their heads, the news from French Annan seemed to prove that the news published in the newspapers the day before yesterday was not groundless.

The French are completely confused!

Now, with Germany's aggressive development momentum, imminent crisis, and the fact that its own navy has suffered heavy losses in the Far East and the fall of its colonies has become a fact, the choice between the two has become an urgent question for the French at present.