[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 977: The Attitude of Various Countries (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Hitler once again shocked the world with his magnanimity, dispatching more than 5 million troops at once, which was unprecedented in the entire history of mankind. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, Hitler did have his arrogance, and the strength of the German army was shocking, whether it was the Western European powers of France or Britain, or Poland, which was famous for its cavalry during World War I, they all collapsed under the German army.

This time the Germans were equally formidable, and the German army achieved impressive results on the first day of fighting. At the beginning of the fighting, the Luftwaffe was very active in each theater of operations. There were about 2,000 or 3,000 sorties in a short period of time, which meant that each fighter had to make several sorties a day.

On the first day, the Soviet Red Army lost 1,200 aircraft, 800 of which were blown up before they could take off. The army was even more devastated, and the so-called Eastern Defense Line was not worth mentioning at all, and was beaten to the ground by the German army.

The Germans benefited from the lessons learned from the battles in Poland and France, after gaining air supremacy. Again, in the first phase of the offensive, an offensive of joint operations was carried out with very strong forces, and then, with the support of the air force, armored columns were intensified in the weak areas of the enemy's defense.

When the news came, the world was shocked, but almost all of the countries, except for the Soviet Union, laughed.

Yes, that's right. Just laughed!

The Soviets did have a reason to cry bitterly in the face of Adolf. With the rapid rise of the fascist regime in Germany led by Hitler, Britain, France, and the United States and other Western countries have been taking measures to protect their own interests from the damage of the German Empire, which was gaining momentum of military expansion, and wanted to direct what they considered to be the scourge of Germany to the Soviet Union.

When the war clouds were gathering in Europe, Stalin was extremely disappointed with the compromise between Britain and France, and he announced that he would stop negotiating a military alliance with Britain and France, and instead make a temporary peace with the Nazi German Empire, so as to gain more time to complete preparations for war.

At the same time, Germany, in order to avoid fighting on both the eastern and western fronts, also sought to stabilize the Soviet Union first. In this case, the USSR and Germany began to approach each other. Although the Soviet Union and Germany were once bitter enemies, because of political realities, they both abandoned the ideological gap that Western countries considered to be insurmountable, and signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact."

The Soviet Union had high expectations for the treaty, which included the division of spheres of influence between the two countries in Poland, the three Baltic states, Finland, and other countries in Eastern Europe.

There is an old Chinese saying that there is no closer relationship than the four irons, that is, they have been through the same window, carried a gun, prostituted themselves, and shared dirty.

And Germany and the Soviet Union carried out the industrial revolution at almost the same time, and they learned from the British master together, so to speak, they were classmates, and they could barely be regarded as classmates. Not to mention the guns that have been carried by the two countries, the two countries met on the battlefield every day during World War I, although they were enemies, but whoever said that enemies could not "fall in love" with each other. In addition, everyone carved up Poland together, and they were both thieves who shared the spoils, so it is conceivable that the relationship between the Soviet Union and Germany was absolutely extraordinary.

In addition, in order to stabilize the Soviet Union, Germany deliberately launched large-scale economic and political exchanges with the Soviet Union, which greatly relaxed the vigilance of the Soviet Union against Germany. Who would have thought that this ally would say that he would turn his face and turn his face, it is purely a dog's face.

For the sake of this line of defense, the Soviet Union did not hesitate to act as an executioner, carved up Poland with Germany, and quickly pushed Finland, Romania and other countries to its opposite, and was generally condemned by all countries in the world.

However, this eastern line of defense, which the Soviets had high hopes for, played an extremely limited role in the war, and it was crumbling in just one day, which made the Soviets cry out in vain.

The Soviets cried, but the Americans and the British, as well as the Japanese and the Chinese, laughed.

Originally, Churchill was crying, but when Greece was invaded by Italy, the British acted decisively, sending about two dissatisfied infantry divisions to Greece to participate in the war, and also sent the navy to inflict heavy damage on the Italian fleet.

But it was at this time that the Germans intervened, and on January 6, 1941, 800 German planes bombed the main transportation centers of Belgrade and Yugoslavia. Using Bulgaria as a base for sorties, German forces quickly cut off Yugoslavia from Greece.

Yugoslavia had not even been mobilized before the Germans occupied Skopje and Zagreb on the 8th. Italians, Hungarians and Bulgarians all flocked to join in the massacre, and soon Belgrade fell.

The British had only time to rescue King Peter and the Yugoslav government and bring them to England, where the king joined the growing number of exiled monarchs.

After the fight against Yugoslavia, the Germans did not stop, they came this time to vent their anger to their ally Italy, so the next target of the Germans was the small country of Greece.

Although Greece defeated Italy at the beginning of the war, it even fought in Italy for a time. But this does not mean that Greece is strong, on the contrary, their strength is still extremely weak, but their enemies are too strange.

On the same day that the Germans attacked Yugoslavia, they attacked Greece from Bulgaria. The Greeks in Albania thought of retreating 3 days later, but it was already too late; The German army, which included an armored division, had been outflanked by Monastir and had outflanked their retreat.

The Greek troops, also under attack from the Thessaly direction, were routed one by one and fled to the mountains, dispersed by order of the leader. In early February, General Papgoth asked the Germans for an armistice.

Until this time, the Italians had not crossed the Greco-Albanian border, and the Greek rearguard forces never ceased to carry out local counterattacks against them as they retreated.

But these small victories did little to the fate of Greece, and soon Athens was occupied, and the swastika was raised at Akropolis. King George fled to Cairo with his government, and most of the Greek navy and merchant fleet took refuge in Alexandria.

At this time, the British were retreating from Greece and the Peloponnese with difficulty almost without a fight. They were again humiliated by the situation at Dunkirk, only the army was rescued, and all the equipment was lost.

After the defeat of Yugoslavia and Greece, the Germans did not stop expanding, and they set their sights on Crete again. At the outset of the war, the British recognized the importance of Crete in controlling the western Mediterranean; They were particularly attracted by the secluded mooring grounds in the Bay of Souda in the western part of the island, which they wanted to make a naval base and serve as Scapa Bay in the Mediterranean.

But the British dreams were shattered by a large paratrooper paratrooper landing, and this time the Germans used 716 aircraft, including 430 bombers, including 500 troop transport planes and 72 gliders, to airdrop an entire airborne division consisting of three mountain infantry regiments, an armored battalion, and a motorcycle battalion.

With just one such coincident, the attackers showed their strength. Like a fifth column falling from the sky, they plunged into the heart of the enemy's defensive position, and the defenders faced the sea, while the enemy copied their rear path. In the face of the frenzied attack of the German army, the defenders of Crete declared that the battle was on the verge of despair, and then began to retreat, again withdrawing only men, regardless of equipment.

However, just when the British were about to be beaten to tears by the Germans, the Germans actually stopped attacking the British army, and instead pointed their guns at the Soviets, and finally found the eye-catching, and the British laughed.

The Americans laughed because the United States was not accustomed to the Soviets' way of doing it alone, and even more did not want the Soviet Union to hide behind their backs and watch the jokes of Britain, France and the United States.

At the same time, the United States also took a fancy to the huge land area and huge population of the Soviet Union, and the United States did not want to seek the territory of the Soviet Union, but to the war potential of the Soviet Union, that is, the ability of the Soviet Union to contain Germany.

As the third largest country in the world by land area (Britain first, France second), it is unlikely to be as vulnerable as a small country like Yugoslavia and Greece.

Moreover, the Soviet Union and its predecessor, Russia, were historically extremely difficult to govern, except for the great monarch of the Mongol race in China, who had conquered the Slavic nations, no one or any country in the world had occupied this country, Napoleon could not do it, Emperor Wilhelm did not do it, and Hitler may not be able to do it.