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After seeing off Lyushenkov at the airport, An Yi returned to Xiaonanhai to meet with the visiting Foreign Minister of the "Free France" Jean Moulin. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Since its founding last summer, the "Free France" movement led by Charles de Gaulle has been in an awkward position, both internationally and in France.

A country that was once a small-scale peasant economy has fostered a fear of chaos and a love for the so-called "peace" of being content with the status quo. There is no doubt that no one can break the eternal order of the fields, and even if the way of the world has changed, no one will believe that this order will change with it, because the land will not lie and will not be moved.

"Go back to the earth, this is the truth, the change of dynasties has nothing to do with me!" This is the common thinking of small farmers in France today.

The rapid defeat of France did not arouse the enthusiasm of the French nation to save its life, nor did it arouse the national righteousness of the people of France.

The "Free France" established in Britain was constantly not recognized by the French people, and the situation would not change if the Axis powers had the upper hand. At present, it is not the anti-war faction in France that everyone is looking forward to, but Marshal Petain, who advocates surrender.

At this time, Petain seemed to be like a huge magnet, attracting all the panicked, content with the status quo, praying for peace, and adventurers around him.

This unity was so cherished by the French statesmen who had always been good at strife that they openly appealed: "Now the whole of the country is gathered around Marshal Pétain, whom everyone respects, in the hour of national peril." Let us not try to undermine the national unity that has been formed around him and that has been built up by his personal prestige! "The French have always attached importance to the rule of law, but Petain's government is indeed the legitimate successor of the French Third Republic, Petain's coming to power was based on elections rather than Hitler's forced passage of the French people, in the eyes of most French people, this is just a normal cabinet change, because the country is defeated, someone needs to clean up the mess, the armistice also needs a government to deal with it, the former Prime Minister Renault is afraid of taking responsibility, and de Gaulle is always mischievous outside, of course, it has to be done by others, and almost all French people think so at present.

The French, with the exception of a handful of resistances, who had lost their hopes at the rumbling chariots of Nazi Germany across Europe, placed their hopes in Petain as a father who would guide them and protect them from the Germans in the difficult years ahead, and they believed in him and loved him absolutely.

In the eyes of the Vichy politicians, the armistice would protect France from neutrality and self-government, and they believed that Britain, although still resisting, would be defeated in the near future, like France and the Soviet Union, after the Soviet Union was conquered by Germany, and they saw the prospect that the whole of Europe would become a totalitarian state under the control of Nazi Germany. In such a Europe, the only way out for France is to rely on the strong, fully cooperate with the Axis powers, and even declare war on the original Allied countries, and the end of this is the "Bo Lanization" of France, which will eliminate all traces of the existence of France as an autonomous country, and be ruled indirectly by Nazi prefects.

The despair of the French people about the future was the basis of the Vichy government, a government established in a dire situation, legitimately established according to perfectly normal procedures, with its own territory, colonies abroad, and a navy, especially compared to Charles de Gaulle, who professed to represent France and openly declared his break with all official institutions in London.

De Gaulle had few officers at his disposal, and the top general under his command was a vice admiral, a few colonels, and most of the rest were lieutenants. He is the self-proclaimed head of state, a country that has no constitution, no voters, no capital, but he arrogantly speaks on behalf of France, he as an officer, the general star on his shoulder is actually only not long on, he is "legitimate" as a French

The government convicted, slandered by most prominent French personalities, and unanimously opposed by the state and colonial armies.

So far, de Gaulle has struggled with the legitimacy of the government's existence.

It is no wonder that in the eyes of the French, you de Gaulle kept saying that the Vichy government was single-handedly supported by Hitler, that it was a puppet government of Nazi Germany, that it was a government that betrayed the interests of the nation and betrayed the country, and that it could not represent France, but could your government represent France? How could your government not be supported by the British? Can't you say that the "Free France" you lead is a puppet government propped up by the British? Can you guarantee not to betray the interests of the country and the nation to Britain? This is just fifty steps and a hundred steps, half a pound and eight taels. At present, most people in France have this mentality.

As for the visiting "Free French" foreign minister, Jean Moulin, who was the governor of the French province of El Robert, refused to cooperate with Germany when the Germans invaded the city of Chartres, and was subsequently beaten by the Germans and thrown into prison. Later, due to the request of the Vichy government, Moulin was released by the German army, and felt the smell of despair and helplessness at home, so Moulin left France in a depressed mood, transferred to Spain and Portugal, and prepared to go to England to join the "Free France". The British intelligence agencies in Lisbon valued Jean Moulin's talents and influence, and tried to win him back to France to serve the British in the Vichy government, but Moulin was determined to go to London to serve de Gaulle.

At the end of November last year, Jean Moulin arrived in London from Lisbon, met de Gaulle, and was subsequently appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his first task was to integrate the French Resistance, to propagate and raise troops on the territory of the Vichy government, and the "French National Council" under his leadership is currently working to unify the resistance movements in the south and north of France.

For the "Free France" No. 2 person actually came to South China, An Yi was very unexpectedly at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was reasonable that with the sound of the salute, An Yi held a small military parade in Xiaonanhai, in accordance with the etiquette of receiving VIPs, raised the three sè flags of Free France, and played the "Marseillaise", which made Moulin surprised and delighted, looked at the flag representing Free France, listened to the music of Ji Ang, and shed tears.

During this time, Moulin was running around, not only did the United States, the boss of the allies, not take him seriously, but even the colonial governments in North and West Africa refused to recognize the "Free France" and called De Gaulle a traitor and did not allow his ship to dock.

The main reason for this visit to South China was that de Gaulle thought that there were millions of French immigrants in South China, and he would probably be able to recruit some soldiers from them and get some political donations to alleviate the current embarrassing situation.

You know, according to the agreement reached with the British, the funds for the "Free France" are now mostly funded by the British, and everything is stretched thin. Since France and Britain both bought a large number of South China supplies before and during the war, now the Chinese dollar, like the US dollar, has become the international currency that the National Bank of England can exchange normally with the British list and the US dollar, and is not afraid that the money raised cannot be used.

Before the plane landed, Moulin made a lot of psychological preparations, so that he had the worst plan to send someone to arrest him and hand it over to the Germans, who had a lot of trade with Nanhua, but he never imagined that he would be received so grandly.

At the end of the welcoming ceremony, the guests and hosts held talks in the Fuyuan Building of the Governance Hall.

There are many French people in South China, and now, many white young people have begun to enter various jobs, most of whom are fluent in French and Chinese, among which Xiao Nanhai arranged for two blonde and blue-eyed beauties to turn Ze, so that the visitor made Mu Lan feel more cordial and surprised.

Although An Yi can now speak fluent French, in this kind of diplomatic situation, language represents the dignity of a country, so An Yi still chooses to use Chinese to exchange and let French beauties translate from it.

Jean Moulin asked bluntly: "Mr. President, I don't understand why you are so different when the whole world, including our French people, is not optimistic about Free France?" ”

An Yi smiled quietly: "It's very simple that we in the Republic of South China support all the forces of justice, whether it is our national liberation cause in South China before, or now opposing the Japanese invasion, and supporting the ** autonomy of the French nation, we will treat them equally!" I think that now "Free France, the predicament encountered by the majority of the French people is not awakened, as long as the Allies can win a few battles in succession, I believe that the situation of General de Gaulle will be changed immediately!" Let Mullan shake his head and smile bitterly.

Now the Allied forces were in an extremely difficult situation, and the British ** team in Ethiopia, Somalia and Tanganyika in East Africa was divided into two parts by Rommel's German army, and the high mountains and hills east of Cape Town in South Africa became the battlefield of confrontation between the Allied forces and the Japanese army. In Australia, it was a matter of time before the Allies were completely expelled, while in the Soviet Union, the German army won successive victories in the battles of Minsk and Kiev, annihilating and capturing more than 2 million Soviet troops.

"Mr. President, as soon as I got off the plane today, I heard that you led LinkedIn's squadron **** to defeat the invincible Japanese army in the subcontinent and the Indochina Peninsula, creating the biggest Allied victory against the Axis ** team since the beginning of the war! I'm curious, what do you think of the current complex international situation? An Yi's eyes became serious: "If my estimate is correct, the entire international situation is likely to be temporarily changed before the arrival of the New Year!" ”

Facing the suspicious gaze of Mu Lan, An Yi commented: "Emperor Napoleon, the greatest military strategist in the history of your country, once conquered most of Europe, but when they attacked Russia in anticipation of the completion of real unification, they also suffered from the situation that the Germans are now facing.

However, the cruel weather conditions in Russia helped the Russians a lot, because your ** team did not bring enough cold and warm supplies, coupled with the exhaustion of food and grass, hunger and cold, when the winter snow came, the army order was in chaos. Originally, the noble ** team was very disciplined, but in the case of hunger and cold, they had to rob in groups of three or five in order to find enough food and fuel, and only one horse fell, and everyone rushed up to grab food in a frenzy, and many people often fought each other for a piece of bread and a potato.

The subsequent defeat inevitably happened, and the ** team slowly withdrew from Moscow, wanting to return to the warm south and re-arm the war, but the fierce counterattack of the Russians began, and the cavalry rushed up from time to time after the rear of the ** team and then quickly disappeared. Countless corpses were abandoned along the way, a large number of people deserted, many wounded and sick people were left behind, and even the cart full of looted materials was left on the side of the road, and no one cared about it.

By the time Emperor Napoleon retreated to Smolensk, his army was less than 60,000 men. Because the horses of your ** team did not have cleats installed on the hooves, it was very easy to break the tui on the snow, and they froze to death in the severe cold, so far there were not many horses left, and many cannons and ammunition trucks had to be discarded. When the troops crossed the Dnieper, they fought with the Russian army, and after a difficult battle, they broke out of the encirclement, and many of your soldiers were killed and fell into the river and drowned.

"When the Emperor Napoleon led his troops to retreat north to Vilna in Lithuania, in the extreme cold of more than 30 degrees below zero, thousands of people fell into the snow every day with no food in their stomachs and thin clothing, and they were soon covered by the thick snow. Emperor Napoleon loved his soldiers like a son, and often dismounted and walked with his soldiers, so that the soldiers of your country still maintained a touching loyalty to him.

"While camping, the shivering warriors donated extremely precious dry firewood for the Napoleonic Emperor. After a lot of hardships, your ** team finally withdrew to the Berezina River1 but the bridge on the river has been burned by the Russian army, the Russian army is guarding the opposite bank, and the ** team can not rebuild the bridge, and at this time the weather suddenly warms up, the glacier is civilized, and the ** team cannot rush over the ice.

"At that fateful hour, the Emperor Napoleon once again showed his extraordinary military prowess, using the strategy of secretly crossing the Chencang, pretending to build a bridge in the same place, but secretly sending troops upstream, dispersing a small number of Cossack cavalry, and seizing a bridge. The soldiers of your country fought tenaciously in the icy water, and finally erected two pontoon bridges, and the soldiers immediately rushed to cross the bridge, but one of the pontoon bridges was crushed, and many people fell into the icy water, and people frantically rushed to the other bridge, and even squeezed and trampled desperately to the opposite bank, and many people were squeezed into the river.

"At this time, the Russian army has attacked here from three sides, and has also set up arrows to bombard the river. Many of your soldiers jumped into the river and swam across it, but the river was so cold that they were quickly frozen. I heard that after the river receded the following year, more than 12,000 corpses of your soldiers were found on the river. In the midst of extreme confusion, the Emperor Napoleon's guards desperately blocked the Russian army and protected Napoleon's retreat across the Berezina River. After the rearguard troops of your country crossed the river, they immediately burned the bridge and finally escaped the pursuit of the Russian army, and at this time there were more than 10,000 stragglers left on the east bank of the river, except for those who died of cold and starvation, they all became prisoners of the Russian army.

"When Napoleon arrived in Lithuania, he handed over his troops to his subordinates and rushed back to Paris via Warsaw with light equipment, thus ending the war against Russia. In this great war, Napoleon's invasion of Russia was killed and wounded and captured by nearly 500,000 people, including more than 200,000 noble troops, more than 1,000 cannons, and more than 100,000 horses. After that, the Napoleonic Empire, which had collapsed across the European continent, was divided! Hearing the example of the proud Napoleon in the eyes of the French, Moulin fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he said suspiciously: "It is true that His Majesty the great Emperor Napoleon suffered a terrible defeat in Russia, but now it is different from more than a hundred years ago, when there was not even a decent road, and the Soviet Union, which entered the industrial era, had a large number of railways and front-line connections within its territory, as well as a large number of automobiles to transport materials and equipment, since Hitler was painstakingly planning to launch the Soviet-German war, there is no reason not to be fully prepared, right?" An Yi waved his hand: "In reality, the supply problem is much more complicated and severe than back then. Look at how many cannons were in the troops of Marshal Napoleon at the beginning? And how many tanks, armored vehicles, trucks and artillery are now in front of Germany in battle? The daily consumption of food, fuel, and ammunition is a huge number, and relying only on rail transportation cannot meet the needs of the front line! 、

"Moreover, since the invasion of Bolan the year before last, the German ** team has progressed too smoothly, Hitler did not realize that he would fight in the harsh winter, and the tanks, armored vehicles and automobiles have not prepared fuel additives specifically for the cold weather, once they cannot handle the battle before the winter comes, it will be an unprecedented fiasco to expel them!

"Please note, Mr. Foreign Minister, that this is the opportunity of General de Gaulle and your "Free France, as long as you can seize the moment and hype up the defeat of the Germans, presumably those paralyzed people will awaken and devote themselves to the cause of just liberation, and the officials of the colonies will consider their own retreat and choose to contact you, and then they will be full of life!" ”

Mu Lan's eyes widened, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that An Yi was reasonable, and the look on his face became more and more excited.

An Yi continued: "In order to express my support for General de Gaulle, I decided to sponsor a batch of funds and weapons, I don't know how your current strength will be used" Let Mu Lan not know that the An Jiajun received a large amount of gold from France, let alone know that most of the naval ships that France is proud of have now become the main warships of the Anjia Navy, he was very impressed by An Yi's generosity, and immediately put "... Free France" is the case.

After de Gaulle founded the "Free France", he was assisted by the French community living in England, and the "French Academy", under the control of Professor Elongsora from the very beginning, drew close to de Gaulle, and Miss Méngsa, who were close to the "French Alliance", declared their allegiance to de Gaulle, and the library provided the "Free France" with the documents and materials necessary for the work of the "French Volunteers", and the "Friends of the French Volunteers" and the "French Combat Cooperation Committee" in Britain gave de Gaulle a great deal of assistance to the "Free France Center Reception Station" is responsible for receiving expatriates from France.

Last June, with the defeat of France, de Gaulle began to fight for the leadership of the French team in England.

Since France and Britain had been on an expedition to Norway as "invaders", there was a joint military command in London, as well as an Alpine light armament division, as well as a number of naval ships, with thousands of officers and men on board and tens of thousands of sailors. In addition, there were several thousand wounded soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk, however, most of them were in a hurry to return to France.

After repeated efforts, de Gaulle finally won the great support of Lieutenant Colonel Marglinvenelle, commander of the French Foreign Legion, and his assistant Captain Koenig, Captain de Concha and Captain de Valindischer, staff and administrative officers, and Captain De Valindischer, and the commanders of the ranks, Captain Da Shanglu, Lieutenant Witzel, Lieutenant Mocos, and Second Lieutenant Yoden, and several battalions of officers and men chose to defect to de Gaulle.

At the same time, the officers and sailors of three small warships announced their participation in the "Free France" movement, and later Vice Admiral Mouzlier also chose to join, so that for the first time, de Gaulle had a general to support the "Free France" navy and also had a central and technical leadership. Eventually, dozens of French pilots from the British, led by the captains of the flight officers De Langu, Astier de Virat, and Patrick Foch, defected to de Gaulle.

In mid-July last year, the number of volunteers who had fled from France swelled to more than 7,000 at once, but the British suddenly disarmed the French warships and all the troops, resulting in the "Free French" troops being denied weapons and equipment, and the pilots were temporarily deprived of the right to continue flying.

In August, Churchill and de Gaulle signed a memorandum in which de Gaulle recognized that the army, navy, and air force of the "Free French" must be under the command of a British commander when fighting with the British army, but that de Gaulle had to retain his "supreme command" over the French army under any circumstances and at the same time accept "instructions from the British High Command."

According to the agreement, the expenses of the Free French ** team were temporarily provided by the British government, and de Gaulle said that they would return it after the war. In the end, although the British were nostalgic for the detained French ships, after some twists and turns, they agreed to return them to de Gaulle's command, but they needed to cooperate with the British operations and transportation.

Seeing that Britain recognized the "Free France" movement, the governments of Luxembourg, Boland, Belgium, Czech Slovak, Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece and other countries in exile also recognized de Gaulle's leadership status. For these politicians in exile, the recognition of a free France with nothing was an interesting attempt, and De Gaulle had neither the prestige nor the resources, and if such a rabble organization was also called a government because it was on the opposite side of the Germans, then its position would be guaranteed.

In the months that followed, the "Free French" flying team, which continued to raise weapons and equipment for the troops and to find a more decent office location, participated in the "Battle of Britain", and although it lost most of its pilots, it attracted more young French exiles in Britain to join the flying team.

On January 1 of this year, in order to justify his actions in the name of "Free France"

He began to publish his Official Gazette, the first of which published the full text of the agreement signed between Churchill and de Gaulle, and the second of which published various decrees on the internal discipline of "Free France". By decree, the Free French established a permanent military tribunal for the army and navy and a corresponding court of appeal in Manchester, in the middle of England, followed by the Ministry of Justice.

It is a pity that in order to win over the Vichy government, the Americans have always refused to recognize that the "Free French" made strong accusations against De Gaulle's military operations on the North American continent, and the military supplies allocated to Britain were strictly forbidden to flow into the hands of the army led by de Gaulle.

At this time, the situation in Britain was also a mess, the "Mobilization Act" sent 20 million men and women into the army, factories, fields, public utilities and defense departments, everyone's consumption was strictly controlled, the black market appeared and severely cracked down, the people did not have enough to eat, the fat man dragged into a thin man, the thin man was so hungry that he ate grass roots and tree bark, the situation was terrible. At the same time, most of the cities in the south and east of Britain were devastated by the destruction of Xingxing, the inhabitants lived in ruins, they were on the lookout for German air raids day and night, the ambulance and air defense teams were exhausted, and the whole of Britain was in a cruel dark and harsh winter, and there was no time to care for others.

Since the outbreak of the "Battle of Britain" and the "wolf pack tactics" of the German Navy submarines on the route, Britain itself has been extremely difficult, and the supply and salary of the "Free French" army have also suffered from serious problems, and de Gaulle's life has been very embarrassing.

At present, the "Free France" has been officially divided into four parts: one faction is dominated by De Gaulle, who insists on continuing the struggle with hunger and will never back down: the other faction is against de Gaulle for ideological and other reasons, and the faction believes that after De Gaulle usurps the supreme command, he may implement military **, which is contrary to French democracy: one faction is a political opportunist, believing that De Gaulle's one-man dictatorship not only failed to satisfy their dream of promotion and wealth, Now even having enough to eat has become a luxury: the last faction thinks that de Gaulle's rank is too low to represent the ** and liberation movement of the entire French nation, and relatively speaking, they prefer to follow Vice Admiral Mouzlier, who frequently engaged in friction with de Gaulle because Mouzlier held real naval power.

It was in this extremely difficult situation that de Gaulle sent his foreign minister, Jean Moulin, to South China in search of a breakthrough, and at least to raise a sum of money from the French immigrants to tide over the current difficulties, otherwise "Free France, the movement is in high risk of falling apart."

: Here is a detailed explanation of the background and current situation of "Free France", which is closely related to the post-war international status of South China. Winning over a permanent member of the UN Security Council and making friends with a future president will help South China expand its international voice in the future.