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With Germany's blitzkrieg of Denmark and Norway, Britain and France and other countries of the Entente bloc declared war on Germany one after another. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

On April 13, Italy declared war on the Entente powers such as Britain and France under the Treaty of Secret Alliance between Germany and Italy. On the same day, Allied countries such as Spain, Turkey, and Bulgaria also declared war on Britain and France, and non-European countries such as the Chinese Empire and the United States basically declared their neutrality.

Historically, Germany would bypass the Maginot Line and blitz France and quickly defeat France. However, because Hitler did not expect Britain and France to really declare war on Germany, and Germany did not carry out a general mobilization for war because of the blitzkrieg on Norway and Denmark, the German army did not have many troops on the Western Front and could not launch a full-scale war like France in a short time. And in order to alleviate the operational pressure of the German army invading Norway, Hitler hastily ordered the German troops on the German-French border to attack the French army.

However, France had been prepared for a long time, and after being warned by the Chinese Empire, France strengthened its defense forces against areas such as the Ardennes that were easily copied by the German army, so that Germany's initial plan to bypass the Maginot Line and attack France could not succeed.

As a result, the Germans had to attack the French in front of the Maginot Line, which naturally turned out to be unentrenched for a long time. ╔╗The Germans poured up to 200,000 tons of shells and bombs on the entire Maginot Line every day, and the entire Maginot Line was still strong in the fierce attack, and the French spent a lot of money to build this defense line was rewarded. For a time, the French government and people were delighted. It was believed that the Germans would never again be able to invade France and harm the French people.

However, what France did not expect was that Italy declared war on France in the first place. France thought that Italy was a wall-to-wall grass and would maintain a neutral attitude until it saw the situation clearly, but it did not expect that this time Mussolini would really wear the same pants as Hitler and send troops to France as soon as possible, causing the industrial area of Lyon in France to be a huge threat from 400,000 Italian troops.

400,000 Italian troops entered France on 15 April, but the muddy roads along the Franco-Italian border made it difficult for Italian armored forces. It was not until the 20th that it crossed the Mont Blanc mountain range and approached Berfort. By that time, however, the French had urgently assembled 100,000 troops to Berfort and engaged the Italians head-on.

However, the attack power of the Italian army is really not flattering.

The Franco-Italian army battle began. The Italian 75th Artillery Division poured shells onto the positions of the 226th Infantry Regiment of the Italian 30th Division, causing heavy casualties to the Italian army. The same incident happened to the Italian Air Force, which attacked Berfort and took off from the Turin airport, only to deviate from the course and fly to Em on the other side of the Grande Kas Mountains, due to the mistake of the Italian Air Force navigator. The French army there was weak and had taken the initiative to abandon its position, and the Italian Fourth Army occupied the position, but it was heavily bombed by the bomber group of the Italian air force, and the Italian air defense post on the ground was not alert when it saw that it was its own plane, resulting in thousands of dead and wounded.

On the frontal battlefield of Berfort, the Italian air force failed to appear on time, and the French air force, which took off from the airport in Lyon, France, seized air supremacy in the area, inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Italian army. In the ensuing Franco-Italian tank battle, the Italian armored forces were defeated by the French armored forces. More than a hundred tanks were lost. As a last resort, the Italian attack failed, the overall deployment was chaotic, and it was forced to retreat.

Taking advantage of the retreat of the Italian army, the French army quickly drew troops from the interior to rush in for reinforcements. Eventually, the line of defense was stabilized.

In fact, the Italian army was able to invade France at the very beginning of the war. It was not that the Italian army had been prepared. The Italian army was actually Mussolini's transfer to Africa to fight in the Ethiopian War, where the fighting was even worse. As a result, World War II broke out suddenly, and Mussolini had no choice but to transfer this force to attack France. Originally, Mussolini planned to take the French army by surprise and gain some benefits, but the combat quality of the Italian army was too poor, resulting in a missed opportunity.

The Italian army in Africa also found itself in a difficult situation in the face of stubborn resistance from the Ethiopian army (then known as "Abyssinia"). ╔╗

As early as after the First War of Resistance Against Italy, the Italian fascist leaders led by Mussolini declared that Italy "must seek the future of the colonial cause in East Africa." In December 1934, Italy deliberately staged a border armed conflict along the border between Italian Somalia and Ethiopia. On the one hand, Italy is using the negotiations in a vain attempt to force Egypt to comply, and on the other hand, it has mobilized large forces in its two colonies, Eritrea and Italian Somalia, to prepare for a war of aggression against Egypt.

Ethiopia appealed to the League of Nations. However, the British and French governments blindly compromised and connived at Italy, and the Chinese imperial government also practiced "neutrality". The British and French governments also secretly agreed to exclude all possible actions that could lead to a conflict with Italy, not to impose military sanctions, and not to impose a naval blockade. and advised the Chinese Empire not to close the Suez Canal either, while the Chinese Empire secretly reached an agreement with Italy. The Chinese Empire opened the Suez Canal for Italy to transport troops and supplies, and Italy allowed the Chinese Empire to enjoy the same treatment as Italians in Ethiopia.

After the two sides reached an agreement, the Chinese Empire opened the Suez Canal to the Italian Navy in August 1935. Ten months later, Mussolini, the leader of Italian fascism, brazenly launched a war of aggression against Egypt.

As soon as the war began, the Italians easily occupied Somalia to the east and Eritonia to the north. Mussolini wanted to quickly occupy Ethiopia, take control of the Red Sea, a strategic transportation route, and use it as a base to annex all of Africa. Although Italy at that time could not be compared with Germany, it was undoubtedly a modern giant for a feudal kingdom like Ethiopia, which was almost still in a primitive social state, and it had advanced modern weapons at that time. There are a large number of aircraft, tanks and armored vehicles. And Ethiopia does not even have a unified army, only Haier? The guards of Emperor Selassie and the private armies of various feudal lords. Their weapons consisted mainly of primitive spears, bows and arrows, and clubs, and the contrast in strength was so great.

Mussolini publicly shouted that he would "punish these African barbarians, give them some color." "The contempt for Ethiopia speaks for itself.

However, the Ethiopian people were not intimidated by a formidable enemy and were determined to defend their homeland and their homeland. Soon, a nationwide mobilization was carried out. On October 17, Emperor Selassie held a grand military parade in the capital Addis Ababa, calling on the people to resolutely resist the enemy. Rather die than submit.

In this war of great disparity, the Ethiopian people have shown heroic and fearless qualities and noble self-sacrifice. Much of Ethiopia is suffering from water shortages. The herders put the water in leather bags and carried it through the arid desert to the barracks. They themselves often fainted on the road due to thirst, and young students took to the streets to carry out propaganda and mobilization; The women organized the Red Cross and the Women's Association. Transporting the wounded. Organizing rear supplies, some feudal manor owners also took out money to buy weapons, ammunition and food from abroad to support the front-line war of resistance.

As a result of the stubborn resistance of the Ethiopian people, Mussolini's quick decision to achieve a quick victory was completely defeated. It was not until November 8 that the Italian army occupied the land of Ethiopia 1d8. From November 19 to 21, Emperor Selassie once again visited the front line to comfort the troops. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Egyptian army launched a counteroffensive in one go, recovering a large amount of lost territory, and the Italian army suffered heavy losses.

The people of the lands occupied by the Italians also constantly caused problems for the Italians: they hid food and filled up wells. Took away the camel and the fur. Everywhere the Italian army went, it occupied only an empty city. Under the scorching sun of the African desert, the Italian soldiers, who could not find a water source or could only find a well sprinkled with salt, were hungry and thirsty, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and Mussolini was angry when he saw this. In a fit of rage, this crazy fascist not only removed the commander-in-chief of the Italian army in Africa, sent the "Black Shirts" composed of desperate Nazis to Ethiopia to fight in the war, and increased the air force from the end of December. The Egyptian positions and innocent civilians were bombed in a frenzied manner, and poison gas was used from February of the following year! The Italians even bombed Red Cross ambulances sent by Sweden and Finland. More than 50 members of the Swedish Red Cross ambulance team died in the bombardment of these dehumanizing and unconscionable mobs.

The situation finally deteriorated, on May 5, 1937. The Italian army entered Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and Emperor Selassie fled to England. On 9 May, Mussolini announced the annexation of Ethiopia in Rome, with the King of Italy also serving as Emperor of Ethiopia.

Ethiopia fell, and this land of misery groaned under the iron hooves of the fascists. The devastated people have been plunged into even more painful situations. However, they did not give in. More people took up arms. Participated in the partisans. The Ethiopian people were not intimidated, on the contrary, more and more of them joined the guerrillas.

By the outbreak of World War II in 1938, the guerrillas had grown to 400,000 and controlled most of the country. The methods of the guerrillas were also becoming more and more ingenious. Not only do they dare to fight, but they are also good at fighting. Most of their weapons, ammunition and food were obtained from the enemy, and the Italian army became their "logistics department".

When the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao visited China shortly after a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, he jokingly referred to Mussolini as the captain of the Ethiopian guerrilla transport brigade. Mussolini was extremely embarrassed by this.

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In the face of the German raid, the Norwegians, betrayed by Nazi sympathizers within the government, were simply powerless to resist.

When the German invasion army launched a blitzkrieg against Norway, another German army, under Hitler's special order, drove straight into a remote area near Lake Tien, and took control of Norway's most valuable industrial enterprise, which had been coveted by Germany, and in the mountains at the end of the Yukan Valley, sat the Vimolk hydroelectric power station, which was once the largest in the world.

Norwegian Hydro produces ammonia from electricity produced in Vimolk. Ammonia was used as a raw material for fertilizers and **, both of which were important to Germany's war machine. However, there is also a special room inside the hydroelectric power station, where something even more valuable is produced - heavy water. At the time, the Chinese Empire kept heavy water projects strictly secret, so the discovery of heavy water in Norway was considered to be a new form of water that had just been discovered. Norwegian Hydro produces heavy water for scientists around the world to study its properties, but more often than not, to make extra money. Because heavy water was hyped up by the Chinese Empire, the price was outrageously high. However, with the advent of nuclear reactors in the Chinese Empire, Germany began a nuclear physics engineering program, and there was a strong demand for heavy water. In addition to Germany, Britain, France, Italy, the Soviet Union and other countries have also carried out research on nuclear physics and engineering, so it can be said that the Chinese Empire single-handedly caused the mythical price of heavy water, which also led to the final tragic fate of this power plant.

Immediately after taking over the power plant, the Germans set about increasing production. They even intend to increase the yield of heavy water tenfold. At the same time, the number of security guards around the power plant has increased rapidly. Except for the Chinese Empire, basically no one knows why. But every move of the Germans inside and outside the plant was monitored, and a group of rebellious Norwegians, especially members of the plant's trade unions, spontaneously launched an underground resistance movement.

Conte? Lear? Hansen was an important member of this clandestine resistance movement. He and his companions were determined to figure out why the Germans were so obsessed with heavy water. After the Nazis seized the Norwegian hydroelectric plant, they quickly expanded the number of electrolysis cells from nine to 18, doubling the plant's heavy water production capacity.

The forces of the agents of the Chinese Empire were no longer able to get close to the power plant, and they were unable to destroy it.

At this time, the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao convened an emergency meeting and decided that the Vimolk power plant must be destroyed by any means to prevent the Germans from obtaining more heavy water.

Wang Shizhen and others suggested that strategic bombers should be directly dispatched to raid the Vimolk power plant and blow it up in one fell swoop. However, the cabinet objected, believing that now that the Vimolk power plant was under the control of the German army, it was tantamount to directly tearing its face with Germany and declaring war on Germany. The Chinese Empire was bent on watching the civil strife in Europe and make a fortune like the First World War, so most of the cabinet officials and even the National Assembly opposed a direct war with Germany to avoid getting involved in World War II.

As a result, after the unanimous study and decision of the Imperial Cabinet, the Chinese Empire told Britain and France that the Vimolk Hydropower Station had heavy water, a key material for the manufacture of nuclear weapons that Germany desperately wanted to obtain, and asked Britain and France to come forward to directly bomb the Vimolk Hydropower Station. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )