Chapter 235: Southern Borneo Becomes Independent

Reims's Anglo-French forces were useless at all, thinking that the Germans really had bombers, and there were so many of them, they were caught off guard, and the defense line was broken in a short time with the cooperation of the German army and air force.

The British army fought very passively after the defense line was breached, a large number of soldiers retreated, only the French army under the command of Xia Fei desperately wanted to hold Reims, and groups of French soldiers kept falling, no matter what, they were unwilling to retreat.

Behind Reims was the capital of their country, and these French troops did not want the capital to be occupied by the Germans, otherwise it would be their eternal shame.

The German tank troops cooperated with the air force to kill all the tanks of the coalition forces, and the coalition forces could not stop the attack of the German tank units for a while.

"Don't panic, you must guard here, there must be no loss here, otherwise we will be sinners of the country!" Even though the army's defeat had already been revealed, Xia Fei still held on to a glimmer of hope.

"You can't withdraw, come back to fight quickly, I'm going to sue you all to the coalition military court and retreat without permission!"

Xia Fei was very angry when he saw the British retreat, and he said that the Allied military tribunal was only established after the outbreak of war, and it belonged to the military tribunal of the Entente, but it was only in name but not really established.

"Fail, don't be persistent, retaining strength is our most urgent thing, retreat, Commander-in-Chief Xia Fei!"

The British officers were not fools, now that defeat was a foregone conclusion, and to resist was to die, so that they would not take their own army to death.

However, the British army also knew that they had gone too far, leaving a third of the army under the command of Xia Fei, and all the rest were withdrawn to Paris.

On March 31, Reims fell, and the Anglo-French army lost 500,000 troops here, of which the French lost the most, more than 300,000. The Germans, who had lost less than a fifth of the Allied forces, rushed to Paris without stopping after breaking through Reims.

On the same day, the German army attacking Paris from the east went to war with the French army defending Paris, and Paris was in chaos, and both the rich and the common people were packing up and preparing to flee from Paris.

At the Elysee Palace in Paris, President Raymond was furious with government officials, and the loss of Reims made him very angry.

"Rubbish, it's all a bunch of rubbish, I don't even know that the Germans have bombers, the intelligence services let me down so much!"

"Those damned British went out to fight and retreat without permission, completely ignoring the commander-in-chief of our army, and immediately put pressure on Britain, they have an unshirkable responsibility for the loss of Reims!"

"Go and prepare things to be evacuated to Nantes, and all the valuable cultural relics of Paris will be moved to Nantes for me, and not left to the Germans at all!"

At this time, the French government finally decided to withdraw from Paris entirely, they did not want Paris to become a battlefield, and they were not prepared to organize a counterattack in Paris, Paris must not be bombed, so they decided to give up Paris.

Outside the Élysée Palace, the ground is full of confetti and confetti, and a bunch of government cleaning staff are lighting a fire to burn these bunjiàns, and from time to time a bundle of confetti is thrown upstairs, and confetti is flying all over the sky.

At this time, the streets of Paris were full of people who were dragging their families and carrying their luggage in vehicles, and they all lowered their heads to rush out of Paris, and there were also many elderly people who were arguing with their families, unwilling to leave Paris where they had lived for most of their lives.

Gunfire could already be heard in Paris from afar, and the entire Parisian population was in a panic and kept speeding up their departure from Paris.

"Boom ......"

There was a loud roar over Paris, and twenty German-Gothda-II bombers appeared over Paris.

"It really deserves to be the capital of France, and from here it looks like Imperial Berlin, and this is the first time that our air force has appeared in the sky over Paris, roar!"

"Oh, the arrogant French are actually on the run, haha, the bitch-raised French, the empire is the number one power in Europe!"

"Let me give you a taste of the power of Gotha!"

The German Gotha bombing unit bombed Paris, destroying all military installations, and the Elysée Palace had to be blown up.

"Boom !!"

The Elysee Palace was hit by a large number of bombs, countless explosions sounded, the glorious palace began to collapse, and the government personnel hiding inside ran out frantically, and bursts of huge dust and smoke covered the entire Elysee Palace.

"Damn the Germans, it's unforgivable to bomb this place!"

On the outskirts of Paris, President Raymond stood in front of the car and was extremely angry, not expecting that he had given up Paris, and the German army still bombed Paris, but he didn't know whether the people who bombed him or the government.

The German bombardment forces did not bomb the people of Paris, but their power was deeply imprinted in the minds of the people of Paris, and the people were shouting about the German devil.

At No. 10 Chinatown, London, Asquith was also very angry after receiving Raymond's reprimand telegram, his army did not obey the command, and the tank unit was finally formed and was completely annihilated by the Germans, and retreated without authorization, which simply disgraced Britain's face.

"Waste, let the officers of the expeditionary force be uniformly demoted in rank, the commanders will be removed, and the people will be sent to take over these armies again, if France cannot afford to lose!"

"Damn the intelligence, did you spend all your money on the bitch, you didn't even get the news that the Germans have such a large number of bombers! Ask Huaxia why the Germans' bombers are so similar to Huaxia's, is Huaxia sold to the Germans a long time ago? Urge them to speed up the manufacture of bombers, and we will want as many as we produce now! ”

Asquith couldn't think of how the German bombers were so similar to the Huaxia bombers, how could the Chinese want to send these planes far away and hide it from the British intelligence officers, could it be that the Germans produced their own products?

"No, contact the Chinese government again, no matter what the price is, get the bomber blueprints!"

The news that Germany had a large number of bombers was a great threat to Britain, and the Germans who occupied Belgium could build airfields in Belgium at any time and then bomb the British mainland, so they urgently needed planes to defend the homeland from bombing.

"Mr. Prime Minister, the Fuso intelligence officers have come back with news that Huaxia has another new type of aircraft and a new type of warship that can carry aircraft and take off aircraft, and it is because of this Fuso fleet that Huaxia will be annihilated in a short time. If nothing else, the planes that bombed Kyushu Island did not take off from the Chinese mainland, but took off as a platform for a new type of warship called an aircraft carrier. ”

"What, the Huaxia people have researched this kind of battleship, it's incredible! Contact Huaxia immediately to buy back the drawings of the aircraft carrier, or let someone find out the aircraft carrier for me! Let the people of the Navy devote all their efforts to the study of this aircraft carrier technology. ”

Asquith knew that once he obtained this aircraft carrier technology, he could more fully protect his colonies, and he could also bomb Germany, which had the potential to change the European war, so he had to have this technology.

In fact, at this time, Britain already had this kind of idea, and even began to design drawings, but it was not as advanced as Huaxia.

The news of the failure of the Fuso Navy was also blocked by Fuso, and only the top level of the government knew the reason for the failure of the Navy, and the eyes of all countries were in Europe, so there were not many countries that knew the news of the appearance of aircraft carriers in China, and even Britain had to get the news for a week.

The news of the loss of Reims and the bombing of Paris shocked the whole of Europe, the strength of the German army was beyond the expectations of various countries, a large number of tanks and bombers had a very great impact on the members of the Entente, and the Tsar was even more glad that he withdrew from the Entente, otherwise the planes would have appeared in the sky over St. Petersburg.

During the European War, the Chinese in Borneo took up arms and formed an army, ostensibly to help the Dutch garrison quell the rebellion of the natives, but in fact they began to officially take control of Borneo.

On March 30, the Chinese army of Borneo suppressed the natives in all directions in southern Borneo, and the Governor of the East Indies protested, stating that he did not need the help of the Chinese, and demanded that the Chinese immediately disband the army, otherwise they would be surrounded and suppressed by the Dutch garrison.

On 31 March, the Chinese army attacked the Dutch garrison in southern Borneo, and it was not long before most of the area was captured by a well-planned Chinese attack, leaving only large cities such as Machen in the far south uncaptured.

The Dutch garrison in southern Borneo is only about 10,000, most of them scattered in the south, and they are not the opponent of the Chinese army at all, only Machen, the central city of the Dutch administration of southern Borneo, has gathered a large number of Dutch garrisons, about 3,000 people.

Ma Chen, the Chinese tens of thousands of troops firmly surrounded it, and the Dutch garrison cowered inside and did not dare to fight.

"Report to the sir, those Chinese sent a telegram asking to surrender within 24 hours, otherwise the offensive will begin, please think twice, sir!"

"Now for a show of hands, raise hands for those who think of surrender!"

The commander of the Dutch garrison in Machen was a lieutenant colonel, and he was the first to raise his hand after he said it, and the officers behind him all raised their hands in a loud voice.

"Okay, unanimous vote to surrender, since you surrender, then you have to fight for some benefits!" The lieutenant colonel's words made the officers present nod their heads approvingly, in their opinion it was a surrender at the risk of betraying the Netherlands, and some interests had to be sought.

That night the lieutenant colonel had a series of interviews with the head of the Chinese army, and it is best not to know what agreement was reached between the two sides, and the Dutch garrison turned out not to surrender, but to surrender, and the whole army to join the Chinese army.

On April 1, the Chinese army officially declared the independence of southern Borneo from Dutch colonial rule and established the Republic of South China, Zheng Guoxiong became the first president and supreme military commander of the Republic of South China, and Huaxia recognized the Republic of South China at the first time and established diplomatic relations with the Republic of South China.