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Wang Chenhao knew that France was hopeless, and in the face of powerful Germany, the Chinese Empire could only choose to stand on the side of the Entente, and helping the weak defeat the strong was a global strategy in line with the future of the Chinese Empire. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo╔╗

However, the people of the Chinese Empire still opposed the Empire's entry into the war, and the Anglo-French forces in Dunkirk would surely die without the help of the Chinese Empire, and Britain would suffer heavy losses, which was not in line with the future strategic plan of the Chinese Empire.

As a result, the Chinese Empire chose to admit Britain as a member of the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere and included Britain in the scope of protection. At the same time, the Chinese Empire, anticipating Germany's opposition, promised Germany that it would prevent Britain from continuing its war with Germany and ending the Anglo-German war. In addition, the Chinese Empire threatened Germany that if Germany did not agree, the Chinese Empire would terminate its oil supplies to Germany and would have to enter the war.

Hitler was very annoyed, and saw that he was about to kill the main forces of Britain and France in one go, but at this time the Chinese Empire intervened. Hitler was not afraid of the oil threat of the Chinese Empire, because the United States had opened the Arctic Ocean route and brought oil to Germany in a steady stream. Hitler's fear was that there was no benefit to going to war with the Chinese Empire, at least not until Germany's own nuclear bomb was developed.

Considering that the Chinese Empire would prevent Britain from continuing the war with Germany, Hitler believed that if the war with Britain was to be suspended, then France would be able to fight on two fronts, and would be able to deal with the Soviet Union with all its might. At the same time, the strength of the British Royal Navy was not to be underestimated, and the Anglo-German armistice was also beneficial to Germany.

Thereupon. Hitler agreed to the mediation of the Chinese Empire, Britain and Germany secretly reached a cease-fire agreement, and Hitler also gave up the elimination of hundreds of thousands of Entente troops at Dunkirk (mainly because most of them were British troops).

Britain urgently sent thousands of ships to bring hundreds of thousands of Entente convoys from Dunkirk back to Britain, and the Chinese Empire also urgently dispatched hundreds of transport ships and aircraft to assist in the transportation. ╔╗ Charles and other 724,000 Entente ** teams stranded in Dunkirk were finally rescued, and hundreds of thousands of French people along the coast were also followed to Britain.

Of course, what Germany needs is time. It was the time to develop the atomic bomb before the war with the Chinese Empire, so Hitler chose to compromise. I watched more than 700,000 Entente troops and millions of tons of weapons and equipment safely evacuate France and return to England.

And the Chinese Empire, of course, will not really keep its promises, and political deception has always been the Chinese Empire's forte. It's just that the Chinese Empire had to reach a secret agreement with Germany in order to safely rescue more than 700,000 fresh troops in Dunkirk, and when these more than 700,000 fresh troops were rescued, the Chinese Empire could completely regret and enter the war.

Hitler was also well aware of this, so he ordered the Germans to immediately storm all parts of France, taking France before the Chinese Empire could repent.

The devastating German counteroffensive in Belgium and northern France eliminated the 39 divisions of the Entente**. The new commander of the French army, Weygand, cobbled together 49 divisions plus 2 British divisions. Three armies (the 6th, 7th, and 10th armies) formed the "Weygand Line" about 300 miles east and west along the Somme and Aisne rivers, with 17 divisions defending the Maginot Line. The two lines of defense joined together in an attempt to prevent the Germans from moving south.

After the Germans regained the Netherlands, Belgium and northern France, the German High Command drew up a battle plan for the second phase of the French campaign, codenamed the "Red Plan". This plan called for the Germans to move south and defeat the French completely.

At present, the strength of the German army reached as many as 137 divisions, and its two army groups, A and B, were quickly reorganized. Bauk's Army Group B (6 Panzer Divisions) was the right flank and broke through to the front of the Somme, while Army Group A (4 Panzer Divisions) was the left flank. Make a frontal assault on the Aisne.

On 26 March, the Luftwaffe carried out heavy bombardment of French airfields and rear. At dawn on the 27th, Bauk's Army Group B took the lead in launching a full-front attack on the right flank, and on the same day, the German 7th Panzer Division crossed the Somme first. The French 10th Army, which was defending the Abbeville-Verdun line, was cut off, and the rest of the German divisions were able to rush forward through this gap.

On 28 March, the Germans reached the banks of the Seine and turned northward, rushing 50 miles in one go, aiming at the coastline. It reached its destination that night, cutting off the retreat of the French 9th Army and the British 51st Division, which were retreating towards the coast. These troops were forced to surrender to the Germans, and the British were disarmed and sent to Dunkirk as bargaining chips to further delay the Chinese Empire's remorse. The British authorities also wanted to bring back the captured British soldiers safely, so they promised that the agreement would remain in force.

After Army Group B launched an offensive, Army Group A on the left flank also launched a river crossing offensive on the Aisne River on March 29, and that night, the 1st Panzer Division of Guderian's Armored Corps forced a crossing of the Aisne River, and on April 1, Guderian's Corps defeated the French armored forces and broke through the right flank of the French 6th Army. Hordes of French prisoners threw their guns at the Germans and crushed them under the tanks.

On 5 April, Goodry's armoured corps reached the Swiss border town of Pantarir, cutting off the French retreat from the Maginot Line to Switzerland. Since the forcible crossing of the Aisne River, Gudeli's armored corps has driven more than 400 kilometers in 10 days, capturing as many as 250,000 French troops, creating a miracle in the history of warfare.

As the Germans marched in, the French government was forced to withdraw from Paris and move to Tours, where Paris was subsequently declared an undefended city to prevent the German army from devastation. A few days later, when the French government moved to Bordeaux, the Germans captured Paris without firing a single shot.

On the day that the Germans occupied Paris, the left flank of Army Group A of the German army had advanced to the flank of the Maginot Line, because this useless line of defense, after all, there were still hundreds of thousands of French troops who had not surrendered or been destroyed, and at the same time, in the north of the Maginot Line, there were hundreds of thousands of troops of General Scott who were pinned down in the Alsace area, and these were the enemies that the Germans wanted to destroy. ╔╗

Hitler demanded that Rensted cooperate with Army Group C. Completely wipe out the French troops there. In accordance with Hitler's Operational Order No. 15, Army Group C, which had been carrying out the task of attracting the attention of Army Group Scott in front of Alsace, immediately selected the weak point of Army Group Scott, that is, the junction of the Alsace area and Lorraine, to launch an offensive.

Army groups A and C were flanked in front and rear. The 100,000 French defenders of the Maginot Line surrendered without a fight, leaving the Scott Army Group in Alsace in a flank and soon surrounded. Within three days, Scott, like the other French generals, chose to surrender.

April 17th. Petain's army in Metz was desperately supplied, and Petain tried to break through but failed, so Petain surrendered.

At this point, the main forces of the French mainland were either annihilated or fled to the British, and the rest became prisoners of the German army, and the French people gave up the last trace of resistance as if they had been betrayed. Signed a cease-fire agreement with Germany and prepared to surrender to Germany.

France, known as the military power of Europe, was defeated four years after the outbreak of World War II.

Germany was overjoyed to receive nine elite armored divisions and more than a dozen mechanized infantry divisions in Metz, all of which were coveted by the Germans, and Hitler was so pleased that in recognition of Petain's merits, Hitler recommended Petain as the future German agent in France.

According to the Franco-German cease-fire agreement, most of France was occupied by German troops at this time. The only exceptions are the southern and southeastern areas. Subsequently, the French parliament passed a bill granting Petain constitutional, legislative, executive, and judicial powers, and suspending the constitution, giving Petain the power of dictatorship. ╔╗

The Pétain government was headquartered in Vichy in the non-occupied zone of central France, so it was called the "Vichy government". The Vichy government provided the Axis powers with large quantities of supplies. He also ordered the French troops in the overseas territories to renounce their status as Entente powers and join the Central Powers. and the permission of the League** to transit through the French possessions, etc. But within ten days, Hitler had changed his mind again, and the Germans suddenly occupied the remaining non-occupied areas of France. France was now completely under German control.

In the weeks before the complete occupation of France by the German army, the Chinese Empire and the British jointly launched an operation codenamed "Ambulance", which brought a large number of overseas Chinese, British overseas Chinese and French who were willing to follow China and Britain to Britain together with the British to settle in the United Kingdom, and at the same time, the Atlantic Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, the Mediterranean Fleet and the Home Fleet of the British Royal Navy jointly operated to forcibly disarm the main fleet of the French Navy in Toulon and Brest, control all French warships, and sail back to England. Most of the French capital ships were handed over to the British Navy, and the Imperial Chinese Navy was not interested in the capital ships of the French Navy, which was not of sufficient grade.

At the same time, Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, sent a special force into Paris to load all the cultural relics in the Louvre Museum in Paris and the precious historical documents in the National Library of Paris to the international air planes of the Chinese Empire, and then transported them back to the Chinese Empire.

Of course, the Mona Lisa, which included Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, was specially designated by Wang Chenhao to get it, and the painting was sent to the Forbidden City first, and it was kept in Wang Chenhao's master bedroom until many years later, when Wang Chenhao was tired of looking at it, it was handed over to the Imperial Museum for collection.

At the same time, as one of the conditions for Britain to join the Greater China Co-Prosperity Circle, it also included the return of cultural relics looted by the British army from the Old Summer Palace. At the same time, as the mastermind of the arson of the Old Summer Palace, Churchill drafted an official apology on behalf of the British government, making a sincere apology to the government and people of the Chinese Empire, and fully compensating for the loss of the Old Summer Palace, and responsible for recovering the lost cultural relics and handing them over to the Chinese Empire. ╔╗ The Chinese Empire will use the British government's total compensation of 13.2 million dragon coins to rebuild the Old Summer Palace and restore it to its original magnificent historical appearance.

The Chinese Empire stopped the supply contract to France, and on the eve of the French surrender, France still had a lot of gold and silver in the Chinese Empire, equivalent to 57 billion dragon coins, which were all guarantees for weapons and equipment and military supplies originally used by France for the major counteroffensive operations, and the Chinese Empire originally planned to start delivering the second batch of materials in June 1942, but now it will not deliver or refund, but is ready to support the Charles de Gaulle government in exile in Britain, but in fact the de Gaulle government is stranded in Britain, There was no chance of a counterattack on Europe, and only a small part of this money was used to pay for the living expenses of the French army in Britain, and most of it was spent by the Chinese Empire and Britain for various reasons of "unknown whereabouts".

The news of France's swift defeat shocked the world. The entire Entente camp was in a huge crisis, and Britain joined the Greater China Co-Prosperity Circle to seek the protection of the Chinese Empire and signed an armistice agreement with Germany, resulting in the entire Entente camp being the only two countries that could resist, the Soviet Union and Mexico, and the latter simply had a grudge with the United States. I don't care about Europe at all, and I won't help the USSR.

Germany's sudden Jedi counterattack caught even the Chinese Empire off guard. Previously, the Chinese Empire was still worried about whether the Entente's counteroffensive would destroy Germany, and it was still worried about Germany. Now that the situation has reversed, Germany has destroyed France at once and controlled most of Europe, and the theory of the German threat has suddenly been set off in the Chinese Empire, and many Imperial citizens who had been in a wait-and-see attitude have expressed suggestions one after another. According to the latest Imperial Times poll, the percentage of people in the Chinese Empire who are concerned about the rapid expansion of the Allies has skyrocketed to a historic 40 percent, compared with less than 11 percent in the previous poll.

The results of the polls of the Chinese Empire had a great deal to influence the question of the attitudes of the Imperial Chinese Congress. Previously, the members of Congress had focused on making war money, but with the destruction of France by Germany, the power of the Allies was severely damaged, and the balance in Europe had been upset, and the Chinese Empire had to make a choice.

In the imperial study of the Forbidden City, after the court meeting, Wang Chenhao left Song Jiaoren and Zhang Zizhong alone to make the final decision.

Previously at the court meeting. The two sides had already held in-depth discussions on the issue of World War II, and had reached a basic agreement on the main issues of whether the Chinese Empire would enter the war in the future, which side to join, how to fight, and the impact on the empire's economy. And set the general direction.

The Imperial Government eventually decided to go to war against the United States, but it was not clear exactly when the war would start. The key reason for this lies in the Soviet Union, and the attitude of the Chinese Empire towards the Soviet Union has not changed substantially.

Due to the ideological differences between the Chinese Empire and the Soviet Union, and the fact that the Soviet Union held off the frantic attack of the German army in the face of adversity, his combat effectiveness made the Chinese Empire feel uneasy. If the Chinese Empire had fought against Germany, then the Soviet Union would have clearly become an ally. The Chinese Empire had full confidence in defeating Germany, so Wang Chenhao had to think about the post-war period. Obviously, in Wang Chenhao's impression, after the demise of Germany, the Soviet Union will rise wildly, as a neighbor, how can the Chinese Empire tolerate such a powerful neighbor next to it?

"Your Majesty, I think the Soviet Union can still hold on!" Song Jiaoren saw Wang Chenhao's worries, so he said: "With the current state of the Soviet Union, as long as the empire supports them in the back, they may continue to wear out with Germany." In this way, the Reich could not rush into the war, use the Soviet Union to consume Germany, and consume them until they could not get up, and then the Reich would strike and destroy both of them at the same time. ”

Wang Chenhao did not want to start a war against Germany immediately, because once a war was started against Germany, the Chinese Empire would not be able to attack the Soviet Union because of international public opinion, and even the Soviet Union would use this as an excuse to choose to join the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere.

If, according to Song Jiaoren's proposal, the Chinese Empire supports the Soviet Union and Germany behind the scenes, when the consumption between them is almost the same, it will be very easy for the Chinese Empire to quickly destroy Germany and destroy the Soviet Union with a backhand, and it will not let the Soviet Union sit big.

It can be said that Wang Chenhao is very jealous of the Soviet Union after World War II, so much so that he has to consider this problem at the moment, that is, to weaken the Soviet Union in every possible way and not let the Soviet Union rise.

Obviously, the speed and power of the rise of the Soviet Union are now constantly being revealed, so Wang Chenhao is even more convinced of his view that Germany and the Soviet Union must be eliminated at the same time.

Under this premise, as Song Jiaoren proposed, the Soviet Union and Germany could be used to continue the war and consume them as much as possible, so that the Chinese Empire could continue to sell arms and achieve the strategic goal of weakening the Soviet Union and Germany at the same time.

"According to me, simply the empire will directly show its nuclear weapons and destroy Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States!"

Wang Chenhao said with a smile: "Although this is the fastest way, it is estimated that it can end this world war in a short time." But have you thought about the consequences? ”

Consequence? Zhang Zizhong didn't understand.

Wang Chenhao looked at Song Jiaoren, who added: "That's right! Although the Empire possesses nuclear weapons, this can only deter other countries from attacking us, but it cannot be a weapon that we use to attack other countries. ”

Zhang Zizhong was a little confused, the nuclear weapons that he had finally researched were not actively used to attack the enemy, so what did he need nuclear weapons for.

Song continued: "If the empire uses nuclear weapons against other countries, although it can successfully end the war and destroy Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States, will they be willing? This blood debt will have to be repaid sooner or later, and one day in the future, I dare not guarantee that any of them will develop nuclear weapons, and when the time comes, they will launch a crazy retaliation, and it will be an eternal pain to the empire. ”

Song Jiaoren's words went to Wang Chenhao's heart, Wang Chenhao thought like this, he knew very well that the United States in history was the only country that used atomic bombs to strike the enemy, although the United States forced Japan to surrender at that time. Since then, however, the Americans have been uneasy, because the whole world knows that the United States is the first and only country to use nuclear weapons against mankind, and it can be said that the Americans are anti-human in the eyes of the people of the world. As a result, no nuclear power can reassure the United States, which is also attacking countries that develop nuclear weapons because it fears retaliation. If the choice could be made again, perhaps the United States would not use nuclear weapons back then, but would rely on conventional force to defeat Japan. The mistake was that the U.S. government at the time did not know the future consequences of using nuclear weapons. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )