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Moreover, unlike the colonies in which the suzerains voluntarily agreed to independence, which generally had a favorable opinion of the original overlords, and the former overlords could continue to suck blood from the former colonies through some indirect means, the colonial people who relied on armed struggle to win independence would inevitably regard the former colonizers as mortal enemies.

Although it is a little late for the Vichy French government to enter the axis, and colonies such as Mali have been liberated by the armed people of the colonies supported by the Arab Federation, at least the most elite coastal areas of West Africa have been preserved, which is also a blessing in misfortune for the Vichy French government. Well, excluding the western part of North Africa, which has long been incorporated into the territory of the Arab Federation, as well as some coastal colonies such as Liberia that were not originally part of France, Vichy France now controls less than a third of the coastal zone of West Africa, but it is better than nothing, right?

In fact, there was another reason why Vichy France joined the Axis powers. Perhaps fearing that the growing strength of the Arab Commonwealth would affect Germany's control of the Axis camp, Mustache began to consciously elevate the status of the third, fourth, and fifth elders in the camp to balance the situation, and even offered the Pétain government of Vichy France that he could conditionally return the German-occupied French territories except Alsace and Lorraine

As for the conditions, the Vichy French army had to destroy a considerable number of Allied forces, and in order to give the French hope, the German plan was to return one province at a time (there were 96 departments in mainland France). The provinces were divided into five grades according to their size, population, resources, industry and agriculture, and affluence, with the provinces with the lowest scores requiring the Vichy French army to destroy (with only permanent attrition) 1 million Allied regular troops, or 100,000 tons of combat ships or 1,000,000 tons of merchant ships

By this standard, Vichy France would have to sink twice as many ships and merchant ships that Britain currently possessed, shoot down more than 30,000 Allied aircraft, and kill more than 5 million Allied prisoners in order to restore its territory to what it was before World War I, which was simply impossible. However, when Germany agreed to add up the various criteria, and that the sum of the victories could be converted to the standard of one province, Vichy France had at least the possibility of recovering some of the lost territory, which was enough to greatly increase the Vichy French government's will to fight against the Allies, and correspondingly, the Free French government in exile in England had a more difficult time

At present, the army of Vichy France is basically useless except to suppress anti-German elements in the country. The main ships of the Navy were lost again. Although two of the three Risselie-class battleships were sunk, it would take at least half a year to completely repair them, and the improved version of the Risseliu-class battleships under construction was stopped due to lack of funds, so the Vichy French army was able to make meritorious contributions. There are only 40 or 50 submarines that still exist after the retirement of old boats, and the Air Force, which has begun to rapidly recover its strength with the successive restart of several major aircraft factories.

The former naturally joined the Germans' ever-increasing submarine warfare. The Italian and Spanish submarine forces also joined the war. Although they did not perform well at first due to their unfamiliarity with wolf pack tactics, it greatly alleviated the lack of German submarine forces (the old U-boats had long been discontinued, and the number of combat units in the new teardrop-shaped models was too small). Dilemma. As for the number of aircraft, the number of aircraft quickly recovered to more than 1500 units. They soon took part in the massive German air raids on the British Isles, and of course, they were not the protagonists of the largest air battle in human history

After the initial occupation of France, in order to avoid war with Britain and concentrate on Liliang against his greatest enemy, the Soviet Union, he made a compromise request to Britain, but he categorically rejected it because of his previous treachery and the fact that Churchill had always been tough on Germany.

For this reason, Germany specially formulated the sea lion jihua against the British, in order to carry out a landing operation against the British. The operation planned to land infantry in the south of England and penetrate and occupy London, cutting it off from the outside world, thus occupying LinkedIn in one fell swoop. However, this operation needed to first annihilate the British air liliang to ensure the smooth landing operation, and after taking advantage of the Dunkirk retreat to inflict heavy damage on the British Royal Air Force, there were less than 1,000 aircraft left in the British mainland for a time.

In such a favorable situation, Mustache decided to take the opportunity to launch a large-scale air attack on the British mainland in order to destroy the remnants of the British air liliang and destroy its industrial base, so as to force the British government to sue for peace, in addition to keeping the British mainland from the three German warships trying to pass through the Danish Channel and the Spanish army attacking the fortress of Gibraltar from being attacked by a large British bomber group.

Due to the greater disparity in the number of aircraft than in history, and the obvious superiority of Germany in aircraft performance, compared with the performance of the mainstay of the British Royal Air Force in the historical Battle of Britain, even if the British Air Force in this time and space has the advantage of fighting on the inside line, the exchange ratio in air combat is always frighteningly large, even after a considerable understanding of the characteristics of various major German models. British fighters also need 3-5 times the number to compete with the German FW190A (that is, the Luftwaffe model mainly based on the F4U blueprint), and if it is a further improved liquid-cooled FW190B fighter of the Luftwaffe (after all, Germany still has a better foundation in liquid-cooled engines), whether it is a "Spitfire" or a "Hurricane", Britain will have to pay a heavy price of 8-10 planes shot down before it can take down that one

In fact, in the two months of September and October 1941 alone, the RAF lost more than 1,000 planes and shot down less than 300 German planes, a considerable number of which were German bombers, a record that was a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of aircraft in the Luftwaffe. It was therefore only natural that the burden of British air defense fell to the ground air defence forces (the air defense of the seaports was mainly carried out by the light cruisers and destroyers of the Royal Navy), and the early appearance of gun-sighting radar and proximity fuses made it even more powerful.

However, there is a congenital deficiency in ground air defense, no matter how powerful the anti-aircraft guns are, the speed of movement can never be compared with that of airplanes, and after suffering some losses, the German aircraft groups, which have figured out the key points of the British air defense forces, have bypassed those areas with strong anti-aircraft firepower and bombed those relatively weakly defended locations (to be continued......