On March 9, 1940, the 30th day of the Battle of Venus, the German army, which had been devastating all the way, easily occupied Paris, the capital of France, without a single shot. After French Prime Minister Renaud hastily moved the capital to Bordeaux, he announced his resignation and was succeeded by Vice Prime Minister Petain.

After learning that the French government had abandoned the capital and fled, Churchill on the British side jumped to his feet in anger and scolded the French for being spineless. Later, when he knew that Renault's successor turned out to be Pétain's surrenderer, he couldn't help but sigh in pain, and then said to the British generals around him.

"Gentlemen, go and get ready, it's our turn."

Churchill was well aware that if no miracle happened, France would soon be out of play and the entire Venus would fall into the hands of Germany and Italy. And then Britain will be like a bad guy stuck in a dead end, either kneeling down and surrendering, or sacrificing his life with these two thugs.

In fact, it is inaccurate for the British side to believe that France did not fight for the defense of the capital at all. Five days before the German ground troops sang military songs and walked through the "second generation of triumphal arches", a major battle between S-class giant soldiers broke out in the sky of Paris.

The battle lasted more than an hour, and when the two Titans descended into the clouds together, the German Hercules looked intact, while the other ivory-white Titans looked fine at first glance. But soon, a sharp-eyed person noticed through the telescope that there was an obvious break in the left shoulder armor of the white giant soldier, so it should be said that Hercules was slightly superior!

At the end of the battle, Hercules walked away with a wild laugh, and Joan of Arc descended to the ground, not in pursuit. Although the two sides did not actually distinguish the winner or loser, it also proved that Joan of Arc was indeed incapable of defeating the German Hercules, which was undoubtedly a big blow to those French main battle factions who expected her to be able to turn the tide!

And it is precisely because of this fight. The voice of the main peace faction finally overwhelmed the main war faction, and the French government decided to move the capital, ready to exchange sixty percent of the country's land for "peace".

At this point in the war, the victory was already obvious, and Hitler, who thought that he was in control of the victory, in order to show the world his "gentlemanly demeanor" as a victor, and in order to reduce unnecessary losses of the armored forces, he ordered the armored forces that were still advancing on the front line to stop the offensive.

This made Guderian, who was preparing a charge to bulldoze Dunkirk, unacceptable, but helplessly this was a military order issued by the Führer himself, and several German armored divisions that had completed the final encirclement could only stop their own attacks, giving the prey in front of them a rare respite.

And this undoubtedly gave the British a chance! Churchill saw the immediate urgency as the matter of the moment. Not to save the dying French ally, but to do everything possible to "snatch" from the mouths of the Germans! It is imperative to get ahead of the Germans, and snatch all the valuable things that are still in the hands of France, and if they cannot be moved, even if they are smashed or burned, they cannot fall into the hands of Germany.

So the British, who were ruthless, decided to strike first against their former comrades-in-arms!

At the same time, in the Shattered Star Zone, due to the concealment from both the enemy and the allies, the French fleet, which was extremely closed to information, did not know that its hometown was about to be bulldozed. And the British allies who have been with them all the time swear by it. The mighty British Home Fleet had rushed to Venus and engaged the invading German fleet.

But they did not tell the French, and the British Grand Fleet was scared away by the opponent with only one shot, and the ground was chased and beaten like ducks. The French fleet's understanding of the actual situation in the country. Just stay in the first week of the war!

In fact, as early as two weeks ago, Zhao Jian had already reminded the French fleet in the Shattered Star Zone that they would return to China now. Maybe it's still too late. But the French obviously did not believe him, a "stranger", and even took the information provided by Zhao Jian to go to the British allies for verification.

Naturally, the British gentleman with a bad stomach did not tell the truth, and said that the information provided by Zhao Jian was a trick of the Germans. But over time. Gradually, the French themselves reacted that something was wrong, but it was too late!

Compared with another time and space, although the strength of the French here is not weak, the luck is obviously worse. The French resistance lasted less than five weeks, and the new prime minister, Pétain, made his first foreign policy decision since taking office...... Accept the terms of Nazi Germany and surrender to the Axis camp.

At the same time, the British army, which had long been prepared for the worst, launched an evacuation operation called "Dynamo", and the 220,000 British expeditionary forces fighting on Venus, the 80,000 French troops who were unwilling to give up resistance, and a small number of Belgian troops, boarded the British transport ships that were urgently transferred to Gokirk.

For this evacuation, the UK commissioned all "temporary migration boats" that had not yet been dismantled. Although the facilities of these transport ships that were rushed out during the Great Migration period were very simple, they were not suitable for transporting people.

It is a pity that more than 90% of these transport ships, which originally numbered thousands of ships, were dismantled for urban expansion after completing their historical mission. The British government managed to collect less than 300 ships, so it had no choice but to mobilize a number of civilian spacecraft to barely scrape together a transport fleet that could evacuate 340,000 people at one time. And for the sake of the Nendora, the soldiers who boarded the ship had to throw away all their equipment!

Under the protection of the British Grand Fleet, this large convoy fled through the stargate to Mercury, and although it was harassed by the German fleet several times along the way, the losses were very small. When they arrived on British soil, they were heroically welcomed by the local population. But at this time, these escaped French soldiers did not know that the British, who seemed to be like brothers, were completely different elsewhere.

After the decision of the new Vichy government in France to surrender, one of the conditions offered by Germany was for the French navy to be concentrated in designated ports and to be demobilized or disarmed under German or Italian supervision. The reason why Germany did not directly occupy these warships was to take care of the national feelings of the French.

As the saying goes, "hit a stick, give a date"! Hitler believed that it was entirely possible to obtain the navy on the condition of "keeping half of France to the French" in a way that would be acceptable to both sides, and the British would naturally not sit idly by.

Churchill, who was in a hurry, gave an order that would make the French Navy hate him for the rest of his life.

On 15 March, when the French delegates arrived in German-occupied New Paris to sign a humiliating armistice with the Germans, a British fleet suddenly appeared at the port of Mürskebiel, where the French fleet was docking.

After the British fleet, codenamed "H", appeared with a strong attitude and demanded that the French fleet docked here stay behind either follow them and join the British Navy to continue the war against Germany, or detonate all the ammunition depots by themselves within six hours.

For such an excessive request, the French army naturally would not agree, and Jean, who commanded this fleet. Admiral Sur flatly refused. So the other party did not hesitate to start firing at the former allies!

The French fleet docked in the harbor at that time probably never dreamed that the former allies outside the door would really be so ruthless that they would not be ambiguous at all when they said that they wanted to open fire! As a result, the British Royal Navy, which came prepared, seized the opportunity to condescendingly and indiscriminately bombed the French warships and other facilities in the harbor.

The shameless battle lasted less than 40 minutes, and a large number of French ships, including three Brittany-class battleships, were destroyed on the spot. They had just escaped from a flash attack by the Germans, only to be killed by the fire of their allies.

The British fleet marched away before the Germans arrived, and the new government did not learn of this until two days later, and the whole French society was in an uproar.

For even the Germans, who had just defeated them, allowed France to keep their navy, while the British allies, who had fought side by side not so long ago, were to exterminate them. For a time, the resentment of the French people towards Britain surpassed that of Germany. Hitler's right-hand man, Propaganda Minister Goebbels, should make good use of this opportunity to completely draw France over to his side.

As a result, the German propaganda machine swaggered into France and continued to launch an "offensive" against France in another area. At this time, the French government had no time to pay attention to the propaganda offensive of the Germans, and the new Prime Minister Pétain was anxiously studying with his subordinates how to get in touch with the expeditionary fleet stationed in the Shattered Star Zone.

The other side must not have known the news of France's surrender at this time, let alone that the British allies had torn their faces with them. If the British were to get in touch with their fleet in the Shattered Star Zone first, it would be highly likely that the unsuspecting French fleet would find the British behind and attack.

"France must not lose the Richelieu again!"

It was a phrase that Petain repeatedly ranted at a cabinet meeting, but it was clear to all the officers and government aides present that the British had also seized the lead in this matter, and with the same level of ultra-long-range communication on both sides, it was almost impossible for them to convey information to their own fleet before the British.

And once the Richelieu and her fleet are lost, even if France still has 9 giant soldiers available, it will be completely devastated by it. If we want to build a powerful space navy, in addition to a strong industrial base and huge expenditures, we also need more than ten years of personnel training and hundreds of years of accumulation.

So the current France cannot afford to lose the expeditionary fleet again, because that is already the last remaining fleet of France! (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter was originally intended to be called "Anglo-French Tearing", but then I thought about it too straightforwardly, and it didn't seem to be very good......