1941 was destined to be a dark "fascist year", a year in which the Axis countries were at their peak and the anti-fascist camp was divided and surrounded, and had to fight on its own. Such a situation with obvious advantages and disadvantages has caused many small countries that originally had a neutral attitude to waver or defect.

The rapid growth of strength also made the Nazis emboldened, and they could not wait to reach out to many "key areas". Because of its special ore production capacity, the Shattered Star Area has become a strategic resource source that the Japanese army must take.

Therefore, only a month after the end of the Pearl Harbor surprise attack, the Japanese navy and army launched a large-scale joint military operation called "New Asia" at the beginning of the new year. The purpose is to expel the non-Nazi countries near Jupiter, and bring all the colonial moons and three star gates in the Broken Star Sector of Jupiter's ring belt under his control.

Of course! The operation was nominally a combination of land and sea, but the specific operations were still carried out separately, with the army being responsible for occupying colonial satellites and the navy being responsible for controlling the stargates. This division of labor seems to allow the Army to do several times more work than the Navy, but correspondingly, the Army can get more benefits.

However, soon after the operation began, the army ran into trouble on Callisto.

This satellite was first given to Vietnam and other small Southeast Asian countries by the Tang Dynasty, and was controlled by European powers such as Britain and France during the Rebellion of the Six Kings. The Japanese army thought that it would be easy for their large army to crush the border and deal with those isolated colonial armies, but they did not expect that their prey would be taken first.

The day before the start of the Japanese operation, the Datang side suddenly blitzed Ganymede, and within 12 hours, the elite troops of the Eighteenth Army and the newly formed Fourth Army, were all fully armed. The local British and French defenders all surrendered without a fight, and obediently became prisoners of the Tang army.

Hideki Tojo even personally summoned the Tang ambassador to Japan to go to the other party to give an explanation, but the reply he got was "help"!

And what made Hideki Tojo want to vomit blood even more was that Hitler was very happy after learning of the actions of the Don Army. He believed that this was a "vote of nomination" by the Tang Empire and an act of goodwill to the Third Reich. Therefore, the other side took the initiative to jump out and be a peacemaker, hoping that the Japanese side would not have any troubles about this.

In contrast, the actions of the Japanese Navy were much smoother, their goal was only three stargates, and in the case of the US army's active retreat, the first and second stargates were controlled without any incident, while the No. 3 stargate could not be completely taken because of the intervention of the Tang Northern Fleet, but there was no conflict with the Tang army.

The main purpose of this occupation operation by the Japanese army was to stabilize its own rear. So that there will be no worries when it comes to Mars in the future. If handled properly, these planets can even provide them with the supply of troops and war materials for the Servant Army, which can be a powerful help in the attack on the United States.

But it was only after the Japanese army, who regarded themselves as "liberators", that they found that the situation was not as rosy as they had hoped. It is true that there are some leading parties in these occupied areas that "welcome the king", but there are also many resistance groups that are hostile to them. For this reason, the Japanese army had to send troops to carry out a protracted public security war, which on the contrary restrained a lot of Japanese troops.

So much so that the Japanese base camp had to postpone the Martian Campaign, which was originally scheduled for March, to June, which made the German army, which had agreed to divide troops to cooperate with the Japanese attack, shout "Pit Daddy". For this reason, Hitler was greatly annoyed and told his henchmen if the Japanese delayed until June. They fought the United States on their own.

In order to prepare for an attack on the United States and open up the passage between the two spheres of influence of the Axis camp, the German army began to draw troops from various occupied areas and return to the mainland after Christmas last year. The new High Seas Fleet, which was besieging Britain, also withdrew half of its fleet. In its place was a fleet borrowed from Italian Moe Friends.

In addition to Germany's own army, Hitler also widely invited other allies to send troops to help, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria successively sent air force, army, demon king and other troops, and even Spain's Franco was itchy for a while. As a partner country, a "volunteer teacher" was sent to join forces.

However, with the deployment of German troops, the already impenetrable occupation zone inevitably fell into a state of emptiness, so after the German army successively transferred more than half of the ground troops in the French occupation zone. Some people who have been dormant have finally waited for the opportunity they wanted.

Late at night on March 3, 1941, in the city of Vichy in the south of France.

This idyllic town, once famous for its spas, was chosen as the country's new capital by the new Chancellor Pétain after France's defeat, but a large number of German soldiers can still be seen patrolling the streets of the city. From time to time, these armed soldiers would do the work of the police, searching homes and arresting any French suspected members of the resistance, and sometimes even executing them in the streets, and the French military and police did not dare to stop them.

And it is precisely because of these tragedies that Jeanne d'Arc, the S-class giant soldier of France, regrets that he agreed to Pétain's surrender in the first place. So when the messenger of Free France approached her, hoping that Jeanne d'Arc could assist General de Gaulle in continuing the fight for the French people, Jeanne d'Arc, who wanted to make amends, agreed without hesitation.

They decided to take advantage of the fact that the Germans were constantly redeploying their forces and fleeing to England.

On the night of her escape, Joan of Arc persuaded the French guards who were in charge of guarding her to not only agree to let Jeanne d'Arc go, but even to get her a car with a government license plate. With this as a talisman, even those arrogant and domineering Germans did not dare to act rashly.

In order to avoid people's eyes, they waited until the second half of the night to quietly leave the mansion where Joan of Arc lived, and a Free French submarine would meet them in the northern suburbs of the city. As soon as the car drove out of the mansion, Joan of Arc completely hid her sense of existence, which was not difficult for her.

Along the way, neither the German soldiers on patrol nor the French own military police were hindered by the two cars with government license plates. But seeing that they were about to leave the city, before everyone in the car could breathe a sigh of relief, Joan of Arc's face suddenly changed.

Joan of Arc shouted "Be careful" before raising her hand to prop up the roof of the car. Immediately afterwards, a terrifying pressure fell from the sky, pressing the car they were riding in directly into the ground. If it weren't for Joan of Arc to protect the body with her own strength in time, they would have been flattened into a pancake at this time.

At this time, the frightened crowd heard a cynical female voice coming from outside the car.

"Miss Joan of Arc, it's so late, where are you going?" (To be continued......)

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