After the defeat of Britain and France in the war on the Belgian border, they were already at a disadvantage throughout the war.

Because of this, the Germans were free to carry out more and bigger strategies.

When it was possible to be unscrupulous, the Germans finally exposed their huge ambitions.

In mid-July 1936, a German army group set out for Denmark and declared war on Denmark.

The Danish government was forced to declare war on Germany and join the British, French, Austrian, and Australian alliances.

And that's not all, the Germans are clearly targeting more than Denmark, they even have certain ideas about Sweden and Norway.

Although the three Nordic countries are relatively less developed than Central and Western Europe, they have a fairly large land area. Because of such a vast land area, the three Nordic countries are sitting on a large number of mineral resources and other materials, which Germany is currently in dire need.

In the beginning, the Germans were able to peacefully buy certain supplies from the three Nordic countries. But after the outbreak of the war, the British strengthened the blockade of the Baltic Sea, and it was not so easy for the Germans to get enough supplies.

Moreover, it is summer, and the Baltic Sea is still warm. But by the time winter comes, a considerable part of the Baltic Sea will be covered with ice, which will seriously affect the movement of the fleet.

In order to ensure that they had access to sufficient supplies at all times, the Germans decided to bring the three Nordic countries directly under their rule.

Anyway, there is already a full-scale war with Britain, France and Australia, so there is no need to care about the negative impact of attacking the three Nordic countries on Germany.

Of course, the two Mediterranean countries of Latvia and Estonia were also on the list of German attackers.

In just half a month, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia and Estonia declared war on Germany, and Germany also began the feat of single-handedly taking on almost the whole of Europe.

Although this may seem a little crazy, it has to be admitted that the combat effectiveness of the German army at this time was extremely strong.

Especially when European countries were not so fanatical about war, the crazy German army was like a hanger, and it was sure to win every battle, and it was like a bamboo.

By July 27, 1936, Germany had successfully occupied the Netherlands and Denmark, and Latvia was in danger.

On July 28, the Allied Conference led by Britain and France was held in London, with the participation of Australasia and many European warring countries.

At the meeting, the French delegate put forward a proposal to unite against Germany, and said very seriously: "If France loses this war, no country will be able to stop Germany, which occupies most of Europe." ”

There is still a lot of truth to that. Even the mighty British Empire could never stand alone in the hands of the German Empire, which occupied France.

And the French delegates had only one purpose, that is, to ask more countries to join the war and stop Germany, which was expanding wildly.

It is clear that Britain and France have put their best hopes on Australasia.

Compared to other countries, Australasia is clearly the most powerful of the non-European powers, and the country most likely to change the pattern of war in Europe.

But Australasia could not let its soldiers die in vain, which involved the distribution of benefits after the war.

It was clear that in order for Australasia to send more soldiers to help France, France would have to cede some of its interests.

The negotiations did not lead to much on the day, but after the negotiations, the representative of France approached the representative of Australasia and raised the issue of the negotiation of interests.

The representative of France said that if Australasia was willing to send more troops to help France, the French government was willing to cede Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean in exchange and allow Australasia to establish a naval base in the Comoros Islands.

As can be seen from the map, both islands are located in the western part of the Indian Ocean and are distributed around the island of Madagascar in an east-west pattern.

The establishment of naval bases on these two islands would indeed greatly strengthen Australasia's control over the Indian Ocean.

But it is clear that it is not attractive enough for Australasia, as if it is like chicken ribs, useless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon it.

Australasian diplomatic representative John smiled: "Australasia has no intention of competing with the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, and has no claim to the islands of the western Indian Ocean. ”

Still, Jon smiled and said that if France was willing to hand over jurisdiction of the Republic of Texas to Australasia, Australasia could do more to help its allies.

Compared to the two small archipelagos that the French say, the Republic of Texas is much larger.

What's more, Texas not only has large reserves of oil and other supplies, but also a large population, which allows the French to reap a lot of benefits every year.

The value of the market alone is far greater than that of the two islands that the French call them. Not to mention that many of the materials from Texas will flow to France, and the value of the benefits brought by these materials is immeasurable.

After all-night discussions between the two, the plan for Australasia's troops was finally changed to support more weapons and equipment, and a military guidance group was sent to help the French train the army faster.

In the final analysis, Britain and France are clearly more powerful today than they have been in history.

Britain, France, and Australia have almost divided half of the United States, and the improvement of the respective strength of the three countries is very obvious.

While the British got the best of the best, for the French, the three regions they gained were not much different.

Although it was not possible to completely control the three republics as the colonies did, it was still possible to interfere in the internal affairs of the three republics to a certain extent, and even through the influence of public opinion, to get the three republics to take the initiative to declare war on Germany.

Yes, in addition to pinning their hopes on the colonial armies, the French also expected the three republics to form a large-scale army to help France hold its homeland.

However, as a country that advocates freedom, the United States does not have as much binding power on its people as imagined.

Even if it is divided into multiple countries, each country does not have complete control over its own citizens. Speaking of which, because France and the three republics had already concluded an alliance, the three republics had already declared war on Germany within a few days of the outbreak of the Franco-German war.

But the problem is that as of now, the conscription progress of each of the three republics has not been smooth.

According to the French plan for the three republics, the three republics were to jointly provide at least 500,000 recruits over a month's period and land in France after three months of training and half a month of transportation.

But at present, judging from the progress of the conscription of the three republics, let alone providing 500,000 troops, even providing 150,000 troops is so reluctant.

What's more, the United States has paid more sparse attention to militarized training than France.

These conscripted American soldiers, they are pure recruits and have not even received much militarized training.

This also means that in order for them to have a certain combat effectiveness, they must spend more time training.

Three months have passed since the outbreak of the war, but the army of the three republics, which barely exceeds 150,000, is not yet ready to fight.

This is also the reason why the French additionally asked Australasia to send a military guidance mission. Without Australasia's help, it would take at least two months to get these 150,000 people ready to fight.

Two months is enough to change a lot for the current European battlefield.

Counting the time it took to transport from the United States to Europe, it is questionable whether Paris will remain under the control of the French government in three months' time.

Therefore, the French government, with the support of Australia, made a bold decision to expand the more than 100,000 troops to 200,000 and then quickly go to France.

In France, they undergo about a month of intensive training before they are officially put into battle.

In order to win this war, the French were also open-minded. In addition to the 200,000 troops from the United States, there will be 300,000 recruits from mainland France and the colonies who will train with them and fight with them in the war.

Just three months later, the total number of French troops has exceeded 2 million and is on its way to 3 million.

If you count the large number of soldiers who died in the war, the total number of soldiers involved in this war by France has already exceeded 3 million.

The number of German troops involved in the war was even greater, and the total number of troops now exceeds 4 million, and the total number of troops invested has exceeded 5 million.

Austria was undoubtedly the worst of the great powers. At the beginning of the war, Austria had raised an army of more than a million, and even delayed Germany briefly.

However, after the Czech Republic and Slovakia were annexed by the German Empire, the Austrian Empire was weak, and the mobilization of the army was somewhat slow.

At present, Austria has only about 500,000 remaining combat troops, and the entire empire is only Vienna hanging, and the rest of the country is dead.

If Britain and France could not help the Austrian Empire elsewhere in the war, or if they could not directly send troops to relieve the pressure on the Austrian Empire, I am afraid that the first great power to surrender in this war would also be born.

The British side was also frantically preparing for the next attack at this time.

Although the mobilization of Britain itself was relatively slow, the good news was that the colonies were spread all over the world, and the total number of troops in the entire British Empire was now comparable to that of Germany.

The British mainland alone has gathered an army of nearly one million at present. Of course, more than 300,000 of them were the combined forces of the Dunkirk retreat, who were resting in Britain and waiting for the next opportunity for a counteroffensive.

In fact, judging from the size of the army, the number of British, French and Austrian armies is not inferior to Germany and Italy, and theoretically there are still some fights.

But in terms of the combat effectiveness of the army, the gap is not something that the number of infantry can compensate. Among the three countries of Britain, France and Austria, France should have the strongest combat effectiveness in the army.

But France did not attach much importance to armored forces before World War II, and the gap became apparent when facing Germany, which had a large number of armored forces.

Although the British Empire had a sufficient scale of armored forces, the combat effectiveness of the British Empire soldiers was relatively low, and they could not compete with the German armored forces.

As for Austria, as a country sanctioned after its defeat in World War I, Austria lagged behind other powers in the development of armored forces and air forces.

On August 1, 1936, the German Prime Minister issued a "Letter to the Army", which vigorously incited the German army to step up its actions and occupy the French capital Paris as soon as possible.

In this document, the German Chancellor declared that the offensive on Paris would be the largest battle in the history of mankind and would also decide the fate of the German Reich and France.

With the release of this "Letter to the Army", the German troops on the front line also mobilized in large numbers and marched towards Paris, France.

Only the next day, in the early morning of August 2, a large number of German bombers appeared outside Paris.

Germany, together with Italy, launched a super-massive air raid, striking many important military and civilian targets in France.

Among them, the most important bombing is naturally Paris, the political center of France. In particular, the air base near Paris suffered a devastating blow from the combined German and Italian air forces, and the damage was quite severe.

Hundreds of French fighter jets were blown up before they could take off, and hundreds of pilots were killed or wounded in the raid.

On the same day, more than 1,000 German tanks went on a rampage, and hundreds of thousands of German troops quickly approached Paris as if no one was in a no-man's land.

The French army deployed nearly 500,000 French troops on the line from Amiens to Reims, in an attempt to use these 500,000 French troops to hold back the German army and delay more time for the training of the French army in the future.

But the French government underestimated the impact of successive defeats on the morale of soldiers. After being bombed by the French air force one after another, the French army in the second line of defense seemed to have lost its fighting spirit, and even the attack on the German army appeared weak.

In less than a week, the German army easily broke through the line from Amiens to Reims and advanced towards the megacity not far away.

At this time, the atmosphere in the French government was already relatively delicate.

Although the main war faction argued to allow France to participate in the war, the results of the current war undoubtedly weakened France in the light of the results achieved so far.

What's worse is that if the war continues, it will only increase casualties for France at present.

Especially after the second line of defense was breached, the Lords and Factions once again proclaimed their theories with great fanfare, and said that what France should do at this time was to end the war with as little loss as possible before Paris was breached.

The quarrel between the main war faction and the main peace faction once again caused confusion in France, especially since the entry of Britain and Australasia did not change the situation of the war, and some French people seemed to have the idea of backing down.

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