Rise of Australia

Chapter 902 The Balkan War

It is worth mentioning that although Paris has fallen, the fall of Paris did not dampen the French's confidence in resisting the Germans at all.

After moving the government to Tours, French Chief of Staff Charles de Gaulle issued a "Message to the French People" to all French people.

In this important document, de Gaulle mentioned: “France is not fighting alone, we also have allies such as the British Empire, the Austrian Empire, and the Australasian Empire.

Although we lost Paris, it did not mean that we lost hope of defeating the Germans.

Whether you are an ordinary French citizen, an engineer or technician in an arms factory, or a soldier who has been injured and retired on the battlefield, please heed my call and devote yourself to wherever the country needs you.

No matter what happens, France's flame of resistance will never go out, and the French will never give in.

Soldiers, we are not only leaving behind Tours, but also the French people and our families.

For the sake of our families and compatriots, for the final glory of France, and for the survival of France, please let us forget all our previous failures, stand together as one, and shout to our enemies: France is invincible! The French will never surrender! "

I have to admit that although France's performance in the war was far inferior to Germany, France did not lack those true patriots.

Following de Gaulle's call, a large number of French ambitious young people quickly gathered and completed the mobilization of up to 50 soldiers in a short period of time.

Do these young French people approve of the current military government? I'm afraid not necessarily. After all, the government was established only after a military coup, and it only controlled France for a short period of time. It is difficult for it to be recognized by all French people.

But a word of not being a slave to the subjugation of the country is enough to make more French people stand up, actively join the army, and join the camp to resist the Germans.

This is exactly the kind of patriotism that cannot be explained or seen. When a crisis breaks out in a country, if countless heroes stand up, then the country will never perish.

While France was carrying out massive mobilization, Germany was declaring war on many countries one after another.

As mentioned before, Germany is in great need of iron ore and other minerals from the three Nordic countries.

After capturing Paris, Germany couldn't wait to declare war on the three Nordic countries, and its troops landed in Norway and Sweden in a mighty manner.

Also declared war were Latvia and Estonia, which also created a great spectacle. Germany was fighting most of Europe at the same time. This was an even crazier move than World War I.

In addition to attacking these small Nordic countries, Germany also began to bomb the UK in large numbers and sent a large number of letters of persuasion to surrender to the UK.

In fact, at the beginning of the war, the German Empire did not have the crazy idea of ​​attacking Britain in its plan.

The German Prime Minister even naively believed that if Germany could quickly defeat France, Britain would also accept peace talks.

But unexpectedly, not only did the British fail to accept the peace talks, but with the help of the British, even France gave up the plan of peace talks with Germany.

Although the German government contacted Britain many times in an attempt to resolve the war with Britain in a more peaceful way. But the message that the German government hears time and again is only one word, and that is a big "no!"

The new British Prime Minister Churchill even publicly announced in a speech to the entire British people: "I will always be in London and direct the entire war here. If the Germans want to attack us, then let them come.

I will always sit here, in this chair. Either the Germans surrender, or the Germans take my body out of here! "

Britain's firm stance surprised Germany, and some German people even laughed at the British as fools.

After all, Germany already had an absolute advantage in the war at this time and had even captured a large amount of French land.

Wherever the German army went, any country could only defend, and even defense was difficult to achieve.

Under such circumstances, Britain still insists on persisting in the war. Isn't this just waiting to be defeated and then carve up its colonies?

Although the German people did not understand it, the British position was indeed very firm at this time.

In response to the British attitude, the German Prime Minister also made his own speech in the new Congress. This time the speech changed from the hysterical style of the past and became gentle and elegant.

"Unfortunately, I only heard one voice from Britain, that is, the war must continue. Is this the voice of the British? I'm afraid not necessarily.

This is not the voice of the British, it is the voice of British politicians. From a conscience, I feel it is my responsibility to once again appeal to the UK and other countries to show their sense and common sense.

I think I am qualified to make this appeal because I am not a defeated person praying for favors, but a victor speaking in the name of reason.

With all due respect, you guys have no confidence to continue this war. Apart from increasing casualties, this is a completely unnecessary thing to do, but you still do it. "

On the night of the German Prime Minister's speech, hundreds of German planes dropped a large number of leaflets with the full text of the speech on major British cities.

On this leaflet, there is also a striking sentence printed: "Surrender, this is a war between politicians, and ordinary people should not be affected."

What the Germans didn't expect was that long before they dropped the speech leaflets in large numbers, the German Prime Minister's speech had already been broadcast to all parts of the UK.

Not only did the British government not have the slightest fear about Germany's threatening speech, but it also pushed the situation to prepare the entire British people to be prepared for Germany and prepare them for the continuation of the war. On October 1936, 10, in a new round of negotiations between the British and German governments, the British Lord Halifax officially mentioned in the radio: "Unless the Germans are willing to maintain the pre-war borders, the British will never May agree to peace.”

The German bombing of Britain not only did not make the British retreat, but instead aroused the British desire to fight.

On October 1936, 10, Britain, France and Australia gathered more than 19 aircraft in the UK. The purpose was self-evident.

From the morning to the evening of that day, more than 2000 aircraft carried out very large-scale bombings on the German-occupied areas of the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and carried out carpet bombing in some important areas.

This is not over yet. Large-scale bombings were also carried out in Frankfurt, Dortmund, Bremen and Hannover in Germany, with at least tens of thousands of bombs dropped.

Such a bombing was not only a response to the German bombing of London, but also a response to Germany's threatening speeches.

While Germany was anxiously launching an attack on the three Nordic countries, the Balkans finally slowly united together.

On October 10, a large-scale conflict broke out between Yugoslavia and Italy on the border. The armies of both sides even opened fire on each other, just like a war.

The conflict that day resulted in hundreds of Yugoslav soldiers being injured, and more than 10 of them died on the spot.

This was not over yet. Bulgaria, who had boarded the German tank, also had extraordinary ambitions at this time.

You know, in the previous Balkan War, most of the land occupied by Bulgaria was divided up, and even its original homeland was forced to cede part of it to Romania.

Now Bulgaria naturally wants to regain its own land.

On October 10, conflicts also broke out between Bulgaria and Greece on the border. Haskovo's Bulgarian troops attacked the Greek troops at Alexandrospoli and captured the Greek outposts on the border.

Such an attack would naturally not be tolerated by the Greek army.

Although there was no direct declaration of war, the Greek army also organized troops to launch an attack on the Bulgarian army in Haskovo the next day, October 10, resulting in the death of dozens of Bulgarian soldiers on the spot.

The so-called powder keg naturally explodes at one point.

In two consecutive conflicts, neither the German camp in Italy and Bulgaria nor the British camp in Yugoslavia and Greece were satisfied.

After Italy made preparations, it directly launched a larger-scale attack, which was no smaller than a battle.

The unprepared Yugoslav army was directly attacked by the Italian army, with more than a thousand casualties.

Now Yugoslavia couldn't stand it anymore.

On October 1936, 10, Yugoslavia directly occupied Zara in Italian-controlled Dalmatia and hoisted the Yugoslav flag in the Zara city hall.

This was tantamount to an undeclared war, and such a loss was naturally unacceptable to Mussolini.

On October 10, Italy declared war on Yugoslavia.

On the afternoon of October 10, Germany declared war on Yugoslavia.

On October 10, Yugoslavia declared war on Germany, and Greece and Albania declared war on Italy and Germany.

On October 10, Bulgaria declared war on Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece, and the Balkan War officially began.

Although the war in the Balkans has begun, the current situation is obviously beneficial to the British side.

Before Romania entered the war, the three Balkan countries only had to face Italy and Bulgaria.

Because France has 50 troops, Italy can mobilize less than one million troops.

Among the three Balkan countries, Yugoslavia has the largest population and the number of troops it can mobilize is around one million.

Although Greece has a small population, it is still no problem to scrape together an army of 50. As for Albania, which has the smallest population, it can play a relatively small role. It is already good to have an army of 15.

The total number of these armies is almost over 170 million, and they will not suffer a loss against Italy and Bulgaria.

Because the land occupied by Bulgaria was divided among other Balkan countries, Bulgaria's population is not large among the Balkan countries.

At present, the army that Bulgaria can mobilize is basically at the same level as Greece, which is about 50 people.

Although it can barely scrape together 100 million, for Bulgaria, which has a small population, it is likely to hurt the country.

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