According to Churchill's calculations, although the South China Sea Federation has a relatively powerful navy, it still has a big problem, that is, the South China Sea Federation has a relatively small number of warships and troops, and lacks overseas bases. It has more than enough defense but insufficient offensive power, especially for long-distance attacks.
more problematic.
As a result, the South China Sea Federation cannot effectively support Germany and Italy in Europe, and the control of the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar is still firmly in the hands of the British, making it powerless to the European South China Sea Federation.
However, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union have an advantage in Europe. The United States can smoothly transport supplies and personnel to the United Kingdom or the Soviet Union through the Atlantic route. As long as the British mainland is not attacked, the British navy can control the Mediterranean and the North Sea. If it can
By convincing Stalin to attack Germany from the east, Britain and the United States would have the opportunity to land on the European continent, leaving Germany in a position of being attacked from both sides.
As for the South China Sea Federation, based on Liu Fu's past actions, Churchill believed that he would probably immerse himself in the construction of Australia. After all, such a large piece of land was larger than the entire South China Sea Federation, and there were millions of white residents on it. How to deal with it?
Ethnic issues and the development of the Australian mainland were Liu Fu's priorities.
Churchill was skeptical about whether the South China Sea Federation would enter the European war situation, because Liu Fu used the opportunity of World War I to capture French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies in one fell swoop. This time he raided Australia and fought with
The action was very similar. He jumped out to take advantage when Britain, France and other countries were at war, but this time the advantage was a bit bigger. However, the South China Sea Federation did not have the ability to enter Europe in the short term.
Roosevelt also agreed with Churchill's view, but Roosevelt could not fully agree with Churchill's proposal for the United States to fully intervene in the European war, because he was always worried that the naval strength of the South China Sea Federation in the Pacific, especially the North Pacific, would threaten the west coast of the United States.
, you must know that the West Coast of the United States has the largest population of Chinese and Asians. Once it is attacked by the South China Sea Federation, Roosevelt cannot imagine what the West Coast of the United States will become, so he still tends to focus part of his attention on the Pacific.
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In the end, Britain and the United States reached a memorandum of cooperation. The first point is to bring the Soviet Union in as an ally to jointly fight Germany and Italy; the second point is that the U.S. government will approve it through Congress as soon as possible so that the United States can enter a state of war; the third point is that the United States will
Material aid will be provided to the British government starting next month, and American ships will complete this transportation task.
Churchill was worthy of being a professional politician. Although he was the most opposed to the Soviet Union, a red country, he had always been at the forefront on anti-Soviet issues. However, under the premise that the environment and circumstances changed, he immediately changed his face.
He considered himself a friend of the Soviet Union and waved an olive branch to Stalin.
If it were a different time period, Stalin would never pay attention to this short, fat man. It was this man who once blocked the Soviet Union in Europe, and it was he who made enemies for the new Soviet government. It was he who instigated Germany and the Soviet Union to become enemies.
Now this short fat guy
After being beaten to the point of being cornered by the Germans, he actually began to ask for help from the Soviet Union, which he had once made trouble for in every possible way. Stalin even believed that as long as the German offensive weakened slightly and the British saw hope of victory, this short fat man would immediately fight with
The Soviet Union fell out.
However, the current situation in the Soviet Union made it impossible for Stalin to refuse this hateful politician's proposal. The great purges in the Soviet Union in recent years had emptied the Soviet Red Army's foundation. Although the Soviet Union's industrial development momentum in recent years was not bad, the living standards of the domestic people were not
There is no substantial improvement, more
What worried Stalin was that the German tiger was always casting greedy eyes to the west of the Soviet Union. In view of the tyrannical strength of the German army and air force in this war, Stalin was also very worried about who would be the next one to be attacked by this kind of enemy after France.
Could it be that the Soviet Union was devoured by the tiger?
However, once people are very afraid of something, they will always find various reasons to make themselves believe that this thing will not catch up with them in the short term. Stalin's current mentality is this. The Soviet Union is not ready for war, at least within a year.
He was not well prepared, and he always thought that the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" could restrain Mustache for a few years, even just 2 years. By then, the Soviet Red Army would have better equipment and more organized personnel.
, although there is no guarantee that we can defeat Germany, at least we don’t have to worry about the German ** team.
Due to this ambivalent mentality, Stalin did not actively respond to the suggestion put forward by Churchill and Roosevelt. He only agreed to consider it. He wanted to wait and see. As long as he could avoid being involved in this war, he was unwilling to get involved.
After the Dunkirk retreat, the French lost 30 divisions, and their proud Maginot Line did not play its due role. French Commander-in-Chief Maxi, who succeeded Marshal Gamelin,
General M. Weygand pieced together 49 French divisions from east to west, plus 2 British expeditionary divisions, and organized them into 3 legions. They formed a second line of defense along the Somme and Aisne rivers, later called Wei
Just line of defense.
The new commander Weygand, like his predecessor, once again connected the Maginot Line and the Weygand Line to prepare to resist the German army's southward march. However, the Germans did not give the old French general enough preparation time and occupied the Netherlands and
After the German Army Group B in Belgium and Army Group A, which broke through the French defense line, made simple adjustments, they continued to pounce southward.
On June 3, the German Air Force launched a long-term air attack on the French airfields and positions on the south side of the Somme River, and then Army Group B launched a full-line attack on the Somme defense line on June 5. On the same day, another German general
The 7th Armored Division led by Erwin Johannes Jurgen Rommel successfully crossed the Somme River, and on the next day cut off the French left-wing army defending the Abbeville and Amiens lines, and from here
broke into the rear of the French defense lines.
After breaking through the French defense line, Rommel led his armored troops straight to the Seine River, then turned northwest and ran 50 kilometers, cutting off the retreat of some of the retreating French left-wing regiments, and cooperating with other troops of Army Group B
, surrounded three French divisions and one British division, and finally captured these French and British troops.
On the east side of the Weygand Defense Line, the German Army Group A also launched a full-scale attack on the Aisne River Defense Line. That night, Guderian's 1st Armored Division successfully crossed over and defeated the French Armored Division on the front, breaking through.
The defense line of the French right-wing army marched all the way southward into uninhabited territory.
The French troops who were frightened by German tanks and Stuka dive bombers surrendered to Guderian's tank troops in groups. In order not to affect the marching speed, Guderian did not stop when he encountered the surrendering French troops.
Instead, a loudspeaker was set up on the tank, and while driving, it shouted to the French troops, asking them to get out of the way and drop their weapons on the side of the road to surrender, and then the rearguard troops
He was responsible for overseeing the officer, and he led the 1st Armored Division to advance more than 400 kilometers in a 10-day attack, all the way to the Swiss border, blocking the retreat of the French right-wing army. Along the way, he and his Armored Division
He captured 250,000 French troops, so much so that his logistics troops needed one person to guard thousands of French prisoners, creating a miracle in the history of war.
On June 10, the French government withdrew from Paris and fled to the south. On the same day, the Italian government declared war on France. On the 13th, the French government had to move its capital again to Bordeaux. On the 14th, the German army entered Paris and declared its occupation.
A famous European city.
After Germany occupied Paris, a split occurred within the French government. Some officials expressed that they should surrender to reduce France's losses. These people stayed in Bordeaux, led by World War I hero Marshal Philippe Pétain, who later became France.
The Vichy government; some French officials were unwilling to surrender to Germany, so they sailed to Britain, where they established a French government-in-exile led by General Charles de Gaulle to continue resisting Germany.
In fact, France had already perished at this time, but there were still 500,000 French troops continuing to resist in the Maginot Line. So the three German Army Groups A, B, and C attacked back and forth, and it took three days to defeat them.
Occupied the Maginot Line and surrounded all 500,000 French troops. Only a few French troops fled into Switzerland. (To be continued...)
