stonecrandall Chapter 525
Chapter 525
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: 0.051s Scan: 0.034sThe result of the vote in Gotham was not unexpected. Roosevelt finally won the victory here, defeating his competitors with an absolute advantage, and became the 31st president of the United States!
After hearing the news, Mainz, who was far away in Berlin, sighed.
“Roosevelt has stepped onto the historical stage ahead of time!
Compared to the past when he took the presidency five years later, Roosevelt’s pace in this time and space is much faster!
Of course, the mess he faces at this time is much more serious than in history. It is hard to say whether he can successfully lead the Eagle Sauce out of the predicament.
“President, the other party does not seem to have much ill will towards us. He said at the press conference before that he would visit our country first after taking office. I think he still needs us in his heart!”
The man with the mustache said naively. He felt that the other party’s goodwill could be seen from the information just released by Roosevelt. This guy should not be very hostile to Hans. He should be a more friendly person!
Mainz looked at the man with the mustache for a few seconds and thought to himself, the person who took your life in history is this person. You actually think he is a great good man. Isn’t it too naive?
“I don’t think so. This person is a member of the Right-wing Party, which advocates external expansion and globalization. It is a right-wing party. Their previous president was President Will. After World War I, he tried his best to get the Eagle Sauce away from isolationism and move towards globalization, but in the end he went bankrupt because he was tricked by the British Empire and Gaul!”
“Roosevelt once worked under President Will and was deeply influenced by President Will. After he comes to power, he will definitely inherit and even further promote President Will’s strategy. In that case, they will completely change the previous Republican Party’s strategy. In short, in terms of diplomacy, there should be significant changes in the relationship between the Eagle Sauce and our country!”As the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ribbentrop’s words are still taken very seriously. After all, he has traveled between North America and Europe many times and knows the most about the situation in the Eagle Sauce.
Since he said so, this matter must be taken seriously!
“No matter what, we have to pay close attention to this person’s every move. Since he is coming to visit Berlin, let’s meet him and test his background!”
Mainz did not hold out much hope for Roosevelt. This guy would make the best choice for the interests of the Eagle Sauce, and he was definitely not someone who could be bound by a treaty!
“The attack in Gaul will be intensified. After conquering the Bastogne region and the Belgian army, the army will immediately head south to promote peace through war and force the Gauls to surrender to us!”
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On November 20, 192, in Gaul.
After learning that the capital had fallen, General Gamelin had been killed, and President Dumelo had been captured, the entire Gaul began to panic.
This news reminded the Gauls of what they had done to the Hans a few years ago, when they had done all kinds of bad things.
Now, it was Hans’ turn to bully them, so the Gauls were all very worried about being retaliated by Hans. The whole country, especially those in the occupied areas, began to panic. A large number of refugees fled madly to the southwest and southeast regions, and some even died in North Africa, as far away from the threat of the Hans as possible!
In the southern region, in the second largest city of Marseille, Marshal Pétain’s face was ashen and gloomy after hearing the intelligence from the front line.
Marshal Pétain had never felt that his motherland was in such a critical situation. Even during the Franco-Prussian War sixty years ago, he did not feel that Gaul was in danger of extinction. But this time, facing the millions of German troops, he was completely at a loss!
“How many troops do we have left?”
After losing Gamelin and the president, Marshal Pétain’s prestige in the country was undoubtedly the highest at this time.
After Marshal Foch and Marshal Joffre retired, he was the only one left of the Big Three.
Originally, due to his age, Marshal Pétain was in a semi-retired state at this time. Gamelin, who was 16 years younger than him, led the entire army, while he stayed in the south to transport troops and various supplies to the front line to ensure the battle on the front line.
However, after the disastrous defeat in the Battle of the Eiffel Tower, everything changed!
After the capital was gone, Marseille immediately became the new capital automatically, and after losing the two most powerful people, Pétain himself became the most prestigious person in the army and the country. Almost all of the remaining more than one million troops in Gaul were under his command!
And those politicians and literati who fled from the Eiffel Tower to Marseille came to the unfamiliar south at this time. They lost their power base, so they had no voice at all. Even if they wanted to do something, no one would take them seriously. In the eyes of the southerners, there was only Pétain!
“There are still about 250,000 regular troops in the south, and 600,000 troops on the Maginot Line have not been withdrawn. The 600,000 troops who retreated from the Maginot Line in advance and were preparing to rush to the capital are now rushing to the south, but we have not been able to get in touch with General Dai Gaole and his subordinates. General Dai Gaole’s army may be in danger.……”
Compared to the uncertainty at the beginning of the war, the German army’s advantage was already quite obvious at this time. After the Gauls lost their capital, the army commander committed suicide and the president was captured, the entire country was in chaos. Their remaining land and army were already difficult to resist the attack of the German army of one million.
Therefore, the Gallic army stranded in the northern region, including the 1.2 million people who had been squatting on the Maginot Line, were desperately rushing south.���As for the 400,000 people in Degaulle who were surrounded by the German army, no one knew whether they were alive or dead at this time!
Upon hearing this news, Marshal Pétain took a breath of cold air!
The situation seemed to be worse than he thought, because he did not expect the German attack to come so quickly in advance, which led to the French defense line being mainly concentrated in the border area, and the main force was on the Maginot Line.
After the German army invaded the Windmill Country, they were forced to send reinforcements to Belgium to protect their flanks. As a result, when the German army launched a surprise attack from the Ardennes Forest, the French defense line was in chaos, and a large number of troops were surrounded in Benelux and other places. In order to rescue these surrounded troops, they sent out the troops protecting the capital area, which led to the empty defense of the capital area!
Although there was only a 2-day window, the German army seized this opportunity accurately and broke through their capital in one fell swoop, causing the entire northern Gaul to fall completely!
At this time, almost all the French troops on the front line were defeated. No one cared about the lives of the hundreds of thousands of French troops who were surrounded. All the troops on the front line were frightened by the German army and were fleeing madly to the south!
No one thought about defending on the spot, resisting step by step, and blocking the German attack!
In this way, the area controlled by the German army quickly expanded from the northern region at the beginning to the northeast and central regions!
If it continues like this, it will take less than three days for the German army to surround the Maginot Line from the rear. By March next year at the latest, the German army will be able to flatten the entire Gaul.
Marshal Pétain had never seen such a rout. He felt as if he suddenly didn’t recognize the army in his hands!
Why did they become so fragile, like a fragile vase, which would break at the touch. Doesn’t the whole country have the slightest blood to resist the enemy who invaded them?
“Can the 1.2 million troops on the Maginot Line be withdrawn?”
Marshal Pétain was very depressed. He only had 250,000 troops. Although there were millions of troops in the south, they were newly recruited soldiers who had no equipment, no training, and no combat experience. They could not be expected to fight on the battlefield!
Forcing them to go to the battlefield would mean sending them to their deaths!
Therefore, he could only rely on the regular French army!
“I don’t know. The German army was advancing very quickly. After the Sixth Army broke through the Iron Tower City, it immediately marched towards Nancy, trying to cut off the retreat of the defenders on the Maginot Line from the rear. Moreover, Guderian’s First Army was sweeping towards the Bordeaux area at this time. They obviously planned to attack us from the east and west sides!”