The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 614

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: 0.039s Scan: 0.084sAfter ending the dispute over the ownership of the Marine Corps, Mainz set his sights on the three Nordic countries.

The main reason for the North Sea War was to drive the British Empire out of the Nordic region and the coastal areas of the European continent. Among the three Nordic countries, except for Norway, the other two countries had a good attitude towards Hans. They knew their own strength very well and knew that they could not resist Hans’ invasion by relying solely on their own strength, so they honestly chose to change their allegiance and join Hans.

On the contrary, Norway, because it relied on the protection of the British Empire, had a very negative attitude towards Hans. Their Prime Minister Christopher was the only head of state who said no to Hans during the Iron Tower City parade!

If such a thorn is not taught a lesson, I am afraid that other small countries will think that Hans can be bullied. If they follow suit, the European Union plan promoted by Mainz will be ruined!

Therefore, Mainz had planned a military invasion against Norway a long time ago!

Historically, the little mustache launched the Battle of Norway in 1940, dispatched 8 divisions of troops, and launched a three-dimensional attack on Norway with the cooperation of the navy, army and air force.

In about two months of fighting, the German army successfully destroyed Norway at the cost of 3,000 casualties, and took down the most important barrier outside the North Sea.

This enabled the German navy to break through the sea blockade of the sun never sets, so that their unlimited submarine warfare and sea-breaking warfare can be carried out!

Norway itself has a small population of less than four million people.

Such a small population naturally cannot support an army of too large a scale.

According to the information provided by Himmler, Norway currently has a total of 15,000 divisions, almost all of which are infantry. There is no navy, and the scale of the air force is very small.

Because of its weak industrial strength, Norway’s weapons and equipment are almost all purchased from neighboring Sweden and the ally, the British Empire. Their weapons are not advanced, but not backward, and can only be said to be mediocre.

However, because they cannot manufacture weapons and equipment independently, the Norwegian army lacks heavy weapons such as large-caliber artillery and tanks and armored vehicles. Although light weapons are not lacking, it is unavoidable to expect you to resist the iron hoof of the German army with these weapons!

Therefore, if a fight really breaks out, Norway is naturally not the opponent of the German army. The reason why the mustache invasion of Norway lasted for two months and ended on June 10, 1940 was not because Norway was very good at fighting, but because when the Battle of Norway broke out, the German army was concentrating most of its forces to launch a fierce attack on Gaul in Western Europe.

In this situation, most of Hans’ energy had to be invested in the more important battles in the west. The importance of the military operations in the north decreased a lot, and the support received was much smaller. This led to the fact that the German army did not invest much troops at the beginning. It was not until the end that it gradually increased its troops and invested in paratroopers to quickly control the situation.

Moreover, although Norway’s own army was not strong, they received strong support from the Allies.

Before the little mustache launched the invasion against Norway, the Battle of Gaul had not yet broken out, so the British and Gauls also formed a coalition force, crossed the North Sea and entered Norway to resist the German army.

The weapons and equipment of this army and the combat capabilities of Norway’s own army were much stronger.

Their appearance brought a lot of trouble to the German army and delayed the time for the German army to quickly solve the Norwegian problem, allowing the Norwegian battle to last for 62 days.

Speaking of the British and Gaul armies, we have to mention the Gauls again.

Since the German invasion of Poland, they have been sitting still, pretending to watch the fire from the other side of the river. When the Germans attacked Norway, they sent troops to aid Norway. As a result, when their troops just arrived in Norway, their homeland was attacked by the Germans.

So the Gauls hurriedly withdrew their troops from Norway and planned to return to their homeland. As a result, before the army was withdrawn, Gaul surrendered…

Because the speed of Gaul’s surrender was too fast, the army ran back and forth on the sea, and finally had to retreat to the homeland of the British Empire with the British army. The

British Empire was very distrustful of the Gauls because Gaul surrendered to Hans and acted as Hans’s follower and vassal state.

After Gaul surrendered, they immediately sent a fleet to attack the Gaul navy and sank many of Gaul’s warships.

As for the Gallic troops that followed the British from Dunkirk, as soon as they entered the British mainland, they were disarmed by the British and strictly guarded as prisoners of war!

This group of troops withdrawn from the Norwegian region fought side by side with their British allies the previous second, and were disarmed by the latter the next second and locked up as prisoners of war. It was miserable enough!

Fortunately, after Dai Gaole escaped from Gaul, he quickly rushed to the British mainland. After establishing an exile government in the British mainland, he completed negotiations with the British government, took over the control of these troops from the British, and then took them to North Africa to participate in the resistance movement of Free Gaul, so that they would not continue to suffer in the British side!

In this time and space, the Gallic Campaign was launched earlier than the Norwegian Campaign, and Gaul had surrendered at this time.

Moreover, after the Battle of the North Sea, the British Navy’s sphere of influence shrank a lot, and was forced to give up control of the northeastern part of the North Sea, which made it much easier for the German army to launch military operations against Norway.

Historically, because of the powerful strength of the British Navy, when the German army launched the Battle of Norway, its own navy paid a heavy price in the naval battle and landing operations.

They lost 10 destroyers and 3 cruisers in the initial landing battle, including the Blücher of the same level as the Prince Eugen, which was sunk by a mine, killing more than 1,000 officers and soldiers on the ship.

This was the heaviest loss of the German army during the Battle of Norway!

In this time and space, because there was no huge pressure from the British Royal Navy, if the German army wanted to launch an attack, it would be much calmer than in history.

They did not need to sneak attack the enemy in the dark night.

They could attack Norway in broad daylight!

If the British did not come, that would be the best, they could land on the Norwegian mainland at their leisure.

If the British came, that would be even better, they could sink the British warships directly at sea and send all the soldiers on their troop transports to the bottom of the sea to feed the turtles!

Moreover, Norwegian and Hans mainland are not adjacent, so the attack on Norwegian must mobilize the navy, army and air force, and must fight a landing battle!