The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 706

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Mainz intends to contact the British, Ribbentrop has to reserve his opinion even if he has other ideas.

After Hans responded, the British soon sent representatives to the third country, Ireland, to negotiate with Hans!

Ireland is the neighbor of the British, and it is also the only country they can reach smoothly at present.

In fact, Mainz doesn’t care much about where to negotiate, because no matter where the negotiations are held, Hans’s strong position will not change.

The British are in a passive position on the battlefield at this time, and this will not change at the negotiation table, so no matter where they negotiate, they are passive.

In order to show Hans’s importance to this matter, Foreign Minister Ribbentrop personally led a team to Ireland.

In name, it was a diplomatic visit to Ireland, but in fact it was to negotiate with the British.

Because the contact between the two sides was not public, few people knew about this matter. Apart from a few insiders from the British Empire and Hans, the only insiders were from Ireland.

After all, they had to provide the venue and security personnel. After meeting the personnel from both sides, they could easily guess the purpose of the two sides’ visit even if they were not told the truth.

In this regard, the Irish were very happy to cooperate with Hans. After all, they were still being suppressed by the British Empire at this time and had been trying to get rid of the British Empire’s control over them. When there was a great famine in Ireland, the British Empire not only did not help them, but even took a lot of their food out for export to earn foreign exchange, causing millions of people in Ireland to starve to death due to lack of food!

This heavy loss completely alienated the Irish from the British Empire. No matter how powerful the British Empire was, the Irish were determined to separate from the British Empire. They were unwilling to continue to stay in the British Empire and be exploited by the British Empire. For this purpose, they fought for half a century.

In the early days, most of these resistances failed because of the huge disparity in power. However, after the outbreak of World War I, the British Empire was severely weakened by the war, which gave the Irish an opportunity to launch a major uprising. The most recent uprising was in 1916.

That uprising happened to be the most intense stage of World War I, so the Irish chose a very good time. The British Empire was very passive. They had to send more troops to Europe and suppress the rebellion in their own backyard.

Although this uprising ultimately failed, it caused a great resistance in the whole of Ireland. Finally, in 1919, an independence war against the British Empire’s rule broke out in Ireland. This war lasted until 1921. Ireland gained partial independence, Northern Ireland was detained by the British Empire, and Southern Ireland broke away from the rule of the British Empire and achieved independence.

For Ireland, it was not easy to achieve the independence of the South.

It was a big deal to seize the control of Northern Ireland from the powerful British Empire.

It was impossible to do it in a short time.

It was difficult for them to do it by their own strength.

After the end of the Irish War, the British Empire increased a lot of troops in Northern Ireland, which further widened the difference in strength between the two sides.

In this case, if there were no external forces interfering in their war, Ireland would have almost no chance of winning.

So the Irish were forced to accept the result. They began to rebuild their homes while quietly waiting, hoping that one day they would encounter another great opportunity like the First World War, take advantage of the weakest time of the British Empire to launch a counterattack, take back their Northern Ireland, and let Ireland return to unity.

The Irish were very lucky. The Second World War broke out!

This world war gave them an opportunity, especially at this time, when Hans invaded the British Empire and defeated the British Empire. They could take advantage of the weakening of the British Empire and go north to take back their Northern Ireland.

In fact, the Irish did so. After the German army landed on the British mainland on April 20, the Irish had already begun to gather their troops and prepare to move.

If the German landing troops were driven into the sea, they would temporarily stop and wait for the next opportunity, but if Hans’s landing troops gained a foothold in the British mainland, they would unceremoniously go north to attack the British army in Northern Ireland and take back their land.

Soon, the situation in the British mainland changed. The German army also launched a landing from the north and continued to send troops. The British mainland was defeated on the battlefield and half of its own territory fell. This gave the Irish an opportunity, so they immediately went north to take back Northern Ireland!

As a result, their luck was quite bad. Northern Ireland originally had a lot of troops. After the German army landed, the British government withdrew most of these troops back to the mainland to strengthen the defense of the mainland.

In this case, the Irish had a good chance of taking Northern Ireland.

But it was very unfortunate that King George V, who was preparing to go to South Asia, happened to gather in Northern Ireland with a group of troops, and then went to South Asia from here. When the Irish attacked, they happened to encounter the King’s Guard. Under the attack of the well-equipped and well-trained King’s Guard, the Irish army was immediately defeated and their attack failed!

After the failure of this military operation, the Irish people recognized the reality. Even if the German army pressed the British Empire to the ground and rubbed it repeatedly, the British Empire was not a small country like them that could be bullied casually. Apart from anything else, the gap in weapons and equipment between the two armies was beyond imagination. The Irish people obviously had the upper hand in numbers, but they were defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

They originally had less than 50,000 troops, but more than 20,000 people were killed and injured, which seriously damaged their vitality and completely lost the ability to continue the attack. If the British Empire had not been unwilling to go south, I am afraid they would have begun to worry about whether their newly independent country could be preserved!

It was precisely because of this failure that the Irish people recognized the reality and realized more deeply how powerful the military strength of the Hans was!

The German army easily pinned the British army to the ground on the battlefield, and the British army turned around and pinned them to the ground again, which made the Irish people extremely admire the strength of the German army. Seeing the German army beating the British on the battlefield, the Irish people from top to bottom fell into a carnival, as if they had won this victory themselves.

So, this time when they heard that Hans wanted to borrow their land to negotiate with the British, the Irish immediately agreed and took on all the peripheral work, solving many of Hans’ troubles.

Ribbentrop was a smart man. As soon as he saw the Irish people’s actions, he knew what they were thinking!