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When Hitler learned about this, he was very happy and understood that heavy water could be used as a coolant to control chain nuclear reactions, so that Germany's nuclear reactor technology took a big step.

Whenever he thought of the Chinese Empire installing a nuclear reactor device with nearly infinite energy on the Guanghua Great, Hitler was both envious and jealous. Now Heisenberg has proved that chain nuclear reactions are controllable, so Hitler is ambitious to install nuclear reactor devices on several subsequent Hindenburg-class battleships. He is very proud of his face and does not want to be compared by the Chinese Empire like this.

However, the primary issue before Hitler was the output of heavy water. Although German scientists themselves were studying how to achieve industrial production of heavy water, they lacked first-hand core technical information. The Norwegian government refused to transfer relevant technologies to Germany under the political pressure of the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire actually knew how to produce heavy water many years ago.

Hitler thought that the Chinese Empire had huge reserves of heavy water and could build a considerable number of nuclear reactors. In addition, Hitler now believed that the Chinese Empire was so afraid of Germany's acquisition of heavy water, so he should be worried that Germany would use heavy water to develop nuclear weapons. Obviously, both Hitler and Heisenberg thought so, which led to Germany being misled by the Chinese Empire in the development of nuclear weapons, which seriously dragged down Germany's nuclear weapons development progress. In the Second World War that broke out soon after, facing the Chinese Empire, which was the first to develop nuclear weapons, he watched the Chinese Empire with nuclear weapons everywhere, threatening the Germans with all their hardships.

Hitler was quite annoyed by the Chinese Empire's efforts to prevent Germany from obtaining heavy water and heavy water production technology from Norway.

Especially the occurrence of the Hyderro incident directly caused billions of marks to Germany, which made Hitler grit his teeth. However, at this time he did not dare to really break up with the Chinese Empire, so he had to endure it.

But Hitler and the Nazi Party were not a tolerant group. As Hitler learned Roosevelt's new policy, he implemented economic reforms in Germany. By 1937, Germany was basically free from the shadow of the economic crisis. Germany, which had grown stronger, was instigated by Hitler and the Nazi Party, stared at the Allies' camp of increasingly weakened strength. The smell of the war in Europe became stronger.

However, what Hitler was most worried about at this time was not the power of the Allies camp. But the attitude of the Chinese Empire. Originally, Hitler believed that as long as the Allies led by Germany launched a war against the Allies, the Chinese Empire would remain neutral as during World War I. However, as Hitler vigorously built the German naval force and launched a signal to challenge the Chinese Empire's naval. The army and the air force were also vigorously developing, which gradually changed the attitude of the Chinese Empire towards Germany. After Hitler announced the establishment of a nuclear physics project and demanded the development of the atomic bomb, the Chinese Empire's change significantly against Germany, which can be seen from the full efforts of the Chinese Empire to prevent Germany from obtaining heavy water and heavy water production technology from Norway.

Therefore, in this case, Hitler could not understand the attitude of the Chinese Empire. If the Chinese Empire gave up its neutral attitude and directly joined the Allies' camp to fight against the Allies, then Germany would undoubtedly establish a powerful enemy. Although Hitler despised the Chinese Empire strategically, he had to pay attention to the Chinese Empire in tactical terms, so without understanding the true attitude of the Chinese Empire, Hitler did not dare to openly provoke World War II with the Allies.

But Hitler was unwilling to give up. He now firmly believed that heavy water was the key material for building nuclear reactors to develop nuclear weapons, especially in terms of nuclear weapons. Hitler dreamed of owning such weapons, so that he would be qualified to challenge the Chinese Empire in military terms.

After discussing with Rudolph and other senior Nazi Party leaders, Hitler believed that normal means could no longer obtain heavy water and heavy water technology. Although OW had always promised to defeat the power of the CIA of the Chinese Empire in Northern Europe and seize Norwegian heavy water technology, Hitler was already impatient.

So Hitler decided to invade Norway with armed forces, first to directly occupy Norway to obtain heavy water production equipment, and secondly, he could test the attitude of the Chinese Empire and the Allies by attacking Norway. If the Chinese Empire and the Allies continue to pursue appeasement policies, then Hitler will naturally get a bargain. If the strong backlash, it is better to take aftermath measures depending on the situation.

However, in order to be on the safe side, Hitler sent a special envoy to the Soviet Union to meet Stalin. He told Stalin that Germany was preparing to form a paramilitary alliance with the Soviet Union, intending to let the Soviet Union be a pawn to restrain the Chinese Empire.

Although Stalin was wary of Hitler, he always believed that what Hitler wanted to kill the most was Britain and France, so Stalin was very positive about forming a paramilitary alliance.

In September 1937, representatives of Germany and the Soviet Union secretly signed the Soviet-German Treaty on Joint Defense of the Baltic Sea in St. Petersburg, the Soviet-German paramilitary alliance was formed.

According to the provisions of the Soviet-German Treaty on the Baltic Sea, the Soviet and German navies believed that the Finnish Navy and Norwegian Navy posed a threat to the Soviet and Germany, so they decided that the Soviet Union and Finland would solve the security issues in the northern Baltic Sea, and Germany and Norway would solve the security issues in the southern Baltic Sea. In fact, this is the military plan of the Soviet and German countries to send troops at the same time to divide Finland and Norway into each other.

The Soviet Union had been spying on Finland for a long time and wanted to annex Finland. However, he had always felt the military pressure from Germany and the Allies and did not take action. Now that the Soviet Union formed a paramilitary alliance, Germany's attack on Norway would definitely be opposed by Britain and France, and a world war might break out. At this time, the Soviet Union had no worries about sending troops to Finland. Similarly, Hitler formed an alliance with Stalin, first, to use the Soviet Union's paramilitary alliance to shock the Chinese Empire, and second, Hitler was not at ease with the Soviet Union. When Germany sent troops to Norway, the Soviet Union had to fight with Finland, so that Hitler would have no worries.

It can be said that Hitler and Stalin both had their own ulterior motives, but they never expected that the attack on Norway and Finland caused great trouble to the two countries. The fuse of World War II was laid.

In addition to appease the Soviet Union, Hitler formally invited Italian Prime Minister Mussolini, Spanish Head of State Franco, and US President Roosevelt to meet in Berlin.

At the meeting, Hitler proposed that the four countries form a military alliance. Mussolini and Franco had no objection to this, but Roosevelt retained it. After all, the United States is still more pro-British and French overall. Although Roosevelt and his Nazi Party had many similarities with Hitler and his Nazi Party, Roosevelt did not dare to stand directly on the allies and Allies. But Roosevelt hoped to obtain advanced technology from Germany, especially after the US-Mexico War, the US military was very interested in German equipment. Roosevelt hoped to maintain military cooperation with Germany in order to help the US military rise and thus escape the fate of being controlled by the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, the contradictory Roosevelt finally proposed that the four countries form the "National Alliance", under the banner of National International, so that the United States can continue to remain neutral between the Allies and the Allies, and obtain the necessary economic support and military assistance from Britain, France, Germany and Italy.

Hitler did not expect to really pull the United States over. At this time, the United States was no longer a powerful country before World War I. After being beaten up by the Chinese Empire, the United States suffered a great loss of national strength. Even if the United States continues to join the Allies camp, Hitler was not afraid. Hitler's purpose was to use the United States as another card to restrain the Chinese Empire. Before Germany had the ability to deal with the military power of the Chinese Empire, Hitler hoped that the Soviet Union and the United States could restrain the Chinese Empire as much as possible.

In this way, at the end of December 1937, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States signed the "National Alliance Agreement". Under the banner of **, the four countries are actually carrying out close political, economic and military cooperation. Germany, Italy and Spain even secretly signed a military alliance agreement for joint defense. They also joined Turkey, Bulgaria and other countries, so a new alliance group appeared.

A series of actions by Germany, Italy, Spain, the United States, Turkey and other countries made the whole world nervous, and the public opinion circle was filled with calls for World War II to break out. The Chinese Empire was also very cautious about this. Because it offended too many countries before, it did not know what kind of organization Germany, Italy, Spain, the United States, Turkey, and other countries were, so the Chinese Empire chose to wait and see.

But for the UK and France and other allies, the new allies obviously pose a huge threat to them. Britain and France actively responded, and the original appeasement policy was criticized by domestic public opinion, which made both governments believe that the war was imminent and that some preparations must be made.

Previously, the Chinese Empire repeatedly notified France to note that the direction of Germany's invasion of France would not be the Maginot Line of Defense, which made France pay attention to the defense of the Ardennes Mountains. At first, France did not pay attention to it, but as Germany's territory became the largest country in Europe, its military strength surged. The French side then set up heavy defenses where the Maginot Line of Defense was not in good care for Ardennes and other Maginot Lines to deal with possible military invasions by Germany and the Allied Powers. At the same time, Britain also strengthened its alliance with Norway, Denmark, Finland and other countries, and sent British and French troops to join forces to resist the military threats of the Allied Powers.

As early as after the Battle of Poland, Germany and the Soviet Union all turned to the north. Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the north were silent in the disaster of Poland, experiencing the sadness of the coldness of the lips and teeth. Especially Denmark and Norway, close to Germany, were the first to be hit, but their own military strength was very limited. Denmark only has 5 small divisions and 1 small fleet; Norway has 6 divisions, a total of 15,500 people, and another 4 shore defense ships, 30 small destroyers, 9 small submarines, 11 mine-building ships and 190 old-style aircraft.

Norway is located in the northwest of the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, bordering Sweden in the east, Finland and Russia in the northeast, and the Norwegian Sea in the west. The coastline is 21,000 kilometers long, and it is mostly natural and good ports, and its strategic position is very important. Since Germany does not have an exit directly to the Atlantic Ocean, it can only enter the Atlantic Ocean bypassing the British mainland through the North Sea.

Although the British Navy was severely damaged by Germany in the Battle of Jutland, Britain was a traditional naval power after all. After the war, Britain quickly rebuilt the powerful British Navy and launched a large-scale naval arms race against the German Navy. This has always been a heart-wrenching problem for the German Navy.

During the First World War, Britain used its naval advantage to cross the narrow North Sea from the Shetland Islands to the Norwegian coast, and arranged a tight blockade network. For a long time, the German fleet trapped the local port and did nothing. At this time, the German Navy, who was in view of historical experience and geographical facts, believed that the British Navy would be dealt with, completely defeated the British Navy to seize the North Sea and Atlantic sea control. Germany must try to obtain a base in Norway so that it can break through the British blockade line in the North Sea and enter the Atlantic without any obstacles.

It can be said that in addition to heavy water resources, Norway's strategic position also makes Germany covet. The iron ore in Scandinavia is a strategic material that Germany urgently needs. Alsace and Lorraine in Germany are close to the French border, and it is hard to guarantee that they will not be lost if they start a war. Once lost, the lifeline of Germany's iron ore will be cut off. Therefore, for both preparations, Germany imports 11 million tons of iron ore from Sweden and Norway every year. In summer, these iron ore are transported from Swedish ports to Germany via the Baltic Sea. After the Baltic Sea is frozen in winter (the Baltic Sea has a low salt content), it is transported from the northern Norwegian port of Narvik through the Norwegian waterway to Germany. The iron ore supply line in Norway can almost be said to be the second lifeline of the German war machine. If the supply of iron ore in Norway is cut off, once the Lorraine region is bombed by the French Air Force, Germany's arms industry will become a cook without rice.

Therefore, Germany was preparing to launch a Nordic military operation, hoping to take the lead in controlling the Scandinavia. But Britain was not fools, and Britain knew very well. Once Germany controlled Norway, the German navy would be more likely to enter the Atlantic Ocean. Every time we think of the devastating blows the German navy caused to Britain during World War I, Britain was heartbroken. Therefore, on December 28, 1937, the Supreme Military Conference of the British and French Allied decided to send an expeditionary force to the Norwegian territorial waters to lay mines. At the same time, the British Foreign Minister announced to the Norwegian and Swedish ambassadors that the allies would ban the shipment of iron ore to Germany. The French Prime Minister also advocated advancing to Norway as soon as possible to restrain Germany's expansion. For Norway, the sensitive nose had already smelled the smell of gunpowder from Germany. Therefore, all agreed to the demands of Britain and France.

But this gave the Germans an excuse to invade Norway.

However, if the German army wanted to invade Norway, they had to consider the obstacles to Denmark. Since Denmark was also a small country, Hitler decided to join the two.

As early as March 1, 1938, Hitler signed a combat plan for invading Denmark and Norway, code-named "Wishi River Exercise". Subsequently, the German Navy General Command quickly formed five battle groups for the "Wishi River Exercise", mobilized 13 battleships, 12 heavy cruisers, 15 light cruisers, 121 destroyers, 42 torpedo boats and 28,000 soldiers, and prepared to divide the troops into five routes to attack Norway's Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen, Christiansan, Arundal and Oslo. The invasion of Denmark was mainly implemented by the German Air Force, and two armored brigades were dispatched on the ground, crossing the border and rushing towards northern Denmark. At the same time, a small number of airborne troops were sent to occupy bridges and traffic routes in the Denmark Islands, and cooperated with intensive air bombing to intimidate the Danish government and people.

At 4:15 am on April 9, 1938, the German army undeclared war and sent two armored brigades to invade the Denmark's border. Motorized infantry advanced with the cooperation of the air force, and at the same time threw paratroopers at various strategic strongholds on the Jutland Peninsula and Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. In the blink of an eye, German Minister Rent Fink visited the home of Danish Foreign Minister Monk and submitted a memorandum to demand Denmark's surrender. At 5 o'clock, the Denmark king convened a special imperial front.

At the meeting, at 6 o'clock, the decision to surrender to the German army was made, calling on the people to "not resist any resistance". At 8 o'clock in the morning, the frightened Danes heard a German official read a call from Hitler on a radio broadcast: Germany ensures the integrity of Denmark's territory, and Denmark's economy will be completely connected with Germany to carry out "friendly cooperation". That night, the Danish parliament unanimously agreed with the government's decision to surrender, and Prime Minister Stonin declared: "I hope our country will maintain peace and order. We hope that citizens will be safe."

The German invasion of Denmark ended within 4 hours, and only accidental military conflicts occurred in some places. A total of 2 people were killed in battle and 10 people were injured, which was a great victory.

The German army blitzed Denmark, and Britain and France finally couldn't sit still. On the morning of the same day, Britain issued an ultimatum to Germany, demanding that Germany withdraw its troops from Denmark, otherwise it would be regarded as declaring war on Britain and the Allies. At noon on the same day, France also issued the same ultimatum to Germany.

After reading the ultimatum of Britain and France, Hitler didn't care at all. Just like the last time Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France were just acting.

But Hitler made a mistake this time, just when he was happy for the German army to occupy Denmark within one day. Britain officially declared war on Germany at 9:00 am on April 10, and at 1:00 pm, France declared war on Germany, and World War II broke out.

On the same day when the German army invaded Denmark, at 4:30 am on April 9, the German minister submitted an ultimatum to the Norwegian government, causing him to surrender immediately, but was firmly opposed by the Norwegian government.

At 5:50, the German army landed in major ports along the Norwegian coast, and dispatched 1,800 combat aircraft and 350 transport aircraft to Norway at the same time. The Norwegian army had not yet fully mobilized and resisted in a hurry. In Narvik, when 40 German destroyers approached the harbor, two ancient Norwegian armored ships "Edsvold" and "Norchi" in the port sent signals to the German ships to explain their identity. The German army directly sent people to surrender to the Norwegian ships on motorboats, but they were opposed by the Norwegian Navy and resisted resolutely. The German ship then launched an attack, and the two Norwegian warships were sunk by torpedoes, and all 300 Norwegian sailors were killed.

By 8 a.m., Narvik was occupied by the German army. In Trondheim, the commander of the 5th Norwegian Division who guarded the port followed Gisling's orders and handed over the good port without any resistance. In Bergen, Norway's second largest port, the coastal fortress fired at the German ships, severely hitting the German light cruiser "Gernisburg" and an auxiliary // Fastest text update - no ads // Ship.

Soon, the 18-inch cannons of two Bismarck-class battleships of the German Navy roared. The huge shells instantly razed the port to the ground, and fire surging. Thick smoke covered the sky and the sun.

Soon, soldiers on the German Navy landing ship began to land. With the support and cover of German Navy's artillery fire, the port was occupied by the afternoon.

The 20 British bombers who came urgently did not dare to approach the German ships with strong air defense firepower such as Bismarck, so they dropped all bombs on the "Gernisburg", which was immediately sunk by British bombers. Stavanger on the southwest coast and nearby Sula Airport also fell into the hands of the German army at noon. The German army thus obtained the front air base in Norway and controlled the air supremacy in southern and central Norway. The Christine Coast Fortress on the southern coast twice repelled the attack of the German fleet led by the German battleship Tirbitz. However, these batteries were quickly destroyed by 18-inch naval guns and bombs from the Luftwaffe, and the port fell around 3 pm.

However, what the German Navy never expected was that when the German Navy's light cruiser "Karlsluhe" left the port that night, he was hit by a British submarine that was torpedo. It was seriously damaged and eventually sank. The submarines that the German Navy were good at did not play any role, but instead allowed the British submarine to sink the German warship, which made the German Navy very embarrassed.

The German attack on the east side of Norway was progressing smoothly, but the German army encountered unexpected difficulties when attacking the other side, the Norwegian capital Oslo. On the cold night of April 8, the German fleet originally planned to arrive in Oslo that night. The German Embassy sent people to wait all night on the dock, but the German fleet never arrived. They were intercepted by the Norwegian Bleigh ship "Olaf Trigferson" at the entrance of the 50-mile long Oslo Fjord.

The German torpedo boat was sunk, and the light cruiser "Emden" was injured. Then about 15 miles south of Oslo, it was bombarded and torpedoed. The German Fourth Squadron flagship, the heavy cruiser "Blüchel", was shot and caught fire, detonating the ammunition on the ship. The hull broke and finally sank, losing 1,600 officers and soldiers. The fleet commander Rear Admiral Oscar Conmoutz was captured after falling into the water. The German Fourth Squadron suffered heavy damage and was forced to retreat temporarily.

But in the end, Oslo was conquered by the German airborne troops. At noon on April 10, about five companies of German airborne troops landed at Fornabu Airport near Oslo, and occupied Oslo with the cooperation of Gisling's "Fifth Column".

The Norwegian royal family, government and parliament members took 20 trucks carrying gold from the Norwegian bank and three secret documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to seek asylum.

The Embassy of the Chinese Empire in Norway called the Chinese Empire's cabinet and obtained approval from the cabinet. So he expressed the position of the Chinese Empire to Lieutenant Colonel Kane, who came to the door to arrest people. The two sides were in a stalemate for nearly an hour. In the end, after discussing with the Queen, King Mary of Norway, Mary, betrothed their young daughter, King Mary, to King Zhao Guoliang, the seventeenth prince of the Chinese Empire, as the princess of Zhao. Emperor Chen Hao and the mother of the seventeenth prince, were also satisfied after seeing the photos of Princess Mary, so in order to save the Norwegian royal family, they agreed to the fastest marriage in the world.

Therefore, the Chinese Empire's ambassador to Norway prevented the German army from arresting people on the grounds of protecting the future of the empire's Princess Zhao and her family. After another stalemate, the German side confirmed the news that the seventeenth prince of the Chinese Empire was engaged to the Norwegian princess Mary. In the end, Kane received a special order from Hitler and gave up the action to capture the Norwegian royal family.

Although the Chinese Empire protected the Norwegian royal family, it did not save Norway's fate of being occupied by Germany.

On the first day of the German landing, that is, on the afternoon of April 10, after the British declared war on Germany, the British main fleet appeared near Bergen. The German army quickly dispatched a large number of bombers to sink a British destroyer, injured a battleship and two heavy cruisers. The British fleet was defeated in the initial battle and retreated to the Shetland Islands.

Since then, as the German army had air supremacy in southern and central Norway, the British Command decided to use only submarines and aircraft in the waters of the southern Norwegian Sea. On the evening of that day, 24 British bombers attacked Bergen and sank the seriously injured German light cruiser "Guernsberg". In Narvik, northern Norway, due to the aircraft's combat radius, the German fleet and landing forces did not receive air support and were severely hit by British aircraft. 4

On April 10 and 13, Britain dispatched a large number of bombers to attack Narvik and sank 10 German destroyers. On April 14 and 16, the British and French coalition forces landed near Narvik in northern Norway and Trondheim in central Norway. The British and French coalition forces landed in central Norway on April 19, but due to lack of air support, they suffered heavy losses under the bombing of German aircraft and withdrew from Norway on May 2.

In the battle for Narvik, the British and French coalition forces received support from the fleet and the air force and had a huge advantage. However, although the German landing forces in this area did not receive air and sea support, they fought a very tenacious battle against the British and French coalition forces, repelling many attacks from the British and French coalition forces. On May 28, the German army abandoned Narvik and retreated to the Swedish border along the railway.

On May 10, the German army launched a large-scale offensive against France on the Western Front. Britain and France were too busy to take care of themselves and withdrew all their troops from Norway before June 7. The Norwegian government also went into exile to Britain, and the royal family went into exile to China, hoping to get the Chinese Empire to send troops to help restore the country. The German army occupied the entire territory of Norway on June 10. Under the protection of the German army, Gislin formed a puppet government.

With the Battle of Norway, Germany preserved the crucial iron ore transportation line, consolidated the defense on the north side of Germany, and obtained many important strategic strongholds. The German army occupied Norway and approached the Swedish border, causing the neutral Sweden to fully move towards Germany diplomatically, allowing Germany to transport troops and supplies through its territory, the Rwick region and northern Finland. (To be continued.


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