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As Germany blitzed Denmark and Norway, Britain and France and other Allied countries declared war on Germany one after another.

On April 13, Italy declared war on Britain and France and other allies in accordance with the secret alliance treaty of Germany and Italy. On the same day, allied countries such as Spain, Turkey, Bulgaria also declared war on Britain and France, and non-European countries such as the Chinese Empire and the United States basically declared external neutrality.

Originally, in history, Germany would bypass the Maginot Line of Defense and quickly defeat France. However, because Hitler did not expect that Britain and France really declared war on Germany, and Germany did not mobilize wars in general because of blitzing Norway and Denmark. Therefore, the German army gathered few troops on the Western Front and could not launch a full-scale war like France in a short time. In order to reduce the combat pressure of the German army invading Norway, Hitler hastily ordered the German army on the German-France border to launch an attack on the French army.

However, France was prepared for a long time. After being warned by the Chinese Empire, France strengthened its defense against areas such as the Ardennes area that were easily traced by the German army, which made the plan to bypass the Maginot line of defense and attack France at the beginning unable to succeed.

As a result, the German army had to launch an attack on the French army on the Maginot Line, and the result was naturally unable to capture it for a long time. The German army poured up to 200,000 tons of shells and bombs into the entire Maginot Line every day. The entire Maginot Line was still firm in the fierce attack, and the defense line that France spent a lot of money to build was rewarded. For a moment, the French government and the people were very happy. They believed that the German army could no longer invade France and harm the French people.

However, what France did not expect was that Italy declared war on France as soon as possible. France originally regarded (the fastest update) as Italy as a fence-between and would remain neutral before seeing the situation clearly. However, it did not expect that Mussolini was indeed wearing a pair of pants with Hitler and sent troops to France as soon as possible, causing the French Lyon Industrial Zone to be threatened by 400,000 Italian troops.

Four hundred thousand Italian troops attacked France on April 15, but because of the muddy French-Italy border roads, the Italian armored troops were struggling. It was not until the 20th that they crossed the Mont Blanc mountain area and approached Before. However, at that time the French had already gathered 100,000 troops to Before and fought head-on with the Italian troops.

However, the attack power of the Italian army is really not satisfactory.

At the beginning of the battle between the French and Italian troops, an oath incident occurred in the Italian army. The 75th Artillery Division poured shells onto the position of the 226th Infantry Regiment of the 30th Division of the Italian 30th Division, which caused major casualties. The French army on the front quickly launched a fierce attack on the Italian army, and the entire infantry regiment was wiped out. The same oath incident also occurred in the Italian Air Force. On the same day, the Italian army launched an attack on Before, and the Italian Air Force took off from the Turin Airport. As a result, due to the mistake of the Italian Air Force navigator, the Italian Air Force deviated from the route and flew to Em on the other side of the Grand Cassie Mountain. The French army had weak strength and had voluntarily abandoned its position. The Italian Fourth Army occupied the position, but was violently bombed by the Italian Air Force bomber group. Because the Italian air defense post on the ground saw that it was its own aircraft, it was not alert, resulting in thousands of casualties.

On the front battlefield of Before, the Italian Air Force failed to appear on time. The French Air Force, which took off from the French Lyon Airport, seized air supremacy in the area, causing huge casualties to the Italian army during the attack. In the subsequent French-Italy tank war, the Italian army's armored forces were defeated by the French armored forces. More than 100 tanks were lost. As a last resort, the Italian army failed to attack, and the overall deployment was chaotic, and they were forced to retreat.

The French army took advantage of the opportunity of the Italian army retreating and quickly drew troops from the inland to reinforce. Finally, they stabilized the defense line.

In fact, the Italian army was able to invade France at the beginning of the war. It was not that the Italian army was prepared for it. This Italian army was actually Mussolini who was preparing to be transferred to Africa to participate in the Ethiopian War, because the war there was even worse. As a result, World War II suddenly broke out, and Mussolini had no choice but to transfer the troops to attack France. Originally, Mussolini planned to catch the French army off guard and gain some benefits, but the Italian army's combat quality was too poor, resulting in missing opportunities.

The Italian army in Africa was also in a dilemma against the tenacious resistance of the Ethiopian runner-up (called "Abyssinia" at the time).

As early as after the First Anti-Italy War, the Italian fascist leader led by b.a.a. Mussolini claimed that Italy "must seek the future of colonial cause in East Africa." In December 1934, Italy deliberately created armed border conflicts on the border between Italy and Somalia. On the one hand, Italy used negotiations to force Egypt to submit, and on the other hand, it mobilized large armed forces in the two colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somalia to prepare for the war of invasion of Egypt.

Ethiopia appealed to the League of Nations. However, the British and French governments simply compromised and condone Italy, and the Chinese Empire government also implemented "neutrality". The British and French governments also secretly agreed to exclude all actions that may conflict with Italy, not implement military sanctions, and not carry out naval blockades. It also suggested that the Chinese Empire should not close the Suez Canal, and the Chinese Empire secretly reached an agreement with Italy. The Chinese Empire opened the Suez Canal for Italy to transport troops and supplies, and Italy allowed the Chinese Empire to enjoy the same treatment as the Italians in Ethiopia.

After the two sides reached an agreement, the Chinese Empire opened the Suez Canal to the Italian Navy in August 1935. October later, Mussolini, the leader of Italian fascism, brazenly launched the war of invasion of Egypt.

As soon as the war began, the Italian army easily occupied Somalia in the east of Ethiopia and Eritania in the north. Mussolini hoped to quickly occupy Ethiopia, control the strategic transportation route of the Red Sea, and use it as a stronghold to annex the entire Africa. Although Italy could not be compared with Germany at that time, it was undoubtedly a modern giant for a feudal kingdom like Ethiopia, which was almost in a primitive society. It had advanced modern weapons at that time. It had a large number of aircraft, tanks and armored vehicles. Ethiopia did not even have a unified army, only the guards of Emperor Haier Selasi and the private armies of the feudal lords. Their weapons were mainly primitive spears, bows, arrows, sticks, and the power balance was so great.

Mussolini shouted in public that "punish these African barbarians and give them some color." His contempt for Ethiopia was self-evident.

However, the Ethiopian people were not scared by the powerful enemies. They were determined to defend their motherland and their homeland. Soon, Ethiopia carried out a national mobilization. On October 17, Emperor Selasi held a grand military parade in the capital Addis Ababa, calling on people to fight the enemy firmly and would rather die than surrender.

During this war of resistance against power, the Ethiopian people showed brave and fearless qualities and noble spirit of self-sacrifice. Most of Ethiopia were in short supply. The herders put water in leather bags and transported water to the barracks through the arid desert. However, they themselves often fainted on the road due to thirst, and young students took to the streets to mobilize; the women organized the Red Cross Association and the Women's Association to transport the wounded and organized the supply in the rear, and some feudal estate owners also used money to purchase weapons, ammunition and food from abroad to support the front-line war of resistance.

Due to the tenacious resistance of the Ethiopian people, Mussolini's quick battle and decisive deployment was completely lost. It was not until November 8 that the Italian army occupied 1d8 of Ethiopia. From November 19 to 21, Emperor Selasi once again visited the front line to express condolences to the army. The Egyptian army took this opportunity to counterattack in one go, recovering a large area of ​​lost land, and the Italian army suffered heavy losses.

The people on the land occupied by the Italian army were also constantly causing trouble for the Italian army: they hid food, filled the well, and led the camels and hair away. Every time the Italian army arrived at a place, they occupied only an empty city. Under the scorching sun in the African desert, the Italian soldiers who could not find the water source or could only find the well of salt were hungry and thirsty, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. Mussolini was angry and angry when he saw this. This crazy fascist not only replaced the Italian army in anger.

The commander-in-chief of Africa sent a "Blackshirt Army" composed of devoted Nazis to join the war in Ethiopia, and sent an additional air force from the end of December to bomb the Egyptian army's positions and innocent civilians, and also used poison gas from February of the following year! The Italian army even bombed the Red Cross Ambulance Team sent by Sweden and Finland. More than 50 members of the Swedish Red Cross Ambulance Team died in the bombing of these inhumane and despicable thugs.

The situation finally deteriorated. On May 5, 1937, the Italian army occupied Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and Emperor Selasi fled to Britain. On May 9, Mussolini announced the annexation of Ethiopia in Rome, with the Italian king serving as the emperor of Ethiopia.

Ethiopia fell, and this miserable land groaned under the iron hooves of the fascists. The people with severe disasters were in a more painful situation. However, they did not surrender. More people took up weapons and joined the guerrillas. The Ethiopian people were not intimidated, but more and more people participated in the guerrillas.

By 1938, the guerrillas had grown to 400,000 people, controlling most of the country. The guerrillas' struggles became more and more clever. They not only dared to fight, but were also good at fighting. Most of their weapons, ammunition and food were brought from the enemy, and the Italian army became their "logistics department."

When the Chinese Empire Emperor Chenhao met with Italian Prime Minister Mussolini in China shortly after, he joked that Mussolini was the leader of the Ethiopian guerrillas. Mussolini was extremely embarrassed about this.

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Faced with the German raid, the Norwegians who were betrayed by Nazi sympathizers in the government were unable to resist.

When the German invading army launched a blitzkrieg on Norway, another German army received special order from Hitler and drove straight into a remote area near Lake Tien, controlling Norway's most valuable industrial enterprise. It has always been coveted by Germany. In the mountains at the end of the Yukan Valley, there is the Vimolk Hydropower Station - which was once the largest power station in the world.

Norwegian Hydropower Company uses electricity produced by Vimolk to produce ammonia. Ammonia is a raw material for fertilizers and **, both of which are important to the German war machines. However, there is a special room in the hydropower station that produces something more valuable - heavy water. At that time, the Chinese Empire strictly kept the heavy water project confidential, so the heavy water discovered in Norway was considered a new form of water that had just been discovered. Norwegian Hydropower Company produces heavy water, in addition to providing scientists around the world with their specialty

But more of it is to make extra money. Because heavy water was hyped up by the Chinese Empire, the price was outrageously high. With the emergence of nuclear reactors in the Chinese Empire, Germany began a nuclear physics engineering plan and demanded strongly for heavy water. In addition to Germany, Britain, France, Italy, the Soviet Union and other countries, they have also carried out research on nuclear physics engineering one after another. Therefore, it can be said that the Chinese Empire caused the mythical price of heavy water, which also led to the ultimate tragic fate of this power plant.

After taking over the power plant, the Germans immediately set out to increase the output. They even intended to increase the output of heavy water tenfold. At the same time, the number of safety guards around the power plant increased rapidly. Except for the Chinese Empire, basically no one knew the reason. However, every move by the Germans inside and outside the power plant was monitored, and a group of Norwegians with a spirit of resistance, especially members of the power plant union organization, spontaneously launched an underground resistance movement.

Cont Lear Hansen was an important member of the secret resistance movement. He and his companions were determined to understand why the Germans were so fascinated by heavy water. After the Nazis occupied Norwegian hydropower plants, they quickly expanded the number of electrolytic cells from nine to 18, doubled the factory's heavy water production capacity.

The power of the agents of the Chinese Empire was no longer able to get close to the power plant, and they became incapable of destroying it.

At this time, the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Chen Hao, held an emergency meeting and decided to use any method to destroy the Vimolk power plant and prevent the Germans from obtaining more heavy water.

Wang Shizhen and others suggested sending strategic bombers directly to raid the Vimolk Power Plant and blow it up in one fell swoop. However, the cabinet opposed it, believing that the Vimolk Power Plant was now under the control of the German army, directly dispatching bombers to destroy it was equivalent to tearing the face with Germany and declaring war on Germany. The Chinese Empire wanted to sit and watch the civil strife in Europe and wanted to make a fortune like World War I. Therefore, most officials of the cabinet and even the Congress opposed directly going to war with Germany to avoid being involved in World War II.

Therefore, after unanimous research and decision by the imperial cabinet, the Chinese Empire told the UK and France that the Vimorque Hydropower Station had the key material for manufacturing nuclear weapons that Germany was desperately trying to obtain, and asked the UK and France to directly bomb the Vimorque Hydropower Station. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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