.The Third Reich under the Ten Thousand Characters Volume 5: Battle of Britain 

On the 15th of the 15th of the month, Xu Yang, the head of the Third Reich of Germany and the supreme leader of the Axis power, formally met with representatives from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Hungary and France (Vichi government) at the cliff castle in the Alps.

This meeting held in the Alps cliff castle became the first Axis Political Council, and was also called the Eagle's Nest Conference by the later allies such as the United States and Britain. During the meeting, Xu Yang listened to the speeches of each representative, finally made a summary, agreed to the suggestions of each representative, and asked each Axis Powers to send troops to participate in the upcoming Battle of Britain.

The meeting once again determined the position of the Third Reich as the leader among the Axis powers, and the deployment of the Sea Lion Plan was officially implemented.

Among them, Italy will dispatch a temporary naval fleet, a local aviation fleet, and three infantry divisions belonging to the Western theater. The total strength is: 6 lion-class destroyers, 2 Jusano-class light cruisers, and a Cao Dulio-class battleship; 168 combat aircraft, and about 100,000 participants.

Spain also fulfilled its promise to the Third Reich of Germany and sent all its main naval forces, a squadron of 22 fighters and two infantry divisions to participate in the battle. It was a Spanish-class battleship, two Canaris-class heavy cruisers, two Mendes Nunes-class light cruisers, and four Duke-class frigates; the total force was about 50,000. Because it had just experienced the alternation of regimes and the huge losses in the war, it only symbolically sent some troops to participate in the battle, but there was a saying that a lean camel would always be larger than a horse. In order to improve its relations with the Third Reich of Germany, the Vichy government handed over all the navy in its hands to the German Navy headquarters to control it.

Unfortunately, most of the fleet controlled by Vichy France were stationed overseas, and the morale of warships in domestic harbors was also low. They were not incorporated into the combat troops of the Sea Lion Project, but were used for military operations in the Mediterranean Sea.

In order to make compensation, Vichy France actually didn't know what it was to compensate. She organized all the remaining air forces in the country into the combat queue of the Sea Lion Plan. It was used to participate in the first wave of attacks on the Battle of Britain, which is the early air strike in the combat operations of the Sea Lion Plan.

As for the army, the Third German Empire never hoped that the Vichy government's army could come out of the shadow of failure so quickly. Xu Yang kindly suggested that Vichy France would not have to send the army to participate in the Sea Lion Project. However, the Vichy government did not know what the consideration was that it was because it insisted on handing over the five remaining fully organized troops to the command of the German Supreme Command. The reason why it was called a force instead of a military branch was that the French army had always been mixed, and its combat troops did not have special armored divisions or infantry divisions.

Compared with Italy, Spain, Vichy and France's participating troops, Portugal, Hungary and Romania seem very embarrassing.

The Portuguese territory is close to Britain, but the military power of Portugal is too weak. This does not mean that the Portuguese army is too small. It means that the Portuguese army has lagged too much behind. Portugal really wants to send a large number of troops to participate in the war in order to gain benefits in the Battle of Britain, but also understands its own shortcomings, or the representatives of Italy, Romania, and Hungary among the Axis powers, are unwilling to let the weak army of Portugal drag its back. Therefore, Portugal can only provide military basis to the Axis powers based on the convenience of its own territory.

The main reason why Italy, Romania and Hungary oppose Portugal's direct troops was that in the Sea Lion Plan's combat deployment against Britain, as a military alliance of the German Third Reich. The troops of these countries were included in the same war zone, and their honor and disgrace would depend on the combat results of the coalition forces, and the benefits they obtained also linked their final combat results.

Finally, at the suggestion of the Supreme Command of the Third Reich, Portugal, in addition to sending two old frigates to participate in the escort mission, only one squadron of 18 fighters was directly placed in the Sea Lion Planned Operations Category, and the Portuguese Army will also accept the adaptation of the Supreme Command of the German, trying to convert the Portuguese army into the German Third Reich Army within half a year so that it can shoulder the task of collaborative combat in future operations. Hungary, because their territory is too far from Western Europe, the situation in the two countries is also relatively different. In the end, Hungary has sent a squadron of 22 fighters and two infantry divisions to participate in the French battle. On the basis of the fact that Hungary has sent a squadron of 22 fighters and two infantry divisions to participate in the French battle, has once again sent a newly formed aviation squadron to participate in the Battle of Britain. Given that Hungary also needs to cooperate with the Italian Army's military operations against Yugoslavia, Hungary will not send another army.

Romania has to deal with military threats from the Soviet Union and cooperate with Italy's military operations against Yugoslavia. Romania no longer has much ability to participate in the Battle of Britain. After communicating with the German Supreme Command, the German Supreme Command agreed to Romania's request in principle.

Romania only symbolically sent an infantry regiment to be responsible for the logistics support for the British operations, but as compensation, Romania agreed to the suggestion of the German Supreme Command to expand three infantry divisions in the next six months, and the equipment of these three infantry divisions must be purchased from the German military factory in cash.

As the main belligerent, Xu Yang announced at the meeting that Germany would invest about 2,500 fighter jets in three air fleets, two army groups, and all German existing navies to fight against Britain. The air force is the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th air force; the two army groups have 22 infantry divisions, 6 mountain divisions, 3 motorized divisions, 6 armored divisions, and 3 airborne divisions.

The German Third Reich's performance of the national power in the past year is obvious to all. They have reason to believe that under the attack of nearly 400,000 German main forces, Britain will fall within a month.

They have joined the Axis Military Alliance, and the strength of the German Third Reich is the guarantee of their interests and security! At the same time, they also firmly believe that with the cooperation of the Axis Military Alliance, they can look down on everything!

With the support of almost the entire European industry, the first step of the war against Britain began. The German Air Force 2 and 3, stationed in northwestern France, received orders to start night bombings of the ports and airports in southern Britain for half a month. In order to support the 2 and 3, the 5th Air Force stationed in Norway also made corresponding arrangements and carried out harassing night bombings in northern Britain.

Xu Yang is hesitant now. In fact, he does not want to issue combat orders against Britain during this period. The main reason is seasonal issues. If he cannot conquer Britain before September, then Germany will face a bad situation.

During October and December, the weather in the English Channel is not as beautiful as expected. During this period, the English Channel is often attacked by cold air masses. At that time, the weather in the English Channel will be very bad. With the current existing technology combat aircraft of the Air Force, it is impossible to fly if it encounters bad weather.

Also, the Deutsche Air Force has just received less than a month of war. The Deutsche Air Force is exhausted. Many pilots have been in a state of mental tension and they need more rest time.

Time is very tight, and it is imperative to say it. The battle against Britain is facing such an embarrassing situation: you have to fight if you don’t want to fight; no matter how much the losses are, you have to fight.

Xu Yang understood the importance of Britain, and he did not want to leave such a trouble, making it a stronghold for the Allies to fight against the Third Reich of Germany in the future. For this reason, Xu Yang had to divide the British heritage in advance, attracting Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, and Vichy France to participate in the war. According to Xu Yang's original words, this was to purchase multiple insurances for the Battle of Britain, and the payment was not the Third Reich of Germany.

Although Kesseling repeatedly promised the Deutsche Air Force that could paralyze ports and airports in southern Britain within half a month and complete the bombing of British local military factories within ten days. The landing operation could be carried out on time in August, Kesseling was not sure in his heart. He was mentally prepared for the major losses suffered by the Air Force.

Xu Yang looked at the snowy sky outside the cliff castle, and the towering Alps took a deep breath. At this moment, Xu Yang wanted to yell at the mountains very much, but if he really did this, it would probably cause a riot...

The Cliff Castle now exists as a holiday-style place, and has been a fortress for several years. It is not an ancient castle full of medieval style as imagined, but is part of the western wall defense line of the Third Reich of Germany. It was built to be the second line of defense of Germany if the western border was broken by the enemy country.

There is a small story about the reason why the cliff castle was converted into a holiday-style castle. It was on the 20th of the month, when Adolf Hitler's 46th birthday, politicians proposed to build a castle in the European Spine Alps to celebrate his birthday, with the intention of giving a special birthday gift to express their respect for Adolf Hitler.

At the beginning, Adolf Hitler refused the favor of politicians, believing that such luxurious gifts were inconsistent with his usual simplicity. The politicians found Herman Goring without any help. They knew that Herman Goring was so vain and extravagant, and proposed to build a beautiful manor for Herman Goring in Munich and near the Alps. Herman Goring generously accepted the gifts from politicians, and in return he persuaded Adolf Hitler to agree to accept the birthday gifts from politicians and build a cliff castle in the Alps.

Herman Goring's original words were: "In the future, you will need to have a stronghold on the Western Front to direct the operations on the Western Front."

This Air Force hero in the First World War, Herman Goring did not know that Adolf Hitler had acrophobia. After he completed his politics, he received another gift, which was thousands of precious wines, which made him very happy. His favorite wine besides marijuana.

The facilities of the Cliff Castle are very complete. Not only does it have very sufficient living supplies, but it also has a set of very advanced communication equipment for consideration for the sake of command.

God knows where the construction workers at that time found these huge stones. They moved them up and built a castle with such a strange appearance on the cliff. In fact, Xu Yang had no idea. He could swear very sacredly that there were no helicopters now, because the research on helicopters was still in full swing. So how did the radar station be built on the top of the 75-degree cliff in the distance? And it was not an observation station. What should I do if I built it so high? It was puzzling and very puzzling...

Xu Yang was about to look down and look down, but he heard a sound of footsteps. This made him turn toward the source of the sound. The people came were Kettle and Redell, among which Kettle was holding a tray with a bottle of wine of unknown age and a cup made of three lead materials.

"My Head, it turns out you are here..." The person who spoke was Kettle. Judging from his tone, it seemed that the two had been wasting their time to find Xu Yang in order to have a drink with Xu Yang.

Xu Yang smiled knowingly, and he took two steps back. He sat very comfortably on a recliner. From here, you can see a blue sky and a painting in the distance, Redell smiling and sitting down on the recliner on the right side of Xu Yang. It seems that he didn't want to say anything at this time.

Kettle. He first put the tray aside, then moved a small round table very busy. After all the preparations, he skillfully pulled up the wooden plug at the mouth of the wine bottle and poured the cup made of three lead materials into half a full amount.

The three of them raised their cups one after another, but they did not drink it immediately. At this time, Xu Yang asked with a smile: "This is given by the Italians."

Keitel nodded.

Xu Yang said implicitly: "Maybe we should change to a cup to drink?"

Keitel was puzzled, saying: "The Italians said that only by pouring the wine into a cup made of lead can you fully taste the deliciousness of the wine."

"Wonderful Italian..." Xu Yang laughed: "Well...? Gentlemen, do you know? Wine ruined a country that should have been very powerful in history."

Keitel and Redell made surprised expressions at the same time.

"My marshals, you guessed it right, is the Italians who like to drink a few sips of wine when eating macaroni. You know the answer, as the Italians said, only utensils made of lead can produce the deliciousness of wine. The Romans like to drink wine with utensils made of lead. This caused many lead poisoning in the empire people and gave birth to many deformed descendants. Their bones contained in their bones made their bones very fragile. They are the Italians now."

After hearing this, Keitel was furious: "The Italians want to harm us!" He stood up in a roar. Dayou was trying to fight desperately to the Italians.

Redel had a thoughtful expression. While persuading Keitel, he asked curiously: "So the Italians are so useless now?"

Xu Yang nodded in a reserved agreement: "Gentlemen, I am very happy now. Would you like to listen to my story?"

Of course, Redell and Kettle didn't want to object. For the three present, I'm afraid there won't be much free time in the future.

In fact, Xu Yang didn't think about what story he wanted to tell, but when his eyes swept to the wine that was thrown aside, he smiled: "It is said that at a banquet, French and Italian VIPs gathered together and boasted about the culture of their country. They were competing to respect each other with their national quintessence - wine. The Chinese took out the antique Moutai, and the bottle cap opened, refreshing. The Russians took out the vodka, the French took out the white orchid, the Italians took out the wine, and the Germans took out the whiskey, but the Americans were empty-handed. But the Americans walked up unhurriedly, mixed the wines of various countries together, raised their glasses toast each other, and said: This is our American wine - cocktail, which represents our culture."

"Do you know what Americans have in particular?" Xu Yang was serious about Ter and Radell. His words seemed to be warning. "Cocktails represent a spirit of inclusiveness, absorbing spirit, and a spirit that absorbs all human civilizations for me. So now Americans are growing, and we must always be careful of them. Perhaps in the future we will fight this country that has become stronger."

Xu Yang saw the excitement flashing in his eyes at that moment, and then the expressions of the two marshals became very alert.

"Some people say: the Germans proposed the idea, the Italians invented, the British put it into use, the Americans purchased patents, the Japanese imitated, the Spanish disdained this, the Norwegians slowly digested it, and the French appointed all participants as academicians of the Academy of Sciences. Finally, the surprised Germans wrote the whole process of the incident into a detailed biography."

This is completely in line with the current situation, just as it was not the Germans who first made tanks and planes, and it was not the Germans who first thought about the importance of tanks and planes to war. However, it was the Germans who used these two things most perfectly in war.

"Some people say: There was a dead man lying on the street. The Germans moved him to the side of the road. The British checked whether he committed suicide. The French put a stamped label on his belly. Mussolini of Italy would refute the rumors to the world anyway. This was definitely not what he did."

Keitel smiled relievedly. He was now willing to hear jokes teasing Italians. Coins: The British shook their heads and left with a graceful manner; the Americans called the police immediately; the Germans neatly drew countless square grids within the range where the coins might appear, and squatted down and searched with a magnifying glass; the Japanese quickly went home and checked whether the coins were lost."

After Xu Yang said that, he stood up, turned around and took a step forward. The voices of Redel and Kettle came from behind him. They were asking, "What do you mean?"

The next chapter will be revealed to you!

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