bookpower Chapter 339
Chapter 339
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: 0.050s Scan: 0.046sLuxembourg was originally a Grand Duchy, and it has been swinging back and forth between Hans and Gaul.
However, their country is too small and their territory is too narrow, which means they can only serve as cannon fodder in the war, and they have no room to fight back. Therefore, the people of Luxembourg did not think much about it. Since Hans is so powerful, if a war breaks out in the future, they can just turn to Hans. There is nothing to think about.
The small countries around Hans are really afraid of three countries.
The Fairyland in the north, and Borland and Jake in the east.
The Fairyland itself is weak, but it was supported by the British to fight against Hans. Since the Prussian era, this country has always been a nail in the north of Hans, standing firmly with the British. So for Hans, once the war breaks out, in order to solve the threat to the north, they will definitely go north to attack the Fairyland!
This made the Fairyland very worried. They were worried that Hans’ national strength was so strong that once Hans took the initiative to attack them, would the British Empire stand up and support them in the first place?
Even if the British Empire really stood up and supported them, could the British Empire’s army reach the Fairyland before Hans’ army entered their capital to help them resist the enemy?
These two questions are actually easy to answer. Compared with the Low Countries and Gaul, the Fairyland is not as important to the British Empire. So once a world war breaks out, the British Empire’s limited military force will be invested in the Low Countries and Gaul to fight and ensure the safety of these countries, and their Fairyland will be considered in a secondary position.
This means that they have to rely on their own strength to resist Hans’ first wave of offensive alone!
So now the question is: Does the army of the Fairyland have the ability to stop the first wave of German offensive?
The answer is obvious.
As a small country with a population of only 3.
5 million and an area of only 430,000 square kilometers, the military strength of Fairyland is very weak.
In 1924, there were only two infantry divisions in Fairyland, and their organization was not as large as the German infantry division, but similar to the small infantry division of the Celestial Empire.
The strength of one division was only more than 7,000 people, and the two divisions added up to only more than 10,000 people!
Even so, their two divisions were not full-staffed divisions.
Fairyland has been peaceful for a long time and has not participated in wars for a long time, so there is almost no martial arts atmosphere in the country.
The people are not keen to join the army to defend their country.
Once a war breaks out, their people may not think about defending their country, but quickly pack up their belongings and run away with their families?
Therefore, once the war breaks out and the German army attacks them, Fairyland will never be able to stop the German army by relying on its own strength!
Therefore, the people of Fairyland were terrified when they saw the news that Mainz was about to take office!
Like the Billy Division, they also wanted to become a permanent neutral country to avoid being affected by the war.
However, the matter of permanent neutrality is not something that their harmonious small country can decide on its own. If the big countries do not agree to their neutrality, then even if they set up a plaque of permanent neutrality, they will not be able to protect their own safety!
The fairy tale country in the north is like this, and the Bolan and Jieke in the east are even more trembling with fear!
In 192, Bolan at that time was so confident because of its brilliant performance in the war of interference with the bear. It once thought that it was a cockroach that could beat all over Europe, so it brazenly provoked a war with Hans and took the initiative to invade Hans!
As a result, in less than two months of war, Bolan suffered heavy losses, more than one million troops were wiped out, a total of more than 500,000 people died in battle, and 600,000 to 700,000 people were captured.
That painful lesson made Bolan realize the powerful strength of Hans, and knew that in this piece of Europe, they were not even a scallion!
So after the German-Polish War, the people of Poland were honest for several years, fighting with the Mao Bears in the east with all their heart, and finally fought for a piece of land. Last year, a peace agreement was signed, and Mao Bears recognized the independence of Poland. Poland also stopped invading Mao Bears, and obtained a large piece of fertile land to the west of the two Mao Bears from Mao Bears, which made up for their losses in the west!
In general, after signing a peace agreement with Mao Bears, the area and population of Poland are not much different from those of Poland in history. The only difference is that all the land they obtained from Hans in World War I, except for Danze, was taken back by Hans. Because the Allied Powers interfered with Mao Bears more vigorously and for a longer time, Mao Bears’ strength was much weaker than in history, so the people of Poland got more land from Mao Bears!
The losses of Poland in Hans were compensated by the Bears, but the difference is that Hans has a large number of factories and infrastructure, while Bears have nothing valuable except fertile land, so compared with history, Poland’s strength has been weakened to a certain extent.
In this case, the people of Poland are more in awe of Hans!
Although the Jeke in the east has not had a war or conflict with Hans, the Jekes still occupy the Sudetenland and other regions!
This has always been the territory of the Hans!
At this time, there are two countries that still occupy Hans’ land after the end of World War I.
One is Gaul in the west, which ate Alsace and Lorraine, and also ate the Saar region, and the other is Jeke, which ate the Sudetenland!
The Gauls are still a traditional power in Europe.
Even if their national strength is weaker than Hans, they are not powerless to fight back when facing Hans, so the Gauls’ attitude at this time is still relatively firm, and they don’t easily want to give up the land they have swallowed!
Even if the Gauls can’t beat Hans, they at least have a very solid Maginot Line as a barrier to protect their safety!
But Jake doesn’t have such good conditions!
So, it seems that returning Sudetenland to Hans is their only choice!
But, unfortunately, Sudetenland is too important to Jake! The Sudetenland is a highland with very high terrain, and the area surrounded by this highland is Jake’s vulnerable belly.
So for Jake, if they hand this place over to others, then they will have no defense, and their defense will completely collapse. In this case, their fate is no longer in their own hands, but in the hands of the Hans! However, if the Sudetenland is not handed over, with Hans’ current expansionist tendency, one day in the future, the two sides will go to war for this reason!
Once the two sides go to war for this reason, Jake may fall into a catastrophe of life and death!
Therefore, the Jekes were very entangled. They didn’t know what to choose. Should they take the initiative to cede the Sudetenland to Hans in order to protect themselves but hand over their lifeline to others?
Or should they refuse to return the Sudetenland and be unable to resist Hans?
The Jekes could not solve this problem by themselves, so they quickly found the British and planned to test the British attitude.
If the British did not support them and did not express their views on this matter, then there was nothing to say. They would definitely choose to keep quiet and hand over the Sudetenland. After all, they could not fight Hans on their own!
If the British Empire had a very firm attitude and firmly stated that they supported the position of Jake, and even declared war on Germany to help Jake resolve the crisis, then Jake could entrust its own safety to the British Empire and the Gauls.
Faced with the Jakes who came to their door, the British Empire naturally agreed to their request, indicating that the British Empire would firmly stand behind Jake, and could even give Jake independence in exchange for Jake’s role in restraining Hans in the east. The
Jakes got the independence guarantee of the British Empire, and they finally felt completely relieved, so they left with satisfaction.
After hearing this news, the Polish people also ran over excitedly and tried to seek the independence guarantee of the British Empire to protect their own safety!
They were sandwiched between Hans and the bear. Facing the covetous eyes of the two great powers, the Polish people were very panicked. If they could not get the independence guarantee of a great power to deter other countries that had plotted against them, then they would probably be as panicked as the Jakes!
The British Empire thought about it and realized that they had already given independence to Jake, so it would be a bit excessive to give it to Borland, so they pulled in the Gauls and asked the Gauls to provide independence for the Borlands.
The Borlands were very disappointed. In their opinion, Gaul was not as strong as the British Empire.
However, Gaul was a European power after all, and it was better to get their independence guarantee than nothing, right?