On the night of the 15th, An Yi hosted a banquet for Soong Meiling at her home by the West Lake in Xinjing.
The Kong sisters who accompanied Soong Meiling on her trip and Chen Cheng's wife Tan Xiang also accompanied Soong Meiling. At this time, Lao Dao had already taken Gong Ming and He Xiaodong back to Anxin City, and the other children also returned to Xufu with Ou Chu'er, Ding Molan and Zhang Ruyi.
After resuming work and study, only Feng Jieyun was responsible for the preparatory work of the "South China Daily" in Beijing, setting up distribution channels, and entertaining guests as the hostess.
On the morning of the 16th, after sending off the delegation, definite news came from France: Due to the increasingly tense war atmosphere in Europe, the French government, parliament and army made a unanimous decision not to recognize or declare war on the newly born South China regime.
The "double no" policy was based on the treatment of local rebellions, and the navy and army were dispatched from the mainland to carry out conquests.
However, the government and the army had very different opinions on how many troops to send to Annan to fight. Defense Minister Marshal Pétain advocated sending an expeditionary force of 500,000, and then gathering a large number of fleets to escort them to Cochin China in batches.
Then wait for the opportunity to attack the northern and central areas of Annan
Landing was carried out in the area, adopting the tactics of cutting off the head, cutting off the tail, and cutting off the waist, to defeat the Anjia army in one fell swoop and solve the problem once and for all. However, Prime Minister Daladier and Minister of Foreign Affairs George Bonnet said that the government finances were overwhelmed and at the same time they needed to guard against Germany.
For this reason, he was only willing to send 50,000 troops.
Just as the French government and army were planning to send troops, anti-war demonstrations of millions of people broke out across France again.
The French people's fear of war far exceeded the imagination of later generations. The First World War almost caused France to shed a lot of blood, and the country was almost destroyed. Most French people almost never consider long-term interests, and often do it for the sake of long-term interests.
Immediate interests are sacrificed for long-term interests. Under the representative democratic system, the French people's fear of war has reached the level of collective cowardice, and they are simply unwilling to shed blood and sacrifice for non-local wars.
At the same time, France's semi-official "Times" published a letter from Frandan, who once served as prime minister and foreign minister and is now the leader of the "Democratic Alliance", the center party in parliament: I am opposed to sending French troops to the Far East! Over the years, France has
The people did not get a penny of benefit from Annan, and all the benefits were stolen by the monopoly capitalists. Why should the people pay for the capitalists with their blood?
The left-wing parties unanimously opposed the dispatch of troops to Annan, and the Labor Federation issued a statement strongly protesting against the government for sending French young people to die in Annan. Two powerful trade union organizations, the Public School Teachers Union and the Postal and Telecommunications Union, issued condemnations in newspapers, saying, "In
Annan's war was a collective suicide," and also claimed that the idea that protecting the colonies was to protect the interests of France was a complete "lie that deceived the people."
Under this circumstance, An Jiajun lurked in the French intelligence organization, using the cover of darkness to post anti-war slogans on the walls of major cities: You have been deceived! French people, you have been deceived! A group of people hidden in the government and
The saboteurs in the army... are plotting a cunning trap to make us shed every last drop of our blood...
After facing a two-day stalemate under the pressure of public opinion, and seeing that the parliament was about to make a motion against sending troops to Annan, the military took the lead in making a compromise and first sent 50,000 troops to relieve the crisis in Cochin China and then stabilize the front line. Otherwise, according to the law,
Annan's governor-general sent a telegram asking for help every day, and Kinsol's fleet was sunk by enemy bombers at a rate of one warship in a few days. By the time the people and public opinion in the country were appeased and an ideal result was negotiated, Annan's failure was irreversible.
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Under such circumstances, on February 18, 38,000 French troops who were transferred back from the Maginot Line, plus 21,000 colonial troops from North Africa, formally established an expeditionary force in Paris.
The expeditionary force is led by Lieutenant General Fouche, the former head of the French military delegation in Czechoslovakia, as the commander-in-chief, and Colonel Los Tono Laco, the adjutant of the Minister of Defense, Marshal Pétain, as the chief of staff. The expeditionary force is under the jurisdiction of two light infantrymen.
division, a mechanized division and an artillery division. In order to strengthen the air defense capabilities of the troops, they also specially deployed
An air defense brigade was mobilized to join. As for the air force, France currently has less than 400 aircraft in total, and can only produce more than 30 fighters every month. The rest can only be imported from the United States. Facing Germany's huge fighter aircraft
The number of these fighters is not enough to even defend the homeland, let alone be sent to Annan to participate in the war.
In terms of the navy, Admiral Darlan, Chief of Naval Staff, deployed the naval fleet of the North African colonies to escort the troop ship throughout the entire journey. The North African fleet consisted of one dreadnought, four old-fashioned cruisers, eight old-fashioned destroyers, one supply ship and one
repair ship. At the same time, in order to strengthen the fleet
Air defense capabilities, two cruisers and six destroyers that have just undergone weapons system modifications and strengthened air defense firepower systems have been added to the fleet. After arriving in Saigon, these warships will be equipped with the ocean-going fleet to enhance the capabilities of Lieutenant General King Sol.
Chips to fight against the superior fighters of the Chinese army.
After making the decision to deploy troops and generals, the French government, the Ministry of National Defense, the Army Command and the Navy Command respectively reported to the Governor-General of French Annan, the French Annan Army Command, the French Annan Navy and Lieutenant General King Sol.
The fleet he led sent a message, requesting to prepare for reinforcements, prepare military supplies, and arrange military ports and camps. Naturally, these telegrams were soon placed on An Yi's desk.
Now, the Anjiajun Third Headquarters has moved to Xinjing City and has moved into a French-style building next to the One-Pillar Temple in the northwest of Xinjing City. The core building here is the headquarters of French bank Credit Agricole in Tokyo. It consists of six buildings
It consists of connected four-story western-style buildings, each with a basement, which is where the bank's vault is located. Of course, now all the gold, silver, jewelry, jade and foreign exchange in the vault have been transported back to Xufu, greatly enriching
An Jiajun's small treasury.
In addition to these six buildings, there are a large number of three- and two-story French-style Western-style buildings within the surrounding two square kilometers, which are residences for government officials and bank employees. However, these have been confiscated by the Nanhua government and have become national property.
The military and political departments that moved to Nanhua, such as the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of National Security, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Supervisory Office, the Second Artillery Headquarters, and the Engineering Corps Headquarters, all work in this area, which can be said to be the military center of the Republic of South China.
In order to facilitate the command of operations, the naval headquarters also moved to Haiphong. A large number of naval officers and soldiers who received simple shipbuilding training on Poyang Lake were airlifted from Xingzi Naval Base to Haiphong Naval Base and practiced on warships cruising along the coast of South China.
Operation skills and combat skills improve quickly.
Early last month, after receiving An Yi's face-to-face commitment, Lieutenant General Jinsol swore allegiance to An Yi, and then, as fleet commander, ordered all naval officers and soldiers to join the Anjia Navy. Jinsol declared in his speech that with the
All ships have been wiped out, and the mission of the ocean fleet has ended. Between choosing to spend the rest of your life as a miserable prisoner, or still working decently in the naval force and living freely with a generous salary, everyone please be more considerate.
Consider it carefully.
Jin Sol assured that there was no question about the credibility of the Anjia Army. The Syrian government's behavior in treating Belarus and the Jews over the years had fully proved this. Moreover, the leader of the Anjia Army, An Yi, promised that as long as he served in the navy for eight years, he would be
If you choose to retire, you can go wherever you want. Not only will An Jiajun not impose any restrictions, but he will also pay a generous retirement bonus for starting a business or for retirement.
Kingsol's words caused deep thought among all French naval officers and soldiers.
The values of Westerners and Chinese are completely different. The Chinese advocate self-cultivation, family governance, and peace in the world. They advocate loyalty to the emperor and serving the country until death. They have always believed that loyal ministers will have a reputation for eternity, and traitors will have an infamy for eternity. These values center on family and country.
, is the fundamental guarantee that Chinese civilization has continued for thousands of years without interruption; while Westerners regard themselves as the core of society and emphasize that through personal efforts and struggle
To achieve self-success, it is advocated that people are absolutely free and can be responsible for everything about themselves. The meaning of human existence is to achieve self-realization. The thinker Nietzsche even believed that in order to achieve the goal, one can not consider the interests of anyone or even the entire society.
To achieve personal goals, in order to obtain money and power, we may resort to any means, including fraud, betrayal, and even violence.
Generally speaking, Westerners do not attach so much importance to family, society, and country. In the family, they emphasize the freedom, rights and independent will of the members, and downplay the personal responsibilities and obligations to the family. In terms of property ownership, father and son are
Brothers and husbands and wives have their own private property, and the family subordination relationship caused by blood relationships has also been replaced by legal relationships. It is precisely because of the individual orientation that the Western family structure is loose, causing people to lack sufficient centripetal force and cohesion towards society and the country.
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Therefore, after repeated consideration of personal gains and losses, except for more than a thousand navy personnel who stated that they would never betray France, the rest all chose to cooperate with the Anjiajun Navy, and some of them were airlifted to Xingzi Naval Base as new recruits.
Instructor, part of the entry
The Naval Military Academy is responsible for military teaching tasks. Some of them join the Naval Command and serve as combat staff officers and department chiefs. The last part, about 4,000 people, are assigned to ships to assist Chinese crews in driving warships and conduct ocean formations and naval battle drills.
Waiting for work.
In addition, among the more than 40,000 French army officers and soldiers captured in Hanoi, Hai Phong, Cochin China, Vinh City, Da Nang and other places last month, all the officers who were guaranteed preferential treatment by the Anjia Army were sent to the Syrian government and entered the military base where the British generals had served.
The environment is beautiful and quiet, almost secluded from the world
The isolated Jiangbei horse farm engages in the leisure work of herding military horses. In addition to being guaranteed three meals a day, they can also receive a salary equivalent to their own level. The French have a heartfelt preference for war horses, but they don't think so.
Nothing to be ashamed of, enjoy yourself.
The French soldiers who were engaged in various occupations and had special skills before joining the army were promised by the guard Anjiajun officer to receive full wages after joining shipyards, steel mills, leather factories and other factory companies, and they would be treated the same as ordinary French workers working in Nanhua.
After that, the registration point was immediately overcrowded. In the end, about 14,000 people were saved from suffering. In addition, more than 1,000 grassroots non-commissioned officers were willing to join the Anjia Army, undertake military teaching work, and also left the prisoner of war camp.
The remaining more than 20,000 army prisoners of war, together with the navy prisoners who refused to cooperate, were escorted to various railway construction sites and became part of the road construction army. In order to avoid causing commotion among the prisoners of war, the Anjia Army made a promise to ensure that the prisoners of war
On the basis of adequate food and clothing, certain financial subsidies will be given to each person based on the results of their labor.
, paid at the end of each month. If you escape while participating in labor, there is only one result, and that is to be shot! At the end of last month, the first month's salary has been distributed to all French people, although it is only the salary of ordinary people.
Half, but it is enough to stabilize most people's emotions and make them less resistant to reform through labor.
Anyway, a lot of francs were seized from Credit Agricole. The Nanhua government had long wanted to spend them as soon as possible before the French mainland was occupied by Germany, so as to avoid serious devaluation of the money in their hands. It didn't care to spend more.
In this wave of relocation of military and government institutions, many research institutions, military academies, universities, factories and enterprises in the Syrian government have not been relocated. After all, Nanhua is still a large construction site. Rather than racking their brains to raise space, it is better to continue
You can stay in Xufu and move in once the construction is completed in the future.
February 18th, 8pm, Anjia Army General Staff War Room.
"I am very familiar with the North African fleet that arrived this time. This is a second-rate colonial fleet mainly composed of old warships. The main ship of this fleet is the 'Guba'-class dreadnought ship Kolbe, and our Mediterranean fleet
The fleet's "Ocean" and the "Paris" previously captured in Saigon are battleships of the same class.
"This class of battleship has a displacement of 26,000 tons, a length of 168 meters, a width of 28 meters, a maximum draft of 9 meters, and 12 305 mm caliber main guns, which are installed on 6 twin main gun turrets.
There are 22 138mm/55 times caliber secondary guns. There are two main guns at the front and rear of the hull.
The tower is arranged on the longitudinal center axis of the ship in a piggy-back style. The main battery towers on both sides of the midships are installed one on each side of the superstructure. The layout of the main gun towers is very backward, with the diamond-shaped arrangement of guns originating from French battleships at the beginning of this century.
This legacy is completely different from the trend during the last European War in which all main battery turrets were arranged along the longitudinal central axis of the ship body.
"The five dreadnoughts of this class were all refitted from 2026 to 2029. The superstructure and tripod mainmast were rebuilt, new boilers were installed, the two forward chimneys were merged into one, and the fire control system was refitted.
, equipped with 50 20mm triple anti-aircraft machine guns and
4 45mm anti-aircraft guns. The Kolbe was damaged by a German submarine in World War I. The Admiralty originally planned to turn it into a training ship this year, but now with the advent of our Ocean Fleet and Annan Fleet
losses, and it is expected that it will serve for a long time in the future."
Admiral Jinsol, the deputy commander of the Anjia Army Navy, talked eloquently, and the translator kept translating his words into Mandarin, so there was no big obstacle in communicating with the Anjia Army generals.
An Yi nodded, looking past the faces of Lu Guang and Jin Sol, and then turned to ask Yang Fei, Mu Zhuiyi and Huang Zhi: "What do you think of the General Staff's opinion?"
Yang Fei frowned: "There are huge differences of opinion. Most people advocate eating the North African Fleet and the French Army that arrived in Hanoi. In this way, our Pacific Fleet suddenly has five battleships, nine cruisers, and twenty
Three destroyers and a large number of gunboats have become a maritime force that cannot be underestimated in Asia; as well, represented by Major Liu Yu, Chief of Operations
A small number of generals on the table advocated letting go of the navy and eating up the army. Because if the North African fleet disappears mysteriously, the French will definitely see through our trap, and all the previous cover-ups will be in vain. Britain, the United States and Japan will
Immediately raise your vigilance against us and squeeze our space for survival and development with all your strength. It will be difficult to fish in troubled waters in the future!"
An Yi thought carefully for a long time and asked the navy for their opinion again.
Cheng Chengguang replied: "So far, our naval officers and soldiers are not very familiar with operating large ships. Now we are practicing under the flag of the French Navy in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. It is very useful. Japan, the United States and the British are all very familiar with us."
Staying away, such a relaxed environment is extremely beneficial to the growth of our navy.
"During this period, the fleet, in its call to the French Admiralty, had already removed half of the warships from the order, with the excuse that they were all 'sunk' by bombers. If we continue to lay out this puzzle, we will persist until Europe
When a war begins, all warships can use battle losses as an excuse to artificially let them
'Disappear'. After a long period of fighting, destroying the warships one by one will give people a much better feeling than if they are all captured at once, and the impact on the soul will not be that great. As long as we keep a low profile for two to three years, we can save up.
When our strength strikes, no one can stop the great strides of our navy!"
An Yi smiled slightly: "So, your opinion is to only attack the army and not the navy?"
Lu Guang nodded: "The French army has landed ashore. As long as we arrange the situation well, these French officers and soldiers who are unwary on their own territory are like sparrows that have fallen into a trap. They will fly away if they want to."
It's extremely difficult. In the end, it's not us who has the final say in everything?
"As for this North African navy, after we accept the ships they send, we can transfer them to other ports in Cochin China for supply. For example, the Meidi Port we just planned to build is fully qualified for this job. The ports there
wide and deep enough to accommodate
When the North African fleet is stationed, we only need to send a thousand Jewish officers and soldiers, dress it up in the style of a town on the French coast, and then send a group of people from Leonardo's "Night Paris Entertainment World" nightclub to support us.
Can cover up everything in Cochin China very well.
"The situation in Europe is extremely tense now. As long as the personnel we deploy perform well, the French will leave for a maximum of two days. By then, will the situation here be decided by us? The French will never guess it. We will take great pains to
It took a lot of energy to set up such a big situation. When the war starts in Europe, the French will understand that everything will be too late!"
"Mainly the ships of the North African Fleet are not worth our while!"
King Sol, who has been in the French navy for many years and is as familiar with French military and political affairs as he is with his own ten fingers, added:
"The warships of the North African Navy are very old, and most of them have reached the end of life. The reason why they are still in use is because the national treasury is empty and there is not much money to build and replace warships. For this reason, the navy specially builds and replaces warships on each warship.
Technical personnel are stationed in Shangdu,
During routine maintenance and navigation, once cracks are discovered in the steel plates and connecting bridges of the ship's hull, it proves that the ship has suffered from metal fatigue and must be scrapped or abandoned as soon as possible. We exposed our target in order to seize such an old fleet.
, it’s really not worth the loss.
"Today, the situation in Europe is unstable, but Nanhua has been managed by us to be impregnable. Needless to say, the land and sea are the top priority of our monitoring. The navy and army have spent a lot of effort on this, and
In the air, due to the all-weather monitoring by the radar system, it is impossible for enemy fighters to get close to our coastline, let alone enter the harbor to spy on our fleet. In this way, the secrets of our warships can be maintained for a long time.
This is extremely beneficial to the growth of the navy."
After hearing such a detailed analysis, An Yi had basically made up his mind, but in order to respect the opinions of several deputies, he still asked: "Lao Yang, Lao Huang, recollection, what do you mean?"
"If you are willing to give up, you will get something if you give up... We might as well put ourselves in their shoes and think about what would happen if the French government found out that we not only occupied the entire territory of Annan, but also captured all the naval warships they sent to the Far East.
What reaction? In my opinion, continuing to send troops for conquest is a more ideal outcome. What I fear most is that the French government will be hot-headed and declare war on us. In this way, according to the alliance, Britain
There is also a great possibility that people will declare war on us, and then the entire Commonwealth will be our enemy, and may even bring the United States in. At present, the Chinese in Europe and the United States will encounter the most serious existential crisis in history. Therefore, this
The North African fleet must return to the French mainland safely, bring the news that everything is normal in Cochin China and the ocean fleet, and dispel the suspicion of the French."
Huang Zhi's words made An Yi break out in a cold sweat. At this moment, he no longer hesitated and immediately asked the General Staff and the Navy to come up with the second plan of the "hiding the truth" plan as soon as possible to see how to successfully get through.
In the next three days, more than 500 staff officers from various departments of the General Staff, plus more than 100 generals and staff officers from the Navy Department, all devoted themselves to formulating the plan. No detail was spared.
, and after repeated discussions at meetings and checking for deficiencies, it was finally officially put into implementation.
The Republic of South China's strategic deception was similar to the "Star Wars" plan of later US President Ronald Reagan. The "Star Wars" plan eventually brought down the Soviet Union, and the Republic of South China was able to hide this from the French and then gain control of this fledgling country.