The Rise Of Australasia-Chapter 1192 - 891 French Traitor_2
Chapter 1192: Chapter 891: French Traitor_2
Chapter 1192: Chapter 891: French Traitor_2
Ultimately, the British and French are clearly more powerful now than they have been in history.
Britain, France, and Australia have almost divided half of the United States, which has significantly enhanced the strength of each country.
Although the British received the most valuable regions, the three areas acquired by the French were not much less.
While they cannot fully control the three republics like colonies, they can interfere with their domestic affairs to a certain degree, and even influence public opinion to provoke the republics to declare war on Germany voluntarily.
Indeed, besides placing their hopes in colonial military forces, the French also expected these three republics to assemble sizable armies to help defend the native land.
However, as a nation that cherishes freedom, the United States does not have as high control over its people as imagined.
Even after splitting into multiple countries, the control each nation has over its citizens is not complete. It’s worth noting that France has formed alliances with these three republics, and within a few days of the outbreak of war between France and Germany, these republics have consecutively declared war on Germany.
But the problem is that, up to now, the conscription progress in the three republics has not been smooth.
According to the French plan for these three republics, they were supposed to jointly provide at least 500,000 new recruits within one month and land in France four months later, after three months of training and half a month of transport.
However, judging from the current conscription progress of these republics, let alone providing 500,000 troops, even providing 150,000 has been a struggle.
What’s more, compared to France, the United States has been even less focused on militaristic training.
These enlisted American soldiers are purely new recruits, some having hardly received any military training.
This means that extra time is required to train them to be combat-effective.
Three months have passed since the outbreak of the war, but the barely over 150,000 troops organized by the three republics are still not combat-ready.
This is the reason why the French requested additional military advisory groups from Australasia. Without Australasia’s assistance, it would probably take at least two more months to make these 150,000 people combat-ready.
For the current European battlefield, two months are enough to change a lot.
Taking into account the time it takes to transport from the United States to Europe, it’s questionable whether Paris will still be under the control of the French government in three months.
Therefore, after gaining support from Australia, the French government made a bold decision to expand this force of more than 100,000 to 200,000, and then quickly send them to France.
In France, they will undergo about a month of intensified training before being formally committed to the battlefield.
For the sake of winning the war, the French have really put it all on the line. In addition to these 200,000 troops from the United States, there will be an additional 300,000 new recruits from the French mainland and colonies, who will train and enter the war alongside them.
In just three months, the total personnel of the French Army has already exceeded 2 million and is pressing toward 3 million.
If you include the large number of soldiers who have sacrificed in the war, the total number of Frenchmen committed to this conflict has actually already surpassed 3 million.
Germany has committed even more personnel to the war, with military numbers now exceeding 4 million and total troops contributed surpassing 5 million.
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Austria is undoubtedly the most unfortunate of the powerful nations. At the start of the war, Austria assembled an army of millions that could even briefly hold back Germany.
But after Czech and Slovakia were successively annexed by the German Empire, the Austrian Empire seemed powerless to continue, and the mobilization of the military grew sluggish.
Currently, Austria’s remaining combat force is only about 500,000, with only Vienna clinging to life while the rest of the empire is lifeless.
If the United Kingdom and France cannot help the Austrian Empire in other areas of the war, or to put it another way, if they can’t send troops directly to relieve the pressure on the Austrian Empire, it’s possible that the first of the Powerful Nations to surrender in this war has just emerged.
On the British side, preparations are already madly underway for the upcoming offensive.
Though mobilization on the British mainland is somewhat slow, the saving grace is that Colonies are scattered across the globe; at present, the total number of soldiers within the British Empire nearly matches that of Germany.
Just on the British mainland, there are already close to 2 million soldiers gathered. Of course, over 300,000 of them are from the Allied Army that retreated from Dunkirk. They are currently recuperating in Britain, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
In fact, when looking at the size of the army, the combined army personnel of Britain, France, and Australia are not inferior to that of Germany and Italy; theoretically, they still stand a chance in the fight.
However, the gap in military combat power cannot be bridged by mere infantry numbers. Of the countries Britain-France-Australia, it’s the French Army that’s likely to be the strongest.
But France did not place much emphasis on armored troops before World War II, and when facing Germany, which had a large number of armored units, the disparity became evident.
Though the British Empire possesses a sufficient scale of armored troops, the combat effectiveness of British Empire soldiers is relatively low, and they are incapable of contending with the armored troops of Germany.
As for Austria, as a country sanctioned after its defeat in World War I, lagged behind other Powers in the development of armored troops and air force.
On August 1st, 1936, the German Chancellor made a proclamation to the military, vigorously instigating the German Army to act more swiftly and capture Paris, the Capital City of France.
In this document, the German Chancellor proclaimed that the offensive on Paris would be the largest battle in human history and would determine the fate of the German Empire and France.
With the release of this “Proclamation to the Military,” the German Army on the front line also mobilized en masse, making an imposing advance towards Paris, France.
Just on the second day, August 2nd in the early morning, a large number of German Bomber groups appeared on the outskirts of Paris.
Germany, in conjunction with Italy, launched a massive air raid, striking many significant military and civilian targets throughout France.
The focus of the bombings was naturally the political center of Paris. Particularly the Air Force bases near Paris suffered devastating joint strikes from the German and Italian air forces, sustaining severe damage.
Hundreds of French Fighter Aircraft were destroyed before they could even take off, with hundreds of pilots killed or injured in the air raids.
On the same day, over a thousand German Tanks charged unrestrainedly, and the German Army, numbering several hundred thousand, rapidly advanced towards Paris as if nobody stood in their way.
The French Army deployed nearly 500,000 soldiers from Amiens to Lans, attempting to use this force to hold back the German Army and buy more time for the training of the rest of the French Army.
But the French government underestimated the impact of successive defeats on the Soldiers’ morale. Following the continuous bombing by the German air force, the French soldiers at the Second Defense Line seemed to lose their fighting spirit, even their counterattacks against the German Army felt half-hearted.
In less than one week, the German Army easily broke through the defensive line between Amiens and Lans, advancing towards the immense Urban City that lay not far ahead.
At this point, the atmosphere within the French government had already become delicate.
Although the Faction of War Advocates forcefully argued for France’s participation in this war, judging by the results of the war thus far, there is no doubt that their proposition has made France even weaker.
What’s more fatal is that if the war continues, it will only result in more casualties for France as it currently stands.
Especially after the breakthrough of the Second Defense Line, the Dove once again vigorously promoted their theory, stating that what France should do now, before Paris falls, is end this war—which should never have happened—in the smallest possible loss.
The squabble between the Faction of War Advocates and the Dove has once again thrown France into chaos, particularly as the involvement of Britain and Australasia hasn’t changed the state of the war, and some Frenchmen seem to be entertaining the idea of retreat.
