novelhk Chapter 522
Chapter 522
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, in the German headquarters.
When the news of the capture of the President of Gaul came, Mainz was relieved!
They should have won the Battle of Iron Tower City!
The fact was almost the same as he expected. Three hours later, the French troops stationed in Iron Tower City surrendered to the German army, and the German army controlled the entire Iron Tower City.
So far, the Battle of Iron Tower City ended with the final victory of the German army. The first phase of the German war goals have been achieved, and now it has begun to enter the second phase!
From the launch of the Battle of Luxembourg on November 3, 1927 to the present, within 17 days, the German army has successively destroyed three countries including Luxembourg, Windmill Country, and Belgium, and captured many important towns including the Gaul capital Iron Tower City.
The northern part of Gaul had completely fallen into the control of the German army at this time. Only some remaining troops were still waiting to be cleared. After eliminating these troops, the German army could go south and completely eliminate the resistance in Gaul with the momentum of sweeping the holes!
In this battle, the German army dispatched a total of six armies, 108 divisions, 2.1 million troops, 4,500 tanks, 4,600 armored vehicles, 1,200 aircraft, 21,000 artillery pieces and 1,200 assault guns. Within 17 days, the German army lost a total of 34,929 people, 79,293 people were injured, and the total number of casualties was 114,000.
This number is not much different from the historical Gallic Campaign. Most of the German casualties came from the counterattack of the French army in the Sedan area. Paulus’s 17th Division suffered heavy casualties, which was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the German army in this campaign.
On the other hand, the Allies dispatched a total of 2.2 million people, including 1.2 million French troops, 350,000 British troops, 600,000 Belgians, and 50,000 Windmills.
They had 2,800 aircraft, 3,200 tanks, and 28,000 artillery pieces. This large and well-equipped army was defeated in just 17 days. As of November 0, the German army had killed and captured more than 1.2 million Allied troops. Among the remaining 100,000 Allied troops, except for the less than 400,000 troops in De Gaulle’s hands who were on the run, the other 600,000 troops had been completely surrounded in the Bastogne area.
In a few days, these 600,000 people will be wiped out!
If this enemy army is eliminated, then the final record of the German army in this battle will be fixed at the elimination of 1.8 million enemy troops, with about 110,000 casualties and a loss ratio of 1:17!
Such a loss ratio is simply unheard of in the history of European wars, especially in large-scale combat operations involving millions of people, there has never been such a disparity in the loss ratio!
Therefore, when the first phase of the battle was over, European countries and even countries around the world were shocked!
European countries, especially Hans’ neighbors, knew that Hans was very strong, and those countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans had already begun to flirt with Hans.
However, how strong Hans is, whether he is strong enough to resist the joint suppression of the two old powers, the British Empire and Gaul, this is something that no one knows.
Therefore, these small countries remained neutral in this war, and each of them was extremely concerned about the progress of this war, because this was their best opportunity to understand Hans’ national strength!
At this time, Hans conquered them with a clean and neat performance!
When they saw that the world hegemon, the sun never sets, and the old power Gaul jointly organized a million-strong army, but were defeated by the German army in just half a month, and the capital of Gaul was taken, and the entire northern half of Gaul was controlled, all countries understood that Hans had the strength to challenge or even defeat these two old powers!
At least, on the European continent, people are their opponents!
So, including the three Nordic countries, Hans’s neighboring countries, the fairy tale country that has always been the sun never sets, and the Balkan countries such as Romania, which had a very unpleasant relationship with Hans and had sent troops to attack Odili, all began to show goodwill to Hans, trying to please Hans, so as to avoid being attacked by Hans!
Due to geographical reasons, the three Nordic countries have snow all year round and the weather is extremely cold, so except for the bear people who also live in the Arctic Circle, other countries have no interest in this place.
However, because Hans was around the Baltic Sea, the three Nordic countries belonged to his sphere of influence, which forced the three Nordic countries to be careful to deal with Hans’ threats. They could not win the war. The three countries had less than 10 million people and even fewer troops. Besides Sweden, other countries had no military factories and could not even produce weapons and equipment. They could not fight Hans with their own little strength!
Therefore, the three countries remained neutral early and did not want to be involved in the war at all.
However, remaining neutral does not mean that they will not be attacked. After all, the Windmill Country has remained neutral for more than a hundred years, but it was still attacked in the end?
Therefore, in addition to maintaining neutrality, they should also try their best to please Hans. Therefore, the three countries discussed and sent representatives to Hans to test Hans’ attitude. Although their location was a little worse, they still had no shortage of various resources in the country.
Norway had oil in the North Sea, Sweden had a large number of military factories, and Finland had a large number of forest resources and copper mines. These could be exported to Hans as war resources. As long as Hans did not attack them, everything would be fine.
In addition to the people of the three Nordic countries who were in a state of panic, the Fairyland was also very nervous, because they had always been the younger brother of the Sun Never Sets, and had always been clinging to the Sun Never Sets’ thigh.
At this time, the Sun Never Sets was beaten black and blue by Hans, and their faces were covered with blood.
Seeing that this big brother was unreliable, they did not have the sea to protect them like the Sun Never Sets.
They were just to the north of Hans.
With their military strength, Hans could easily send an army to sweep them.
Therefore, the Fairyland people were ready to lie down and wait for death. However, seeing the tragic scene of the Gauls being bombed into ruins after being attacked fiercely, the Fairyland people were terrified!
They felt that they could not resist the invasion of Hans with their own army alone. The result of rising up to resist and lying down was the same. The difference was that fierce resistance would blow up their own country and cities, and many people would die. Moreover, fierce resistance would even anger the German army, causing the German army to retaliate against them.
Therefore, the fairy tale country simply disbanded all its troops and did not fortify the border areas. If the Hans want to attack, then let them come. If we do not resist, we will not be hurt, right?
In Eastern Europe, Romania was frightened and restless after hearing the news of the Allied defeat. The whole country was shrouded in fear!
They had followed the British Empire and Gaul to fight against Hans many times. They not only sent troops to attack Odili, but also sent troops to attack Hungary.
Countries that had been their lackeys and opposed Hans, such as Poland and Czech, had already perished.
And the British Empire and Gaul were beaten black and blue. Obviously, they could not expect to get support and assistance from these two countries in the next period of time!
Therefore, the Romania people were very panicked. They kept thinking about one question in their minds: What should they do if the German army sent troops to attack them at this time?
“We must not let this happen, we have to do something!”
“But what can we do? Our army can never stop the German invasion!”
The ministers said worriedly.
The new king of Romania, Carol II, is different from his father, Ferdinand I. He does not have such strong anti-German sentiments. He just wants to keep his privileges as king, his wealth and comfort, and does not want these to be destroyed by war.
So as long as he can stop the war, he can do anything!
“Then we should sell our oil fields to the Hans, no, give them to them for free. With the oil fields, they will not attack us, but will ask us to send troops to protect their oil fields!”_