News of Lütjans's victory at Narvik soon spread throughout Europe. This bold attack of the Third Reich was shocked.

The news of the Anglo-French invasion of Norway and the news of the surprise attack of the German army on the British fleet appeared one after the other, only one day apart.

What's even more dramatic is that the day before, the British army was still celebrating their capture of the Norwegian town of Narvik, but the next day, they became the turtle in the urn of Narvik and was attacked by the Germans. The people were surprised to find that in this unpredictable world war, even a superpower like Britain could not win the war.

I have to say that the German High Seas Fleet's stab was really accurate and ruthless. After the British army of a division in the north had just achieved a tactical breakthrough, the sea supply line in their rear was cut off by force.

Although Lütjans's fleet did not stop at Narvik, they looted the supplies that the British Expeditionary Force had stockpiled in Narvik. Without follow-up supplies, the British division fighting on the front line will have to change its combat strategy and wait for the next batch of supplies to arrive, or go south as soon as possible to join another well-stocked Anglo-French expeditionary force cluster.

In a surprise attack, Britain lost not only the myth of invincibility established by the Royal Navy over the years, but also the materials and morale of the current expeditionary force.

In line with the great victory at sea, the German Foreign Office, contrary to the normal state of languish and depression in the past three months, suddenly made a statement under the arrangement of Ribbentrop and made righteous words:

"Germany strongly condemns this blatant violation of international conventions by Britain and France, which tramples on the sovereignty of neutral countries, and expresses sympathy and support for the Norwegian Government. Germany and Norway have a deep historical friendship, and Germany will never sit idly by and watch Norway be destroyed in a crisis, let alone allow the justice and justice of the world to be trampled on. Germany is willing to support the great and strong Norwegian people to resist the invaders to the end, and the German soldiers will work with the Norwegian army to defend against foreign enemies and uphold justice, whether at sea or in the air! ”

Reinhardt also made a national address on the radio, expressing Germany's determination to assist Norway in the fight against the Anglo-French forces:

"Just yesterday, the Anglo-French army, which has always regarded itself as the side of justice, attacked and invaded Norway. There was neither a declaration of war nor an ultimatum, but the British shells suddenly rained down over Norwegian ports, and then the Anglo-French forces landed on Norwegian territory in a big way. An hour later, the British ambassador met with the Norwegian foreign secretary and said that the two countries were at war. But it was this ambassador who, a month ago, had babbled on and on reassuring the Norwegians that Britain was a friend, and almost an ally, and that Germany was Norway's enemy!"

"What an irony that a robber should rightly point to the police and say to the people: 'Look! This is the one who wants to harm you. I am the only one who can help you. 'Yes, this is the logic of Churchill and his henchmen, this is the colonialist routine of the empire on which the sun never sets, arrogant and despicable! ”

"So we are determined to wipe out Churchill and eradicate all traces of colonialism. Nothing can change that resolve! At this point, we will never negotiate! We will never negotiate with Churchill or any of his henchmen. We will fight him on land; We will fight him on the seas; We will fight him in the skies until he and his colonialism have completely disappeared from the influence of the world, and until all the colonized and oppressed countries are liberated from the yoke of the British Empire. ”

"Any person or country fighting colonialism will receive our assistance. Any person or country that is in the same league as Churchill is our enemy. I would like to advise the present Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, not to be instigated by militants like Churchill, and to return to your original intentions and to the ideals of peace that we are striving for. As long as you are willing to stop, the peace agreement we signed in Munich will remain valid........."

"It is worth pointing out that in the early hours of this morning alone, the Imperial Navy penetrated deep into the waters north of Norway and sank with minimal losses seven large British warships that had violated, defiled and threatened to control Norwegian territorial waters, and captured two of them along the way. Our troops, too, this morning, as allies, landed on the soil of Oslo and stood with the Norwegian people in the name of justice. ”

"However, this is just the beginning. If Britain can't leave to stop their violent acts of bullying other countries, they will insist on going their own way. In that case, we will counter violence with violence and destroy the evil of the colonialists by force. This is not a class war, it is a war to which the whole of Germany and our allies, regardless of race, creed, or partisanship, is thrown into. ”

"Today, I hereby declare that the Third German Reich has officially declared war on Great Britain and the Third German Reich has officially declared war on France! We will fight together with all the members of the Allied Powers against colonialism, and we will defend the freedom and sovereignty of every member of the Allied Powers! ”

Since the beginning of the Polish Campaign, after Britain and France both declared war on Germany, Germany, which had always avoided war, finally began to declare war on Britain and France. Not only did war be declared, but Germany seemed to have a tendency to form an alliance to fight together.

An Allied power led by the Third Reich, then in the future Churchill they can only form an Axis power? Reinhardt, who was the first to register this good name, was secretly refreshed.

Of course, whether you can win in the end or not has nothing to do with what you choose. If you don't have an effective strategy, enough strength, and luck on the battlefield, even if you take the name of the Buddha Alliance, you won't win all battles in the end.

Changing the name of the Axis powers to the Allies was just a personal bad taste of Reinhardt, and it had little practical significance. What's more, there are not many members of this alliance yet.

Germany counts one, Italy counts one, Spain counts half, and Norway will soon count one. But Romania, Finland, Bulgaria and other countries have not yet sided with Germany.

If we can't knock out France, which is known as the number one army in Europe and even in the world, and really have the confidence to dare to follow Germany and shout slogans to fight against imperial colonialism, it is estimated that only Norway, a country that has been invaded and has to join, will be the only country that has been invaded and has to join.

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Faced with the moral constraints of Germany and the first huge loss of the Royal Navy at Narvik, Chamberlain, as British Prime Minister, undoubtedly fell victim to Churchill's strategy.

MPs strongly criticized the old man and his government for making Britain politically dishonest to the world and militarily disgrace the Royal Navy. Many parliamentarians even called for someone who knew about war to lead the British Empire, so as not to spoil the foundation of the Royal Navy. The implication was that until the admiral secretary Winston Churchill was recommended for the throne, many impatient parliamentarians openly proposed a vote of no confidence in the Chamberlain government.

On the other hand, as the initiator of this war. Churchill did not show any remorse, but tried to further increase the scale of the war, and put an end to the turmoil by the most brutal means by quickly coordinating with the French army to occupy all of Norway. In this way, it can also save some of the face lost by the British Empire in Narvik.......