Chapter 1018 Ending
"Oh? They surrendered?" After receiving the news that the high-level officials of the Virginia government had surrendered, Yannick nodded with satisfaction. "Since they are so sensible, I will be generous. If the deputy governor is willing, he can stay and be promoted to governor. But it depends on whether he has the ability to do so. Let them be responsible for confiscating private weapons in the state. If they can't even do this, then get out as soon as possible." Of course, even if that guy is promoted to governor, the second-in-command will be sent by Germany, and most of the real power will be in the hands of these second-in-commands.
"As for those troops..." Yannick wondered whether to throw all these guys into the prisoner-of-war camp, but then gave up the idea and ordered. "The army surrenders all weapons, and those soldiers disband on the spot and go home. But before going back, everyone must write a letter of guarantee: promise not to hide weapons privately, and if they find others hiding weapons, they will actively report it, etc." After all, this is the first state to surrender voluntarily, and it is necessary to set an example for other states. Seeing that if you surrender obediently, you will not be sent to the prisoner-of-war camp or be embarrassed, the troops of other states should be very tempted, right?
Marshal Rundstedt asked with some concern. "Your Highness, if we just let them go, what if they join the guerrillas or other resistance organizations?" Wouldn't that be like letting the tiger go back to the mountains? "Should we screen them before releasing them?"
Yannick couldn't help but smile. "How to screen? According to what standards?" Although there was already a polygraph at that time, it was not very reliable; even the most advanced polygraph in later generations had an accuracy rate of only 78%, and it could not even be used as evidence in litigation.
Even if the accuracy rate of the polygraph reached 100%, how long would it take to test hundreds of thousands of people?
"If he joins the guerrillas, can he still bring his family with him? If he wants to implicate the entire family or the entire village or town, then let him join."
This is a bit like the ancient law of collective responsibility, where if one person breaks the law, the people around him will also be implicated. Although it is unreasonable, it is useful and can play a role in mutual supervision. Because people are selfish, they are afraid that others will implicate themselves, and for their own sake they will prevent others from harming their own interests.
Moreover, there is no inexplicable or even ridiculous "political correctness" now. If you dare to resist, you will be killed without hesitation, even your family or your village.
In the future, citizens of some Western countries joined a notorious terrorist organization. When the terrorist organization was defeated, these guys returned to their own countries openly. There are more than 2,000 extremists and radicals who returned to France alone. The French government's measures are to accuse and try individual extremists. As for the rest of the radicals, there are no better measures.
Virginia's surrender is like a domino. After the first one fell, the rest could not stop at all.
North Carolina, which first asked Virginia for help, heard that Virginia had surrendered, so how could it continue to resist? The European coalition forces easily defeated the border defenses of South Carolina and North Carolina and broke into North Carolina. Previously, most of the defenders in North Carolina were concentrated near these borders. The defense line was broken, and the European coalition forces rushed through North Carolina like a no-man's land, capturing one city after another.
And states adjacent to Virginia, such as Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Maryland, also surrendered one after another.
Until the end of 1943, the European coalition forces had captured nearly half of the US land.
It can be said that they were unstoppable.
Although sometimes they were blocked, in front of the powerful European coalition forces, these resistance forces were like eggs hitting stones and were easily defeated.
There were also many soldiers and civilians who did not want to be slaves of a conquered country and fought guerrilla warfare.
Let's not talk about the terrain of the US mainland is not very suitable for guerrilla warfare, and Germany has accumulated a lot of anti-guerrilla experience from battlefields such as Poland and the Soviet Union. The German anti-guerrilla forces knew the terrain better than the American guerrillas, were better at winning people's hearts than the guerrillas, were more cunning than the guerrillas, and had better equipment than the guerrillas. How could such a guerrilla war continue?
In this way, the front-line troops conquered the city with overwhelming force, and the rear was clearing the stragglers in an orderly manner. The war situation was quite optimistic.
In the autumn of 1944, the European coalition forces finally captured all the states in the United States, and the regular war was declared over.
The whole of Europe was caught in a carnival of celebrating victory, but Yannick and the top leaders knew that although the regular war was over, the security war was far from over, and it would probably take a long time.
In the spring of 1945, Yannick ascended the throne as emperor in the Berlin Palace, and Pope Pius XII came to crown him.
For a long time, the kings of European countries needed to be recognized by the church, and the emperor had to be crowned by the pope to be regarded as orthodox.
Moreover, the pope would not move easily. For the coronation of the general kings in Europe, the local archbishop would do it. Unless you are the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the Pope will attend, and these emperors must go to the Vatican, the Pope's territory, kneel on one knee before the Pope, and have the Pope put the crown on you, so that you have legitimacy, which means that the king's power is granted by God.
However, in the early 19th century, Napoleon established the First French Empire and held a coronation ceremony in Notre Dame de Paris. A scene that shocked the world occurred: Napoleon not only refused to kneel to the Pope, but also took the crown from the Pope and put it directly on his head, and personally crowned the queen.
Napoleon can be said to be the first emperor who did not take the Pope seriously. Later, Queen Victoria of England and William I of Germany were crowned without the Pope. This means that the Pope is in name only, the king has absolute power, and the two officially parted ways.
Although Yannick was not very interested in religion, he still allowed Pius XII to preside over the coronation ceremony in view of the huge number of believers around the world and his cooperative relationship with the Holy See, but he did not have to kneel. Pius XII did not mind kneeling to crown him, but Yannick would have to lie on the ground to receive the crown, which was even more outrageous.
In the end, Yannick decided to sit on the throne and Pius XII stood to crown him.
When the crown was put on Yannick's head, the palace erupted with a thunderous "Long live your majesty!", resounding through the sky and reaching the sky.
In the autumn of 1945, Audrey Hepburn officially became the Empress of the Empire and gave birth to twins the following year.
In 1946, the European Union announced its space program.
In 1948, Prince Oscar and his wife stepped on the moon, shocking the world.
In 1960, Yannick announced that the political system would be changed to a constitutional monarchy.
In 1970, on his 60th birthday, Yannick announced his abdication and retired, passing the throne to his son. After ten years of reform, the power of the emperor has been greatly weakened, and the people have gradually accepted the constitutional monarchy.
Yannick, who has unloaded the heavy burden, travels with Hercules to recuperate.
The whole book is finished.
(It has been written for a year and a half without knowing it. Thank you for your support and love.
The original intention of writing this book is because I like to read German three-type novels. I started to follow it from "Resurrection". As a result, almost no other great gods can write to the end. Most of them were blocked halfway, which was so heartbreaking.
Originally, I wanted to write the story line of the joint Ming Dynasty to conquer the world, and after this book was finished, I would continue to write the story of traveling through the Ming Dynasty; but in order to avoid thunder, I had to block the entire Asia.
Although several chapters were still blocked, fortunately, I wrote it smoothly to the end Conclusion.
I have to say that it is really troublesome to have no outline. For example, when writing about the European Union, I found that it might be better to restore the Holy Roman Empire than to write about the European Union. In the end, it was not easy to write about the European Union in detail, so I could only write about it in a hurry. In addition, there are many other problems.
Without further ado, I would like to thank all the book friends for their support.
If it goes well, I will upload a new book next week, which is a city-themed one. As for the Ming Dynasty that I was originally going to write, I recently read "The Ming Dynasty 1566" again and felt that what I wrote was just a bunch of rubbish, so I'd better forget it. )