Chapter 284 Princess Sylvia
Spain, needless to say, is controlled by a spy from the intelligence agency.
As for Romania, in the original time and space, Romania and Hungary were staunch allies of Germany, much more reliable than Italy and Japan.
During World War II, the participating countries were divided into two camps: the Axis and the Allies. We all know that the ** group is mainly based on Germany, Italy and Japan, but compared with Germany and Japan, Italy's strength is often ridiculed by everyone, always dragging Germany's feet. At that time, Germany had a more solid supporter in Europe, and this supporter was Hungary and Romania.
Although Romania saw that Germany was going to be finished in the later period of the war, it immediately turned against Germany and joined the Soviet Red Army to fight Germany. But before that, Romania was undoubtedly the second largest Axis army on the Eastern Front, with the 3rd and 4th Army Groups under its jurisdiction of 27 divisions and a total strength of 20,000. Hungary also increased from the Carpathian Group in 1941 (approximately equivalent to an army, 440,000 people) to an army group (the 2nd Army Group), 90,000 people.
In the process of the Soviet Union advancing towards the German army, the Hungarian army had erupted with amazing combat effectiveness in Budapest, and cooperated with the German army many times to cause huge losses to the Allied forces. Compared with the defection of another vassal country, Romania, Hungary can be said to be Germany's most loyal younger brother. In the later stages of the war, as the German army retreated step by step, the vassal countries began to leave Germany one after another, but Hungary was the only one who chose to go all the way.
Germany resolutely blitzed Poland, and it took less than 20 days to completely destroy Poland, the strongest country in Eastern Europe, followed by Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries, and swallowed all these countries in one breath. This made Mussolini, who was originally prepared to laugh at Germany, unable to laugh.
Then even France, known as the strongest country in Europe, was beaten back step by step and had no power to fight back.
This series of lightning-fast victories stunned Mussolini, who was still hesitating about which side to stand on. Although he had some plans before, Britain and France were the victors of World War I after all, which inevitably made Mussolini feel scared and he dared not easily declare war on Britain and France. Now that Germany has become the first in Europe, he dared not offend Germany.
Now that France's collapse is imminent, it seems that it is time to take action and bite off a few pieces of meat from French territory!
Mussolini, who was overwhelmed by his own dreams, dispatched more than a dozen divisions to the French border without even notifying Germany.
This scared France. Although Italy has not officially declared war, anyone who is not a fool can see what Italy means by gathering troops on the border. Seeing that France was in danger of being destroyed, the peace advocates headed by Marshal Pétain formed a new cabinet. Marshal Pétain's first decision after taking office was to make peace with the Germans. He ordered the French army to stop resistance across the board, and then sent a special envoy to Berlin to negotiate with the Germans.
The French envoy knew that such a weak performance would put him in an extremely disadvantageous position when negotiating the armistice and peace terms with Germany, but what could he do?
The envoy, with swollen eyes on the way, rushed to Berlin and came to the Berlin Palace accompanied by German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop.
"Miss Anne, please report that the French envoy has arrived."
"His Highness is now in Area B of the Garden. If His Highness told you to come before, you can go directly to him."
Ribbentrop brought the French envoy to Area B of the Garden and saw Yannick sitting in front of the lily bed from a distance. And there was a girl sitting on his lap, painting on the canvas in front of him. "Mr. Envoy, do you know that girl?"
Seeing the French envoy shaking his head in confusion, Ribbentrop smiled and said. "Her identity is not ordinary. She is the granddaughter of Vittorio Emanuele III; Her Highness Princess Silvia."
"Italian princess?" The French envoy's face changed wildly. Obviously, he thought of the Italian army gathering at the border. At this time, the Italian princess was nestling in the arms of the German Crown Prince, and the intention seemed to need no further explanation.
Ribbentrop sneered. "Everyone likes to beat a drowning dog. Oh, sorry, maybe I should say 'adding insult to injury' or 'taking advantage of someone's misfortune' to be more polite."
"..." As the envoy of the defeated country, the French envoy was in no mood and dared not to have any opinion on Ribbentrop's "sarcasm".
The French envoy self-righteously guessed that the Italian princess came to discuss their division of France, but if he heard Yannick talking to the Italian princess, he might be shocked.
"Brother Yannick, will you really help me with the last thing I asked you to do?"
Yannick kissed her gently on the cheek. "Don't worry, I have sent someone to arrange it." Not long ago, he learned the reason why Sylvia refused to go back, which had a great impact on his three views.
Interested friends can find many Western-made films and TV series depicting the Western Middle Ages, in which the lives of the nobles and royal families are so chaotic that they are enough to make people stunned.
The French drama "Versailles" has beautiful brothers and sisters, the brother is a stud, and the brother is gay.
The Russian drama "Catherine II" tells the story of incest in the Russian royal family.
Some plots in the British drama "The Tudors" are even more indescribable.
Anyway, there are too many stories in these literary and film and television dramas about the elder brother marrying his sister-in-law after his death, the younger brother marrying his younger brother's sister after his death, the father marrying his stepmother after his death, and the son marrying his daughter-in-law after his death. It is simply a mess to the extreme.
There is a ranking of the ten most promiscuous countries in later generations, and Italy ranks third.
I don’t know if this is the sequelae of the bourgeois revolution or the inertia of history that has been smeared until today?
However, after Yannick knew about Silvia’s experience, he felt that these film and television works or rankings were not smears at all.
Although Silvia is Umberto’s illegitimate daughter, after all, they are born by the same father. How can she be interested in her half-sister? They are simply a group of beasts! Yannick has no psychological burden to kill these scums.
"Thank you, brother Yannick." Silvia turned around, and the two people's lips gently touched each other. Silvia narrowed her beautiful big eyes slightly, and suddenly exclaimed in a low voice. "Brother Yannick...someone..."
Yannick was stunned, turned his head in the direction she pointed, and saw Ribbentrop leading a stranger pointing at a rockery on the side. Looking at their serious expressions, it seemed as if there was a great deal of knowledge hidden in the rockery.
"Good boy, go back first. I have something to discuss." He patted Sylvia's waist gently. "I'll continue to teach you when I'm free tonight."
"Well, goodbye, brother Yannick." Sylvia blushed and kissed Yannick on the face and left in a hurry.
After her figure disappeared, Yannick called out. "Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, come over to talk about something?"
Ribbentrop hurriedly led the French envoy to trot over. "Your Highness, this is the French envoy."
The French envoy took out his handkerchief again to wipe the sweat from his forehead. He was terrified on this trip. Not only did he see the little princess of Italy, but he also almost witnessed her live broadcast with His Excellency Yannick. The former is related to the fate of his motherland, and the latter may be related to his life.