Chapter 896 Alaska (7)

Alaska.

"Is there any news from the country?" These days, the commander of the Alaska garrison, who has been "doing nothing", repeats this sentence the most every day, and his adjutant says the most "No, commander."

The commander of the garrison sighed habitually and asked again. "Did the soldiers who went out hunting today get anything?" In fact, he guessed it without asking more. Since a week ago, these soldiers have returned empty-handed almost every day. All the animals that can be hunted nearby have been hunted, and the remaining ones have run far away. And it is not worth the loss to travel a long distance to hunt those animals. Maybe these animals will run into Canada while chasing them, and they can't chase them.

These damn Canadians! If it weren't for the "shameless betrayal" of these guys, they wouldn't have fallen into this situation today. After cursing in his heart, the commander of the garrison asked again. "How many days will our remaining food last?"

"It can support 20 days at most." The rations they are issuing now have been reduced, and each soldier can only receive two-thirds of the normal amount. "If the amount is reduced further, it can last for a month. But the soldiers below may be dissatisfied." Now the soldiers are living in hunger and cold, and there are already complaints. If the amount is reduced again, no one knows what will happen. After hesitating for a while, the adjutant spoke cautiously. "Commander, maybe it's time to make a decision."

"..." Although he didn't make it clear, the commander of the garrison was not stupid. He understood that the adjutant was talking about surrendering to the German army.

As mentioned earlier, in Western civilization, it is not a shame for the army to surrender to the enemy when it is in a desperate situation. They think they are glorious soldiers because they have tried their best to fight for the country. Continuing is just a meaningless sacrifice.

In the Franco-British War of 1754-1763, in order to prevent the expansion of British colonies to the west of North America, France joined forces with the Indians to fight the British. Washington participated in the battle with France with the British colonial army, but the record was not good. Washington was defeated and captured. After being captured, he did not show bravery and surrendered very simply.

Later, the French were defeated and Washington was rescued by the British. He did not suffer any discrimination or suppression because of surrendering in the defeat. Instead, he became a member of the Virginia Congress and entered politics. After that, the American War of Independence broke out. With his experience in the Franco-British War, Washington became the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and led the Americans to defeat the British, making great contributions to the American War of Independence.

Even their founding father could surrender, so it was nothing for them to surrender. After all, they were not afraid of war, nor were they deserters. If the Germans launched a landing war, they would also fight bravely to the end and even sacrifice. But now the situation is that they are starving to death without even seeing the shadow of the enemy. It's so aggrieved!

"..." The commander knew it, but he was unwilling!

Without destroying even one soldier of the enemy, he had to obediently hand over such a large piece of land and hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the Germans. It was really unwilling!

But what can you do if you are unwilling? In the current situation, unless God suddenly appears and wipes out the entire Germany from the earth. Of course, this is just a pipe dream.

Sighing deeply, the commander of the garrison nodded heavily as if he had made up his mind. "Let's distribute food normally these days. There is no need to reduce the amount. We will surrender in ten days! Send this decision back to the country and see if they have any better ideas." He hoped that the senior officials in the country would order them to fight back from Canada.

Unfortunately, this is impossible. Once they use force against Canada, it will be equivalent to pushing Canada to the German side. Even if the Canadian army can't stop them, the nearly 2,000-kilometer journey will take enough time for the Germans to come and intercept them.

In other words, unless a miracle happens in the next few days, they will be prisoners!

"Yes." The adjutant seemed relieved, saluted quickly, and left the temporary office.

Soon, the telegram sent from Alaska reached Washington.

Hearing the content of the telegram, everyone in the conference room was silent.

After a while, Marshall sighed softly. "It seems that they have no choice but to surrender." Although they were unwilling, they could not let their soldiers starve to death. Moreover, even if they opposed surrender, what could they do with a distance of 2,000 kilometers? Could they send the military police to arrest him? It would be better to let the military police bring some supplies.

Everyone could only nod silently after hearing this.

Time passed quickly, and ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and no miracle happened.

The Alaska garrison headquarters sent a clear code communication to surrender to the German army.

Then the German army landed in Alaska, and took batches of American troops onto transport ships and sent them to prisoner-of-war camps in various places.

Yannick planned to build a military base and several resort towns there. After all, Alaska is not a place suitable for human habitation (Alaska has more than 1.7 million people and a population of only a few hundred thousand), and there is no need to spend money on large-scale urban construction. However, given the rich mineral resources in Alaska, various factories are naturally indispensable.

At this time, Anne walked in, followed by several guards carrying huge maps. They took down the map hanging on the wall and replaced it with a new one, on which Alaska was marked in Germany's color - blue.

There is no rule on which country is used in which color on the map, and everything depends on the map maker.

Blue is one of the favorite colors of Germans. Interestingly, the blue in Germany has different statuses. The bright and shining blue is the exclusive color of the nobility, and the most beautiful blue is called "Imperial Blue". In the Middle Ages, German Emperor Heinrich II specially ordered people to use the most expensive dye at the time - indigo imported from India to make a dark blue robe decorated with stars, in order to show his supreme imperial power.

Looking at the blue on the new map, Yannick noticed that Germany had become the new "sun never sets" empire without knowing it.

Although the British Empire today exists in name only, it is still the "sun never sets" empire in name.

Interestingly, France in the original time and space was still the "sun never sets" empire until the 21st century. Although France only has more than 500,000 square kilometers of mainland, France actually retains a lot of overseas territories, with 11 overseas provincial units alone. And these territories are all over the world, Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Oceania, and even in Antarctica, France has territories. It has become the only modern version of the sun never sets empire.