Madagascar is located in the southern hemisphere, southeast of the African continent, and southwest of the Indian Ocean. It is the fourth largest island in the world and is commonly known as the "big island".

The Tropic of Cancer passes through the southern part of the island. Most of the island is located in the tropical region north of the Tropic of Cancer, facing the African continent across the Mozambique Strait. At the narrowest point of the Mozambique Strait, the country is only 400 kilometers away from the African continent.

In 1898, Madagascar became a French colony.

As the French Governor to Madagascar, Edmund Pierre is always full of resentment about his life on Madagascar.

One of the sources of resentment is that one’s own news is blocked and one sees only old news every day.

If you want to get real news, you can only wait by the radio every day and listen to news from radio stations around the world. However, the unstable signal made Governor Pierre feel in pain.

Whenever he thinks of living an isolated life, Pierre misses France more and more, and misses the beautiful scenery of the Seine River.

The depressed life made Pierre develop a good habit, that is, swimming.

Only the beautiful sunny coast and the charming beauty in swimsuits can make Mr. Pierre forget the depression in his heart.

In order to satisfy his hobbies, Pierre did not live in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, but in the port of Tamatav on the east coast.

That morning, Pierre spent more than an hour dealing with government affairs and routinely took a bus to the beach to swim.

After changing into swimming trunks, Pierre swam in the sea for more than half an hour, he lay down on a beach chair, drank juice, and read old news in the newspaper.

The damn brother-in-law in Germany was seriously injured by the Japanese. I knew the news.

This Luftwaffe General, General Studente, actually used poison gas on the Japanese. It was so vicious and completely in line with the cruel image of the German soldier in his memory.

Poisoning is the old profession of the Germans. The last time the Germans used poison gas on a large scale was in France.

Why didn't the Japanese shoot that damn "Brother-in-law" kill? God also has times of injustice.

Pierre's resentment towards someone was not unsuccessful. As time went by, before the Battle of France, the story of Chen Dao predicting that Germany could kill France in eight weeks was widely circulated, and the Frenchman who were so close to him naturally heard this rumor.

With the incorrect attitude of being lenient and strict with others, Pierre, like most French people, did not reflect on why France was not aware of why under the German attack, even if the British Expeditionary Force helped to stumble, he only lasted for seven weeks and one day before kneeling down in front of the Germans and surrendering with his hands. Instead, he resented Chen Dao for making predictions and telling the truth.

Pierre flipped through the newspaper and looked at the old news on it. He picked up the juice from the table next to him again with his right hand, but stopped.

What sound? The plane?

In backward areas like Madagascar, aircraft are luxury goods. There are few aircraft taking off and landing normally, so how can there be such a lot of noise?

A loud sound came from the beach, and Pierre put down the newspaper and juice and looked at the beach.

The crowds who were originally swimming in the sea rushed out of the sea and ran to the beach, and looked back at the sea in the distance from time to time.

Pierre covered his right hand over his eyes, squinted his eyes and looked at the sea in the distance. On the originally empty sea, there were large black dots, which vaguely looked like a fleet approaching.

The deafening noise fell from the sky, and Pierre saw a group of aircraft flying overhead.

The fleet consists of eight aircraft, which are in a weird style, with propellers growing over the fuselage and the fuselage looks like a large tadpole.

The distance between the aircraft group and the ground was not high. Pierre clearly saw a logo that made him extremely frightened.

Iron Cross! It is an Iron Cross! This is a German plane, and the fleet in the distance must be a German fleet.

Damn, why did the Germans appear in Madagascar? Didn’t they fight against the Japanese in Myanmar?

Pierre jumped off the beach chair, hurried to the locker room beside the beach, put on his suit in a hurry, and trotted towards the parking lot.

The scene on the sea changed again as Pierre's car rushed out of the beach.

In the huge German fleet, cranes on four landing craft motherships worked hard to put landing craft full of soldiers and tanks into the sea.

After the landing craft fell into the water, it started the motor and rushed to the beach where Pierre was once located.

In 1940, with the establishment of the German Marine Corps, the design and construction of landing craft motherships and landing crafts were also put on the agenda.

Finally, based on the hull of Admiral Hippel's heavy cruiser, the German Navy designed a landing craft mothership called the Blue Whale Class.

After the completion of the Blue Whale Class, the standard displacement is 12,600 tons, and it can carry a regiment of Marine soldiers. It can carry two landing craft of different sizes. The number of carriages ranges from 80 to 120 according to the ratio of the two landing crafts.

The first wave of landing craft rushed to the beach at nearly 10 knots. The front cabin door opened, and soldiers from the 3rd Division of the German Marine Corps flocked to the beach. In the hulls of fourteen landing craft, the bobcat-style light tanks rushed out.

Marine soldiers easily occupied the empty beach, followed by the tanks and marched towards the north of the beach, the Port of Tamatav on the east coast of Madagascar.

The beach was less than ten kilometers away from Tamatav, and in less than an hour, the Marine Corps soldiers controlled the Port of Tamatav and did not face any resistance throughout the journey.

Admiral Hippel heavy cruiser and two destroyers guarded the two transport ships to slowly enter the port. Soldiers of the 230th Infantry Division of the German Army rushed into the port along the gangway.

Various types of trucks and No. 3 assault guns were unloaded on the transport ship. The soldiers of the 230th Infantry Division took a truck and followed the No. 3 assault guns and quickly marched deep into the inland of Madagascar. The capital Antananarivo, 150 kilometers away, was the primary target.

Pierre sat down in his office in Tamatav when the 3rd Marine Division and the 230th Army Infantry Division joined forces to control Madagascar.

Outside the office door, two fully armed German soldiers stood at the door.

On the way back to Tamatav from the beach, a team of German soldiers suddenly rushed onto the highway and stopped his convoy with guns.

These German soldiers took helicopters and landed on Madagascar first.

Their original mission was to monitor whether French troops were marching towards the beach from Tamatav, but they happened to encounter Pierre returning from the beach.

In a remote countryside like Madagascar, people who can ride cars are either rich or noble. The German commando captain immediately decided to intercept the convoy.

The comprehensive combat power of Pierre and his subordinates was only 5. Facing a group of militants with combat power of 120, they had no courage to resist at all.

His motherland failed to last for eight weeks under the attack of Germany. Under the interrogation of the German army, he failed to persist for eight minutes, so he explained that he was the French governor to Madagascar.

After Pierre was placed under house arrest for about an hour, the office door was opened and two soldiers followed, two men in suits walked into the office.

A man in the suit in the lead looked in his forties, with a hint of arrogance and joke in his eyes when he looked at Pierre.

He stretched out his right hand to Pierre and introduced himself: "I am Gustav von Rosenberg, the German Ambassador to the Republic of Madagascar, and I am very happy to know you, Mr. Pierre."

Pierre shook hands with Rosenberg stiffly and asked in surprise: "What Madagascar Republic? This is a French colony."

Ambassador Rosenberg said: "The Republic of Madagascar is the country name formulated by the German government for the people of Madagascar. Our arrival this time has brought independence and freedom to the people of Madagascar. From today on, Madagascar has no affiliation with France.

Mr. Pierre, please call your country's garrison in Madagascar immediately and let them lay down their weapons so as not to increase unnecessary casualties. Then wait for our army to take over the barracks, and we will arrange ships to send them back home soon. As for you, I would like to remind you that you would better send a newspaper to your government as soon as possible to explain the situation here, and then fight for your government the position of French ambassador to Madagascar. You are more familiar with the situation here and should be able to adapt to this new position soon."

"You...you are invading, and trampling on France's sovereignty." Pierre blushed and shouted at Ambassador Rosenberg with his neck stretched out.

"No, no, we are the liberators of the people of Madagascar, a righteous army. What means do you use to violently colonize the people of Madagascar, we will use to liberate them from you and bring them independence and freedom.

Now, you can call. After contacting the garrison, you will contact the highest-ranking person among the local indigenous people. I want to meet him. I will give you ten minutes to call, and now the countdown will begin."

Pierre wanted to show his tough side, but under the cold gaze of two German soldiers, he finally chose to surrender.

In the evening of that day, warships from the German Navy's Second aircraft carrier fleet gradually approached the port of Tamatav.

Fleet Commander Major General Hans von Hessman flew into Tamatav in a helicopter and met with Ambassador Rosenberg, Commander of the 230th Infantry Division and Commander of the 3rd Marine Division.

After the greetings, Major General Hessman said: "This operation can only be said to be an exercise at most. The French did not have the courage to resist and were bored. According to the order, I will stay here for another two days until you have completely controlled Madagascar."

A group of advisers from the German military were also on the island with Major General Hessman.

The advisors from the German Army were responsible for taking over the indigenous troops on Madagascar and assisting the forthcoming Government of the Republic of Madagascar to form their own national defense force.

Advisors from the Luftwaffe are about to start an island trip to find places on the island where large airports can be built.

Advisors from the German Navy plan to conduct an inspection of various ports in Madagascar to find port cities suitable for expansion into large military ports and construction of submarine bases.

Advisors from the SS were preparing to look for the source of soldiers among the indigenous people on the island, hoping to join the SS foreign legion.

In the evening of that day, Germany liberated Madagascar from Vichy France. The news of the founding of the Republic of Madagascar spread throughout the world with radio waves.

While countries around the world were digesting the news that the Madagascar Republic was suddenly established, on the Port of Mumbai in western India, on the Xiangrui ship of Prince Eugen, Chen Dao and Mandofir were shoulder to shoulder, looking down at the map on the table.

"The first batch of guests I'm waiting for has arrived. Tomorrow evening, there are still a second batch of guests. We are not far away when we return home."

Mandofir stared at the map and said, "We have already controlled the two channels from the Atlantic Ocean to India, the Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. Now through Madagascar, we can indirectly control the route from the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian Ocean. Half of the Indian Ocean has now become our back garden, and half, it depends on whether we can control the Melaka direction and the Pacific Ocean."

"In our future plans, the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea will become the inner lakes of the Axis Group, and the Indian Ocean will become our back garden. Now half of the back garden has been completed. Whether the other half can be completed depends on the two guests I will meet tomorrow. I hope they will not disappoint me."

After pausing, Chen Dao said worriedly: "To be honest, these people grew up drinking the water of the Ganges. I feel very unhappy about their combat effectiveness. At best, they are a group of guys with only five combat effectiveness."

Mandofir stared at Chen vigilantly and said, "You... are you going to write a script again?"

"Yes, after the French, I will write a script for the British and design a routine."
Chapter completed!