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Chapter 240: Passing through the danger

Christmas in 2055 is definitely the most critical Christmas in modern European history.[..com]

During this Christmas, almost all Europeans forgot about Santa Claus and focused on the unpredictable continental situation. At that time, some European families even began to stock up on food, thinking that the war was about to come and the war would soon burn into their homes.

It can be said that this is definitely not a ridiculous thing.

According to the information later declassified, on the last day of 2055, just a few minutes away, Europe will become the next main battlefield of World War III.

The cause is in a small mountain country where almost no one knows it.

On the night of December 29, 2055, the Prime Minister of the European Federal, Pino, a Gaulian, received news from Liechtenstein that the result of the referendum vote held on the 27th had come out, and 57% of the people supported maintaining independence. In other words, the referendum results of the Liechtenstein have rejected the proposal to be incorporated into the European Federation, and the country will not become the tenth state of the European Federation.

Now, the European Federation has no choice.

In fact, this is a false news, and the correct thing is that 57% of Liechtenstein people chose to incorporate into the European Federation.

Why do you make such important information wrong?

No one could make it clear, because just a few hours later, the European official in charge of the matter died after a car fell off a cliff on his way back to Munich, and the written report on the Liechtenstein referendum statistics he carried was lost and permanently buried in the canyon in the Alps.

The problem is, no one knew that this was a wrong message at the time.

As a result, Pino held an emergency cabinet meeting at eleven o'clock to discuss the issue of sending troops to Slovakia.

For the European Federation, sending troops to Slovakia is inevitable.

After the war, many people believed that the European Federation should send troops to Liechtenstein instead of Slovakia, because controlling Liechtenstein is much easier than controlling Slovakia.

Obviously, this understanding lacks the necessary common sense.

Before this, the Slovak government had signed a treaty with the European Federation, and Slovakia had completed a referendum. Therefore, Slovakia had actually completed all the political and legal work of incorporation into the European Federation. The only thing that had not been completed was the negotiation of the number of seats in the European Federal Basic Parliament, which fundamentally could not change the fact that Slovakia had been legally incorporated into the European Federation. At that time, what was lacking was only a political process, that is, Slovakia officially announced its incorporation into the European Federation.

The question arises: Is the European Federation's dispatch of troops to Slovakia an internal military operation?

If so, it wouldn't be an invasion of the neutral country.

Obviously, if the referendum in Liechtenstein was refusing to be incorporated into the European Federation, then the European Federation sent troops to Liechtenstein would be equivalent to invading other countries.

It is this difference that makes the European Federation only send troops to Bratislafa.

The results of the cabinet meeting were simple: support for the dispatch of troops to Slovakia.

From a time perspective, the European Federation cannot afford to delay it.

The Defense Forces have given a clear reply that even if everything goes well, it will take one day to control Bratislafa. Therefore, it is impossible to postpone military operations until thirty days, or even until thirty days, because after occupying Bratislafa, the European Federation still needs time to negotiate with China, complete the necessary work of alliance with China, and finally declare war on the United States.

In other words, the European Federal Defense Force must occupy Bratislafa before dawn on the thirty-one.

In this way, action must be taken before dawn on the thirty.

Pino did not waste time and rushed to the Federal Parliament after the cabinet meeting, and hundreds of members of the Federal Parliament were also waiting for the Prime Minister.

At that time, Pino did not bring out the bill for foreign military operations, but instead came up with a bill against internal rebellion in the European Union.

In fact, this is the most controversial point after the war.

The bill submitted by Pino to the Federal Parliament only requires the parliament to authorize the federal government and the federal army to take repressive military actions against states where rebellion occurred.

The question is: Is Slovakia a member of the federal government?

If so, this bill can work. If not, this bill has no meaning.

Obviously, Pino believes that it is, and members of the European Federal Parliament also believe that it is, so after two hours of discussion, the European Federal Parliament passed the bill.

After the war, the biggest controversy lies in Slovakia's identity.

Of course, with the situation at that time, this was no longer a key issue.

After obtaining the authorization of the Federal Parliament, Pino immediately issued an order to Rudolph, the Chief of Staff of the Federal Defense Forces (after the formal establishment of the Federal Defense Forces, Rudolph became the Chief of Staff), and the Federal Defense Forces immediately started to operate and must occupy Bratislafa before 8 o'clock on the 31st.

At this time, it was already six o'clock in the morning on the thirty.

Two hours later, four divisions of the European Federal Defense Force crossed the border from Czech Republic and Austria at the same time and entered Slovakia.

This military operation is not a war, and it is not even a suppression of rebellion. It is just a marching.

Although Slovakia deployed several divisions near Bratislafa, Bratislafa was near the border between Slovakia and Austria. Most importantly, before this, the Slovak Defence Force had begun to accept the reorganization of the European Federal Defense Force and was preparing to be reorganized into the European Federal Army after the merger into the European Federal Republic. Each unit had military advisers of the European Federal Republic Army, and the command had been transferred to the European Federal Republic Army. At that time, more than 200,000 Slovak soldiers were not wary at all and were waiting to change into the European Federal Republic Army uniforms.

At that time, a very interesting scene happened, that is, on the road to Bratislafa, the Slovak traffic police stopped the armored forces of the European Federal Defense Forces and told the soldiers who were armed with live ammunition that Slovakia had not been officially incorporated into the European Federation, so it was not welcomed to enter the European Federal Army. Obviously, these bold police officers were immediately disarmed by the European Federal Army.

In fact, this was also the only resistance of the Slovak national security forces before Bratislafa was occupied.

While marching towards Bratislafa, the Federal Defense Forces controlled the barracks along the way and disarmed the Slovakian Defence Forces along the way. After occupying Bratislafa, the Federal Defense Forces also controlled the police station and disarmed the police.

At that time, the residents of Bratislafa did not even find that their city had been occupied by European Union troops.

It was not until the afternoon of the 30th that a large number of patrol troops of the European Federal Defense Forces appeared on the streets of Bratislafa, and more than one million citizens were terrified to find that they had become "slaves of the country".

It must be admitted that this is an extremely successful military operation.

The problem is that after occupying Bratislafa, the Federal Defense Force did not continue to advance, that is, it did not control the entire territory of Slovakia, but stayed in Bratislafa. More importantly, it was not until that night that the Federal Defense Force discovered that the Slovak president and most government officials had fled.

At that time, the Slovak President did not flee after the European Federal Defense Force entered Bratislafa. He arrived at Telvana, fifty kilometers eastward on the night of the thirty days, and did not leave here until the night of the thirty days. In other words, if the European Federal Defense Force expanded the occupied area eastward, it would definitely be able to catch the Slovak President in Telvana and eliminate the hidden dangers that subsequently caused the war in Slovakia.

Unfortunately, Rudolph seemed to think that occupying Bratislafa was enough.

On the morning of the 31st, European Federal Prime Minister Pino officially announced that Slovakia was incorporated into the European Federation, and based on the population of 10 million, it provided Slovakia with twenty seats in the Basic Parliament of the European Federal.

Almost at the same time, the plenipotentiary representative of the European Federation held alliance negotiations with Chinese Prime Minister Du Xiaolei in Beijing.

At that time, it was already afternoon Beijing time.

The European Federation officially proposed an alliance at the last moment. Even if Du Xiaolei would not refuse, he would not agree immediately, but would use this opportunity to increase the price.

The negotiations lasted until 10 o'clock in the night of Beijing time. Du Xiaolei made concessions after almost fully accepted the conditions issued by China and clearly stipulated that the signing time was set at 11:55 in Beijing time. The European Union must declare war on the United States before this.

In other words, the European Federation has only less than two hours left.

After receiving the news, Pino went to the Federal Parliament again and asked the parliament to give a reply within an hour and a half, whether to declare war on the United States or to start a war with China.

The European Federal Parliament did not hold discussions and began voting after the Prime Minister's speech.

It took only one and a half hours, and only one and twenty minutes to pass the voting results to Pinot.

Of course, there is no suspense.

If they plan to go to war with China, the European Federal Defense Forces will not be close to Bratislafa.

Pino immediately returned to the Prime Minister's Office, and the secretary had prepared the declaration of war for him.

When Pino officially declared war on the United States through TV stations, the plenipotentiary representative of the European Union found Du Xiaolei with the same news.

At this time, it was already 11:52 Beijing time.

The signing ceremony was very simple. After signing the representatives of both sides exchanged alliance treaties and each retained copies of four characters (the European Union designated French, German and Latin as official characters, so any official document has versions in three languages).

From a time point of view, if it is three minutes later, the European War will begin.

Of course, this is just a theoretical matter.

Du Xiaolei called Mu Haoyang after 0:00 a.m. on January 1st to ask Mu Haoyang to terminate the military operations against Europe, but Mu Haoyang did not issue any orders at that time. Due to the restrictions of the combat plan, even if war was to start in Europe, he would have to wait until one morning.

The European Federation passed the crisis, but left endless troubles.

Chapter 240: Passing through the danger
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