Chapter 1198 Landing in North America 14

When Lieutenant General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, commander of the U.S. 18th Airborne Corps, arrived in Montreal, where the Allied North American Northeast (Canada) Command is located, he was surprised to find fleur-de-lis flags hanging in the streets and alleys, and slogans were even displayed in some places. : Welcome, Your Majesty Prince Charles.

"Who is the noble Prince Charles?" Lieutenant General Ridgway asked this matter after meeting his immediate boss, General Clark.

"He's a lucky guy," Clark snorted and said disdainfully. "The full name is probably Charles de Bourbon-Palma, and there may be a long list of middle names. I can't remember."

"Bourbon?" Li Qiwei was stunned, "Is it the French Bourbon dynasty?"

"To be precise, he belongs to the Parma branch of the Bourbon dynasty and is the son of Charlotte, the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg." Clark said, "He is not yet 20 years old this year. He is probably serving in the Nazi army?"

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has now joined the German Empire as a whole and is the State of Luxembourg under the German Empire. However, Archduchess Charlotte still retained her royal status and title of Grand Duke, and became the royal monarch of the German state.

And her son (she married a prince of the Bourbon royal family) is naturally German, and he should be serving in the military when he is less than 20 years old.

"Served in the Nazi army? But here in Montreal...it seemed like someone was welcoming him."

"Yes," Clark smiled bitterly, "because he is the popular choice for Princess Margaret's husband."

"Princess Margaret is going to marry a Nazi?" Lieutenant General Ridgway simply wondered if there was something wrong with his ears.

Admiral Clark shrugged: "They said they were looking for a suitable prince among the Bonaparte and Bourbon families, but the Germans still had the final say! So other princes who were suitable for marrying Princess Margaret gave up. , only Charles of Luxembourg remains.”

He was right in guessing that Prince Charles of Luxembourg was the favorite candidate of the German Emperor and Chancellor Hitler. The people of the Bonaparte family look so annoying - the people of the Bonaparte family always remind people of the great Emperor Napoleon, who was the mortal enemy of the Hohenzollern family. Of course it is impossible for a Napoleon to go to Canada and become the royal wife.

The main faction of the Bourbon family died in 1936, and the flag fell into the hands of the Spanish branch. However, the Spanish Bourbons lived in Rome after the fall of the kingdom and were guests of Mussolini. Now they are still seeking restoration, and there are even rumors that Mussolini wants to support the resurrection of the Spanish Empire and let Juan Carlos of the Spanish Bourbon family wear the crowns of New Asbania and Spain! Naturally, Germany cannot let the Spanish Bourbon family take the Canadian crown anymore.

Moreover, Prince Juan Carlos is only 7 years old this year, so it is not suitable for him to be engaged to Princess Margaret, who is 8 years older than him.

After excluding the Spanish faction, the Bourbon dynasty was left with the Parma faction and the Orleans faction. There were several suitable princes from both tribes, but none had as close a relationship with Germany as Charles. As Clark guessed, Prince Charles is currently serving in the German Army. Although he is not a Nazi, he has sworn allegiance to the German Emperor and has integrated into the large circle of the German royal family. In fact, he is originally a member of the German royal family. Her father is from the Bourbon family, and his mother, Archduchess Charlotte, is from the Nassau family. She and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands were in the same family more than 600 years ago (Wilhelmina also had a surname of Nassau), an old German royal family.

In addition, the Nassau family once ruled Britain in history, namely William III, who was also the ruler of the Netherlands and the Prince of Orange. So it seems logical that Charles, who has Nassau family ancestry, will once again take over Canada.

However, this logical arrangement seems completely ridiculous to Americans. An enemy of the United States and Canada, a Nazi, actually wants to marry the heir to the Canadian throne! Couldn't the Canadiens and the British royal family be a little more serious?

"How can we allow such a thing?" Ridgway felt incredulous, "Can't we persuade them to give up this arrangement?"

"It's up to you." Admiral Clark's answer surprised Ridgway.

Clark said: "The problem now is that the Germans have arrived in Canada... right in Labrador. Defeating them will be more effective than any persuasion! Matthew, when can your men move out?"

"Anytime and anywhere!" Ridgway said, "The entire 18th Airborne Army is on the highest alert and can be dispatched at any time as long as there are enough transport aircraft."

The 18th Airborne Corps is currently stationed in Presque Isle, Maine, close to the Canadian border. Several large airports have been built there to quickly transport the five divisions of the 18th Airborne Corps to battlefields 1,200 kilometers away.

"That's good." Clark nodded with satisfaction, "Send out two divisions first, the 82nd Division and the 101st Division." As he spoke, he walked to a military map of southern Labrador and kept getting closer to it. An airport sign next to a large river in the Atlantic Ocean, "Paradise River Airport," is only more than 40 kilometers away from Hare Bay where the Germans landed. It is now controlled by an advance team of the British (Canadian) 6th Airborne Division. I hope your people can parachute there before the 23rd, and then cooperate with the British Independent Parachute Brigade to launch a counterattack to recapture Hare Bay."

"How big is that airport? Can C-47 transport planes take off and land?" Ridgway asked.

"It should be possible," Clark said, "The British said it can take off and land, but the take-off and landing capabilities are not very strong."

"That's not bad, it can be used to transport heavy weapons and vehicles." Ridgway paused, "What is the situation in Hare Bay? Can the navy block the German logistics line?"

The battle in Labrador was fought on logistics. The Allies relied on air transport and airdrops, while the Germans relied on sea transport. The decisive factor is whether the logistics are smooth.

"The Navy is working hard," Clark said. "Hare Bay is more than 200 kilometers away from Newfoundland, so our torpedo boats can still get there. In addition, submarines can be deployed to lay mines to block the Germans' logistics and transportation lines. The Navy Air Force and the Army Air Force are also doing their best. Even if we can't completely cut off their logistics, we should be able to strangle their necks."

"What about our necks?" Ridgway asked, "Will the transport planes not be shot down in large numbers?"

"No, they won't," Clark said. "Lieutenant General Harmon's fighters will protect them. And that area is very far from the German air base. Now they mainly rely on carrier-based aircraft and Fokker Zero fighters that landed on Hare Bay Island to fight against our aircraft. Judging from the results of the battles in the past few days, there is no obvious advantage."

"Okay, then I'm relieved."

Just when Lieutenant General Ridgway was full of confidence in the Battle of Labrador, near a small fishing port called Cartwright on the Labrador front, two troops flying the British Army flag were confronting and shouting at each other.

One of them was the 4th Parachute Battalion under the British Independent 2nd Parachute Brigade. The other was a battalion-level battle group of the 1st Armored Grenadier Brigade of the Russian Royal Guards, but they did not fly the flag of the Russian Royal Guards, but the flag of the British Army.

It was really embarrassing for two troops with the same flag to meet on the battlefield.

Reinhard, the second son of Hessman, was also in this White Russian unit with the British Army flag at this time. He was holding a tin trumpet and shouting in standard Oxford English to the British troops who came to seize the Cartwright fishing port occupied by the White Russians the night before.

"We are the 1st Battalion of the Hanoverian 'Prince Friedrich' Infantry Regiment of the British Royal Army. The great Queen Elizabeth II sent us to liberate the Dominion of Canada. Brothers of Canada, the British don't fight the British..."

Now Britain has a Royal Army! In the "London Civil War" of 1943, most of the army swore allegiance to the Queen, so after the "London Civil War", the British Army was awarded the title of Royal.

The Hanoverian "Prince Friedrich" Infantry Regiment does exist, because there was a Hanoverian dynasty in British history that ruled for 187 years. Therefore, for a long time, there were infantry regiments recruited from Hanover in the British Army. After the "London Civil War", the Queen restored the Hanoverian Infantry Regiment, specifically recruiting British youths with German aristocratic ancestry to join the army, and named it after her husband, Prince Friedrich.

However, this infantry regiment did not participate in the expedition to Labrador, but stayed in London to protect the Queen and the Prince, but this did not prevent the Germans from using its name to fool the rustic Canadians.

After all, for most Canadians living in the 1940s, they still recognized Britain as their master, but looked down on the piles of American upstarts stationed in the country.

And in the eyes of Canadians, their war is over, and the problem now is nothing more than the early retirement of the old king who escaped and the early succession of the brave little queen. This is all internal affairs of the British royal family. Canadians don't care, and are even less willing to fight a war of succession for the power struggle between the father and daughter.

But the Americans refused to admit defeat, nor did they let the Canadians withdraw from the war, and ended up bringing the war to Canadian soil. Now the Canadians are being used as cannon fodder to fight the British, which is really abominable.

"Fellow Canadians!" Seeing that the Canadians on the opposite side did not open fire, Reinhardt felt that there was a chance, and then used Oxford-accented English to deceive, "Now there are hundreds of thousands of American troops armed to the teeth illegally stationed in your homeland. This is a shameless act of aggression and an infringement on the sacred territory of the British Empire. They are your and our common enemy!

Down with American imperialism, long live the Queen!"