(First war time Speech of Emperor Charles DI Britannia)

It is a war of ideologies and struggling races.

On one side stands our Glorious Empire. A nation which offers substantial proof that if a race is free from any foreign taint, it can force the mongrel bastards of the world to recognize that there are only two options when confronted with our natural superiority. Total submission or Total annihilation.

On the other side stands the rotting structure of the EU, whose belief that every man is equal, regardless of the blood that runs through his veins, has caused a once war like people to become nothing more than shiftless cowards. There are of course lingering remnants of their once proud past, mainly in the Island we had been forced to flee, or in the descendants of those who had wrought havoc on the Roman Empire, but they lack the necessary willpower to emulate their mighty ancestors.

This war, which I assure you we will emerge triumphant, is a conflict that will once and for all see the complete eradication of the diseased notion of democracy and equal rights. For it is a fact of life that not all men are not created equal, and it is for this reason why I gave given our loyal soldiers the task of reminding the 1.1 billion parasites that infest our ancestral lands that they have been living on borrowed time.

And though we might suffer over a million deaths in this war, I assure you that by the time Imperial forces have quenched the remaining embers of resistance, the Empire's destiny as the most powerful nation on the face of the earth will have been secured.

ALLLLL HAIL BRITANNIA

Despite the fact that European forces inflicted a greater number of casualties on his invading troops, the 98th Emperor of Britannia, Charles DI Britannia, nevertheless praised the opening moves of the invasion as a great success. And to a certain degree he was right.

While the brave soliders and sailors of Europe managed to make the Britannian invader pay a heavy price for their cowardly attack, the fact remained that 5 days after the initial landings, the enemy had secured enough vital territory to ensure that European forces would have no chance to interfere with the unloading of the vast host that had been prepared to try and subjugate our people.

5 days after Colonel Morteau had ordered the remnants of the garrison too abandon the strategic South African city, the Britannian navy had managed to off load at least 200,000 troops, 30,000 vehicles, and over 80,000 tons of supplies. These numbers, while impressive, would have been far greater if it wasn't for the sacrificial efforts of our remaining naval forces.

While there was no hope of preventing Imperial forces from reaching the rapidly congested beach heads, let alone forcing the Britannian armada to abandon its mission of supporting the invasion, Vice Admiral James Sommerville, who miraculously survived the destruction of his flag ship the heavy cruiser EUS Norwich, nevertheless ordered his remaining ships to engage the enemy fleet, with the intent to cause as much damage as they could.

2 of the remaining destroyers, and 5 torpedo boats were sunk before they could get close enough to cause any real damage to the Britannian armada. But the remaining destroyer, EUS Dakar, along with 8 torpedo boats, managed to get close enough to launch their torpedoes before being destroyed by overwhelming cannon fire.

Thanks to their sacrifice, 13 tank landing ships were lost before they could land their cargo of 30 tanks each, 390 tanks in total, 22 troop carriers where sunk, each carrying 300 troops, and 2 Britannian light cruisers, and 3 destroyers were heavily damaged enough to require months spent in dry dock.

But the most spectacular success was achieved thanks to the valiant efforts of Gustav Prien, captain of the U-412, and Nikolai Zatzey, captain of the U-123. Penetrating the massive anti sub screen in order to get to the heavily laden transports that would disgorge their cargo once the beaches had been secured.

Managing to launch 7 of his 14 torpedoes before a well placed shot from a Britannian destroyer broke the back of his boat, Captain Zatzey managed to sink 2 Britannian cargo ships, each carrying around 10,000 tons of supplies, and a specially modified merchant vessel that had been intended to help increase the unloading capacity of the Britannian fleet.

Captain Prien also enjoyed a most successful sortie before his ship was tragically blown from the water. While only managing to launch 4 torpedoes before his boat was destroyed, all of them managed to hit targets that greatly affected the invasion's timetable. 2 of his targets were highly valuable tankers, each carrying over 2.2 million barrels worth of fuel earmarked for the invasion's mechanized forces. The resulting explosions also managed to heavily damage 3 surrounding cargo ships, whose crews manage to save less than 50% of their assigned cargo after the deadly flames caused the tankers destruction. But the true point of Prien's success was the damage he managed to cause to the Britannian's secret weapon.

Knowing that the chances of securing a completely intact port were highly unlikely, the Imperial high command had constructed in secret a vast artificial harbor that once activated, would be able to function as the funnel in which Britannian forces could be supplied. With a daily unloading capacity of 20,000 tons, combined with the less efficient methods of unloading supplies and men directly on the beaches, the Mulberry harbor would allow the invading forces to rapidly consolidate their bridgehead, while at the same time speeding up the build up for a break out force.

These plans were soon heavily crippled by the remaining 2 torpedoes launched by the courageous German captain. While he was unable to destroy the massive artificial harbor, Prien nevertheless managed to inflict enough damage to significantly lower its effectiveness for months.

It was largely thanks to the heroic efforts of Vice Admiral Sommerville, who sadly perished with the majority of the crew of the destroyer, EUS Portsmouth, that the progress of the invasion was delayed long enough for European forces to reform after the fall of the city.

Despite the fact that he had to rely on a transportation system that had suffered from years of neglect, Lieutenant General Walther Nehring had managed within the span of 5 days to assemble 48,000 troops, 90 tanks, and 210 artillery pieces in the small town of Laingsburg, which was 240 km east of Britannian controlled Cape Town. Supporting this hastily formed corps of 3 divisions, though not all of the necessary equipment had been assembled at this time, was around 120 aircraft, of which 40 where the excellent Fw 290 air superiority fighter, 20 being the aging but nonetheless still proficient Bf 318 fighter, with the remaining 60 being equally divided between the reliable Ju 566 tactical bomber, and the untested, but nonetheless promising Ju 387 dive-bomber.

And while his forces were outnumbered by the Britannian invader, the geography of the region would aid Germany's beloved son in stalling the enemy advance.

In the Siberian Theatre, the Britannians, after driving out the heroic remnants of the city's garrison, a task that took 3 days and an additional 5,000 casualties, concentrated their efforts to restoring Vladivostok's shipping capacity.

Thanks in part to their willingness to adopt draconian measures to force innocent European civilians to clear the majority of the damage, the enemy was able to establish a firmly controlled bridgehead that possessed over 100,000 thousand troops, 16,000 vehicles, 40,000 tons of supplies.

However unlike the African Campaign, where the invading forces only consisted of military personnel, the Siberian Campaign would reveal a far more sinister example of what the Empire intended to do to the rest of Europe.

Along with the hundreds of thousands of combat troops that would soon be advancing westwards, 3 units accompanied the invading army that would seek to accomplish the mission that had long been festering in the Empire ever since Napoleon first drove them from the shores of Europe.

While only numbering 150 men, the agents of Britannia's Reclaimed Territory Department soon began the process of turning their newly conquered possessions into places that would make their new overlords feel more comfortable. The first important step taken in this direction was the familiar process of turning the rightful inhabitants of the lands they had conquered into a new slave class. Failure to comply with these methods was met with death, attempts to attack Britannian soldiers resulted in mass executions, the ratio being 40 Europeans for every Britannian, and failing to report suspicious activity would also result in death.

The RCDs actions would become more widely known as the Britannian's conquered more European territory, but at the time few people on our side were aware of this growing atrocity.

At sea, the heavily damaged Pacific Fleet still managed to put up a descent fight against the naval forces of Britannia, but unlike the South African Squadron, Admiral Ivan Isakov had no intention of throwing his remaining forces in a sacrificial, if heroic gesture.

With only 4 cruisers, 12 destroyers, 13 U-boats, and 10 torpedo boats left available to him, and these were widely scattered amongst the smaller ports to the north, the Russian Admiral settled on following a strategy that would allow him to continue military operations until the enemy cut off his lines of supply.

The first successful mission would be the attack on Britannian supply convoy C-2, which carried over 40,000 tons of fuel, 90,000 tons of ammunition, 130 armored vehicles, 300 heavy duty trucks, and 30,000 soldiers.

Thanks to the efforts of Captain Glugov, who commanded the small 4 boat task force from his vessel U-432, our brave sailors were able to sink 4 merchant vessels, 1 troop transport ship, and 2 tankers, while also causing serious damage to an additional 3 merchant ships and 1 tanker. All told, for the loss of none of our U-boats, though U-232 suffered some heavy damage after a Britannian escort managed to drop some depth charges,

Unfortunately, the attack also revealed a glaring deficiency in the weapons that our brave sailors were forced to fight with, and though they reported this to the high command, new and improved torpedoes took around a year to reach front line units, by which time the majority of the Pacific coast had been lost.

For our land forces, things weren't much better on the Siberian Front. Following the evacuation of Vladivostok, our ground forces in the immediate area numbered barely 20,000 men, supported by only 20 tanks, 37 artillery pieces, and 12 aircraft, only 3 of which could be considered modern.

Concentrated around Lake Khanka, which was over 200 km to the north of the captured city, this force would only be able to offer up a token resistance as the high command had decided to focus their efforts on building up a more substantial force around the city of Khabarovsk, which lay nearly 800 km away from the closest Britannian bridgehead.

At this time, special attention must also be paid to the events that were playing out in the home front during this troubled time.

Unlike the Britannian government, whose out dated practices ensured that the commands of their lecherous leader were always enacted immediately, Congress was far more divided on the actions that should be taken during this time of crisis.

Though he had been able to get the coalition of parties to vote on a declaration of war, President Churchill soon found out that the same conditions that had prevented him from preparing for the Britannian onslaught were also preventing him from offering a credible response.

Instead of declaration a total mobilization of Europe's resources to combat this threat, the government allowed the economy to remain at a peace time level, depriving the aramanents industry of vital resources during a time when it needed to produce as much military equipment as possible.

Instead of calling for mass conscription to fill out the ranks of our military, our forces were forced to rely on an insubstantial number of volunteers who largely chose to join the newly created state armies.

These forces, though designed to provide a means of defense for each separate country, nevertheless proved to be a substantial drain on our available manpower and weapons reserves. President Churchill ranted about this 'waste of a generation', but the majority of congress was against for the same reason why our ancestors threw out Napoleon all those years ago.

Concentrating a large amount of power in the hands of a central governing figure was seen to be too dangerous in these uncertain times. So in order to 'maintain the structural integrity of Europe', the means to defend it from tyranny where siphoned off to ensure that the Constitution wasn't trodden on.

The only major concession the President was able to get was that the individual countries would only be allowed to exercise control over their land forces, and that all naval forces would be placed under the authority of the European Naval High Command.

On the plus side, despite the absence of any conscription program, hundreds of thousands of patriotic citizens swarmed recruiting stations in order to do their bit for Mother Europe. And it was days after the news of the fall of Vladivostok that the Berlin recruitment office accepted two applications to join the European Army.

The first one was a member of a proud military family, whose lineage traces back to those chaotic days when Europe was suffering the effects of the Thirty Years War, and whose family had already fallen at the hands of the enemy during the opening rounds of this war.

The second one came from more humble origins, but nevertheless stemmed from a family who proudly devoted their lives to improving the society in which they lived in. Like his fellow German, this recruit had also lost a loved one during the shameful Britannian attack on our homeland, only instead of falling in line of duty, she had been killed after enemy artillery began to target the overly packed hospital of the doomed city.

But unlike Private Richter whose physical skills would soon place her at the top of her class, Private Friedrich Krueger possessed an ability that would prove to be far more deadly to the enemies of Europe.

His mind.

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AND I think that this is a good place as any to end the chapter lol.

The opening speech is something that heavily borrows from a historical speech by histories most notorious chicken farmer. And considering the racial views of Britannia…can very well see Emp Charles saying something like this.

Anyways…included some plots from Code Akito in this chapter, mainly reclaiming European territory….with putting my own spin on it by making a Britannian version of the death squads that existed on the Eastern Front.

Hopefully you all enjoyed this.

Will hopefully get back to it soon.

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