On June 12, 1936, the German Army and the French Army fought an exceptionally brutal offensive and defensive battle at Charleroi.
To keep the German Army beyond the border, the French Government had thrown everything it had into the fight. Together with the 100,000 troops supported by the British people, the 100,000 troops mobilized within Belgium, and its own 400,000 troops, it intended to hold the line from Charleroi to Kortrijk.
The good news was that the 600,000 British, French, and Belgian troops had successfully stopped the German Army north of the line from Kortrijk to Charleroi.
The bad news was that every Belgian city to the north, including the former capital Brussels and another major city, Antwerp, had fallen under German control.
The territory currently controlled by the Belgian Government was less than one-fifth of its original territory, and maintaining an army of 100,000 was already close to Belgium's limit.
Although many Belgians in the German-occupied regions were bravely resisting, relying on those Belgian civilians to defeat German rule would be less useful than praying for victory on the main battlefield.
The current situation in Europe clearly favored Germany and Italy. But the problem was that if they could not quickly defeat France or Austria, then once British and Australasian reinforcements arrived on the European continent in an endless stream, the German and Italian armies would eventually be worn down to nothing.
Besides placing their hopes on the Japanese people entering the war, the Germans had also begun contacting another ally in Western Europe—the Kingdom of Spain, which had completed its ideological transformation and established a new government.
Spain's position was still extremely important. France was currently fighting on two fronts, attacking Italy in the south and defending against Germany in the north.
If Spain entered the war, the