The Third Reich in Desperation

It can be said that the shadow of German Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen during the First World War can even be seen in the current Bolohich.

It's a pity that Brauchic tried his best to come up with this sound and ingenious complete plan, but when he arrived at Reinhardt, he only returned one sentence: "Is it enough to just bypass the Maginot Line? Let me tell you, Our structure needs to be bigger, and we must move towards the goal of annihilating the main force of the British and French coalition forces."

Sure enough, Reinhardt once again vetoed Brauchic: "I have said it many times, we cannot fall into a positional battle with the British and French forces like in the last world war. Even if we bypass the Maginot Line, They can always build a new line of defense, and if they want to win quickly, they must quickly annihilate the enemy's vital forces with blitz warfare, and win the greatest results in the shortest time."

"But..." Although Borahiqi was unwilling to disagree with the head of state, his strong sense of responsibility forced him to stand up and carry out his point of view.

Unlike Reinhardt, Burruchitch had no idea whether the plan Reinhardt had Manstein make would make the Third Reich successful.But he believed that his plan would not fail Germany!

In his eyes, Germany can no longer afford to lose the Second World War.If it fails again this time, there will be nothing left in Germany except a ruin.

No country would be foolish enough to leave Germany with a second resurgence after this world war, just as no country would be foolish enough to make the same blunder a second time.

"Don't talk about it, the plan has already been determined, and it's too late to make temporary changes now." Reinhardt raised his hand, stopping Brauchic, who was always trying to dissuade him from carrying out the winning plan: "Besides, I don't use your The plan is also a last resort, and there are deep difficulties."

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Body 3 Chapter [-] Because of an Accident (Fourth Change)

In the conference hall of the Führer's residence, the best contemporary German actors began their performances.

"Actually, I did plan to follow your plan at the beginning." Reinhardt said with a little regret.

Hearing this, the eyes of Bolohich and the others brightened up a lot. This was the first time in the past two months that the head of state expressed his approval of their plan.

Several generals, including Bock, who held the same view as Borasic, also looked excited.Since the head of state didn't completely disdain this plan, maybe Commander Burrahitch would try harder to get Reinhardt to change his mind and reactivate their strategy.

Originally, Reinhardt did let the Army General Command be responsible for formulating the yellow plan for the first stop with France at the beginning.However, after seeing the plan they formulated, Reinhardt immediately expressed his approval and approval, and even the combat orders have been issued to the various troops.

I don't know why, the head of state suddenly put forward his new idea the month before, and immediately summoned the top think tank of the head of the army group A - Chief of Staff Manstein.

Next, the head of state urgently ordered to change the original plan and asked to replace it with the overall plan that he asked Manstein to plan in detail.

When the original plan was changed by the head of state's abrupt request, many people found it difficult to accept.Although everyone knows that the head of state inherited the mantle of General Sickert, known as the "Sphinx", and has always led and created many strategic miracles.

However, the safe strategy that everyone finally set was replaced by the overly aggressive strategy of the head of state, and they were somewhat uneasy.

"But, God didn't give me this chance..." Reinhardt immediately made a turning point without Borahitsch saying anything: "Because of the bad weather, the Chief of Operations of the 7th Airborne Division, He made an emergency landing at an airport in Belgium. Although he tried and burned some of the marching orders belonging to the 1st Air Force, some of the parts that were not burned in time fell into the hands of the Belgians."

Speaking of this, Reinhardt sighed in an unusually heavy voice: "Because the matter is so important, I have been asking Ross to block the news and not release it. At the same time, we also secretly sent a large number of intelligence personnel to Belgium, and Using the Gestapo, which was lurking in Belgium before, to spy on information secretly, trying to understand how much information the Belgian military has. "

The logic in Reinhardt's words was very strict.Because they were afraid that leaking news would make it difficult for the Gestapo to collect intelligence, and at the same time they did not want to upset the Army General Headquarters because of an uncertain matter, they kept it secret, including everyone present.

But secrecy does not mean no preparations, so the head of state personally outlined a completely opposite new combat plan, and handed it over to Manstein, the German first chief of staff who shined in the Polish campaign, and his department to be responsible for the specifics. Plan making.

As a result, some time ago, the head of state became more and more forceful in demanding the Wehrmacht to implement the second plan proposed by Manstein, which may be because it has become more and more certain that the degree of leakage of the original plan is too serious.

Sure enough, Reinhardt quickly went on to say: "Unexpectedly, under constant investigation and prying, our intelligence personnel have confirmed that the Belgians have obtained a lot of our combat plan. And Belgium has always been the most loyal of France. Our lackeys, who have our plans, already mean that the French will know our strategy and prepare accordingly."

Plan Confirmation Leaked! ?This is almost a taboo of war.The biggest focus of Brausch's plan lies in the suddenness at the beginning of the war.Only by making good use of the short opportunity when the opponent is unprepared can we achieve the greatest breakthrough and advance the furthest distance in the shortest time.

But once the surprise attack plan has been leaked and the opponent is prepared, the word "odd" that is the essence of the surprise attack will no longer exist.Even, the attacker may fall into the strategic trap set by the opponent long ago, unable to extricate himself!

No wonder the head of state, who has always encouraged generals to express military opinions and advocated that generals should speak out boldly, would so firmly reject the Army General Command's plan this time.

It's not that the head of state insists on going his own way, but that the previous plan has no meaning to carry out.Hitting in the direction where the enemy is prepared is simply an insult to the art of military command!

Looking back, the plan that the head of state came up with later seems to be completely applicable to the current situation.If the French try to use the former plan in their hands to make ends meet, they will instead fall into a new trap dug for them by the Fuehrer.

It's a chain meter!

In fact, as the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-French-Belgian Allied Forces, French Admiral Ganmerin was indeed ready to wait for the German army to throw itself into the trap.

After receiving the command from Belgium to capture the German army, Gan Malin quickly called the senior French generals to hold a combat meeting and formulated countermeasures.

Indeed, the level of the so-called famous French player Gan Malin is more than one or two points worse than that of the famous German player Brausch.As mentioned earlier, not only was he mediocre in ability, but he was also jealous of talents, and tried his best to suppress Marshal Pétain and other truly talented French generals, trying to create his own unique style in the French military.

But even with mediocre qualifications like Gan Malin, even if there are not many truly capable and outstanding generals around him who can give advice, after getting the enemy's action plan, it is not impossible to formulate a counterattack plan .

Now, Gan Molin, who thinks he is lucky, not only uses his many years of staff skills to formulate a counterattack plan against the German combat plan in his hand, but also proudly informs the British expeditionary team of the counterattack plan. Lord Gort, the commander of the army, asked the British Expeditionary Force to cooperate with him.

Ganmaling's plan is very simple, that is, once Germany invades Belgium, he will let the 2st French Army Group commanded by General Bjort, together with the small but well-equipped and highly mobile British Expeditionary Force [-]nd Army, When the German army invaded Belgium, it immediately advanced eastward and entered Belgium at the same time as the German army.

And when the German army defeated the main Belgian forces deployed along the Meuse River and the Albert Canal, it was time for the British and French allied forces that entered Belgium to join the second-line Belgian forces guarding the Meuse-Louven-Antwerp line.At that time, it will be a big deal to fight another trench warfare with the German army like World War I on the land of Belgium!

Anyway, it is not French territory, even if it is all smashed, France does not need to rebuild after the war.At this point, Gan Malin really wanted to thank the German army for making such a plan.

Body 3 Chapter [-] New version of sickle harvesting (fifth change)

Except for Reinhardt's direct generals such as Manstein and Guderian, generals such as Brahich, Bock, and Lieb actually didn't know that the combat order that was accidentally leaked was Reinhardt's from the very beginning. Inhardt sent someone to leak the secret on purpose.

The plane was specially selected for departure in bad weather.The combat section chief was also pretended by a specially trained Gestapo.

Yes, Reinhardt played the play very well. He even did the preparation work according to the original plan for more than a month, and deceived his own people.

The result was that, under the harshest reality, the generals were forced to accept the new strategy proposed by Reinhardt.

The British and French allied forces were also deceived into formulating a counterattack plan based on a realistic and false plan.

Of course it is realistic, because this plan was originally formulated by all the generals as a real plan without knowing it, so it is strange if it is not realistic.

The marching order seized by Belgium happened to be a document of the Air Force, and many key information of the army were not introduced in detail, which avoided the leakage of important information.Even the relevant content of the Air Force's technical weapons, the important part was "accidentally" destroyed, and what was left was some irrelevant content.

"Everyone understands the situation, then let us continue to confirm the business." Reinhardt smiled and said: "Chief of Staff Manstein, please come and summarize the main content of the "Scythe Harvest Plan" for everyone." .”

"Yes!" Manstein folded his legs and saluted.

Then, Manstein walked to the huge large-scale map directly in front of the conference room, picked up the telescopic rod and pointed to each block of the map to explain.

"First of all, the previous marching order is already effective. At least in the first phase of the operation, the focus is still on the B Army." Manstein pointed to the northern part of the map with a telescopic pole and said: "But we can't just be satisfied with bypassing the Macchi The strategic goal of the Connaught Line of Defense. In order to win the final and comprehensive victory, we must, while bypassing the Maginot Line of Defense, wipe out a large number of the effective forces of the British and French coalition forces in areas outside the Maginot Line of Defense and destroy their follow-up resistance. "

It is necessary to bypass the Maginot Line and annihilate the main force of the enemy at the same time!

Although this is not the first time they have heard of this grand strategic goal, Brauchic and his team are still deeply shocked by the ambition behind this battle plan every time they hear such inspiring and lofty aspirations.

This is the goal proposed by the Führer, this is the appetite of the Supreme Leader of the Third Reich.A tactical success can no longer satisfy Reinhardt, he will only be satisfied if he has an overwhelming advantage in grand strategy.

That is France, which claims to have the strongest army in the world, not Poland, let alone a country like Denmark that has no military history.Think about the generations of legendary generals that emerged in France, and think about the powerful performance in the history of French military wars.Facing such an opponent, he actually wants to complete all his achievements in one battle, what arrogance this is!

"After weighing it over and over again, the head of state believes that if we only fight to achieve the partial goal of crossing the Maginot Line, no matter in terms of the political effort to destroy the neutrality of the three countries, or the military effort to evacuate the defense forces on the Eastern Front, it is not enough. Do what is reasonable.” Before summing up the plan, Manstein untimely listed the sign of the Führer.

Although when Reinhardt first proposed the "Sickle Harvest Project", Manstein felt that he also agreed with it very much, and even had a sense of familiarity with this plan.However, he didn't want to take the credit for himself.

First, the plan was first proposed by Reinhardt. He is only the implementer, and it is not so easy to claim credit for it.

Second, if the head of state made the main reform plan, the veteran generals of the army would naturally dare not say anything more.But if he Manstein also participated in the event that changed their original plan.Whether there will be people dissatisfied with the staff, maybe.