The Third Reich in Desperation

"There's nothing wrong with it!" Gan Molin frowned slightly, and interrupted forcefully: "The main force of the Germans has appeared, which is not only in line with the previously captured German combat plan, but also in line with the conjectural conclusion of the high command. .In the big picture, we are in control!"

Gan Molin stubbornly believed that he had already discovered the position and target of the main force of the German army, and he could not allow Berante to say a word of persistence.

"The highly mobile British Expeditionary Force has already set off for the scheduled second line of defense. Our large French army is also on its way." Gan Molin half-closed his glasses, and asked Berente in a sarcastic tone: "Is it possible? Do you think all this will end because of the opposition of a major general like you?"

Although everyone knew that Berente made the warning for the sake of the overall situation, and they also understood that Gan Molin's satire of Berrante was indeed too much.However, no one helped Berante to say a fair word.

The French generals present had already figured out Gan Molin's thoughts very clearly.Rather than saying that Gan Molin was embarrassing Berente, it would be better to say that Gan Malin was demonstrating like Berente's old boss, Marshal Petain, by suppressing Berente.

Gan Molin hates that the army, besides himself, also believes in Marshal Petain, an idler who has retired to the second line.

It made him feel bad!

Therefore, Gan Molin has been suppressing all the generals who had a close relationship with Petain, including Berente.

Now, if any French general speaks well for Berente, he will be regarded by Gan Molin as a member of the "Pétain faction".In that case, the future of this general will not be easy...

French generals dare not talk too much, let alone Belgian generals.They still count on Gan Molin to send troops to guard the defense line for the motherland, how dare they offend?

Lord Gort of the British Expeditionary Force is very much the daring French major general of the same period.Moreover, he also heard from Minister of the Navy Churchill that there was a French major general named Berente, who left a good impression on Churchill and was a good general.

However, Gott's troops have already entered Belgium under the command of Ganmaling.At this time, if the French army followed Berente's prudent suggestion and stood still, wouldn't the British army have to face the German army alone? !

For the sake of the interests of the British Expeditionary Force, Gott didn't talk too much, just watched quietly, watching the lost Belante, who was "invited" to leave the conference room alone.

Body 3 Chapter Nineteen

"The French really fell for it! They still thought that we were going to march according to the "Yellow Plan"!" In the Fuhrer's residence in Berlin, Borasic, who was in charge of the command, was very pleasantly surprised.

First of all, after Army Group B weakened part of its armored forces to provide to Army Group A, it still achieved impressive results as originally planned in the "Yellow Plan".

Through the breakthrough gap in the middle, hundreds of thousands of troops swarmed out.Now, they have penetrated deep into the territory of Belgium, chasing them in all directions, and playing with overwhelming momentum.

Then, the British and French allied forces speculated based on the super combat effectiveness of Army Group B that this was the main force of the German army, and immediately dispatched a huge counterattack force to the hinterland of Belgium for emergency preparations.

Reinhardt told the generals what he knew about Plan D of the Anglo-French coalition forces on the grounds that the Gestapo had found out information, and pointed out that the coalition forces would build a second position in the hinterland of Belgium to meet the attacking spearhead of Army Group B.

And all of this is going on in accordance with the rhythm of the "Scythe Harvest Project".

Bolohich knew very well that the climax of the battle would follow after the main force of the British and French allied forces entered the second line of defense.

The British and French would never have thought that the main force of the German army was not Army Group B at all, but Army Group A that was still shuttling through the dense Ardennes forest at this moment!

Thanks to the fierce offensive and huge battle results of Army Group B, Admiral Bork has completely said that this army group under his command has created a main force, successfully diverting attention for Army Group A in the south.

"After covering the attack of Army Group B against the Belgian defenders, our air force immediately deployed Fw-190 and Me-190 fighter jets to start an air battle with the French Air Force through central Belgium." Catherine also proudly introduced: "France The human air force is already tired of dealing with us, and it is completely unable to devote energy to reconnaissance of the Ardennes region in southern Belgium."

"In this way, Guderian's armored forces should not have been discovered yet." Brausic analyzed excitedly.

"Even if they find out now, it will be too late." Manstein, who was in the same meeting room, said with a smile: "They have already put the main force into the face of Army Group B, so it is impossible to have the power to stop the more powerful army. Army Group A."

In the original history, Manstein should have been kicked out of the Army General Headquarters at this time and sent to the 38th Army to command operations.However, because he was protected by Reinhardt in this life, no one in the Army General Headquarters dared to demote Manstein. As a result, Manstein and Bolohich, who disliked each other, got together again.

Seeing that Brauchitsch and Manstein seemed to be competing for insight again, Reinhardt quickly coughed twice and concluded: "Regardless of whether the enemy finds out or not, Army Group A must complete the encirclement as soon as possible to avoid long nights and dreams."

Reinhard walked between the two, waved his hands and said, "General Borahich, you should immediately send a telegram to General Guderian, asking them to speed up their progress and must cross the Arden Forest within two days until the Take the enemy's rear, so as not to have long nights and dreams."

"General Manstein, you follow me to the headquarters, where I have prepared a staff team for you, and you lead them to plan a new plan code-named "Blackout"." Reinhardt Turning his eyes to Manstein: "I have already described the implementation background of the plan for you. You can make it as soon as possible, and it will be used in about two weeks."

"Okay, Führer. I'm going to urge Guderian to speed up." Blauchic replied.

"Okay, Führer." Manstein didn't ask any more questions, and simply accepted the task Reinhardt gave him.

Seeing the conflicts between the two famous generals, Reinhard secretly sighed in his heart.It seems that it is better to separate them to assign different tasks in the future.

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"The head of state wants us to cross the Ardennes Forest within two days... This is about the time I estimate it will take." Guderian said to himself, holding the telegram in his hand.

Unlike the fierce battle of Army Group B, as the spearhead of Army Group A, Guderian's 19th Armored Army, except for a small-scale conflict with the Belgian second-rate troops on the border, has so far not even had an enemy The soldiers were never encountered again.

For a whole morning, they seemed to be isolated from the world, and they kept on going, on, and on.They will cut down a big tree blocking the main road, and fill in some potholes.A majestic armored army, but all it does is the work of engineers.

"Commander, our military department has dispatched all the engineers. Judging from the progress this morning, it is not difficult to pass through the Ardennes Forest within two days." A combat staff officer spread out the map and wrote for Guderian Explained: "Our current position has reached a position less than 5 kilometers away from the Meuse River Valley, and we can enter the valley today."

When Guderian walked to the side of the map, the combat staff officer with the rank of colonel pointed out to him: "Look, Commander, if we continue to move westward in the current direction, we will pass through this narrow and long area on the map." , we will be able to rush out of the Ardennes area tomorrow afternoon as planned, and march towards Sedan."

According to the expected conception of the "Sickle Harvest Plan", Guderian's 19th Armored Army should cross the 110-kilometer-long canyon of the Ardennes Mountains and penetrate into the French realm within the first two days.And on the second day, that is, in the afternoon of May 1940, 5, the three armored divisions of the 12th Army should have reached the north bank of the Maas River and were asked to capture the famous French fortress city-Sedan.That night, they had to start nervous preparations for crossing the river.

According to the plan, at 11 a.m. the next day, Catherine's air force would dispatch 400 bombers in batches to bombard the French positions and artillery groups on the south bank of the Maas River indiscriminately for five hours.

When the air force's bombing was about to end, that is, around 4 pm, the infantry of the 19th Army had to divide into rubber boats and began to cross the Maas River.

In the future, when the Meuse River defense line is lost, the road to Paris will be open. The British and French troops fighting in Belgium will face the danger of being outflanked, and the French army on the Maginot Line will also be attacked.At this time, the "Sickle Harvest Plan" is initially in place.

The key to everything lies in whether the 19th Armored Army, as Army Group A, can cut off their southern flank and cut off their retreat before the British and French allied forces respond.

"Just keep the current speed," Guderian touched his chin, and said slowly: "I think the head of state also estimated that we will need two days, so he ordered us to give us two days. As long as the enemy does not counterattack , we can even rush out of the forest area by noon tomorrow."

"I think those Belgians should have no energy to manage us. They and the British and French troops are still staring at Army Group B." The combat staff officer smiled at his army commander.

Body 3 Chapter Twenty The Cunning Montgomery

At ten o'clock in the morning on May 5, when the German Army Group B had just attacked Belgium, the British Expeditionary Force immediately advanced eastward and entered Belgium.

The commander of the expedition, Lord Gert, used Lieutenant General Brooke's 2nd Corps as the vanguard, and Brooke took Montgomery's 3rd Division as the vanguard, with the 4th and 50th Divisions in the rear.

Under the leadership of Montgomery, the 3rd Division quickly advanced to the line of the Dire River.The whole process is as accurate as clockwork, and almost every step has no deviation from the original plan.When they arrived at the designated area on the night of the 10th, they also encountered the Belgian 10th Division, which was guarding the second line of defense.

For this second-rate division in the Belgian Army, Montgomery, who has always been strict with troops, didn't think much of it.

Sometimes, it is not that the more people there are, the stronger the fighting power will be.What really determines the combat effectiveness of an army is the quality of equipment, high morale, training level and quality of soldiers, not the number of people!

Those Belgian troops with low combat effectiveness, poor equipment, and weak fighting will could not be counted on when attacking, and they were not favored by Montgomery when defending.

He even felt that if these useless Belgian troops were left in the line to fight with the British army, maybe even his own well-trained soldiers would be adversely affected.

When the Belgian soldiers began to rout, perhaps the British soldiers who could have persisted would also be demoralized by the Belgians, or even rout together.The black sheep refers to those Belgian troops.

Perhaps because there were no German troops nearby, when Montgomery's 3rd Division arrived at the position of the Belgian 10th Division, most of the Belgian soldiers were still sleeping. There were not many security personnel for such a majestic division.

"Hmph! These Belgians are so stupid!" Montgomery said angrily, "If they were the enemy, I only need one regiment to wipe out their entire division now."

In his heart, Montgomery had despised these Belgian troops over and over again.He was almost sure that since even the 10 divisions known as the main force of the Belgian army could not stop the German attack for a morning, the second-rate Belgian division could not be counted on now.

On the side, the adjutant who had been with Montgomery for a few months saw that he was in a bad mood, so he said along the way: "General, why are they our allies? Now we have to use one division to protect them." .”

"I don't have that much energy to protect a group of trash," Montgomery said, looking at the loose camp of the Belgian 10th Division with an ugly face, "If these idiots dare to break up our defensive formation when they are defeated, I will not hesitate. Let the machine sweep them away!"