The Third Reich in Desperation

"Yes, you should have guessed it." Hans withdrew his hand from the adjutant's shoulder, and said lightly: "The head of state wants those Romanian armored soldiers to take over the tanks we captured."

"He, the head of state, once again predicted in advance what will happen in the future."

Text 4: Defeating France in 6 Weeks

The French generals did not want to believe that the German head of state was omniscient, but the facts before them forced them to believe it.

This battle is over!

When the German army launched a crossing operation from the Somme River, which was heavily fortified by the French army, it specifically selected the divisions with the worst combat effectiveness of the French army and occupied their garrison areas.As the commander-in-chief of the French army, Wei Gang knew that his carefully arranged line of defense was over.

There is no problem in the deployment of the "Weigand Line", and all the key points of crossing the river have been heavily garrisoned.But Wei Gang overlooked one point, the combat effectiveness of his heavy troops is uneven, some are high and some are low.

Dozens of third-rate divisions on the front line, even France's own general Wei Gang didn't know their specific combat effectiveness.

But it happened that the head of state who was far away in Germany knew the remaining French troops better than Wei Gang, the commander-in-chief of the French army.

Reinhardt hoarded his troops to the rear of several river-crossing battlefields, and when the vanguard had just established a beachhead, the large troops immediately crossed the river to consolidate their positions.

Being able to do this can only show that the head of state of Germany was convinced that the German troops crossing the river would be successful before the confrontation between the two armies, and then took the risk of putting all the follow-up troops behind the river crossing battlefield.

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the German army can gather a large number of troops at the crossing so quickly, and then immediately put the army into the advancing battle.

"It's unbelievable..." Even Lieutenant General Berente, who has always been confident, can't help feeling now: "The German army made the most of the breakthrough they achieved on the Somme River, so that our front-line troops were almost All of them were defeated. Today, the remnants of our army can only carry out partial and temporary limited resistance on the open battlefield."

"The battle situation is already at its extreme!" Berante lowered his eyelids, and cast his eyes helplessly at Admiral Wei Gang.He hoped to find a way out of this recognized star.

Looking at the pale-faced Berente and other officers, Wei Gang also knew how desperate everyone was.

Just yesterday, he also vowed to point out that the German head of state is not an all-knowing and all-powerful God, and it is impossible to see through the weaknesses of the French army every time.

But now, he was slapped in the face, by the most unlikely ending!

Fuck, is the Führer really a god? !

So the French army is still fighting a fart?

"Shrink the existing troops now..." Even though he was in a state of confusion, Wei Gang was a famous general after all, and he still conscientiously planned the best deployment plan for the French army under the current situation: " Retreat across the Seine, with our last reserves, and regroup the resistance."

The last reserve team mentioned by Wei Gang was the former Maginot Fortress with 3 divisions under the command of Lieutenant General Berente.

Of the eight divisions drawn from the Maginot Line, five had already been lost.The remaining three divisions really have nothing to look forward to.

Although Wei Gang was blaming him, he still arranged for the next defensive operation.However, in his heart, he no longer had even the slightest expectation of victory.

In fact, even the deputy prime minister of the French cabinet, Marshal Petain of the French Army, after learning that the 30 British and French allied forces surrendered in Dunkirk, also proposed the defeatism of hopeless victory.

If it weren't for the faction headed by Prime Minister Reynolds who still insisted on fighting, Marshal Pétain would have begun to lead the surrender a few days ago.

However, after the Maginot Line was bypassed and Dunkirk's containment force was destroyed, today's "Weygand Line" was once again broken through by the Germans.The French Third Republic has nothing to rely on.

Could it be that we really have to wait until the German army reaches the capital, France, and turn the romantic capital into ruins before surrendering?

It's a loss anyway, why didn't the armistice agreement be signed earlier?

The fall of the new line of defense gave Wei Gang, the commander-in-chief of the French army, a strong "defeatism".

Belief that France will fail is not because these people are incompetent.

On the contrary, whether it is Admiral Wei Gang or Marshal Pétain, they all have illustrious military exploits, experienced a lot of actual combat, and cultivated a generation of famous generals with a considerable strategic outlook.

The reason why they think that France will be defeated is precisely because they have seen the various deficiencies in the French army's military.Judging from the perspective of their professional military strategists, the French army has reached the end of its rope.

At this time, even the two best generals in France have made a statement that they must lose. It can be seen that France has indeed reached the point where it is doomed to fail.

Although the French people still prayed in their hearts for the miracle of the Marne River in 1914, in fact, their generals did not have the courage.

At that time, the French army tried its best to finally block the menacing German army from the gates of Paris, and finally turned the tide of the battle.

But now, even the Paris government has begun to prepare for evacuation and is about to escape from the capital.It can be seen how desperate the French top leaders are about the outcome of the war.

"Let's defend the Seine again." Wei Gang waved his hand with a wry smile, and said to Berente: "General Berrante, take your army to the Seine River to receive the defeated troops, and prepare to deploy defenses. I'm going to give Marshal Pétain wrote a letter to discuss an important matter with him, and the front-line operations are temporarily entrusted to you."

"Yes! This subordinate will lead the troops to defend the Seine River and guard the gates of Paris." When Berante heard that Admiral Weygand was going to discuss important matters with his old superior Pétain, he didn't ask any more questions, but just continued. The task arranged by Wey Gang.

Berente knew that no matter what the outcome of the discussion between Admiral Weygand and Marshal Petain was, they were all for the sake of France.And what he has to do now is to defend the Seine River and buy time for his two bosses.

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"For our army, the most important thing at the moment is to cross the Seine River quickly, without giving the French army time and opportunity to reorganize their defense." In the German High Command, Reinhardt once again leaked Weygand's plan: " The next military action of the French army can only be to hold on to the Seine River and stabilize the gateway to the south of Paris. In other words, as long as we capture the Seine River, the road to Paris will be completely opened."

Speaking of this, Reinhard smiled conceitedly: "I remember before the war, I once said that I would defeat France within two months. I still keep the issue of the Social Worker News that reported my words. In the drawer."

"But today, I want to say sorry to everyone. My prediction has gone wrong." Reinhardt said rightly, with pride that couldn't be concealed, and laughed: "To defeat France, how can we need two Month? From today’s point of view, it’s time for them to surrender in the 2th week of the war!”

Beat France in 6 weeks? !

Today's Reinhardt once again spoke amazingly.

When he said that he would defeat France in two months, how many people abandoned it like walking shoes and regarded it as a joke.

How many people used to think of Reinhardt as just a fantasy fanatic because of this crazy talk, someone who only knows how to talk big, but with a little luck, he can always happen to have credibility in his words.

But now it seems that the Führer is really not a lucky guy who likes to talk big.

Today, even "God's gift to Germany" is not enough to describe the great Führer.

Reinhardt, he is the all-knowing and all-powerful God!

Text 4 Chapter [-] Fu is the double arrival

In fact, when the 1th Division of the German Army, which had just seized a hundred French B30 tanks, and the vanguard continued to advance for less than 10 kilometers, they seized another batch of "good things".

On a huge French train carriage, Battalion Commander Hoffman of the 30st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1th Infantry Division led his troops to discover two quite good camouflaged French train guns.

Around here, the French covered a lot of canvas, and deliberately built an earthen wall beside it, which kind of means that there is no silver 300 taels here.

Of course, in the end the French army gave up and took away the two big guys in the defeat.Just like the British did in Dunkirk, they discarded important weapons and equipment everywhere in order to increase the speed of retreat.

"According to a senior French staff officer we captured in the Somme, this is a French train gun with a caliber of 400 mm and a range of about 15 kilometers. They originally planned to use these two big guys as Wei Gang The defense line is supported by fire." Hoffman's adjutant smiled and reported to his battalion commander: "It's a pity that the group of French moved too slowly. They haven't had time to deploy the train guns to the Weygand line of defense. We This line of defense has been breached.”

Hoffman walked to the captured train gun and observed it carefully, and secretly speculated: "If the super cannon of this caliber is really used by the French to bombard the German positions, it will probably cause a lot of damage."

As a member of the 30th Infantry Division, Hoffman, who had experienced the inferior artillery battle of 1 to 10 in the Polish battle, knew how much the disadvantaged party would suffer.

It can be said that if the Polish counter-offensive force had not relied on the overwhelming advantage of the number of cannons, it would have been impossible to beat the 30th Infantry Division so badly.

Hoffman even believed that if the level of artillery fire was comparable, the 30th Division he was in could completely withstand a longer infantry onslaught by a Polish army alone.