69novels Chapter 526
Chapter 526
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On November 24, more than 500,000 Allied troops surrounded in the Bastogne area failed to break out, and were completely surrounded for a week without water and food. With no hope of breaking out and no assistance, the Allied forces had to surrender to the Germans.
The Germans wiped out the main force of the Allied forces in the east without bloodshed, and in the west, the Second Army and the Seventh Army captured the Belgian capital of Brussels, killing and capturing 450,000 Allied troops around Brussels.
At this point, more than 1 million Allied troops in the Benelux and other low-lying countries had been completely annihilated.
After the Germans cleared the Allied forces here, they could finally withdraw troops to the south and attack the south of Gaul!
On
November 25, Guderian’s First Army rushed all the way, and it took only three days to capture Bordeaux from the Iron Tower to the south, and then captured Toulouse to the south, completely cutting off the connection between the Marseille area and the southwest.
On November 27, the Third Army marched north from the Reims area and attacked the French army on the Maginot Line from the rear.
In order to avoid being surrounded, the French army retreated from the Maginot Line overnight, abandoning the line of defense that they had spent several years and billions of francs to build. The
Maginot Line, the most expensive large-scale fortification in history, was captured by the German army without playing any role at all, and even without wasting a single shot of the German army! On
November 29, the German army captured Nancy and began to attack Lyon, the third largest city in Gaul, to the south. Seeing the German army approaching, the army on all fronts was defeated, and millions of refugees poured into the southern region, making the southern region overcrowded, and widespread panic spread among the crowd.
Moreover, due to the influx of a large number of civilians and troops, various materials, including food, medicine and various daily necessities, began to be in short supply. The morale of everyone in Gaul, from the army to the people, fell to the bottom.
In this case, relying on the Marseille area as a base, the plan of counterattack to the north is no longer possible.
So Marshal Pétain can only pin his hopes on his ally, the British.
After he sent a telegram to the British, asking about their attitude, the British only promised to provide assistance, but never mentioned when the assistance would arrive and how many troops they could send to cooperate with the French army!
After realizing that the promise of the British was unreliable, Marshal Pétain completely gave up!
As a last resort, he made a decision that caused great controversy and brought him a long-term infamy: surrender to Hans! On
December 1, Pétain personally went to the Iron Tower and submitted the surrender of Gaul to Manstein, the commander-in-chief of the German front.
So far, the Gallic Campaign, which lasted for a month, was completely over.
From January 3, when the German army began to launch the offensive, to December 1, for 28 days, the French army mobilized a total of 6.5 million troops, including 2.6 million regular troops, 135,000 died in battle, and 2.25 million were captured.
This was the biggest defeat that Gaul had suffered since its founding. Even the Battle of Waterloo and the Battle of Leipzig were not as thoroughly defeated as this one!
The German army used the tactics of blitzkrieg to defeat the Gauls, and the Maginot Line, which the French army was proud of on the battlefield, became a complete decoration after the German army’s detours!
This war thoroughly demonstrated the powerful strength of the army to the world. It took them less than a month to defeat the strongest army in Europe.
The German army told the world who was the strongest army in Europe through a clean victory!
So far, no one in Europe and even the world dared to face the German army.
The armored forces of the German army, which shone brightly in the Battle of Borland and the Battle of Gaul, have also begun to become the object of imitation by countries around the world.
Hans’s armored cluster + mechanized rapid reaction force composed of lightning tactics also made military strategists from various countries shout again and again!
Hans’s pioneering tactics opened their eyes. It turned out that war could be fought like this!
It turns out that it is so easy to deal with trench warfare that countless people have been scratching their heads and can’t figure out how to deal with!
As a result, countries have begun to accelerate the development of their own tanks, using the German tanks as a template to imitate and copy them.
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On December 4, Mainz Berlin took a connecting flight to the Gaul capital of Eiffel Tower.
He will entertain the new president of Eagle Sauce, Roosevelt, who came from afar. Moreover, in Eiffel Tower, the German army will hold an unprecedented military parade to show the world the military strength of the German army, so as to shock Hans and other allies and make them lose the courage to confront Hans.
After arriving in Eiffel Tower, Mainz personally met with Marshal Pétain who came to sign a peace treaty and surrender to the German army.
After the two met, Marshal Pétain was full of emotion.
Opposite him, Hans’s president is only 30 years old this year, while he has been in his seventies, and the age difference between the two is more than twice. Moreover, not only is Hans’s president young, but every senior general of the German military is very young.
Manstein, the German commander who had accepted his surrender, was only 40 years old this year. He performed brilliantly in this battle. General Guderian, the commander of the First Army, who fought for more than 6,000 kilometers in an unmanned area, was only 39 years old this year.
General Dietrich, the commander of the Sixth Army who led his troops to conquer his own capital, was only 35 years old this year!
This German army is in its rising period. With the age of the current German commanders, they still have the spirit to rush up.
In comparison, the French generals are undoubtedly much older. Except for the young commander Dai Gaole who is less than 40 years old, the other French generals are almost all the old men who took the lead during the First World War!
They had made great achievements in World War I, so they were in high positions and blocked the path for young people to be promoted.
Because of their age and the arrogance of winning in World War I, they are particularly superstitious about the old tactics that have been proven on the battlefield, and are extremely repulsive to new weapons and new tactical ideas.
Their thinking is still at the level of World War I, and there is almost no progress.
Therefore, when they developed an enhanced version of trench warfare – the Maginot Line to deal with the German army based on the experience of the First World War, they were naturally taught a lesson by these young people of the German army who had more flexible minds and richer tactics!
“Your subordinates are really eye-opening. I have never seen such an army. I don’t feel ashamed to lose to you!”
Marshal Pétain said this very sincerely, and this is indeed his true words.
In fact, even if he were to command, he would not perform better than Gamelin.
At least, he does not have the resolute fighting spirit of Gamelin. The other party can fight to death for the Iron Tower City. If it were him, he would probably abandon the city and retreat when the Sixth Army attacked. In that case, the Iron Tower City would probably be lost even faster!
Compared with the German army ten years ago, this German army has more powerful weapons and equipment, and their tactical thinking is more advanced. The most important thing is that the person who controls this army is more terrible than the one ten years ago!
Therefore, Gaul’s failure is not just a military failure, but an all-round failure. This is something that no one can stop and reverse! _