"Yes, Head of State!" Hit? Le's adjutant went out immediately after receiving the order.
"General Yoder, is there any movement in Army Group A now?" After being happy, Hit? Le was still concerned about the situation in the Ardennes area. If the operations of Army Group B could affect the outcome of a major battle, then the actions of Army Group A would affect the success or failure of this operation. Hit? Of course Le knew where he should be concerned.
"Führer! General Rundstedt just called!" Jodl said respectfully, "The vanguard armored units of Army Group A, including the First SS Armored Corps, Kleist Armored Group have begun to enter the One hundred and ten kilometers of the Ardennes Forest! In the next two days, they will traverse the Ardennes Forest and will suddenly appear at the weak point of the French defense. If the plan goes well, they will be able to successfully defeat the French. Man’s military power was successfully divided into northern and southern halves, thus determining the victory of the war!”
Hit? Le thought for a while and said, "In order to ensure that the movements of Army Group A in the past two days are not discovered, General Bock's Army Group B must achieve results in the Netherlands and Belgium as soon as possible, so that the main force of the British and French coalition forces can go north and penetrate deep into Belgium. The deeper we go into Belgium, the better it will be for us! At the same time, let General Loeb’s Army Group C increase its momentum in attacking the Maginot Line, forcing the defenders of the Maginot Line opposite to not dare to support other places!”
"Yes, head of state, I will go to convey your order immediately!" General Yoder said.
"Wait..., where is Lampard now!" Hit? Le asked.
"The head of state, Leader Lampard, gave a speech at Army Group A at the beginning of the war and then disappeared. He should have gone to Belgium with his guards!" General Yoder replied.
"Hey! This guy..." Hit? Le muttered helplessly, "If I had known, I shouldn't have let him run around. Now Hermann Goering is also locked up by him to detoxify. If I had known the current situation, I should have let Goering detox later." It will make it so that now there is no one around to discuss the problem!" Hit? Le glanced at the generals of the National Defense Forces next to him and gave up on discussing the problem with these people.
Detailed information about the attack and defense of the Eben-Emel Fortress is in Hit? Under Le's instructions, it was immediately sent to the hands of Propaganda Minister Goebbels, who was now in Berlin. After receiving the information, Goebbels read it in detail and immediately felt that this was an excellent publicity opportunity, so he immediately started The propaganda machine in hand.
No matter what time it was, Goebbels decided to personally sit in the Propaganda Department and report to the Germans the progress of the attack and defense of the Eben-Emel Fortress. : "Citizens of the German Empire, I am honored to tell you some exciting news here! At noon today, the imperial army used a brand-new combat method to effortlessly capture the Eben-Emel Fortress! "On the streets of Berlin, loudspeakers are everywhere, and at this time Goebbels's hypnotic voice is everywhere. Goebbels said in his usual calm tone, "I'm sorry, citizens of the empire, I can't tell you what kind of combat method this is for the time being, but you can imagine it for yourself! This brand-new method of warfare will be used in the future It will still appear and accompany us until complete victory! The imperial army broke through the fortress with two thousand men garrisoned at a cost of less than fifty people. There were several Belgian divisions guarding the fortress around it. However, these factors are still under our control. All are vulnerable to the brave army. Everyone must be familiar with the name Eben-Emel Fortress. Yes, it is Belgium, this shameless country, this country that bullies the weak and fears the strong. This country once fought in the last war. They pretended to be weak, but after the war, they immediately tore off the mask of hypocrisy and occupied the Ruhr area with the French! After we Germany rearmed, this shameless country immediately began to make hypocritical announcements Permanently neutral, the Eben-Emel Fortress was built by them against Germany. However, this Eben-Emel Fortress, known as the first fortress in Europe, like its predecessor Liege Fortress, cannot stop Germany's revenge at all. This battle also made us realize how vulnerable this country that claims to be powerful military all day long is. Belgium thought that they and Britain and France could suppress Germany's living space. They were wrong! Sooner or later, there will be One day the Belgians will regret their previous actions! Victory will definitely belong to Germany!! Long live Germany!!!".
Whether they were listening to the radio at home or listening to the loudspeaker broadcast on the street, they all remained silent in front of Goebbels's good news and listened quietly to Goebbels' speech. When Goebbels finished speaking, After that, everyone was still thinking about what Goebbels said just now: "Long live Germany..." I don't know who wanted to shout. Immediately, everyone who received Goebbels's speech, regardless of gender, old or young, shouted together. Long live Germany, no one is unwilling to hear good news, and this good news comes at just the right time. When the news of war between Germany and Britain and France comes, although Germany has previously solved Czechoslovakia and Poland, Denmark and Denmark in the north Good news from Norway also came in waves, but everyone knew that the enemies faced by Britain and France were completely different from those faced by Germany. Even children know that the status and strength of Britain and France in Europe are not comparable to those countries at all. But now, these people have begun to have confidence in defeating Britain and France. Perhaps as the head of state said, Britain and France are vulnerable.
Goebbels's speech successfully restored the confidence of people who had doubts about the British-French war. And let the entire country believe that Germany is invincible.
While launching the battle for the Eben-Emel Fortress, Air Marshal Hermann Goering issued a series of airborne orders in the drug rehabilitation center arranged by Lin Wei. Although he still has no freedom at all, he can still command The Air Force, because there are enough radios installed here, the staff officers from the Air Force can see their commander-in-chief at any time. However, before the Air Force personnel enter, they must be inspected by the SS to prevent bringing in things like morphine. . From the beginning until now, the SS military police have discovered this six times. As a result, the military police captain responsible for guarding Hermann and Göring had to invite the Gestapo from the headquarters. The Gestapo came and successfully frightened the air force staff officers who were coming and going. They had to imagine what would happen if they did not Giving Goering morphine might get you demoted, but if the Gestapo found out, it wouldn't be an ordinary problem. Therefore, these direct staff members of Göring shamelessly rejected their boss's request for help, leaving Göring to concentrate on detoxification.
Detoxification did not affect Goering's actions in commanding the Air Force, although Goering sometimes threatened, "If you don't give me a morphine shot, I won't let the Air Force fly to the sky!" However, after the gendarmerie contacted Lin Wei via radio, Lin Wei's The answer was simple, "Leave him alone! The head of state will take care of him!" When the gendarmerie told the air force commander what Lin Wei had said, Goering just accepted his fate and quit drugs, because Goering still knew that, and Compared to such a big deal, my drug addiction is just a small matter. Therefore, Goering was busy working until late every day for the war on the Western Front, but the remarkable result was that he had no chance to think about the problem of morphine injections now, because Goering would fall asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.
After the war began, the Air Force also cooperated with the National Defense Forces in combat. The larger German airborne operations included the 7th Aviation Division and the 22nd Airborne Division. The 7th Air Division, consisting of three airborne regiments and one infantry regiment, was tasked with capturing a series of river and canal bridges that formed the Netherlands' leading defense system centered around the area around Rotterdam and the airfield at Wilhaven.
The 22nd Airborne Division, composed of 2 infantry regiments and 1 reinforced parachute battalion, was tasked with capturing the airports in the areas of Valkenburg, Ockenborg and Ippenberg near The Hague. Once these airfields were captured by the parachute battalion, the remaining units of the division would be dropped in with the aim of capturing the Dutch capital and capturing the entire Dutch government, royal family, and senior members of the military.
While the battle for the Eben-Emel Fortress was still going on, the two airborne divisions had successfully airborne at their respective predetermined locations. Especially in the Netherlands, almost all the airports in the Netherlands were occupied by German paratroopers at the same time. Cooperating with the 18th Army of Army Group B advancing from the Abbott Canal to occupy the Netherlands.
The key to the German plan was to use airlift forces to seize several bridges on the Nivi Maas River due south of Rotterdam and on the mouth of the Maas River southeast of Rotterdam at Dordrecht and Mordijk. General Georg von Kuchler's XVIII Army, advancing from the German border about 100 miles away, hoped to use these bridges to break into the fortified "Dutch Fortress".
Airlift troops, including a company that landed on the Rotterdam River from old seaplanes, captured the bridges before the unaware Dutch defenders had time to blow them up. The improvised Dutch forces had desperately tried to repel the Germans, and they were about to succeed. At this time, an armored division of Kuchler arrived here after breaking through the Glebe-Pierre defense line. The Groenberg-Peel Line was a fortified position in the eastern part of the Netherlands with many waterways. The Dutch originally hoped to hold this front for a few days. But now it seems like a pipe dream.