Lin Wei and the armored troops of the Eighteenth Group Army arrived at Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, at dusk. As soon as they entered the city, before they could get familiar with the situation in the city, Lin Wei led his direct guards straight to the Dutch Royal Palace, which had already been occupied. The commando team led by Lieutenant Colonel Carl List occupied the place and guarded it every step of the way to prevent the Dutch royal family from escaping again.
Looking at the commandos who were still carrying out their duties meticulously, Lin Wei walked over to these soldiers and raised his hands in a salute.
"Hello, leader! Do you want to go in and see the members of the Dutch royal family?" The soldiers on guard at the door obviously knew Lin Wei, because they were all selected by Lin Wei before they came.
"No, instead of looking at the royal family, I would rather talk to you first! You will receive medals for this action. By the way, are Lieutenant Colonel Carl and Lister inside?" Lin Wei asked.
"Leader, the Lieutenant Colonel is watching the Dutch royal family inside! But His Majesty has just arrived here, and Lieutenant Colonel Karl List has already let him in!" the soldier said uneasily.
"It doesn't matter!" Lin Wei patted the soldiers on the shoulders and turned around and said, "Robert C. Crawford, let these soldiers take a rest, and let the people we bring take over the guard work first!"
"Yes, leader!" Robert C. Crawford stood at attention and said.
Under the guidance of the guards along the way, although Lin Wei had never been to the Dutch Palace, after passing through several long corridors, he came to Queen Wilhelmina and her daughter, who were temporarily detained in a main hall in the northwest corner. Pushing open the huge door, Lin Wei strolled in and saw Lieutenant Colonel Carl Lister, who had changed into military uniforms, and several commandos sitting next to him. Hearing the sound of the door, he immediately looked wary. When he stood up and saw that it was his leader, he let down his guard.
"Lieutenant Colonel Karl Liszt!" Lin Wei quickly walked over, caught Lieutenant Colonel Liszt off guard, gave him a big hug, and said excitedly; "Thank you very much, you don't know, your achievements and The entire Eighteenth Army is as tall as the entire Eighteenth Army. They may have conquered the Dutch government, but you conquered the Dutch soul!"
"Leader, you are flattered!" Although Lin Wei's words were not excessive, Lieutenant Colonel Carl List still humbly replied: "How can we people compare with the entire 18th Army! We are just in chaos. When I was there, I just took the opportunity to take advantage of it."
After a brief exchange of greetings with his subordinates, Lin Wei turned to look at the other group of people, walked in front of William II and performed a Juncker etiquette, "Your Majesty, although I have never seen you! But my father asked me to Wait for him to say hello to you! It seems that His Majesty is still in good health! If father knows, maybe he will worry less!" Lin Wei spoke and told everyone clearly that it was only the first time that he and William II met.
William II also said understandingly, "I didn't expect anyone would still remember me!" The helpless expression on his face as he spoke made Lin Wei secretly admire him, thinking that he really has matured with age. I admire the emperor who has abdicated even more.
Lin Wei knew that the show was enough at this time, and then looked at the three people sitting in the middle. If nothing else happened, they were Queen Wilhelmina and her daughter and son-in-law.
"Your Majesty the Queen, this is the first time we meet, please take care of me! I have been following the Dutch royal family for a long time!" Lin Wei said with a smile on his face.
"Including this action, you planned it too! Young general!" Queen Wilhelmina said sarcastically.
"Of course, to be honest, you may be the only people in Europe who can let me plan an operation specifically!" Lin Wei said proudly, "These soldiers were specially selected by me from hundreds of thousands of SS soldiers across the country. What came out was equipped with weapons that the Krupp family was still secretly experimenting with. There were only a few hundred of them in the whole of Europe! After a year of training, and then secretly lurking in the Netherlands a year ago, I took great pains to this operation. !”
"So, we should also thank you!" Queen Wilhelmina's son-in-law Bernhard said angrily, "Your painstaking plan is just to wipe out any resistance force in the Netherlands that may escape! But you are very You will soon discover that the Dutch people’s will to resist will never disappear, and you damn invaders will be driven out sooner or later!” Bernhard pointed at Lin Wei’s nose and cursed.
Lin Wei stopped the commando who wanted to use force, turned around and said, looking at the Queen's son-in-law who was a little confused about the situation, with a relaxed tone; "Mr. Bernhard, I wonder if you have heard of Damon." Concentration camps, if you want, where you can go and meet high-ranking government officials from Austria, Czechoslovakia or even Poland! They will definitely be willing to teach you how to treat someone who can sentence you to death!"
Looking at Princess Juliana next to her who was still holding on to her husband with a frightened face, Lin Wei slowed down and said to Queen Wilhelmina, "Your Majesty, we in Germany have long expressed our goodwill, and now , I still say it again, Germany and the Netherlands are not enemies, our enemies are Britain and France. This transit was to attack the British and French coalition forces. We have expressed our goodwill. If you still regard Germany as an enemy, we are waiting for your possibility. That's what happened to Poland and Austria!" After saying that, Lin Wei walked away, and the voice before walking out came from the door, "Mr. Bernhard, please don't act rashly, life in Damon Concentration Camp is very difficult. !”
After Lin Wei came out, Robert C. Crawford stepped forward and said, "Leader, the inventory of the Dutch treasury has been completed! Including the amount of gold intercepted by Lieutenant Colonel Carl and List, there are nearly two hundred tons of gold in total!"
"It will all be shipped back to Germany. One hundred and eighty tons will be transferred directly to the state treasury, and the rest will be stored in the SS! The country needs gold to prove its credibility, and gold will never depreciate. The more of this kind of thing, the better!" Lin Wei ordered calmly, "At the same time, seal all the large museums in the Netherlands and transport all valuable things back to Germany. Remember, you must be like loyal hounds and find out everything Germany needs!"
"Yes, leader!" Robert C. Crawford promised.
At 11 a.m. on May 15, General H.G. Winkelmann, Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Armed Forces, formally signed the instrument of surrender. In just five days, the Netherlands was defeated and surrendered.
News of the Dutch surrender was immediately reported to Hit at the Eagle's Nest? Le, Hit? Le Ye was stunned by this huge surprise and kept walking around in front of everyone's eyes, "This is really good news..., by the way, has the news about General Franco come yet!" Since the war started, , Hit? Le sent someone to contact Spanish leader Franco, hoping that Spain would cooperate with Germany to attack France from the south. However, he still has not received a positive response from Spain.
"Not yet, Führer!" Jodel replied.
"Forget it, leave them alone!" Since the beginning of the war, everything has been going smoothly, and Hit? He no longer valued the news that Spain was attacking France from the south. Hit? Le didn't know that the reason why Spain didn't respond was entirely because of the British.
When Lever came to power, Churchill, then British Prime Minister, received intelligence that the Spanish Franco regime and the German government would jointly attack France. Churchill was convinced that the Spanish government had decided to participate in World War II and would support Nazi Germany. Churchill and British decision-makers believed that the Franco regime's public support for Germany would seriously harm British interests and would make Britain face greater difficulties on the European battlefield. Senior British officials believed that the senior military officials of the Franco regime had always believed that their income was too low and that they were also very corrupt. Britain could use money to bribe them to oppose the Spanish government's involvement in World War II, or at least not support Germany after it entered the war. The government attacks France.
In this plan, Alan Hilgas found a key figure, the Spanish banker Juan March, and secretly handed over millions of dollars to the Spanish banker through Juan March. In the hands of some generals. Juan March made his fortune by smuggling tobacco in World War I, and later firmly supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Therefore, he had a very close relationship with Franco himself and all walks of life in the Spanish military and government. After consideration, Juan March finally accepted the British request. He used various extremely covert means to transfer the huge bribe money, and then deposited it in an American bank. When all this was arranged, Juan March began to have secret contacts with 30 generals in the Franco government, and successfully obtained the private commitment and support of most of the generals.
"Is there any news from Army Group A?" Hit? Le immediately forgot about the unpleasantness caused to him by Spain.
Speaking of this issue, Jodel was also very excited, saying: "Head of State! A tank force that is unprecedented in terms of quantity, concentration, mobility and strike power has successfully crossed the Ardennes Forest and in three days We have arrived and captured the important French town of Sedan Fortress before! In other words, our strategy has been initially completed! The French are already at a disadvantage! And behind the armored forces, General Rundstedt's forty-four divisions are Use the crude roads to move forward at full speed!”
"Great, by the way, order General Bock to increase the offensive in Belgium, forcing the main force of the British and French coalition forces in the north to not dare to return to defense. I will smash the French defense line with two fists!" Hit? Le said fiercely.
Now on the front of Army Group A, the French faced batch after batch of Stuka dive bombers, which first weakened the French defensive positions; a large number of combat engineers arranged rubber boats to launch into the water, set up pontoons, and prepared to cross the river. ; Then came the armored divisions equipped with self-propelled guns. Each armored division had a motorized infantry brigade; the armored divisions were followed by the motorized infantry divisions to occupy the positions opened by the tanks.