The devastating assault carried out by the German army in Belgium and northern France wiped out the entire Belgian army. 30 French divisions and 9 British divisions also ceased to exist. The new French commander Weygand pieced together 49 divisions plus 2 British divisions to form 3 armies (6th, 7th, and 10th armies) covering an area of about 300 miles from east to west along the Somme and Aisne rivers. The "Weigand Defense Line" defended the Maginot Line with 17 divisions. The two lines of defense were connected together in an attempt to prevent the German army from moving south.
For the French Army, which had lost thirty divisions, General Weygand formed the "Weygand Line of Defense" along the Somme and Aisne rivers, which can be seen as a desperate struggle for the French. Whether it's Hit? Le is still the owner of the headquarters and is very satisfied with this military operation against France. France has fallen, and some people have even begun to consider how to resettle the two million prisoners of war.
This idea is not uncommon, and the entire headquarters is immersed in an optimistic situation. Regarding this, Hit? Le is also very happy that what Prime Minister Bismarck failed to complete and what Wilhelm II failed to complete has now been completed in his hands. Hit? Le could already foresee the extent to which his reputation in Germany would increase after France's surrender. Will no one in Germany be able to resist Hitler? The power of Le, because of Hit? Le's reputation has reached its peak.
What about next, Hit? Le has refocused its sights on its massive neighbor to the east. The Soviet Union's huge land area and large numbers of troops with advanced equipment have always been Hit? A thorn in Le's heart was that the huge and unified Soviet Union was not in Germany's interests. Moreover, this terrible enemy had become closely adjacent to Germany after the Soviet Union and Germany jointly destroyed Poland. Without Poland, there is no buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Germany. Whether it is Germany or the Soviet Union, the trust between each other is zero. It can be said that as long as a misfire in Poland, 800,000 German Wehrmacht troops and one Millions of Soviet Red Army troops fought.
In Hit? In Le's mind, Stalin forced Hit? Hitler recognized the three Baltic countries as the Soviet sphere of influence. What did Hitler think? It was a huge insult to Le Lai. Soviet-Finnish war with Hit? Due to pressure from the Soviet Union, they turned a deaf ear to Finland, which also aroused the dissatisfaction of many generals of the Wehrmacht. You must know that Finland was originally a country supported by the German army during World War I. If Germany had not been defeated, the king of Finland would have almost become a German. Dissatisfaction with the Wehrmacht, Hit? Le can only comfort him with kind words, Hit? Leer knew deeply from the failed experience of Wilhelm II that the consequences of a two-front war were not something Germany could bear, so it must first solve the problem on the Western Front and then turn around to fight the Soviet Union.
Now and then, when the victory on the Western Front has achieved substantial results, Hit? Le thought again of his dictator friends in the East. Germany needs territory in the East, is this in Hit? Le Mein Kampf has made it clear that Europe, a small land, cannot accommodate two countries with extremely powerful military capabilities. Hit? Le also believed that his dictator friends in the East thought the same way. There will be a war between the Soviet Union and Germany sooner or later, and the sooner it is launched, the better it will be for Germany.
So after the Germans occupied the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France, Hit? Le immediately ordered the German high command to formulate a second-stage combat plan for the French campaign, code-named the "Red Plan." This plan required the German army to move south and completely defeat France. For Germany, the current situation is very favorable. The German army now has 137 divisions, and its two army groups A and B have been quickly reorganized. General Bock's Army Group B (with 6 armored divisions) is on the right wing, making a frontal breakthrough towards the Somme River; General Rundstedt's Army Group A (with 4 armored divisions) is on the left wing, making a frontal assault on the Aisne River . The six armored divisions of the Waffen SS serve as mobile units and decide on combat missions after progress is made in combat.
The "Red Plan" was immediately sent to Lin Wei after it was formulated. The armed SS once again became a supporting role, which did not surprise Lin Wei at all. The armed SS was able to encircle the British and French forces in the Dunkirk area, and the armed SS took the greatest credit. , The current armed SS really needs a rest. As the national leader of the SS, Lin Wei immediately asked each division to count the losses in the Battle of Dunkirk after the battle. The statistical results surprised Lin Wei. A total of 12,000 people were killed in the six divisions. Counting all the battles since entering France, 18,000 SS soldiers have been killed so far. Such a high death rate frightened Lin Wei. Knowing the casualties The ratio is generally about one to three. This means that the armed SS of less than 200,000 people has lost a quarter of its strength. Lin Wei never dared to let the fanatical armed SS enter the battlefield again.
So when the Wehrmacht troops were happily preparing to attack Paris, the Waffen SS was ordered by Lin Wei to rest. At the same time, Lin Wei was still waiting for news from Lord Gott. Even if the British and French forces in the encirclement had more weapons and ammunition, it would be enough to fight a battle. But Lin Wei didn't believe that their food was so abundant. The huge consumption of 200,000 yuan is definitely not something that can be met by some reserve materials.
As for the poison gas bombs of Farben Chemical Company, they were just made up by Lin Wei to scare Lord Gott. In fact, Germany did have enough reserves of various poison gas reagents. Before attacking France, Germany’s reserves of various poison gas reagents had reached fifty Thousands of tons. In theory, all the British could be killed, but Lin Wei would not dare to use such a thing. In an orthodox war, using poison gas bombs is a despicable act, and may be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
And now that Germany is at its military peak, there is indeed no need for such weapons to be used in war. Now it seems that the use of weapons such as gas bombs, apart from making the SS more notorious in the eyes of people from all over the world, has no positive effect at all. Moreover, if the British and French forces did not surrender, the armed SS could accompany them and slowly consume them. Without a source of food, they could naturally surrender. Lin Wei did not believe that the British and French forces were as capable as the Soviet Red Army.
The bored SS soldiers had been repeatedly asking their leaders to order the annihilation of the British and French forces that were still not ready to surrender at Dunkirk. Lin Wei looked at the casualty statistics in his hands and rejected the soldiers' requests without hesitation. In order to find something to do for the bored SS soldiers, Lin Wei ordered the Dunkirk coastline to be cleaned up. Although the soldiers were full of complaints, they had to obey the leader's orders and clean up the beach honestly. traces of war.
Then they gathered together the journalists who accompanied the army and took pictures of the armed SS soldiers in neat black military uniforms cleaning up the beaches of Dunkirk. The Air Force has dumped more than 30,000 tons of gasoline and mixed oil on the coast of Dunkirk, which has caused huge pollution here. The unburned crude oil has floated to the beach with the sea water, and there are also many carcasses of seabirds floating up. These seabirds are wrapped in thick crude oil, and their helpless struggling expressions make all caring people I couldn't help but shed tears.
The armed SS, which is close to being notorious in the world, is trying its best to save the lives of these seabirds under the camera. When the camera focused on these armed SS soldiers, without exception, these young SS soldiers were seen with tears on their faces, seemingly lamenting the disappearance of these seabirds.
The camera turned again, and some senior generals of the armed SS appeared in the camera, leading the armed SS to surround the British and French allied forces. The supreme leader of the SS, the armed SS generals, Lampard & Krupp, Also accompanying were Paul & Hausser, Konrad & Hikuller, Theodore Eicke, Felix Starner and others. These senior officers of the SS were also very distressed by this situation. After the reporters with the army saw the senior officials showing up, they immediately stepped forward and asked, "Hello, generals! Is it true that as a senior officer of the SS, in this situation?" General, don’t you have anything to say?” Unlike the reporters accompanying the Wehrmacht, almost all the reporters accompanying the SS were Americans. This was also an order given by Lin Wei himself. Many reporters were sent by major American newspapers. Correspondent stationed in Germany. Lin Wei also did this to allow the United States to hear another voice and maintain the image of the SS. Of course, when the actual battle comes, these reporters will be under guard. To ensure that the SS's combat operations will not be known to the enemy, these reporters have been very cooperative so far.
Lin Wei was seen in front of the camera, saying with a sad expression, "This is a war between humans, but we have affected other creatures in nature. This is our mistake!"
"But I heard that a lot of crude oil is taken directly from Krupp Petrochemical's oil depot! I don't know how the leader explains it!" the tall reporter asked in hot pursuit.
Lin Wei looked at the beautiful American reporter in front of him and wondered if it was a wrong decision to allow American reporters to serve as military reporters. However, as the leader of the SS, Lin Wei could not be embarrassed at this time, so he said, "The air force's actions were not only coordinated by Krupp Petrochemicals, but the reason why this order was issued was because I was the first to propose pouring oil into the sea. , who used flames to prevent the British and French forces from retreating!"
Seeing the doubts in the beautiful reporter's eyes, Lin Wei said calmly, "I am a soldier and must put Germany's interests first, but this does not mean that I am a ruthless person. Seeing the tragic experience of seabirds, as a human being For me, it is a normal reaction to sympathize with their experiences, but if I were given a choice again, I would still make this choice!"
This short video allowed the rest of the world to re-understand the SS, and perhaps the German SS was not as scary as it was said to be. They were merely symbols of German civilian participation in the war effort.
Lin Wei finally waited for the decision of the British and French coalition forces. After thinking about it for a long time, Lord Gott finally agreed to surrender. Lin Wei was once again asked to guarantee the treatment of prisoners of war for all soldiers. After all, the armed SS had been completely demonized, and it was normal for them not to believe the guarantee of the SS.
Lin Wei agreed to all the conditions and offered full security. Soldiers of different nationalities among the soldiers of the British and French forces will be distinguished. In this way, the Battle of Dunkirk ended, and 200,000 British and French troops who made the last resistance entered the prisoner of war camp. Operation British Dynamo was completely bankrupt. On June 4, the Battle of Dunkirk ended.
News of Lord Gott's surrender immediately reached England. Churchill immediately stated that although the current situation is difficult, Britain's determination to fight to the end will not change at all. Britain's determination to continue fighting did not seem to faze Hit? Le felt uneasy. He was convinced that Britain would change its mind after he had killed France, which he was about to do now.
General Bock's Army Group B and Rundstedt's Army Group A quickly reorganized and took offensives on the banks of the Aisne and Somme rivers. For Germany, this line of defense will be broken with just one poke. Because when Guderian commanded the armored group to attack quickly, he had already established a beachhead on the Somme River, which was occupied by the infantry division of Army Group A that followed and has been maintained until now. In other words, the beachhead had already been established in the Tenth Century. Construction was completed days ago. Now for the German army, only the problem of crossing the river remained. For the defending French army, there was no worse news than this. They already knew that hundreds of thousands of British and French troops in the Dunkirk area had been wiped out. This huge failure made the French troops defending the Somme and Aisne river defenses completely unwilling to fight.
When the Waffen SS were still working as cleaners on the beaches of Dunkirk, on June 5, the morning after the fall of Dunkirk, the German Wehrmacht launched a large-scale attack on the Somme River. Attack, and immediately launch an offensive with overwhelming force along the entire 400-mile-wide front across France from Abbeville to the upper Rhine. France's fate was sealed. They could only use 65 divisions to resist the strength of 143 German divisions, including ten armored divisions, because the best troops and most of the armored forces were consumed in Belgium. The weak French Air Force was also depleted. All the British could send was an infantry division stationed in the Saarland, and part of an armored division. Unless the British Isles were left alone, the RAF could provide only limited aircraft for the fight. Besides, currently under the control of Pétain and Weygand, the French High Command is already steeped in defeatist sentiment. Despite this, some French troops fought extremely bravely and tenaciously, and in some places even temporarily stopped Hit? Le's armored forces, and resolutely refused to succumb to the constant bombing by the Luftwaffe.
The "Red Plan" used General Bock's Army Group B as the primary offensive force. The Luftwaffe first launched a fierce bombardment on French airports and the rear. At dawn, Bock's Army Group B took the lead in launching a full-line offensive on the right wing, and the "Red Plan" began.
But this is a battle of disparity. Hit? After annihilating the main British and French forces at Dunkirk, the German army poured into France like a tide. That day, Rommel's 7th Armored Division crossed the Somme first. On June 7, Rommel's division cut off the French 10th Army defending the Abbeville-Amiens line, allowing other German divisions to rush forward through this gap. On June 8, Rommel's division arrived at the Seine River. On June 10, Rommel turned north again and rushed 50 miles in one breath, targeting the coastline. They reached their destination that night and cut off the retreat of the French 9th Army and the British 51st Division, which were retreating toward the coast.
When the German Wehrmacht was winning victory after victory, Hit? Le has also been contacting his allies, Hit? Le wrote to Mussolini: "If anything can strengthen my unshakable confidence in the victorious outcome of this war, it is your statement. The mere fact that you participated in the war is A factor sufficient to inflict a heavy blow on our enemy's front." Mussolini in Italy, in Hit? After repeated urging from Le, Mussolini finally announced war against Britain and France. When the news came, no matter what others thought first, Lin Wei covered his eyes in pain, because Germany's most incompetent ally in World War II would soon show his incompetence for the first time.
Sometimes Lin Wei really can't think clearly, Hit? Why does Le care so much about Italy's attitude. Didn’t the course of World War I prove the incompetence of the Italian Army? Or Hit? For the sake of the friendship between himself and Mussolini, are you going to take advantage of Mussolini's brother for the sake of *? No matter what Lin Wei guessed about Hit? Due to Le's actions, Italy has already entered the war, and this is an unchangeable outcome. Lin Wei now just hopes that in this short ten-day battle, other countries will not see the incompetence of the Italian army.
This is not because Lin Wei looked down on the Italian army, but until the end of the war. The Italian army on the Alpine front and along the southern coast did not force the weak six divisions of the French army to take a step back, although the defenders were now being threatened by attacks from behind by the German troops sweeping along the Nile Valley. Ciano wrote in his diary: Our troops have not yet advanced a step. Even to this day they have not been able to advance and have halted in front of the first line of French defenses that offered resistance.
This kind of best ally has always let Germany wipe its butt behind it from the day it cooperated with Germany. From North Africa to Greece, every time the Italian Army suffered a defeat, the German army would go there to wipe its butt. Finally, in the Soviet Union, at the final critical moment of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Italian Army collapsed first, causing Germany to suffer the heaviest losses since the war began. An entire army group was wiped out, and hundreds of thousands of experienced veterans were wiped out. In the end, Germany was finally dragged to death by Italy.