Chapter 302 The autumn wind sweeps the leaves (1)
On June 3, 1940, the Luftwaffe launched a fierce bombardment on the French airport and the rear. Li Mo's B-Group Army took the lead in launching a full-line attack on the right wing. On that day, Flander's 7th Armored Division crossed the Somme Flander Division cut off the 10th French Corps on the front line of Amiens in half, and other German divisions were able to rush forward from this gap.
On June 8, 1940, Flander's division advanced to the banks of the Seine. Flander turned north again, rushed 50 miles away in one breath, aiming at the coastline. He arrived at his destination that night and cut off the retreat route of the 9th French Army and the 51st British Army Division, which were retreating to the coast.
These troops were forced to surrender to Flander. After the attack of the B Group Army, the left-wing Lundstedt A Group Army also launched a river crossing offensive on the Aine River. That night, Li Mo served as the 1st armored division of the 15th Armored Army and forced his crossing of the Aine River. Li Mo's corps defeated the French armored troops and broke through the right wing of the French 6th Legion. After that, Li Mo rushed his army south and headed straight into a land of no one.
Groups of French prisoners threw their guns to the German army in a desperate situation and put them under the tanks to crush them. Wei Gang later wrote in a heavy mood that "the most shocking thing was the German tanks and planes, which had caused the French soldiers to have a fearful psychological phenomenon. This was one of the greatest successes of the German army."
On June 12, 1940, Limo's 15th Panzer Army arrived at the Swiss border town of Pantalil, cutting off the retreat of the French army to Switzerland in the Maginot Line. Since crossing the Ainai River, Limo's 15th Panzer Army has driven more than 400 kilometers in 10 days and captured as many as 250,000 French troops. It has created a wonder in the history of war.
The German armored cluster drove straight in, and its power and speed were unheard of in the history of war. France was in panic. In the early morning of June 13, French Prime Minister Renault called Churchill, who was the British Prime Minister, in frustration, and said:
"We may lose this battle."
Churchill answered in shock:
"I simply don't understand that the use of a large number of rapid armored forces in an attack would cause such drastic changes."
In order to further explore the true situation of the war and cheer the French leader who was already desperate, Churchill flew from London to Paris on June 14. According to Churchill's recollection, "As soon as he saw French Prime Minister Renault and British-French Allied Forces Commander-in-Chief Gan Molin, he immediately realized that the situation was much worse than he thought - each of them was in disgrace."
Churchill asked Gan Molin, "Where is the strategic reserve team?" Gan Molin shook his head, shrugged, and said, "There is no strategic reserve team." Churchill was stunned after hearing this.
Li Mo's 15th Armored Army not only caught the coalition off guard, but also disturbed the German commander. Kleister ordered Li Mo to suspend his advance twice, but he did not hesitate to resign and fight. After the ban was lifted, his speed was faster than before. He encountered a stream of collapsed French soldiers on the road. He was unwilling to delay time getting off the car and get captives. He shouted with a loudspeaker:
"We have no time to capture you. You must put down your weapons and leave the road. Do not block the road."
On June 16, Li Mo urged his three armored divisions to move westward. On July 20, Li Mo swept across Amiens and was near Abbeville. At this time, the German commander did not expect that the battle in France would go so smoothly, so he didn't know how to deploy troops. It was not until the next day that they ordered the tank troops to advance north from Abbeville to aim to break through France's Weigang defense line.
Keitel agreed with the order that the German commander directly generated power to Li Mo's front line troops and hurriedly called to ask what happened to Li Mo. Li Mo said:
"Don't doubt the employer, no doubt the suspect."
Li Mo certainly knew that Hitler was in charge of the command, and Celtic, the chief of staff, must have participated in it, in order to prevent such a situation in the future.
Li Mo immediately ordered the entire army, and the orders of the troops were all from his direct superiors, not from the Ministry of National Defense and the Command. Without the orders issued by Li Mo from the Ministry of National Defense and the Command, the front-line commanders shall not implement them, otherwise military law will be carried out.
After Li Mo re-adjusted the deployment, he immediately decided: the 1st Tank Division advanced towards Calais; the 2nd Tank Division advanced towards Boulogne. Li Mo knew very well that the offensive line formed by his group of A Army Group from Sedan to the west coast of France had cut off the French retreat from the north to the south.
The B Army Group of North Buck has captured the Netherlands and eastern Belgium, and the left wing of more than 700,000 British and French coalition forces is actually under the far-reaching siege of the German army.
From the morning of June 23 to the 24th, Li Mo's A-A troops occupied Boulogne and Calais one after another. On the afternoon of the 24th, Li Mo's 5th Armored Army had arrived in Gravlin, and the 41st Armored Army on Reinhardt on its right wing also arrived at the line of the Al-St. Ommel-Gravlin Canal. Two armored brigades had to work hard to get straight to Weigang's defense line, and dozens of subsequent infantry divisions were following up. Li Mo and others were full of confidence and determined to lead their armored forces to fight another encirclement and annihilation battle, completely eliminating hundreds of thousands of British and French troops in the coastal area.
In the first phase of the battle from Sedon Break to Dunkirk's retreat, the Allied forces lost 61 divisions, almost half of their total strength three weeks ago. The French army lost its most elite troops, almost all of its motorized vehicles and armored vehicles, as well as half of modern cannons, 3 light armored divisions, 1 heavy armored division, and several French northern legions have been eliminated. Although most of France's territory, including the Somme, the El River and the Maginot Line, are still in its own hands, General Wei Gang, the commander-in-chief of the French army, has only 60 divisions, and most of these troops have poor combat effectiveness, poor equipment, and insufficient transportation.
It was going to fight against the 150 elite German divisions after the reorganization, which was obviously a hopeless battle. On June 25, the Pok B Army Group of the coastal area first launched a second phase of the attack. The French army fought bravely and tenaciously in some places. The 7th French Army Corps from Amiens to Perron. Between Abveer and Amiens, the 7th Armored Division of Flander broke south into the French defensive position.
With lightning-like intersperses, the 10th French Army's 10th Army was split into two, the 51st British Army, the 31st French Army's 40th Infantry Division, and the 2nd and 5th Cavalry Division were forced to the sea and the vast estuary area of the Seine River. These British and French troops were chaoticly divided by the German Army's 5th. On July 12, these troops surrendered to Flander with a hopeless rescue, with more than 40,000 people.
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