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The German high command immediately adjusted its strategy and ordered Guderian to aim at occupying the ports of the strait. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info Guderian also lived up to expectations, without any pause along the way, and none of the allied forces could stop Guderian's armored cluster for a moment.
At this time, the Allies were already cold and panicked, and the two clusters of the German BC launched a fierce attack on the Allies in the direction of the Maginot Line, and the A cluster stabbed chrysanthemums in the rear, to cut off all the retreats, and the Allies in the north had actually been surrounded in the Flanders region in northern France.
After an emergency military meeting, Britain and France chose Dunkirk as the retreat point, and retreated 400,000 British and French elite troops to Dunkirk, while the rest of the troops were still entangled with the Germans in various lines of defense to buy time for the retreat of the elite main force.
As early as the 15th, Britain and France had foreseen that defeat was a foregone conclusion, because the German armored group passed through the Ardennes Mountains, making the Maginot Line, which had cost a huge amount of money in France, useless, and the French mainland was no longer in danger of defending.
Therefore, Britain had already mobilized thirty ferries to prepare for the retreat, and by the evening of May 26, the first batch of more than 1,300 Allied troops had withdrawn to the British mainland through Dunkirk.
As soon as the retreat began, there were no secrets to speak of, and the British Admiralty requisitioned ships directly along the coast and on the Thames, and even appealed to the whole country by radio that all those who owned ships should go to Dunkirk at once.
Shipowners knew what the retreat meant and responded positively, with cargo ships, barges, tugboats, fishing boats, passenger liners and even private yachts heading out to Dunkirk. A total of 693 British ships and 168 French, Dutch and Belgian ships joined the rescue process, making a total of 861 ships of various kinds.
Dunkirk is an important port in northern France, with seven deep-water berths, four dry docks and an eight-kilometer long pier, the dredging of the harbor channel allows large ships to enter and exit freely, and the well-established breakwaters and convex piers can effectively withstand the strong winds and waves of the English Channel, if these port facilities can be fully utilized, 400,000 Allied troops can safely board the ship in just a few days with all their equipment.
However, the Germans have been bombing Dunkirk, the docks have been destroyed, half of the city of Dunkirk has been razed to the ground, only the east embankment can barely accommodate ships, and only eight people can pass side by side to board ships.
At this time, Guderian's Chrysanthemum Panzer Army was already less than 10 miles away from Dunkirk, and as long as he stabbed it harder, 400,000 British and French elites could declare Chrysanthemum full of wounds.
The German High Command, the mustache held a military meeting to discuss how to deal with the retreat of the British and French Allied forces, and Goering, the commander-in-chief of the air force, immediately jumped out and said: "Führer, leave it to the air force, I will let the British and French allies be annihilated under the bombardment of the air force." ”
Considering that he couldn't do things perfectly, and was worried that the armored cluster would force the British and French allies to jump over the wall, he was about to agree to Goering's suggestion, Ren Qingqing whispered to the mustache: "That's the elite main force of Britain and France, if there is an accident, let them run, these people will pose a serious threat to the Great German Empire in the future, it is better to advance in the open and ground as a whole and eliminate the allies." ”
The mustache flickered, the secretary was right, these hundreds of thousands of Allied troops are the elite of the elite, even if the Wehrmacht fights them head-on, it will take a lot of effort, if there is an accident and let them run, Britain and France can rely on these armies to pull up another large army to counterattack the European continent.
The mustache immediately made a decision, the air force continued to bomb to prevent the British and French from retreating, and the armored cluster was directly stabbed, and the chrysanthemums of the British and French allies must be stabbed, and the follow-up infantry divisions accelerated their march, and they would rush to the Dunkirk area within two days to wipe out the British and French allied forces.
Sometimes things are so wonderful, one more sentence can change things, and the Anglo-French allies who could have retreated from Dunkirk were killed by Ren Qingqing's words.
Guderian was about to rush up and stab the British and French chrysanthemums, but after receiving the order, he calmed down and asked all the tanks to check the condition of fuel, ammunition and machinery to ensure that the chain would not be dropped during the battle.
Elite is elite, and it took less than an hour to prepare the Chrysanthemum Panzer Army, facing Dunkirk, 10 miles away, with its cannon barrels soaring into the sky and ready to fire.
Guderian waved his hand and ordered: "Poke the chrysanthemum!" ”
"Poke the chrysanthemum, poke the chrysanthemum!" The soldiers responded excitedly, full of emotion.
The Chrysanthemum Panzer Army, emitting black smoke, lined up in formation and rushed to Dunkirk. Although Goering was not able to eat alone, he did not dare to delay the war, and ordered the air force to make a big bombardment of the Dunkirk area and the ships at sea, and demanded that the sails not cross the sea.
Britain and France, who were flying out of the sky, immediately dispatched their air forces to intercept the bombing of the Luftwaffe, and set up a defensive line on the periphery of Dunkirk.
Facts have proved that the Anglo-French allies, who have lost heavy equipment and have only some individual equipment left, are not the opponents of the German army at all, Guderian commanded the Panzer Army to stab lightly, and the so-called defense line is thinner than that film, and it was directly torn to pieces and collapsed.
The Allies crowded on the dock had closed their eyes and drew circles on their chests, praying for Jesus to come and save their pink chrysanthemums, the German cannon tubes were too thick, and the chrysanthemums couldn't stand it!
It's a pity that Jesus couldn't hear the prayers of the allies, and even if he did, he didn't dare to come down, otherwise Director Lin would know that he would not be exiled to an unknown black hole to develop believers!
Although Guderian broke through the defense line, he did not continue to advance, but waited for the follow-up infantry, and if there were more ants, he could bite the elephant to death, and his own armored army could face hundreds of thousands of desperate Allied troops without infantry cooperation, and it was easy to capsize in the gutter.
Fortunately, the infantry did not disappoint Guderian, and after an urgent march, the seventeen infantry divisions finally reached Dunkirk, clearing the roads along the way, allowing the logistics units transporting supplies to bring up fuel and ammunition.
The armored group with the cooperation of infantry crushed the 400,000 Allied troops in Dunkirk in a completely crushing posture in a frontal confrontation, and for several days, the entire sea near Dunkirk was dyed red.
After the Allied forces in Dunkirk were settled, the German high command immediately issued the second phase of the combat mission, and the German army at this time had reached 137 divisions and marched south.
Guderian forcibly crossed the Aisne River, drove 400 kilometers in 10 days, and captured 250,000 French soldiers. On June 10, the French government withdrew from Paris, on the 13th, Paris was declared an undefended city, and on the 14th, the Germans occupied Paris without firing a single shot. On the 18th, the French government announced the cessation of resistance.
From the beginning to the end of the battle, less than a month before and after, the German army suffered 156,000 casualties, and the Allied forces including nearly 3 million casualties and prisoners. (To be continued.) )