The sudden withdrawal order made the coalition forces on the northern front feel hasty and shocked. In the past nearly a week of fighting, the coalition soldiers have felt that they have fought well, except for the tank battle on May 12, which suffered a small loss, and the coalition units have held their intended lines and run the fortifications impregnable. Just when they were about to spend time with the German army, they were suddenly told that they were going to give up their positions and retreat, which is like when you just spent a lot of money on your wallet and the next KTV princess was about to be pushed down and put into battle, but the police suddenly broke down the door to check the yellow!

In fact, the mood of the French and British armies was relatively stable - after all, they were just guests, and they could pat themselves on the ass and walk away with a fine. But the Belgians who sit on the field are frying. You must know that the Belgian army is now defending its own territory, and every inch of land is extremely precious in their eyes. If it was the loss of the city and the loss of land that was beaten by the German army due to inferior skills, the Belgians could still accept it, but now that Ganmalin ordered them to give up most of the country, including the capital Brussels, the Belgians can bear it!

The enraged Belgians immediately confronted Ganmalin, only to receive a shocking answer that was almost like a bolt from the blue. Now that the whole of Belgium is under great threat of being surrounded, it would be tantamount to sitting back and waiting to be killed if we continued to hold on to the same position. In the midst of great pain, the Belgian army command could only order the entire army to withdraw westward. King Leopold III was indignant: the French made a huge strategic mistake, but they had to pay for it!

Soon, the scenes that Gammelin had anticipated that he least wanted to see were among the Northern Alliance. At this time, only one week has passed since the outbreak of fighting on the Western Front, and more than half of the nearly 8 million Belgian civilians have not been evacuated to the rear. For a time, rumors spread everywhere, such as "hundreds of thousands of allied troops have been wiped out" and "20 German tank divisions are advancing frantically", like a plague, and a large number of Belgians took their luggage and livestock to embark on a fleeing journey, desperately trying to squeeze the retreat road with the army.

With the roads heavily blocked by refugees, the coalition forces had to abandon all sorts of baggage and equipment that they could not take with them: first 155mm heavy cannons, then Shire B1 tanks, and even transport trucks that had run out of fuel were thrown into the wilderness. The equipment should have been destroyed before it was abandoned, but in such a hurry it was difficult for anyone to do so with such diligence.

You know, the retreat of the coalition forces was not an easy task at all, they had to withdraw from Brussels all the way to the vicinity of Amiens, a straight-line distance of about 150 kilometers. Even if they are in a stress-free march, it will take them a full 3 days, not to mention that they are still in a dangerous situation of imminent encirclement, and every additional hour of delay may have completely different consequences for their own fate!

Such a large-scale operation of the Allied forces obviously could not hide from the eyes of the German pilots. With the order of General Bock, Army Group B, which had been mainly defensive and counterattacking in the past few days, immediately turned into a vicious wolf, and the various armies took turns to launch a fierce attack on the coalition forces in front of them, and there was a great momentum of fighting for life by exchanging injuries for injuries. In the face of the sudden pressure on the front, the Allied forces had to leave behind the troops that had planned to retreat, which made the retreat of the Allied forces more and more slow, and the Germans dragged them to the quagmire of Belgium.

Guderian did not waste this great fighter created for him by his right-wing allies. On May 17, he defeated the French 4th Panzer Division, which had hastily counterattacked, and swept over Cress, another humiliating place in France, like a whirlwind. After nearly two days, the German army drove more than 110 kilometers and arrived in Perona on the morning of the 19th. As the German armored forces continued to advance, the resistance of the French army became weaker and weaker, leaving the northern coalition forces to withdraw to France with a straight line distance of less than 120 kilometers, which could be cut off by the Germans at any time.

Faced with an extremely grim situation, Gan Molin, who had no choice, could only use a strong man to break his wrist. He was prepared to leave part of his personnel to block the pursuit of German Army Group B, while the main force retreated lightly to the southwest, cooperating with the French army's upcoming counterattack on the southern flank to escape from the encirclement. In this way, even if the Northern Coalition Army will lose 15~20 divisions and most of the heavy equipment, at least 30 divisions can be rescued. The Germans were also worried about this scene, so both Army Group AB were desperately urging their front-line men to continue the onslaught, and at this critical moment, the empathetic French government did the Germans a great favor.

Since May 13, the French fighting in the middle can be described as a disaster. As the Germans advanced toward the Channel like lightning and the French counterattacks were all routed and dissolved, the Parisian authorities could no longer tolerate the continuation of the situation as the commander-in-chief of the army. On May 19, Gan Molin was relieved of his post as commander-in-chief and immediately left the front command in disgrace.

It would be an ordinary change of general, but a successor who is energetic, talented, and well versed in the current situation of the war does have hope of improving the situation of the French army. However, the bad thing about this substitution was on the last point, and the successor commander-in-chief, Maxim Weygand, was not at all the commander who was fighting the Germans at this time.

As a veteran general who fought with Marshal Foch for four years, the 73-year-old Wei Gang is qualified and talented enough to serve as commander-in-chief. However, since 1939, the veteran has been in the French colony of Lebanon in the Middle East to prepare for an attack on the Soviet Union from the south (because of the Soviet-Finnish war). For the battle on the Western Front that broke out on May 10, Wei Gang, who was thousands of miles away, was always in a fog, separated by a layer. After being hastily recalled to China and appointed to take power, Wei Gang immediately canceled the order of his predecessor Gan Molin's broken wrist: he didn't even know the situation now, how could he casually send an army of nearly 20 divisions into the tiger's mouth?

The indecision of the French top brass ruined the last chance of escape for the Northern Coalition forces. After a rapid march of 90 kilometers a day and night, Guderian led his troops to capture Amiens at noon on 20 May. The loss of this important town, which is the central transportation hub of northern France, where the road from Paris to Belgium converges at Amiens, means that the logistics of the coalition forces on the northern front are cut off. However, the fierce general has no intention of giving up.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Germans again galloped nearly 60 kilometers to capture Abweyer, only 20 kilometers from the English Channel, and in the middle of the night, Guderian led his troops to the coastal town of Noyères. Under the light of the bright moon, the endless sea suddenly appeared in front of the German soldiers, and the sound of the waves in the cool night breeze was faint, as if admiring the arrival of these warriors.

"We've arrived at the English Channel!" A burst of cheers erupted from the German armoured convoy, followed by the sound of a tsunami flooding the town. The unkempt German panzers ignored each other's sour stains and embraced their comrades in celebration: they had marched 400 kilometers in six days, and now they had completely cut off the Allied forces on the northern front from the flank. In this encirclement, there are nearly 60 formed coalition divisions, with a total number of more than 700,000 people, and countless massive supplies!

"Go, take my kettle and go to the beach and fill it with water. This will be my gift to the Army Command! Guderian drank the kettle from his waist and handed it to the adjutant and said aloud. The latter gladly accepted the order, jumped out of the command car and ran towards the beach. Looking at the vast sea in front of him, Gudeli was surging with peace of mind, and couldn't help but let out a long roar: the blitzkrieg he had spent more than ten years of hard work to create had finally been perfectly displayed today!

Starry and moonlit, Hitler stood in front of the battle map in front of the German High Command on the banks of the Rhine. His expression was a little distorted, a complex mixture of anticipation, nervousness, excitement, and anxiety, and his hands in his pockets clutched the fabric tightly, as if it would slip away from it as soon as he loosened his victory.

In fact, as early as the night of May 18, Hitler had already learned that the seven Panzer Divisions under Army Group A were still advancing. However, as the news of the defeat of the French army continued to come from the middle, Hitler's original firm belief was shaken again, and he acquiesced to the disobedience of the army command with hope and luck. After all, once the armored forces successfully completed the flank outflanking, the results were huge enough to decide the battle on the Western Front in one fell swoop, but whenever there was 2 to 3 percent hope, Hitler was willing to bet on his armored spearhead once!

The faint sound of footsteps came from the hallway, quickly becoming rapid and clear, and a moment later a stout and thin figure knocked on the door. Different from the tense atmosphere three days ago, Brauchitsch and Halder both had strong excited looks on their faces, and when they saw Hitler stunned, Brauchitsch said excitedly: "My Führer, General Guderian has just sent a telegram that he has led his troops to Noyères at the mouth of the Somme!" At present, the 2nd Panzer Division is in Abwehr and the 10th Panzer Division is in Amiens, and the southern escape path of the Northern Coalition Army has been blocked, and we will soon be able to annihilate all these more than 700,000 enemy troops in Belgium! ”

Before Brauchitsch could finish speaking, the sound of a dense and rapid running was heard in the aisle. In a few moments, Admiral Keitel of the Supreme Command rushed in with a red face, and he was slightly stunned when he saw Brauchitsch and the two, and then he was overjoyed to report the same news to Hitler. Although Keitel and Brauchitsch are no longer all the way now, they have completely put aside all the gloom in the face of this great news belonging to the German nation: the war on the Western Front will soon be over!