German fighter planes roared and circled over the Albert Canal, and as soon as they saw that the Belgian troops were trying to approach the fortress and bridge, they immediately dived down to strafe and drop bombs. The explosion was so loud and deafening that the air waves swept like a tsunami, and several Belgian reinforcements were all blown to the ground, their equipment was shattered, and they could only flee to the rear in panic, completely losing the ability to counterattack the enemy on the west bank of the canal.

In order to contain the actions of the Belgian army, the German Army Aviation provided all-weather air support to the Albert Canal at the same time, and also sent transport planes to drop fake paratroopers ♀ in the vast area of Belgium Some fake paratroopers are straw men wearing German suits, snakes are tied to their bodies, in order to simulate the sound of gunfire, the fake paratroopers are also installed with self-detonation devices∩ the weight of the fake paratroopers is much lower than that of real people, so the number of German planes dropped can almost be described as heartbroken. For a time, the sky was full of parachutes falling in the wind, and the Supreme Command of the Belgian Army, which was overwhelmed by the fright, hurriedly ordered the troops to turn their guns and rush to the rear to meet these new enemies.

Although this trick dragged the Belgian army for less than 1 day, it was enough for the German Army Group B. At dusk, the vanguard of the German right flank had reached the bottom of the Eben-Emer fortress, and after nightfall, a large number of men, vehicles, and equipment began to flow through the two bridges over the canal.

In the deep darkness, the lights of the vehicles of the German river-crossing troops were so eye-catching. From the observation port inside the fortress, you can see two long golden dragons surging endlessly, connecting the east and west of the canal, the bright area in the east is as vast as the sea, and its marginal spasm is not visible at all, while the golden area in the west is getting bigger and bigger, rapidly expanding from a narrow pond to a lake and river.

Seeing this mockery, the commander of the Belgian fortress, Major Zidrant, closed his eyes in pain. After the German surprise attack destroyed all the fortifications on the surface of the fortress, he and more than 1,000 soldiers had already confronted the enemy outside inside the fortress for more than a dozen slopes, but the result he waited for was not a friendly counterattack to regain control of the fortress, but tens of thousands of German main forces drove straight in, sweeping into the belly of the motherland like a torrent of spring rivers. The most painful thing is that at this time, he can only stand in this fortress, which is known as the strongest fortress in the world, and watch the German army pass through his nose in large numbers and desolation in large numbers, and gradually occupy all of his heart.

"We'll never be delivered," said Major Zidrant, whose voice was a little hoarse and choked, and hissed in pain. As an elite officer sent to command this core fortress, Zidrant was well aware of the huge military disparity between Belgium and Germany: unless God himself died, it would be absolutely impossible for the Belgian army to reverse the German army and retake the fortress.

Taking a step back, even if the Belgian army had been supported by Britain and France, and one day the German army was driven back east of the Albert Canal, it would have been finished long ago. In three days at most, the Germans were able to blow up ♀ the Eben-Emer Fortress by digging tunnels to bury explosives, and although the fortress could withstand the heaviest shells, it exploded on the surface, and most of the energy escaped into the air; If you really have to dig a deep hole and fill it with several tons of high explosives, even the most solid load-bearing structure can't support it!

Just as he was looking at it, a loud sound like hundreds of muffled thunderbolts exploding at the same time suddenly resounded in the tunnel. In an instant, the earth shook, the earth and rocks fell, and the cracks on the walls of the lips danced wildly, extending like dragons and snakes to the ends of the corners. Major Zidrant had a splitting headache, and his eyes were spinning, and he wanted to faint immediately, but his mind was unusually clear, full of fear of imminent death, and the Germans had begun to blast the fortress!

"There's no point in continuing to resist, I can't let these soldiers just wait for death in vain!" Major Zidrant bit the tip of his tongue sharply, forcing himself to wake up with pain. His troops were now cowering inside the fortress, which did not help the battle situation outside, and in that case, it was better to surrender, or at least to avoid unnecessary casualties. Seeing the panicked expressions of the soldiers around him, Zidrant felt that he could not drag it out any longer, although the Germans were extremely hateful, it was clear that survival was more valuable than death.

In the early morning of 11 May, the Belgian defenders threw a white flag towards the exit of the tunnel and shouted for surrender. Aiming at German machine guns, the Belgian defenders in the fortress walked out of the ground with their heads in their hands in a dejected expression, and the fortress of Eben-Emer was declared to have fallen ♀ to the hands of a force of 90 paratroopers in less than 26 reclines, which was the strongest fortress in the world, boasting to be on a par with Arthur's record of holding the record.

In this battle, the Belgian army suffered more than 100 casualties, and the rest of the 1,100 people in the tunnel were all taken prisoner, while the Germans only paid a small price of 6 killed and 19 wounded. The most important thing is that the Albert Canal defense line was completely opened, and 26 years ago it took the Germans a week to break through the fortress of Liège, and now they have crossed this section in only one day.

In the Dutch territory north of Belgium, the German offensive was equally fierce and swift.

As a neutral country that narrowly escaped the bloody massacres of the First World War, the Netherlands has always remembered those four years of fear. Imagine two waves of leading drug dealers, a total of thousands of strong men shopping at the gate of the wild manor, AK and RPG bullets flying all over the sky, blood and flesh spraying, and the poor owner can only curl up in the basement with a folding knife and shiver, you can understand the mood of the Dutch. As long as either of these two families is willing, they can rush into this house at any time, steal everything and burn it to the ground!

After the war, in order to make many gangsters have no idea about their own one-third of the land, the Dutch began to build a flood defense line with all their might. The Netherlands is a low-lying country, in many places below sea level, and has many rivers, requiring high embankments to protect it from flooding. In light of this objective situation, the Dutch made the most targeted defense: they built numerous dams on the rivers, opened the sluices whenever the enemy dared to penetrate deep into the hinterland, and drowned the invaders with monstrous floods.

When the dikes and their accompanying lines were completed, the Netherlands breathed a sigh of relief and peace of mind. Throughout the second half of the 30s, whenever there were countries worried about Germany's frantic expansion, the Netherlands was always the most calm and calm. The Dutch prime minister even proudly told Churchill that as long as I made a phone call at the lunch table, dozens of dams would open their main gates at the same time, drowning all the Germans into fish and shrimp.

However, on May 10, the Germans invaded in a way that completely frustrated the Dutch's wishful thinking. Tens of thousands of paratroopers parachuted into the rear of the flood line in transport planes, and the Dutch army, relying too much on the power of nature, neglected the daily training of the soldiers, and when the German paratroopers were still slowly landing in mid-air, the Dutch soldiers, who had never seen such a method of warfare, were terrified and dropped their weapons, got on their bicycles and fled without a trace. In the end, almost all the dikes and important bridges fell into the hands of the Germans intact at the first time.

Although the German paratroopers' surprise attack on the Dutch capital Rotterdam failed, and the plan to defeat the top military and political leaders of the old land was not realized, this setback did not affect the macro situation at all. The Dutch armed forces consisted of nine divisions on paper, but they were severely ill-equipped and even worse than the front-line units of the Italian Army. After losing the flood barrier, they were swept to pieces by the Germans without any suspense, and the organized resistance was quickly extinguished. Two days later, the German High Command decided to withdraw the 9th Panzer Division, which had attacked the Netherlands, and rushed to the south to support the Belgian battlefield.

Early in the morning of May 10, Paris.

As the morning sun of early summer sparkles the meandering Seine, Parisians wake up from their usual slumber and start their day's work. However, before 8 o'clock in the morning, the solemn voice of Prime Minister Reynolds was heard on various radios on the street. The French people were shocked to learn that German planes had attacked the airfields, barracks, and transportation hubs of the French front line at an oblique point, and that the Maginot Line had also been attacked. Earlier, Germany had invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The nine-month sit-in war on the Western Front has been broken, and the truly bloody war will be declared today.

Hearing Chancellor Reynold's impassioned speech calling on all the people to unite and face the difficulties together, some young people were immediately stimulated and ready to go to the front immediately to fight the Germans to the death. However, more of the older French people are looking heavy, and it is difficult to recover for a long time, which means that there will be a lack of materials, depression and poverty, and even worse, millions of deaths, and everyone's male relatives may become cannon fodder ♀ on the battlefield, and the national catastrophe that has been unfolding since 1935 has not been avoided in the end.

"May God bless France," the French people prayed silently in their hearts. As the lowest level of the people, who do not know anything about the war, they can only place their spirits on the gods, and at the same time hope that their own troops and commanders will fulfill their mission to protect the security of the country.

To the comfort of the French people, there was already an unusually strong line of defense on the German-French border. With its arch guard, France should be in a better position than it was in 1914. What's more, my country's army has been known as the world's first for many years, and with the help of the British, I can't see that it will be defeated, right?

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