At 10 o'clock in the morning of 12 June, Field Marshal Bock, commander of German Army Group B, accepted the surrender of the Belgian army as plenipotentiary, and the 22 battered Belgian infantry divisions laid down their arms to the German ** team, and the northeastern French frontier was opened to the Germans.

Near Paris, the capital of France, after a rapid march day and night, the tired but high-spirited German infantry divisions arrived one after another, took over the positions of the various armored divisions under the Kleist Panzer Group, and surrounded Paris.

The two German panzer groups also got rid of the hard work of squatting in the trenches and regained their freedom of movement and could continue to launch a new offensive into western France.

From the surrender of the French Second Army Group to the Germans on 1 June until the siege of Paris, one good news after another immersed the German High Command living in the cliff castle in a joyous atmosphere every day, and Goering even ordered that a banquet to celebrate the victory of the war be prepared in advance.

In the process of constantly moving, they also have to endure all kinds of accusations and pressures from home and abroad.

Someone needs to take responsibility for the breach of the Weiygang line, someone needs to come out to take responsibility for the imminent fall of the capital Paris, and someone needs to come out to take responsibility for the imminent destruction of nearly 200,000 British expeditionary forces, otherwise it will not be able to calm the anger of the 40 million French people, nor will it be able to respond to the questions and accusations from Churchill, the wartime prime minister of the British Empire on the other side of the channel.

On the afternoon of 13 June, in the disappointment of Marshal Petain and General Weygand, French Prime Minister Paul Murphy. Renault pledged to continue the war to the end. and ordered the Undersecretary of Defense, General de Gaulle, to prepare all the warships he could find to transfer troops to North Africa.

June 14. The situation is becoming more and more serious for France.

The vanguard of the First Army under German Army Group C occupied the important town of Grenoble in southeastern France. Nine divisions of French troops fighting on the Franco-Italian border were in danger of being encircled.

In Paris, hundreds of thousands of British expeditionary forces and millions of citizens in the city who had not had time to flee faced increasingly serious problems with food, medicine and ammunition.

Since the siege of Paris on June 10, Luftwaffe bombers dropped leaflets twice a day at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on time.

In the leaflets dropped every morning, the German High Command urged the British Expeditionary Force to take into account the overall situation, for the sake of the lives of millions of citizens in Paris, to surrender as soon as possible, and not to resist, and claimed that after their surrender they would be treated in accordance with their rank.

The leaflets dropped every afternoon were aimed at the citizens of Paris. The leaflet solemnly stated that for every day that the British Expeditionary Force held out, the German blockade of Paris lasted for one day. For humanitarian reasons, the Germans allowed Parisians to leave Paris freely without arms, and if the wounded or sick needed treatment, they could also ask for help from the German ** team on the outskirts of Paris.

Plagued by two rounds of leaflets a day, the city's citizens are deeply polarized.

A small number of Parisians left Paris after being inspected by the German army, while many more Parisians gathered outside the headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in the southern part of Paris to protest.

They held up banners and wooden signs with slogans in English written on them.

The slogan, to put it mildly, was "Gentlemen, do you know what it means to have an undefended city?" ”。

The more immediate slogan was "British, get out of Paris." ”

In the shouts of the people of Paris "British, get out of Paris". Lord Gott received the last telegram from London.

The message of the telegram was simple: the Royal Air Force and Army of the British homeland were powerless to save the expeditionary force. As the commander of the expeditionary force, Lord Gort has full authority to arrange the various operations of the expeditionary force.

Upon receiving this telegram, Lord Gott, who had been restless for several days, calmed down.

There wasn't enough food, and now even the guards in front of their doors were too hungry to stand.

There are not enough medicines, and every day the seriously injured are dying because they do not receive timely medical treatment.

There is not enough ammunition, and the so-called battle is nothing more than a morale-boosting slogan.

The reason why I have persevered in such a predicament until now is not to wait for this telegram, and then I can order surrender with peace of mind.

Lord Gutter stood at the window, looking at the crowd of Parisian citizens in the streets, and in doing so he was in conformity with public opinion, though somewhat comical.

At 5 p.m. on 14 June, a sedan with a white flag on its front drove out of Paris and into the German positions amid the farewell of the Parisian people.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of 15 June, the German team crossed the British positions outside Paris and marched into Paris, and an hour later, the Eiffel Tower in Paris raised a flaming red flag.

The fall of Paris intensified the "thunder" movement within the French government.

On the evening of June 15, Weygand again demanded an armistice. The next day was followed by a full day of unhelpful debate. Churchill again tried to win over the troubled Renault to fight the war, and he proposed that France and England should be united into a single country, and that all corresponding actions should be taken; Establish a unified government, a united country, and a united parliament. All the materials needed for France to continue the war were unified under the responsibility of Britain. If France did not accept this proposal, and demanded that Britain be relieved of its obligation not to make peace alone, then France should surrender its fleet to Great Britain.

Renault immediately seized on the merger as a rescue and reported the situation to his cabinet. But his proposal was almost unanimously rejected. The French ministers were reluctant to merge neither nor hand over the fleet. Almost all of them felt that they had been deceived by the British and betrayed by them. What does this sudden, boundary-breaking proposal imply? Did the British want to get involved in the French colonies through this route? Will France be a victim of defeat? In the midst of heated arguments arose the proposition: "Instead of becoming a self-governing territory of the British Empire, it is better to become a province of Germany, because then at least we can know what awaits us!" ”

The ministers were even more reluctant to discuss the request to hand over the French fleet to the British. If this requirement was met, how could an armistice be concluded with Germany?

Renault suffered a complete defeat, but he did not want to agree to the demands of an armistice, so he asked for his resignation.

On the night of 16 June, Marshal Pétain, who had successfully turned to the throne, formed a new government, and its first decision was to conclude an armistice

In the southern suburbs of Paris, Chen Dao and Mandol stood outside the barbed wire fence, watching the thousands of British prisoners inside look depressed.

"France is a country with a long history and a splendid culture, and their army was once called the first army in the world, but in the end a group of British people should be the last defenders of Paris, I don't understand this, can you tell me why?" Chen Dao asked.

"The only reason I can think of is depravity." Mandolfil said.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Chen Dao shook his head and said.

"I think this is a big issue, and we can't get an answer in a short period of time, so let's discuss the next steps." Mandolfil diverted the subject.

"Our next move is to maintain order in the occupied territories and then return home to receive awards while preparing for the next war."

"The next war? France has proposed an armistice, does the Führer still want to fight with Britain again? ”

"No, the Führer doesn't want to fight anymore, no one, including you and me, wants to fight anymore, and peace and development should be the most needed theme in Europe at the moment. But whether the war will continue to be fought or not, what you tell me does not count, and what the Führer says does not count. Chen Dao said.

"Who's up to the decision? Churchill? Mantofil asked.

"You guessed it, it's the fat cigar smoker." (To be continued......)