As it turned out, the extent of the assistance that the United States could give to the Allies at this time was completely expected by Petain.

Because Britain and France had done so much in the peace conference of the last war, the Americans, who had been used as a gunman for nothing, regretted their decision to intervene in the European dispute in the first place. To this day, although Germany is sweeping through Western Europe at an alarming pace, the United States still has little interest in sending troops to rescue Britain and France - this is the grudge between the bandits of old Europe for hundreds of years, and I, an outsider, can no longer worry about the between them.

To be sure, Germany's current aggressiveness is indeed intimidating, but there is still an Atlantic Ocean between Germany and the United States. As long as the navy is strong enough, the light of the beacon of democracy will shine forever!

If only that's it, Roosevelt, who had a strong hand, could always find some tricks to turn Congress and public opinion around. However, 1940 was also the presidential election year in the United States, and at this time, Roosevelt's two terms of office were about to expire in half a year, and it was even more difficult to break the routine and be re-elected than when he took office. Therefore, Roosevelt must now exercise deep restraint in any action that might go against the collective will of the people: if he forcibly incited the people to unite against Germany and cause a domestic turmoil, then he could not even think about being re-elected next year.

In this case, Roosevelt could only secretly use the American amp like a thief; The fragmented corners of the army to come to the aid of the Allied army, which was already a hundred thousand desperate allied forces. You must know that at this time, the landlord family of the United States did not have much to spare: the navy needed new warships to fight Japan, and the army that was preparing to expand needed countless guns and artillery equipment, and both branches of the armed forces needed a large number of advanced aircraft at the same time. If Congress knew that Roosevelt had intercepted the weapons in service that had a huge gap in his own army for Britain and France, he would have been skinned in minutes!

Eventually, Roosevelt was disappointed to find that at this stage he could only supply Britain and France with some old goods that even the U.S. Army looked down on. Otherwise, there is a risk that those members of the parliament of the hostile political parties who have nothing to find fault with all day long will take advantage of the problem and attack it fiercely in the Diet.

On 3 June, shortly after the annihilation of the main forces of Britain and France in the north, Marshall, chief of the General Staff of the U.S. Army, presented Roosevelt with a list of equipment that could be immediately allocated to Britain and France. These included 500,000 Enfield M1917 rifles, 900 75mm field guns, 80,000 machine guns, and ammunition for three bases. They are all old-fashioned weapons that the United States has hidden for more than 20 years after the end of World War I.

In this way, Roosevelt had to hide this batch of weapons when he handed them over to Britain and France. He first had Marshall sell the supplies to a private arms company, and then the latter to resell them to the British and French governments; And in order to silence hostile lawmakers, the U.S. Army also sold the goods for a whopping $37 million in order to show Congress that it was a good deal. The resulting premium was apparently paid for by Britain and France. For the British Army, which had just almost lost everything, these supplies helped them solve the problem of whether the troops were in the follow-up operations, but for the precarious situation in France, they were completely useless.

After the completion of the "Scythe" operation, the German army quickly began to reorganize its forces. The Germans, with 137 divisions, were still divided into three army groups, but the focus of operations shifted from Army Group A on the center to Army Group B on the right flank. Guderian was promoted to commander of the tank army because of his exploits, commanding a mixed force that included four armored divisions, and now he can finally get rid of his rigid and cautious boss Kleist and go free with the support of Rundstedt. For the next battle, Guderian is full of ambition, and this will be his own stage of war.

At the same time, the aviation division under Fang Yan's command was placed under the direct command of Army Group B to continue to support the Hult Corps, including Rommel's 7th Panzer Division. After 20 days of cooperation, Rommel and others praised the efficiency of the work of Fang Yan's department: it took no more than 15 minutes for the front line to send a signal for help, and almost all of them could get an answer from the air. Compared with the planes of its own army aviation, the fighters of the navy will not be lost because of the confusion of land references, and apart from the lack of experience in ground attack, this unit has no hindrance in using it.

After two days of rest, in the early morning of June 5, the Germans launched a full-front attack on the hastily established Weigand Line in the south. Fighter planes roared and flew by, artillery shook the earth, and the fire burned on the 500-kilometer front from the mouth of the Somme to the mountains of Lorraine. The Germans had twice the superiority in strength, four times the superiority in artillery fire and air, and the fierce tsunami-like onslaught overwhelmed the French army, and it was extremely difficult to support the left and right. And the most desperate thing for the French was the invincible armored iron cavalry of the German army.

In the north, the offensive of Rommel's 7th Panzer Division was like mercury, pervasive and ferocious; Two days later, it had formed a breakthrough between Abbeville and Amiens, cutting off the French 10th Army. The French 9th Army, the British 51st Division, and the Scottish Highland Division, totaling more than 50,000 men, were forced to the sea and the vast estuary of the Seine, and escaping from the sea became their only chance of survival. At this time, Kleist, who had a huge population advantage, also relaxed the supervision of the armored divisions under his command and began to launch a bold assault, and the French army was quickly divided, and gradually formed an encirclement of enemies on all sides on the battlefield.

And in the middle lane, Guderian's 4 armored divisions were even more angry and indomitable. The enemy in front of him could neither resist the German punctures in the defensive line, nor did he have strong enough reserves to close the gap, and when Guderian led his army to break through the line, it was like a long river bursting its banks. The Germans marched straight toward the southern end of the Maginot Line, and thousands of French soldiers threw their guns under the tracks of German tanks in despair, and these enemies in gray uniforms had become their nightmares.

The 10 German Panzer Divisions seemed to be with their fingers spread and marched in unison in the heart of France, and along the way, no force could stop their advance. Behind them, countless infantry swarmed along the path they had opened, and these troops were like grinding anvils, encircling and crushing the enemy that the Panzer Division had no trouble dealing with, and finally annihilating. The defensive line that Wei Gang had painstakingly put together soon became fragmented and disintegrated inch by inch, and a wave of routs similar to that of more than half a month earlier erupted again, extinguishing the last shred of hope of the French army to stabilize the front.

Just 4 days later, the door to Paris was wide open. Even the most flamboyant and optimistic about the situation can no longer avoid the tragic scene of this spiritual totem and artistic capital in the hearts of the French people about to be trampled and defiled by the mud boots of the Prussian barbarians. On June 9, the French government announced that it would leave Paris and move to Tours. For a time, the city of Paris was full of mourning and crying, and countless people rushed to get on the train to the south of France, while many more people could only rely on their legs and began to flee in a daze.

The French government's decision to abandon Paris was the last straw that crushed the calm in the Mediterranean.

As early as June 1, Mussolini decided to go to war against Britain and France, but because Italy was too unprepared for the war, it was delayed for more than a week. At this moment, seeing that the French government had been beaten and fled in a hurry, Mussolini realized that time was running out, and if it continued to delay, the victorious country would be completely insulated from himself. In order to catch the last train of victory, Mussolini walked onto the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia on the morning of June 10, and at this time, under the organization of the fascist party, there was already a crowd of people under the balcony!

"All Italian nationals, today on behalf of the Government, I have a major decision to announce to you. ......As the founder and pioneer of the fascist movement, Mussolini's oratorical skills were also strong and solid, and a few capable and sharp words tied the attention of the audience, and vented into their hearts the well-polished speech with a strong hatred of Britain and France. From Italy's point of view, Britain and France definitely have too many crimes to whip: far from mentioning, it is the war in which Italy invaded Ethiopia five years ago - why can you Britain and France swallow colonies in Africa, and I want to make a piece of terra nullius but be targeted and sanctioned by all kinds of sanctions?

When Mussolini angrily and bitterly complained about the manipulation and oppression of Italy by Britain and France at the Versailles Peace Conference 22 years ago, the people in the square who had been stirred up were already inflamed, and the cries of "fighting Britain and France" and "revenge and blood hatred" were rising one after another. When the audience's emotions were about to burst out, Mussolini suddenly closed his speech with a leopard's tail, loudly announcing that Italy would now declare war on Britain and France out of dignity and honor for the German-Italian treaty. In an instant, the frenzied cheers converged into a river, resounding in this sky for a long time!

As the dictatorship's declaration of war speech was repeated on the radio, Italy, the industrial nation of southern Europe, faltered but resolutely boarded the German chariot. The navy, the most prepared of the three armies, took the lead, and a group of light ships immediately sailed out of the port of Taranto to begin providing security screens for ships traveling to and from Libya. At noon, the battleship Veneto raised the command flag of Admiral Aquino, and the main Italian fleet was immediately put into combat readiness so that it could rush to the battle zone at any time after receiving the order.

However, convinced that Britain and France would soon be defeated, Mussolini did not intend to risk a tough battle with the navy. Italy's main role in this short-term war is still the army, and as long as the army can conquer cities like the Germans, then Italy will be greatly helped at the negotiating table in the future. Mussolini was full of expectations for the battle on land: by this time the French army had been crushed, and his attack in the foothills of the Alps was bound to destroy the whole of southern France!