Five hours after the withdrawal of the British flotilla, the last gunfire on the beach was announced. In the bright moonlight of midnight, tens of thousands of British soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered to the Germans in front of them. When the Germans blocked the sea with artillery fire and forced all the rescue ships to evacuate, the remaining British troops completely despaired of the battle and quickly gave up resistance.

According to a rough count made by the Germans that day, they captured a total of 180,000 British prisoners in this battle. Combined with the number of battlefield casualties, the British Expeditionary Force was wiped out by 90% of its strength, and only about 20,000 men escaped by more than a day's evacuation by sea. Although Brauchitsch and other German Army leaders lamented their failure to achieve complete success, Hitler was extremely satisfied with this result. He confidently declared to the generals that the remnants of the British army had fled home, just in time for the British people to see how many blows they had suffered. In this way, no one in Britain would dare to make an enemy of Germany, and the war would soon be over.

Judging from the situation on May 30, Hitler was undoubtedly full of confidence in his remarks. By this time, the Belgian and British armies in the northern encirclement had been destroyed, and the French army had only its last breath left, and was in a dying struggle not far south of Dunkirk. During the three days from the 26th to the 29th, the Germans focused on besieging the British and Belgian armies, and the main siege strategy was for the French troops on the flank, so as to prevent them from joining up with the British. Now with his hands free, Deng Shi launched a final attack on this enemy with the momentum of Tarzan's crushing eggs.

After a five-day encirclement, the French army's will to fight had already fallen to the bottom with the continuous failure of the breakthrough counteroffensive. To make matters worse, they had not received a single box of ammunition from the rear since May 20, and the remaining stocks were quickly depleted in the high-intensity fighting with the Germans. By the evening of 30 May, the French army had almost run out of machine gun and mortar ammunition, and at the same time was in a serious fuel crisis. Only a few of their armoured vehicles were still operable, and the rest were reduced to fixed bunkers due to lack of fuel.

Under the onslaught of the two major German army groups, the French army, which was in a desperate situation and lacked ammunition and medicine, gradually began to disintegrate. Although the resistance of these first-class French troops was significantly more tenacious than that of the 9th Army, which had previously defended the Ardennes area, all struggles were rendered meaningless due to the huge disparity in strength between the two sides. On 1 June, the French lines collapsed one after another, and a large number of men were taken prisoner. When the morning sun shone again on the land of Europe, the last French army also stopped resisting, and the main forces of the coalition forces in the northern encirclement were completely wiped out.

On the eve of the defeat of the French army, Hitler left his base camp in the Ardennes and headed for the northern border between France and Belgium in order to set foot on the land where Germany won an epic victory. Before leaving, Hitler instructed that the place should be preserved in its entirety as a "monumental shrine." Every house and floor in the base camp had to be preserved as it was. Hitler proudly declared that he wanted to show the German people for generations to come how their leaders fought hard and persevered under difficult conditions to finally defeat the fateful enemy and create this glorious moment of historical significance.

On the drive to the war zone, groups of soldiers recognized Hitler sitting in the back row, and they flocked from all directions in ecstasy, erupting in thunderous and deafening cheers. Seeing this, the members of the Führer Guard were quite worried about Hitler's safety, but Hitler did not care, because this was the perfect time for him to build an image in front of the grassroots soldiers and increase his prestige. In the face of the frenzied shouts of the soldiers, Hitler stood on the car with his back straight and his right arm stretched forward diagonally in a salute to the cheering crowd.

Hitler – Commander-in-Chief of Victory.

When Hitler arrived at the dusty battlefield, Rao Shi had fought desperately in the smoke of blood and fire for four years, and he was also shocked by the messy scene in front of him. As far as the eye could see, discarded books, helmets, broken shoes, guns, bicycles, and other miscellaneous items were everywhere, and large and small craters were densely packed, and German soldiers were trying to clean up the mountains of corpses and flesh. At the same time, the diligent sappers also abandoned their original duties and went straight to putting away the rags - the British and French armies discarded countless weapons and equipment, including thousands of artillery pieces and vehicles, before the collapse, and now they are the low-hanging fruit of the German army.

"All German citizens, great news has just arrived on the battlefield of the Western Front: our heroic and invincible Wehrmacht, after 22 days of bloody fighting, has crushed all the resistance of France and Britain on the Northern Front this morning. 30 French divisions and 10 British divisions were completely annihilated by us, and more than 400,000 soldiers were captured. Together with the Belgian army, which surrendered on May 27, we had a total of 60 enemy divisions destroyed in this campaign! This was the largest siege and annihilation battle in history, and the core of the reactionary army used by the British, French, and Belgian bandits to stop Germany now completely ceased to exist! ”

At noon on June 2, a radio suddenly resounded throughout the territory under Berlin's rule. Known as the "People's Announcer," Rockwell was in high spirits and loudly conveyed instructions from the Central Committee of the National Socialist Party with enthusiasm and excitement. The Führer named the battle of the main forces of the Coalition of Destruction the Frontier and made June 2 an official holiday in Germany to celebrate this unprecedented victory. At the same time, Rockwell spoke into the microphone Hitler's bold words - before the end of the summer, the German army will be triumphant from the Western Front.

As the broadcast was repeated throughout Germany, the deafening cheers soon resounded in every corner of Central Europe. Cities, factories, villages, barracks...... Countless people were jubilant and jubilant at the victory of the Army, and enthusiastically discussed the possibility of France's surrender with anticipation and longing.

Although the previous generation vaguely remembered that in late August 1914, the Kaiser's army was also marching on the Western Front, and the chatter of an imminent German victory was constantly heard from the Charlottenburg Palace, this time it was different. Because Hitler had already declared June 2 a holiday to be celebrated throughout the country, it must have been an epic victory at the front, enough to seal the victory of the war once and for all. You must know that Germany won so many battles during the World War, including the legendary Battle of Tannenberg, but never a single victory was included in the calendar and remembered by the German people for generations!

Moreover, Hitler's credibility in the minds of the German public is now very solid. Since he said that Germany could win this summer, the vast majority of people did not doubt him and decided that this was the prospect of the future.

Even a few intellectuals were very optimistic about Hitler's rhetoric. The most important reason why Germany was defeated on the Marne was that it had not eliminated the living forces of the French army before, so that the French army could regroup and counterattack and drag the war into the river. And this time Germany fought such a beautiful battle of annihilation on the Franco-Belgian border, swallowing up nearly half of the enemy's troops, and the next battle was undoubtedly a sure victory!

The clouds are dancing in the eastward under the blowing of the monsoon in the northern Mediterranean, and the brilliant midday sun is occasionally obscured into the clouds, making the sky of Rome unpredictable. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini stood on the balcony of his villa, and his mood at the moment was as complicated as the sky.

Mussolini, a man determined to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory, had been closely following Germany's land battles with Britain and France since May 10. Mussolini was initially quite unoptimistic about Hitler's military adventure on the Western Front: because the Western Front had been quiet for more than half a year, Britain and France must have been prepared for a long time, and it was very likely that the two sides would repeat the tug-of-war scene of the world war.

According to Mussolini's wishful thinking, Germany, Britain and France will definitely spend two years fighting each other in the dark, while Italy will take the opportunity to sway left and right and blackmail on both sides, eat up the plaintiff and the defendant, and use all means to expand its military strength. When both sides were exhausted, Italy jumped on the German chariot and plunged into the heart of France as a vital force, sweeping away the southern provinces of France, which they had coveted for centuries.

At that time, Italy will not only be able to preserve a lot of vitality by participating in the war lately, but will also be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman's victory. This is simply the perfect script for Germany to take advantage of Italy's fire, and even Italy may make a lot of war money, and kick out the heavy losses of Germany to successfully ascend to power, and become the strongest imperial existence in Europe!

However, Mussolini's dream lasted less than five days before it was shattered by a thunderous breakthrough by the Germans in the middle of the road. The German armored forces were invincible, drove more than 500 kilometers in ten days, and completed the astonishing encirclement of the allied forces on the northern front in one fell swoop. Even Mussolini, who was not familiar with the military, could see that the defeat of France was a foregone conclusion—no army could continue to fight an almost heyday enemy after losing half of its main force!

Faced with this jaw-dropping situation, Mussolini had mixed feelings in his heart. From the point of view of national interests, Germany's victory on the Western Front was undoubtedly a blessing for Italy - if Britain and France were defeated, Italy in southern Europe would be able to quickly fill all the power gaps created by the withdrawal of Britain and France from the Mediterranean Rim. The Roman Empire will soon be restored, and the Mediterranean Sea will be completely transformed into an inland lake of Italy. Mussolini's 20-year wish will soon become a reality in real terms, and at a pitiful cost!