After defeating Juan's motorized division, Rommel's 7th Panzer Division continued to drive forward for about eight hours, until they received a dead order from Lyon that "the 7th Panzer Division must stop advancing and stand by", and they reluctantly turned off the roaring tank engines.

At this time, they were less than 10 kilometers in a straight line on the outskirts of Paris.

Many of the generals objected to Lyon's order, believing that the 7th Panzer Division was well supplied and should be taken by surprise before Paris was fully fortified.

But Lyon knows very well that now, from the president to the common people, almost no one in France thinks that France can achieve final victory without foreign aid, and in the face of such a pessimistic enemy army, how can Lyon, who knows that "attacking the heart is the top and attacking the city is the bottom", easily send troops to attack the city?

A day later, more than forty 109 fighters covered ten HE177 strategic bombers and flew over Paris.

The terrible air raid sirens began to fill the air in Paris as soon as the German engines sounded, and the citizens, who were already nervous about the German approach, let out screams that were even sharper than the air raid sirens, and rushed into the nearest air raid bunker in a panic.

The anti-aircraft guns scattered throughout Paris were soon used in anti-aircraft combat, but they were no longer used by skilled soldiers (those who could operate them were now locked up in German prisoner of war camps), but mostly new recruits who had only learned some simple maneuvers, and who could run faster than the shells fired in the face of a dive intimidation by German fighters.

After the escort fighter unit shot down more than a dozen French fighters that took off and intercepted urgently, the ten HE177 strategic bombers swaggered around Paris twice and dropped everything they were carrying in the magazine, and then they swaggered back in the direction they came.

Many citizens who did not have time to escape into the bunker closed their eyes and prepared for the explosion and death when they saw the plane with the iron cross icon flying over their heads with a large magazine, but to their surprise, what the Germans dropped did not explode - they only threw thousands of pieces of paper at great length!

After the departure of the German planes, the terrible air defense sirens also came to an abrupt end, and the people returned to the ground, but they did not see the imaginary fire, but only the paper all over the ground and some people who were holding the paper and lost their thoughts.

Driven by curiosity, they also picked up a piece of paper from the ground and looked at it carefully.

There was nothing shocking written on the paper, just a simple printed photograph and an equally simple sentence.

The photograph is a ruined wall, but it can vaguely give many of them a sense of familiarity, and the words are

"This is Romiyi after the flames of war. Do you want Paris to be the same? ”

Simple photos and simple words caused many people to fall silent, and after a long time, a childish question finally broke the strange silence

"Mom, is this a picture of hell?"

Soon, the discussion gradually broke out in the crowd.

"The Virgin Mary! How did Romiy become like this?! "God, I just went there two weeks ago, but now I ......" "If the Germans attack Paris, it will be the same as in the pictures, right?"

Gradually, the discussion converged into one sentence: "We don't want Paris to be reduced to ruins!" ”

Half an hour later, citizens holding up the paper dropped by the German army surrounded the Paris City Hall, the French Ministry of Defense and the Elysée Palace, expressing their desire not to let Paris become the next Romiy.

Looking out the window at the dense crowd and deafening slogans, Lebrun sighed and said, "I really don't know what to do now, God ......"

"Tours have already taken care of everything, maybe ......" Renault fiddled with the paper his secretary had just picked up, with Romiy's hell printed on it, "Maybe it's time for us to leave Paris for Tours?" ”

Lebrun showed a look of unwillingness when he heard this, thinking about how high-spirited he was when the Allied army was at the border with millions of heroes before the war, but now......

"What would happen if we stuck to Paris?" Lebrun looked at Wei Gang with a hint of hope in his eyes and asked.

"As for the stubborn defense of Paris, our General Staff has already conducted war games...... "Wei Gang replied.

"And then?"

"The results of the war games show that at best, we can hold out for about a week, and in the worst case we can hold out for three days......," Wei Gang whispered, "and whether we hold it for a week or three days, Paris will be reduced to ashes......

"Only for a few days?" Lebrun was furious, "Why? The small city of Romey can hold out for so long, why can Paris only hold on for three days? ”

"Because we don't have enough troops anymore."

"If not, I'll transfer it from somewhere else!" Lebrun yelled, "Whether it's the Maginot Line or any other area, as long as you can mobilize troops, you can move over to defend the capital!" ”

"The Maginot Line is finished! The troops of German Army Group A moving south have completely cut us off from the Maginot Line, and unless our soldiers can fly, they will not be able to pass at all! Wei Gang smiled bitterly, "As for the rest of the front, the entire front is now tight, no matter which part of the troops we transfer, it will lead to the collapse of the entire front!" ”

Lebrun sat down in his chair when he heard this, and said weakly, "Are we really just ...... Can you only give up Paris? ”

"It is pointless to stick to Paris, and to abandon Paris is the only way to protect the citizens of Paris and this 1,400-year-old city...... "President, Paris has preserved too many cultural relics, it is the soul of our France!" ”

"But now you're going to let me surrender our souls to the enemy?" Lebrun said bitterly.

"That's better than going to ashes!" Renault, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, "Lebrun, let's go!" Withdraw all the troops out of Paris and move the line back! ”

Although they were very unwilling, as the two said, it was indeed the best choice now to set Paris as an undefended city and cede it to Germany, so Lebrun finally nodded and said, "Okay...... Let's go to Tours and let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explain our decision to the world. ”

"I'm leaving for England tomorrow!" Renault stood up and said, "If Britain is still unwilling to send troops and the United States is still unwilling to enter the war, we will ......."

"Let God decide the future of France...... Lebrun drew a rare cross on his chest.

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