At 4 o'clock in the morning of November 8, the offensive plan codenamed "Swinging the Scythe" was officially launched, and the German Central Campaign Cluster mobilized a full 2,000 155mm guns and bombarded the German border in Luxembourg for half an hour, firing nearly 200,000 shells.

This artillery fire was ready to reduce the elevation of the German Luxembourg border by a full three meters, and by the time the Wehrmacht Army Group F and the Central Campaign Group, consisting of three SS Panzer Divisions and four Panzergrenadier Divisions, arrived at the Allied defensive positions, all they saw was scorched earth, and even the traces of the previous trenches had been completely erased.

At 6 a.m. on January 8, the SS SS 17 Panzergrenadier Division "Burissingen" was the first to enter Luxembourg City, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

At 6:20 a.m., all the armed forces of Luxembourg City were purged by "Bethrichingen", and the last policeman who insisted on fighting was knocked unconscious by the Germans at the town hall and unarmed - a baton.

At 6:30 a.m., the current Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Archduchess Charlotte Aldegand Élise Maria Wilhelmina, announced at the Luxembourg City Hall that the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg had been defeated and surrendered, and that all the armed forces immediately ceased resistance and handed over her token to the division commander "Bethrichingen", who represented the head of the German Führer plenipotentiary.

From the German attack at 4 a.m. to the surrender at 6:30 a.m., the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg resisted for only two and a half hours in front of the German Second Army Group, which set a new Danish record for half a morning and became the record for the shortest defeat in history.

After the war, when Germany sorted out the information, it found the crux of the reason why Luxembourg was powerless to resist - the 7 French divisions that were originally planned to defend Luxembourg were transferred out of the German front line in Luxembourg long before the Belgian side started the war, and the whole war ended with zero casualties on both Luxembourg and Germany (except for some policemen who were knocked unconscious)!

In other words, the Luxembourg borders are completely undefended against Germany! The nearly 200,000 shells that the Germans had fired earlier were all wasted on the land.

Leon, who got the news, was almost stunned, and he immediately investigated the Luxembourg intelligence officers, and found that there were only three Gestapos in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and what was worse was that none of the three Gestapos were deployed in the army.

This directly led to the fact that when the French troops withdrew from Luxembourg in batches, Germany did not receive the details of the evacuation, which made the German top brass mistakenly believe that Luxembourg was at least more than 60,000 Allied troops on the defensive.

The loss of nearly 200,000 shells made Leon furious, and he immediately ran to Reinhardt's office and pointed at his nose with a foul call.

Reinhardt was also embarrassed, and he was eager to find a crack in the ground to get into.

He had always believed that Luxembourg was a small country that was not enough to worry about, so he did not put his limited forces on Luxembourg, let alone in the Luxembourg army, which only had a few hundred men.

It took only two and a half hours to "defeat" Luxembourg's central campaign cluster, which did not stop them, but passed through Luxembourg at high speed and reached the border of the rupee and Roffa.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the 1st Panzergrenadier Division of the SS "Burissingen", which had been rushing to the front, successfully arrived in Petange, which is only a few kilometers away from the Luxembourg-Belgium border, which is only 10 kilometers away from Arlon, an important town on the southern border of the Belgian province of Luxembourg, and only a few hundred meters away from the southernmost city of Belgium, Eubonge!

Across the woods, "Belissingen" even saw hundreds of Belgian soldiers sweating and digging trenches!

Faced with such a good thing, the Germans did not choose to wait for the follow-up troops, but launched a surprise attack directly on the Belgian units.

Just over a dozen minutes later, the Allied forces were slaughtered by the Germans, and "Burissingen" became the first German unit to enter southern Belgium.

Not long after the SS was the first to enter Belgium, the Wehrmacht Second Panzer Group led by Rommel also rushed into southern Belgium, and the Wehrmacht First Panzer Group led by Guderian also arrived at the Ashivir line at the same time, posing as if it was going to invade from Sherland to the central part of the Belgian capital Brussels.

The Allies were slow to react to the German invasion, and it was not until Rommel's nearly 1,500 tanks began to move into the Ardennes that they realized the huge mistake they had made in the deployment of their troops.

Soon the Allies began to remediate the operation, and Gammelin immediately transferred more than 200,000 men from the French First Army, which was entangled with the German Army Group C near the province of Liege, to the line from Novel to Tomang, in an attempt to block Guderian's offensive.

Unfortunately, Moder, who had been leading his troops on the defensive, made him underestimate the threat posed by the German Army Group C.

Although the movement of the French army was very secretive, Moder was keenly aware of the new movements of the French First Army, and he immediately changed his previous style of fighting mainly to drag and turned to an offensive in an all-round way.

In just three hours, Army Group C defeated the remaining 100,000 men of the French First Army in front of it, captured Liege, the capital of the province of Liege, and then carried a high-speed attack on Brussels, 80 kilometers away.

While his troops were in hot sight, the Rommel cluster on the other side was very pleasant, and at three o'clock in the afternoon they had successfully passed through the Ardennes in bad condition and reached Neussato, and on the way they had not encountered even the slightest obstacle, and the south of Belgium seemed to have opened its doors to them.

The loss of several ground in a single day made Gan Malin panic, and he was now somewhat confused about the direction of the German army's main attack.

Anyway, nowhere is it in the middle of Belgium, Ganmalin thought hatefully.

"We, what are we going to do?" In the Allied High Command, Gan Molin looked at the red arrows covering the map representing the direction of the German attack, and sighed in a low voice.

"General, why don't we withdraw the main forces from Belgium." One of Gan's staff officers said, "The Germans are attacking too hard, and it is difficult for us to gain a foothold. ”

"I disagree!" Hearing this, a high-ranking Belgian general stood up angrily, "We can't retreat a bit, we must defend our capital!" ”

"Can you keep it?" The French staff officer sneered, "Most of the soldiers fighting in Belgium are our soldiers, and we must bring them home!" ”

"But ......" what else the Belgian general wanted to say.

"Don't make any noise!" Gammel roared, then turned to look at de Gaulle, "Charles, tell me, what are we going to do?" ”