Chapter 403: The Death of France

The fighting that broke out in various parts of Paris was quickly suppressed by the Germans, and most of the partisans were killed on the spot or arrested and returned to the camp, and a small number of people threw away their guns when they saw that the situation was not good, and escaped as innocent among the civilians.

The Wehrmacht and SS did not have a good way of trying to get them out of the civilian population, but they were not worried about how long they could run, because the whole of Paris had been blockaded by them, and Lyon had brought in someone from the country who had been specially dealt with them, the Gestapo.

Unlike the mobile task force in Paris, the Gestapo transferred from Germany by Lyon are not good at fighting and killing, but each of them is a professional "police dog" who can accurately find the person in question from a hundred people.

A day after the attack, the dogs were led by Krupp's only son, Major General Alfred Krupp of the German Waffen-SS, from Berlin to Paris by train.

Since Lyon was very concerned about the attack in Berlin and expressed his desire to apprehend all those who escaped within three days, the men immediately threw themselves into the search after a short break after getting off the train.

In addition to the vigorous search in Paris, the Germans also launched a new round of large-scale attacks on the French army on the frontal battlefield, Army Group B launched a fierce attack on the weak point of the Maginot Line under the command of General Bock, the junction of Alsace and Lorraine, and the two armies under Army Group A also cooperated with Army Group B under the command of Manstein, and the Maginot Line, which France spent a lot of money to build but only a dozen divisions were left to garrison, broke through in less than a day, and hundreds of thousands of troops fled to Switzerland except for a part, All the others were sent to prisoner-of-war camps by the Germans.

On 18 June, on this seemingly fateful day, French Prime Minister Petain declared in Bordeaux that France had ceased resistance, demanded that all French troops surrender their weapons to the Germans in front of them, and demanded that the few remaining British expeditionary forces in France leave immediately.

At the same time that France announced the cessation of resistance, a person with a special status made a speech on the BBC, pointing out that France had only lost a battle, but not the war, calling on all French people to persist in resistance, calling on the French army unwilling to give up to go to England to accept his leadership, and at the same time launched the "Free France" movement and established the French government-in-exile.

He was Charles de Gaulle, who caught up with a taxiing plane in the morning as he bid farewell to a British general, and returned to London with the British general.

Although Churchill knew early on that France was going to surrender, he still made a speech at the first time, acknowledging the legitimacy of De Gaulle's government, encouraging the French to continue to resist, and saying that as long as the French continued to resist, the British would always fight side by side with the French.

Of course, the nonsense of fighting side by side was only a political rhetoric, and even the British themselves did not believe it, after all, before the surrender of France, the number of British soldiers in France was not as large as that of ordinary British citizens in France......

After the British finished their speech, Roosevelt also delivered a speech, bitterly urging the French not to give up hope, and at the same time strongly condemning Lyon's brazen aggression against a sovereign country, threatening Germany that they would strengthen the Atlantic Fleet, and transfer the Lexington, Saratoga, and Enterprise, which were now deployed with Hawaii, to the Atlantic Ocean together with the USS Raider and the newly transferred Hornet, and form a five-carrier battle group with the USS Assault, which had already belonged to the Atlantic Fleet, and the USS Hornet, which had just been transferred.

And Leon only smiled lightly at Roosevelt's threat, and then replied lightly: "You only have five aircraft carriers, and our seventh and eighth aircraft carriers are about to complete sea trials and service - if you want to taste the fist of the German Navy, then go ahead!" ”

On 19 June, the French army ceased resistance on all fronts on Petain's orders, and only a small part of the army refused to surrender and fled to the port of Toulon.

On 20 June, a mutiny occurred in the French Navy's naval base in Port Toulon, and the lead ship of the Guba-class battleships, the Guba-class battleships, the No. 2 Paris, together with the aircraft carrier Bayarne, and several destroyers, broke through the interception and sailed to the British military port of Portsmouth with the army soldiers who refused to surrender.

After learning of this, the German Navy immediately transferred the aircraft carrier Deutsche Deutsche Anderson, the aircraft carrier Lyon Andrés, the battleship Bismarck and the battleship Tirpitz from the High Seas Fleet to form a task force, and crossed the English Channel under the cover of the air force to intercept it.

After hearing Raeder's order, the Italian Navy was very honest and immediately prepared to sail, but was suppressed by Mussolini halfway, he thought that the dignified Italian Navy could not obey the words of Germany, the "younger brother country", so he used "Because the battleship Litorio has not yet been commissioned and has no combat effectiveness, so the Italian Navy now only has the battleship Vittorio Veneto can catch up with the French Navy, but only one Veneto may not be able to beat the French Navy's two battleships and one aircraft carrier, so Italy decided that the Navy will not sail for the time being." ”

Leon was half angry when he heard Mussolini's answer, he knew very well that the Italian Navy had a few brushes - as Mussolini said, it was true that only the Veneto (31.5 knots) could catch up with the French Lone class battleship (21 knots), but the Litorio was not as "ineffective" as the Italians had described, on the contrary, the Litorio was perfect because it was originally scheduled to enter service in four days!

If he could, Leon really wanted to point to Mussolini's nose and ask him personally, is it that the Italian battleships are more special, even if they are fully built, but they can't be shot if they don't enter service?

However, although Lyon knew what the state of the Italian Navy was now, he had nothing to do if he didn't sail, after all, the Italian Navy was the Italian Navy after all.

Therefore, he could only ask the task force to speed up as much as possible, even if the boilers were blown up, to stop the French Navy before they reached Portsmouth, and the German sailors were also very hard, and the Tirpitz even soared to a perverted speed of 34 knots when passing through the English Channel.

But their efforts could not shorten the voyage, and the French fleet sailed into Portsmouth Harbor with thousands of army soldiers before the arrival of the German fleet.