"Okay, we'll just say yes." When Lebrun saw Wilhelm Keitel's appearance, he knew that there was probably no room for negotiation today, and that this negotiation was more of a unilateral announcement from Germany than a negotiation.

After all, a country's diplomacy is supported by the military.

"If you have any other requirements, just say it together, we can all agree......" Wei Gang also smiled bitterly.

"No, that's all we want, after all, we are not devils in Germany." William Keitel sat back in his seat.

"And where the agreement was signed? Are we going to Berlin, or are you guys coming to Bordeaux? Petain asked.

"Berlin Bordeaux? No, it's neither. William Keitel laughed, "The question of where to sign the agreement has long been considered by our head of state, and I think that place will surely satisfy both of us." ”

In the early morning of 22 June, a division of the Wehrmacht "Greater Germany" and a part of the "Lyon Andrés Guard" armored division of the German SS arrived in a world-famous city 80 kilometers northeast of Paris.

The city is also known for its name Compiègne because of the famous Forest of Compiègne, but not because of the forest or the capture of Joan of Arc in 1430, but because on November 11, 1918, a war that claimed to be the end of all wars ended and the Second German Empire fell apart.

Although it was late at night when the two German units arrived at Compiègne, they did not stop to rest, but quickly dispersed to various key locations throughout the city in company and platoon, especially at Compiègne Airport, where they were protected by more than 30 No. 4 tanks, more than 60 armored vehicles, and more than 500 Panzergrenadier regiments.

On June 22, the wings painted with the iron cross appeared for the first time over the city of Compiègne, more than 100 fighters of the Luftwaffe escorted two four-engine large passenger planes slowly landed at Compiègne Airport, after the plane came to a standstill, a man about 40 years old walked out of the plane surrounded by a group of officers, and then got into a Mercedes-Benz high-grade bulletproof car that had been parked and waiting in the airport for a long time, and left the airport under the escort of more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles, and drove to the Compiègne Castle not far away.

The Château de Compiègne was built by order of Louis XV and rebuilt by Napoleon, and was one of the three major residences of the Bourbon dynasty.

"Führer, this is the Château de Compiègne." Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the General Staff of the German High Command, sat on the left hand side of Lyon, pointing to a splendid castle not far away, "This has been arranged, and by noon we will sign a surrender agreement with the French, and the war will be officially over." ”

"Hmm." Leon just glanced at the splendid castle, then turned his head to the other place and said, "Don't go to the castle yet, I want to go to the Compiègne Museum." ”

"Museums? But this castle is a museum. William Keitel looked puzzled.

"The museum I'm talking about is not this, but the one at Leitong Station, where Fuxi's carriage is parked." Lyon Road.

"Okay, I see." After listening to Leon's description, William Keitel roughly guessed Leon's purpose, and while nodding in response to Leon, he patted the driver and the officer in the front seat on the shoulder, signaling them to carry out Leon's orders.

The officer nodded as well, then picked up the wireless telephone on the car and conveyed Leon's order to the entire convoy.

Soon, the convoy turned around in front of the castle and headed for the museum.

After getting out of the car and entering the museum, Lyon did not "pity" the other gorgeous artefacts, but went straight to an exhibition hall located in the depths of the museum.

The exhibition hall is huge, but it is not a priceless thing to visit, but an ordinary carriage.

"Fuxi carriage, more than ten years of humiliation in Germany began with you......" Leon slowly stroked the carriage, his face full of emotion, while the officers and soldiers and officials who followed him were full of anger.

Yes, this carriage is the famous "Fuxi Carriage", and on November 11, 1918, it was in this carriage that the representatives of Germany and France signed the famous "Compiègne Forest Cessation Agreement", marking the beginning of Germany's more than ten years of humiliation.

After looking at the carriage for a while, Leon left the museum with his feet up, and walked along the road to the edge of the forest not far away.

Like the Fuxi carriage, there was something that would be a shame to all Germans.

It was a monument carved with a black German eagle nailed to the ground with a sword, and an inscription underneath it: "Tribute to the heroic French soldiers, you are the defenders of the motherland and human rights - this is the famous eagle beheading monument, built to humiliate the defeated France."

"Führer, shall we blow it up?!" An SS officer stepped forward, looked at the Eagle Monument and asked Leon through gritted teeth.

"Blew it up? No, why blew it up? Leon chuckled, "With it, we can always remember the bitterness of defeat, but I suddenly don't want to sign an armistice in the castle now." ”

After thinking for a moment, he turned to William Keitel behind him and said, "Keitel, you go and make arrangements, pull out the carriage in the museum, and put it at the Leitong station—how it was in 1918, and you will do it in 1940—and then notify the French side and let them go to the station to sign the agreement." ”

"Yes!" William Keitel saluted solemnly, and then left Lyon to arrange the set-up.

After William Keitel left, Leon waved his hand and motioned for the other officers and government officials to leave with him, leaving Leon silently watching the eagle pinned to the ground, except for a few guards in front of the monument.

At about 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the French side arrived at the Leitong station on time in accordance with the German requirements, and the French representative Huntsger and others looked at the Fuxi carriage that had been pulled out of the museum and walked in almost with a black face, while the German representatives Wilhelm Keitel and Ribbentrop walked in with their heads held high.

Twenty-two years ago, Germany and France entered the carriage in opposite directions.

In the presence of the world's major mainstream media, the representatives of Germany and France signed their names on the agreement in front of them, and then exchanged agreements and signed them again, and since then, the battle, which has involved nearly 7 million soldiers, has ended in a landslide victory for the Axis powers in less than two months.

But no one thinks that this is the end of everything, on the contrary, it is only the beginning of everything, and the fog of war still hangs over Europe.

It's more intense.