Leon listened to Modell's words, froze for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

"Me, am I saying something wrong?" Seeing Leon laughing, Moder thought he had said something wrong, and hurriedly asked cautiously.

"No, no, no." Leon stopped laughing, waved his hand, and said, "I'm just happy that the relationship between our senior officers is so harmonious." As for Manstein, I didn't say I was going to bury him. ”

"That ......"

"I transferred Manstein out of Army Group B because I had more important things to do with him." Leon said, "Alright, you go to Army Group B to replace Manstein, and I'll leave the defense of the Western Front to you!" ”

"Yes! My Führer! Relieved to hear Leon's explanation, Moder saluted and left Leon's office.

On the other side, Chamberlain and Lebrun waited all night in Lebrun's office, eager to hear the news of the German withdrawal from the truce.

Unfortunately, they did not succeed and even got Germany to take control of several more Polish cities.

Truth be told, although they promised to protect Poland, they were more reluctant than any of them to confront Germany.

There are three main reasons, one is that if there is a fight with Germany on the Western Front, then the battlefield is the German-French border, which will definitely affect France itself.

Second, because with the combat effectiveness shown by Germany in Poland, the Anglo-French alliance may not be able to win completely, if Britain and France violently declare war on Germany and attack Germany proper, but the result is that Germany will fight back all the way back to the Maginot Line, then it will lose a lot of face.

The third and most important point is that if Britain and France were to fight with Germany, then Britain, France and Germany would not be able to eat well, and the only ones who would benefit would be the huge red Soviet Union in the east and the strategically located United States.

This is something that Britain and France absolutely do not want to see.

Originally, they planned to use this "ultimatum" to make Germany realize the reality, return to the negotiating table and cooperate with Britain and France to fight against the Soviet Union and the United States, and it was a big deal to cede part of Poland to Germany, but the Germans ignored Britain and France, and just continued to "rampage" in Poland, which made the two countries really embarrassed.

"Well, after all, we still can't avoid declaring war on Germany?" Chamberlain said in frustration, "I have tried hard for so many years, but I still can't avoid war." ”

"No way, the Germans really don't know how to lift." Lebrun said angrily, "Now we must declare war, otherwise the credibility of our two countries will completely collapse!" ”

"But ......," he said, turning his tone again, "who said that if war is declared, it must be done against Germany?" ”

"What do you mean?" Chamberlain asked with a frown.

"Woe to the East!" Lebrun said with a sneer, "Let the Germans occupy Poland, then Germany and the Red Soviet Union will be neighbors, the relationship between these two countries is not good, they will definitely not be 'harmonious neighbors', when Germany and the Soviet Union fight, we will be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman!" ”

Chamberlain's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he exclaimed, "What a good idea!" In this way, we not only solved the trouble of Germany, but also hit the Red Soviet Union, killing two birds with one stone! ”

"Then our two countries should declare war on Germany first, and if you send your country's assembled expeditionary force, a certain amount of pressure will still be given to Germany." Lebrun said.

"Okay, I'll go back to China immediately." Chamberlain shouted to his secretary as he spoke, "Secretary! Prepare your car to go to the airport! ”

Chamberlain's secretary answered, and went out of the gate, accompanied by several French officials, to prepare the car.

Soon, the secretary returned to Chamberlain's side and signaled that the car was ready.

Chamberlain stood up and walked towards the door, and Lebrun followed suit.

A second before getting into the car, Chamberlain remembered something again, turned back to Lebrun and said: "By the way, I forgot to tell you one thing, I will no longer be responsible for communicating with your country about the war in the future, and this work will be done by a special person." ”

"Who?" Lebrun asked, confused.

"His name is Winston." Chamberlain replied, "Winston Churchill, he was Lord of the Navy. Although we work well together, I have to say that he is more talented than me when it comes to war! ”

On the morning of May 4, 1939, France and Britain condemned Germany's shameless aggression and declared war on Germany, and World War II broke out.

Poland, east bank of the Pösna River, city of Kalisz.

Two Polish light infantry regiments were gathering the front line and establishing a defensive line on three bridges on the Kalish section of the Prosna River.

In addition to this, dozens of Polish sappers were busy planting explosives on the three bridges to ensure that they would not fall into German hands if the Polish army could not hold them.

"Hey! Guys, you guys move smart! The commander of the engineer unit frowned and urged the sappers, "When will the grinding be done?" If the Germans had come over at this time, we would have been Polish sinners! ”

One of the routers who walked past them listened to the engineer commander and interjected: "Hey, sir, you can rest assured when the Germans will get to this point, they won't be able to get over for a while, and you have plenty of time to plant the explosives." ”

The officer looked at him strangely and asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

The soldier shrugged his shoulders and said: "I had just withdrawn from the front line, and while I was retreating, I saw that the Germans were standing still, probably their tanks were out of gas. ”

The officer was overjoyed and said, "Then it seems that we have enough time to set up ......"

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard the roar of an airplane's engine in the sky not far away.

The officer was stunned and hurriedly shouted to his soldiers: "Hide! German air strikes! ”

As soon as the officer's words fell, chaos broke out on the bridge, and everyone scrambled to cross the bridge to find a place to escape the air raid.

The interjecting soldier ran with the engineer commander, and as he ran, he muttered, "If it were bombers, it would be safer on the bridge." ”

"Why?" The officer asked.

"Hehe, it's not easy?" The soldier laughed, "The Germans aren't stupid enough to blow up the bridge, after all, they have to rely on the bridge to cross the river." ”

"That's just as well." The officer nodded.

As he spoke, the two of them arrived at an air-raid shelter and squeezed together with others into the air-raid shelter.

It didn't take long for the German aircraft to fly over the city of Kalisz, and then sprinkled a dense black spot.

The people in the bomb shelter were surprised that they had not heard the explosion for a long time.

The soldiers and officers were located relatively close to the exit of the bomb shelter, and the two of them looked at each other, and then squeezed past the crowd, boldly walked out of the bomb shelter, and looked into the sky.

"Not a bomb?" The two watched as the dense black dots turned into white umbrella flowers, and muttered strangely.

"Everybody get out of the bomb shelter!" Just when everyone was confused, an order came from the radio of the bomb shelter, "Prepare for battle!" The German airborne forces are coming! ”