As the Anglo-French and German-Norwegian armies finally engaged in an increasingly fierce confrontation in western Scandinavia, the main forces deployed on the European continent by both sides began to move.

Berlin, the Führer's residence.

In Noda's conference room, Reinhardt had dragged his tired body and had a two-hour meeting with a group of generals, and now, the meeting continued.

"I still can't agree with Chief of Staff Manstein's plan, it's too risky!" Blaschich, representing the opinion of the majority of the Army Command, once again tried to get the Führer to change his mind and change his preferred plan of adventure.

Yes, that plan was the "Scythe Harvesting Plan" that Manstein and his Army Group A Staff were responsible for perfecting at Reinhardt's instructions.

The cautious Boulhitch did not directly refute the Führer's point of view, but brought up Manstein, who had worked out a concrete battle plan for Reinhardt. But he accused Manstein of being too risky in his plan, and in fact opposed Reinhardt's ideas.

"With our current strength, it is entirely possible to draw Army Group N and Army Group B to form a strong right flank force, launch a centripetal assault from the north and south of Rütig, and advance through northern Belgium. Use our powerful armored forces to crush the Anglo-French forces that may be located in Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as the forces of these two small countries, in one fell swoop. Brauchitsch repeated a point he had repeated many times over the past few months.

According to the idea of the veteran generals such as Bourschich, the German army should use its superior armored forces to force an attack on France from the north on the premise of bypassing the French Maginot Line as much as possible, through the two neutral countries of the Netherlands and Belgium.

In accordance with this policy, Bo Lucich led the Army General Staff to make corresponding arrangements early in the morning.

They deployed a full 9 armored divisions and 3 motorized infantry divisions and 30 first-class infantry divisions for General Bock's Army Group B, and hoped that Bock's troops would make full use of these mobile units to break through the entire territory of Belgium and open a breakthrough from northern Belgium as the main force of the campaign, bypassing the French Maginot Line, and attacking northern French territory.

Army Group A, where Manstein belongs, was led by General Rundstead, with only 1 armored division, 15 first-class infantry divisions, and 10 second-class infantry divisions.

Of course, Army Group only had to be deployed south of Eiffel and Hunsrük, with an armored division as the leading force, advancing through southern Belgium and Luxembourg.

After passing through Luxembourg, Army Group A only needed to turn south, and build a defensive position between the Saar River and the Maas River east of Sedan close to the northern edge of the Maginot Line, so as to ensure the security of Army Group B's deep flank, and prevent the French from drawing reinforcements from the Maginot Line to the north to threaten Army Group B after discovering the German intentions.

In the end, Brauchitsch organized the remaining 15 First Infantry Divisions and 23 Second Infantry Divisions into Army Group C, which consisted of pure infantry divisions. After the start of the battle, Army Group C will be stationed in the Siegfried Line to confront the French troops on the Maginot Line, and will continue to send divisional troops to feint the Maginot Line, delay the French troops in the Maginot Line as much as possible, and cooperate with the breakthrough operation of Army Group B in the north.

It can be said that Brauchitsch's ability to achieve this level of combat plan is enough for him to leave his place on the list of contemporary famous generals.

Not to mention his avant-garde combat idea of fully concentrating on the use of armored forces as spearheads, just from the fact that he did not stick to a head-on duel, skillfully used neutral countries as a breakthrough, and bypassed the Maginot Line, which the French had spent a lot of national strength for many years, it was enough to see how heavy the gold content of Brauchitsch's military rank was!

In addition to the strange trick of using the armored forces to quickly detour the Maginot Line, Braucić also showed his cautious side. In order to ensure the smooth operation of the entire combat operation, he also carefully and meticulously took out three more insurances.

The first line of insurance was to advance Army Group A and Army Group B at the same time, build defensive positions along the advance route to the south, and garrison along the way to cover the flank of Army Group A and prevent the main force of the French army stationed on the Maginot Line from moving north to stir up the situation.

In the same second line of insurance, in order to achieve the goal, Brauchitsch also feinted in front of the Maginot Line with a huge Army Group C to further contain the French troops in the line.

Finally, the third line of insurance was an armored division and two motorized infantry divisions left by Brauchitsch in the northern part of the Siegfried Line as reserves.

This powerful reserve could have moved south to strengthen the line in the event of a desperate attack on the Siegfried Line, which was of course unlikely. At the same time, the reserves can also be reinforced in the north and put into the front as quickly as possible.

It can be said that the current Boulschich can even see the shadow of German Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen during the First World War.

It is a pity that Brauchitsch went to great lengths to come up with this safe and ingenious complete strategy, but when he arrived at Reinhardt, he only replied: "Just bypassing the Maginot Line is enough?" If you want me to say, our pattern will be a little bigger, and we will move towards the goal of annihilating the main forces of the Anglo-French forces. ”

Sure enough, Reinhardt once again vetoed Brauchitsch: "It has been said many times that we cannot be caught up in a positional war with the Anglo-French forces as we did in the last world war." Even if they bypass the Maginot Line, they can still build a new line, and if they want to win quickly, they must quickly annihilate the enemy's living forces with blitzkrieg, and win the maximum results in the shortest time. ”

However, although ........ did not want to contradict the Führer, his strong sense of responsibility forced him to stand up and carry out his views.

Unlike Reinhardt, Blahsitch did not know if Reinhardt's plan for Manstein would make the Third Reich successful. But he was confident that his plan would not fail Germany!

In his eyes, Germany could not afford to lose the Second World War. If it fails again this time, Germany will have nothing left but ruins.

No country would be so stupid as to leave Germany with a second re-emergence after this world war, just as no one would be stupid enough to make a second mistake in the same flagrant way.

"Don't talk about it, the plan has already been decided, and it's too late to make temporary changes now." Reinhardt raised his hand and stopped Brauchitsch, who was always trying to dissuade himself from carrying out his plan of victory: "Besides, I am forced to use your plan, and I am deeply distressed. ”

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