For this army reorganization, in fact, many generals have guessed a long time ago, because with the defeat of France, Germany will no longer be invincible on the European continent, so the current huge establishment of 560,000 or 600,000 people forming an army group will no longer need to exist, but by one or two army groups plus an armored army, a total of 200,000-300,000 army groups are more suitable for the current war situation - now no non-Entente country on the European continent is capable of resisting the attack of 300,000 German troops.

But these generals only guessed most of them correctly - Lyon abolished this 500,000-strong army group and set up an army group of about 300,000 people, but in addition, Lyon also gathered more than 1 million German troops to form the world's largest campaign group from ancient times to the present, and the commander of this army group was not the only field marshal Rundstedt.

"I will create a completely new army group in Poland, which will become the most powerful of all our German army groups." Standing on the rostrum with his head held high, Leon announced with a smile to everyone present, "It consists of the Army's Second Army, Fourth Army, Ninth Army, First Panzer Army (split from the First Panzer Group, consisting of two Panzer Divisions, one Mechanized Infantry Division and one Motorized Infantry Division) and the newly formed Third Panzer Army, with 1,070,000 men, 1,100 tanks and more than 4,000 towed artillery pieces!" ”

As soon as Leon's words came out, everyone present was shocked, the officers thought that such a large establishment was really incredible, and the politicians could not imagine that Leon would set it in Poland.

"And as for its commander......" Leon said this, deliberately glancing around at the generals present, and then paused.

When the generals in the audience saw Leon's eyes, they all raised their heads and chests, hoping that Leon could pronounce their names out of his mouth.

"Its commander is Army General Ferdo von Bock!" Leon eventually smiled and pronounced a person's name.

As soon as the name was pronounced, everyone was not too surprised, although von Bock's qualifications were not as good as those of Rundstedt, but he was also a veteran of the traditional army in the German army. Although he was ordered to lead Army Group B to attract the French garrison on the Maginot Line during the French campaign, so he was not deeply involved in the entire campaign, but with his qualifications, he was enough to be promoted to marshal, and Lyon did not immediately give him the marshal scepter only out of balancing the Führer's officers with the traditionalists.

So everyone was quite convinced that Marshal Bock was the commander of this unprecedentedly large army, only Rundstedt sighed and was a little disappointed - after all, he was the only active marshal in the army.

Rundstedt's sigh did not escape Leon's keen eyes, how could he not know Rundstedt's mind if he was as smart?

"The German army on the Eastern Front was put in charge of General von Bock, and the troops on the Western Front were ......," Leon smiled and said, "I think it is only fitting that Field Marshal Rundstedt should be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army on the Western Front, and General Manstein should be appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Army on the Western Front." ”

Both Rundstedt and Manstein raised their heads excitedly when they heard this, and looked at the man standing on the podium with gratitude.

There was also a round of applause at the scene, and almost all of the large and small action plans of the French campaign were formulated by Manstein and Rundstedt, who were worthy of being the heroes of the French campaign, and deserved to be given this position.

After a large number of generals were promoted, the celebration ended with laughter and laughter, and everyone who participated in the banquet more or less got some cake, which strengthened their determination to continue the war.

As for the war bonds sold by the government, they were frantically snapped up by the people.

There are four types of Meff bonds: 25 marks, 50 marks, 100 marks and 200 marks, with a term of 10 years, and these bonds are sold at a 75% discount, that is, a war bond with a face value of 25 marks is sold for only 1875 marks, and when the 10-year period expires, the government will exchange it for 25 marks.

The German Ministry of Finance was afraid that no one would buy Mifu coupons at first, so the first batch only printed about 10 billion Reichsmarks, but it didn't come to be that after the victory over France, the German people were enthusiastic about serving the country, and Germany is now implementing a rationing system, many things are rationed, and it is not easy to use the money in hand, so the 10 billion Mifu coupons were sold out after only two days on the market, and many people immediately destroyed them on the spot after buying Mifu coupons, saying that the money was given to the country!

Faced with such a situation, the German Ministry of Finance immediately started the machine to print the second batch of Mifu coupons with a total value of about 15 billion, and prepared to release it again in a few months.

In short, after the end of the French battle, the German government can be said to have made a lot of money, not only all the lost resources have been earned, but also more than 10 billion Reichsmark wealth, these money is not idle, Lyon immediately put them into the production of weapons, a new tank, a new aircraft was produced like flowing water, after obtaining this batch of weapons, the German army expanded 5 panzer divisions and 7 panzergrenadier divisions, of which two panzer divisions and 3 panzergrenadier divisions were incorporated into the Waffen-SS.

At this point, the Wehrmacht had a total of 15 Panzer Divisions and 13 Panzergrenadier Divisions, while the Waffen-SS had 5 Panzer Divisions and 8 Panzergrenadier Divisions.

On the fifth day after the end of the French campaign, the first post-war military conference was held in Lyon, and almost all the lieutenant generals in the Luftwaffe were present.

In order to cooperate with the army, Lyon asked the commander-in-chief of the air force, Kesselring, to mobilize all the planes that could be mobilized, and to completely destroy the RAF and all the man-made objects on the beach before the army boarded the landing craft.

To this end, Kesselring assembled about 6,000 aircraft in front of the English Channel, including about 3,200 fighters, and about 2,800 bombers and front-line support aircraft of various types - almost all the assets of the Luftwaffe.

In order to destroy the Royal Air Force as quickly as possible, Raeder deliberately handed over the only bit of shore-based naval aviation in his hands to Kesselring under his command, and at the same time led the German aircraft carrier strike group to wander around the English Channel every day, arresting British patrol formations, and secretly stealing British front-line airfields and radar stations, which annoyed the pilots of the Royal Air Force.

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