In the conference hall of the Führer's Palace, the best performers of contemporary Germany began their performances.

"Actually, I was prepared to go with your plan at first." Reinhardt said with a slight regret.

Hearing this, the eyes of Bo Lucich and the others suddenly lit up a lot, and this was the first time in nearly two months that the Führer had expressed his approval of their plan.

Several generals, including Bock, who held the same view as Bock, were also excited. Since the Führer is not completely unimpressed by this plan, perhaps Commander Bohthitch can really make Reinhardt change his mind and reactivate their strategy.

Originally, Reinhardt did let the Army General Command be responsible for formulating the yellow plan with the first stop in France. After seeing the plan they worked out, Reinhardt immediately expressed his approval and approval, and even the combat orders had been issued to all units.

I don't know why, the Führer suddenly put forward his new idea the month before, and immediately and resolutely summoned the Führer's first think tank, Chief of Staff Manstein, of Army Group A.

Then, the Führer urgently ordered a change in the original plan and asked for a replacement with the overall plan he had Manstein to plan.

When the Führer demanded that the original plan be changed, many people found it difficult to accept. Although everyone knows, the Führer inherited the mantle of General Sickert, known as the "Sphinx", and has always led the creation of many strategic miracles.

However, the prudent strategy that everyone has finally decided on has been replaced by the overly radical strategy of the Führer, and I will be somewhat reassured.

"However, God did not give me this opportunity......." Before Bo Fishich could speak, Reinhardt immediately made another turn: "The chief of the operations section of the 7th Airborne Division made a forced landing in the Belgian airfield due to bad weather. Although he tried and burned some of the marching orders belonging to the 1st Air Force, some of the parts that did not have time to burn fell into the hands of the Belgians. ”

Speaking of this, Reinhardt sighed in an unusually heavy voice and said, "Because the stakes are so high, I have been asking Rose to block the news and not release it. At the same time, we also secretly sent a large number of intelligence agents to Belgium, and used the Gestapo, which had been embedded in Belgium before, to secretly spy on intelligence and try to find out how much information the Belgian military really had. ”

The logic in Reinhardt's words is very tight. Because he was afraid that the leakage of information would affect the difficulty of the Gestapo's intelligence collection, and because he did not want to disrupt the army headquarters because of an uncertain matter, he kept it a secret from everyone present, including those present.

But secrecy was not the same as not being prepared, so the Führer himself sketched out a new plan of operations that was completely opposite, and entrusted Manstein, the German First Chief of Staff, who had shone in the Polish campaign, and his department to formulate a concrete plan.

As a result, the Führer's increasingly insistent demand that the Wehrmacht carry out the second set of plans that he proposed and which Manstein had drawn up may have been due to the growing certainty that the original plan had been leaked too much.

Sure enough, Reinhardt quickly continued: "Contrary to expectations, our intelligence officers have confirmed that the Belgians have obtained a lot of the content of our battle plan. And Belgium has always been France's most loyal lackey, and the fact that they have obtained our plan already means that the French army will know our strategy and prepare accordingly. ”

Plan to confirm the leak!? This is almost a taboo in war. The main point of Brauchitsch's plan was the suddenness of the beginning of the war. Only by taking advantage of the short opportunity when the opponent is defenseless can we make the biggest breakthrough in the shortest time and advance the farthest distance.

But once the surprise attack plan has been leaked and the opponent has been prepared, the word "strange" as the essence of the surprise attack no longer exists. Even, the attacker may fall into the strategic trap that the opponent has already set up and cannot extricate himself!

It is no wonder that the Führer, who has always encouraged generals to express their military opinions and advocate that generals speak boldly when they have something to say, would so firmly reject the plans of the Army General Headquarters this time.

It is not that the Führer insists on going his own way, but that the previous plan no longer has any point in carrying it out. To ram in the direction that the enemy is prepared for is simply an insult to the art of military command!

Looking back, it seems that the plan that the Führer came up with later seems to be fully applicable to the present situation. If the French try to do what they have in their hands, they will fall into a new trap that the Führer has dug for them.

It's a serial scheme!

In fact, as the commander-in-chief of the British-French-Belgian coalition forces, the French General Gammerin was indeed ready to wait for the German army to throw himself into the net.

After receiving orders from Belgium to capture the German army, Gammelin quickly convened a meeting of senior French generals and formulated countermeasures.

Indeed, the level of the so-called French star is more than a little worse than that of Brauchitsch, the German star. As mentioned earlier, he was not only mediocre in ability, but also jealous of his ability, and tried his best to suppress Marshal Petain and other truly talented French generals, trying to create a hall of his own in the French military circle.

But even with a mediocre qualification like Gan Molin, even if there are not many really capable and excellent generals around him who can make suggestions, it is not impossible to formulate a counterattack plan after getting the enemy's action plan.

Now, Gan Molin, who thinks he is lucky, not only uses his many years of staff skills to formulate a counterattack plan for the German army battle plan in hand, but also proudly informs Lord Gott, the commander of the expeditionary force sent by the British, of the counterattack plan, and asks the British expeditionary force to cooperate with him.

Gammelin's plan was simple: once the Germans invaded Belgium, he had the French First Army Group under the command of General Björtte, together with the small but well-equipped and mobile 2nd Army of the British Expeditionary Force, advance eastward and enter Belgium at the same time as the Germans entered Belgium.

And when the Germans defeated the main Belgian forces deployed along the Meuse and Albert Canal, it was time for the Anglo-French forces that entered Belgium to join the Belgian second-line troops on the Meuse-Louvain-Antwerp line. When the time comes, it's a big deal to fight another trench battle with the Germans on Belgian soil, as in the First World War!

Anyway, it is not the territory of France, even if it is all destroyed, and France will not need to rebuild after the war. At this point, Gammel really wanted to thank the German army for making such a plan.