"Be careful to stay in formation and don't get crowded, crowding will only make the march slower!"

Li Ling stood on the roof of the armored command car, looking at the convoy in front and behind, and his eggs hurt incomparably. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He had never been able to understand why the Ardennes Forest had become a moat, and according to historical records, there had always been a road to cross the Ardennes Forest area, but why were the French so confident?

Now when the troops really drove into the Ardennes Forest, Li Ling really understood, where can this be regarded as a road?

It may be possible to drive two tanks side by side in a rough and wide place, but it is extremely difficult for even one tank to pass through in a narrow place.

During the march of Army Group A, the engineering units kept opening the way at the front, followed by the 19th Panzer Corps, and Li Ling's 1st Regiment was placed between the 1st and 2nd Panzer Divisions of the 19th Panzer Corps, which could obviously be seen to protect them.

But the problem now is that the speed of the troops is so slow, so slow that it almost collapses.

From the time it set out at half past four in the morning, it was now close to evening, and the 1st Armored Division, the vanguard force, had only advanced less than 30 kilometers, and the troops were advancing almost at a turtle speed, and everyone was restless.

The speed itself is not fast, because the road conditions are so bad, and there are also accidents that crash or even overturn from time to time, so it is no wonder that the troops are even slower than the speed of human walking.

"What the hell, at this speed, when will I be able to pass through this forest!"

Drilling back into the armored command car, Li Ling smashed the bulkhead next to him with his fist, no matter how much he shouted, it would not have any effect, this is like the common traffic jam in Beijing in later generations, such a wide road can be blocked and cannot move a bit, not to mention this rugged mountain road?

"Commander, don't worry, no matter how anxious we are, can't we do anything?"

Why wasn't Chief of Staff Kirsch in a hurry? But this is not at all a problem that can be solved in a hurry, now all the troops, tanks of various models plus a large number of armored vehicles are crowded here, and the speed is simply impossible to raise.

"Hey......"

Li Ling sighed and sat there sullenly without saying a word.

In fact, Li Ling is not the only one who is restless?

Guderian, who took the lead, Kleist, the commander of the entire armored group, and so on, did not have anyone who was not in a hurry, but they were not the only ones who were more anxious, but Rundstedt, the commander of Army Group A.

All the troops of Army Group A rushed into the Ardennes Forest at the same time, but the Ardennes Forest could only pass through four rugged mountain roads, and on this mountain road, a total of thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, motorcycles, self-propelled guns, towed artillery, and so on totaled more than 30,000 vehicles of various types gathered by the entire Army Group A!

Because Army Group A's mission through the Ardennes Forest was itself intended to be a surprise attack, even if Volckebier promised to provide support with more than 2,000 aircraft, these planes would still not be able to come in handy at this time.

Flying over the Ardennes, there were only a couple of Luftwaffe reconnaissance planes, and that's it!

This kind of turtle-speed movement, although it is hidden by the forest, does not completely rule out the possibility of being discovered by the French.

Once such a large and immobile force was discovered by the French, and the French launched an artillery strike, the losses would be extremely terrifying, and it was even very likely that the entire Army Group A would be completely buried in this vast forest.

With a large army, a slow pace, and a threat that could come at any time, Rundstedt was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, but there was nothing he could do.

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"Who is sitting on the hatch cover of Lao Tzu!"

Knocking on the hatch hard, the impatient Li Ling got out of the armored command vehicle again, looked at the long convoy, jumped out of the chariot, he didn't want to be stuffy in the command car anymore, he would rather be swaying around at this time, anyway, now the troops can only slowly crawl forward at the speed of this turtle.

Unlike Army Group A, which was marching on the territory of Luxembourg in the Ardennes Forest, in other directions the German forces had launched a full-scale offensive against the Low Countries.

Beginning at 4:30 a.m., several thousand Luftwaffe aircraft began to carry out non-stop air raids on the Netherlands and Belgium, completely destroying all the airfields and fleets of these two countries almost before dawn.

At dawn, German paratroopers parachuted into strategic routes in the two countries, seized bridges and water facilities, and three Panzer Divisions of Army Group B crossed the border to the screeching of Stuka dive bombers and launched an all-out assault on Belgium and the Netherlands.

By noon, the German army had run over one-third of the territory of the Netherlands, and Belgium was even more miserable, and before their absolute main force, the 7th Division, which was responsible for defending the Albert Canal, could not react to what had happened, the German airborne troops landed in the center of their first and second lines of defense, instantly severing the connection between the two lines of defense, and splitting the 7th Division into two.

When, in the face of a swarm of 200,000 German troops, the remnants of the 7th Division intended to retreat to what they considered to be the most impregnable fortress of Eben-Emel, only to find that the fortress had been occupied by thousands of German airborne troops who had fallen from the sky a few hours earlier, and the artillery in the fortress did not fire at the Germans, but at the already beleaguered Belgian army.

The war was in full swing, and the British and French governments, which reacted, immediately ordered their troops to enter the territory of Holland and Belgium to prepare to resist the German attack, but the outcome was far less smooth than the people sitting in the office thought.

First of all, the 3rd Division of the British Expeditionary Force under the command of Major General Bernard Montgomery arrived at the Belgian border, but was blocked by the Belgian army, which demanded that it must show a permit to allow the British army to enter Belgian territory.

However, Montgomery's temper obviously did not have time to explain anything or get any permits, so he directly ordered his troops to break through the checkpoint and march into Belgian territory.

This was followed by the 1st Cavalry Corps of the French.

When General René, commander of the French 1st Cavalry Corps, received an order to lead his troops to Belgium for reinforcements, he was still dating nearly 100 kilometers from the camp, and more than 20% of his troops were on vacation!

When he rushed back to the troops, he was greeted not by his loyal soldiers, but by bombs from German bombers.

Everything is already in chaos......