On the morning of 6 May, the 19th Panzer Corps of Army Group A, the 1st Regiment directly under it, the Greater German Infantry Regiment and the Fourth Army received orders at the same time, ordering all units to prepare for the attack, and the attack would be fully launched at noon, and each unit would launch its own attack in accordance with the offensive plan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he got the order in his hand, Li Ling smiled, and Guderian also smiled, but it was Rommel, the commander of the Seventh Armored Division of the Fourth Army, who laughed even more!

According to the order, his 7th Panzer Division was to attack in the direction of Arras as the vanguard of the entire 4th Army, and all the units under the 4th Army were to provide unconditional support to his 7th Panzer Division.

What Rommel values is not this unconditional support, but that his troops finally have a chance to take the lead, and this time, he will really prove himself on this battlefield!

When the German army began to prepare for the next step of the war, the British and French forces were not idle, under the pressure of Churchill, the French finally took out their remaining hundreds of planes and British bombers together to form the largest air assault force of the British and French forces since the start of the war.

More than 500 planes marched straight to the direction of Sedang, which was captured by the Germans, and the targets they organized this time were not the German combat units, but the German logistics baggage troops and the bridges over the Meuse River!

This was Churchill's idea, because the German forces that broke through from the Ardennes Forest were so large that it was impossible for more than 500 planes to inflict much damage on them, and this loss could be replenished.

But if you bomb the logistical baggage troops of the Germans, the result will be completely different!

According to Churchill's vision, a large number of planes could directly attack the German baggage troops, and then blow up the bridges over the Meuse, so that this huge army could completely lose contact with the German mainland, and they would not get any supplies!

Even if their forces are large and unsupplied, it will only be a matter of time before they are overwhelmed.

Churchill's idea can be said to be the best way to solve the real problem, but he ignored a crucial issue, that is, air supremacy!

On the first day of the war, the French Air Force destroyed nearly 80 percent of its planes by the Luftwaffe, and 72 airfields on the front line were completely in ruins.

Moreover, there are more than two thousand combat aircraft solely responsible for air support of Army Group A.

Not only that, but as soon as Army Group A broke through the Meuse, Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief Volcbier made a very bold decision to deploy as many as five fighter wings to Luxembourg to provide a longer escort for his bomber group.

At noon, according to the battle plan received by each of them, the 1st Panzer Division and the 1st Regiment directly under it attacked the west with all their might, the 2nd Panzer Division set off as an echelon, and the 10th Panzer Division was dispatched later to attack the village of Stoney to the south, and the Great German Infantry Regiment was under the command of the 10th Panzer Division.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, not long after the 2nd Panzer Division had set off, and the 10th Panzer Division had not yet left Sedan, a mighty group of British and French aircraft appeared over Sedan, crossed Sedan, and flew straight to the banks of the Meuse River.

"What are they doing?"

Rundstedt couldn't believe his eyes as he looked at the swarm of planes that appeared in the distant sky.

The Anglo-French forces dared to send such a large army to counterattack during the day, when they had no air supremacy at all, they were simply sending them to death!

However, what was waiting for these British and French pilots who looked at death was not the panicked German soldiers, but the dense anti-aircraft artillery groups scattered along the Meuse River!

The German air defense forces began firing almost as soon as the group reached the limit range of the anti-aircraft guns!

The dense network of anti-aircraft fire was quickly weaved, and black clouds rose in the air, black smoke from the explosion of artillery shells after reaching a certain height.

When Rundstedt told the Luftwaffe fighter wing stationed in Luxembourg about the air raids, the air pilots couldn't even believe their ears, when the French would send so many planes to their deaths?

The fighter jets quickly took off and flew over the Meuse, and a strangulation was underway.

The skies over the Meuse were already in chaos at this time, and the Luftwaffe fighters were looking for their opponents to fight, separating the Anglo-French escort fighters from the bomber groups as much as possible, while the British and French air force bombers were looking for suitable positions to drop bombs, and as for the German ground air defense forces, they were staring at one slow and obvious British bomber after another to strike non-stop.

Explosions continued on both sides of the Meuse River, and huge water columns rose from time to time in the middle of the river.

At the same time, the French ground forces reacted quickly, and the French Second Army sent a lightly armored division to quickly move into the village of Stoney, and to the west of Sedan there was a small section of fortress that had been garrisoned by the French 102nd Fortress Division and was now reinforced by a makeshift French Sixth Army.

This deployment of troops has made the French do their best, a large number of troops that can be used for mobility have been dragged in Belgium, and Churchill's side did not allow the main French army in Belgium to retreat, the French are really too clever to cook.

In the evening of the same day, the Anglo-French air raids were declared bankrupt.

Of the more than 500 planes dispatched, less than 200 managed to return, and more than 300 were destroyed, and of the more than 300 planes lost, almost all of the French Air Force aircraft were lost.

This battle almost removed the French Air Force!

At such a terrible cost, their gains were almost negligible, and they had nothing to do but two blown up anti-aircraft guns and a supply warehouse and a few vehicles.

The most important target they tried to destroy: the bridge over the Meuse, did not drop a single bomb on it, and their air raid turned into a complete death operation.

At the same time, the German 10th Panzer Division and the Großdeutsche Infantry Regiment, which were responsible for attacking the village of Stoney, also exchanged fire with the French 3rd Light Mechanized Division, but it was clear that the inferior tanks and armored vehicles of the French could not pose any threat to a pure tank force like the German 10th Panzer Division, and the tide of the battle took a sharp turn.

Immediately, the French threw their 2nd Army, the largest formed army in France at this time, into the battle at the village of Stoney.

However, can such a force really turn the battlefield around?