"Okay, that's the end of today, everyone returns to their respective units to stand by, and all the staff officers follow me to the headquarters!"

Rundstedt gave absolute trust to everything Li Ling said, and this trust came from many previous contacts with Li Ling in the Supreme Command. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When Li Ling said that the French did not have reserves, his heart was extremely shocked, if the French really did not have reserves, then it would obviously not be a wise decision for him to continue to let his troops stay in Sedang, but he would miss a lot of fighters.

Now there is no need for this celebration to continue, he needs to immediately call his staff officers to the headquarters, he needs to have a meeting, he needs to reformulate the battle plan!

Now that the entire line of Army Group A has spread out over a distance of more than 100 kilometers, it would definitely not be a wise decision to concentrate such a large force on the outskirts of Sedan according to the previous plan.

Now that there are no worries, it is time to fully exploit the offensive potential of this huge army!

……

The fighters on the front line were fighting under artillery fire, and the government officials in the rear did not have time to be idle.

Just the day before, on May 4, 1940, Winston, who had just taken over as Prime Minister of Britain's wartime cabinet, had just taken over the post of Prime Minister of the British Wartime Cabinet. For the first time, Churchill gave his speech in the House of Commons.

"We are in the early stages of one of the greatest wars in history, we are fighting in many parts of Norway and the Netherlands, and we are preparing to fight in France, we are preparing to fight in the Mediterranean!"

"I want to say to Parliament, as I want to say to those who join this government: 'I have nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat to give to you.'"

"The most severe test is before us, many, many months of long struggle and pain. What is our policy, you ask? ”

"I say that it is our policy to wage war by sea, land, and air with all the power and strength that God can give us; Fight a war with a vicious **** that has never been seen in the history of evil and tragic human crime. That's our policy. ”

"You ask, 'What is our purpose?' I say that our aim is victory—to win at all costs, to seek victory in spite of terror, to win no matter how far and difficult the road may be; Because without victory, there can be no survival. ”

"Everyone must realize that without victory, there would be no existence of the British Empire, no everything the British Empire stands for, and no the requirements and motivation of the times that will motivate mankind to advance toward its goals."

"But I took on my job with excitement and hope. I am convinced that people do not let our cause fail. At this time, I felt that I had the right to ask for everyone's support, and I said: 'Come, let's unite our forces and move forward together'. ”

Churchill's speech was undoubtedly a success, and he stirred up the mood of the entire British Empire, all of whom were working for the war, but the unforgiving fact from the European continent undermined Churchill's confidence again and again.

In the afternoon, not long after his speech, the Dutch army surrendered in a matter of just over an hour after the near-brutal bombing of the German air forces leveled Rotterdam, the second largest city in the Netherlands.

In the Belgian direction, the British, French, and Belgian armies were also losing one after another, and the situation was not optimistic.

Immediately after that evening, the defending general in the direction of Sedan, France, André? Cora urgently appealed to the French high command, the German vanguard had broken through the Ardennes Forest and the Meuse, known as the moat, and he was organizing a counterattack, but his strength was limited, and he had already lost two divisions in a day's engagement.

On the afternoon of May 5, Churchill was even more shocked by the news that the day before, he had vowed to do everything in his power to stop Andrei, who had suddenly appeared in the German tank force. Kola had become a prisoner of war, and the town of Sedan had been completely occupied by German troops.

The anxious Churchill hurriedly called the commander of the Anglo-French forces, Ganmorin, and the first thing Churchill said was: "Where are the reserves, why don't you transfer them now?" That German army must be stopped, and they must not be allowed to bypass the Maginot Line! ”

But what Churchill received from Ganmorin was the desperate news that he wished to devour all the French alive!

"It's over, France is over!"

"It's only been 5 days, what's the end of it?"

"Where are there any reserves, there are no reserves at all, everything is already over! The Germans have already broken through the Maginot Line, it's over, it's all over......"

"Why are there no reserves! Fight such a large-scale battle, why are there no reserves! ”

"It's over, there's nothing, it's all over......"

With a bang, the phone was slammed on the table, and Churchill couldn't imagine that the French army, known as the world's first army, and the French regarded as the god of war, had no reserves when organizing such a huge battle! Moreover, the French Army turned out to be powerless to fight back!

However, the continuous bad news continues!

When Churchill could barely do anything, he once again thought of the United States, of this super-empire under the Commonwealth created by the British.

Churchill immediately contacted Roosevelt, hoping that the United States could help Britain resist Germany and participate in the war as much as possible.

However, the message he received from Roosevelt was: "The United States is a peace-loving country, and although I am the president of the United States, I cannot send Americans to the quagmire of war against the will of the people!" The affairs of the Europeans should be left to the Europeans to solve! ”

Immediately afterwards, on the same day, in Belgium, the panicked French, without even informing their allies Britain and Belgium, began to withdraw their troops from the Belgian direction, as Sedan had been broken through by a large number of German troops.

The retreating French troops even went directly through the lines of the British and Belgian troops, dealing a serious blow to the morale of the British and Belgian troops.

As a direct consequence of this, the Germans occupied Brussels, the capital of Belgium, that evening!

Churchill angrily demanded that the French must make a change, and that a workable plan must be quickly devised to stop the German army in the direction of Seldan, and that the French troops in Belgium must be ordered to hold their positions without any retreat!

Churchill had reached the point where he could not bear it anymore, he felt helpless for the first time, he felt despair for the first time.

However, on the German side, Führer Heydrich's mood was not much better, and his ally Spain only decided to provide unconditional logistical support, and as for sending troops, there was no such intention at all.

And Italy, well, Mussolini's Italy is still playing Tai Chi, they don't even dare to provide even the most basic logistical support, let alone let them send troops to attack France?

The only thing that can't be called very bad news is the Soviet Union, the ally with evil intentions, although the Soviet Union is still facing the international community with a neutral posture on the surface, but fortunately they are still increasing the amount of strategic material aid to Germany at the moment.

Everything on the continent of Europa is no longer under control, all mediation is in vain, war has broken out in full swing, and no country can stay out of it!