Not only Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps, but in order to achieve the desired suddenness and rapidity, Manstein also added the 14th Motorized Corps as a second rapid army to the task of breaking through the Ardennes Forest.

In Guderian's front headquarters, the staff officers of the 14th Motorized Corps had already called and communicated with the 19th Panzer Corps about the progress of preparations.

In the south, six divisions behind Army Group C, which are carrying out deception missions, will also transport three divisions north along the Karlsruhe-Offenburg-Freiburg-Konstan line to follow up after Army Group A has achieved a breakthrough.

All preparations were in full swing, and for this war, the Third Reich had mobilized all the mobile forces it could.

"General, I heard that your nephew Lecht has become an iconic figure in the style of junior officers. You say, will this kid leak some news? The staff officer, who has partnered with Guderian for 2 years, quipped.

"Leaking news?" Guderian was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said, "Every time this kid sees me, he only knows how to eat and drink, and the last time we met, his biggest gain was to take away a case of compressed biscuits and two cases of Fanta soda from me." As for operational information and the like, he didn't ask about anything. ”

What you haven't asked, you can't divulge. Hearing Guderian say this, the staff officers in the command headquarters were relieved. Seriously, they were really worried that Guderian's nephew would get some information from him and leak it out.

One to ten, ten to hundred. Once the opening is opened, let the information spread. The Anglo-French forces might also get the news, so that the well-planned surprise attack would be ruined by leaks.

"Rather than worrying about whether my nephew has leaked some information that he doesn't know about, it would be better to improve the final preparations as much as possible and launch an attack as soon as possible." Guderian smiled and concluded: "Once the offensive starts, there is no need to worry about leaks. ”

As the spearhead of Army Group A, which had been strengthened into 3 Panzer Corps and 7 Panzer Divisions, Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps was already being made more and more nervous by the increasing responsibility.

The Panzer Corps, led by General Rundstedt, were Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps, Hermann Hort's 15th Panzer Corps, and Jorg-Hans Reinhardt's 41st Panzer Corps. Among them, Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps was the most combat-effective, and it was the main force and vanguard of the Panzer Corps with three Panzer divisions (including an elite Panzer Division provided by the SS). The 15th and 41st Panzer Corps, which did not receive SS Panzer Divisions, had only two Panzer Divisions each.

"Report!" An emotional mid-level staff officer suddenly rushed into the gate of the command headquarters with a telegram: "The command sent the code name of the operation - sickle harvesting. ”

Scythe Harvest! This is the name of the command of the French campaign. The code name sent by the High Command means that the implementation of the "Scythe Harvest Plan" is officially confirmed.

“........ To sum up, the operation will be carried out according to the predetermined D time period. The staff officer put away the telegram, raised his head and turned his gaze to Guderian.

The start of the operation in the D period refers to the offensive in the early hours of 10 May. This time period is less than 10 days away from today.

"There is not much time left for us to distribute all the combat materials to the troops on the front line as soon as possible." Guderian waved his hand and said, "More than half a year of fake war, it is about to become true." ”

"Yes!" Everyone in the military headquarters immediately responded loudly.

In the six months since the Anglo-French alliance declared war on Germany, Shuangfang has always maintained restraint intentionally or unintentionally, and there has been no battle in the true sense.

The German side restrained itself on the Western Front because it needed a lot of time to prepare for the end of Poland in the East, and then secretly transferred troops back to the Western Front.

And the Anglo-French forces also exercised restraint because they had to wait....... and so on to complete the strategic objectives of the expedition to Norway.

But now, the British and French expeditionary forces that were finally put together have been completely wiped out in Norway and surrendered en masse. Churchill's original strategy for Norway has now failed entirely.

The strategy of the British failed, and it was only the strategy of the French.

In contrast to Churchill's initiative, Ganmerin's Plan D was another reactive counterattack. So, no matter how long he will wait. Because he was prepared to fight back passively from the beginning, rather than attacking actively.

After the failure of Churchill's strategy of taking the initiative, the plan of Ganmalin's passive counterattack became more correct.

"The French must have simply thought that their wait would be rewarded." Flipping through the offensive instructions in his hand, Guderian smiled playfully.

Sitting back and waiting for the enemy has been the norm of the French army's military maxim since the time of Napoleon. In a sense, this kind of late-strike approach is indeed very effective.

According to the actions of the enemy, it is theoretically possible to achieve the desired results in the face of the first wave of enemy forces by launching targeted operations by moving slowly.

After all, all plans are made in a targeted manner. Although it was a step late, it was exchanged for an opportunity to see the move.

However, at a time when the Germans were setting up a series of schemes, this strategy of striking backward was useless.

When the Anglo-French troops were complacent about the fact that the Germans had entered their pockets, they did not know that what they thought was the main force of the German army was nothing more than a decoy. The real killer move of the German army is still to come.

..........

Paris, France.

"Plan D must be carried out thoroughly!" The hard-line Gammerin repeatedly stressed to the Allied generals: "As soon as we find out that the German army is entering Belgium, we will devote all our mobile force to defeat the German army together with the Belgian army." ”

In order to get more response to his plan, the battle meeting convened by Gammelin included not only British generals, but also many Belgian generals.

Hearing that Ganmarin wanted to let all the main forces of the coalition army enter his own territory and help his country defend against the German army, the Belgian general naturally responded: "The commander-in-chief is right! We are already a late striker, and if we don't seize the opportunity to fight back in time, we will lose more and more opportunities. ”

"Well," Lord Gert, commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, who had wanted to dissuade Ganmarin from leaving a reserve to stand by in the rear, finally compromised at the constant request of the Franco-Belgian generals: "Well, I retract my previous opinion. According to General Gammelin's request, the British Expeditionary Force would enter the Belgian theater of operations in full time of the war. ”

"Half a year's wait has paid off! In this battle, we will completely defeat the Germans! "We have a coalition of three countries fighting together, but the Germans have only their own troops to mobilize. In terms of strength, the Germans will never surpass us. Everyone, take courage and do your best! ”