In addition to Manstein, Guderian and other Reinhardt's descendant generals, generals such as Blaschich, Bock, and Rib actually did not know that the accidentally leaked battle order was deliberately leaked by Reinhardt from the beginning.

The plane was specially selected for a bad weather before departing. The chief of the operations section was also disguised by a specially trained Gestapo.

Yes, Reinhardt acted this play very similarly, and he even did the preparations according to the original plan for more than a month, and deceived his own people.

As a result, in the most brutal realities, the generals were forced to accept Reinhardt's new strategy.

And the British and French forces were also deceived into formulating a counterattack plan according to a realistic and false plan.

Of course, it is realistic, because this plan was originally formulated by all the generals as a real plan without knowing it, and it is strange if it is not realistic.

The marching order captured by Belgium happened to be a document of the air force, and many key information about the army was not detailed, so as to avoid leaking important information. Even the important part of the content related to the technical weapons of the Air Force was destroyed "by chance", leaving behind some irrelevant content.

"Everyone has understood the situation, so let's continue to confirm the matter" Reinhardt smiled and said, "Chief of Staff Manstein, you will summarize the main content of the "Scythe Harvest Plan" for everyone. ”

"Yes!" Manstein folded his legs and raised his hand in salute.

Then, Manstein walked to the huge large-scale map in front of the conference room, picked up the telescopic pole and pointed to the various sections of the map.

"First of all, the previous marching order is already in effect. At least in the first phase of the operation, the focus remained on the side of Army Group B. "But we can't settle for the strategic objective of bypassing the Maginot Line," Manstein said, pointing to the north of the map with a telescopic pole. In order to achieve a final and complete victory, we must bypass the Maginot Line, and at the same time destroy the living forces of the Anglo-French forces outside the Maginot Line, destroying their ability to resist later. ”

It is necessary to bypass the Maginot Line, and at the same time to annihilate the main forces of the enemy army!

Although this is not the first time that they have heard of this grand strategic goal, every time they hear this kind of inspiring ambition, Brauchitsch and his party are still deeply shocked by the ambition behind this battle plan.

This is what the Führer proposed, this is the appetite of the top leaders of the Third Reich. A tactical success could no longer satisfy Reinhardt, he would only be satisfied if he achieved an overwhelming advantage in grand strategy.

That is France, which claims to have the strongest army in the world, not Poland, let alone Denmark, a country with no history of war. Think about the generations of legendary generals that have emerged in France, and think about the strong performance in the history of French military wars. In the face of such an opponent, what a heroic attempt to complete the battle!

"The Führer weighed it again and again and concluded that if we were to fight only to achieve a partial objective of crossing the Maginot Line, it would be unreasonable both in terms of the political effort to undermine the neutrality of the three countries and the military effort to drain the defense forces of the Eastern Front." Before summing up the plan, Manstein inappropriately listed the Führer's sign.

Although Reinhardt first proposed the Scythe Harvest Plan, Manstein felt that he was unusually in favor of it, and even had a sense of familiarity with the plan. However, he didn't want to take the credit for it.

First, Reinhardt was the first to come up with the plan, and he was only the executor, and it was not so easy to take credit.

Second, if the Führer had made the main reform plan, several veteran generals of the army would naturally not dare to say anything. But if only he Manstein had been involved in the event that changed their original plan. It is not clear whether there will be dissatisfaction with the members.

Even if there is a special reason for the leakage of the original plan, knowing that a chief of staff has changed the plan carefully formulated by several generals, judging from the German Army's practice of putting staff officers in a subsidiary position, it is inevitable that several generals will not be able to hang their faces.

The above two points made Manstein reluctant to share this offending plan at the moment, but "generously" gave all the credit to Reinhardt.

"In order to achieve richer results, the 'Scythe Harvest Plan' changed the single-key attack of Army Group B to a two-way focused attack of Army Group A and Army Group." Manstein's telescopic pole was moved from the staging area of Army Group B to the assembly position of Army Group A: "Therefore, Army Group B needs to divide an armored division and transfer it to Army Group A to increase the combat strength of Army Group A. ”

At this point, Manstein paused and turned his gaze to Reinhardt's side, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the SS, Steve, who actually commanded the Waffen-SS for the Führer.

"The SS will provide Army Group A with an armored division and five combat-ready infantry divisions." Steve smiled understandingly: "This is already all the main forces of the SS left on the Western Front, I will lead them all to join Army Group A and obey the command of General Rundstead." ”

Even the Führer's heavy SS was assigned to Army Group A, which was one of the reasons why Army Group B accepted the transfer of an armored division from its side to Army Group A.

It's just a transfer of an armored division, and it's far from being unacceptable. It can even be said that this change did not have a significant impact on their previous advance plans, and as long as they were properly directed, the impact was almost negligible.

"In addition, the combat duty against the Netherlands was removed from the combat duty of Army Group B. The original plan for the Dutch 10th Army was changed to the area around Antwerp, and then the British and French forces that were very likely to come to reinforce Belgium were engaged in the early stage of the struggle. ”

After all, the wars Reinhardt has waged so far have all been revenge battles as a continuation of history. Germany and France are feuding, and there is no discussion about fighting France. Belgium participated in the invasion of the Ruhr industrial area in Germany, and it can be regarded as a deep hatred with Germany.

Britain, which fought these two countries and declared war on Germany early, was not at a disadvantage in terms of public opinion or morality.

The Netherlands, on the other hand, was the only country among these targets that did not bully Germany during World War I. Not only that, but they also took in the desperate Kaiser and participated in the early secret deal of German rearmament.

It can be said that the Netherlands is a favor to Germany.

Reinhardt was not a war maniac, his Germany would show the muzzle of his gun to his enemies, and he would also leave a good wine for his friends.

Reinhardt would not have turned a war of revenge into a blatant war of aggression in order to take down a Netherlands that did not have much strategic interest, and turned it into a blatant war of aggression in an ungrateful image.

"Yes, we in the Third Reich stand for justice." Reinhardt said with a look of nonsense: "We who uphold the justice of the world only fight the countries that deserve to be beaten!" ”

Damn it! The Führer is the Führer, and if you say such nonsense, you can simply open your mouth, and you will be serious! Sitting behind Reinhardt, Goebbels, who was in charge of propaganda, looked at him with admiration.

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