The first clash of opinions broke out between Guderian and Bock, and the main reason for the argument was the direction of the German offensive that the Germans had chosen at the moment.

The conservative Bock believed that it was necessary to make a steady and steady move, first consolidate the landing area, accumulate sufficient troops, and then begin to radiate to the periphery, and according to the plan of the high command, take a detour along the coastal road to the flanks of Dover and Folkestone, and strive to encircle and annihilate the British mobile forces on the seashore at one time, and then seize the ports of Dover and Folkestone.

Guderian had his own peculiar point of view, and he believed that before the British could react, they should concentrate the existing armored assault forces and attack directly on London, because most of the British forces had already been drawn to the Dover line, and London was almost undefended for the Germans.

Bock was skeptical, because even the British would not allow an area to lose contact for 24 hours without being indifferent, and similarly, no matter how tightly the Germans concealed battlefield intelligence, there was no guarantee that nothing would slip through the net.

Although there were no British civilians left in the landing zone, there were already reconnaissance teams that reported that some small farms in the surrounding area were still left with single-family British peasants, and there was even a brief exchange of fire between the two sides. The report of the British paratroopers shows that in the middle area, there are still many small garrisons and outposts, although the paratroopers eliminated all the enemy troops encountered, but there is no guarantee that the other side did not raise the alarm when attacked, and there is no guarantee that no one escaped in the attack, because the attacks all took place at night, although the moonlight was bright, but there were many bushes and groves in the fields of the British countryside, and there were countless corners in the villages where people could hide.

Bock's conservative estimate is that Germany will be able to guarantee that battlefield intelligence will be interrupted for only 20 hours at most. In any case, the British will surely find out that the Germans have landed.

If this time had been used for marching, it would have been possible to get under the city of London. But now it is not a march, but a battle, and there will be all kinds of emergencies along the way, as can be seen from the intercepted telephone and telegrams, along the road to London, there are still many towns and villages still inhabited, and there are still a large number of National Guard troops and a small army garrison.

It was impossible for the German army to advance without alarming them, and the German army was bound to be blocked by miscellaneous soldiers along the road. As long as they lay some mines, or destroy roads and bridges, the offensive will inevitably be blocked, and the British government will have enough time to adjust its strategy, and if Churchill chooses to organize a defensive line on the spot to resist stubbornly, then it can be reluctantly accepted, and if the British government chooses to abandon London and retreat to the west, it will be the last thing the high command wants to see. The Germans were likely to be caught up in troublesome mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare, and the cost of manpower and material resources was immeasurable, and a long delay would inevitably lead to unpredictable variables, such as the intervention of foreign anti-German forces.

Although the High Command analyzed Churchill's character. He thought that if he was given some illusion of hope, he would choose to hold on to London before utter despair, but all this was just a prediction. There is no shortage of tough guys in history who end up being cowards, so Xu Jun has always emphasized the rhythm of the attack, and tried to avoid irritating Churchill before the final thunderous blow.

At present, the forces of the German landing are still insufficient. It is impossible to completely encircle the London area, and of course it is impossible to prevent the British government from withdrawing from London, and a blind attack on London will inevitably startle the snake and trigger an overreaction from the British government.

If this force leaves the landing area and makes a surprise attack on London, once it is counterattacked by the British resistance forces on the road and entangled by the enemy's miscellaneous troops, the British troops in the Dover area will definitely take advantage of the situation and launch a counterattack on Dill after learning the news.

Although the landing zone lacking armored forces could be guaranteed to survive with the fire support of the Luftwaffe and the Navy, the supply lines of this armored force would inevitably be cut off, and the end result would be a defeat for both sides.

Guderian was finally persuaded by Bock, who admitted that the veteran army group commander did have an extraordinary view of the overall situation, and compared with him, his vision was still narrower, and he only considered the tactical level, and it seemed that he still needed more experience, accumulated more battlefield experience, and broadened his strategic vision.

The German armored forces have always been shrouded in an invincible aura, but tank commanders of Guderian's level know very well that the invincibility of the German armored forces actually hides very obvious weaknesses, and the existing German tank forces can only barely cope with the operations in the European region, and they are not the perfect armored iron fist in their minds.

The success of German tanks in the Czech Republic and Poland was actually based on the enemy's outdated combat concepts and outdated equipment, which could not cope with the high-speed assault and continuous air strikes of mechanized troops.

The German armoured forces were confronted by the enemy's large army infantry, with rigid tactics, slow movement, slow reactions, and a lack of anti-armor weapons.

At the same time, relying on the agility and speed of the No. 1 and No. 2 tanks, as well as their strong cross-country passing ability, they could complete the flank detour ahead of the enemy's retreating infantry, encircle the collapsed enemy units, and cooperate with other subsequent units to annihilate the enemy forces in the encirclement.

But the German armored vehicles did not have a significant advantage over their counterparts in the enemy army. His enemy actually had a number of armored vehicles of superior quality and performance, and the German armored forces were often technically crushed when they confronted the opponent's armored forces head-on.

The problem is that the enemy's concept of using tanks is still in the First World War period, and the tank is regarded as a support force for infantry attacks, so the tank is often scattered to various infantry units, and the enemy also lacks infantry and tank joint combat training, and the infantry and tanks are often disconnected in battle.

Therefore, although the enemy tank units are often able to defeat the German tanks in frontal combat, the German army will rely on local numerical superiority to dispatch some tanks to entangle the enemy's armored forces head-on, and send another part of the tanks to detour from the flank to the rear of the enemy's armored forces, smash the enemy's rear command posts and baggage, and cut off the enemy's supply lines.

In general, opponents will quickly fall into disarray. And began to retreat. The infantry may still be able to escape, but the tank units that are cut off from heavy supplies simply do not have much staying power, and continuous combat and mechanical wear and tear will soon fall into the embarrassing situation of running out of ammunition and running out of fuel, and the Germans will send infantry and artillery to solve these steel targets one by one.

However, when German tanks encountered enemy armoured units of equal strength, the result often turned into a one-sided rout. At this time, the German tank crews had only a few more combat experience than their opponents, and most of them attacked infantry and pillboxes, and did not have much real confrontation with armored units. The German tank crews could only be regarded as shedding their shells a few days earlier than their opponents, and they were far from reaching the point where they had experienced a hundred battles in the later period.

On the battlefield in France, the German tank units were attacked several times by frontal attacks by the French concentrated tank clusters, and as a result, they were beaten in a mess and full of ugliness. Burning tanks No. 3 and No. 2 spread across the battlefield.

Moreover, the German tank also has a weakness caused by blitzkrieg tactics, due to tactical needs, the commander is too much to pursue the long-distance high-speed breakthrough of the tank, but most of the infantry divisions assigned to the tank unit are only semi-mechanized or even pure mules and horses, so the high-speed breakthrough tank unit is often disconnected from the infantry unit attached to it, resulting in the logistics supply line is often exposed to enemy firepower.

In the European theater, it would have been early in the French campaign if it had not been for the fact that the enemy forces on the opposite side had fallen into disarray and could not organize an effective attack. On several occasions, the German Panzer Division was divided and surrounded by the enemy and suffered heavy blows.

At the same time, due to the German army's tactical pursuit of high-speed and continuous attacks, the mechanical wear and tear of the German armored forces was very serious, and the German tanks were too sophisticated. As soon as the wear exceeds the limit, it will immediately fail, so it is necessary to keep the logistics supply line open at all times and ensure that the spare parts and repair services follow. Once there is a problem with logistics support, a large number of tanks will soon lie down due to breakdowns.

It's fine if you're on offense. The Germans could recover and repair these vehicles at any time. But in the event of a retreat, these tanks can only be abandoned on the spot to the enemy. This scene often happened in the original world, on the Soviet-German Eastern Front. A large number of expensive tanks were often abandoned on the way to retreat because of some very minor failure. These failures are easy to repair and recover in peacetime, but because the troops are in a state of retreat, the lightly armed logistics repair and supply units run in front of the armored troops, and the tanks serving as the rearguard cannot even find a single trailer, and these vehicles can only be thrown on the battlefield in vain. Of course, these are the original history, and in the current time and space, these have not happened, and Xu Jun will not allow this kind of thing to happen.

In the current combat experience of the German army, the German armored units are usually specially used to knock the enemy infantry, and the final solution to the enemy armored forces often relies on the German infantry and artillery, and the tanks that die under the cluster grenades and 37 knockers actually account for a large part of the enemy's tank losses.

This is the true face behind the legend of the victory of the German armored forces, the German only took half a step more than his enemies, and it was this small half step that made most of his enemies hate him on the spot.

In 40 years, the main tanks in the German tank division were the fragile No. 2 and No. 3, as well as some Czech-made 38T, which was a tank with only 50 mm armor, which was once regarded by Rommel as the main equipment of the Sixth Tank Division in the original history, and was used as a heavy assault force.

Most of the existing main models of German tanks could not fight frontal tank battles with British and French tanks, and in addition to their small size, flexible and maneuverable, most of the important performance indicators were not in an advantageous position, and they were criticized for their barren firepower. The only one in the German army that could confront the enemy's heavy tanks head-on was the newly developed No. 4 tank, but because it had just been mass-produced, at the beginning of the French campaign, the whole army had only a few hundred of them.

This time, Xu Jun took out his blood and incorporated a large part of the No. 4 tank mass-produced in more than two months into the landing force, plus the companies drawn from several armored divisions, and managed to make up 220 No. 4 tanks, of which 60 were the latest No. 4G type, and these tanks were organized into eight heavy armored battalions, which were directly under Guderian's command.

This was the first armored unit in the German army to be able to confront all the tanks in service in the world, and it was very close to the goal of perfect armored force in Guderian's eyes, if it could be accompanied by enough auxiliary artillery and mechanized infantry. Guderian believed that he could rely on this force to defeat all the armor forces of its size, easily tearing apart two to three times as many conventional infantry units.

The problem is that at the moment there are only three armored battalions ashore, and one of them is a light armored battalion, which is used as a peripheral armed reconnaissance force. Although the follow-up tank battalions were landing in a steady stream, it would take at least half a day to gather a sufficient armored force, so Guderian had to stand in his office on the second floor of Fort Dear, holding a compass and a slide rule to the map.

At this time, the landing trestle of the German army had developed to twelve, which could transport the personnel, equipment, vehicles, and materials of one regiment per hour to land. Bock expected that before the sun went down, there would be two infantry divisions, more than 50,000 German troops on the British mainland, and Bock would personally lead one of the infantry divisions to cooperate with the armored division led by Guderian, detour to the Dover flank, encircle the last mobile forces of the British army in the Dover area, and then divide and annihilate these forces according to the plan.

At the same time, before midnight the next day, Reichenau's third echelon would complete the landing, and two tank divisions and one mechanized infantry division would launch a surprise attack on London, striving to complete the encirclement of London on the morning of the third day.

From the fourth day onwards, there would be two days of bad weather over the Channel, and London was in the storm, and although the bad weather would hinder the German attack, it would also hinder the evacuation of the enemy.

This battle plan is the only thing that can still correspond to the existing situation and be able to implement it among the plans drawn up by the high command for the landing.

At present, the battle seems to be going smoothly on the whole, but in the command room of the high command is simply chaos, the British empty city plan has disrupted all the plans of the Germans, the original accurate timetable has become a piece of waste paper, and the German General Headquarters can only adapt to the actual situation and grope for follow-up actions.

Fortunately, the most dangerous moment has passed, the German army can be said to have gained a firm foothold in the British mainland, and when the main British army in Dover is eliminated, the German army will be able to transport troops directly from the port of Dover to the shore, and the large troop carriers can carry a brigade of infantry to land at a time, and the landing German army will soon turn around with the British army and occupy the advantage in strength.

Just as the generals of the High Command were planting flags on the map around Bock's attack plan, in the middle of the English Channel, twenty-four years after the end of the Battle of Jutland, the main fleets of the British and German navies collided with all their strength again, and the British Royal Navy and the German new high seas fleet launched a final decisive battle in this strait that carried the glory of the Royal Navy for a hundred years. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)