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In Paris, France, an important military conference was being held, and the topic of the meeting was, of course, how to respond to the German attack!

After World War I, although France was the victorious country, it began to build the impregnable Maginot Line, France did not want to fight, France wanted peace, so the defensive Maginot Line was the most important.

The French invested a great deal of time and money in building the Maginot Line impregnable, but this line only covered the southern border.

In the north of France, France and Belgium are bordered, and in the east of Belgium, Germany is located.

In other words, Belgium is located between Germany and France, and is a buffer zone between France and Germany.

Although Belgium is a small country, it is not weak, and it is one of the top 20 countries in the world.

On the surface, Belgium has always maintained strict neutrality, declaring itself a "permanent neutral country", but no neutral country was immune to the Great War.

Before the First World War, Belgium was very close to Germany, and after World War I, it was closer to France, and even Belgium followed France to occupy the Ruhr industrial area in Germany, creating the Ruhr crisis and causing hatred among the Germans.

However, as Germany became stronger, Belgium began to weigh again, and for Germany, Belgium was a small country that had nothing to fear.

For reasons of its own security, in order not to provoke Germany, Belgium refused to cooperate militarily with France and refused to strengthen its armaments.

Although there was an impregnable Maginot Line on the German-French border, Belgium in the west had only a few makeshift field fortifications, and the Germans' strategy now was to break through from Belgium.

It is absolutely too late to build a defensive line in Belgium, so we can only use other options.

Presiding over the meeting was the French General Maurice-Ganmerlin, who was now an old man with a gray beard.

He was born in 1872 and is now almost sixty years old.

He graduated from the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1893. During the First World War, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1916. After the war, he served as Commander of the French Army in Syria and Chief of the General Staff of the Army. In 1935 he was the Inspector General of the Army and Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Military Council. In 1938 he was Chief of the General Staff of the French Army.

Historically, he became commander-in-chief of the French army on September 3, 1940, and commander-in-chief of the Anglo-French forces, formulating Plan D, trying to meet the main German army in Belgium. At the same time, Wei Gang was urged to actively organize the Eastern Army in an attempt to open up a second battlefield in the Balkans.

And now, Gammerin is now the backbone of the French army, although the dark clouds of the great war are hanging over the whole of Europe, but Gammerin does not hesitate and hesitate too much.

What are you afraid of, the French Army, the most powerful in all of Europe!

Now he was the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-French forces, and it was up to him to draw up a plan of action to stop the German offensive.

"We have already received the yellow plan for the German offensive, and at the same time, we have detected the recent movement of German troops, which is in line with the yellow plan." "So, we have to carry out further targeted counterattacks on the yellow plan," Gan said. ”

Up to now, the French course of action was still defensive, and they never seemed to have thought of taking the initiative to attack, and if they attacked from the Maginot Line, they would be able to break through the German defense, and even hit Berlin.

They have already obtained the information of the other side, and even if the other party knows that the information has been leaked, they have no choice, unless they are ready to attack the Maginot Line, it is impossible to change.

"Our plan is to deploy our main forces to Belgium once the war starts." "Belgium is now preparing to build a strong defensive line, and we want to stop the German armored forces in Belgium," said Gammelin. ”

"These include our French First and Ninth Corps and the British Expeditionary Force, forming our First Army Group, ready to come to Belgium's aid and to form the main line of defense along the Dyle and Gaz rivers from Antwerp, through Reuvén, Namuel and Giuvet to Mezières." Pointing to the large-scale map on the wall, Gan said to the officers present.

"But why don't we deploy our troops directly to Belgium now? Once the war begins, I am afraid that Belgium will not be able to hold out on to our arrival. Said one of the officers present.

Gan Molin glanced at him, how could this British officer ask such a stupid question?

The commander of the 3rd Division, Bernard Law-Montgomery, was looking at him with wide eyes, his eyes full of anticipation.

Now Montgomery is not as famous as later generations, now he is only a division commander, and his troops, as one of the main forces of the British Expeditionary Force, crossed the English Channel and entered France, and also participated in this military conference.

"Because Belgium is still neutral, the Germans did not declare war on Belgium." Looking at this guy as if he was an idiot, Ganmalin had no choice but to give this answer.

At present, Belgium is still a neutral country, and they still have illusions, in order not to provoke Germany, the current Belgium does not agree to the entry of British and French troops.

Belgium, also a duplicitous one, promised France to step up the construction of fortifications and deploy Belgian troops to the border in response to a possible German invasion, while on the other hand, Belgium rejected the proposal of British and French troops to enter Belgian territory to protect them.

"We can only be behind the Belgians." "Belgium, with two lines of defense, along the Meuse and the Albert Canal, is where the main Belgian forces are deployed. ”

"As soon as Belgium is attacked by Germany, we will immediately advance eastward, with General Björkt commanding Army Group 1, behind the Belgians, to set up the Meuse-Louvain-Antwerp line, and the Belgians, no matter how incompetent, should be able to hold out until our arrival."

Gammel was quite satisfied with his plan, if the Belgians agreed, of course they would enter immediately, but now, they could not directly enter Belgian territory, otherwise, it would be an invasion, what if it annoyed Belgium and threw itself into the arms of Germany?

At the time of the First World War, Ganmalin was quite a famous strategist, and he came up with the battle plan of the Battle of Mars and succeeded; And now, he is the pillar of the entire French army, and he is convinced that his plan is completely fine, and he will definitely be able to block the Germans!

In the conference room, all the officers agreed with Ganmarin's plan, but Montgomery always felt that such a plan was a little too simple, and the German army, with its rapid attack, impressed him, now they had enough time to carry out this plan?