It wasn't just the German soldiers who realized this, but Rundstedt felt it too. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

So he immediately ordered his subordinates to burn the documents and archives that could not be taken away, for fear that these documents would leak any military secrets after they were left to the enemy.

At the same time, Rundstedt also gave the task of blowing up Paris to the commander of the Paris city defenses, General Scholtietz.

Born into a family of Prussian soldiers, Scholtietz once commanded a regiment in a campaign against the Soviet Union to attack the enemy's position, and less than 400 of the 4,800-strong troops survived...... Although this is a failure, from another point of view: the average army can be defined as incapacitated and can collapse at any time as long as half of the troops are killed or wounded, and even more so the British and American troops, but Scholtietz's troops can fight until less than a tenth of their strength is still able to hold on to the battle, which can only be said to have a kind of magic that can maintain the morale of the soldiers.

After receiving this order, Scholtietz immediately asked his men to prepare for the explosion: a large number of engineering units planted a large number of explosives in various important areas of the city of Paris, enough explosives to "blow up half of the world's bridges". Industrial facilities such as power stations, water works, and aircraft factories were given priority, followed by the ancient bridges across the Seine, followed by the French House of Commons building, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the telephone exchange building, the railway station, the Luxembourg Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower......

There is only one exception, and that is the Les Invalides in Paris, where the remains of Napoleon I are kept.

Out of admiration for this great military strategist and conqueror, Scholtitz forbade the destruction of the place.

But after making these arrangements, Scholtitz hesitated.

He knew that he could not win the war, and that the Germans would not be able to hold out the arrival of reinforcements, even the first ones...... Therefore, he and his subordinate city defense forces had only one choice, and that was to surrender to the Allies.

If you order these explosives to be detonated, what will happen to you and the city defense army after surrendering? Needless to say, this can be imagined.

So, when Hitler sent a telegram asking how the situation was, Scholtitz replied: "The fire of Paris has burned, and the destruction of Paris has officially begun!" ”

But in fact, Scholtitz did nothing, he waited quietly in the command headquarters, waiting for the arrival of the Allies...... He believed that in this situation, the German defenses would not last long.

Sure enough, half an hour later, a group of soldiers burst into his office.

It was Chinese, and it was a little relieved to see the soldiers who rushed in, Scholtietz, because compared to the British, Americans, and French, Germany did not have much hatred with China, and even Germany helped the Chinese not long ago.

"You're our captive!" Scholtitz heard an interpreter speak pure German to him.

"Yes!" Scholtitz replied, then raised his hands.

A general who had once dominated the Soviet battlefield became a prisoner of the Chinese army, which was also the beginning of the defeat of the German army in France.

The capture of a general and a large number of German generals (more than 60 officers with the rank of major general and above) did not make Zhang Chi feel anything special...... Because Zhang Chi knows very well that this war is not like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in ancient times, where a small country was defeated and then a certain famous general was captured, and he persuaded him in a few words, such as a good bird choosing a tree and perching on it, so that the other party could use it for himself.

In fact, even if these famous generals of the German army were willing to use them for themselves...... I am afraid and dare not use it, the brand of the country and the nation has been deeply engraved in the hearts of everyone, and this cannot be changed.

Therefore, the purpose of capturing these generals is nothing more than adding a meaningless figure to their own merit book.

Zhang Chi also did not care about the performance of the French.

The French in Paris welcomed them with glee, but Zhang Chi knew that the French were wary of them.

This is understandable...... After all, the Chinese army and the Algerian army are all foreigners, and even if the Zoaf Corps is a French colonial army, it is still different from the French army.

The French, in particular, still have the mentality that they consider themselves superior to the French colonial army, but now they have to accept the liberation of the French colonial army...... This is a little unacceptable to them.

Therefore, basically no one from the French underground organization and guerrillas took the initiative to contact Zhang Chi and Kukyi, and only a few people who looked like officers came to welcome Zhang Chi and others, and then asked when the troops of the "fighting France" would arrive.

If General Giro heard this, he was afraid that he would faint on the spot.

From this, Zhang Chi also knew that the "fighting France" was still more popular than the "Algiers government" after all, even if the "Algiers government" had won victories again and again, and even now liberated Paris.

Zhang Chi didn't take these to heart, after all, these were useless even if he worried about them.

All he was concerned about was whether the place in Paris would have talent that he could exploit...... You must know that this is Paris, the bridgehead for Germany to attack and bomb Britain, and of course, it is also an important base for the German V-series rockets to be put into actual combat and mass production.

So from the very beginning, Zhang Chi asked his subordinates to pay attention to the scientists who searched for the Germans.

But it was very difficult to do this, because the fighters did not know who was a scientist and who was not, and they did not even understand the language with the Germans and the French.

So tossing and turning is almost nothing.

If anything, it was the successful capture of a factory that produced the V2 rocket, which the fighters quickly took control of and isolated the staff from the rest of the captives.

The subsequent interrogation once again disappointed Zhang Chi: the R&D department had already moved with the data before Paris was breached.

Zhang Chi really wanted to chase with his troops, but in this case it obviously didn't work, he had to stick to Paris and wait for the Allied reinforcements, otherwise everything was meaningless, and even Zhang Chi's troops could become lone and be surrounded and suppressed by the Germans!

Just like Eisenhower's instructions to Zhang Chi in his telegram: "Stay in Paris, and when the storm subsides, I will give you the strongest support!" ”

Of course, Zhang Chi knew that Eisenhower could do this, because there was an airport in Paris, and the US military transport planes could continuously transport the reinforcements and materials that Zhang Chi needed, and the US army also had airborne troops, which could be airborne to the left and right flanks of Paris as soon as possible and form a defensive line......

"General!" At this time, a communications soldier reported: "There is a German who surrenders to us, and he says he is a scientist!" ”