Facing the onslaught of the 7th Panzer Division of Limer's Panzer Corps was the French 10th Infantry Corps. In fact, the 10th Infantry Corps was combined with the French Ninth Army in a very dangerous way. In order to cover the Maginot Line from being outflanked, the commander of the 10th Infantry Corps, General Grandesard, and the commander of the French Second Army, General Hunter Zigger, deployed the better division, the 3rd North African Division (active division) on the right, another B-level reserve division, and the 55th Infantry Division on the left, connected with the rightmost flank of the French Ninth Army, the 53rd Infantry Division (another B-class division).

(General Lapp of the French Ninth Army, in order to prevent the troops advancing into Belgium from being outflanked, deployed the better troops on the left).

Behind these two divisions, there was the reserve, another B-class division, which belonged to the 10th Infantry Division of the 71st Army. These 3 B-class divisions would guard the section of the river where Li Mo's Panzer Army was attacking. That is, the section of the river that Bismarck was about to attack.

The morale of the two armies was extremely low, and Lord Brooke recalled, recalling a review of a French unit: "I have rarely seen such a bad unit, the soldiers are not shaved, the horses are not combed, the uniforms are lazy and ill-fitting, the vehicles are dirty, and no one has a sense of honour for his troops." Everyone showed an expression of resentment and disobedience. When the command to look to the left is heard, no one obeys...

Bismarck soon received a reply from Limer, who ordered Bismarck to immediately move eight kilometers downstream of Sedan and then rest well, and tomorrow their armored division would be the main attack task of crossing the river, and at the same time Lismarck also explained to Bismarck that eight kilometers downstream of Sedan was the junction of the French Second Army and the French Ninth Army.

Bismarck immediately ordered his armored troops to rush downstream to Sedan, not to mention that it was only eight kilometers away, it took Bismarck two hours to reach the designated position, and after arriving here, Bismarck found another unit of the Seventh Army, that is, the direct shipping regiment of the Seventh Army, which was urgently transferred by Limer to the French front.

Of course, these helicopters are FA223 transport helicopters, this Seventh Army direct flight regiment has a total of 164 aircraft, although the transport of these helicopters is only two tons, there is basically no armor, it is still possible to block the rifle, there is no way to prevent anti-aircraft machine guns, just this take-off weight, even if Li Mo has the ability to do the day, there is no way to equip FA223 with thicker armor.

Isn't this FA223 useless? In addition, Li Mo has modified all these FA223 helicopters, and the ugly FA223 is hung on both sides of the German 150mm six-barrel rocket launcher "Gas Tank Shape". It is the German six-barreled rocket launcher, the gun body weighs more than 200 kilograms, two are 500 kilograms, plus twelve 150 mm caliber, 8 kilometers range of rockets, a rocket net weight of 31 kilograms, can be carried by FA223 transport helicopters.

Besides, the horsepower of the current FA223 has also been increased by Li Mo's request, in addition to these, two machine gunners can be carried up to provide the most direct near-air fire support for the troops.

These FA223 helicopters with weak defensive capabilities, super maneuverability, and super firepower, under normal circumstances, follow the attack of armored forces, and will never fly alone over enemy positions, and the range of general air defense weapons is generally three kilometers, FA223 can completely outside the enemy's firepower, and the air above their own armored forces can launch an attack, and the armored forces below can provide ground protection for FA223 in the air, and FA223 provides strong enough fire support for armored groups.

Bismarck's armored division has the direct support of the direct navigation regiment, which makes Bismarck's confidence skyrocket, and when the commander-in-chief of Army Group B will definitely send JU87 dive bombers, this is a high-power precision strike, this kind of most advanced "three-dimensional blitzkrieg," can it be blocked by those second- and third-rate French ** teams?

It's difficult, it's difficult, even if there is a natural danger of the Maas River, as long as the German pontoon bridges are erected, France will have to collapse, there is no other way.

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The optimistic Allied High Command, the Allied High Command's estimate of the situation by the 11th was still very optimistic, and the French military attaché in London told the British on both the 11th and the 12th that the main direction of the German offensive was through the Low Countries, at least this time, strategically, the enemy did not achieve a surprise attack. Of course, the Germans' current success was largely due to the lack of preparedness of the Netherlands and Belgium, and General Weygand in Syria also believed that the situation was favorable to the Allies.

However, there is still some bit of intelligence that suggests, especially the reconnaissance of the Royal Air Force, that in the Ardennes direction, there is a strong German unit. But due to the tight cover of the Luftwaffe and the dense forests, the intelligence was vague. In addition, the intensity of Bauk's offensive in the north also raised suspicions that this was the main force of the German armored forces. In conclusion, the documents of the French High Command at that time did not express a recognition of the danger in the Ardennes direction.

Rather, General George issued a directive in which he "foresaw" the need to strengthen the defenses of the Sedan area. The French 2nd, 3rd Panzer Division, 3rd Motorized Division, 14th, 36th, and 87th Infantry Divisions were instructed to occupy the second-line positions behind Sedan. Orders were given to these divisions on the 11th-13th, respectively, but it was already too late, and it turned out that the divisions would not be able to reach the front when they were most needed.

On the 10th, the British and the French General George had again had an unpleasant affair, and on the 10th, the Gamblerin had already handed over the power to consult the situation with the Belgian king, but when he visited the headquarters of General George on the 11th, he found that General George had delegated this authority to General Bieraut, the commander of the French 1st Army Group, and also had the power to coordinate the battle plan. Gammyrin was dissatisfied, but did nothing.

By the morning of the 13th, the cavalry search force of the French Second Army crossed the Maas River to search, a dangerous but necessary move. Bismarck's Panzer Division was preparing to cross the river and had to stop fighting, and the 2nd Cavalry Division and the 5th Cavalry Division were still unable to resist the Panzer Corps of the 7th Army and began to retreat in confusion, spread over a frontage of 30 km. Three German Panzer Divisions (7th, 18th, 1st and 9th Panzer Divisions) were rapidly encircling this front.

Even more dangerous was the fact that the right flank of the cavalry search unit of the French Second Army, the cavalry unit of the French 3rd Army on the Maginot Line, the 3rd Cavalry Division, had retreated to France after skirmishes. And on the left flank of the cavalry search unit of the French Second Army in France, a cavalry unit of the French Ninth Army, without a fight, retreated behind the Maas River. As a result, the cavalry search units of the French Second Army lost cover on both the left and right flanks, and of course their end was annihilation, which would have serious consequences for tomorrow's battle.

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