Chapter 244: All-out war

In the face of the imminent changes in Europe, Britain and France were secretly worried and silently regretted at the same time, but if time was reversed and they were allowed to make another decision, would they really dare to take the initiative to go to war with Germany?

Seeing the triumphant return of the German army, the British Prime Minister and the French Prime Minister visited Germany again together, nominally to congratulate Germany on defeating the common enemy of Europe, the Soviet Union, but their most important purpose was to test the attitude of the Germans and whether they would invade other European countries. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Hitler said that Germany would not threaten other countries, but it would not spare any enemy, and he loudly rebuked Poland for providing relevant information to the Soviet army when the German army attacked the Soviet Union, so that the Soviet army could prepare in advance, thus increasing the casualties of the German army.

Chamberlain and Faraday were speechless in the face of Hitler's accusations against Poland, a protectorate, and although they saw the so-called conclusive evidence produced by the Germans, they knew that Poland would not dare to do such a thing.

I know what I know, but the Germans clearly mean that they are going to deal with Poland, and this accusation is only to test their British and French tone. Chamberlain and Faraday never imagined that they were originally testing the attitude of the Germans, but they did not expect to be tempted by the other way and were a little overwhelmed.

"We will punish Poland, punish the enemies of Greater Germany......" Hitler roared.

Chamberlain and Farah stood beside Hitler and did not even dare to look at him, as if they were two reprimanded younger brothers.

"There may be a misunderstanding in this matter, and we propose to set up a joint investigation team to investigate the incriminating evidence that Poland betrayed intelligence to the Soviet Union......" In the end, Chamberlain finally insisted on it.

"Do you want to shield and connive at an evil country like Poland? Don't you believe my investigation in the Greater German Territory? Hitler asked rhetorically without giving the slightest face.

Chamberlain and Farrah didn't know how to answer at first.

"Poland is our ally, and we have to be responsible for Poland, so we still want to get to the bottom of it." Faraday thought for a moment and said, because Poland has a deeper relationship with France than with Britain, and if he doesn't even care about France, he can only watch Poland die.

"We, the Great German Reich, will not spare any enemy, and whoever helps the enemy is also our enemy." Hitler's tough response.

In this way, Chamberlain and Farah made a fuss in Germany, slandering Hitler in their hearts, but they were helpless, who told them to believe in a wolf?

As soon as Chamberlain and Farah the Second left Germany, Hitler ordered the German troops in Poland to begin their operations immediately. Because before attacking the Soviet Union, Germany cooperated with Britain and France to coerce Poland to let Germany garrison troops, so that the German army could more easily raid the Soviet Union.

After Germany defeated the Soviet Union, the German army did not withdraw from Poland, but faintly formed an encirclement of various military bases in Poland.

In the end, the result of patience with Germany could only be exchanged for a sudden attack, although Britain and France knew that the German army was going to attack Poland, but they did not have time to make Poland prepare in advance, and they also did not expect that the German army would fight as soon as it was said, and there was no room for relaxation.

In the face of the attack of the superior German army, and the information of the Polish army in all aspects was almost mastered by the German army, the Polish army could not resist at all and was quickly defeated.

Despite repeated defeats and heavy casualties, the Polish resistance was still very stubborn, and they just wanted to buy some time in exchange for the support of the allies, Britain and France.

In the face of Poland's request for help, Britain and France also responded, but only responded, verbally, saying that they had declared war on Germany, but did not take any substantive action, only sending troops to accumulate on the Franco-German border, not to rescue Poland, but to prevent the Germans from suddenly attacking them.

Poland was desperate in the face of the British and French watching the fire, the government began to flee, and the army finally laid down its arms and surrendered to the Germans after nearly 20 days of difficult resistance, after paying heavy casualties.

The demise of Poland also marked the complete failure of the Anglo-French policy of appeasement. Chamberlain stepped down amid the British scolding, and then elected the hard-line Churchill to power.

With the annexation of Poland by Germany and the virtual subjugation of the Soviet Union, Germany had no enemies to threaten on the Eastern Front. At this moment, after Britain and France declared war with Germany, Germany's biggest enemy was naturally Britain and France on the Western Front.

Sure enough, as Wei Qidong said, even though the situation has changed so much, after Britain and France declared war on Germany, they still declared no war, and had no intention of taking the initiative to attack Germany at all, but only relied on the Maginot Line to make a defensive posture.

Hitler was more than happy to see this, but instead of immediately attacking Britain and France, he was ready to sweep away the small surrounding countries and then concentrate on dealing with Britain and France.

Under the powerful offensive of the German army, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and other countries were swept away by the German army one by one, and they failed to hold out for more than seven days.

Britain and France watched these small countries being swept away one by one, and they didn't want to take care of it, but when Belgium was attacked, they had to move.

Britain and France have always believed that the only way for the Germans to invade France is the Schlieffen plan, which had been proposed during World War I, to attack France from Belgium. Because the Franco-German border line is bordered by the fortified Maginot Line to the south, and the Ardennes Forest and the Maas River in the center, there is only one breakthrough for Belgium.

Because of this, Britain and France could not wait for the German army to destroy Belgium and directly rush into France, so in addition to focusing on the Maginot Line, all the main forces of the remaining troops were moved to the Franco-Belgian border to build a defensive line.

"Haha, the British and the French were really fooled......" Hitler was so excited that he slapped the table when he learned that the Anglo-French alliance was indeed as successful as Wei Qidong said.

Immediately, Hitler ordered to act as originally planned, using the Ardennes Forest as a breakthrough. At this time, when the Germans attacked the small countries, they had already sent their troops deep into the Ardennes Forest, sawing off half of the trees on the planned route, but not letting them fall.

After the order was given, Guderian led several armored divisions under his command to quickly rush into the Ardennes Forest, and the trees that had been sawn off half were quickly collapsed under the impetus of the torrent of steel. If you look at it from above, you will see that the dense Ardennes Forest seems to be rapidly opening up a green path through the entire forest.

Guderian was a resolute man, and in every battle, he took the characteristics of the blitzkrieg to the extreme, and in just two days, several of his armored divisions broke through more than 110 kilometers, advanced into the territory of France, and quickly captured the famous French fortress city of Sedan.

Of course, the capture of Sedan did not mean that Guderian's armored division could gallop freely on the French plains, overcoming the difficulties of the Ardennes Forest, and the next thing was the Maas River.

At this moment, Guderian's armored division is located on the north bank of the Maas River, and only by crossing the river can he let his armored division exert the power of blitzkrieg and truly threaten the hinterland of France.