Guderian saw the armored troops resting, the lads were taking care of tanks and vehicles, there was not the slightest tension in a state of war, everyone had a festive atmosphere on their faces, and some were even discussing what would be something for dinner. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Everyone already knew that the French were going to negotiate and that the war was won. The weeks of war have been a little strange for everyone, and the victory of the troops can be described as miraculous.

None of the more than 50 tanks in front of him were lost in battle, and they were the vanguard of their own assault, and seeing these still brand-new No. 4 tanks, Guderian had some indescribable taste.

He has long proposed that he needs to equip tank units with tanks with long-barreled and high-power tank guns, but the boss has always thought that there is no need, and the dozens of No. 4 tanks that he gave himself last year were still short-barreled guns.

It was enough to have support tanks No. 3 and No. 4 against the Poles, but the bombardment of the Bug River finally gave a slap in the face! The Russians are already armed with new tanks with 76-mm cannons, and there are quite a few of them.

Do you want these short-nosed No. 4 and No. 3 with 50mm guns to compete with the new tanks of the Russians? That's basically suicide! Those No. 1 and No. 2 can only be used as reconnaissance vehicles.

The factories were still quite competitive, and finally provided themselves with these No. 4 tanks equipped with long-barreled 75 mm tank guns, and the actual combat showed that the French medium tanks were no match for their own at all, and even the infantry tanks of the British who were super slow and heavily armored were destroyed with a single shot.

The French are no longer a problem, the British elite is staying in prisoner of war camps, and in the future their biggest opponent will be Russia in the east! That Russia, which has been a little incomprehensible all these years!

A winter war showed him the powerful assault capabilities of the Russians, no worse than the offensive capabilities of his own troops, and the analysis of the information obtained from the Finns showed that the Russians' firepower was even above the empire.

Like themselves, the Russians won a quick victory, and the commander of the troops was not the best commander of the Russians: Tukhachevsky was still nesting in the Mongolian steppe. But now it has changed, he has reached the Baltic Sea.

Guderian had studied the strategic thinking of the Soviet marshal, which was strikingly similar to his own operational theory, and now Russia not only has a Tukhachevsky, but also several senior commanders are very good, and in the future it will definitely be the great enemy of Germany.

And then there's the Russian Deputy People's Commissar for Defense, Andrei, a figure like Stalin's darling. In the past few years, the empire paid too little attention to this person, but in recent years, judging from intelligence, almost every major event that has happened in Russia has his shadow behind him, and this is a very difficult character.

Guderian didn't have much to do with politics, that's a politician's business, but he also knew: an opponent who understands both politics and military affairs is very scary!

Thinking of this Andrei, Guderian even felt a little disgusted: it was because of this person that Stalin would order the complete extermination of more than 100,000 Finnish troops, and not a single prisoner was left!

“********！ Must be wiped off the face of the earth! ”

Guderian hated Soviet Russia on his own ground, but what if he had a clear understanding of what the Third Reich was "doing" to those peoples?

It's a pity that he's just a soldier.

"Which guy is cursing me!" Lin Jun, who was far away in Moscow, was about to walk into the Kremlin, and he was cold, and a sentence habitually popped out of his mouth.

"Chief, what's wrong?" Gusev beside him asked.

"It's fine, probably a cold." Lin Jun didn't think much about it, he didn't know that someone was analyzing him thousands of kilometers away.

Of course, Lin Jun didn't sneeze because of Guderian's disgust, he didn't sleep well last night. And Guderian here is obviously a little "overestimated" himself, because Lin Jun, who is in Moscow, does not regard himself as an opponent like him at all - Tukhachevsky, Zhukov, Rokossovsky are all Guderian's strong opponents, and even opponents who can make him defeated.

Guderian, it's not good enough.

"General, telegram from the base camp." The communications officer interrupted Guderian's thoughts and handed him a telegram.

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Hitler and the others walked into the armistice negotiation carriage, and he sat in the same chair that Foch had sat in in 1918. Five minutes later, the French delegation arrived.

The French delegation was headed by General Charles Huntsger, commander of the Second Army Corps in Sedan and composed of General Pariszo of the Army, Vice Admiral Le Luc, General Bergeret and Leon Noll of the Air Force. Leone. Knoll, a former ambassador to Poland, is now experiencing first-hand the second collapse inflicted by the Germans – last Poland, now himself, and all this is a great irony of France. If the French hadn't watched Poland fall last time, they wouldn't be here now, at least not so quickly.

The French were depressed, but they still maintained a miserable dignity - they did not know in advance that they would be brought to this holy place of pride to suffer such humiliation.

Their shock was undoubtedly exactly what Hitler expected.

After General Keitel read the preamble to the terms of the armistice to the French, Hitler and his entourage left the carriage. The negotiations were left to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, but there was no room for manoeuvre on the terms that Hitler had drawn up himself.

As soon as Keitel read the terms, Huntsger told the Germans that the conditions were too "ruthless" and much worse than the conditions that France had offered to Germany here in 1918. And, "What if on the other side of the Alps, a country that did not defeat France?" (apparently Huntsger looked down on Italy, and did not even want to mention its name), made a similar demand, that France would never surrender, that it would fight to the end------- and therefore that he could not sign the German armistice".

General Jodl, the second person in the Supreme High Command who was temporarily presiding over the meeting, did not expect that a cornered enemy would say such stubborn words: "Your Excellency, I understand what you have said about the Italians, but I have no right to change the terms proposed by the Führer. ”

All yodel can do is "provide some clarification and some explanation for what is not clear". The French either accepted the terms of the armistice as they were, or they did not accept them altogether.

The most difficult thing to deal with in the armistice was the French navy: when France was about to collapse, Churchill once said that if France sent its navy to England, the promise of not making a separate peace could be canceled.

Hitler could not allow such a thing to happen, and he told Mussolini on 18 June that he was fully aware that this would greatly strengthen the power of Britain. Because of the stakes, Hitler had to make some concessions, or at least some guarantees, to the defeated enemy. The armistice agreement stipulated that the French fleet must be demobilized, disarmed and decommissioned in its own ports.

The reward for this action was that the German Government solemnly declared to the French Government that it had no intention of using the French fleet anchored in the harbor under German supervision to fight for itself. Moreover, the German government solemnly and unequivocally declared that at the time of the signing of the peace treaty they had no intention of making any claims against the French fleet.

Like almost all of Hitler's promises, this one is to be broken.

After the first day of negotiations, the French still did not accept all the conditions.

The next day, the representative of France continued to procrastinate and argue. One of the reasons for the delay was Huntsger's insistence that Weygand had not given him the power to sign, but only an order - a responsibility that no one in France could bear.

At 5:30 p.m., Keitel issued an ultimatum: France must accept or reject Germany's armistice conditions within one hour.

Half an hour later, the French government succumbed.

At 5:50 p.m. on June 22, 1940, Huntsger and Keitel signed the armistice. But in the end, he also wanted to defend the pride of the "Gallic rooster", and made an affirmation: I declare that the French Government has ordered me to sign these armistice terms. France was forced by force to stop fighting alongside its allies. The conditions imposed on France were harsh, and France had the right to hope that in future negotiations Germany would show the spirit of allowing two neighbouring powers to live and work together in peace. ”

Those future "negotiations" will never take place - it is clear to Ringer, who is listening from outside through a covert microphone: the Führer has no intention of doing so, and France is destined to become a subject of Germany.

Sending off the defeated rooster-like Frenchman, Ringer had a few more photographs sent with a flash and then ordered the sappers to start preparing.

With a few loud bangs, everything in the Compiègne Forest that represented Germany's defeat was blown to pieces, including the old carriage.

In the second half of the night, Lin Jun was woken up by Gusev, and the listeners reported that the German radio station was about to publish important news.

The speaker was the fat man Goering, and after the translation, Lin Jun knew that the French had signed an armistice.

"In the last war, France, which had held out for four years and was victorious, withdrew from the war six weeks after it broke out. German troops now occupied much of Europe, from the North Cape within the Arctic Circle to Bordeaux, from the English Channel to the Bug River in eastern Poland. Adolf Hitler had reached the pinnacle, the Austrian tramp who united the Germans for the first time in a true nation-state, a corporal of the First World War, who had now become the greatest figure of the German conquistadors. ”

Lin Jun said to himself, suddenly turned his head and asked a few staff officers beside him: "If you are this corporal, this homeless man who used to worry about his livelihood, what will happen after getting such victories and great achievements?" ”

"Maybe I'll think I'm the king of the world, and there's nothing I can't conquer." Gusev replied.

Lin Jun smiled, "Unexpected victories and unbearable feats, maybe these are the sources of human madness." ”

He knew that if he was Hitler and did not have the knowledge of his previous life, he would definitely get carried away.

(Headache and brain fever are uncomfortable, miserable!) Soon the main line will return to Moscow. (To be continued.) )