On 12 May, the German armored commanders were determined to force their way across the Maas River without waiting for the infantry to arrive. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 By May 13, the Luftwaffe had assembled a large number of troops to support the army's forced crossing, and at 4 p.m. most of the German troops had reached the other side of the river, and by midnight, the Germans had advanced to 8 kilometers south of the river! The Germans took control of the crossing of the Maas River and successively transported a large number of troops across the river, so that the French army was defeated!

On 14 May, the British and French air forces fought for the Sedan area, halting the advance of the German army. On 15 May, the commander-in-chief of the French army, Gammering, believed that the defensive line had been broken and that the defeat was irreversible.

From the 10th to the 19th, the French Air Force was shot down 75 planes, 120 were wounded, and only 66 were withdrawn to Britain! By 20 May, the Germans had occupied Abwehr, and the French northern front had been completely lost.

The German armored forces cut off the Anglo-French forces from their southern flank, and about 40 divisions of the three Anglo-French armies were surrounded in the Flanders region on the Franco-Belgian border. The Germans then reached the English Channel, and the coalition forces were condensed in the coastal area around Dunkirk, which was 50 kilometers wide.

The British began to prepare for a retreat from the sea, hoping to evacuate 10,000 people a day.

The nearest tank of German Group A was only 10 miles from the port, but on 24 May the Germans received an order from Hitler himself to halt their advance.

On May 26, the British Navy ordered a retreat operation, codenamed "Dynamo".

The British and German air forces fiercely fought for air supremacy in order to achieve battlefield control. The Luftwaffe concentrated more than 800 aircraft, including more than 300 bombers. The British Air Force fought with the Germans for air supremacy with more than 300 sorties a day.

The German airfield was far away, and the weather conditions on the German side were bad during the battle, which was not conducive to the air force's dispatch, and the British air force gradually grasped air supremacy and strongly supported the army. The Luftwaffe failed to prevent the Allies from retreating.

On June 3, the retreat of British and French troops from Dunkirk ended.

On the day of the fall of Dunkerk, the Germans stormed the makeshift Weygand line of the French army and crossed the Somme the next day.

On 9 June, the Germans broke through the Weygand line at Rouen, Compiègne. On the same day, the French government announced the relocation of the capital. At this time, the French Air Force had little left, and the equipment, fuel, etc., could no longer guarantee effective operations.

On 10 June, Italy declared war on France. The French naval aviation units fought with the Italian Air Force.

On June 14, German troops occupied Paris. On 17 June, Pétain's government demanded an armistice. On the 18th, the British Air Force was completely withdrawn from France.

On 22 June, France signed its surrender. After the French armistice was declared, a large number of French troops, especially the air force, still fled to North Africa, and the rest of the troops waited for the German army to disarm. At this point, the French campaign ended.

The defeat of France, the role of Great Britain, the United States is intriguing.

On May 16, Churchill rushed to Paris and reprimanded the French for their ineffective fighting, saying that the British could send a small number of air forces. On June 10, the so-called Weigang defense line was broken through again. The next day, Churchill again rushed to France and advised the French to conduct guerrilla warfare after the complete rout of the regular army. Rejected by Deputy Prime Minister Pétain.

On 13 June, the day before the fall of Paris, Churchill came to Tours for his final meeting with the French leader. At this time, the British had only one infantry division, one armored division, and a Canadian division in France, which arrived in a hurry, and they were all withdrawn soon after.

It is not enough to withdraw the army, there is also the navy. France still retains a barely touched navy, with seven capital ships, one aircraft carrier, eighteen cruisers, forty-eight destroyers, and seventy-one submarines.

On June 16, Britain sent two urgent telegrams to the French government, claiming that Britain would agree to a French armistice as long as the French fleet sailed to British ports. U.S. Ambassador to France Brooklyn Bullett telegraphed to the State Department that the British had an urgent need to keep their own

Air force and navy, "so that they can be used as trump cards in their hands if they are forced to make a deal with Hitler".

Pétain said that the British intended to put France and Germany at war with each other, and then make peace with Germany themselves.

On 18 June, the French side assured the British government that the French fleet would not fall into German hands. However, Britain mobilized a large number of ships to besiege the French fleet anchored in the port of Mürskebiel in North Africa, and with the exception of the "Strasbourg" capital ship, most of the French ships lost their combat effectiveness, and more than 1,200 French officers and men were killed.

In Alexandria, North Africa, French ships agreed to disarm on 7 July after being besieged for several days, with only one capital ship, the Richelieu, managed to escape to Dakar. The French fleet at Martinique was closely monitored by the British and American navies and could not move.

The French Navy is finished, calculated by its own allies, killed by its own allies.

France also has a family background, and that is the colonies. Britain was most interested in the colonies. On 16 June, Britain put forward a proposal for a unified Anglo-French union, an entity with a unified constitution, parliament, government and army.

The British Foreign Office immediately instructed the British Consul General of the French colonies to make a proposal to the local colonial authorities to accept British protection. Of course, it was basically rejected by the Tao.

Regarding the United States, the attitude is also interesting.

France has also repeatedly pleaded with the United States on the other side of the ocean to lend a helping hand. On 22 May, French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud asked Roosevelt to send the U.S. Navy and Air Force to fight in Europe.

On June 10, Reynaud appealed to the United States for all possible assistance, with the exception of the expeditionary force.

On June 14, Renault likened France to a drowning man and begged the United States for timely assistance.

Roosevelt ignored the French pleas, and only on June 17 urged Petain, who had just become France's new prime minister, not to abandon the French colonies.

In desperation, France signed an armistice with Germany on June 22.

It was Marshal Pétain who signed the surrender agreement in France. Henry? Philip? Pétain was born on April 24, 1856, at the age of eighty-four. At that time, he was the head of the Vichy government in France, prime minister.

He served as commander-in-chief of the French army during World War I, led France against Germany, and was considered a national hero, rising to the rank of marshal of France in 1918. He served as Army Commander and Minister of Defense.

In 1940, when he was prime minister of France, he surrendered to Germany and negotiated peace.

After the war, he was sentenced to death at a trial, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. In August 1945, Charles de Gaulle commuted his sentence to life imprisonment on the grounds of old age and his exploits in the First World War, and died in 1951.

This time, unlike history, it was at the call of de Gaulle that France established a second rear in sub-Saharan Africa, and the power of France retained to a certain extent most of the scientists, artists, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and capital.

This allowed de Gaulle to gain great popularity among the French population. As in history, he also staged the great drama of chasing planes and also organized Free France. The only remaining French warships were also received by de Gaulle into the army.

Later, after stabilizing himself, de Gaulle sent a telegram to Xiao Lu, sincerely thanking him and his party.

Koji called back, reaffirming his alliance with France. De Gaulle, on behalf of Free France, solemnly promised.

Subsequently, Xiaolu wrote a report on the situation of World War II and sent it to Yichun and northern Shaanxi.

At this time, Li Wei and He Wenyuan called and asked about the economic war. The battlefield is Chongqing.

Summing up a few telegrams from Chongqing, Yichun saw the complexity of Chongqing.

Now, the overall situation in the southwest is because Zhou Gong is not in Chongqing, Dong Lao and others are not in other things, and Chief of Staff Ye is training talents for the national government. At present, the person in charge is Wang Ming. Li Wei and He Wenyuan because of the suddenness of the incident, in addition to reporting to Yan'an, they also called to ask for plans. They knew that Xiaolu and Wang Ming were not very good-tempered, and before they came to Chongqing, they instructed that big and small things should not be carried out according to Wang Ming's orders, so they sent Yichun many times this time.

Yan'an and Xiaolu have a tacit understanding, and they want Xiaolu to do their best to help them complete this battle.

Today, the government has gained a firm foothold in Chongqing, and the gods and goddesses from all walks of life have also begun to make money in accordance with the inertia of history.

In addition to the smuggling of various immortals into the Japanese war zone through various channels, there are many people who are eyeing the ways to make money in Chongqing and other places. Because each factory is the lifeblood of the country, many people dare not.

He Wenyuan, with the sensitivity of his businessman, found that there was going to be an accident with the price of grain in Chongqing, so he asked his subordinates to experiment with two small batches of grain, which were taken away and wholesaled. The other party does not ask the price at all, as long as there is food, how much is there, how much is wanted.

He Wenyuan investigated this phenomenon and found that some people wanted to manipulate grain prices and make a lot of money.

Xiao Lu received the information and smiled meaningfully: even if he doesn't know how to engage in a food price war, the ready-made war examples are there, and he can just do it. Fortunately, He Wenyuan has food in his hands.