Hitler suddenly came up with a tactic called the retreat ambush tactic.

To the north of Hedu Town is a vast primeval forest, which is just right for ambush warfare.

Ambush warfare has been around in Europe for a long time and is a common tactic.

For the ambush battle, everyone also discussed ambushing in the northern forest of Hedu Village to catch the enemy by surprise, but after discussing it for a while, they found that it would not work.

The essence of ambush warfare is concealment and surprise attack, to let the enemy know that there is no enemy in this area, generally speaking, it is best to use ambush warfare when the enemy is on a long march or when he is tired and transporting to underestimate the enemy's arrogance, because only at this time, the enemy will not send scouts.

Ambush warfare is not so easy to fight, when a unit is marching, in order to avoid being ambushed and reconnoiter the road conditions, it will send a vanguard force, the task of the vanguard force is to split the mountain to open the road, reconnoiter the enemy's situation, if there is an enemy ambush on the road, it will be easily discovered by the vanguard force.

The French are not stupid, knowing that the enemy has broken through to their own defense line, and the country is already very unsafe, and the reinforcements in Paris are very likely to be ambushed, so the vanguard scout troops will definitely be sent on the march, and the forest north of Hedu Town will also be searched, so it is ineffective to ambush in the northern forest.

But Hitler suddenly had an idea in his mind, that is, he thought of the retreat ambush tactics, he said at a meeting: "The retreat ambush tactics refer to the illusion of a rout caused by the frontmost line of defense of our army, causing the enemy to attack with all their troops, and when they expand the results of the battle, the main force of our army will ambush on the way to the rout of the troops, concentrate firepower, and take the enemy by surprise." ”

Hitler's explanation of the retreat ambush tactics is very simple, in fact, it is another more complex ambush warfare, our army is blocking the enemy next to the forest, the enemy will naturally think that as long as the position is broken, it will be good, if the enemy is afraid that there is an ambush in the forest next to it, it will be searched, but our army will let the enemy search, because our army is set up in ambush behind the position, the enemy cannot search so far.

Then the defensive position of our army collapsed, and the enemy would inevitably pursue, and at this time the enemy may have searched the forest in front, or may think that our army has collapsed, and psychologically will not think that there is still an ambush in the forest where our army fled back.

Then our troops in the forest suddenly opened fire, and then the soldiers, who had just begun to rout, stopped the counterattack......

This is the essence of retreat ambush tactics.

After Hitler said what he thought in his heart, the people present in the command room were all battle-hardened people who felt that it was feasible, coupled with Hitler's personal prestige, and soon, the General Staff drew up a detailed battle plan, which was probably like this:

The infantry regiment defended the road to Hedu Town at all costs and did not allow the enemy to break through the position.

The cavalry regiment defended on the northern forest road, the cavalry was changed to infantry, and the horses were placed about one or two kilometers behind the defensive position, and when our army broke and fled to the place where the horses were stored, they mounted their horses and launched a counterattack.

As for the Berlin regiment, it was hidden in the forest behind the defensive positions of the northern forest road and the cavalry regiment, and the tanks were evenly distributed in the front, middle, and rear of the ambush position, and the standard tactics of decapitation and tail flowering in the middle were the same tactics.

The main battlefield of this ambush was on the Northern Forest Highway, which was equipped with two regiments, but the hardest place was probably Hedu Town, because the road in Hedu Town was a little better, and there were more enemies on this road. The inhabitants of Hedu Town were pulled to the rear and controlled, and the entire town was requisitioned by the Germans, vowing to defend Hedu Town to the death and build Hedu Town into a fortress.

When the battle plan was written, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and Hitler asked the regiments to convey the battle plan, ordered the officers and soldiers to share weal and woe, and called on the soldiers to overcome difficulties.

The battle of Fort Thierry began at noon today, and Paris would not be unaware, therefore, reinforcements could arrive at any time, and the three regiments had to hurry overnight to arrange their positions, among which the Berlin regiment was the busiest, because in order to conceal, it was necessary to drive into the forest from a great distance, and all the way to the ambush site, the tank chassis was very low, there were many trees in the forest, and there were no roads, so it was very difficult to drive the tank to the intended ambush site, but fortunately, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Berlin regiment, plus more than 2,000 soldiers were transferred from the cavalry regimentAt three o'clock in the evening, the whole army had finished arranging all the positions, and at this time, the soldiers were very tired, and when the commanders conveyed the order to rest, most of the soldiers fell asleep in the forest, regardless of the harsh environment.

The next day, before dawn was complete, and the soldiers had only slept for two or three hours, the reconnaissance cavalry in front came with the news that the French army had arrived, and according to the news that the reconnaissance cavalry risked their lives to investigate, there was probably a total of more than 3,000 infantry regiments.

"An infantry regiment?" Hitler frowned and walked around the command room: "Why did the French only send such a small number of reinforcements?" ”

Kleist rubbed his dry eyes and vetoed: "Impossible, there are tens of thousands of people in Paris, and the geographical location of Fort Thierry is so important, it is impossible to send only one infantry regiment, this infantry regiment is definitely the enemy's vanguard regiment." ”

Hitler agreed with Kleist: "I also think that this is the vanguard regiment of the enemy. ”

Wei Krich said: "Then did the cavalry regiment of our army that blocked the Northern Forest Highway feign a rout? ”

Hitler shook his head and said: "A vanguard regiment has to take two roads, no more than two battalions in the northern forest, although no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, and it is a pity not to eat it, but it is not worth exposing our military objectives like this." Order the Northern Forest Cavalry Regiment to resist resolutely, and must have my orders to feign a rout. ”

The French forward regiment was not far from the town of Hedu, and soon made contact with the Imperial army and opened fire, the German front had two regiments, and the French had only one, Hitler was not afraid that the enemy would break through the position, and settled down to sit in command at the headquarters.

Hitler was not in a hurry, anyway, Ludendorff gave him the order to block reinforcements from the direction of Paris for two days, and the longer it dragged on, the better it would be for Germany.

Fortunately, Hitler and the Luftwaffe made direct contact.

Although it is impossible for the planes in the sky to be equipped with radio and radio facilities to have direct contact with the ground troops, the pilots can fly reconnaissance planes to the rear of the enemy to take pictures, and then fly back and hand over the cameras to the air force command for analysis and intelligence, and then the air force command will use radio to send the analyzed information to Hitler in the front.

"It is estimated that there are probably more than 20,000 enemies marching towards your positions." This was a message sent by the Air Force Command to Hitler, although it did not say when more than 20,000 enemies arrived and where they were now, but it did let Hitler know the number of enemies they were about to face.

More than 20,000 people!

The infantry regiment and the cavalry regiment totaled about 5,000 people, and the French had 20,000 people, and these were well-trained Frenchmen, not tsarist Russians who lacked guns and ammunition, and more than 5,000 people fought more than 20,000 people, which was extremely difficult.

Hitler had no bottom in his heart for a while.

ps: I don't know if there is such a tactic for retreating ambush tactics, it was the axe himself who came up with it, and it has not been practiced on the battlefield, and I don't know if it is correct or not, everyone is welcome to correct.