Besides, Verrick still has to be prepared, that is, the powerful British home fleet is ready to help retreat the British Expeditionary Force, and it really can't beat the Germans, and the British Expeditionary Force can run away from the sea, which is why the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Verrick, is not too anxious until now.

When Ganmalin saw Verrick coming, as if grasping at a life-saving straw, Gammelin, who had always been arrogant, trotted up to Verrick and said in a low voice:

"Sir Verrick, the situation is terrible now, the German 7th Panzer Division has taken Arras Airport, the German army attacking from Luxembourg and Belgium is almost to Lille, this time we are surrounded by the Germans There are more than 80 divisions, what do you think?"

As the deputy commander-in-chief of the Anglo-French forces, Verrick of course knew the current war situation, and after three unhappy breakups with Ganmalin, Verrick had been making preparations:

"Commander-in-Chief Gan Molin, let's go to the map!"

Verrick walked briskly to the giant map in the command room, picked up a long command pole and continued:

"Commander-in-chief, please see, to the north of us is the German Army Group B, with a total of 39 German divisions, including 3 armored divisions, with a total strength of about 500,000. They have now advanced to the vicinity of the Luxembourg capital, and we have about sixty divisions held back by them.

Let's look at the German Army Group A, this Army Group is the main force of the German army, with a total of 49 divisions, including seven armored divisions, and they are copied from our east and west in three ways.

Because we didn't expect the Germans to come out of the Ardennes Forest, we only deployed more than 20 divisions in these two directions, and most of them were second-line troops, so when the Germans came out of the Ardennes Forest, we couldn't stop the German armored forces in these two directions, and the battle situation developed into this uncontrollable situation in just a few days......"

Suddenly, Gammelin eagerly interrupted Verric's words:

"Is there no way, Verrick, don't forget that the British Expeditionary Force is surrounded."

Is Gammel in a hurry, at this time he still said this kind of coercive words, fortunately, Veric did not bother with Ganmarin, a mediocre talent, he continued:

"It's not that there is no way, but there are some trade-offs to be made, I wonder if my commander-in-chief have the courage to do so?"

Now any way that can help Gan Malin out of the predicament is a life-saving straw, what does Gan Malin dare not choose, he said in a loud voice at the moment:

"Sir Verric, you speak! No matter what I give up, I will not frown. ”

"In that case, then I said it."

"Say it!"

Verrick cleared his throat and said:

"The first step is that we immediately shrink our forces on the east and west, we still have more than twenty divisions in these two directions, and now there are still thirteen divisions that have not been annihilated by the Germans, and these thirteen divisions are not too far from Dunkirk.

We will immediately transfer these thirteen divisions back and set up a line of defense from Lille to the port of Calais, which is to protect the ports of Calais and Dunkirk, with which we can retreat from the sea.

This line of defense is the key to whether we can retreat or not, so they must be ordered to stick to their positions and block the attack of German Army Group A, and the time to hold on must not be less than five days.

In the second step, forty divisions were drawn back from Luxembourg, including ten British divisions and thirty French divisions, leaving more than twenty divisions to hold back German Army Group B. These more than 20 broken divisions must also hold out for more than five days.

Of course, these more than 30 broken divisions can't retreat, and in order not to wipe out the whole army, we can only survive with broken arms and abandon these 30 divisions.

Third ......"

"Slow ......," said Ganmalin, interrupting Verik:

"Why did all the ten divisions of your British Expeditionary Force retreat, and none of the troops stayed behind to break the rear, and all the broken troops were our French troops, this ...... It's not fair, I object, I protest, you British Expeditionary Force must leave three divisions to break off. ”

Verrick squinted his eyes and looked at the roaring Gammelin, he wanted to slap this mediocre man to death, if it weren't for his blind command, millions of troops would have come to this end, and now he still dares to negotiate conditions with the British Empire, and when he retreats, Lao Tzu only allows the British expeditionary force to board the ship, and let you all go to the German prisoner of war camp to do hard labor.

Verrick thought so in his heart, but he couldn't say this, the alliance between Britain and France was a national matter, and he couldn't destroy it so bluntly, Verrick couldn't afford this responsibility, so Verrick could only hold back the disgust in his heart and said:

"Commander-in-chief, that's right, the home fleet has a limited capacity, and it can transport about 20,000 or 30,000 people a day to retreat, so Prime Minister Churchill is already mobilizing all the civilian ships, but these civilian ships want to save their soldiers, and the government really can't force this."

Verik's explanation is reasonable, Ganmalin is really not good at what to say, people risk their lives and use their own boats to rescue their soldiers, and the government really can't force people.

Ganmalin sat on the chair decadently, now that the people are stronger than the people, the British are willing to transport thirty French divisions out, which is already a great gift, so that the British expeditionary force should not think about it after the end, the British did not unload the mill and kill the donkey, but the British are also about to unload the mill and kill the donkey, this is a later story.

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Rommel told Luxembourg to do everything possible to protect the airport, and Rommel was forced to launch an attack on two British and French infantry divisions without many tanks in order to contain the two Anglo-French infantry divisions in front of him.

Of course, Rommel did not let his soldiers die in vain, he relied on the cannons and the "Eye of God" in his hands, as well as sufficient ammunition, for the sake of Arras Airport, Rommel planned to use artillery shells to blow up the British and French infantry divisions.

What is the situation before the artillery of Koromel began to bombard, and the Anglo-French troops began to retreat? The Anglo-French troops suddenly retreated, was it because the Anglo-French forces were afraid of being surrounded in Arras? Surely it was, Rommel thought to himself.

Since the Anglo-French troops had retreated, Rommel did not let his men pursue, nor did he let Luxembourg attack at the Arras airfield, because the whole division of the 7th Panzer Division was so tired that it was about to vomit blood, and it was really impossible to support it. Besides, now that the position of the 7th Panzer Division has protruded from the left and right flanks for almost 100 kilometers, Rommel is only one Panzer Division, when he has already won steadily, why take risks, Rommel is not so stupid to go!

The retreat of the Anglo-French troops was not unscathed, and Rommel's artillery still insisted on sending them a cannon fire, which caused some confusion and casualties to the retreating Anglo-French troops, because there was no pursuit, and the two Anglo-French infantry divisions deployed in Arras finally retreated.

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