Chapter 45: The Maginot Lesser Line
The destroyed French tanks were all removed by Rommel into parts, and for a long time to come, they relied on these parts to repair the captured French tanks.
At this time, the 7th Panzer Division became the only German unit equipped with two armored regiments, and if Rommel cooperated with Rommel's "Eye of God", even if it was an infantry corps of the enemy, Rommel would not be afraid.
At this time, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, but fortunately, the weather was sunny and the moonlight was bright, so everyone would not work in the dark. Rommel had no choice but to let the spare logistics trucks pull these weapons and ammunition away, and the prisoners were escorted to the prisoner camps, the captured tanks and armored vehicles were also distributed, and the hundreds of transport and supply convoys that were staying behind also had to immediately come and join the main force.
By the time everything was done, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and all the people were tired, but the division commander Rommel had already issued a readiness to attack, and even if he was tired, he had to attack immediately, but all the drivers were replaced by logistics soldiers, and all the combat soldiers slept in the cars, and when they reached the ground, they would be called up to participate in the battle.
Before departure, Rommel sent a telegram to Hitler and Army Group A to report the victory, and the 7th Panzer Division annihilated two French divisions in one fell swoop, which was a great credit, and Rommel also reported his plan to raid the Maginot Line overnight.
As the commander-in-chief of Army Group A, Rundstedt was a strange person, he looked down on officers of civilian origin, but only to his peers or superiors, if his subordinates, Rundstedt had this concept.
Rundstedt's command is also a sheep-herding command, and he has handed over many important things to his subordinates to do, and he has not even read the documents he signed carefully, but Rundstedt's sheep-herding command has trained several famous generals for Germany, and let those capable generals show their strength.
When Rundstedt received Rommel's telegram, he said: "Rommel is playing well, keep up the good work!" ”
This is the opinion of Rundstedt, which is equivalent to an order, he simply does not care about the generals under him, and it is exactly the kind of meaning that you can fight as you want. For a general like Rommel, who doesn't like to be constrained by rules, such a commander is really a good thing to be sleepy and meet a pillow.
After saying that Hitler received Rommel's telegram, he was not so calm. Since the beginning of the French campaign, Hitler has been working in the war room of the Chancellery.
(In the early stage of World War II, Hitler still didn't like to meddle in the front-line command, because later there were several conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, and several assassinations were related to the Wehrmacht, which made Hitler full of vigilance against the Wehrmacht. )
After Hitler received Rommel's telegram, he immediately invited Field Marshal Brunburg, the Minister of War, to discuss, Hitler was a corporal in World War I, and he still knew basic military knowledge, and the result of his discussion with Rommel was that Rommel's Seventh Panzer Division was extremely dangerous, but Rommel had the hope of breaking through the French Maginot Line in one fell swoop.
Hitler, who was already fond of military adventures, was entangled in whether to order Rommel to immediately stop his advance and wait for his left and right flanks to come and advance together, or to let Rommel rest assured that he would make a bold surprise attack.
If it weren't for Rommel who led the team, Hitler wouldn't have been so entangled, because Rommel was already regarded as a confidant by Hitler, and he wanted to control the Wehrmacht through Rommel, a loyal person, so Hitler didn't want Rommel to be defeated, but the development of the war situation was too fast, unbelievably fast.
Hitler weighed it up and decided not to interfere with Rommel's command, but only asked Marshal Blenburg to comment on which rank of the medal Rommel should receive. Although Hitler did not interfere with Rommel's command, Hitler did not sleep all night, but sat in the war room of the Chancellery and waited for Rommel to report the victory. (This is true in history.) )
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In the command room of the Anglo-French forces, the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-French forces, Gambler, and the commander-in-chief of the British forces, John? Verrick is really like an ant on a hot pot, the fortress of Sedang is lost, the village of Philipsville is lost, and now there are not many troops left on the Maginot Line, what can be done to stop the German steel torrent?
Gammelin's only chance was to keep the Germans out of the Maginot Line, which would not be easily broken through by the Germans' armored forces as long as there were enough soldiers to reinforce the Maginot Line.
But the two divisions sent by Ganmalin to block the Germans have now lost contact, and it seems that the Germans are more than 30 kilometers away from the Maginot Line, and if the army is drawn from the heart of France, it will take at least ten hours to reach the Maginot Line.
Oh time! If the German armored units rest tonight, then Gammelin has every chance to transport two or three divisions of troops to the Maginot Line, and only God knows whether the damned Germans will rest tonight.
According to Gan Molin's analysis, taking the Anglo-French army as an example, if the troops marched for one or two hundred kilometers in a row, the troops would have to rest for a day before they could go, otherwise the morale of the troops would be completely lost.
Since Gammel used the Anglo-French alliance to make a comparison, what else is there to say! At this time, the Anglo-French army was no longer on the same level as the German army, anyway, Ganmalin still issued a continuous transfer order, and he transferred twenty-five divisions from the French hinterland in one go to reinforce the Maginot Petit Line, of course, these divisions were basically second-line troops such as reserves.
Gammelin was worried about France, while the British commander-in-chief, Verrick, was worried about the fate of the British Expeditionary Force, because the British Expeditionary Force was all trapped in Luxembourg and the Netherlands at this time, and the German army was tightly biting the Anglo-French coalition forces, which made the British commander-in-chief Verrick anxious.
How to bring the ten divisions of the British Expeditionary Force back to Britain in one fell swoop, and it became Verrick's main task, and it was not so important whether he could beat the Germans, even if France was defeated and surrendered, it was not as important as the ten main divisions of the British army.
Of course, there is a reason for this, Britain has many colonies, Britain originally had five or six hundred thousand regular troops, but the vast majority of them were deployed in the colonies, and the air force could not withdraw back to these ten main divisions left on the mainland, because the losses were almost exhausted in the fierce exchange of fire of the Luftwaffe.
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