Luxembourg carried more than one hundred and ninety No. 4 tanks and eighty-six armored vehicles, each with two MG34 machine guns and an infantry squad, and the armored vehicles carried almost a thousand infantrymen, which was equivalent to two infantry battalions.

Don't look at Luxembourg's small number of troops, these thousand infantry are all equipped with P38 submachine guns, if they are combined with tanks and armored vehicles, the attack power is not to be underestimated, and the British did not expect that the Germans would surround the city and attack their airfield, and the little force they deployed at the airport is not the opponent of hundreds of tanks and dozens of armored vehicles.

In order to prevent the British from discovering their purpose of attacking the airfield, Luxemburg took the lead in following the request of Rommel's division commander and retreated five kilometers before starting the detour plan. Although the Anglo-French forces blew up the roads, the fields were not destroyed, and even if there were some slopes and bumps in the fields, they did not have much effect on tanks and half-track armored vehicles.

Luxembourg galloped through the fields east of Arras with his armored troops, and met many French peasants and villages on the way, but Luxembourg didn't care, he just hurried away, the roar of tanks echoed in the wilderness, the birds in the woods were so frightened that they did not dare to return to their nests, and the fowl of the French peasants were quacked in fright.

When the tanks and armoured vehicles painted with the Iron Cross logo drove before their eyes, all the French peasants were so stunned that they forgot to scream in terror, didn't the government say that the demonic Germans had been crushed? In the blink of an eye, the Germans had come to the heart of France, and they didn't want to believe it was true, and when they rubbed their eyes in disbelief and looked at the rumbling torrent of steel, they saw only smoke and dust all the way.

In the area east of Arras, there were no Anglo-French troops at all, and of course there were no blocking positions, and Luxembourg's armored forces did not encounter any resistance at all, except for a few tanks and armored vehicles that withdrew from the battle sequence due to malfunctions, Luxembourg did not suffer any losses.

European cities, except for the capital, the rest of the cities are not big, even if it is a provincial capital like Arras, its permanent population is only 460,000, and the distance from Luxembourg to Arras Airport is only more than 30 kilometers in total.

It took only one hour and fifteen minutes for Luxembourg to arrive at the Arras airport, and the French troops stationed at the Arras airport did not realize that the rest of the French guards were playing happily in the house, except for a few sentries around the airport.

When the tanks and armored vehicles of the 7th Panzer Division rumbled to 300 meters from the airport, the French soldiers standing guard realized that the tanks were German, because the Arras airfield was indeed located in the heart of France! They had never been attacked by the Germans, and even the air raids only occasionally occurred, which made the French troops on guard very lax, and even if they did not relax, they could not help the No. 4 tank with the 37mm anti-tank guns they were equipped with.

The sentry defending the airport hurriedly sounded the battle alarm, and the sound of "woo wow woo wow" resounded over the entire airport in an instant, and those French soldiers thought it was a bastard who was joking! Several planes parked at the airport suddenly exploded violently.

The French soldiers guarding the airport were sure that the battle alarm was not a joke, and they began to look for their weapons, but the German tanks were already rushing into the airport while firing.

The massacre, the massacre on one side, most of the French soldiers were unarmed, and even if they did, they were light weapons, which could not pose the slightest threat to Tank No. 4. The romantic Gallic chickens did not yet have the courage and tradition to blow up tanks with explosives bags, and when they saw that the weapons in their hands had no effect on the German tanks, those who could escape immediately threw down their weapons and fled, and those who could not escape immediately lay on the ground with their heads in their hands.

The "booming" explosions tore apart the warplanes on the tarmac, the machine guns on tanks and armored vehicles spat out tongues of fire, harvesting the lives of all those who resisted, and the "whizzing" bullets were like a storm, and the French airport guards did not organize any decent resistance at all, and completely collapsed.

Luxembourg supported the easy capture of the French Arras airfield, and aside from the factor of the surprise attack, in fact, the French army was not without the strength to fight a war, you must know that the French army arranged a whole anti-aircraft artillery regiment around the airport, and the entire anti-aircraft artillery regiment was equipped with 47 anti-aircraft guns of small and medium-caliber and 26 large-caliber anti-aircraft guns of more than 76 mm.

What kind of concept is this, such a powerful firepower, these French troops actually don't know how to use, they don't know how to square the anti-aircraft guns? Could it be that anti-aircraft guns can only be used to hit planes in the sky, and they can't be used to hit tanks flat? What is incomprehensible is that France does not have such tactics and training, and the Gallic chickens really did not think of the tactics of hitting tanks with anti-aircraft guns, so the Gallic chickens lost unjustly.

Arras Airport North Luxembourg was successfully taken, in fact, there were not many French soldiers killed, only less than 200 people, and only more than 1,000 prisoners were captured, and the rest of the French troops all slipped away, and the French army deployed more than 300 pilots in Arras, but they did not run away.

After Luxembourg took the Arras airport, he hurriedly sent a telegram to the division commander Rommel, and soon Rommel's reply came, and Rommel asked Luxemburg to immediately clear the airport runway to prepare for the landing of German planes, and the anti-aircraft guns around the airport should also be well used.

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When the commander-in-chief of the Anglo-French forces, Gammerin, received the news of the loss of the Arras airfield, the whole person was stunned, because the whole airfield was so important, and all the ports in northern France were within his combat radius and were very close.

In history, after the German army occupied the Arras airport, it could not be used for itself, because the Anglo-French forces had completely destroyed the Arras airfield before retreating, and there was no way to use it without a few months of repair, and now the Germans have taken the Arras airfield almost intact, do the Anglo-French troops still want to retreat from Dunkirk easily as in history? Obviously it's impossible, but there are surprises in everything.

Ganmalin hurriedly sought out the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Verrick, to discuss countermeasures, and at this time, Ganmalin seemed to have suddenly aged to more than ten years, his eyes were red, his lips were full of blisters, and his face was full of sadness and despair.

Gammel was sad and desperate, that was because he commanded millions of coalition troops, of which the French army accounted for the vast majority, if these millions of troops were surrounded and annihilated by the Germans, then France would be destroyed, and all the responsibility must be borne by Gammel alone, the responsibility of losing the country is not something that one person can bear, and it is logical that Gammel is desperate and sad.

The mental state of the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force was much better than that of Gammelin, because the place where the war was fought was not in Britain itself, and the broken pots and jars were also the belongings of France and the three Low Countries.

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