"Go ahead or wait for orders from the battalion headquarters?" Guderian asked, and the grenadier company commander smiled embarrassedly, pointed to the officer who came behind him, and said, "Our battalion commander has already come." ”

The tank engine was idling, but it was still loud, Guderian jumped out of the tank and walked up to the battalion commander, and the two nodded - it was better not to salute in front of the officers on the battlefield, as it would become a target for enemy snipers, and the battalion commander was also dressed as an ordinary grenadier, with a Mauser rifle on his back.

"Passing through this forest is that town, I left a platoon of troops to guard the prisoners, waiting for the regimental headquarters behind to come and receive them, let's continue to advance, if the intelligence is not wrong, there should not be many French soldiers in that town. By the way, do you still need to replenish your fuel and ammunition? The battalion commander asked.

"No problem!"

The scouts were very prepared, the town was empty, and the enemy had deployed most of their forces at the edge of the forest, and had foolishly placed heavy fire at the forefront. A platoon of tanks and grenadiers entered the town without encountering any resistance, which was more common, and the French were extremely weak in their defenses on this line.

On the same day, an infantry corps of Moltke's First Army surrounded Amiens, and the French did not take the initiative to attack, but used the fortifications near Amiens to hold on. And Moltke Jr. had no intention of taking the initiative to attack, he ordered the troops of two cavalry divisions to reinforce the Amiens line, and after blocking the French army in Amiens in the encirclement, he let the Second Panzer Army and the two infantry corps continue to attack, and he wanted to hit the English Channel before the main force of the coalition forces reacted, and completely blocked the enemy in the encirclement.

With Moltke's lightning penetration, the coalition forces finally began to disorganize, the defensive line with the town as the node in the rear was broken through one after another, the railway line was cut off by the Germans, and the French army was crushed in front of the German tanks. The precious French Renault tanks were placed in defensive positions because of the stupidity of the commanders, and they resolutely refused to come out to confront the German tanks. After the siege of Amiens, the Allied commanders finally realized that defeat was imminent, and General Haig's Third Army was asked to rush south as soon as possible to break the German interception, and the two French infantry corps that had been drawn also began to move south.

The British Third Army was moving slowly, as General Haig stubbornly demanded that the defensive line be handed over to the British Fourth Army, which had come to replace him. The Germans continued to attack the Third Army's defensive positions, and the intensity of their attacks gradually increased, and Haig feared that the rotation of troops would lead to unstable defensive lines. The allied commanders could not wait, and French repeatedly ordered Haig to speed up the rotation, and the Third Army had no choice but to withdraw from its positions as soon as possible.

Under these circumstances, there was a brief period of weakness in the British defensive line, and the German generals on the opposite side seized this opportunity and threw four infantry divisions and one cavalry division into a fierce attack, successfully opening a breakthrough and crushing the Fourth Army before the British Fourth Army came to rotate.

At this time, it was impossible for the coalition forces to invest heavily in recapturing their positions, and the German troops in other directions also took the opportunity to storm the position, and the extra positions were in danger, and they could not draw counterattack forces at all. As more and more German soldiers poured into the breach, the entire line was in danger of being breached, and the situation here was no longer of much concern to Haig and Kitchener, because their Third Army had already arrived near Dulang in the south and was about to be defeated by Moltke's armored forces.

"Moltke's mid lane cluster may seem powerful, but it has a fatal flaw." General Haig pointed to the map and said to Kitchener that on the day he arrived in Durang, he had found a possible breakthrough based on the information he had gathered.

"The German Second Army attacked westward with Sedan as the center, which means that Moltke used only the First Army for the offensive to the north, about 350,000 men. Due to logistical supply difficulties, only one panzer corps and two infantry corps appeared in front of us, or one more cavalry division, and the rest of the troops were resting in the area south of Amiens, including the mighty 1st Panzer Corps. It is worth noting that there is a disconnect between the Second Panzer Corps and the two infantry corps for the offensive, perhaps because the infantry cannot keep up with the advance of the tanks, the Second Panzer Corps has reached thirty kilometres east of Abwehr, and their infantry remains near Albert, and this gap is the best place for our attack. ”

Kitchener nodded in agreement, this was indeed the best opportunity to attack, and it would be better if the two infantry armies of the French could work together and insert themselves into the empty space together.

Kitchener was in charge of the liaison with the French, but he was so furious that the French thought it was important to attack Amiens in the direction of Amiens, relieve an infantry corps there, and open up the railway line between the coalition forces and the rear. This was used as an excuse to reject Kitchener's suggestion that the Germans had deployed heavy troops to besiege Amiens, and it was impossible to break the siege in a short time, and if it was delayed, it would be impossible for Moltke Jr.'s main forces to come to support after they had finished recuperating and received sufficient supplies.

The French were stupid, so they did it themselves, and Haig and Kitchener were like two of the wisest generals on the entire battlefield, leading the weary Third Army into the void of Abweville and Albert's views. This unit caused a lot of trouble for the Germans and almost became a force to change the situation on the battlefield.

Haig's judgment was very accurate, the disconnect between the armored forces and the infantry was serious, the Germans needed to improve in the coordinated operation of the armored forces and infantry, and they also needed a more effective command system and battlefield communication system. The lack of air power led to the Germans having insufficient control over the enemy's movements, and Haig's Third Army appeared undetected by Moltke when it appeared at Dulang, and was not noticed by scouts until the British appeared in that blank area.

At first, the Germans thought it was a small group of enemy troops, and only sent a battalion of infantry to encircle and suppress it, and when the fighting became more and more intense, the Germans discovered that this was a powerful enemy force. The rear of the Second Panzer Army was cut off, logistics could not be delivered, and the high-intensity fighting led to a shortage of fuel and ammunition, and even if the advance of the Second Panzer Army had reached the seashore, it was unable to launch a counterattack to defeat the British troops in the rear, so it could only be stationed on the spot. If the Allies took this opportunity to increase the strength of the gap, the Second Panzer Army would be in danger of total annihilation, and the German army's plan to cut off the rear of the Allied forces would also be in danger of failure, and it would be more likely to drag the war into a terrible trench war and a protracted war.

Fortunately, the Allies once again made a mistake, ignoring Haig's Third Army, and the two French infantry corps attacked the German line in Amiens with all their might, but the progress was slow in the face of the tough German army. In the absence of reinforcements, Haig and Kitchener struggled to support, and even creatively sent their own tanks to launch counterattacks, repeatedly attacking and retreating the German infantry.

Haig could not hold out for long, Moltke Jr. increased his troops, and the two German cavalry divisions, which did not need much supply, outflanked the two flanks of the Third Army, and although they suffered heavy losses under heavy machine gun fire, they finally broke through the defense line of both flanks of the Third Army and led to the collapse of the entire Third Army.

Haig and Kitchener escaped Ascension under the cover of a cavalry regiment and left France on a British transport ship in Chieppe, returning to the British mainland. In the days that followed, the British finally realized the importance of the two men and tasked them with reorganizing the British Army, but unfortunately it was too late.

After the collapse of the British Third Army's defensive line, most of the soldiers surrendered to the Germans, and the Germans finally completely cut off the rear route of the main coalition army, and nearly 700,000 allied soldiers were surrounded in the low-lying areas near northwest France and Belgium.

When Moltke Jr.'s 1st Panzer Army was well supplied and led three infantry corps and two cavalry divisions to attack the rear of the coalition forces, the coalition forces finally collapsed. The main German army launched a fierce attack on the salient formed after the retreat of the Third Army and surrounded more than 100,000 French soldiers.

French's decision was the main reason for the encirclement of more than 100,000 French soldiers and the collapse of the remaining nearly 300,000 French soldiers. The sorrow of the French lies in the failure to recognize the excellent tradition of the British betraying their allies, and it is believed that after this war the French will have a higher level of recognition of the shamelessness of the British.

Nearly half a million Allied soldiers poured into the Dunkirk area, and on the periphery, Moltke's First Army and the German right flank, a million-strong army, slowly approached, and the heavy encirclement made the Allied forces nowhere to go. More than three-quarters of the heavy firepower such as artillery and tanks was abandoned by the Allied forces, and the roads were lined with Allied trucks, artillery and baggage, and they even created roadblocks on the roads in this way to delay the pursuit of the Germans.

More than a dozen divisions of French infantry received the order to break off, and these soldiers showed great courage, and they put up a stubborn resistance, inspired by the slogan of defending the homeland, which greatly slowed down the German attack. It's just that in the process of retreating, the Allied forces abandoned too much baggage and artillery, they lacked ammunition, and even lacked food and drinking water, and were powerless in the face of the fierce German army. Despite this, very few French soldiers surrendered, and it has to be said that in the First World War, the French showed the demeanor of a powerful army, and they were much stronger than their juniors. (To be continued.) )