This surprised Ivan very much, Ivan was ready to be shot, but he was only sentenced to ten years in prison, which made Ivan feel mixed and served his sentence with peace of mind......

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A large number of partisans went out of the mountains and forests to surrender to the Russian SS, and the Russian SS also fulfilled their promises, and did not punish these people, and even divided their land.

These are the internal affairs of the Russian SS, Zhang Jun will not interfere, and he is saying that Zhang Jun has no time, because the time is June 10, and the troops that Zhang Jun is preparing to use to attack France are all in place, and Zhang Jun's ** plan is basically successful.

This ** plan is Zhang Jun's transfer to the Netherlands of one million national defense forces, such a huge military pressure made the Netherlands Queen Wilhelmina sleep, and hurriedly convened the ministers to discuss the military situation, at this time the Netherlands has more than 500,000 regular, Queen Wilhelmina issued a national mobilization order, the army in a very short time to expand to one million people, these people who put down hoes and tools, to the army is the regular army? The answer, of course, is no, and Queen Wilhelmina was also aware of the huge military gap between the Netherlands and Germany, and hurriedly sent a telegram to the allied British and French forces asking for help.

The Dutch navy is still good, but the army is not satisfactory, the British and French forces want to protect France, they must send troops to protect their northern border, the northern border is not as strong as the Maginot Line, they are all temporary defense lines, so the British and French forces decided to send troops to protect the Netherlands and Belgium, and unknowingly fell into the trap arranged by Zhang Jun.

France alone had 2,200,000 troops deployed in the north, although the British, Belgian and Dutch forces totaled more than 3,300,000. By 10 June, 93 French, 22 Belgian, 10 British, and 9 Dutch divisions were in the north, for a total of 134 divisions, including 6 armored and 24 motorized. An additional 22 divisions are being trained or equipped in wartime emergencies (excluding restructured units), including 2 Polish and 1 Czech. In addition to these full divisions, the Allies had many separate small infantry units: the Netherlands had separate brigades and battalions equivalent to about 8 divisions; France had 29 separate fortified infantry regiments. In the French army there were 18 divisions, made up of colonial volunteers; Including 19 "** divisions", although they are fully trained units, there are still a large number of people over 30 years old who need to be retrained after motorization. The best Allied units were well-trained British divisions with full mobility and professional soldiers with a very good example; The most serious lack of equipment was the Dutch troops.

And Zhang Jun's A, ** two army groups have a total of 2 million people, plus 500,000 people can be drawn from Army Group C, and they have to face 3.3 million allied troops, Zhang Jun is an offensive war, and these countries are basically home defense. Can Zhang Jun, who is not advantageous and human, really sweep through the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France like the "Yellow Battle" in history?

Germany deployed about 3,000,000 men to participate in the campaign. In addition to 157 of these divisions deployed on the front line (10 armored divisions, 6 mechanized divisions), 39-50 divisions were deployed in Berlin as reserve divisions of the Wehrmacht High Command (recuperation units returning from the Soviet Union). About a quarter of the fighting units of the German offensive were from the age of 40, including veterans of the First World War. These troops are both elite and second-line troops, and all the most elite troops were deployed to the Soviet Union by the Wehrmacht, saying that these troops are elite because there are many veterans who participated in the war and have rich combat experience, and they are second-line troops, that is, these people are indeed a little old, most of them are over forty years old, but Zhang Jun does not have the qualifications to pick fat and thin, and it is good to have these troops.

The Germans on the Western Front deployed a total of 2,700 tanks and self-propelled guns in May-June, including reserves assigned to fight; Some 7,500 guns were operational, and the ammunition stock was sufficient for six weeks of combat. The units of the "Luftwaffe" were to be divided into two groups. A total of 1,815 combat aircraft, 487 transport aircraft and 50 gliders were deployed in support of Army Group **, while another 2,286 combat aircraft were deployed in support of Army Groups A and C. [24]

German Army units were divided into three groups: ? Army Group A was led by Geld? Feng? Commanded by Rundstedt, with a total of 50 divisions including 3 armored divisions, the task was to advance through the Low Countries and attract Allied northern units into the pocket.? ** Army Group of the German SS under the command of Guderian, with a total of 55 divisions (including 7 panzer divisions), was to carry out a decisive operation to cut off the "sickle" - there is no official translation of the official name, but after the events of a phrase in Germany Winston? Churchill translated the name from a phrase in German as "scythe cut" (or even earlier "armor scythe stroke") - to cut through the Allied lines at the Ardennes and cut through all the enemy forces in northern France. Army Group C by William? Ritter? Feng? Lieb commanded 50 divisions, mainly to prevent roundabout attacks from the east, and to continue to launch small attacks on the Maginot Line and the Upper Rhine.

The Allied High Command's plan of operation, codenamed D, was a conservative miscalculation, focusing on defending against the main German assault on Belgium, with Belgium as the main battlefield for both sides. According to Plan D, the Allies deployed their main forces at the northern end of the Franco-Belgian border and the northern provinces of France, and if the Germans carried out the main assault on Belgium, the Allied forces of the five countries would work together to block the German attack; Most of the other forces were deployed on the Maginot Line in the south, and in the event of a frontal German attack on the Maginot Line, they relied on strong fortifications to defend them; In the middle section, it relied on the natural dangers of the Ardennes Mountains and the Maas River, leaving only the weaker combat units to garrison.

The Anglo-French coalition forces, as in history, believed that the Ardennes Mountains and the Maas River were not suitable for the German armored forces at all, so they left only a small number of troops to defend the Ardennes Mountains and the Maas River, and Zhang Jun was precisely going to rush into the Ardennes Mountains and carry out his "armored cutting operation." "The Anglo-French forces are looking for their own death, and no one can save them. History has given them a chance to do it all over again, and to still deploy it like this can only say that they are a group of commanders who have achieved rigidity.

At the same time, Zhang Jun is still very concerned about his armored forces, care is one thing, satisfaction is another thing, Zhang Jun's tanks and armored vehicles look at the number, it is indeed quite a lot, sixteen armored divisions are very large armored forces, but unfortunately these tanks are in addition to the two armored corps of the SS, equipped with a cottage Type 99, the rest of the armored divisions are all equipped with the No. 3 tank eliminated by Germany, which is indeed the No. 3 light tank, 37 mm tank gun, Even the British infantry support tank Matilda could not penetrate it.

This can make Zhang Jun anxious, thanks to Zhang Jun is the Minister of Equipment of Germany, knowing what equipment is still in Germany's national weapons reserve, Zhang Jun turned all the weapons warehouses in Germany upside down, and finally equipped the rest of the armored division with a battalion of No. 4 tanks, the current No. 4 is a 75 mm long tank gun, and it can easily penetrate all British, French and American tanks at a distance of 1000 meters, which makes Zhang Jun feel at ease with his armored assault force, although the Wehrmacht is not satisfied with Zhang Jun's looting behavior, But these No. 4 tanks Zhang Jun is indeed fully equipped with the Wehrmacht, so he didn't let the Wehrmacht's gang of turtles and grandsons make any trouble.

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At six o'clock in the morning on June 10, the moist black soil seemed to still have traces of the rose-colored morning light, and the song of the lark fell like a rain in the sky. The sun had just peeked out from behind the top of the mountain, and the warmth of its first rays mingled with the coolness of the dying night, making one feel a sweet weariness.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

In an instant, the borders of France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were covered by countless artillery fire, and the violent explosions ruthlessly destroyed everything on the opposite position, and what trenches and pillboxes were either blown up or like fallen leaves in the wind, turned into fragments in the violent explosion, and flew with the shock wave of the explosion. The artillery fire of the German ** team was very fierce, because it was now close to the German supply line, so these German artillerymen did not want to save ammunition, and they were all firing cannons of various calibers unscrupulously, and the artillery counterattack of the Allied forces was very sparse.

As a result, the Allies could only huddle like rats in various fortifications, praying that the fortifications where they were hiding would not be destroyed by German fire. Of course, some prayers still worked, and it was impossible for German artillery fire to destroy all the Allied fortifications, and some of them were very far away, if their fortifications were destroyed, then they could only be buried alive below, and no one could save them, not even to save themselves, if the heavy artillery fire, every inch of land outside was scorched by hellish artillery fire.

This was only the situation on the ground, as soon as the time of six o'clock came, all the German planes started to take off, their goal was, of course, to raid all the airfields of the Allied forces, and a sneak attack was of course impossible, because the British had already deployed a large number of radars in the border area, in which case they could only attack, and the German fighters protected the bombers, and went straight to the airfields of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, while the two paratrooper divisions of the SS also carried transport planes to the airborne important bridges, roads and railway junctions.

These paratroopers are Zhang Jun's preparation for his follow-up attack, and the Wehrmacht also has paratroopers, but unfortunately it has now become infantry, and now the Soviet front does not need paratroopers for the time being, so Zhang Jun transferred his paratroopers, don't underestimate the role of these paratroopers, if the important bridge is controlled by the Allied forces at strategic points, Germany's follow-up attack will be very troublesome, even if it can be captured in the end, it will greatly delay Zhang Jun's offensive speed, which Zhang Jun definitely not far to see.

…… (To be continued.) )