After China's conditions were delivered to Churchill, the new prime minister couldn't help but gasp, according to China's method, it is tantamount to completely splitting South Asia, China's forces will take advantage of the situation to invade the Indian Ocean, and then I am afraid that the entire colony in the Far East will be lost.

This is the result of hundreds of years of colonization of the world by the British Empire, and countless predecessors have paid energy and money, and now they are going to give up all of them, and they are really British sinners.

Churchill did not expect that China's price would be so high, although he promised to agree to any of China's conditions, but he also knew that once he agreed to China's conditions, he would become the gravedigger of the British Empire, and before Hitler conquered Britain, Britain would have to hand over the world hegemony in advance.

And what is even worse is the impact on his prestige, when he came to power, the old guy put on an extremely tough posture, vowed to defend the authority of the British Empire, and now he is making great strides to compromise with China, isn't this a slap in the mouth, is his toughness selective?

If you are tough on Germany, you will compromise on China! This kind of thing is unspeakable, and the opposition parties will definitely hold on to it, although Churchill also had this plan in mind, but this is not something that can be put on the table.

US President Roosevelt also had to participate in it at this time, and he had to coordinate Sino-British relations as soon as possible to jointly deal with Germany, knowing that once Britain and France failed, the United States would have to face Germany directly, which was absolutely a very terrible thing. Therefore, Roosevelt constantly acted as a mediator, persuading the two sides to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

Qiao Yu was well aware of the British mentality, but he was still full of confidence, and Churchill would soon compromise, because Germany had already begun to attack France, which was definitely a hearty victory, and it was the best stage for the German armored forces to perform. Qiao Yu is convinced of this.

The German war machine, strengthened by China, was sharper than it was historically. France, on the other hand, is even more decadent. Their soldiers had been cowering on the Maginot Line for more than half a year, not firing a single shot, so what was the use of such a force that did not dare to fight.

The Chinese military top brass is very pessimistic about France, as long as France loses miserably. Britain would lose its most important fulcrum on the European continent, and when the time came, Britain and Germany would face each other across the English Channel, and the British would definitely compromise quickly when faced with life and death.

It started with Hitler's regrouping. The Germans knew they would have a decisive battle with France, so Hitler ordered his staff to draw up a battle plan, which at that time was still in power by the old generals of the Wehrmacht, and they developed a battle plan code-named the Yellow Plan, which contained much the same operational ideas as the Schlieffen Plan before World War I.

Attacking Belgium and attacking northern France from here was not until two years before the Somme was taken, and Germany would have to pay at least half a million men. Seeing this, Hitler was greatly disappointed by this plan, he personally participated in the First World War, and he knew very well that if he continued to fight according to this plan. Germany would certainly repeat the defeat of World War I, even if it defeated France.

The current world situation is not good for Germany. The huge Soviet Union in Eastern Europe was stepping up preparations for war, the Slavs had always taken territorial expansion as their ultimate mission, and sooner or later there was a war between the Soviet Union and Germany, while the United States on the other side of the Atlantic, although isolationism prevailed, Roosevelt had begun to increase his support for Britain and France.

Originally, Hitler hoped that China would become his ally and that the two countries would work together against Western forces, but it turned out that this was just Hitler's wishful thinking, and China had cut off trade with Germany and sought cooperation with the United States and Britain.

This made Hitler feel a kind of loneliness from the bottom of his heart, the real powers and powers in the world are still seriously wary of Germany, if Germany is caught in a long war, the United States and China will definitely be on the side of Britain and France like World War I, and in the end Germany will be consumed by life and death.

The only way to break this spell is to solve the problem quickly, to solve France and Britain quickly, and not to give the United States a chance to intervene.

At this time, Manstein, Guderian, and Rommel jointly submitted a battle plan to Hitler, all three of whom had gone to China for exchange and study, and Manstein also participated in the campaigns of China and Japan, and after returning to China, he has been thinking about the great change of armored forces in the form of warfare.

In all fairness, the Japanese soldiers are very good, they are tenacious and loyal, dare to fight, and they are skilled in tactics, and the quality of individual soldiers is very good, but they are vulnerable in the face of China's superior armored forces, and they are completely lambs to the slaughter, especially since China occupied the whole of North Korea in only a few days, which made Manstein realize that one of the most critical things is speed.

Germany must also build the same armored forces as China, or even more elite forces, which is the common proposition of Manstein and others, of course, only good weapons are not enough, but also have excellent war ideas, Manstein in his own combat plan, chose the Ardennes Forest area of Luxembourg as a breakthrough point.

This is the northern terminus of the French Maginot Line, and at the same time connects Belgium and the Netherlands, after breaking through here, it is the French military town of Sedan, which is like the shoulder joint of France, and its importance is incomparable, but the French do not have enough defense force here.

After Hitler saw the plan of Manstein and others, he finally had a smile on his face, which was exactly the battle plan he needed, and Hitler immediately ordered Manstein and others to continue to improve the battle plan.

At the same time, Germany began a large-scale deployment of troops, in order to deal with the old enemy of France, Germany mobilized a total of 136 divisions, including 10 armored divisions, 4 motorized divisions, 2,439 tanks, 3,700 aircraft, and 600 transport aircraft.

The huge German army was divided into three battle groups, the most powerful of which was the Center Group, which included 64 divisions, including 7 armored divisions and 3 motorized divisions, forming an unprecedentedly powerful assault group, ready to deliver a fatal blow to France's vulnerable joints.

At this time, the French army on the books was not weak, the French, British Expeditionary Force, the Netherlands, and the Belgian armies combined had a total of 135 divisions, equipped with 3,469 tanks, 2,000 aircraft, and 1,000 aircraft from the British mainland.

On 10 May, just after dawn, swarms of German Stuka dive bombers suddenly bombarded airfields, railway junctions, heavy troop concentration areas, and cities in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

At 5:30, on a front of more than 300 kilometers between the North Sea and the Maginot Line, German ground forces launched a large-scale offensive against the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, opening the prelude to the invasion of France.

On the day of the war, Luxembourg, a small country of only 300,000 troops, surrendered without a fight, and Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps was the main attacker, and it took him only two days to cross the 110-kilometer-long gorge of the Ardennes to penetrate into France. On the afternoon of May 12, Guderian's three armored divisions had reached the north bank of the Maas River and captured the famous French fortress city of Sedan.

You must know that this is a strong fortress that Germany did not attack for more than four years in World War I, and it only took one day to announce that it changed hands, and the impact on the entire war situation was simply incalculable, and then the Germans began to prepare for the forced crossing of the Maas River.

With the help of nearly 400 bombers, Guderian crossed the Maas in only half a day and rushed into the depths of the French army, and once the Maas line was lost, the road to Paris and the English Channel was opened.

The British and French forces fighting in Belgium were in danger of being outflanked, and the French army on the Maginot Line would also be exposed to the enemy, and the British and French felt that the situation was serious.

Britain quickly deployed 10 additional squadrons of fighters to carry out a counterattack with the British and French air forces in France. On the afternoon of the 14th, the fiercest air battle since the beginning of the war broke out over the Maas River, and the British Brenchen bombers and the French army's latest Breguet bombers came straight to the Maas River under the cover of fighter planes, and the fighters of about five German wings rose into the air to intercept them, and each side put in more than 500 planes.

From noon to dark, the sound of gunfire on the landing ground was incessant, the fighters of both sides flew up and down, chasing each other, and from time to time planes were hit by bullets and caught fire; in the face of the well-prepared Germany, Britain and France, they once again exposed their incompetence, and hundreds of British planes were shot down, with losses of more than 60 percent, and air supremacy completely fell into the hands of the Germans.

This was followed by a perfect display of German armored power, and on the plains of Western Europe, the German iron cavalry advanced rapidly and was invincible, and the French army was as fragile as tofu, and it was simply vulnerable.

Speaking of Churchill, he was unlucky enough, the British Navy suffered a fiasco before he came to power, and he had to bow his head to China and pray for help, and what happened to France made him even more anxious, if France couldn't hold on, what should Britain do!

Churchill immediately called French Prime Minister Renaud, who simply said in a tired tone: "I'm afraid we're going to lose."

Churchill didn't want to believe it yet, but he had to fly to France in person and meet with Prime Minister Renaud and Commander-in-Chief Gammelin, both of whom had gray faces, and seeing this, Churchill knew that France was really finished!

Churchill was also shocked by the concentrated use of armored forces, but he still hoped that France would be able to organize enough strategic reserves to hold off Germany, but Gammelin shrugged: France has no strategic reserves!

The speed of Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps not only caught the Allied forces by surprise, but also unnerved the German high command, and the upper peak even ordered him to stop advancing. 、

The Germans marched so fast that they encountered a group of scattered French soldiers on the road, and they did not want to delay in getting out of the car to take prisoners, but shouted with a loudspeaker: "We have no time to take you prisoners, lay down your arms and leave the road, lest you get in the way." ”

"How can you identify a French soldier? Look at their armpits, it's healthy to get a tan there! (To be continued.) )