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Paris, originally the rear supply base and material transit point of the German Atlantic rampart. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Immediately after being captured by the Chinese Emperor**, it became a key landing area for Operation Typhoon.

Following the safe landing of the 7th Armored Division of the Imperial Chinese Army at the Paris airport, the Combined ** Command successively sent troops of 11 main divisions and an artillery brigade to Paris one after another. These include the 3rd, 11th, 15th, 13th Mechanized Infantry Division, 3rd Cavalry Division, 2nd Task Force Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade, 6th and 7th Divisions of the British Army, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th Divisions of the French Army.

When the joint ** launched a typhoon landing operation in the Lower Normandy area, under the command of the commander-in-chief of the United ** in Paris, General Qiu Lijin, the 200,000-strong army directly attacked the key parts of the German Atlantic barrier such as Rouen and Amiens, and cooperated with the landing force in the Atlantic direction to flank the German troops in front and rear, in order to completely annihilate more than 300,000 German troops in the upper and lower Normandy areas in one fell swoop.

The loss of Paris by the Germans suddenly exposed a fatal hole in their entire Atlantic defense. Originally, Hitler advocated an impregnable Atlantic defense line, and the German High Command thought that it could resist the Atlantic barrier for at least six to twelve months, but now it seems that it cannot be done, not even for a week.

With the 7th Armored Division, the ace unit of the Imperial Chinese Army, as the vanguard, 200,000 united ** troops set out from Paris, and the troops were divided into three routes to directly target the three strategic towns of Rouen, Amiens, and Le Mans.

At this time, the role of Paris as an important strategic transit point suddenly came to the fore. After the United ** completed the strategic task of direct landing of 200,000 troops with the help of the Paris airport, the airport was immediately occupied by thousands of aircraft. And after these planes were deployed to Paris, they served as air cover for attacking forces such as the 7th Panzer Division.

Since the German high command had always judged that the United ** would airdrop paratroopers to the rear of the landing area on the eve of the landing operation, the German mobile armored units had been deployed on the road lines of Rouen, Amiens and Le Mans, in order to reach the airborne area as soon as the coalition troops landed to block and encircle and annihilate them. Therefore, when Hitler learned of the loss of Paris, he immediately ordered Rommel to be the supreme commander of the French theater of operations and mobilize the main group of Jingrui armored aircraft to recapture Paris.

Rommel drew up a detailed battle plan for this, and a total of six German panzer divisions quickly moved towards Paris. Although Rommel had a great headache and fought with the United **, he was well aware of the strength of the Imperial Chinese Army, but he still formulated a highly feasible combat operation to retake Paris.

However, after Hitler gave power to Rommel, he couldn't help but point fingers. When the joint ** launched the typhoon landing operation, the powerful naval and air forces of the joint ** made Hitler feel frightened, especially the armored forces of the Imperial Chinese Army, which immediately advanced in depth after the landing. In the face of the steel torrent of the Chinese Emperor, the German coastal infantry could not stop the onslaught of the steel torrent at all. Fearing the loss of Lower Normandy, Hitler rushed around Rommel and directly ordered six German Panzer Divisions to quickly return for reinforcements.

At this time, the German Panzer Division was on its way to Paris when it was suddenly transferred back, disrupting Rommel's strategic plan to attack Paris. Two hours of precious time were lost.

Rommel had no choice but to abandon Paris first, carry out Hitler's order, and mobilize armored forces to go to the coastline to intercept the landing armored forces of the United **.

At this time, the joint ** in Paris was dispatched, and the armored forces were sprinting on the roads of Paris in all directions. In less than three hours, it can reach Rouen, Amiens and other strategic towns on the German Atlantic defense line.

Rommel explained to Hitler the great threat of the United Armored Forces in the direction of Paris, and if it could not be stopped in time, once the German armored forces encountered the Combined Landing Panzer Forces and could not get out, they would not be able to stop the Combined Armored Forces coming from the direction of Paris. The troops of the military towns such as Rouen and Amiens were all German infantry divisions, and the fortifications were basically built facing the Atlantic side, and there were almost no fortifications in the direction of Paris. With the attack power of the armored forces of the Imperial Chinese Army, an hour or two was enough to break through. Once Rouen and Amiens and other places are lost, hundreds of thousands of German troops on the upper and lower Normandy lines will be flanked in front and rear.

Hitler was frightened again, and immediately listened to Rommel's opinion and ordered the German armored forces to turn around and go back to block the United ** coming from the direction of Paris.

After such a back and forth, the German armored forces wasted more than four hours of precious time between Paris and Rouen, allowing the combined ** landing force to quickly consolidate and expand the landing field and gain a firm foothold in Lower Normandy.

In front of the German positions defended by the coastal defense infantry divisions, although there were already rows of anti-tank landing obstacles, the joint ** had already been prepared, using aircraft to dive bombing, using specially developed tools such as bulldozers to clear obstacles, and soon cleared out a safe passage, so that the subsequent chariot troops quickly broke through the German anti-tank obstacle area and launched a fierce attack on the German infantry positions.

In the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of the aircraft of the United States and the steel torrent of the tank fleet, it was simply difficult for the German soldiers to organize an effective anti-landing operation, and the infantry firepower was almost completely suppressed. The German machine-gun bunkers lost the ability to block the advance of the enemy infantry under the attack of rockets, and the bunkers used by the Germans to avoid aerial bombardment and naval artillery fire were immediately attacked by flamethrowers and weeping gas. The Germans who remained in the tunnels would also be scorched by the flames and killed by gas.

The landing offensive of the United ** went very well, the German positions were breached one after another, and the entire Atlantic barrier began to crumble less than six hours after the start of Operation Typhoon, which was a huge disparity with the defensive capability expected by the German high command for six months or even a year, and undoubtedly gave Hitler a severe slap in the face.

Rommel's armored cluster was used to block the Allied armored forces in the direction of Paris, so there were no German mechanized troops near the Allied landing ground, so that the Allied forces did not have to worry about being suddenly attacked by the German rapid reaction force, and could safely fortify and expand the landing field.

The first phase of Operation Typhoon had already been completed six hours after the start of the operation, and the second phase of the Coalition forces' original consideration of how to quickly consolidate the landing site now seemed to be a negligible step and could directly move on to the third stage - the elimination of German forces near the landing site.

The successful landing of the Allied forces in Lower Normandy made the German high command almost crazy. More than 200,000 German troops in the upper and lower Normandy area were in danger of being completely annihilated, and the task of Rommel's panzer group immediately changed from blocking the Allied armored forces in the direction of Paris to crushing the opponent head-on, because the Germans needed to break through from the direction of Paris.

In just a few hours, Rommel's combat mission and objectives were changed several times, which made him and his men quite sad and exhausted.

Faced with the danger of being besieged, at the moment of life and death, Rommel naturally did not dare to slack off. He ordered the three German coastal defense divisions in the Normandy theater to quickly withdraw and set up layers of blocking positions on the road to Rouen, with the intention of slowing down the attack of the Allied forces behind them.

At the same time, Rommel concentrated four main armored divisions to meet the coalition armored forces from the front, and attacked from the two flanks with two other armored divisions and two infantry divisions to contain the coalition forces.

Rommel wanted to open the gap in the middle, which had already been guessed by General Qiu Licheng. Therefore, Qiu Lijin placed the 13th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Chinese Empire and the 2nd and 3rd French Divisions in the middle, intercepted the attack speed of the German armored forces with infantry positions, and used the artillery of each division to cooperate with the 2nd Self-propelled Artillery Brigade of the Chinese Empire, concentrated artillery fire to block the infantry behind the German army, and slowed down the frontal German offensive.

At the same time, Qiu Lijin concentrated the 3rd, 11th, and 15th Panzer Divisions of the Chinese Empire, plus the 6th and 7th Divisions of the British Army to attack from the right flank of the German army. The 3rd Cavalry Division and the 5th and 6th Divisions of the French Army were ordered to attack from the left flank.

In this way, the coalition forces actively avoided Rommel's four main armored divisions and concentrated their forces on two armored divisions and two infantry divisions on Rommel's flanks.

The three main armored divisions of the Chinese Emperor in the right flank direction encountered the German 17th Armored Division, and the Chinese Emperor not only had a three-to-one advantage in quantity, but also completely overwhelmed the German No. 4 Leopard main battle tank in the opposite direction.

The armored forces of the two sides collided fiercely, and the German tanks were shot and caught fire, and in less than half an hour of fighting, the German 17th Panzer Division lost more than 70 tanks.

Although the German 211th Infantry Division repeatedly attacked the Allied forces from the flank, trying to save the 17th Panzer Division, they were all repulsed by the British 6th and 7th Infantry Divisions. The British army performed very bravely, and it seemed that because of the coordinated battle with the Chinese emperor, they had confidence in their hearts, and this gave full play to their combat effectiveness. Even so, the two British infantry divisions only intercepted the attack of the German 211th Infantry Division, but failed to repel it.

It was not until the German 17th Panzer Division could not hold on to retreat on its own initiative, under the cover of the Chinese Emperor's ** armored forces, that the British launched a decent offensive and repelled the German 211th Infantry Division.

Although the British performed well, they failed to achieve Qiu Lijin's intended goal, failing to defeat the German 211th Infantry Division, and making the encirclement of Rommel's group a full hour later than scheduled.

This precious hour allowed Rommel to withdraw the four main armored divisions in front of him in time to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the coalition forces.

However, although the coalition forces failed to accomplish the goal of encircling Rommel, they sabotaged Rommel's plan to break out and forced Rommel's troops to abandon the idea of breaking out from the direction of Paris. Rommel's troops were forced to retreat to Rouen.

During the war between Qiu Lijin and Rommel, the United ** quickly drew troops from the Lower Normandy landing ground and attacked Polbeck and Abwehr on two fronts.

The Germans of Polbeck and Abbeville, fearing that the rear route would be cut off, abandoned their positions for less than an hour and withdrew to Rouen and Amiens on their own initiative, where they would wait for Rommel to open the Paris passage and withdraw from the upper and lower Normandy battlefields as soon as they were directed.

However, Rommel's defeat made it impossible for the Germans retreating to Rouen and Amiens to break through from the direction of Paris, while Polbeck and Abbeville had been occupied by the Allied forces, and the Germans were left with only Le Mans in the south, which was also the only way to get in touch with the outside world.

Le Mans became the only way for the more than 200,000 German troops in upper and lower Normandy to break through, and the Allied Seventh Panzer Division had already set out from Paris for Le Mans three hours earlier. The defenders of Le Mans consisted only of the German 192nd Infantry Division and the Vichy French 15th Infantry Division, which was clearly no match for the 7th Panzer Division of the Chinese Empire.

Rommel immediately transferred the 13th Panzer Division and the 33rd Panzer Division to reinforcements. At the same time, Allied aerial reconnaissance aircraft detected the movements of the German troops. Qiu Lijin resolutely mobilized more than 500 planes from six air wings from Paris to intercept them on the way, bombing the roads through which the German troops passed, destroying bridges and caves, and delaying the German reinforcements.

Originally, the German reinforcements were two hours later than the arrival time of the Allied forces in Le Mans, and after being bombed by Allied aircraft, the German armored units had to take a detour through the mountains and forests in order to avoid the air threat, and had to rebuild the bridge when they encountered the blown bridge.

When the 7th Panzer Division of the Chinese Emperor bulldozed the German positions at Le Mans with overwhelming force, Rommel's reinforcements were less than a third of the way, and Rommel was forced to recall his troops and hold on to Rouen.

On the afternoon of June 25, the Allied forces captured Arras and completely surrounded more than 200,000 German troops in Rouen and Amiens. That night, the Allied 101st Airborne Division again disguised the German rout and captured Saint-Saëns in one fell swoop, completely cutting off the connection between Rouen and Amiens, making it two isolated cities that could not be reinforced by each other.

Rommel was besieged, leaving no longer the main German army in the upper and lower Normandy areas, and the coalition forces quickly established a triangular theater of operations in the upper and lower Normandy and greater Paris areas, and more than 2 million Allied troops landed in France in the following two weeks.

The German army has abandoned the Atlantic defense line, all the German troops quickly retreated, and the German base camp rebuilt the first two lines of defense on the Franco-Spanish border and Verdun and Belgium, and the original Atlantic barrier was completely torn apart, and the German army did not have any counterattack action, and the initiative was given to the United **.

By the 5th of July, Operation Typhoon had been victorious, and half of France had been regained. The French commander Charles de Gaulle re-entered Paris, annulled all treaties that had maintained France with Germany, and ordered the French forces in the German theater of operations in the south and west of France to surrender immediately.