On October 1, on the southern coast of Belgium, a large number of British soldiers gathered on the beach to wade on the coast of Belgium, and all kinds of boats crowded the entire coastline.

The faces of the British soldiers were full of exhaustion and longing to go home, and most of them were silent, silently smoking the cigarettes they had been distributed. Most of the supplies could not be taken with them, so the British quartermaster department had been supplying the rest of the supplies since two days ago - unlike the British troops in the north, who were short of supplies, the British troops in southern Belgium were still well supplied, and there were still plenty of cigarettes and beers and the like.

These cigarettes and beers somewhat saved the morale that had been hopelessly low.

Suddenly, the anti-aircraft lookout post fired a flare into the sky, and the next moment the whistle sounded throughout the beach.

"Enemy planes are coming! Take cover! ”

The soldiers, who had just been sitting on the beach and smoking, suddenly fell to the ground and reacted a hundred times faster than when they were trained.

The half-kneeling Wizard Armor stood up, picked up the weapon in his hand and began to shoot at the approaching enemy plane.

Then the sound of explosions, machine gun fire drilled into everyone's ears, and the roar of engines ravaged the nerves of the British soldiers.

The air raids came and went as fast as they could, and as the roar of the engines faded away, the soldiers lying on the ground stood up and slapped the sand on their bodies to make sure that someone else was unlucky.

There was a ship burning like a torch on the sea, and people on fire were jumping off the side of the ship one after another.

There were people wailing on the beach, and there were people shouting for medics. The soldier in the red cross helmet sped through the crowd, running towards the voice that summoned him, his medical box bouncing and looking like it was almost empty.

The soldiers seemed to have become accustomed to these scenes, and they quickly returned to their original positions, rekindled their extinguished cigarettes, and smoked silently, staring at the sea, hoping for the arrival of the ship that would take them out of this hell.

And beside the bushes on the edge of the beach, a small group of people seemed unaffected by the failure that pervaded the beach, and they were concentrating on their work.

They are digging graves for fallen soldiers.

These were the soldiers who died in the infirmary, and those who died directly on the battlefield had to be left to the Germans to deal with.

The military priest held the cross and prayed as he touched the foreheads of the dead soldiers, asking the Lord to receive their souls. As the spokesman of the gods, the commander of the Senhime unit wore a gorgeous ceremonial military uniform and stood in front of the cross held high by his subordinates, his expression solemn and calm, full of a sense of sacredness that was incompatible with this battlefield.

Not far behind her, a German fighter plane was stuck on the ground, blood still remaining in the broken cockpit, and the broken fuselage looked quite hideous.

A reporter accompanying the army kept changing the angle of the photo, trying to combine this sacred scene with the hideous wreckage of the fighter plane behind it.

**

Paris, France.

"The Germans are urging us to attack again." Andrew, General of the Revolutionary Army and Vice Chairman of the People's Public Security Committee, pressed his hand on the conference table and looked at Xia Li, "I'm afraid it's hard to explain if it continues to drag on, and now we are only defended by the Belgian army in front of us, judging from the confession of the 'tongue' that was caught, rumors are circulating among the Belgian soldiers that the government is about to surrender, and most of the soldiers have no desire to fight." It's fat, and we can't say it's okay if we don't take the opportunity to eat it. ”

"I support General Andrew's opinion," said the patriarch of the House of Baras, "that we cannot be forced to spit it out, even if Germany supports a pro-humanist regime in Belgium, as long as the military occupation is an established fact." What's more, there are not many French people in the Belgian land north of Lille, and the acceptance of French culture is not low. What do we have in the occupation there - in the current fashionable terms? ”

"Mass base." Xia Li reminded lightly.

"Ah, yes, the mass base." Luna? Barras leaned forward and leaned against the edge of the table, "Isn't this a great opportunity?" What are you hesitating about, Your Excellency. ”

"I'm not hesitating," Charlie smiled at Luna, "I'm just waiting for you to jump out and ask for an attack." ”

Luna's face changed, and she finally realized Xia Li's intentions: even if the Belgian land was occupied, it would be Xia Li's faction whose power was based in the north that would benefit more, and if Xia Li planned to launch an offensive, the southern faction would definitely go all out to oppose it, so Xia Li would show that she was not interested in the attack and misled the judgment of Luna and the others.

Luna took the bait as soon as she decisively took the bait, thinking that Xia Li was trying to use delay in exchange for Lin Youde's higher offer - they all decided that there was an unseemly connection between Xia Li and Lin Youde.

Therefore, after observing for a while, the southern faction finally couldn't bear to formally submit a written message today, asking Xia Li to start attacking Belgium.

The moment she realized this simple and clear truth, Luna's expression changed completely, she glared at Xia Li, who was several years younger than herself, and stretched out her finger to point at her nose: "You calculate us!" ”

"Speak as if you didn't calculate me." Xia Li smiled at Lu Nawan'er, and then nodded with her hand at the text on the table—it was the written proposal that the Southern faction had just submitted, "However, you are not completely mistaken, Lin Youde and I do have a deal under the table, but this deal has nothing to do with when to go north." I might as well tell you, Lin Youde actually doesn't care whether we send troops to the north or not, after all, there are not many British expeditionary forces trapped in southern Belgium, and it is the main force of the expeditionary force that he squeezes in the area between Rotterdam and Haifa, and in the next few weeks, how to eat this part of the expeditionary force is what he is most concerned about, as for the south, he will most likely only symbolically block it. ”

Xia Li paused: "However, since you are so desperate for the French army to take action, then I can't pour cold water on you." ”

Xia Li deliberately accentuated the pronunciation in the second half of the sentence, and the bright smile on her face was full of mockery.

She cleared her throat, looked around at the delegates in the room, and then said solemnly, "So, we're going to target Luna now?" Ballas and Admiral Andrew's Tiyì will vote, and if you agree to launch an immediate attack on Belgium, please raise your hand. ”

After saying that, Xia Li herself took the lead in raising her hand, and Jane, who was classified as belonging to Xia Li's faction, immediately raised her hand when she saw this, and then the representatives of the northern faction raised their hands together.

Some of the representatives of the Wall Riding faction also raised their hands, but many more of them looked at Luna like everyone from the South? Ballas.

For the first time, Barras felt so humiliated, even when he faced Christina's old thief, he had never lost a move and a half, at most he was tied, and now he was defeated by such a rudimentary trick of a little girl. She wanted to attribute this qiē to her thinking too much about the enemy, but a voice in her head kept warning her that she would suffer if she underestimated Xia Li.

This time, the southern faction did not have any substantial losses, and it was even possible to reap some benefits because of the military exploits, but next time, who knows how much damage Xia Li will cause to the southern faction.

Luna? Ballas thought about this quickly, and finally she gritted her teeth and slowly raised her right hand.

**

On October 3, 1938, the French crossed the border between France and Belgium after a sudden artillery preparation. The Belgian army surrendered with only symbolic resistance, and the French pressed down the coastline to the British expeditionary force gathered south of the Heidel River.

The British Royal Sea Chrysanthemum reacted quickly by sending three old-fashioned Revenge-class battleships close to the Belgian coast to launch an artillery attack on the French.

Then the French Air Force came out and launched an aerial attack on the three Revenge-class battleships, but the effect was very bad.

With the exception of the former Lufthansa pilots, who had experience fighting in Turkey and the Middle East, most of the French pilots failed to hit their targets. In the face of the fierce artillery fire of the battleships, many pilots who joined the revolutionary air force in the middle of the civil war were frightened, and the height of the bombs was too high, and they could not aim well.

Of course, after hundreds of sorties, the French Air Force still achieved a considerable number of hits, but the weight of the bomb carried by the helpless was too different from that of the German Luftwaffe using the latest fighters, and the charge in the bomb was not the high-explosive charge used by the Germans, so the effect was very limited, and it only blew up the Sovereign to serious injury.

The badly wounded Sovereign, under the command of the captain, rushed to the beach and became a stationary battery, continuing to provide cover for the retreat of the British troops with its own firepower.

The courage and fighting spirit of the British Royal Navy provided excellent material for the British domestic newspapers, and for two days the front pages of the newspapers were full of reports about this brave battleship, and for a time it even created an atmosphere of unity to tide over the difficulties.

In addition to the propaganda significance, the Sovereign's beaching did cause a lot of trouble to the French attack, the French army's mechanization range was not high, and it could not break through as quickly as the German army, and the troops attacking along the coast were blocked by a battleship that rushed the beach, unable to echo the main force of the inland attack, so that the British army could go all out to defend the main force of the French army, so the French army's advance slowed down all of a sudden.

In the face of the French army, the British army finally found that they could still fight, and the reason why they were so miserable when they faced the Germans before was because the Germans did not follow the rules.

When encountering the French army, which also had bolt-action rifles and machine guns, which were only attached to the company and did not ride in jeeps and armored vehicles when maneuvering, the British army found that they were still very capable of fighting.

After two days of fighting, by October 5, the British had forced the French to halt their advance. This greatly boosted the morale of the British army.

On 6 October, the Luftwaffe launched a precise and ferocious air attack on British positions at the request of the French, and only then did the French break through the hastily built British lines.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Luftwaffe destroyed the beach-rushing Sovereign with heavy bombs, and the French army moved along the coast again.

By this time, however, the British army in southern Belgium had almost retreated, and almost all the troops responsible for holding back the French army were left.