"Damn it, the British are attacking us!" Pétain's guards were also knowledgeable, and the presence of a bunch of Mosquito planes hovering around the convoy was already a little uneasy for Colonel Pierre, and even more so after the telescope saw that the Mosquito planes seemed to be armed. On the one hand, he asked the convoy to be on guard, and at the same time asked Petain to give orders to the nearby French army, whether it was the air force or the army, even if it was only some second-rate troops to support the field! The colonel's suggestion was very correct, but Petain did not have the ability and means to mobilize the troops around the ceasefire line, and Petain was not an active soldier, he could indirectly control the army by convincing some of the top echelons of the army, but it was impossible to move directly by himself! What's more, what they did was dishonorable in the first place, and who knows if a certain French army came over and came to help them or dealt with them as traitors? That's not true.

"Let's get in touch with the Germans, it's not far from the negotiation site, they should be able to disperse those annoying guys above us!" Petain thought for a long time and came up with such an idea, although his face was very embarrassing, but I have to say that Petain's choice was right, although the Germans moved part of the main force to the Western Front, but still maintained a certain degree of combat readiness on the Eastern Front, at least not far from the ceasefire line, there were German planes patrolling! The defeat of the French is certain, not to mention anything else, judging by the performance of the two armies on both sides now, the Germans are more than a cut above the French! The correspondent in charge of liaison immediately called the relevant German departments via the radio, warning them that a British plane was coming, hoping that they would lend a hand, and before the telegram could be delivered, the British shells had already fallen!

With the exception of a few large-caliber machine guns, the entire convoy did not have decent anti-aircraft firepower, and Petain simply did not expect the British to dare to do it. Especially with great fanfare, send the air force to attack! The Mosquito bombers of the second group were the first to attack, the fire flickered under the huge wings, and a series of rockets flew towards the target area, and under the covering attack, the two B1 tanks in front were enveloped by rockets, and the turret of one of them was pierced by rockets. The ensuing explosion completely destroyed the tank, and the engine compartment of another tank was destroyed, turning into a burning fireball in a matter of seconds. And just after the first wave of attacks, before Pétain's convoy dispersed, the first group of attacks followed, and more than 250kg of bombs fell off from the hanging, these bombs disintegrated in the air, and then dropped thousands of careful bombs, ten seconds later. The entire place around the convoy turned into a sea of fire, and in just a few minutes, 8 mosquito bombers destroyed more than a dozen vehicles of various kinds, and more than twenty combat vehicles were damaged! The whole convoy is in chaos!

Soon after the air offensive began, the elite British rangers launched a decisive attack. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAOTIC SITUATION, VARIOUS LIGHT VEHICLES CARRYING ELITE INFANTRY RUSHED FORWARD, THE RAPID DESIGN OF THE MORTARS MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE GUARDS TO DISEMBARK IN A HURRY TO DISPERSE, AND THE ACCURATE BURST FIRE OF THE 6-POUNDER GUN AND 30MM MACHINE GUN SMASHED THE REMAINING REMAINING ARMORED VEHICLES INTO SCRAP METAL. Under the pressure of the British. The French could only resist on piles of wreckage, but even so. The Grim Reaper, hovering in the air, will still use his cannon to tilt into those places where ground fire is difficult to reach! If nothing else, in another 20 minutes at most, the British will win the battle once and for all, and Petain will only be killed or captured!

"We're going to fight the British and save the French?! It's ridiculous that just last week, I shot down 3 D520 fighters. The world is changing so fast! "Second Lieutenant Ghent Paul flew his FW190 fighter to the already divided battlefield. Just a few minutes earlier, he and his companions had received an order from the wing headquarters to immediately attack the British planes that had just appeared near the ceasefire line and to try to save the attacked French convoy.

The efficiency of the Germans was still very high, even exceeding the speed of reaction that the British had estimated to achieve. Soon, a squad of 12 FW190 fighters was killed, and their arrival ruined the British attack plan! "We need to evacuate, the planes of the Germans are coming, we have no air cover!" York first made contact with the Rangers on the ground, and then led the team to evacuate, although the mosquitoes are very capable of self-protection, but if you don't leave, it will be absolutely self-defeating. These mosquito bombers began to climb slightly, and then evacuated to the predetermined base at full speed, and after the air force left, the Rangers on the ground were also suppressed by the fire of the German fighters, although the opponent was a fighter unit, and the ground attack was only an amateur level, but the Rangers' air defense technology tree was almost not much! The strafing of dozens of 20MM cannons and machine guns from 12 aircraft completely curbed the attack of the rangers, and even several assault vehicles were destroyed by the armor-piercing incendiary shells fired by MG151-20 machine guns, after all, no armored vehicle can guarantee that the top of its head can block the attack of 20MM guns!

"The mission failed, and we failed to identify the key objectives to be killed. The ground forces of the Germans would soon arrive, and the rangers asked to retreat! "The commander of the British ground forces in charge of the command gave the order to retreat, and the fast vehicles gathered up the infantry and withdrew towards the intended location. And then, several German JU90 bombers arrived on the battlefield with bombs and cannons, leaving them with nothing but scorched earth and ruins and panicked Frenchmen! The assassination is over, but the events caused by this assassination have just begun, the first card of the dominoes has been pushed, and the rest of the chain of reactions has caught everyone by surprise!

"Your Excellency, our attack is over, but it has not worked very well, and we cannot be sure whether the target is dead or not. Sorry, this was my job mistake and I'm willing to take all the responsibility. "The head of MI5, who was in charge of the attack, was full of nervousness and worry when he reported to Churchill, and no one expected that the Germans would actually send fighter jets to the rescue at a critical moment, and they came so quickly, which clearly showed that Petain had the means to directly contact the German army.

"Let's go down first, I don't have time to care about this now." After hearing about the defeat, Churchill did not immediately deal with the loser, he had no time to care about these things now, the assassination was just a fuse, and no one knew who the bomb would explode after it was detonated! The rest depends entirely on how the Entente leads! "Tell Prime Minister Reynaud about this. Let him be prepared, and then if the French do not take military action, then we can downplay the effect of this matter, and say that we are fighting a German force near the line of fire on both sides that is trying to break in, and if the French are holding on to it, then we will say that we are attacking a group of defectors. And they received cover from the Luftwaffe. Churchill then told his subordinates.

There are some things in this world that can be said and not done. There are other things that can be done but not said. Petain clearly belonged to the latter, and Petain could have told Renault about it, or even negotiated terms with the Germans on behalf of the French government. But this kind of thing must not be put on the surface with the Entente! Petain followed the upper echelons, and the capitulationists had the upper hand in the French government, but it was difficult to say at the grassroots level, and the choice of peace talks by the French would inevitably provoke the Entente. Once it's clear. Then the Entente's counterattack must have been quite terrible and violent! When the time comes, plus some French troops who are unwilling to submit, I am afraid that before surrendering, the French will have to fight first! Petain was ready to surrender, but he didn't want to take his life for the sake of surrender! So the result of this matter is that the top level of the French government is already aware of it, but the grassroots are not stable. What's more, the outcome of the assassination is still undecided, and it is still known whether Petain will live or die. The surrender faction itself is leaderless and at a loss, how can they still have the heart to figure out what is going on with this assassination?

The United States and Britain have already made some calculations about the possible outcome of this matter. If Petain dies and there is no new leader within the French capitulation faction who can convince the public, it will inevitably lead to a pause in Franco-German negotiations, and the Germans will not be able to wait until the French capitulation faction makes peace talks again, after all, China has already entered the war, and the Germans have to race against time to prepare for war. There is a good chance that they will go on the offensive again. If this is the case, the result will be good, and the resumption of fighting on the Eastern Front will inevitably weaken the German forces on the Western Front, giving Britain and France more time to evacuate from France. This is the best result.

Since there are good results, then there are bad results. So what about the worst possible outcome? It was nothing more than that Petain did not die, and then returned to Paris to speed up his pace and prepare to surrender, this time, the British attack was somewhat unexpected by Petain, and the next time, I am afraid it will not be so lucky. Even the Germans might personally send troops to escort Petain back, and the British had no chance of striking again. In the face of such a situation, it made the British a little difficult, Petain would not make the surrender clear to the United States and Britain, but at the same time, the United States and Britain could not stop the French from surrendering now, and now that the Entente was preparing to get out, how could they trouble the French army while fighting with the Germans? In the face of this situation, the British also have arrangements, since they cannot comprehensively stop the peace talks, then put their efforts on the French navy! Darlang is still swinging and this is an opportunity!

Information is never reciprocal, and the British are somewhat blind in their judgment, after all, they do not know what the situation of Petain is. The Germans were different, when the British rangers dispersed shortly after, the Germans urgently dispatched rescue troops came to the battlefield, looking at the messy convoy, the Germans also had to say admiration to the British approach, it was so simple and decisive, this is to fight to the death! Behind a wreckage, the Germans found the unconscious Pétain and his captain of the guard. A shot of shrapnel penetrated Petain's abdominal cavity, causing a large amount of blood loss, multiple abrasions and minor burns on his body, although his life was saved, it was obviously impossible to recover in a short time. After examination, the German military doctors concluded that Petain would not be fit to get out of bed and walk around for three weeks. However, compared to his subordinates, Petain was lucky, and the other important personnel died in this attack, nearly 70 percent! The entire negotiating team has been almost destroyed! And these people are also key figures in the capitulation faction and an important link to the grassroots!

The sudden turn of events surprised the Germans, who could not have imagined that the British would dare to attack the French executives! When the seemingly stereotypical English gentlemen take off their coats and roll up their sleeves to get ready to fight, people will find that the British are a combination of pirates and merchants in their bones! Pirates made the British dare to take risks and dare to fight. And the characteristics of the merchant make the British only count the pay and return. When the return is much greater than the outlay, they will definitely do it, and they will never drag their feet!

The impact of this incident was so great that Manstein, the commander-in-chief of the German forces on the Eastern Front, could not make a decision, and it stands to reason that everyone was talking about it now, and even Manstein and his staff officers had gradually formulated the matter of accepting the surrender of the French army. But such a thing happened at a critical moment. The French capitulation faction suffered heavy losses in this incident, will the main battle faction regain the upper hand? Although there must have been some remnants of the capitulation faction in the Parisian government, the Germans had no direct contact with them, and it is difficult to say whether the latter would be able to hold their ground! It was also highly likely that the negotiations would end abruptly, and that being the case, some of Manstein's men advised the Germans to prepare for battle in order to resume the offensive if things were bad.

But this suggestion was blocked by Limbentrop. The resumption of hostilities not only meant that the German army would pay many costs that could have been avoided, but more importantly, the plan to absorb the French navy would eventually come to naught, if the German army captured Paris, not to mention how big the losses would be, the French fleet would definitely go with the Entente, this matter involved a cross-service issue, and Count Spee would never allow his plan to be frustrated because of the reckless actions of the army. At least Brauchitsch or Bock were the ones who could communicate with Count Spee on a par, and Manstein's position was still somewhat offset, and on this basis alone, the German army on the Eastern Front could not act on its own.

The final decision was left to the Kaiser. And in the present situation, it is clear that the high-level meeting cannot be held in a short time, and the commander of the Navy, Count Spee, is in Crete. Air Force Commander Red Baron Richthofen in Rome. Without the two of them, there were many events that were difficult to decide. Eventually, the German top brass who remained in Berlin advised the Kaiser to launch a "limited offensive". Or as it is called "receiving by force." "On the one hand, the Germans will use their remaining connections with the French capitulationists to do their best to get the French troops along the way to give up resistance, and on the other hand, the German troops on the Eastern Front will form several fast corps to occupy some key points. These important transportation hubs or depots of supplies had to fall into the hands of the Germans, even in the event of a fight.

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