But the 5th Light Panzer Army, reinforced from Army Group C to Army Group A, ran into trouble with them. They went on a rampage through Belgian territory, sliced through the plains west of Eben-Emar with the cooperation of Stuka dive bombers, and brilliantly completed the task of covering the flank of Army Group A.

Unfortunately, when they were in a hurry to expand their gains, they encountered the two main armored divisions of the French 1st Cavalry Corps, which were the vanguard of a large number of British and French soldiers who marched north into Belgium to meet the Germans. The two sides were evenly matched, and a tank battle began on a scale that surpassed all the armored battles of the Polish campaign.

The French and German tanks engaged fiercely, and the flames of war burned for three whole days. From near Arnie, 25 miles west of Liège, it stretches to 15 miles from the city of Jean-Blou.

Germany's 5th Light Panzer Corps had four Panzer Divisions, one more than Panzer Divisions equipped with Leopard tanks. However, the 18th and 19th Panzer Divisions within this division were only equipped with P-3 tanks, which were much worse than the latest Leopard tanks.

The 5th Light Panzer Division, another light armoured division, was armed with only the oldest German P-2 tanks, but these tanks were modernized in 1937 with the turret removed, the chassis remodeled, an open combat compartment and a 75 mm anti-tank gun, and became a self-propelled anti-tank gun.

This corps was supplemented by an Panzergrenadier Division, the 19th Motorized Rifle Division. Armed with a small number of assault guns No. 3 and a large number of armored vehicles and cars, they have strong combat capabilities.

It can be said that as a light armored corps, although this force has close to 800 tanks and self-propelled anti-tank guns, the assault combat capability does not seem to be comparable to that of the First Panzer Army, which is equipped with 500 tanks. Of course, relying on numerical superiority, this armored corps is by no means a soft persimmon.

Now, it faces the armored forces of the French 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Anglo-French Alliance, which is also one of the best armored forces in the world. The force has more than 400 tanks, mostly advanced Soma S35 tanks and B1 heavy tanks. These tanks all had 47 mm anti-tank guns that were powerful enough to threaten German tanks, and most of them were also equipped with radio equipment and had strong coordination capabilities.

The two strong meet and fight. The French relied on the quality advantage of local tanks to storm the German army, creating a situation of more fighting less one after another. The German team lost 110 tanks and self-propelled anti-tank guns, which really distressed the German top for a while.

However, the excellent German fleet showed itself vividly in the course of the battle, and the French unwittingly paid a heavy price for a full 180 tanks in the process of destroying 110 tanks and armored vehicles.

This partial Anglo-French counterattack stabilized the Allied defensive line in Belgium, defused the superiority of German armored forces, and prevented further attacks by the right flank of German Army Group B and Army Group A in Belgium.

After such a tragic tank battle, the commander of the British expeditionary force and the French commander Gammerin both believed that the main German force was in Belgium, so within a few hours, the main force of the British and French forces, which had already penetrated into Belgium, continued to move north despite the threat from the rear.

In order to meet the surging German Army Group B in northern Belgium and the flank of Army A west of Liège, the Allied 40 main divisions, almost all of the elite of the French field forces, plus the entire British Expeditionary Force, and Belgian troops guarded their planned defensive line.

They were stationed in large numbers of troops from the Dutch radius near Antwerp south through Brussels to Namur, where they were stationed in large numbers of troops, and over time the French and British combined forces were in danger of outnumbering the Germans.

This time, the Allies had a respite and a great victory in the city of Rangblou, which helped the Anglo-French army to stabilize its position in Belgium. They were able to consolidate their strength and build a strong defensive line. However, this victory can be said to be a first and then an improvement for the German side, and it played into the hands of Accardo and his senior generals.

As Accardo and the German senior commanders had foreseen, with the appearance of German forces such as the German Army Group B and the 5th Light Panzer Corps under Army Group A, the attention of senior French generals such as Gammel shifted from the fragile Sedan defensive line to Belgian territory.

Accardo almost cried tears of joy when he heard that the French and British armies had all fallen into the trap. The hole he had dug for the Allies in Belgium finally came in handy, and the German forces were completely ignored by the French in the vicinity of Sedan and Dinan.

And by the time Army Group A's more than 300,000 traditional infantry reached the Guò Ardennes Forest, all resistance had been cleared by the armored forces ahead. They crossed the mountains and over the barricades and trenches that had long been undefended, and made their way through the Ardennes Forest with ease. By the time they appeared in Sedan and strengthened the German defenses, laying a solid foundation for the continued advance of Guderian and Rommel's elite armoured armies, no one was aware of the true intentions of the German troops.

"On the upward side of the Dinan, our army is gradually eliminating the positions constructed by the French soldiers. But the operation was very hard, and the losses of our troops were staggering. Field Marshal Brauchitsch pointed to the map and explained the current situation to Führer Accardo.

In the spacious and bright war room, the chief of the German General Staff, General Bock, stared at the map with a frown, and in his heart, it seemed that he was not so optimistic about this light war. In fact, it also proved the weakness of the German troops during the offensive.

Although Keitel's Army Group B achieved a very astonishing attack speed at the beginning, that crazy attack speed was completely completed under the strange assault of the paratroopers. Later, in the south of the Netherlands, when his troops were mixed with the main French forces, the entire southern Dutch front gradually stabilized.

The 6th Light Panzer Division halted its southward march in front of Antwerp, an important city in northern Belgium, and did not succeed in advancing 1 km for two days, the 7th Infantry Corps fought a bloody battle 35 km north of Brussels, losing 3,000 men and only 7 km of land, and the 1st Infantry Corps was not much better, having to dig trenches to cope with the counterattack of the increasingly powerful British Expeditionary Force.

On the other hand, in the just-concluded Battle of Jean Blu, the German armored forces suffered the heaviest losses since their formation, and in just three days of engagement, Germany lost 63 No. 3 tanks and 47 modified Weasel 2 self-propelled anti-tank guns. This loss worried a veteran general like Chief of Staff Bock, who feared that Germany would be bogged down in war and follow the path of defeat in the previous war.

However, Field Marshal Brauchitsch was unimpressed by this qiē, because the heavy punch that Germany was really prepared to play was actually on the front line, so he still believed that Germany had a chance to win. Moreover, the navy's advisers told him that Germany now had more maritime power than it had in 1912, which gave him greater confidence.

Of course, confidence also came from home, and thanks to the efforts of Accardo and Augustus, Germany had mobilized a full 1 million reservists to form Army Group H under the command of General Weix and Army Group I under the command of General Kleist. This expansion has strengthened the Wehrmacht, with a total of more than 5 million combat troops.

The SS formed the 6th Panzer Division and the 7th Panzer Division, which were incorporated into the 9th Panzer Corps of Army Group H and the 11th Panzer Corps of Army I, respectively. The two units are also equipped with more than 1,000 newly produced armor-reinforced Leopard tanks, Type B.

As a result, Germany now had a full eight armies, namely Army Group A under General Rundstedt, Army Group B under General Keitel, Army Group C under General Loeb, Army Group D under General Modell, Army Group E under General Liszt, Army Group F under General Kluger, Army Group H under General Wilkers, and Army Group I under General Kleist.

Of course, if we divide them purely according to their size, Army Group A and Army Group B can now be called army group groups, and the size and strength of these two army groups are almost twice or even three times that of other army groups. For example, Army Group A now has four armored corps, the 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 7th, which are four times the size of other armies.

Therefore, after introducing the current battle situation, Brauchitsch pointed at the German unit logo in the Sedang area with his whip, and confidently said to Accardo: "In the next stage, the army will cooperate with the air force to fully carry out the scythe operation, and attack here, here and this area at the same time." ”

"Can we achieve victory in the area west of Sedan and ensure that our troops can advance quickly? You must know that we do not have many armored troops at our disposal, and if we get into a war of attrition, it will be against us. Bock had to ask his top concerns.

"This problem is very easy to solve. Brauchitsch pointed to a large area west of Sedan, and said: "The French troops do not have any main forces here, and our armored forces are able to reach the designated targets as quickly as possible." Our infantry has also replenished a large number of vehicles, in the hope that these units can keep up with the pace of the armored attack. ”

Finally, he looked at the silent Führer Accardo, stood up straight and said, "My Führer, although I firmly believe that we will win this war, I still want to assure you here. If you can't win this battle, I will choose the most decent way to give you an explanation. ”