De Gaulle pointed at Ouyang Yu and said loudly: "I have seen in the defendant the integrity and fearless bravery that a soldier should have!" and then pointed to the prosecutor and continued: "And in this gentleman, what I see is hypocrisy and lies!"

"I'm ......!"

De Gaulle interrupted the prosecutor before he could protest again, "Please don't talk and listen to me first, ladies and gentlemen, just now the prosecutor said that on May 26, 1940, Colonel Catherine's troops engaged the German army in the Arras area and repelled several German attacks.

"Whoa......" ×N.

De Gaulle's words caused an uproar among the people at the scene, the 1st Panzer Division of the SS was invincible in the French campaign, and had become a mythical super army, and the people could not imagine that Ouyang Yu was facing such a force at that time.

After the people had quieted down, de Gaulle continued: "Guys, do you know how many men Colonel Catherine's troops were at that time?"

The tens of thousands of people below collectively shook their heads, where would they know the specific battle situation.

"At that time, Colonel Catherine's army was only four thousand men, and the number of this force was the National Guard Brigade of Calais, which was a reserve force!"

"Only 4,000 people?or a reserve?!"

"Four thousand men repelled several attacks by nearly 20,000 elite German troops!"

After the people digested the information they had just said, de Gaulle said again: "In the battle of the 26th, the German army invested more than 300 tanks and armored vehicles. More than a hundred cannons. More than five hundred sorties. More than 10,000 infantry took turns to attack the position of Colonel Catherine's troops, and in the battle, Colonel Catherine's troops destroyed more than 80 German tanks and armored vehicles, shot down 19 enemy planes, including three large bombers, and killed and wounded more than 3,000 German infantrymen.

"Well done Colonel Catherine!"

"What a hero of France!"

De Gaulle's words once again made the people at the scene boil.

Then de Gaulle turned his words and pointed at the prosecutor and said loudly: "In the case of a complete rout on the whole front, such a rare achievement has become an incomparably understatement from the mouth of the prosecutor. It seems that achieving such a victory is as easy as drinking water, and if it were really so easy, would we still be defeated by the Germans? You must know that in the battle of the 26th, the National Guard Brigade also paid a huge price, more than 400 killed, nearly 1,000 wounded, and in the case of nearly a third of the casualties, Colonel Catherine still led the troops to hold their positions, and the prosecutor please tell me that she was afraid of the enemy.

"I ...... I....... "The prosecutor couldn't say a word in the face of the facts.

"If Colonel Catherine's performance can be regarded as fear of the enemy, then all the officers of our army are afraid of the enemy!"

De Gaulle showed a document to the crowd, "Everyone. Just now the prosecutor also talked about the order given by the coalition command to Colonel Catherine, and I believe everyone remembers what he said. But he said that he missed something, and what he said was missing, that the Allied command demanded that Colonel Catherine fight to the last soldier at all costs, and make every effort to buy more time for the retreat of the Allied forces in Dunkirk, and fight to the last soldier. I can't believe anyone could give such an order!"

De Gaulle, who had spoken a lot in a row, took a breath, put down the file and continued to say affectionately: " Fortunately, in the early morning of the 28th, General Montgomery led his troops, returned to the Arras area after inflicting heavy losses on the Germans, lifted the encirclement surrounding Colonel Catherine's troops, and then the two armies retreated together to the swampy area forty kilometers east of Dunkirk, where Colonel Catherine, who always kept in mind the orders of the command, once again set up a blocking position and fought fiercely with the pursuing Germans for a week, during which her troops did not get any reinforcements, and when there was no ammunition, she ordered her soldiers to go to the battlefield to collect, and she and her soldiers relied on their loyalty to the motherlandIn the last two days, Colonel Catherine's troops had suffered more than half of the casualties, and without any reinforcements, she personally took a gun and took the girls of the guard platoon to the front line, and at that time 340,000 Allied soldiers were squatting on the beach with nothing to do and waiting to retreat, but no one was willing to turn around to help them desperately resist the friendly forces of the German army, Colonel Catherine and her troops fought until June 4, when the last group was evacuated from Dunkirk under the sound of German gunfire。 ”

De Gaulle looked at the prosecutor for the third time and said, "Let me ask you again, how do you describe such a heroic army in your questioning......? Hahahaha...... If you and I are not standing in the sacred court, I must duel with you in order to wash away your slander against this heroic unit and disrespect for the supreme commander of this force!"

"Your Excellency!" said de Gaulle, as he walked to the lieutenant general with the papers, "here are all the battles of the National Guard Brigade in Calais, and the testimony of General Montgomery of the British Army, the principal officers of the Third Infantry Division, the Seventh Infantry Division, and the Fifth Tank Brigade of the British Army, all of which can prove the truth of what I have just said. ”

Lieutenant General Judge took the document in de Gaulle's hand with both hands, "I will watch these testimonies carefully, is there anything else the defense has to say?"

"There's no Judge. ”

"I now announce the temporary adjournment of the trial, and the case will continue in two days!"

Ouyang Yu, who was escorted away by the gendarmes after a trial, has become the idol of the people, I don't know who shouted Joan of Arc, and the people in the audience and the French soldiers who were watching also chanted Joan of Arc together.

Hitler, who was far away in Berlin's Chancellery, said to Goebbels beside him after listening to the trial: "Publish an editorial about this absurd interrogation at once, and you must take this opportunity to criticize the French government, and maybe you can force the French to the negotiating table and demand their surrender." ”

"In obedience to my Führer, I will go and prepare an editorial. ”

The next day, all the major German newspapers published Goebbels's editorial in full, in which Goebbels vigorously attacked the French government and the top brass of the army as a bunch of stupid pigs, obviously Joan of Arc of the twentieth century, but to be shot as a traitor and a deserter, if the protagonist of the trial was born in Germany, he would definitely be treated as a national hero, Goebbels also took out Hitler's racial superiority by the way, and scolded the French government and army fiercely.

Major British newspapers also published the trial of Ouyang Yu on the front page, and even the major newspapers in the United States and the Soviet Union also had similar reports, and the main content of each newspaper was to criticize the stupidity and ignorance of the French government and military leadership.

Countless people on the streets of Paris took to the streets, holding high slogans and shouting slogans, demanding that the government and the army stop the unfair trial of Ouyang Yu, the French military and police who learned the truth of the matter lazily hid on the sidelines and watched, and the entire French army also suffered a sharp decline in morale again because of this incident, and even the front-line army surrendered to the German army in formation, which made Petain and the cabinet, who had just become the French prime minister, fall into a huge crisis of disconfidence.

Under tremendous international condemnation and social pressure, Petain reluctantly personally ordered the trial of Ouyang Yu to be lifted on June 14, 1940, and declared Paris an undefended city on the same day, and on the same day the German army marched into Paris.

France surrendered on June 21, 1940. (To be continued.) )