Facts have proved that the Germans were ready to forcibly borrow the road before they said they were going to borrow it. Although Britain and France have firmly expressed their support for Belgium, Belgium has also said that it will use it at all costs to protect the security of its homeland.

But these seemed so insignificant in the face of the strategic goals and interests of the Germans.

What's more, the current Germany is already in a state of war with Britain and France. Since it was already an enemy country, why should Germany care about the diplomatic threat of Britain and France?

Ignoring the British and French threats and the Belgian maneuvers, the German government immediately declared war on Belgium just after the 24-hour deadline had passed.

At the same time, more than 100,000 German troops marched into Belgium and launched a direct attack on the troops stationed on the Belgian border.

The German army moved quickly, far from which the British, French and Belgium did not expect.

Even though the Belgian government had begun an emergency mobilization after the ultimatum, it would never have been able to mobilize many troops in a single day.

To make sure the plan was foolproof, the French general contacted the domestic government and the General Staff to ask for more aircraft and to send another army to protect his flanks.

What's more, because of Belgium's previous declaration of absolute neutrality, Belgium has made a massive reduction in its military budget.

It is worth mentioning that Belgium occupied a small part of German territory in the previous World War.

Even before the German ultimatum arrived, Belgium's attitude towards the war was to watch a good show.

Although the Belgian army had less than 100,000 men, they also had strong fortresses for defense.

But then again, even if the Germans had not attacked Belgian military airfields, Belgium would not have been able to compete with the German army in terms of skies.

In less than five days, the presence of two Belgian military towns in Linker and its imminent arrival in Brussels is a testament to the strength of the German army.

This also means that after this round of air raids, Belgium has no possibility of resistance in the sky.

Since the outbreak of the war, neither France nor Austria has won a single decent victory.

Fifty thousand of them, on the orders of the French generals, headed west to Charleroi, looking for an opportunity to enter Brussels from the rear and help the Belgians hold the capital.

On the map, you can see that the cities of Charleroi, Namur, Leuven and Antwerp are relatively close.

The idea of a quick capture of Namur and Liège envisaged by the French army not only did not materialize, but instead trapped itself around Namur.

Getting a nod of approval from the French staff made the general very excited. After all, this plan seemed to him foolproof, and the narrow Belgium could become the graveyard of the German army, and the myth of invincibility for the direct defeat of the German army was defeated.

But these Belgian border troops were clearly not adequately prepared. At the time of the German attack, a considerable number of Belgian soldiers were still asleep.

Hundreds of bombers, protected by fighters several times their size, marched mightily towards the Belgian military garrisons and airfields.

To the surprise of the French troops, there were quite a few German troops stationed in Namur, and they were even slightly ahead of them in terms of firepower.

As a small country with two powers on both sides and across the sea from another, the three powers would not allow Belgium to have a strong air force.

Liège is one of the more famous cities in Belgium. Here, there is a large fortress of Belgium, the fortress of Liège, which is one of the few in Belgium.

It was clear that the Belgian army also wanted to concentrate its defensive forces on its own key points, delaying the German attack as much as possible and finding time for British and French support.

You know, the French used a large number of aircraft in the war in the south and Italy, and created a lot of success.

When the French arrived near Namur along the river, they received the bad news that the Germans had captured Namur and were already heading north for a full-scale attack on Brussels, the capital of Belgium.

It also gave the French army a breath of relief. They wanted to prove that the French army was not bad, and at least in the face of a strong German army, it could still rely on stratagem to deal a fatal blow to the German army.

On 27 May 1936, German troops arrived in Brussels and immediately launched a full-scale offensive.

Four days after the outbreak of the Derby War, the French army set out from Sedan and headed north down the river to try to support the Belgian army.

More than an hour after the French attack, a large number of German planes arrived in Namur and engaged the French planes in a fierce battle.

The good news was that most of the German bombers were not aimed at the Belgian defensive fronts, but at Belgian airfields and barracks.

At 5 a.m. on May 22, while the sky was still gray, the German army had already attacked.

And because of the relatively small size of Belgium, it is still easier to defend with a fortress.

The German army was not going to give the Belgian army a chance. Taking advantage of his illness to kill him, the German army launched a huge attack, and a large number of shells rained down, as if to kill the Belgian army with one blow.

But the Belgians overlooked the fact that more than 20 years had passed since the First World War.

But the problem is that, because of the absolute neutrality previously declared by the Belgian government, Belgium is not prepared for war on a national scale.

Coupled with the fact that a large-scale war had not been experienced for a long time, the Belgian system of war and mobilization was largely decaying.

But what the Belgians did not expect was that this war was like a fire, and a neighbor as close as Belgium was destined to ignite it.

But the fact that the German army was able to fight in a very short time was that the Belgian army was defeated and retreated, which proved the strength of the German army.

It will take time just to mobilize a batch of weapons and equipment from weapons warehouses, let alone distribute these weapons and equipment to tens of thousands of recruits and transfer them to the battlefield.

In the face of massive enemy shelling and bomber attacks, the role of the Belgian border defenses was minimal.

More than half of these recruits have not yet received their weapons and equipment, and even the military uniforms on their bodies are large and small, which is very ill-fitting.

In less than a day, the German army fully regained its territory and advanced the front to Liege.

At the cost of more than 10,000 casualties, the Germans took the fortified fortress and advanced along the river towards Namur.

The reality is that after the Belgian border was violated, the Belgian conscription department mobilized less than 50,000 recruits.

The bad news is that Belgium is a relatively small country in the first place. Originally, there were not many military airfields, and in the face of such a large German attack, most of them were destined to be scrapped.

In World War I, the fortress of Liège held back the Germans for a long time. But the Second World War had already made full use of aircraft, coupled with a large number of artillery bombardments, so that the seemingly impregnable fortress of Liege lasted less than three days.

They never dreamed that Germany was a meticulous nation, and that the Germans said they would attack, but they would really attack.

With a large number of reconnaissance aircraft, the German army soon discovered the whereabouts of the French army. The German army was surprised to find that the French seemed to have split their forces into two directions, aiming at Namur and Brussels.

But the trade-off was that France did not have too many planes at its disposal in the war in the north. Even with some British support, the total number of aircraft at the disposal of France is still only about 1,000.

Although the government had warned the border troops that the German army was likely to attack after 24 hours.

The French army supporting Belgium had a total of 12 divisions and more than 150,000 troops.

On 28 May, after it was established that the Germans had launched a full-scale attack on Brussels, the French army also launched an attack on Namur.

As a result, Belgium spends the least amount of money on the air force of any small European country, with fewer than 50 military aircraft.

This led to the fact that the German army's desire to fight against Belgium was still very high, after all, in the eyes of the Germans, it was an absolute shame for the Germans to let a small country occupy territory.

The remaining 100,000 men were temporarily stationed on the banks of the river, waiting for the German army to actually defeat Brussels, and the French army took the opportunity to capture the fortresses of Namur and Liège, and tried to cut off the logistical supply and retreat routes of the German army that had invaded Belgium, preferably by directly encircling the German army.

By this time, however, the German army had already reached Namur and launched a fierce assault on the city.

In order to ensure that their attack was foolproof, the German army left nearly 100,000 troops in Namur, and deployed a large number of aircraft to patrol the line from Charleroi to Namur, in order to guard against the French army.

The unprepared Belgian army had absolutely no chance of winning in the face of the well-prepared German army.

This was also in line with the idea of the German army, which, after determining the plans of the French, reduced its patrol aircraft so as not to surprise the snakes.

Although the Belgian army also reinforced and rebuilt the defensive positions on the border, it was clear that nothing could be done in one day.

Although the Belgian government has already put the army into a state of combat readiness, the army on the front line has transported a large number of weapons and ammunition to prepare for war at any time.

The German army advanced faster than the French army expected. There was no way, the French generals, who were in charge of supporting Belgium, could only change their own orders.

Germany is different. Fully prepared for the war, Germany produced nearly 3,000 aircraft in half a year, and captured nearly 1,000 Poles.

This allowed Germany's aircraft reserves to directly exceed 4,000 aircraft, and even if it was split in half, more than 2,000 aircraft could still be used in the attack on Belgium and France.

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