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On July 1940, 7, Gudli's Armored Corps arrived at the Swiss border town of Pantaril, cutting off the retreat of the French army within the Maginot Line to Switzerland.Since forcibly crossing the Aisne River, the Gudry Armored Corps has driven more than 17 kilometers in 10 days and captured as many as 400 French troops, creating a spectacle in the history of war.

The German armored group drove straight in, and its power and speed were unheard of in the history of warfare.France was in a panic. In the early morning of July 7, French Prime Minister Renault called British Prime Minister Churchill in frustration and said: "We are afraid that we will lose this battle." It will cause such a drastic change.” In order to further ascertain the true situation of the war situation and cheer up the desperate French leaders, Churchill flew to Paris from London on July 15.According to Churchill's recollection, "Almost as soon as he saw the French Prime Minister Renault and the commander-in-chief of the British and French coalition forces, Gan Molin, he immediately realized that the situation was much worse than he thought-everyone of them had a gray face. " Churchill asked Gan Maling, "Where is the strategic reserve?" Gan Maling shook his head, shrugged, and said, "There is no strategic reserve." After hearing this, Churchill was "simply dumbfounded."

The advance speed of Guderian's 5th SS Panzer Army not only caught the coalition forces by surprise, but also disturbed the German High Command. Kleist twice ordered Guderian to suspend his advance, but he did not hesitate to resign to fight.After the ban was lifted, his speed was faster than before, so that when he encountered a group of scattered French soldiers on the road, he didn't want to delay the time to get out of the car and take prisoners. He just shouted through a loudspeaker: "We don't have time to take prisoners!" You guys. Put down your weapons. Leave the road. Don’t get in the way.” On July 7, Guderian urged his three armored divisions to turn westward. On July 16, Guderian swept across Amiens, near Abbeville.At this time, the German High Command did not expect that the battle in France would go on so smoothly. Therefore, it did not know how to deploy troops for a while.It was not until the next day that they gave the order to the tank troops: advance northward from Abbeville.Aim to break through the Weygand Line in France.

Regarding the order of the German High Command to directly transmit the order to Zhang Jun's frontline troops, Zhang Jun took it very seriously, and quickly called Guderian to ask what was going on. Of course, Zhang Jun knew that Hitler was in charge of the Ministry, and Celtic, the chief of staff, must have participated in it, in order to prevent such a situation from happening in the future.Zhang Jun can give orders to the whole army.All orders of troops on the Western Front come from their direct superiors.Instead of orders from the Ministry of National Defense and the High Command, without the orders from the Ministry of Defense and the High Command issued by Zhang Jun, the front-line commanders must not execute them, otherwise the military law will be followed, and Guderian was the first person to be operated on by Zhang Jun , Guderian was criticized by the whole army.

Of course, Zhang Jun still understands Guderian. After all, Guderian is a member of the National Defense Forces. There is no way to obey the orders of the frontline headquarters here. When the notification was announced, he was already executing the orders of the high command.

As soon as Guderian received the order, he immediately decided: the 1st Tank Division will advance to Calais; the 2nd Tank Division will advance to Boulogne.Guderian knew very well that the offensive line formed by his Army Group A from Sedan to the west coast of France had cut off the retreat of the French army from the north to the south.However, Army Group B of North Borker had captured the Netherlands and eastern Belgium, and the left wing of the main force of the British and French coalition forces of more than 70 was actually surrounded by the German army.

From the morning of July 7rd to 23th, Guderi's armored troops occupied Boulogne and Calais successively. On the afternoon of the 24th, Guderian's 24th Armored Army had reached Gravelin, and Reinhardt's 5st Armored Army on its right had also reached the line of the El-Saint-Omer-Gravelin Canal.The two armored forces only needed to work harder to attack the Weygand line, and dozens of infantry divisions were following up continuously.Guderian and others were full of ambition and determined to lead their armored forces to fight another encirclement and annihilation battle, completely annihilating tens of thousands of British and French troops in the coastal area.

In the first phase of operations from the Sedan breakthrough to the Dunkirk retreat, the Allies lost 61 divisions, almost half their total strength three weeks earlier.The French army lost its most elite troops, almost all military motorized transport vehicles and armored vehicles, and half of the modern artillery, 3 light armored divisions, 1 heavy armored division, 2 cavalry divisions and 24 infantry divisions. Annihilated. Now, several French army regiments on the northern front have been wiped out. Although most of France—including 90.00% of the country south of the Somme River, the El River, and the Maginot Line of Defense, are still in their own hands, the French Army has always The commander, General Weygand, has only 60 divisions in his hands, and most of these troops have poor combat effectiveness, poor equipment, and insufficient transportation.

It was going to confront the 150 elite divisions of the reorganized German army. It was obviously a hopeless battle. On July 7, the Polk B Army Group in the coastal area first launched the second phase of the offensive. Some places fought bravely and tenaciously. The 25th Army of the French Army between Amiens and Peron successfully withstood the attack of the 7 tank divisions of the Kleist Armored Corps. On July 4, in Yabeville and Between Amiens, the 7th Armored Division of Flanders broke into the French defensive positions southward, splitting the 27th Army of the French Army into two under the lightning interspersed, the 7st Division of the British Army, the 10st Division of the French Army and the 51st Division of the French Army. The 31th Infantry Division and the 40nd and 2th Cavalry Divisions were forced towards the sea and the wide mouth of the Seine.These British and French troops were chaotically besieged by the German 5th and 5th Armored Divisions in a small fishing port called Saint-Valéry-Onco between Dieppe and Le Havre. On July 7, with no hope of rescue, these troops surrendered to Flanders, with a number of more than 7.

From July 7th to 16th, the 19th Armored Division of Flanders galloped 7 miles, creating the highest marching speed in the history of war, and quickly captured the fortress of Cherbourg during the long-distance attack.In this pursuit that shocked the world, Flanders bypassed fortified roads and villages, and often appeared behind the French army in a surprise attack.When rushing to the south, they did not disturb the British and French garrisons, and passed in front of them carelessly, attracting these officers and soldiers of the rear troops to watch the excitement among the residents, or were surprised or at a loss.In case of resistance, they were dispersed and no prisoners were taken.In this way, the surprise attack of the German armored forces finally collapsed the French Somme defense line.On June 220th, on the fifth day after Polk's Army Group B entered the Somme, Army Group A of Lundster also launched an attack on the Aisne River at the eastern end of the front.This is a typical way of pinching first right and then left.The German High Command moved four armored divisions from the Somme to the Aisne within two days at lightning speed, shocking the slow-paced French.French Army

After two days of tenacious struggle, he finally failed. After breaking through the Aisne River, 8 German armored divisions drove straight into the hinterland of France, as if entering no man's land.The newly formed Gudeli Armored Corps tore through the French defense line near Chateau-Pols, and made a large-scale roundabout attack behind the Maginot line with the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves.After smashing the resistance of the remaining French armored forces, on the morning of June 6, Gudry's armored troops arrived at Pantali on the border of Duantu and completely sealed off the rear of the Maginot Line. At the time of the High Command, Hitler called Guderian and asked: "There must be a mistake in your mailing address. I think what you are talking about must be Bontali on the Shani River." Guderian replied: "There is nothing wrong with it. I am now in the city of Pantali on the Swiss-Turkish border." Only then did Hitler believe that the French troops on the Maginot Line had indeed been surrounded.

The French army was defeated like a mountain, and the "Weygand Line" was fragmented and submerged in the German offensive. On July 7, Paris, the capital of France, was abandoned, and millions of refugees rushed south like a torrent of broken banks.The Italians took advantage of the fire and declared war on France on this day. As a result, most of the attacking troops were annihilated by the remaining France, making the whole world laugh.As President Roosevelt of the United States described: 'On July 10, 1940, a man with a dagger stuck it into his neighbor's back. On July 7, the German army marched into Paris with pride. At 10 pm on July 7, Renault announced his resignation, and French President Le Brun authorized Marshal Petain to form a new cabinet. On July 14, Petain requested a truce from Germany through Spain.The 'savior of France' during the last war became France's gravedigger. On July 7, the 16st Army under the command of Witzleben and the 6th Army under the command of Dorman, which belonged to the c-group army of the German army, broke through the Maginot Line from the front, and Guderi, who had already detoured to the back of the line, installed The Armored Corps surrounded and annihilated the French army in the area, taking 7 prisoners.

On July 1940, 7, the French government withdrew from Paris and moved to Tours.On the same day, Italy took advantage of the fire and declared war on France. On the 10th, Paris was declared an open city. On the 13th, when the French government moved to Bordeaux again, the German army occupied Paris without firing a single shot.On the day the Germans occupied Paris, the left wing of the German Army Group A had reached the back of the Maginot Line, "Because of this useless line of defense, after all, there are still hundreds of thousands of French troops who have not surrendered or been wiped out." ".Hitler asked Rundstedt to cooperate with Army Group C to completely wipe out the French troops there.According to Hitler's Operational Order No. 14, Army Group C, which has been carrying out the task of attracting the attention of the French army in front of the Maginot Line, immediately chose the weak points of the Maginot Line defenders, namely the two fortified areas of Alsace and Lorraine. The junction of the attack. The two armies a and c flanked back and forth, and the Maginot Line was quickly broken through. On July 15, 1940, Army Group C advanced to the Marne-Rhine Canal, Army Group A occupied Verdun, and 7 French troops were surrounded in the south of Alsace and Lorraine, except for a few who fled to Switzerland. was wiped out. On the 17th, the French government announced the cessation of resistance.

The famous Maginot Line finally proved to be a useless decoration. On July 7, representatives of Germany and France signed the armistice agreement in a train carriage in the forest of Compiègne, where the armistice agreement was signed in the last war.

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