Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1230 Standing at the Gate of Victory

"Wait a minute!" Before Gan Molin finished speaking, Alviron, who could no longer bear it, stood up: "I would like to ask your general, what should we do in Paris? And where should we evacuate?"

"General Alviron!" Gan Molin immediately retorted: "Please pay attention to your identity, you are just a small intelligence chief, not the chief of the general staff or the minister of the army, please don't talk to me in this tone! "

"Ganmarin!" Reynolds said at this time: "Alvirand's question is also what I want to ask, what should we do in Paris? Also, if we abandon Paris, where will we move to?"

"I also want to defend Paris!" Gan Molin spread out his hands: "But we don't have any troops, and now near Paris, the assembled troops plus the police and gendarmerie in the Paris area are at most 1 people. There are only 200 cannons, mortars, and anti-tank bombardments. In addition, there are only 400 light and heavy machine guns. How do you ask me to defend? Moreover, the Chinese troops are only 30 kilometers away. As long as the opponent’s armored forces rush over, we will It's over. Do you still want the other party to turn Paris into another Oslo and be bombed to pieces by thousands of their bombers? What right do you have to let this beautiful city be destroyed by war? What right do you have to let innocent civilians die In the flames of war?" As soon as Gan Molin's words came out, Alviron immediately shut his mouth, although he is a war faction and a soldier, but now he is still a politician, if the responsibility for the destruction of the capital is shifted to him , He is also unwilling to take on the responsibility of being cast aside by all people.

However, this situation only lasted for a few seconds, and he immediately asked his own new question, which was about moving the capital.He still thinks that the Brittany peninsula is the best, and he has transferred all the troops there.However, Gan Molin firmly disagreed.Because he believes that retreating to the Brittany peninsula is suicidal.He believed that the troops should be withdrawn to Marseilles.Because it is very far away from the Chinese, and it is possible to gradually withdraw troops and troops to North Africa with the help of warships moored in the port.So the two started a heated argument on this issue again.In the end, it was Petain who stood up, and each of them took a step back.Neither retreated to Brittany nor Marseilles, but to Tours, 16 kilometers southwest of Paris.

While Ganmaling and Alviron were still arguing, the army moved forward again.At 8 o'clock in the evening, he and his armored convoy arrived at a staging area, Château Château, a French nobleman's castle.

"15 kilometers away from Paris!" Looking at the French road sign outside the castle, he laughed loudly, then he called his superior, and then pulled his adjutant Zhang Xuesi, and the three of them stayed beside the road sign with the castle as the background took a group photo.

"Jieshi, it seems that one of our feet has already stepped into the city of Paris." Feeling this road sign, Zhang Zuolin said with emotion: "Now, we are standing at the gate of victory!"

"Yes!" Watching a few guard soldiers loading a pair of famous paintings and exquisite works of art onto the truck, this is a good habit he has developed since he came to France to collect famous paintings and works of art.Then he said: "This is the way the world is, whoever is stronger is the ultimate winner. And Paris is just one of our goals. I think we still have a long way to go." Having said that, he looked up Looked at the sky: "Tomorrow must be a good weather."

With one after another of bad news, France's last day in Paris was extremely gloomy.That night, the officials and their families packed up their soft and personal clothes. Then they burned the important documents stored at home, and finally crowded into the car prepared for them and headed for Tours-sur-Roy.

On the same day, French Prime Minister Renault solemnly stated in a telegram to British Prime Minister Churchill: "Your Excellency Churchill and the peace-loving people all over the world. Although the Chinese are approaching Paris, we still will not give up freedom and equality. We will Fight in front of Paris, we will fight in the rear of Paris, in short, we will fight to the last man." Although Renault's words are completely imitated at the end of World War II, when the German army approached Paris, French Prime Minister Clemenceau and US President Wilson talked The rhetoric of the time.However, he seems to have left out another line in Clemenceau's famous quote, "I will fight in Paris."

Of course, the careful British Prime Minister immediately ordered Foreign Secretary Eden to send a telegram to the "careless" French Prime Minister, but this person had already slipped away.

After getting in the car, the prime minister finally remembered that there was one more important thing to do.Soon, he found Gan Molin who was still doing the final evacuation mobilization at the Paris Convention Center: "General, do we want to guard Paris?"

The commander-in-chief immediately gave a written answer: "Paris has become an undefended city. Of course, in order to stabilize the hearts of the people, we cannot announce it to the outside world now."

Subsequently, Gan Molin made an incredible order, appointing the former commander-in-chief of the Paris Gendarmerie Lieutenant General Pierre Herring as the commander-in-chief of the Paris Garrison, and concurrently as the commander-in-chief of the newly established Paris Army Group.This group army will be responsible for defending the entire Paris, but Gan Molin did not give Herring many troops. In addition to the 5000 urgently recruited, the strength of an infantry division of the Dragon Army cannot even be compared.

June 6 at 10 o'clock sharp.The main departments of France were all evacuated from the capital Paris.At this time, the whole of France was in chaos. The refugee wave on the front line had begun to spread to the rear. The roads around Paris were crowded with refugees. These people were at a loss as to where their destination was.They only want to go south, because there are no Chinese in the south, no enemy tanks, planes and artillery.

800 people marched chaotically on the roads and trails south of Paris, rushing towards the south like huge waves.There was no organization at all. Cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and horse-drawn carriages were crowded in the crowd, squirming forward like snails.Officials seem to have forgotten their duties.They either fled in front of the inhabitants of their own jurisdiction, or followed.People had no shelter, some of them camped out in tents where they could find, others rested in their cars, and others had nothing to rest in the open air.

Water and food have also become the focus of everyone's competition.At this time, money has become a pile of waste.To buy some water and food, you have to pray to people, and sometimes you even have to grab them.At this time, the soldiers and police who flowed with the team had no way to stop them, because they also had to worry about their own food.

These people kept going south, and only stopped when they encountered vehicles unable to advance or enemy planes strafing, in order to save their poor lives and hid in the air-raid shelter next to them.

The French and the High Command, who were advancing in the middle of the ranks, saw this terrible sight.They all realized that the suffering French nation was on the verge of disintegration.

June 6 was the first day after France moved to Tours.In order to keep this ally behind and continue to fight, Churchill once again visited France in person.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the heads of state of Britain and France met again, but the atmosphere at the venue was neither friendly nor optimistic.As always, Kamaling reported a series of bad news.Of course, the most important thing is the timetable for entering Paris.

After a while, the veteran raised the question of whether to continue the war, which was originally raised by Renault.Of course, Churchill said to continue the war.Immediately, the old man opened the chatterbox again.From the British air assistance to continuing to send expeditionary forces to fight, etc., all the demands of this and that were thrown at Churchill.Of course, these requests, especially the two requests to continue to send the air force and the army to fight, were immediately rejected by Churchill.

Because he himself didn't want more British soldiers to walk into the prisoner-of-war camp inexplicably.

Petain, who sat on the side without saying a word, was waiting for this answer from the other party. Soon the old man described a gloomy and hopeless prospect to Churchill, and easily crushed Churchill's encouragement to the French. plan.However, Churchill did not give up. He suggested to Petain that Clemenceau would continue to fight in Paris, but Petain's answer left Churchill, who did not understand military affairs, speechless.His answer was: "At that time, Clemenceau had a sufficient reserve team with your support. But now we not only have no reserve team, but also have no allies." This simple sentence shattered Churchill's attempt to encourage his plan.

Talks continued the next morning, but again without result.During this period, Churchill also learned that the troops of the Dragon Army were only about 10 kilometers away from Paris.So Churchill could only return to London with a heavy heart.

Since the front of the French army has in fact been beaten to pieces, it cannot continue to be maintained.In view of this, de Gaulle issued an order for a general retreat after sending away Churchill, the god of plague.It is required that the three army groups on the front line (including the second army group on the Maginot Line) try not to disperse their forces, and retreat to the lines of Caen, Tours, Middle Roire, and Dijon along the designated direction.

Among them, the Seventh Army will build fortifications on the Persh Heights to block the way to the west.The Paris and Seventh armies held the banks of the Loire between Tours and Cosna.

The Sixth, Fourth and Second Armies blockaded the Rhonne, Seine, and Marne valleys.The Second Army Group withdrew from the Maginot Line and entered positions on the Swiss border.All troops must stick to the defense and stabilize the front they are defending.

Although the order issued by de Gaulle was decisive, and there seemed to be no problem.However, this is only an ideal plan, not to mention that the predetermined positions are scattered and incoherent, and the troops that should enter the positions often disappear from the soldiers to the commanders.There are only a few isolated pocket positions.These bridgeheads, junctions, and traffic centers were held firmly under the leadership of a few determined commanders.Some cities refused to defend the army because the division commander feared that the war would destroy the city.

(End of this chapter)