.France, the outskirts of Vichy.

When I came here again, Chen Tian suddenly felt like he was a different life.

In November 1914, Chen Tian came here as a German negotiator and witnessed the signing of the German-French Armistice Treaty.

In April 1916, Chen Tian came here again, and his identity had become the emperor of the German Empire and the supreme commander of the armed forces. Among the entourages, only Hindenburg and Hausen participated in the negotiations. Falkenhein and Duke Futenburg had gone away, and Ruprecht was king in London. All this made Chen Tian sigh a lot.

Today is April 16. It has been more than two weeks since the first German troops invaded the French territory. Vichy, close to the south of the armistice line, has long become the rear of the German army. Guderian and Fleming's armored troops have now entered the Garonne River in southwestern France and Nice in northwestern France respectively. The next two assault arrows will attack the center together. If nothing unexpected happens, the war will end soon.

Compared with the arduous battle in 1914, the German army fought both straightforward and neatly. Even foreign media said that it was a blitzkrieg without any suspense and amazing!

Blitz?

Groups of Stukas were flying in the sky, a large number of black panthers, tigers, dvs, ddd tanks were rampant on the ground, and countless infantry wearing m42 steel helmets, holding m4, iron fist, mg42, and long-handled grenades on their belts. This is the real blitzkrieg battle in people's minds.

Although the technical level in 1916 was not enough to allow Chen Tian's army to conduct such high-speed and large-scale blitzkriegs, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and France, they had already allowed the world to see a land warfare model that was very different from the past.

To be precise, Chen Tian hopes that this invasion of southern France can be used as a preview of the real blitzkrieg in the future, and cultivates a large number of high and middle-level officers and low-level officers who are familiar with this kind of air-ground cooperation and use armored troops as arrows to quickly intersperse the battle, and provide a basis for reference for the logistics department.

In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German army's local supply speed seemed a bit slow, and the pioneer armored assault troops still needed to stop from time to time to wait for fuel, ammunition and infantry support. This time in France, the situation has improved a lot.

Just the day after Chen Tian and his party arrived in Vichy, news came from the front that the Fleming Armored Army captured Nice and defeated the French Right-wing Army. After this battle, the French government in the south had lost one arm and was only a matter of time before the German army completely defeated it.

Under such circumstances, the French quickly expressed their willingness to seek peace through the neutral country Switzerland. But in the face of such a great opportunity, how could the German rulers give up easily?

At this time, Chen Tian turned his gaze to his right wing, which is the wing of the Guderi Installation Army. What kind of surprise will this blitzkrieg hero from World War II give people in this world?

After finally crossing the Garon River, Major General Guderian led his armored troops to the Port of Bayona in the southwest corner of France. Because it took a full 24 hours to be delayed in the Garon River, he must now take back the time on the road.

What made the young sir, the reason why his troops were delayed on the north bank of the Galong River for one day was not because of the French's blockade, but after his troops arrived at the banks of the Galong River, they could only wait for the construction of bridge troops to arrive in the face of the flooding after the rain. However, the engineers and their cars actually encountered an unprecedented traffic jam!

On the road from Ruelle to Libcona, more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 900 trucks, more than 73,000 soldiers and nearly 400 cannons turned the originally not-wide French asphalt road into a super slow lane. The long convoy and people could only move forward at a speed of less than 2 kilometers per hour! Even worse, after the heavy rain. In addition to this asphalt road, the dirt roads and fields in the countryside have become muddy "car ponds", so the engineering troops and their equipment took a lot of effort to arrive at the Garon River, and were scolded by the hot-tempered General Guderian!

This is already true in France with developed transportation. Guderian couldn't imagine what it would be like to enter the Russian Congress. In his opinion, this is also the main reason why His Majesty the German Emperor was unwilling to invade Russia!

While stopping by the roadside for lunch, Guderian got the latest French infantry manual and a picked flyer from his adjutant. In order to learn foreign materials better, Guderian was proficient in English and French, so he read these two things casually. The French Army's 1915 edition of the infantry manual finally gave up the spirit of looking at the attack as life, but unfortunately fell into another misunderstanding: "The strong enemy on the opposite side should make the first choice to build a solid defense line... The trench should be maintained at least 2 meters deep to avoid causing a large amount of losses when the opponent's heavy artillery bombardment. A wide anti-tank trench should be built in front of the defense line, and anti-tank weapons should be properly configured..."

Guderian threw this infantry manual aside with disdain, along the way. The Germans all used a large number of airships, attack aircraft and bombers to open the way. Their horizontal bombing and low-altitude strafing attacks the soldiers in the trenches were incomparable to heavy artillery, and psychologically gave ordinary French soldiers great power. As for trenches, it was just a prop for children to play house in front of the German armored forces, because they could bypass the trenches or use bombs to open the path with blockbusters. Once a team of tanks appeared on the French position, the French army, which had only light weapons, anti-tank guns, anti-tank grenades and moor bottles, could not prevent the other party from breaking through even at a huge cost.

The French flyer said, "The Germans tore up the armistice agreement, and France will never turn to the treacherous ones!" and "Fight to the last person. Let the Germans shed all their blood." Guderian only smiled at this.

For Guderian, the invasion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the invasion of France gave him a lot of inspiration and inspiration. Regardless of whether time permits or not, he decided to compile his experience and understanding into a book as soon as possible so as to pass on these advanced ideas to every German soldier.

Within half an hour, Guderian and his command used up lunches mainly consisting of canned, butter, bread and hot coffee. At this time, the supply truck carrying the oil tank arrived. After 10 minutes, all the tanks and armored vehicles added enough fuel to continue to move quickly towards the target.

Perhaps it was a historical coincidence. This time, the person who was ordered to lead the main force of the French left-wing cluster to resist Guderi's installation of the A-ranked Army was 60-year-old Lieutenant General Henry Philip Omerbet, who had met Guderian in the Battle of Boer in 1914. At that time, Betton led his troops to surrender to Guderian. Unexpectedly, one and a half years later, the two met again on the battlefield.

The commander of the left-wing cluster. It sounds like Betel is very powerful locally. But think that Betel was just a commander of the French Army three weeks ago, and the army had only one infantry division and one artillery regiment. It is not difficult to understand General Betel's situation at this time. After losing two defense lines between Galand and Ruelle, Betel simply gave up the Garonne River and Mondemasan to retreat to Dax, which was only 60 kilometers away from Bajona, and let the remaining 70,000 soldiers in his hands build fortifications along the mountain while the German army arrived - this is already the foot of the Pyrenees.

Although there were 70,000 soldiers in his hand, General Betton still felt very sad because at least two-thirds of them were reserve troops temporarily assigned to the army. Although many of them participated in the 1914 war, they were still very unfamiliar with their commanders and companions when they were temporarily assigned to the training, and they lacked equipment and ammunition. The only thing that can be comforting is that the shadow of the last war was almost impossible to see in these soldiers. Under the propaganda of the government, everyone actively prepared for the war and vowed to fight to the end of the German gangs.

As for the geographical location of this last line of defense, Beden felt that relying on the Pyrenees would be much safer than relying on the sea, because after the German army began the invasion, the four battleships and aircraft carriers of the German North Sea Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet, the Prince, took a group of light ships to invade the Bay of Biscay and carried violent shelling and bombing of French ports fortified along the coast. Previously, although the French Navy laid a large number of mines outside the port of Bayona and blocked the port waterway with wrecks, this was not enough to make the coastline safe.

At the same time, the powerful German Mediterranean fleet is shelling ports such as Marseille and Toulon. Given the current bad situation, the main members of the French government have retreated to Mias in the mountains. After the right-wing cluster was surrounded and annihilated by the German army, Betton has become France's last hope.

When receiving the comfort letter from French President Puenga, Prime Minister Clemenceau and the promotion order from the Army, General Betton was not even happy, because the German armored troops appeared in his sight, which was one day faster than he expected. You should know that the showers came from time to time in the past few days, but unfortunately Betton underestimated the German speed, especially the speed of the German armored troops marched in a large plain area on the south bank of the Garon River.

Since this was the case, Betton had to bite the bullet and face the German attack that was about to begin.

On the first day, the Germans still only sent planes and airships to bomb and strafuse. This air strike has hit the speed and enthusiasm of French soldiers to build defense lines in the past few days, and it is even more annoying when the opponent's soldiers are in the face. The French air defense forces can still shoot down two to three German aircraft every day, but the German cluster that only increases and does not decrease every day makes people feel hopeless. Whenever a German aircraft is shot down, the soldiers' cheers can still be heard on the French positions, but this cheer is weakening every day.

The next day, after dispatching three batches of aircraft to carry out air strikes, Guderian divided his armored troops into three fronts and backs. In front of the first team, he was composed of 160 DDD tanks and 60 stone DDB tanks. After the battle began, he was lined up to advance to the French position, with 20 shells loading armor-piercing shells, and specializing in the anti-tank gun fortress and machine gun fortress on the French position; in the second team, he was composed of 86 DD.

Tank D, composed of 63 armored combat vehicles equipped with 120 mm mortars. After the battle began, it was slowly advanced and responsible for suppressing the French firepower. The first 20 shells were loaded with ordinary grenades and fired at the French trenches. After the third formation, it was composed of stone ddc, stone ddd tanks and armored personnel carriers, waiting for offensive orders on the spot. In addition, after the armored troops, 120 cannons provided long-range fire support.
Chapter completed!