Chapter 205

A huge gun slowly rose from the track, along which many French soldiers were strengthening the surrounding railway. A magistrate stood on high and looked at all this, his eyes full of pride.

"General de Gaulle." He pointed to his cannon and showed off to his colleagues: "there are no such huge guns in Germany. And here, we've deployed five of them in one go. "

Charles de Gaulle's face was also very happy: "I hope your artillery can bring victory to this attack."

It's been 16 days since France declared war on Germany, but France still hasn't launched any substantive attack on Germany. Everyone is waiting for the result of Germany's war against Poland. Once Germany gets stuck on the battlefield, some countries will really attack Germany's western border.

But this time, all countries lost their calculations, completely lost their calculations - the imagined stalemate did not appear, the war turned into a one-sided military exercise, and the German troops advanced more than 40 kilometers on the first day of the war, and maintained this stunning forward speed for most of the time.

The British were forced to transport 10000 people to Belgium to strengthen the border defense, because the Belgian Royal family was worried about the terrible fighting capacity of the German * team. Once such a speed of attack appeared in Belgium, the small Belgium might perish in a few days. Similarly, Luxemburg had a division of French troops.

The French leaders began to notice a small battle in the northern border area of Poland, which was insignificant in the magnificent Eastern battle, but still left all French generals in a dilemma: a permanent fortification built of reinforced concrete was completely destroyed by the German air force.

Giant bombs combined with napalm bombs made it possible for the German army to break through the Maginot defense line quickly, and the solid Maginot defense line became as fragile as white paper. France was unwilling to make the great wall of iron and steel which had invested a lot of money into a farmer's wooden fence, so it began to strengthen the border defense line in a hurry.

They believe that the Maginot line can withstand any impact from the ground, and only the threat from the sky needs to be worried. Therefore, the French side finally chose a two pronged plan. One is to start to enhance the performance of the fighter; Another option is to supplement ground air defense firepower.

However, September 1937 was a dead time for the French aviation industry. Some mature aircraft models were out of date in front of the advanced German fighters, while some experimental models were not mature and needed to continue to be tested. Seeing a large number of German fighters killing old aircraft over Poland, the French air force had no choice but to produce reasonably good performance aircraft. 406 fighter to relieve the pressure caused by the German air force.

On the ground, France began to deploy anti-aircraft guns in the main areas of the Maginot defense line. There was also an interesting episode: the French also took a fancy to the Swedish bofoss 40mm caliber anti-aircraft guns. Unfortunately, Germany had already placed orders for three years at a time, so the French had no choice but to use their own anti-aircraft guns with average performance.

At the same time, the French began to plan an attack to force Germany to give up the attack plan to destroy Poland. At this time, they found that they did not have a complete plan to attack Germany.

However, the emergence of a man gives the French government hope. This man is major general de Gaulle, who has been advocating the use of force against Germany. He put forward a complete operational plan, including the use of giant guns to destroy the German Ziegfeld line on the border, and then concentrated on the use of tanks to attack the western region of Germany as Germany attacked Poland.

Poland now has only one breath left. If we don't do it again, it will be too late. As a big country on the land of Europe, France has its own considerations. Britain can sit by and watch Germany check and balance France, but France can't tolerate such an outcome. So this time, the French finally decided to leave their British allies behind and fight Germany for a try.

At least this time, de Gaulle felt that the time was very ripe: Germany concentrated more than 80% of its main forces to surprise Poland, where it made a record that shocked the whole world. Then the German forces on the western front must not be sufficient. At this time, France can gain the advantage over Germany on the western front. In this way, Germany will have to withdraw its troops from Poland and fall into the embarrassing situation of two-line battle again.

"Our army doesn't have much research on the new secret weapons of German incendiary bombs, so there's no good way to take the Ziegfeld line." Charles de Gaulle pointed to the French train guns in front of him and said: "this kind of weapon is the only way we can deal with the German Ziegfeld line, hoping to achieve the desired effect."

"A few days ago, we tested the destruction ability of this kind of 500mm caliber gun against reinforced concrete fortifications, and the effect was very good. At least the Germans didn't cheat us this time. These guns are the killers of the defense line. " The artillery officer took a look at Charles de Gaulle and said with a smile, "we will not be fooled in this aspect, because our weapon experts also have to experiment and prove that it is useful before it can be put into production on a large scale."

"At dawn tomorrow, we will show the Germans that today's French team is not a bunch of Polish idiots!" De Gaulle waved to his adjutant, who nodded and ran down the hill.

On the other side of the hillside, dozens of French heavy tanks and hundreds of light tanks are moving slowly along the road. Together with these tanks are thousands of French infantry. Every other section has a big gun pulled by a pack horse. The team stretches to the end of the mountain road and is submerged in a piece of gray dust“ Long live the Fuehrer! General gascoir, emergency information just sent from France. " An officer came into the office of the intelligence agency of the general headquarters of the German defense forces with the top secret document and said at attention. Gascol opened the document and immediately changed his face: "how can such important information be sent here?"“ The French sealed off the border with Luxembourg, and our intelligence officers found the opportunity to send this information this evening. " The officer bowed his head and said, "after several dark losses, the French intelligence department also began to carry out a clean-up plan for our deployment, destroying the French army a few days ago. The 406 fighter production line failed. "“ Call the head of state's office now! He said, "I want to meet the head of state." Gaskell looked at his pocket watch and knew that akado had flown back to Berlin this afternoon. He immediately got up and said, "send a message to the French intelligence branch and tell them to collect as much information as possible about the details of the French operation, including the strength, attack direction and so on... If you have any information, please come to me directly, and don't pass anyone! Do you understand? "“ Yes! General The officer stood at attention again and agreed“ I'm sorry to disturb you so late, my Fuehrer Gascol looked at a tired face of akado, bowed his head and said: "but this news is very important, I can only inform you as soon as possible, I hope you can prepare early."“ About France? " Akkado knows that his effective subordinates will not disturb him for no reason. There must be a very difficult event. Speaking of the event, it is nothing more than the problem of the western front. So he swept away his fatigue and asked, narrowing his eyes. Gaskell stepped forward and handed the intelligence documents to akado: "the French are preparing to attack. They don't know when and where they will attack, but this attack will break out in the near future - they have sealed off the border area of Luxembourg." Akado nodded. He went to his desk and grabbed the phone: "get me the Propaganda Department... Fanny, it's me, akado... Arrange a speech, which will be ready tomorrow morning. The core is to condemn France for launching the war against Germany in spite of German resistance * westward advance... Yes! Arrange it as soon as possible and wait for me. " Put down the phone, and immediately arrested. Akado continued to issue his own order: "get me the general command of the national defense forces... This is akado. Please call general blauchich... Do you know the information? Yes, there should be no doubt about the accuracy. Let the troops on the Western Front enter a state of full combat readiness immediately. All officers will cancel their leave and the troops will enter their respective defensive areas. "“ My head of state, do you need to activate the preliminary plan? " On the other side of the phone, brauchich's voice came out: "if the French attack in an all-round way, the western front will suffer losses. We must take a counterattack in the first time in order to contain the French attack. "The government will declare a state of emergency war early tomorrow morning, and the national defense force will expand 20 divisions to the western front." Akado confidently said: "I approve you to use the" preliminary plan "for Western defense... But everything has to wait until the French fire first, understand?"“ Yes! My Fuehrer Brauchich replied, "I will try my best to stop France in the intended area." After hanging up the phone, acardo called Schacht again: "send a message to all the businessmen who have contact with us, sell off the French bonds and assets in hand. The preparatory plan has just been approved and implemented, and the real war has begun." Within the general command of the national defense forces, brauchich called the front command: "general lundstedt. I'm blauchich. On behalf of the head of state, I announce to you that you have been appointed commander in chief of the western front to be responsible for the implementation of the preparatory plan. " Late at night on September 29, the west line troops of the German national defense forces began to leave their barracks. The canvas on the plane was torn off by the ground crew. The "preparatory plan" was fully implemented, and the west line of Germany entered a state of first-class combat readiness.