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Chapter 2 This is a disaster

The clouds of war shrouded the British Isles, which made Winston Churchill's entry into Downing Street 10 and became the British wartime prime minister, and did not cause more joy.

On the contrary, the tension on the front line made British men of appropriate age have to carry their luggage and move into the military camp. They were the only armed forces to protect Britain after active troops entered France to fight.

The sadness and confusion of women at home alone are still in a stage where they cannot let go. I believe that after women pass this stage, the situation will change.

According to statistics, during the occupation of France, the birth rate of the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries increased sharply during World War II.

This situation will not occur in the Chinese Federation, which is different from the Western cultural traditions. According to the provisions of the Chinese Code, destroying military marriage is equivalent to treason, divorce of military families, losing custody of children and property distribution rights, which is in line with this. The credit rating of each person is seriously affected.

After reconsidering the unbearable reflection on the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China era, no one is willing to experience this situation again, and no one respects the "love" that aims to destroy other people's families as their love goal.

"In order to live safely and dignifiedly, we would rather pay some freedom and price! In order to enable our men to take on more responsibilities, we would rather pay, and we could do more!"

This is a new document formed after the combination of Chinese traditional culture and world culture. Regardless of this culture, it will at least not create the defeated generation during the Vietnam War in the United States.

At this time, the war situation in France had generally made the British worried. The more rapid blitzkrieg of the German army had already made them appreciate the threat.

From April 20, 1936, the war began to devastate. This also forced Britain and France to transfer their troops back from Norwegian side.

On the day of the war, the Liege Fortress in Belgium was completely lost. The French army and the British Expeditionary Force immediately followed the plan and used armored forces to enter Belgium under the cover of air force.

The First Army, which was originally waiting behind the French defense line, was used to fight against Germany in Belgium, began to operate.

This army includes two armored divisions of the British Expeditionary Force, one armored infantry division and four infantry divisions. The French side includes three cavalry corpses and four infantry corpses. The entire First Army includes a total of 6 armored divisions and 5 armored infantry divisions, 18 infantry divisions, and a total of 29 divisions with about 600,000 troops.

The United Airlines fleet consisting of France and the United Kingdom, 3,000 combat aircraft support the operation.

According to the French military's prediction, they should have contacted the B Army Group commanded by German General Fedor von Bock.

It has 28 divisions under its jurisdiction, including 3 armored divisions and 1 motorized division, with air support provided by the German 2nd Air Force.

Just based on the predictions of the French and British governments, this will be a close battle. At least they believe that the Germans should not have much advantage in the face of so many tank troops from Britain and France.

But the war at this time became beyond the expectations of the British and French generals and governments. On April 21, 1936, the German Army Group A launched a large-scale boat landing attack on the flanks of the French defense line.

1,000 airships appeared over France under the cover of air carriers and fleets. Before them, the German K-3 air cavalry had already occupied the small Belgian city of Nefchato by a large number of transport aircraft and bombers, and established an integrated base that could accept subsequent troops.

If it were just the vanguard of one division, it would not cause any concern to the Allied Joint Command. Then, 1,000 airships carried a tank division of the German Group A Army and a mechanized division to take out some engineers and landed in the airborne field guarded by the Iron Cavalry.

The main force of the German air fleet then appeared at the integrated air-ground base, and at the same time arrived at a large number of equipment and more ammunition supplies. The Mechanized Division and the Tank Division added some K-1 infantrymen to launch a tentative attack on Sedan and build a floating bridge.

That night, Lieutenant General Von Clayst, a famous German armored vanguard, will command his armored cluster to arrive in Nafchato and complete the first large supply at night.

The so-called large supply not only provides sufficient oil and ammunition supply to the entire armored division, but also provides sufficient tank replacement for the armored troops so that the armored division can maintain the best combat state.

Here it is necessary to briefly introduce several major armored combat vehicles of the German armored forces.

At this time, the German armored troops were divided into Tiger Heavy Tanks and Leopard Medium Tanks. The former was made and produced by Germany. The Tiger I Heavy Tank was once called the Mark Four Type. After Demon 2 took office, it became its current name. The name change of the latter is also a similar process.

The heavy cannon with a 75mm long tube with an artillery retractor is of course not comparable to the poverty-super-axis composite armor of the "Steel-Good" tank of the Chinese Federation. However, the 50mm composite armor made its bulletproof ability long surpass that of the Thunderbolt-Z-type tank.

The Leopard medium tank is equipped with a 65mm rifled gun. It has a slightly lower protection force, but its maneuverability is much better than that of the Tiger tank.

The two types of tanks have low appearances and are tilted on the deck, and have a certain blood relationship with the Chinese Federation's mine tanks. These two tanks are the main tanks of the German armored army. In addition, the German army uses the captured Czech tank division's tanks to convert them into armored personnel carriers or assault guns to improve the combat capabilities of the armored infantry division.

As for the armored division, the Germans still believed in their own tanks. The Thunderbolt tanks produced by the Chinese Federation have been converted into assault guns at this time, using different types of artillery as additional tank troops or fire support for the armored infantry division.

Now that the one that appeared near the French important town, this is such an armored force. Especially after replenishing fuel and ammunition overnight, they launched a fatal attack on the French strategic important town, Sedang, on the right bank of the Maas River the next day.

To the south of Sedan is the 16th Army commanded by Lieutenant General Derrill, Germany, and a roundabout battle was carried out. In the French war, the French General Staff, which was dominant in the Allies, then the eyes of the German B Army attacked after the fall of the Liege Fortress.

This is not unreasonable. This is the biggest mistake the French General Staff made in this battle. There is no reason for this mistake. First, if you lose air superiority, you will not be able to conduct long-range reconnaissance. Second, the fierce attack of the German B Army really caused them great confusion!

Misjudgment brought the greatest losses to the Allies' battle in France.

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The moving tank clusters are neatly arranged on the road, and there are many four-barrel 25mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns or 75mm towed anti-aircraft guns in the formation.

According to the British and French troops who used tanks in a concentrated manner, they were not so weak, but under the aerial attack that Germany was already far ahead, the First Army was still defeated.

First, we have to talk about the real protagonist in this battle - the German 22nd Air Force. It consists of the 21st Fighter Wing and the 22nd Bombers. The former consists of 6 fighter flight brigades and 1,300 fighters. The latter has the same number of brigades and almost the same number of bombers.

In addition to these air forces, the 2nd Air Force also includes an Army Air Force composed of 216 razor rotor attack aircraft, and another air fleet of 20 airships equipped for the B Army as a tactical strike force.

Ten of the air warships were loaded with Vi-S missiles and "Dandelion" bombs, and the other 10 were equipped with 15 razor rotor attack aircraft respectively.

Although we have to admit that the First Army formed by the British and French coalition forces has quite strong strength. Unfortunately, most of the fighter jets that protected their heads had been destroyed by the Germans' attacks on the airport during the war.

Although the British and French governments urgently mobilized and allocated more than 1,000 combat aircraft to increase the fighter jets that could conduct air combat to 846, these new pilots did not have combat experience, and naturally they could not be compared with the pilots of the Luftwaffe on air warships.

Although the theory of air-ground integrated warfare has been valued by the British and French military, the lost planes at the airport are not affordable for a while.

"We cannot just move forward like this. The air defense forces should place strong enough air defense forces on both sides of our operations, otherwise we will lose our attack ability under the opponent's air attack!

So we have to wait for enough air cover, or the British Expeditionary Force will not move forward again!”

Although the British did not fight much with the Chinese Federation, air force had to be taken seriously because of the situation of their country and the experience they gained.

In order to relieve the British, the French sent their surviving Hawkeye airship, and fighter planes were also sent in the air as air cover.

As the British said, during the day of the 21st, the armored cluster was trapped on the road by the attack of the Luftwaffe and could not move at all!
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