Chapter 55 Your Feint is Too Real

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Outside the sky.

Emperor Xin saw the colors of the German army, expanding rapidly on the map.

Combined with the real war scenes of later generations, Emperor Xin, who was a war-crazy emperor, was deeply shocked.

Then Emperor Xin suddenly remembered something.

He asked E Lai who was standing beside him:
"Elai, if I remember correctly, it seems that the German army is feinting in the lowland areas on the northern front, right?"

E Lai was also confused.

"My Lord, it is true that the German troops on the northern front were just feinting..."

"But the force of this German feint attack is a little too strong, isn't it?"

Qin Dynasty.

Ying Zheng was also stunned.

Although Ying Zheng already knew that the German army was definitely very strong.

But when Ying Zheng saw that the German feint attack troops treated the hundreds of thousands of Dutch and Belgian troops like pigs, they killed them.

Still, Ying Zheng was shocked!
Is the intensity of the German attack a little too high?
France, can you withstand it?
tomorrow.

Zhu Di looked at the progress of the German army on the sky and nodded slightly.

Then Zhu Di asked his son Zhu Gaochi:

"Tianmu said before that Army Group B on the northern front was just a feint attack force."

"So we know that the current German army's massive bombing of the northern front and its deployment of large numbers of troops is just a show."

"Just trying to attract the attention of the British and French forces."

"So, son, if you don't know the real main attack direction of the German army now."

"But you are the commander of the British and French forces."

“Will you be deceived?”

Zhu Gaochi didn't brag, after all, he felt he didn't need to brag.

So I admitted it directly and openly:
"Dad, you have also seen the intensity of the German offensive on the northern front."

"You said the northern front was just a feint?"

"Who would believe it if I told them?"

"Don't even mention those who don't know the real main attack direction of the German army, they can't guess that the northern line is just a feint attack."

"Even now, I have learned the true direction of the German attack through Tianmu, but I still doubt whether Tianmu is wrong."

"In my opinion, this German army did not launch a feint attack, it was all main attack!"

“I wonder if the commander of the British and French coalition forces in the future will be fooled?”

"But if they really fall for it, you can't really blame them."

"After all, such a fierce offensive, taking over half of Holland in one day, and you tell me it was a feint?"

"If I tell them it's just a feint, I'm afraid no one will believe it."

Canopy.

[The German army staged a drama on the northern front, but this drama involved hundreds of thousands of people.]

【Look at how fiercely the German army is fighting on the northern front. 】

[The British-French commander naturally smiled.]

【It's as expected.】

[As expected, the German army learned from World War I and launched the main attack on the northern front. ]

[At the command, the British and French forces deployed according to the pre-war plan and began to rush into Belgium. ]

[The plan is to fight the German army for 300 rounds in Belgium and the Netherlands.]

[Just when the main force of the British and French coalition forces was heading to the lowlands. ]

[The German army's real main attack direction began to move quietly. ]

[Outside the Ardennes Forest, the huge defensive gap was already in front of the German army. ]

[In the Ardennes Forest, the German Army Group A, with over a million men, has assembled and is about to set off.]

[The armored forces represented by Guderian went first. ]

[The following infantry quickly followed.]

[The supply convoy stretched for hundreds of kilometers.]

[It is unrealistic to expect such a large-scale march to go unnoticed.] [In fact, before the war officially started, the Allied intelligence department had already discovered that the German army was gathering in the Ardennes.]

【And this news was passed to the Allied Command. 】

[However, the Allied Command stated that according to calculations, it would take at least a week for the German army to pass through the Ardennes Forest on a large scale.]

[And they are basically just lightly armed units. ]

[Light infantry units, unable to pose a threat to the French Sedan Fortress behind the Ardennes Forest. ]

[Although some knowledgeable people in France have pointed out that with the advancement of technology, the troops' field access capabilities have also been greatly enhanced. ]

[It is believed that the German army could pass through the Ardennes Forest area within two and a half days.]

[However, his concerns were not taken seriously by the French military leaders.]

【After the war broke out, the German army launched a rapid offensive in the northern area. 】

[The Ardennes region, which seems unlikely to be the main attack direction, is even more empty. ]

……

[Inside the forest, the German troops are densely packed.]

[Plus, the available routes in the forest area were narrow, so the German army was forced to form a long line.]

[The head and tail of the convoy are at a maximum distance of over 160 kilometers! ]

[This is the straight-line distance, the actual distance is even more terrifying. ]

【But because the acting on the North Line was too realistic. 】

[As a result, the British and French air forces did not carry out any effective air strikes in the Ardennes Forest area in the two days before the war.]

[Even on the second day of the war, French reconnaissance planes clearly saw German troops blocking traffic in the Ardennes Forest.]

[Since it was a night reconnaissance, the German convoy rarely turned on its lights.]

[This caused the French army to misjudge the size of the German forces in the Ardennes.]

[The headquarters still stubbornly believed that the Ardennes Forest area was just a feint by the German light troops and there was no need to pay too much attention or worry.]

【Under the misjudgment of the British and French coalition forces. 】

[Guderian seized the opportunity and passed quickly! ]

[It took only 36 hours to travel through the Ardennes region and reach the outskirts of Sedan Fortress. ]

[But if we are to be honest, we can’t completely blame the French military for trying to cover up their mistakes.]

[Because on the northern front, the German army's actors were so fierce! ]

[Within two days of the war, Army Group B, which was responsible for the feint attack, occupied more than half of the territory of the Netherlands.]

[Several core cities in the Netherlands are all surrounded. ]

[The Germans have sent a proposal to the Netherlands, suggesting that they surrender.]

[The Netherlands said: Allow the front-line commanders to surrender on their own accord. ]

[And inform the British and French coalition forces that if you don't give us more strength, we will have no choice but to surrender. ]

[The ace of Army Group B, the German Sixth Army, went straight to the strategic location of Ani. ]

[Ani's French garrison is France's most elite First Army. ]

【Ace vs. Ace! 】

[On May 5, the Battle of Ani began. ]

[Both sides deployed more than 1200 tanks in the largest tank battle in the early days of World War II.]

[On May 5, the Battle of Ani began. ]

【On May 5, the Battle of Ani ended. 】

[The strongest First Army of the world's strongest army was defeated by the German Sixth Army in two days.]

[How can we play this? ]

[When France saw this, it immediately ordered the Seventh Army to march back and retreat back to Belgium.]

[This means that the British and French forces have abandoned the Netherlands. ]

[Within forty-eight hours of the war, the Netherlands was cut in half.]

[Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and other important cities in the Netherlands have been under siege by the German army.]

[Seeing that he had been sold out, Holland simply lay down completely. ]

[On May 5, the Netherlands announced its surrender.]

(End of this chapter)