The Soviet-Finnish War made Mustache more and more fearful of the strength of the Soviet Union, which further accelerated Germany's military expansion. However, the United States, Britain and France were also wary of the Soviet Union, but this could be exploited. On the one hand, Mustache made people in Poland
Soviet-German Military Demarcation Line
They recently conducted actual combat exercises and assumed the posture of being about to attack the Soviet Union. In this way, they not only defrauded hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from the United States, but also successfully paralyzed the British and French governments; on the other hand, they secretly transferred a large number of troops to the west.
, prepared for a full-scale attack.
In June 1941, Germany unexpectedly attacked Bergen and Oslo in Norway, and completely controlled the Kingdom of Denmark, forcing it to join the Axis Powers. Then Germany attacked the three Low Countries, and faced the long-planned elite German troops of more than one million people.
The governments of the Netherlands, Belgium and Rosenberg surrendered with little resistance.
At this time, the German Air Force, with the second largest number of aircraft in the world, had already used more than a thousand JU-88 horizontal dive bombers with greatly improved range to conduct preemptive large-scale raids on the main airports in northern France, thereby completely seizing the
It gained air superiority over northern France and cleared the way for ground forces to continue their offensive.
In this time and space, because of the successful examples of China's Anti-Japanese War as a reference, countries around the world were aware of the power of concentrated use of armored forces in advance. Therefore, although there were still opposition and obstruction from conservative forces, France still formed the First Army based on General de Gaulle's proposal.
armored group army. However, due to the performance of tanks
The gap between them and the lack of actual combat experience of the officers and soldiers, this ace unit that France has high hopes for is no match for the German armored forces. The greater threat to them is the German Stuka bomber, whether it is the cannon attack on the top
Or clustered anti-armor submunitions, they are all natural enemies of tanks...
Under the advanced tactics of German air-ground integration, the French First Armored Group, which had more than a thousand tanks and armored vehicles, was almost completely wiped out in just one day, while Germany only lost 17 tanks, 29 armored vehicles and 11 armored vehicles.
After the bad news came back to Paris, the French were all horrified.
The German armored group took advantage of the victory and headed straight to the English Channel, forcing 400,000 British and French troops into a small area in northern France. Only Dunkirk, a small port with only 10,000 residents, could be used as a sea retreat. But the port of Dunkirk
However, it is an extremely vulnerable target to continuous attacks by bombers and artillery fire. If 400,000 people retreat from this port, the consequences will be disastrous under intense German artillery fire.
Recently, the German army was less than 15 kilometers away from Dunkirk. However, on July 24, 1941, the German army received an order to stop the advance personally issued by Mustache. This order from Mustache made the generals of the German tank troops panic.
Puzzled, Goode
Ryan even looked up to the sky and sighed. Dunkirk was within easy reach, but he was ordered to stop advancing! But contrary to the results in history. In this time and space, Mustache's order was considered by later historians to be a clever move that almost changed the direction of World War II.
chess......
In fact, even this order from Mustache in history cannot be said to be completely random. First of all, after the war in northern France became clear, the German army needed to preserve the strength of its armored forces for the next combat operation, and Dunkirk's
The terrain is not conducive to an armored attack. A forceful attack will inevitably waste too much German energy.
With the sharp armored forces, and the German Air Force Commander Göring's assurance that the air force could take on the task of annihilating the allied forces in the encirclement, Mustache believed him. And the reason why the same order produced completely opposite results is also
It is precisely because there is a huge gap in the strength of the German air forces in the two time and space...
Historically, during the evacuation of Dunkirk, this area was covered in heavy fog most of the time. In addition, the German aircraft at that time were very weak in night combat capabilities. Therefore, for most of the time, the German Air Force could only sit back and watch the British ships escape from Dunkirk.
Grammer withdrew the trapped British and French troops, and the English Channel was very narrow, so the British successfully rescued more than 80% of the trapped troops.
In this time and space, German aircraft are now equipped with advanced airborne radars, so they can bomb British ships at night and in dense fog. Moreover, because of the greatly increased range, the combat efficiency of Luftwaffe aircraft
It is also several times higher than in history, and the number of aircraft that can participate in the battle has also greatly increased (the airport in the rear can be used), so the result is naturally completely different...
And unlike the historical changes in the Luftwaffe's bombing targets, the mustache in this time and space was inspired by China's successful experience of "controlling the sea with air" and was not satisfied with destroying the 400,000 British and French armies at Dunkirk.
It was decided to use the remnants of the British and French forces at Dunkirk as bait to concentrate most of the bombers of the Luftwaffe to severely damage the main force of the British Royal Navy in order to clear the obstacles to landing on the British mainland. Thus, the largest sea and air war in human history began.
prelude......
On the evening of July 26, 1941, with the efforts of the British Royal Navy, the first batch of 1,312 people, mainly logistics troops, successfully left Dunkirk and returned to the United Kingdom. Once the evacuation began, it was impossible to keep it secret.
Coupled with the urgent situation, the British Admiralty began to requisition ships along the coast and Thames River
Ships, and even called on all ship owners to go to Dunkirk through radio. These ship owners knew very well what the withdrawal of the expeditionary force meant to Britain, so they responded actively to the Admiralty's call, barges, tugboats, cargo ships, passenger ships, fishing boats, motor boats
Even private yachts have gone out to sea and sailed to Dunkirk.
893 British ships and 198 French, Dutch and Belgian ships, a total of 1,091 various ships, joined the rescue team. They mainly set out from six ports in southern England, these six ports are Sheerness, Magath
, Dover, Newhaven, Folkestone and Ramsgate, and then returned to the UK after picking up British and French officers and soldiers at Dunkirk.
On July 27, hundreds of Stuka dive bombers (Note 1) of the 3rd Luftwaffe and 2nd Luftwaffe of the Luftwaffe, escorted by fighter jets, launched in large numbers and conducted violent bombings against British ships in the English Channel.
In just one day, hundreds of British ships were sunk...
Note 1: Historically, because the Stuka's flight range was too short, it basically played a soy sauce role during the Battle of Dunkirk. However, after the shortcomings of this time and space flight were resolved, the bombing accuracy was extremely high, and it was deeply loved by the mustache.
The preferred Stuka dive bomber naturally became the main force in ship bombing. (To be continued..)