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- Chapter 1081: War in Southeast Asia (1)
After the German head of state Hitler gave the order to re-launch the attack, Battelle, who commanded a tank division, became the one who responded in the shortest possible time to the enemy surrounded in the port of Dunkirk when the vast majority of the German troops were not ready. The British and French forces were the only division-level force that launched a swift attack. In fact, Battle was executing Tang Qiuli's orders. .
The First Armored Group Army entered the battlefield, leading the offensive of the entire Army Group A, and eventually all the German troops were involved in the encirclement and annihilation of the British and French coalition forces. On the battlefield of Dunkirk, artillery fire and smoke filled the sky. Although the German army The vast majority of the troops are not yet ready to attack, but they are already ready to attack.
The launch of the campaign was driven by a division commander in Battelle, who was destined to become a dazzling star on the battlefield. At this time, the good quality of the German army was fully reflected. After the initial chaos, an orderly formation was gradually formed. The attack pressed the space of the British and French coalition forces step by step from three sides. By the evening of that day, an iron wall was formed and there was no gap in the encirclement.
Battelle's tank division broke in alone this time and suffered heavy losses. After all, with one division of armored troops, facing more than 400,000 British and French soldiers, "the ants will kill the elephant". General Guderian, commander of the group army, immediately He ordered the "Lightning" Armored Assault Division to leave the battlefield. He was joking. This was the person the F¨¹hrer took special care of, and he was also his most capable subordinate. If something unexpected happened, he would not be able to explain it to the F¨¹hrer, nor would he be able to reassure himself.
Furthermore, Battelle's mission has been completed. It is obviously inappropriate to throw such a miraculous division commander and his troops into this melee, whether it is for the purpose of protecting Battelle or for other reasons. , Guderian had to do this.
Battelle carried out the order of the group army commander without hesitation. The goal has been achieved, leading all German troops to attack. Brother Qiu Li's order has been completed. Battelle is not a fool. There is no need to show off the courage of an ordinary man. He will stop when he sees a good opportunity and his division will be killed. The number of British and French soldiers was not the purpose. It was the task given by Brother Qiu Li to lead the German troops to attack. .
When the tank in which Battelle was riding stopped outside the headquarters of Army Group A, all the officers from Commander-in-Chief Marshal von Rhodes to the headquarters warmly welcomed the young division commander as a hero. Battelle jumped out nimbly. Tank, "Reporting to your Excellency, Marshal, Battle, Commander of the Lightning Assault Division of the First Armored Group Army, has been ordered to arrive!"
Marshal von Rhodes looked at Battelle with a smile on his face and said: "Young man, do you know? You created a miracle for the German Army. A division commander in his twenties commanded all German troops. Team **, I have reported the situation to His Excellency the Head of State, and I believe that your performance will be rewarded as you deserve. "
In his mind, Battelle was not satisfied with the praise of Marshal von Rhodes, "If it weren't for Brother Qiu Li's order, I wouldn't have done such a risky thing of outnumbering the enemy. I have no reason to do anything for the Germans." "Throw your head and shed your blood," I thought in my heart, but said, "I am willing to serve the Third Reich and it is an honor for me to be recognized by the Marshal!"
The "Lightning" Armored Division immediately withdrew to the rear to rest and recuperate. The troops had been immersed in great joy. They did this brilliantly and beautifully. They took the lead among hundreds of thousands of troops. According to the German Army's As a rule, officers at all levels are promoted to military ranks and soldiers receive generous bonuses. All of this is due to this Chinese.
At night, the German army formed a powerful artillery cluster with thousands of artillery and tank guns of various calibers. From three directions, it launched an all-round attack on the British and French soldiers who crowded on the beach of Dunkirk and were eagerly waiting to board the ship. The covering, indiscriminate and destructive bombardment, like the cannonballs filling the sky with meteors, illuminated half of the sky red.
In the flames of the shell explosion, the bodies of the British and French soldiers were thrown high, and all the facilities at the Dunkirk port were destroyed in the shelling. This was a one-sided massacre. The beach became a slaughterhouse, and the mutilated corpses of British and French soldiers floated on the sea along with the water in the English Channel. .
Blood dyed the beach and sea water red, and the various ships docked on the beach became blazing torches. According to the later memories of the captured British and French soldiers, it was a night like purgatory. There was nothing to hide on the bare beach. We could only lie helplessly on the beach, watching the artillery shells falling like meteors, listening to the continuous explosion of artillery shells around us, and praying secretly, God bless us!
The raised soil covered the broken corpses of the soldiers. As soon as a shell fell, in the blink of an eye, the companions who were together just now turned into a pile of minced meat. The stirred up sand mixed with the fragments of the companions' corpses, splitting the heads and covering them. His head was hit on his body and face, and he couldn't tell that it was the blood flowing out of his own body., or the blood of his comrades was splashed on him, anyway, he was covered in blood.
By dawn, the area of ??more than ten square kilometers in Dunkirk was covered with corpses of the British and French allied forces. That night, the German artillery group continued to shell Every inch of land and beach in Dunkirk was plowed over and over again, making it as desolate as the moon.
Once the decision was made, the German army's attack was fierce and sharp, and it would never spare the enemy. After the bombardment stopped, the German army took the armored troops as the lead and pressed towards the central area of ????Dunkirk. The British and French troops were knocked out of all their energy. Out of anger, all that was left was cold despair. Admiral Adrien, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, and General Sherson, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, jointly sent a letter of surrender to the German Army.
The last battle on the European continental battlefield ended with a complete victory for the German army. In this battle, the German army used more than 300,000 troops to encircle the more than 400,000 British and French forces that had retreated to the port of Dunkirk. Among them, about 100,000 troops were annihilated. More than 300,000 people surrendered. The British commander-in-chief, General Adeley, and the French commander-in-chief, General Sherson and other major general-level officers, more than 200 people lined up, carrying more than 300,000 people with their heads down. soldiers walked into a German prisoner of war camp.
The German Army achieved a brilliant achievement that could go down in the annals of German history. The swastika flag was flying across the European continent. Coincidentally, it seemed that God also intended to embarrass the Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force, Goering, at the end of the Battle of Dunkirk. The next day, the English Channel, which had been cloudy all the time, cleared up and the fog cleared, and the sun was shining brightly.
G?ring, who was so good at boasting, could only stare at the army's victory with jealous eyes, and he himself quietly became the laughing stock of the German political circles. However, this imperial marshal who was used to being in the limelight, He is not a person who is good at introspecting himself. He will still take credit for the following air battle over Great Britain.
The last main force of Britain and France on the European continent was annihilated in Dunkirk. This had a profound impact on the future European battlefield. France was defeated and surrendered. Britain was seriously injured and its spine was broken. Germany As a result, the Soviet Union was the only opponent left for the Germans on the European continent. Hitler's ecstasy can be seen from the enthusiastic telegram he sent to Tang Qiuli. Revealed without a doubt.
Tang Qiuli, the man behind the fall of the British-French Allied Forces, immediately felt relaxed after receiving the telegram from the German leader Hitler. Finally, his efforts were not in vain and he changed the established historical trend. From now on, the pattern of world wars will be fundamentally changed. Change, next, it is the turn of the Japanese to take action in Southeast Asia.
Sure enough, after the Battle of Dunkirk in the European battlefield, only a week later, the Japanese, who had been waiting for the results of the European battlefield, couldn't wait to take action.
On April 23, General Ito Genzaburo, Commander-in-Chief of Japan¡¯s Southeast Asia Expeditionary Force, issued combat orders to all his units. At the same time, the First and Third Fleets of the Japanese Navy also used cruise as an excuse to , appeared in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. Among them, part of Kiyoshi Hasegawa's Third Fleet anchored in the Port of Singapore in the name of docking for supplies.
Regarding all this, Alexander, the commander-in-chief of the British Army in Southeast Asia, was not wary at all. Not only did he open all ports to the Japanese navy, but he also ordered the commander of the British Army in Singapore to provide the Japanese allies with as much help as possible. Of course, this was for Ito Yanzaburo. A smokescreen to cover up real military operations.
It was impossible for the British army not to notice that in addition to Japanese warships, there were also a large number of civilian ships transporting infantry, and cargo ships loaded with weapons, ammunition, and equipment, frequently crossing the Strait of Malacca and bounding for the Andaman Sea. All signs indicated that the Japanese army was going to take action in Southeast Asia. , and the performance of the British has always puzzled historians from various countries who later studied the Pacific War of World War II. The Japanese army had opened their guns. Why were the British indifferent and turned a blind eye? This is truly the strangest phenomenon in the history of world war.
On April 30, the Japanese Southeast Asia Expeditionary Force and the Japanese Navy's First and Third Fleets were all ready. In the early morning of that day, the Japanese army divided into two groups and launched attacks on the port city of Yangon in southern Myanmar and the southern city of Bangkok in Thailand. A sudden attack occurred, and the Southeast Asian War officially broke out.
At four o'clock in the morning, dozens of warships of the Japanese Navy's First Fleet began to bombard Yangon Port. At the same time, all warships of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet also began to bombard the southern coastal city of Simpu in Thailand. The Japanese aircraft carrier took off from the Fighters and bombers, like locusts, dropped a large number of heavy aerial bombs on the two cities.
At about 6 o'clock in the morning, Japanese army troops began to land in two places. Among them, the Japanese troops attacking Yangon, with the 21st Division as the vanguard, took the lead in breaking through the British troops under the cover of naval guns and bombers. The army's beachhead position had already entered Yangon by about 8 a.m.In the area, street fighting started with the British army.
After learning about the news that the Japanese army was taking action in Burma and Thailand, Tang Qiuli, the commander of the Japanese Army in Tengchong, just said lightly, "It's a good thing that they finally took action!"
(To be continued)
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