Battle of the Third Reich

A week later, the German blockade of Paris has been on the right track. Compared with the chaotic scene when it just arrived outside Paris, everything is so orderly now.

In such a short period of time, the four elite troops who have never acted together and are still from different assignments are so tacit. This is in addition to the excellent military qualities of the German officials and the rigorous training the troops have undergone. Germany People's paranoidness of order from the bones is also a very important reason. They are used to living an orderly life.

However, although the efficiency of the unit's operations has increased, the morale of the officers and soldiers has begun to decline as the siege time increases.

After the excitement and novelty at first disappeared, officers and soldiers generally became impatient with the current situation.

It’s no wonder, even the sausages in the cooking class know that Paris is already an undefended city. What is the concept of an undefended city? That means that no resistance action will appear. Now the German team is Sending a group of chefs in military uniforms used to occupy Paris.

But what made the German officers and soldiers puzzled was that they had never received any further orders since the city was sealed.

Every officer who has doubts about this will get the answer from his superior, complete his current task and wait for the next order.

Although in theory the current blockade mission is lighter and safer than the combat mission, the soldiers also have a lot of free time, and morale should increase.

But in fact, on the contrary, this idle and boring life is slowly killing the morale of the officers and soldiers.

These are elite troops. These four divisions are all composed of veterans with an average age of about 30 years. All the officers have received strict military education for more than 15 years. It can be said that they are the essence of the German ** team.

These four divisions all achieved quite brilliant results in the early battles. The two divisions of the Fourth Army were killed from Arden to the outskirts of Paris, while the two divisions of the Fourteenth Army participated in the battle of Dunkerque.

These are all outstanding troops, otherwise they will not be sent as the first troops to capture Paris.

However, because of this, these troops are not well suited for the current job. Not that they are not good at defending and blocking, but that they prefer to attack rather than defend.

These elite field infantry believe in a rule. Offense is the best defense. It is undoubtedly a torture for these groups of aggressive soldiers to be idle in the boring and siege tasks.

Especially when constantly receiving news of the success of the siblings' snow flakes, the blow to the morale of the troops has become a major problem that officers cannot ignore.

The German ** team is frantically plundering merits and glory on all fronts. Now a blind man can see that France is over. The German officers and soldiers are now considering not how to defeat the enemy but how to obtain it before France surrenders. Greater victories earn higher honors for themselves.

After all, as a soldier, this opportunity is not something that can be touched casually. No one can say how long the next war will happen. If you want to get honor, you should hurry now.

This was also a common idea among the German squads at that time. At that time, no one thought that this war would continue for a full four years.

Everyone thought that as long as France surrendered, and then easily cleaned up the broken British, the war would be over.

By then they can hang medals on their chests and gloriously return to their hometown to live the happy and quiet days depicted by Hitler, and maybe they will miss the glorious days now after many years, so anyway. There can be no regrets in this war.

Looking at other troops, even those second-line troops made up of recruits were winning on the front line, but these elite veterans were bound here by an inexplicable command, squatting in the well-equipped trenches while basking in the sun. Looking at the outline of that city was sullen, what was even more depressing was that the city was still the kind that was called undefended, which made the officers and soldiers psychologically difficult to accept.

In fact, not to mention the following officers and soldiers who are puzzled and confused about this. In fact, even the issuer of this order, Marshal Kettle, the chief of staff of the headquarters, did not understand why the situation developed as it is now.

Perhaps the only person in the headquarters who could understand the inside story behind this command was Marshal von Brauchit, at least he thought he understood.

Everything was caused by Xu Jun's telegram.

There are only a few lines on the telegram:

Before they are fully prepared, the troops should not enter Paris for the time being. At this stage, they should be closely surrounded. Only when they are fully prepared can they take action.

Occupy Paris will be a major event that can have international impact. It must not be reckless and hasty. It must avoid damage to the German squad and even the national reputation. Therefore, without detailed planning and preparation, no German people are allowed to enter that city.

Signed Reinhardt von Steide

Literally, Xu Jun's order seems to be very clear, but after pondering the command staff, he found that the command of the head of state seems to have a lot of articles in it, because some commands are used in this command. The very ambiguous statement prevents them from literally perceiving what the true intention of the head of state is.

This made the generals and marshals of the command headquarters have a headache. What is full preparation and detailed planning? These vague statements are really confusing.

The bureaucrats of the command headquarters have carefully studied and decided to execute those parts that can be understood before understanding the head’s intentions.

At least it is still clear to encircle Paris and ban troops from entering these places in Paris, as long as you follow the instructions, and then send a telegram to the head of state where you don’t understand.

So Feng. Bock was stopped by a command on the outskirts of Paris.

However, after the command telegram was sent, Xu Jun did not get the first reply.

Because Xu Jun was busy working out a counterattack plan against the French, he really had no energy to answer questions in this regard.

As a result, as the battle unfolded, within a few days even the headquarters had forgotten to ask about it again.

At that time, the German head of state and his army were already in danger. The French finally struggled with the power, which exceeded the imagination of the headquarters.

The battle on the front became more and more intense, and the scale of the battle grew like a snowball, even Feng. Bock also devoted his energy to directing his B group army to break through the seven divisions of Charles de Gaulle, and he had no time to consider the problems of the four depressed infantry divisions.

Feng. Bock once thought about whether it was possible to put these elite infantry divisions into the following battle, but he rejected this idea on the spot.

One is that time does not allow, and the battle may have begun when these troops are transferred to the battlefield. The second is that even if time permits, the headquarters will not agree to this proposal. Because the blockade of Paris was the order of the head of state, and according to the situation at that time, the Germans did not have any military problems.

Everyone is paying close attention to the development of the battle. Under this circumstance, no one is going to consider the issues on the Paris side. The headquarters' attention is all focused on the battle at dusk.

After Xu Jun and his guards came out of danger and obtained quite brilliant results, and after the battle at twilight was fully launched, the command headquarters relieved of the problem and then remembered the problem of Paris, so he sent Xu Jun again. ask.

To be honest, Xu Jun had completely forgotten that Paris was still under siege by the Germans, so he was very surprised when he received an inquiry from the headquarters.

Because of his embarrassment caused by one of his orders, Xu Jun really felt a little embarrassed by his carelessness. At the same time, he also deeply admired the imaginative strength of the staff of the headquarters, and actually changed his mind. I can't order such a joke.

He originally ordered the Germans to make full preparations in order to allow them to enter Paris in a more perfect image, so that Germany could restore a little image in the world and lay a good foundation for his next plan.

But because he did not have a specific idea at the time, it was not clear in the order.

He thought that the headquarters would understand what he meant. Unexpectedly, he overestimated the general's marshals' ability to understand, and at the same time underestimated the misunderstanding ability of the commander's staff, so things became the way they are now.

Had it not been for the headquarters to think about it and asked him again, maybe Paris would become a French resistance to the final "undefended city", and Xu Jun felt a little funny here.

Speaking of which, Xu Jun is really too busy, it is impossible to do everything.

It seems that we should find some talented people to share their work. After all, one person has limited energy, and there are too few people who can help around him. Even Hitler like this has a dozen secretaries and adjutants Help him deal with minor matters.

Xu Jun decided to wait until the situation stabilized to solve the problem immediately, otherwise he would make irreparable mistakes for some stupid reason sooner or later.

Xu Jun sorted out his thoughts a little and then replied to the headquarters:

The German ** team must be fully prepared and must enter the Paris after having the most perfect military appearance, the most perfect communication ability, the most perfect military discipline, and the most perfect state.

This is related to the honor of the empire, but also to the future development of the empire.

This is a very important step to completely eliminate the French consciousness of resistance and enable them to cooperate closely with the empire in the future, which must be strictly implemented.

Signed Reinhardt von Steide

When the command headquarters received Xu Jun's instructions, he finally understood Xu Jun's intentions, and Ketel suddenly realized that he had forwarded the telegram to Feng by order. Bok's hands.

At this time in Paris, the brightest pearl in Europe had been besieged by the Germans for seventeen days.