In the conference hall of the Head of State's residence, the best actors in contemporary Germany began to perform.
"In fact, I was indeed planning to follow your plan from the beginning." Reinhard said with a slight regret.
After hearing this, the eyes of Brahchi and others suddenly brightened up. This was the first time in the past two months that the head of state expressed his approval of their plan.
Several generals, including Bock, who held the same view as Brahitch, were also excited. Since the head of state was not completely dissatisfied with this plan, maybe Commander Brahch would be able to fight for it if he worked harder.
It really made Reinhardt change his mind and reactivate their strategy.
Originally, Reinhardt did let the Army General Headquarters be responsible for formulating the yellow plan for the first stop with France. After seeing the plan they formulated, Reinhardt immediately expressed his agreement and cooperation.
Approval, even combat orders have been issued to all troops.
But for some unknown reason, the Führer suddenly proposed his new idea last month, and immediately and resolutely summoned the Führer's first think tank of Army Group A, Chief of Staff Manstein.
Next, the head of state issued an urgent order to change the original plan and asked him to replace it with the overall plan that he asked Manstein to plan in detail.
Many people found it difficult to accept when the head of state forcefully requested changes to the original plan. Although everyone knows that the head of state inherited the mantle of General Sickert, known as the "Sphinx", and has always led and created many achievements.
Less strategic wonder.
However, the prudent strategy that everyone finally settled on was replaced by the overly radical strategy of the head of state, which made them somewhat uneasy.
"But, God did not give me this opportunity..." Before Brahchi could say anything, Reinhardt immediately made another twist: "The operations section chief of the 7th Airborne Division lost his job due to bad weather.
He made an emergency landing at a Belgian airport. Although he tried and burned some of the marching orders belonging to the 1st Air Force, some of them that he didn't have time to burn fell into the hands of the Belgians."
Having said this, Reinhard sighed in an unusually heavy voice: "Because the matter is so important, I have asked Ross to block the news and not release it. At the same time, we also secretly dispatched a large number of intelligence personnel to Belgium, and
Use the Gestapo who had been lurking inside Belgium to secretly gather information, trying to understand how much information the Belgian military has."
The logic in Reinhard's words was very strict. Because he was afraid of leaking information and alerting the enemy, which would affect the difficulty of the Gestapo's intelligence collection, and at the same time, he did not want to disrupt the army headquarters because of an uncertain matter, so he treated everyone present including
Confidentiality was adopted.
But keeping secrets does not mean not making preparations. Therefore, the head of state personally outlined a completely opposite new combat plan and left it to Manstein, the German First Chief of Staff who shined in the Polish campaign, and his department to be responsible for the specific plans.
Plan making.
As a result, the Führer's recent increasingly tough demands on the Wehrmacht to implement the second plan proposed by him and drawn up by Manstein may be because he became increasingly certain that the leakage of the original plan was too serious.
Sure enough, Reinhardt quickly went on to say: "What's counterproductive is that through constant investigation and probing, our intelligence personnel have confirmed that the Belgians have obtained a lot of content in our combat plans. And Belgium has always been the most loyal to France.
The lackeys, they got our plans, which already means that the French army will know our strategy and make corresponding preparations."
Is the plan confirmed to be leaked!? This is almost a taboo in war. The biggest focus of Brauchitsch's plan lies in the suddenness at the beginning of the war. Only by making good use of the short opportunity when the opponent is unprepared can the biggest breakthrough be achieved in the shortest time.
Push the furthest distance.
But once the surprise attack plan has been leaked and the opponent is prepared, the word "surprise" as the essence of the surprise attack no longer exists. In fact, the attacker may even fall into the strategic trap that the opponent has planned long ago and be unable to extricate himself.
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No wonder the head of state, who has always encouraged generals to express military opinions and advocated generals to speak out boldly, would so firmly reject the Army Headquarters' plan this time.
It’s not that the head of state insists on going his own way, but that the previous plan has no meaning in executing it. To run into the enemy in a prepared direction is simply an insult to the art of military command!
Looking back and thinking about it, the plan that the head of state came up with later seems to be completely applicable to the current situation. If the French try to use the previous plan in hand to defeat the enemy, they will fall into a new one that the head of state dug for them.
In the trap.
This is a chain plan!
In fact, the French General Gamelin, as the commander-in-chief of the British, French and Belgian Allied Forces, was indeed prepared to wait for the Germans to surrender.
After receiving the order from Belgium to capture the German advance, Gamelin quickly convened a combat meeting with senior French generals and formulated countermeasures.
Indeed, the level of Gamelin, the so-called French star, is more than one or two points worse than Brauchitsch, the German star. As mentioned before, not only is his ability mediocre, but he is also jealous of talents and tries his best to suppress Petain.
The marshal and other truly talented French generals are trying to create a voice that belongs only to him in the French political circles.
But even with Gan Molin's mediocre qualifications, and even if there are not many truly capable and outstanding generals around him who can give advice, it is not impossible to formulate a targeted counterattack plan after obtaining the enemy's action plan.
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Nowadays, Gamelin, who considers himself lucky, not only used his many years of staff skills to formulate a counterattack plan based on the German combat plan in his hand, but also proudly informed the British expedition of the counterattack plan.
The commander of the army, Lord Gott, asked the British Expeditionary Force to cooperate with him.
Gamelin's plan was simple. Once Germany invaded Belgium, he would let the French First Army Group commanded by General Billot, together with the small but well-equipped and highly mobile Second Army of the British Expeditionary Force,
When the German army invaded Belgium, they immediately pushed eastward and entered Belgium at the same time as the German army.
After the German army defeated the main Belgian forces deployed along the Meuse River and the Albert Canal, the British and French coalition forces that subsequently entered Belgium should also join the Belgian second-line troops guarding the Meuse-Louvain-Antwerp line. By then, the worst possible outcome would be in Belgium.
On our own land, we will fight another trench war with the Germans like in World War I!
Anyway, it was not French territory. Even if it was all destroyed, France would not need to rebuild it after the war. At this point, Gamelin really wanted to thank the Germans who made such a plan.
