In addition to Manstein, Guderian and other generals directly related to Reinhardt, generals like Brauchitsch, Bock, Lieb and other generals did not actually know that the accidentally leaked combat order was Reinhardt's from the beginning.
Because Hart deliberately sent someone to leak the secret.
The plane specifically chose a bad weather day before setting off. The operations section chief was also disguised as a specially trained Gestapo.
Yes, Reinhard acted out this drama very well. He even did the preparations according to the original plan for more than a month and deceived all his own people.
The result was that, under the harshest reality, the generals were forced to accept the new strategy proposed by Reinhardt.
The British and French allied forces were also deceived into formulating a counterattack plan based on a realistic and false plan.
Of course it is realistic, because this plan was originally formulated by all the generals as a real plan without knowing it. It would be strange if it is not realistic.
The marching order captured by Belgium happened to be a document of the Air Force. Many key information of the Army were not introduced in detail to avoid the leakage of important information. Even the relevant content of the Air Force's technical weapons, important parts
It was also destroyed "by chance", leaving only irrelevant content.
"Everyone understands the situation, so let's continue to confirm the business." Reinhardt said with a smile: "Chief of Staff Manstein, please summarize the main contents of the "Scythe Harvest Plan" for everyone.
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"Yes!" Manstein closed his legs and raised his hands in salute.
Then, Manstein walked to the huge large-scale map in front of the conference room, picked up the telescopic pole and pointed at each block of the map to explain.
"First of all, the previous march order is already effective. At least in the first phase of the operation, the focus is still on Army Group B." Manstein pointed to the northern part of the map with a telescopic pole and said: "But we cannot be satisfied with just bypassing the Macedonian Army.
The strategic goal of the Maginot Line of Defense. If we want to achieve a final and comprehensive victory, we must bypass the Maginot Line of Defense and at the same time annihilate a large number of the effective forces of the British and French coalition forces in areas outside the Maginot Line of Defense and destroy their subsequent resistance capabilities.
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Not only must we bypass the Maginot Line, we must also annihilate the main enemy force at the same time!
Although this was not the first time they heard about this grand strategic goal, Brauchi and his team were still deeply shocked by the ambition behind this battle plan every time they heard such inspiring and lofty aspirations.
This is the goal proposed by the Führer, and this is the appetite of the supreme leader of the Third Reich. A tactical success can no longer satisfy Reinhardt. He will only be satisfied if he achieves an overwhelming advantage in grand strategy.
That is France, which claims to have the strongest army in the world. It is not Poland, nor is it a country like Denmark with no war history. Think about the generations of legendary generals that have emerged in France, and think about France's powerful performance in the history of military wars in the past.
Facing such an opponent, he actually wanted to complete his victory in one battle. How heroic is this!
"After careful consideration, the head of state believes that if we only launch operations to achieve the partial goal of crossing the Maginot Line, it will be unsatisfactory in terms of the political cost of undermining the neutrality of the three countries and the military cost of draining the Eastern Front defense power.
As reasonable as possible." Before summarizing the plan, Manstein inappropriately listed the name of the Führer.
Although when Reinhard first proposed the "Scythe Harvest Plan", Manstein felt that he also agreed with it and even felt familiar with the plan. However, he did not want to take the credit for himself.
Carry it on your body.
First, the plan was proposed by Reinhardt first. He was only the one who implemented it, so it is not easy to take credit.
Second, if it was the head of state who made the major changes to the plan, then the veteran generals of the army would naturally not dare to say anything. But if he, Manstein, was also involved in the change of their original plan, would anyone
If there are not enough staff, it might be a problem.
Even if there is a special reason for the original plan to be leaked, knowing that a chief of staff has changed the plan carefully formulated by several generals, judging from the German Army's practice of placing staff officers in a auxiliary position, the generals will inevitably be embarrassed.
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The above two points made Manstein unwilling to share this offending plan at the moment, but "magnanimously" gave all the credit to Reinhardt.
"In order to achieve richer results, the "Sickle Harvest Plan" changed the single-key attack of Army Group B to the two-way key attack of Army Group A and B." Manstein's telescopic rod was changed from Army Group B to
The assembly area was moved to the assembly location of Army Group A: "Therefore, Army Group B needs to separate an armored division and transfer it to Army Group A to enhance the combat effectiveness of Army Group A."
Having said this, Manstein paused and turned his attention to Reinhardt, SS Deputy Commander-in-Chief Steve, who actually commanded the Waffen-SS for the Führer.
"The SS will provide an armored division and five powerful infantry divisions for the Class A Army Group." Steve smiled knowingly: "This is already the entire main force of the SS left on the Western Front. I will
Lead them all to join Army Group A and follow General Lundstaeder's orders."
Even the SS, which was valued by the Führer, was assigned to Army Group A. This was one of the reasons why Army Group B accepted the transfer of an armored division from its own side to Army Group A.
It's just the transfer of one armored division, which is far from unacceptable. It can even be said that this change will not have a big impact on their previous march plan. As long as they are commanded properly, this impact can be almost ignored.
"In addition, the combat mission against the Netherlands was removed from the combat missions of Army Group B. The original mission of the Dutch 10th Army was changed to the Antwerp area, and then there was a preliminary fight with the British and French troops who were very likely to come to reinforce Belgium.
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After all, the wars that Reinhard has launched so far are all wars of revenge that are a continuation of history. Germany and France are feuding countries, and there is no discussion about attacking France. When Belgium participated in sending troops to invade the Ruhr Industrial Zone in Germany, it was considered a tie with Germany.
Deep hatred.
In fighting these two countries and Britain, which declared war on Germany early, Germany was not at a disadvantage in terms of public opinion or morality.
The Netherlands was the only country among these targets that did not bully Germany during World War I. Not only that, they also took in the desperate Kaiser and participated in the early secret deals for Germany's rearmament.
It can be said that the Netherlands is grateful to Germany.
Reinhardt is not a war madman. His German will reveal his gun to the enemy and leave wine for his friends.
In order to win over the Netherlands, which did not have much strategic interest, Reinhardt would not turn a war of revenge into a blatant war of aggression with an ungrateful image.
"Yes, we in the Third Reich represent justice." Reinhard said nonchalantly with a look that didn't deserve a beating: "We who uphold justice in the world only attack countries that deserve to be beaten!"
Damn it! The Führer is the Führer. Such nonsense is coming out of his mouth, and he says it seriously! Sitting behind Reinhardt, Goebbels, who was in charge of propaganda, looked at him with admiration.
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