"Bang!" In the Allied Forces Headquarters in Paris, Gamelin angrily threw the document replied by the Belgian 13th Division to the ground.
"This group of selfish Belgian idiots actually disobeyed my order and abandoned their position and ran away without permission!"
No one dared to provoke Gan Molin at this moment. Everyone knew the temper and temperament of the coalition commander.
Not to mention that he personally presided over the complete failure of Plan D. All the guarantees and predictions he made before now seem to be a bunch of jokes.
He had already seen through everything and had guessed the German army's back-up plan; he also requested that the coalition forces do not need to leave strategic reserves and could only attack with all their strength; they also swore to ensure that the Ardennes region was not suitable for large forces, especially armored units, and there was no need to dispatch them.
Main force garrison, etc...
The commander-in-chief of the Three Kingdoms Alliance seems to be able to do everything well. It seems that it is a complete mistake to let him take on such an important task!
Isn't this? Gamelin, who had never been able to find a place to vent his anger, happened to encounter Major General Lukaku of the Belgian army who was disobeying orders and retreating, so he vented the anger he had been holding back in his heart.
"Damn the Belgians, they betrayed the coalition forces and opened our hinterland to the German army." Gamelin's eyes turned red and he roared loudly: "It's all the fault of the Belgians. It's because of their naked betrayal that we...
Let the coalition end up where it is today!"
Pull them down. Several officers on the side could hardly bear to listen. Although the Belgian 13th did something wrong by disobeying orders and retreating, it was not a crime that led to the defeat of the coalition forces.
The Belgians have sacrificed all of their most elite forces for the coalition forces, and paid a large number of casualties and costs at the beginning of the war, which is obvious to all. It would be too one-sided to attribute all the blame for the failure to the Belgian soldiers.
, too unfair.
Besides, the two French infantry divisions that needed cover and support from the Belgian 13th Infantry Division had already been overtaken and annihilated by the German armored forces. It was natural for them to retreat at this time. If the coalition command hadn't counted on them but couldnon fodder to delay the Germans
, according to normal military theory, the Belgian 13th Division should be allowed to retreat to a shorter defense line and redeploy.
But Gan Molin couldn't listen to these, and he was unwilling to listen to these truths. He just stood straight next to the large map hung by the headquarters on the wall, staring at the coalition troops surrounded by a red circle.
It is true that if more than 200,000 Belgian soldiers were not scattered and blocked on the long front starting from the border as cannon fodder, perhaps the German army could have completed the encirclement earlier and surrounded the British and French troops.
If the German army had not been distracted and destroyed one Belgian unit after another, then the British Expeditionary Force and the French Home Army would have suffered greater losses than they did now.
Gamelin's mind was in confusion and he didn't know who to blame.
The British Expeditionary Force and the French Home Army have always fought under his command. If you insist on saying that the British and French armies did not do the right thing, wouldn't it be a slap in Gamelin's face and say that there was something wrong with his command?
!
The memories of the past ten days were still replaying in his mind. From getting the German army to attack from northern Belgium as planned according to Plan D. Then he ordered not to leave any strategic reserves and carried out the closing operation. Finally, he arrived in the Ardennes region.
A large number of German armored units suddenly appeared, the southern flank of the coalition forces was defeated, and the main force of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces fell into the German encirclement...
Everything was like a dream. When he came back to his senses, the situation had reached an irreversible point!
Without realizing it, he ordered the main force of the coalition forces to be thrown into the German encirclement. He had no foresight and stubbornly disbanded all strategic reserves. He watched helplessly as the coalition forces were step by step eliminated by the German armored forces...
This was the darkest and most powerless war he had experienced since graduating from Saint-Cyr Military Academy and joining the army.
He served as chief of operations, brigade commander, and division commander of the French base camp. He also served as commander of the French army in Syria, commanding the French army to suppress the national liberation uprising of the Syrian people against the French colonialists. From field commander to chief of army general staff, and then to
He was promoted to Chief of General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, and finally Commander-in-Chief of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces.
By serving under the famous French Marshal Joffre, Gamelin only took 13 years to reach a height that others could not reach in a lifetime. In order to stabilize the French army's defense line, he also asked the French government for an extra
170 million francs to strengthen the Maginot Line. And being meticulous, he also made a second plan to prepare for the German army to bypass the Maginot Line in Belgium.
It's a pity that Gan Molin's many years of military talk have made him develop the habit of being stubborn.
He was very cautious and meticulous, and he was once an extremely excellent staff officer under Marshal Joffre, the famous French general in World War I. Unfortunately, he was not a qualified general.
Similar to Gamelin, Manstein, who also served as a staff officer under the famous German general Lundstedt and made his fortune in this way. After formulating the "Scythe Harvest Plan" for the decisive battle like Gamelin,
He did not dare to say that the plan would be successful. He also left behind a preparation plan to deal with unexpected events (not only Manstein, but Brachich and others could also discover this), and designed a strong strategic reserve for the German army.
However, no one in the entire French command questioned Manstein and asked for a preparatory contingency plan like Librauchich did in the German command. However, in the Allied Command, it was proposed that a strategic reserve should be reserved.
The British general Montgomery received an angry look from Gamelin.
The result was that when the Sedan Fortress failed, a 50-mile-wide hole appeared in the French defense line. When thousands of German tanks drove straight into the undefended plains of northern France, the Allied Command was unable to come up with a tank that could
Used to stop German troops.
If Gan Molin hadn't been so arrogant, if he could have listened to a few more harsh words of advice and adopted them, things would never have developed into the rotten state they are today. But he didn't. Not only did he not let go of his blind arrogance, but even now
They were still unwilling to find their own mistakes and unreasonably attributed all the reasons for the defeat to the Belgian Allies!
"Let our troops speed up their retreat and move into the northern port city as soon as possible." After venting his anger, Gamelin gave up and used the only advantage he learned when he was a staff officer to find the next countermeasure.
The Belgians have nothing to count on, and they don't necessarily have anything to rely on. The only thing they can pin their hopes on is the plan mentioned by the fat British man who flew to Paris the day before yesterday - to withdraw the coalition forces in the encirclement from the sea to Britain, and then transport them to England.
Returned to the rear of France and rejoined the battlefield.
"I hope this retreat can breed victory in the future and become a miracle." Gamelin sighed to himself in a low voice.