"We were deceived from the beginning!" As the new commander-in-chief of the French army, navy, army and air force, Wei Gang, who had just returned from Syria, convened military officers in the capital Paris for a wartime meeting as usual.
Since he took office on May 19, Wei Gang has held countless such rear-line meetings. The contents of the meetings are mostly the same, and they are nothing more than discussing how to relieve the crisis in the Dunkirk area where more than 400,000 coalition troops are besieged.
This kind of post-event meeting is actually of little use. What really makes a difference is the "Generator Plan" of the British, not France.
Of course, the topic they discussed today was a little different from before, and it was not how to cooperate with the British generator plan.
The theme of today's meeting originated from a secret revealed by the German Social Work newspaper.
"The Siegfried Line has been a camouflage from the beginning!" Wei Gang waved a copy of the German Social Work newspaper in his hand and loudly said with an ugly expression: "The funny thing is that we only know about it now."
"Look at these Germans. While we were building the Maginot Line, they were expanding their armies and preparing for war. When we were improving the Maginot Line, they used a fake Siegfried Line to confuse us, but they were actually expanding their armies and preparing for war.
.From the beginning, they were completely unprepared for a defensive war, and all they wanted to do was attack!"
In order to expand the propaganda effect, when Reinhard was sure that the frontline victory was imminent and the Siegfried Line was no longer confusing, he quickly instructed the Propaganda Department to unlock the secrets of the Siegfried Line and create a favorable public opinion effect.
Not only must the German citizens know that what has been confusing the French and making them hesitant to attack is just a lack of armored steel plates to defend against heavy artillery shells, and the extensive use of wooden structure bunkers, full of simple structures.
A false position for small fortifications.
What's more, the French need to know how cowardly and stupid their army is to be frightened and unable to move even by a "toy-like" surface fortification.
Let the whole world see this joke.
And when people all over the world mention this joke during after-dinner chats, they will also subtly acquiesce to the fact that France is no match for Germany. It is time to change its title as the number one army in Europe!
"Of course, there is no point in discussing what has happened." Wei Gang changed the subject and raised his voice to emphasize: "What we have to do now is to leave a way out for the next!"
After receiving Wei Gang's eye contact, Berante, who had been promoted to Army Lieutenant General, stood up from his seat, walked to the large-scale map in the conference room, and pointed at the Somme River and Oise River with the telescopic rod.
And the Aisne River line: "Although our main force was surrounded by the German army in the Dunkirk area because of the previous coalition commander-in-chief Gamelin. However, this is not our entire force!"
Moving the telescopic rod on the map, Berlant introduced slowly: "According to Commander Weygand's instructions, we cannot place all our hopes on the British government's generator plan. To say the least, even if the generator
If the plan fails, we can’t just sit back and wait for death!”
After saying this, there was a commotion in the conference room.
Those who can sit in this conference room are not ordinary low-level officers. Both in terms of vision and knowledge, they are extraordinary from ordinary front-line officers. When Berlant spoke to this point, anyone with a little bit of brains should have thought that this Wei Gang
The new commander has big plans to announce.
Sure enough, everyone was not kept waiting too long. After seeing General Weigang nod to him, Berlant immediately introduced Weigang's new plan and said: "Because our elite division has suffered a heavy setback in Belgium, and
They were also besieged in the Dunkirk area, and the remaining divisions are now poorly equipped and have no air force support..."
At this point, we have to mention the mistakes of the previous French commander-in-chief, Gamelin, and how much impact they had on the French army.
Because he was convinced of the authenticity of the captured version of the "Yellow Plan", Gamelin suppressed the essence of the French Army and the entire Air Force in northern Belgium.
As a result, the current consequences are that in the French army that Wei Gang, the new commander-in-chief of the navy, army and air force, has taken over, the air force has been completely destroyed, the army is a weak force, and the navy still has the main force, but it cannot solve the current urgent need. After all, battleships
You can't drive onto land to block the Germans.
However, Wei Gang was not a mediocre general who did nothing. In fact, compared to Gan Molin, Wei Gang was far more suitable for the position of commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Speaking of which, Wei Gang's resume is much richer than Game Lin's luck-based career.
After graduating from the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1887, Wei Gang worked steadily and gradually climbed to the position of a member of the French Supreme Military Council in 30 years.
A year later, as the chief of staff of French Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, he learned a lot of classic tactics and tactics, and was quickly promoted to general.
Of course, Wei Gang's most glorious and glorious experience actually occurred between 1920 and 1922, which most people don't know much about.
As we all know, Poland's First Marshal Joseph Piłsudski used the retrained Polish army to defeat the Soviet Red Army commanded by Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevski in 1920.
Western Front.
However, few people know that before that, it was the French military guidance mission in Poland that helped Piłsudski in training the army. And the head of the French guidance mission at the time was Wey Gang!
After that, Wei Gang was successively appointed as the chief military adviser in Syria and Lebanon, director of the French Military Affairs Research Center, chief of the general staff, vice chairman of the Supreme Military Council, and director of the army. It can be said that Wei Gang has truly achieved this step by step.
Today, both the record and resume are impeccable!
Moreover, Wei Gang opposed the appeasement policy of the French government from the very beginning and did not agree with placing national security on a Maginot Line. He was a rare understanding person in France.
If it had not been for the outbreak of the German-French War, Wei Gang, a real and famous French general, should have continued to serve as the commander-in-chief of the French army in Syria and Lebanon, organizing the Eastern Army and preparing to attack the southern Soviet Union.
However, Germany's attack put the famous French general, who was determined to defeat the Soviet army again, on the opposite side of Germany.
"Due to the poor equipment of the remaining troops of our army and the lack of air force support, I can only concentrate them on the Somme and Aisne rivers to build a new defense line, taking advantage of the favorable geographical location of the rivers to defend from danger. At the same time, I will move the Maginot Line of Defense
From the garrison in the center, about 8 divisions were withdrawn to strengthen the new line of defense."
At the end of the meeting, Weygand took the telescopic pole from Berante's hand, stood in front of the map and announced loudly: "Whether the British succeed or fail at Dunkirk, the fate of France will still be decided by us French. This is
We will not let the Germans bypass our defenses again! Long live France!"
