This is a smart man. Of course, Weygand's plan is actually tantamount to selling out Britain and Russia. After all, Britain, Russia, and some North American troops are now going all out to attack Prague, and the 600,000 French troops on the Franco-German border are holding back
Nearly 400,000 German troops were killed. Once the French troops withdraw, the Germans will indeed not take the opportunity to invade France again, but they will strengthen to the Prague front to defeat the British, Russian and American coalition forces.om
But if it doesn't sell its allies, it will be France's own misfortune. The northern half of France has been completely beaten. If the Spanish break through the defense line in the Pyrenees, the southern half of France will definitely be beaten. France will become the center of this war.
The worst loser, in this case, it can only be sold once, and it must be sold.
Wei Gang was a smart man, and Foch was certainly not stupider than him. After figuring this out, he immediately took a car to Bordeaux overnight, which was only a three-hour drive anyway. After arriving in Bordeaux, he first lobbied to replace Joffre as General Staff Officer.
Pétain, the elder, then went to Prime Minister Clemenceau and President Farier. Soon all the French dignitaries in Bordeaux were secretly summoned to study the situation, especially Foch who concluded that if he did not do this, then half of the world would be destroyed.
The Pyrenees defense line will inevitably collapse within a month, and then the Spaniards will march straight into the major cities in southern France. At that time, prepare to move the capital again.
Moreover, after the Chinese Army arrives in large numbers, it will definitely continue to attack northward using Spain as a base. At that time, the entire France will inevitably fall. People are smart these days. Whoever captures the territory of another country will not lose face. By then, France
The south will definitely be plundered, and if they lose the war, they will have to continue to pay compensation, so the best way is to withdraw everyone and establish an unbreakable defense line on the border between France and Spain. As for the sea, it is nothing more than a mine blockade.
When the Western Allied Forces are unable to break through the defense lines in the Pyrenees Mountains, they can be forced to move in other directions, such as the British where all the troops are stuck on the battlefield and cannot retreat.
Then let Britain be in ruins, and France just need to keep the south and not be destroyed.
His lobbying immediately moved Farier and Clemenceau. In fact, there is no point in continuing this war for France now. Basically everything that can be lost has been lost, including those that have been recovered.
Paris and the Northern Territory, don't have any illusions about these. The Germans will never let them go, let alone the colonies. The French still have this awareness. In this case, what is the point? If there is not a trace of dignity left.
The support, of course, is mainly because the 30 billion pounds is too scary. At this time, the French government is determined to go to Yang Feng to beg for mercy.
After thinking about it, the French General Staff immediately quietly issued an order to the French commanders on the German-French border to retreat south in batches secretly. Anyway, they and the British did not have a unified command system, and they all fought independently.
Everyone, the French army is mainly responsible for the front from Luxembourg to Switzerland. They put the main force on the train and transport it southward. They left the command system there to support themselves. The original attack on the German army was stopped directly. They stopped the German army on the opposite side.
There was no interest in launching an offensive either. Even the transportation of troops southward was done in secret.
The French did a very good job at this point. They had withdrawn more than 200,000 people before they were discovered by their allies. The stunned British immediately ran to find Pétain. In the end, Pétain deceived them and they were just kidnapped out of necessity.
Large-scale mobilization to strengthen the Pyrenees defense line does not mean to move away from the German-French border.
The British didn't think much about it. It was not surprising that they strengthened the Pyrenees defense line. After all, the situation there was extremely dangerous. And the British didn't know how much they had withdrawn.
Just after the British discovered it, the Germans on the opposite side also discovered that the French army was telling them an empty city strategy. William immediately realized that the situation was abnormal. He knew better than the British how many French troops there were on the opposite side of him. After confirming at least three
After one-third of the French army had withdrawn from the trenches, this guy no longer considered whether there was a conspiracy, and without hesitation withdrew an army group from the German-French border to strengthen the Prague defense line.
The strengthening of the German army was immediately felt by the British on the opposite side. Only then did they pay serious attention to the French. When they discovered that not only were their allies not mobilizing on a small scale, but nearly half of the French troops on the front line had disappeared, the British immediately understood that this
The ally was betraying himself. The furious British ambassador went directly to the French Prime Minister's Office and spat at Clemenceau in a graceless manner for two hours, and even threatened to stop providing supplies to the French army.
At this point, we are at odds anyway. Clemenceau threatened that if the British dared to stop supplying supplies to France, France would go to Yang Feng alone to surrender. Anyway, we are already like this. At that time, not only will we surrender, we will also directly surrender Spain.
The army of more than one million people was released.
Now the British were also dumbfounded.
However, they also know that it is necessary for the entire Allied Powers for France to block the Spanish in the Pyrenees. Otherwise, China can penetrate directly into the hinterland of Europe through Spain. But if this line of defense is held, then it will really be like what the French said.
If all ports are blocked with mines, then the Chinese will definitely not be able to land on the flanks of France in a short period of time. They will not be able to break through from the front, and they will not be able to land on the flanks, which means they will continue to be blocked outside the main body of the European continent.
So with no choice, the British could only acquiesce to the French's behavior. Now France played a more thorough role and simply withdrew all remaining French troops on the German-French border to the south. Six hundred thousand soldiers had been tempered by five years of war.
The elite of the Spanish army quickly reversed the battlefield situation. After all, the Spanish army's combat effectiveness is much worse than that of the French, and the Spanish army's elite are all in the Americas, where their most important interests lie. They had more than twice the numerical advantage before
, coupled with the help of maritime battleships and aerial bombers, they could suppress France and fight, but when this numerical advantage disappeared and all the French forces were concentrated on the southern front, the Spanish could no longer hold on.
The French concentrated the forces of three armies in Perpignan to launch a counterattack. The Spaniards, who were suddenly attacked so fiercely, retreated again and again and were driven back to Barcelona. In order to prevent Barcelona from being captured by the French army, the Spaniards had to fight again.
Reinforcements were mobilized from the Bayonne front, and Foch seized the opportunity to concentrate his forces to launch a counterattack as well. Moreover, the continuous rain and snow limited the bombing of carrier-based aircraft. The Spanish, who had lost sight of one thing and the other, were defeated again by the French army and were not even allowed to attack.
Instead of retreating all the way to Pamplona, the French army occupied the last section of the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain and completely blocked the Spaniards' road out of the mountains.
Immediately afterwards, the French army that attacked Barcelona also suddenly withdrew. Their original plan was to attack the east and attack the west, mobilizing Spanish reinforcements to create conditions for Foch. In this way, the front line on the French-Spanish border was pushed into Spain, and the Spaniards also
With no way out of the mountain, the French forwards even approached Bilbao. This stretch of mountainous jungle became France's best barrier.
"It's not a big deal, it's just a small defeat, and strategically our goal has been achieved. Don't we just want the French to come back?" Emperor Yang said nonchalantly to the Spanish Ambassador to China, who was
When he came to ask for help, Alfonso XIII was afraid that the Allied Powers would take beating him as their main target. After all, keeping Spain would be a great disaster to the Allied Powers. Everyone knew that Spain would be the base for China to launch deep attacks into Europe. If
If Spain can be dealt with, even if the Chinese fleet arrives, it will be impossible to launch a landing operation.
A landing operation that travels tens of thousands of kilometers is completely a fantasy. Even with the strength of the Chinese, it is impossible to achieve this. But with Spain as an advanced base, it is different. Whether it is landing in Italy or the United Kingdom, it is a fantasy.
A very simple thing.
In fact, the British did think about doing this, but the French didn't do it. They only had one million troops in total. If they went to Spain to fight, even if they could destroy Spain, almost all of them would be dead. What a pity.
If France only returns these one million young men, it’s unlikely that they will all be involved in this war, right?
"Please rest assured, your Emperor and Prime Minister, that such a thing will never happen, and I will not allow such a thing to happen. If the French army dares to attack your country in depth, then I will order the Jingzhi formation to speed up northward.
, they are now only 6,000 kilometers away from Spain, and they will be there in a few days faster. At that time, they will gather four aircraft carriers. As long as the French dare to attack Barcelona, the 400 carriers on these four aircraft carriers will attack their major southern cities.
Everything has been turned into ruins." Yang Feng viciously comforted the Spanish ambassador.
In fact, he is not worried about such a thing happening at all. The French's intention to abandon the border defense between France and Germany is already obvious. To put it bluntly, they are no longer prepared to care about the affairs of the entire Entente group. They will just keep their hometown in the future. For
Emperor Yang is very willing to encourage this kind of rational behavior, so he is very satisfied with the current battle situation in the Pyrenees Mountains. He is prepared that the French will not continue to attack south and he will not let the Spanish attack north. Everyone
It would be nice to play with the tacit understanding and then watch the bloody battle between Britain, Russia and Germany in the north.
And the facts proved that his guess was absolutely correct. After the French army forced the Spaniards out of the Pyrenees, they stopped moving forward and built a series of fortifications on the spot.
With the cover of ten kilometers of high mountains and dense forests, the threats to them from naval guns at sea and bombers overhead were greatly reduced. While building fortifications, the French also took advantage of the night to lay mines outside all their coastal ports, including Nantes and Bordeaux.
, Brest... In short, all the ports that could support large-scale operations were sealed with mines. If that didn't work, they would simply sink the ships, including those useless old warships, and drag them out and scuttle them on the waterway, completely pretending that they were about to leave the world.
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