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Chapter One Hundred and Three The Tragedy of Dunkirk

On April 9, 1938, Nordic Europe had just passed the middle of winter to prepare for the arrival of spring. As a result, the German army suddenly launched the Weatherbourg exercise plan and invaded Nordic Europe, scaring away the spring of Nordic and causing it to fall into the winter of the fallen country under the rule of the German army.

Denmark and Norway found the German blitzkrieg attack, which was a modified Schriefen plan, and was perfectly interpreted with the cooperation of German Panther tanks and Juncker fighter bombers.

The Germans claimed that this was to prevent Britain and France from occupying Norway, an originally neutral country, from first, thereby cutting off the road for Germany to import minerals from Sweden. The British naval power was still so huge that it scared the German army. They successfully blocked Norwegian ports and landed in Norway, forcing the German army to retreat to the heart of Norway and defend accordingly. However, the combat effectiveness of the British army was too weak to eliminate the German army. In addition, the German army launched a full-scale blitzkrieg attack on France on the Western Front, so the British army had to retreat later. So Norway was occupied by Germany, and the German army also occupied Denmark.

On May 10, 1938, the German army adopted the modified Schriefen Plan, also known as the Manstein Plan. It was divided into three armies, a, b, and c, bypassed the Maginot Line and invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. On May 13, the German army A army entered France through the Ardennes area with weak defense power according to Manstein's intention. The British and French Allied forces were completely unable to organize effective resistance in the Ardennes because of the German surprise attack.

Soon the German tank division forced the crossing of the Maas River and captured the strategic key southern France. At the same time, the German Army B invaded the Netherlands and Belgium with the cooperation of airborne troops to attract and restrain the main forces of the British and French Allied forces located in the Belgian plains. The Army A was able to more smoothly through the flank of the British and French coalition forces from the north of France through the flank of the British and French coalition forces, forming the large encirclement in Manstein.

The British, French, Bibi and Dutch coalition forces, which originally had 147 divisions, had a total strength of more than 3 million. It was far more than 2.1 million German troops, but it was defeated by the German army less than half a year after the war started. In the end, the 400,000 coalition forces on the border between Belgium and France were forced to retreat by the German army to the Dunkirk area, which was only 50 miles from the English Channel. Only Dunkirk, a small port with only 10,000 residents, could be used as a way to retreat at sea.

The situation is extremely critical, and the Dunkirk port is a target that is extremely vulnerable to continuous attacks by bombers and artillery fire. If 400,000 people retreat from this port, the consequences will be unimaginable under the strong attack of German artillery fire.

The British government and the Navy mobilized a large number of crew members to mobilize the people to rescue the army. Their plan was to strive to evacuate 30,000 people.

At this moment, something strange happened. The German armored troops had approached Dunkirk, the northern port of France. But at this time, they received the order from Hitler to stop advancing.

This order was obviously a fatal mistake, but the German army had to abide by the order. As the surrounded British and French teams began to implement the "generator plan", the Dunkirk retreated.

As far away in the Chang'an Daming Palace in the middle of the Pacific, Zhang Meng was always paying attention to the war in Europe. When the German army launched a military plan to blitz France, he knew that there would be an unlucky incident of Dunkirk's retreat.

If the Tang Empire had not been involved in World War II, Zhang Meng would never have intervened in this matter. However, now the Tang Empire has been involved in the war and has been forced to form an alliance with Germany, then he would not allow another misunderstanding such as the Dunkirk retreat.

However, what Zhang Meng didn't understand was that he was on the phone with Hitler a few hours ago and exchanged views on completely eliminating nearly 400,000 coalition forces of Britain, France and the Netherlands. Hitler clearly patted his chest and promised that he would destroy them. But why did he suddenly change his mind?

Zhang Meng's misunderstanding quickly got the answer. An intelligence sent by Tan Jincheng urgently showed that a senior secretary next to Hitler was a British spy lurking beside him. The spy stole Hitler's warrant at a critical moment and ordered the German army to stop the attack. Hitler himself was also taken hostage by the spy, which made the German headquarters dare not take action. The two sides were confronting and secret negotiations.

This is an unknown thing in history. It was the first time Zhang Meng knew about it. Only then did he understand that even children knew what to do about Dunkirk's misunderstanding, even if children knew about it, it was even more impossible for Hitler to understand the seriousness of the problem. It turned out that he was taken hostage, no wonder the German army stopped. This was an ugly thing. Even only a few people inside the German army knew about it. He was worried that once it was announced, the German army on the front line would not take into account Hitler's life and death and would definitely strangle the British and French coalition forces with all their might. Therefore, the people around Hitler secretly blocked the news and found a way to rescue Hitler.

The reason why the Tang Dynasty agents were able to get news was that Tang De's military alliance relationship was always in Hitler's highest conference room, so that Tang De and the two countries could maintain contact at any time.

Zhang Meng knew that Hitler would escape the disaster, so he was not worried about Hitler's life and death. So when the German army stopped the attack, Zhang Meng issued a special order. The Tang Dynasty's strategic air force dispatched all its troops to temporarily stop the strategic bombing of Japan. All 112 Dabai Crane strategic bombers flew to the air base in Portugal, and then replenished fuel and ammunition, and flew to Dunkirk for a moment.

At this time, there was a strange fleet on the sea near Dunkirk, including brightly colored French fishing boats, tourist boats carrying passengers, maintenance boats tow barges, small escort boats, minesweeping boats, trawlers, destroyers, British airdrop rescue boats, radar watch boats... Maybe everything that can float in England went to Dunkirk.

This extremely bizarre and indescribable fleet was driven by a variety of British and French people. Among them were bankers, dentists, taxi drivers, speedboat drivers, dock workers, teenagers, engineers, fishermen and civilian officials... Among them were delicate sea scouts and old men with pale hair with bronze skin. Many of them were obviously poor, without coats, worn sweaters and sanitary shirts, and in cracked rubber shoes, naked in the sea and rain, and hungry in the bone-broken cold wind.

Thousands of ships of various types gathered in Dunkirk, and the first batch of about 30,000 people are evacuating.

As a result, the German artillery fire and planes did not attack them. They had just been grateful, but the next moment they found a huge roar in the sky. The Tang army's Big White Goose strategic bomber, which made them frightened, suddenly came to the air.

"Oh my God, it's the big white goose in the Tang army. Let's just use a lightning bolt to kill me first! I don't want to be burned alive!" A soldier suddenly wailed because he had read the newspaper and knew that the Tang army's big white crane strategic bomber was terrifying in Spain. Those who died under the white phosphorus bomb were extremely terrifying. Even those who survived would suffer for the rest of their lives and could not be shaken away.

At this time, weapons of mass destruction such as white phosphorus bombs are essential, because the Tang army's target is 400,000 troops on the other side, and 400,000 living people are absolutely not allowed to leave France alive.

Accompanied by the sharp roars, the Big White Crane bomber began to drop bombs. When aviation bombs fell one after another, the entire sea surface boiled in an instant. Various ships loaded with personnel were hit, exploded, burned, and burned. The people on it were either bombed, burned to death, or burned by fire, or bombed into the sea by air waves. In the blink of an eye, the entire retreating sea was a sea of ​​fire, the scorching sky, and thick smoke covered the sky.

112 Dabai Crane strategic bombers, each carrying 12 tons of aviation bombs, including 1 tons of white phosphorus bombs, 7 tons of incendiary bombs and 4 tons of explosion bombs, totaling 1,344 tons, with a number of up to tens of thousands. They were dropped in an instant, just like heavy rain, and no ship could survive such a intensive bomb drop.

What made the British and French coalition even more collapsed was that after the Tang army's plane dropped bombs, except for retaining the fuel to fly back to the Portuguese base, the remaining hundreds of tons of aviation fuel were dumped on the retreating sea, adding fuel to the fire, causing huge fires to ignite the entire sea area. All the first 30,000 people retreated were swallowed by the fire, and they were unable to escape.

When the Tang army bomber group left, the entire Dunkirk Harbour's sky was filled with black smoke, and corpses were floating on the sea. The wreckage of bombed ships continued to disintegrate under the slap of the waves and rushed towards the beach.

The people who had complained that they had not caught up with the first group of retreating were now standing on the beach with fear on their faces, and were all glad that they didn't go up.

The sudden bombing of the Tang army completely destroyed the attempts and hopes of the British and French coalition forces to retreat. More than a thousand rescue ships were all blown up, and more than 30,000 soldiers were buried in the sea. The British government was unable to raise ships to participate in the rescue operation in a short period of time, and the German army also realized the retreat of the British and French coalition forces. Although they did not receive orders to continue moving forward, the Luftwaffe then rushed to participate in the bombing operation.

Three days later, under the joint bombing of the Tang and Germany air forces, Dunkirk was razed to the ground, with 400,000 British, French, Bibi, Dutch coalition forces killed and injured more than 300,000, and only 100,000 wounded soldiers left to surrender voluntarily.

The original Dunkirk retreat turned into a great tragedy, becoming the most painful loss for Britain and France since the end of World War I, which made them feel heartbroken.

A week later, Hitler's men finally successfully killed the British spy and rescued Hitler. Because the British spy didn't know what was happening outside, he never dared to kill Hitler, which gave Hitler's men a chance to rescue him.

Hitler, who was rescued, naturally did not dare to make a statement. He strictly blocked the news, and only a few people knew about it. Hitler became timid and suspicious after this incident, and he began to look for a substitute just in case.
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