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Chapter 876 No Reserve Team

As early as half a year ago, Russia and its allies began partial mobilization. Now the first batch of recruited soldiers have completed training and officially entered the combat sequence.

The transformation of some factories has also been completed. Once the war begins, they can quickly switch to military production to meet front-line combat needs.

Siberia has had a bumper harvest of grain in the past two years, and the grain stockpiled by Russia is enough to feed all Russians for two years.

In order to cope with the pressure brought by Germany's crazy expansion, George ordered the conscription of a new group of Cossacks into the army to continue expanding the army.

The discussion about whether to ally with Germany had not yet ended. On June 6, almost at the same time as the end of the Norwegian campaign, the German army deployed 15 divisions and launched an attack on France according to the plan formulated by Manstein.

As early as October last year, the German army formulated an attack plan against France based on the "Schlieffen Plan".

Manstein revised the plan, changing the original main attack direction to a feint attack, with Army Group A on the left wing taking on the main attack mission and cooperating with Army Groups B and C to defeat the Anglo-French forces as quickly as possible.

The key to this plan is to take the enemy by surprise and annihilate the main force of the British and French forces before they can react, in preparation for the implementation of the second phase of "Sea Lion Plan".

"Sea Lion" was an attack plan aimed at the British mainland.

In order to achieve the purpose of surprise, the German army secretly transferred the German troops participating in the "Manstein Plan" to the departure position while attacking Norway. This move not only deceived the British and French forces, but also deceived Russia, which was closely watching the German army.

When George received the relevant report, the German army had already crossed the Belgian border and completed the first step of the "Manstein Plan".

George immediately gave the order to launch the "Big Thunderstorm Plan".

"Big Thunderstorm" was Russia's attack plan against Germany.

"Big Thunderstorm" planned to mobilize 115 divisions with the Warsaw Military District as its main force, and attack Germany from the direction of Poland while the German army defeated France and the main force had not yet been transferred back.

Makarov was ashamed that Alpha did not notice the unusual movement of the German troops, which was a serious dereliction of duty.

But this can't be blamed on Makarov.

The reason why Manstein modified the battle plan was that the German army judged that the battle plan might be leaked through the mobilization of the British and French forces.

The German army then carried out a top-down purge. Although this operation was not aimed at Alpha, Alpha's intelligence organization in Germany also suffered heavy losses.

After the First World War, Britain, France and Russia, out of their own interests, provided economic assistance to Germany, cultivated their own forces and increased their influence on Germany.

Russia's aid to Germany was mainly focused on the Junker nobility.

Britain and France both chose the Hebrews.

The German combat plan was leaked to the British and French forces by the Hebrews.

This action also led to the transformation of Germany's policy towards the Hebrews from centralized management to collective killing.

In addition to the Hebrews, those who were imprisoned in concentration camps by the Germans included Gypsies and some Slavs.

George warned the German government through Karl the Younger that it was not allowed to target Slavs living in Germany.

"A review is underway in Berlin and innocent Slavs will soon be released and return safely to their homes."

Little Carl's explanation was far-fetched and helpless.

The Slavs living in Germany were Germans, not Russians, and strictly speaking, George was interfering in Germany's internal affairs.

Recently, Karl Jr. has heard some remarks that are extremely unfavorable to Russian-German relations, which makes him very worried.

"Hopefully, this is the case, otherwise Russia will take action to provide protection for the Slavs in Germany."

What George was worried about now was that the Junker nobles had lost control of the German army.

As Little Moustache's military adventures were successful one after another, the Junker nobles' influence on the German army was rapidly weakening, and Little Moustache's influence on the German army was gradually increasing.

After the successive annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark and Norway, the reputation of the little mustache in Germany was unparalleled.

After the German army defeats France, the mustache will replace Bismarck and become the new idol of the German army.

By then, even if the mustache guy wants to attack Russia.

Those Junker soldiers who had studied in Russia and had a favorable impression of Russia were probably unable to stop the German attack.

To inspect the implementation of the "Big Thunderstorm" plan, George arrived in Warsaw on June 6.

On the day George arrived in Warsaw, the situation he least wanted to see happened.

On the night of June 6, the Kingdom of Romania issued an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, demanding that the Kingdom of Yugoslavia open a passage to the Kingdom of Romania and allow the Romanian army to pass through Yugoslavia and attack the Kingdom of Greece.

Without hesitation, Boris rejected Carol's request.

At 6:20 a.m. on June , the Romanian army forcibly entered Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav army fired warning shots.

The Romanian army bombarded the Yugoslav military camp, and the war first broke out between Romania and Yugoslavia.

"What is Carol doing? Is he crazy?"

George never expected that Carol would stab Romania's allies at the most critical moment.

Following George's orders, Yugoslavia concentrated its main forces in the western mountainous areas for defense, preparing to cooperate with Russia's "Big Thunderstorm Plan" to launch a diversionary attack on Germany's ally Italy.

Due to the launch of Russia's "Big Thunderstorm Plan", a large number of mobile forces were transferred to the Warsaw Military District. For a time, George was unable to send reinforcements to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Carol was indeed crazy. He not only sent armored forces to attack the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but also sent bombers to bomb Adrianople, the capital of Yugoslavia.

"No matter what, we must stop that bastard Carol!"

Demeter regretted it deeply. As early as when Carol first threatened war with the Kingdom of Greece, Vasily suggested that Carol be placed under house arrest to eliminate the hidden dangers within the Balkan League.

Carol was also smart. He inspected in Germany for a while and in Transylvania for a while. He rarely returned to Bucharest, leaving no chance for the Russian army to capture him.

Now that this hidden danger has finally been eliminated by targeted blasting, George must now make a decision whether to resolutely implement the "Big Thunderstorm Plan" or to withdraw troops to Yugoslavia to prevent the war from further expanding.

"We must completely remove Carol's power. I seriously suspect that this bastard is cooperating with Germany to divert our attention. I suggest that we implement the 'Thunderstorm Plan' in advance and launch an attack on Germany now."

Andre didn't care and wanted to destroy Germany first.

Compared with the Kingdom of Romania, Germany is the real threat to Russia.

Compared with the mad Carol, Boris still retained his rationality and did not immediately withdraw the main force from the western mountains back to Adrianople.

Both Adrianople and Sofia are connected to Bucharest by rail. Carol did not launch an attack on Adrianople, but instead focused his main attack on Sofia.

Polis ordered the railway between Sofia and Bucharest to be blown up to slow down the Romanian army's attack.

"How could Carol be like this? He is such a disappointment!"

Elizabeth was very sad because Carol was her biological brother.

"Isa, you have to be mentally prepared."

Boris knew very well that Carol would not be able to escape this time.

Regardless of whether the Kingdom of Romania’s military actions were in cooperation with Germany.

Carol is a time bomb that must be resolved.

Although the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was at the forefront, Georgy did not stay out of it. He took the initiative to send a telegram to Polis, hoping to send Greek troops to Yugoslavia to participate in the war and stop the attack of the Kingdom of Romania.

The French also came to add to the trouble at this time, supporting the Romanian Kingdom's attack on the Greek Kingdom.

George was curious, how could the French, who were being attacked frantically by the German army, still care about the Balkan Alliance?
The German army had accumulated rich experience through Poland and Norway, and its blitzkrieg tactics were almost perfected. The war broke out on June 6, and Luxembourg surrendered without a fight that day. On June 15, the Dutch capital Amsterdam was occupied, and on June 6, the Belgian capital Antwerp was occupied.

While Group A was advancing, the 19th Panzer Corps led by Guderian took only two days to cross the 110-kilometer-long canyon in the Ardennes Mountains and invade France. The British and French forces along the way did not create any difficulties for Guderian.

On the afternoon of the 19th, the 19th Armored Corps arrived at the north bank of the Meuse River and occupied the French fortress city of Sedan.

The inability of the Netherlands and Belgium to stop the German offensive was expected.

Sedan was an important French town protected by the Maginot Line, but it was still captured so easily by Guderian, which was far beyond George's expectations.

On the 20th, the 19th Armored Corps had no time to rest and forced a crossing of the Meuse River.

If the Germans crossed the Meuse, Paris would lose its most important barrier.

Churchill, who had just succeeded Chamberlain as British Prime Minister, flew to Paris overnight and asked the French army to organize a counterattack.

"Sorry, I don't have any mobile troops anymore."

Wei Gang's expression was calm, and there was even a hint of pleasure in his eyes when he looked at Churchill.

"Where are the reserves?"

Churchill couldn't believe that such a big country as France didn't even have a reserve force.

Weygand and Pétain were both veterans of the battlefield and should not have made such a serious mistake.

Wei Gang shrugged and spread his hands helplessly: "There is no reserve team!"

(End of this chapter)