Glorious Mission 1937

The German offensive can only be described in four words - devastated. On the morning of March 3th, Guderian's armored forces occupied Boulogne and Calais successively. In the afternoon of 10th, the 11th Panzer Corps had reached Gravelin, only the last 19 miles from Dunkirk, and Reinhardt's 10st Panzer Corps, on its right flank, had also reached El-Saint-Omer The line of the El-Gravelin Canal.

As long as the two armored forces work harder, they can go straight to Dunkirk, and dozens of infantry divisions are following up continuously.Guderian and others were full of ambition and determined to lead their armored forces to fight another encirclement and annihilation battle, completely annihilating tens of thousands of British and French troops in the coastal area.

However, at this moment, the 19th Panzer Corps and the 41st Panzer Corps simultaneously received an order from Kleist, the commander of the Panzer Corps, asking them to stop advancing, saying that "the enemy of Dunkirk will be left to Marshal Goering." Air Force to solve."After Guderian received the order, he immediately questioned and protested to Kleist, but the final answer he got was: "This is an order issued by the head of state himself, and it must be implemented."

Hitler's order made the generals of the German tank force very puzzled, and Guderian even sighed.Dunkirk is at your fingertips, but ordered to stop!And the Luftwaffe was attacking.The controversy aroused later by this order is considered by many military historians to be a foolish order of Hitler's arbitrary interference in military command.

In fact, Hitler had his own considerations for this order, and it cannot be entirely attributed to him alone.First of all, after the battle in northern France became clear, the German army needed to preserve the strength of its armored forces for the next combat operation.Plus Goering assured Hitler that the Air Force could wipe out the Allied forces at Dunkirk.Dunkirk's terrain is full of swamps and low-lying areas, which is not conducive to the advancement of armored troops, and there is no need for armored troops to suffer losses.

This foolish order from Hitler gave a chance to the British and French forces, who were fighting for survival, to strengthen the defensive positions close to Dunkirk.Taking advantage of this fleeting respite, the coalition forces were able to implement the "dynamo plan" to retreat from the sea.

On the night of March 1940, 3, thanks to the efforts of the navy, the first batch of 14 people left Dunkirk and returned to the UK smoothly.Once the evacuation operation started, it was impossible to keep secrets. In addition to the urgency of the situation, the British Admiralty began to requisition ships along the coast and along the Thames, and even called on all those who owned ships to go to Dunkirk through the radio. These ship owners knew very well What does the withdrawal of the expeditionary force mean to the United Kingdom, so in response to the appeal of the Admiralty, barges, tugboats, cargo ships, passenger ships, fishing boats, motorboats and even private yachts all set out to sea for Dunkirk.

This is a weird "enemy fleet": there are brightly colored French fishing boats, tourist boats carrying passengers, maintenance boats, tugs, small escort ships, minesweepers, fishing trawlers, destroyers, British air rescue ships, Radar boats... Someone joked: "Everything that floats in England goes to Dunkirk everywhere"

This extremely bizarre and indescribable fleet was driven by various British and French people.Among them are bankers, dentists, taxi drivers, speedboat drivers, dock workers, teenagers, engineers, fishermen and civil servants... Among them are sea scouts with jonen skin and pale hair reflected in bronze skin old man.Many of them are obviously poor people, they don't have coats, they wear old sweaters and sweaters, they wear cracked rubber shoes, they are covered in sea water and rain, and they are starving in the bone-chilling wind...[

Under the bombardment of artillery fire, this strange fleet was unarmed and unescorted, but the brave people faced the rain of guns and gunpowder, and moved forward nimbly on the sea of ​​sunken ships, knowing that hell was ahead. They are also unafraid.There were 693 British ships and 168 French, Dutch and Belgian ships. A total of 861 ships of various types joined the rescue team. They mainly set off from six ports in southern England, and returned after picking up British and French coalition officers and soldiers in Dunkirk. U.K.

After 8 full days of rushing, 324 million people were withdrawn from Dunkirk, including 85 French troops, which became the main force in the subsequent counterattack on the European continent.

Chen Feng was extremely happy when he learned that the German army was advancing triumphantly and was about to sweep across the entire Western Europe.Especially when he heard that more than 30 British and French troops had successfully withdrawn from Dunkirk to the British mainland, Chen Feng was even more excited.Chen Feng actually didn't care about the progress of the German army and the casualties of the British and French allied forces. Anyway, these lives and deaths had nothing to do with him.

But Chen Feng knew that although Britain's large-scale retreat successfully saved a large number of manpower, all the heavy equipment of the British expeditionary force stationed in France was discarded on the European continent, causing serious problems in the ground defense of the British mainland. That is to say, Britain and France will lack a lot of weapons and equipment from now on, and the plan that he, Chen, has arranged for more than a year can finally be implemented.

Sure enough, the British ambassador to the United States soon went to the White House to meet with President Roosevelt, requesting to buy enough weapons and equipment from the United States, and proposed many preferential terms.

To be honest, Roosevelt really wanted to do this business, but Roosevelt was surprised to find that although there are more than 120 large and small arms companies in the United States, there are only a few arms companies that can provide weapons and equipment for a country on a large scale. Among the seven companies, there is only one arms company that can meet the requirement of equipping 7 people in the UK in the short term, and that is Huaxia Arms Company. Even DuPont, the largest military giant in the United States, does not have this capability.

This has a huge relationship with the national situation of the United States. Although there are many arms companies in the United States, their main service targets are not the US government or the US team, but the S people.Due to the prevailing isolationism and the impact of the economic crisis in the United States, the U.S. Army has only 10 people. Except for the weapons and equipment produced by the U.S. government itself, there are not many weapons and equipment that can be produced by those arms companies.

As a result, this has caused such a phenomenon that the number of American fire companies is huge, and the number of firearm patents applied for each year is also numerous, and there are also many new weapons and equipment invented, but almost all American fire companies have a common problem. That is, the company is small in scale and limited in production capacity.Some small arms companies even only produce pistols, not rifles and machine guns, and some companies produce no more than 500 guns a year, and only focus on performance and quality, regardless of cost. Therefore, only Huaxia Company can satisfy the British people's requirements.

Roosevelt was very happy to facilitate this transaction. As a farsighted politician, Roosevelt was afraid of Germany's strong rise and crazy attitude. Coupled with the German-R alliance and the R-army lurching around in the Pacific, this It worries the US government very much.

The British must be supported, not to mention that the two countries are of the same race, even if it is for the interests of the Americans themselves, the British must be helped.But Roosevelt knew better that it would not be easy to persuade the Chinese to sell their weapons and equipment to the British, because the Huaxia Arms Company's weapons and equipment were all prepared for themselves.

It's no wonder that the US government has such an idea. The world's arms trade was not very smooth in the past two years, and the market was not big. Many US fire companies were unsustainable and declared bankruptcy one after another.Even those that barely survived bankruptcy have reduced production capacity and laid off employees.

However, instead of reducing production capacity, Huaxia continued to merge those small arms companies, and then spent a lot of money to transform production lines and increase production capacity.While other companies are laying off employees, Huaxia Arms Company is recruiting skilled firearms workers and engineers on a large scale.

However, to everyone's surprise, although Huaxia Arms Company produces a large number of weapons and equipment every day, its varieties include pistols, rifles, machine guns, submachine guns, sniper rifles, anti-aircraft machine guns, small-caliber mortars, and heavy mortars. Cannons, field heavy artillery, landmines, grenades and other weapons and equipment, but I have never seen Huaxia Arms Company sell any of them, and there is no firearms sales point opened by Huaxia Military Industry Company in the entire United States, so almost everyone who knows Huaxia Arms Company Everyone thinks that these weapons and equipment produced by Huaxia Armaments Company are self-produced and sold. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of troops under Chen Feng's command, and the consumption is quite a lot every day.

Soon, representatives of the US government met with Long Jian, the deputy general manager of Huaxia Group and the general manager of the arms company in Los Angeles, and made a request to them to purchase arms.

Two days ago, Dragon Sword received Chen Feng's instruction. He readily rejected the request of the US government, and formally stated with the US government that the weapons and equipment of Huaxia Arms Company are self-produced and sold. for sale. [

Huaxia Company's refusal made the US government very depressed. On March 3th, the US consuls in China and the British consuls in China rushed to Hongqng, and then asked Lao Jiang for help, hoping that Lao Jiang could come forward to persuade Chen Feng to sell a batch of weapons to Yingfa as soon as possible equipment.

If it was other officers, Lao Jiang would definitely make the decisions directly, but he didn't dare to make decisions about Chen Feng's affairs, so he sent a telegram to Chen Feng and asked him what he thought.

Now that Lao Jiang had come forward, Chen Feng stopped being coy. After expressing his embarrassment for a while, he agreed to the request of the United States and Britain. At the same time, he also made two requests. The first request was for Not to offend the Germans, the United States and the United Kingdom were involved in all the links in this transaction, and the arms were also sold to the British by the Americans, and had nothing to do with Huaxia Company or him, Mr. Chen.

The second condition is that the American government must be exempted from the taxes incurred in the transaction between the two parties. After all, this time the sale of Huaxia Company is not willing, and it is completely based on the face of the Chinese and American governments.At the risk of offending the Germans to "help" the British, the American government cannot collect taxes from itself.

These two conditions were not harsh, the United States and Britain immediately agreed, and then the British government paid for it and quickly placed an order for weapons for 25 infantry divisions from Huaxia Company. The joyful Chen Feng shouted in his heart, "Good luck is coming!" . rs! . ,

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