On the morning of 10 June, as soon as Chen Dao came out of the marching tent, he was surrounded by Captain Bach and Captain Lorenz who were waiting outside.

Captain Lorenz's young face was full of excitement, and he shouted excitedly at Chen Dao: "The French are finished, Paris is ours." ”

Chen Daoyi waved his hand to stop Captain Bach, who was about to speak, with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Don't speak, let me guess, did the French declare Paris an undefended city?"

Captain Bach was stunned, and the smile on Captain Lorenz's face froze, and it took a long time for the two to react.

"How do you know? Did Captain Mandolfil tell you? No way, we came to you in the morning just after hearing the radio and wanted to be the first to tell you the good news, but how are you?"

"I didn't tell him." A voice rang out from behind Captain Bach.

It was Mandolfil who spoke.

Chen Dao was stared at by three pairs of eyes, with a light and breezy expression on his face.

"I guess. As I said, the last French soldier died in the Napoleonic era, and now we are fighting with nothing more than a bunch of civilians in military uniforms. They would surely be frightened to see real military men near Paris, and it was only natural to declare Paris an undefended city. Let me guess again whether they declared Paris an undefended city under the pretext of protecting the monuments from destruction, and begged us not to destroy the city's buildings. Chen Dao asked rhetorically.

The three of them gasped in unison, and the head of the group in front of them became more and more unpredictable.

"The French are indeed pleading with us on the radio not to destroy the city and the monuments. You even guessed these details? Captain Bach could no longer hide his shock.

"Losers always have to make excuses for their failures. It's not hard to guess. ”

Chen Dao as he spoke. The aura of the god stick on his body is even stronger.

"Although Paris has been declared an undefended city by the French, we must not be careless and still be prepared for a tough battle."

"Why? Could it be that the French will deceive us? Mandolfil asked, puzzled.

"No, there should be no surprise with the character of the French, but don't forget that it's not just the French who are fighting in France." Chen Dao reminded Mandol with a smile.

"I see, you mean the British Expeditionary Force, they are also in our encirclement. At such a critical juncture, they would certainly not bother with the orders of the French, and we would most likely meet them in Paris. Mandolfil said.

"No, we won't meet them in Paris, because we don't go to Paris."

A wicked smile appeared on the corner of Chen Dao's mouth, and sure enough, he saw the surprised expressions on the faces of the three Mandol Field.

"Why don't we go to Paris, we just have to work harder, we can storm Paris this day when it's dark, let our troops walk under the Arc de Triomphe, and then plant the flag on the Eiffel Tower. The British will certainly not be able to stop our attack. Mandolfil said quickly.

"We were not afraid to fight the British in Paris, but we were afraid that the British would flee through Paris. Major Schumacher was ordered to turn northwest and reach Mount Trajoli on the south bank of the Seine before dark, cutting off the road from Paris to the coast. ”

Twenty minutes later, shortly after Major Schumacher received a new order, Rommel, commander of the 7th Panzer Division, looked at the telegram in his hand and wilted as if he had been poured a basin of cold water on his head.

The telegram was sent from the headquarters of the 15th Panzer Corps, which ordered the 7th Panzer Division to turn northwest and take Mount Trajoli sur Seine with Hermangoren's regiment and cut off the road from Paris to the English Channel.

With 120,000 points of reluctance, Rommel gave a new order to Colonel Rosenberg, who was the pioneer

The French capital, Paris, was already in chaos at this time, with cars, trucks, and taxis rampaging through the city, rushing out of Paris and fleeing in all directions to the northwest and southwest away from the German army.

In the town of Gusanville, on the outskirts northeast of Paris, Lord Gott, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, was silent for a minute after reading a telegram from his men.

This belated telegram came from the commander-in-chief of the French army, Wei Gang, and informed the British expeditionary force that in order to ensure the safety of the cultural relics and monuments in the city of Paris, Paris would be treated as an undefended city, whether it was the old fortress line or the urban area, all bridges must be kept intact, and the nearby French troops should be evacuated and not allowed to enter the capital.

Lord Gort knew full well that the reality was that the French were retreating too quickly under the onslaught of the Germans, and there was no way to talk about an organized retreat from one area to another. In many places, defensive areas have been breached, and there is no hope of re-establishing a long defensive line.

Seeing the telegram at the end, Weygand ordered the British expeditionary force to withdraw to the west of France near Paris as soon as possible, and not to use the city of Paris to fight the Germans, Lord Gott's mouth squeezed out a sentence with difficulty: "We have been betrayed." ”

Since the successful breakthrough of the German Gudry's armored cluster in the Mezières area northwest of Reims, in order to prevent the left flank from being outflanked by the Germans, Lord Gott led the LinkedIn Expeditionary Force to fight and retreat from the Metz area, and nine infantry divisions alternately covered all the way to the vicinity of Paris, only to receive such a shit order.

Lord Gaudt could imagine that after receiving the order that Paris was an undefended city, the French army near Paris would definitely rush to retreat to the west of France, and there would be no French troops near Paris, let alone French troops resisting the approach of the German army, and his own troops would have become a lone army, and he would face two armored clusters outflanked from the north and south, at least a thousand tanks, and the expeditionary force could not even get fifty intact tanks.

Thinking of this, Lord Gott did not hesitate and immediately decided to retreat west through Paris.

It was only when he thought of which direction he should retreat, and Lord Gort made another difficulty, the Seine crossed from east to west through the city of Paris, and flowed into the English Channel, and the meandering course divided the western part of France into north and south, and in which direction he should retreat, whether it was northwest or southwest.

After thinking for a moment, Lord Gort had a headache, and at this point he was faced with the headache that had been going into battle in France.

He only knew the movements of the German troops in the area of operation of the British Expeditionary Force, and all the enemy situations outside the area of operation of the British Expeditionary Force needed to be told to him by the French High Command, and without the intelligence of the French High Command, he knew nothing about the movements of the German troops in other areas, in case his troops just left Paris and ran head-on into the German armored clusters, and let a group of infantry led by him fight with German tanks in the field, the picture was too cruel, just thinking about it made people shudder.

At the urging of Lord Gott, the communications battalion of the Expeditionary Force Headquarters finally received the latest information from the French Command, which had been relocated to Tours.

Seeing this latest information, Lord Gort squeezed another sentence out between his teeth.

"We were fooled."

Intelligence indicates that the Gudeli Armor cluster, north of Paris, has occupied Marseille, 80 kilometers northwest of Paris, and is currently marching westward, rather than Paris to the southeast.

Lord Gott, with his decades of military experience, immediately judged that Guderian was marching on Rouen, which was located on the north bank of the Seine, seventy kilometres southwest of Marseille and one hundred and fifty kilometres west of Paris. The Germans occupied Rouen, and the British expeditionary force's roads to all ports in the English Channel north of the Seine would be cut off.

Fake, all fake, the Germans have been spreading rumors these days, both on the radio and through the release of captured French officers, to make people mistakenly think that their target was Paris, which now seems to be all fake, and the place where their pincer offensive converged was not Paris at all.

Lord Gott took the coffee kindly handed by his subordinates, calmed down after a few sips, and then fixed his eyes on the southwest side of Paris.

The French sent intelligence that did not show the German advance southwest of Paris, which may have been an opportunity for them to escape before the German encirclement closed.

"Report." A voice full of panic reached Lord Gort's ears.

Lord Gott's gaze shifted from the map to the major staff officer who had just walked up to him.

"German paratroopers were spotted in the west and southwest of Paris."

"How many?" Lord Goth asked.

"It's too far to see clearly, but it won't be more than one regiment."

Lord Gott stared at the west and southwest sides of Paris on the map in contemplation for a moment, and then his face suddenly brightened with joy.

The Germans actually used paratroopers to parachute southwest of Paris, and it is likely that the German armored cluster in the south lagged behind, and could not synchronize the encirclement with the armored cluster in the north, so they had to use paratroopers to save the emergency.

Having repelled the paratroopers, their own troops might be able to fight their way out of the encirclement before the German armoured forces arrived.

Whether the hundreds of thousands of young Englishmen can go home or not depends on this battle, and Lord Gott is determined to block it.

"Order the Second Army to be stationed in Paris and build a defensive line south of Paris. The First Army immediately passed through the city of Paris and attacked and advanced to the west and southwest of Paris where the German paratroopers had landed. (To be continued......)