The Paris Inspectorate building is located on the north bank of the Seine River, which is one of the more prosperous areas of the city.

It is a beautiful four-storey building with a large black brick roof full of skylights, and the façade is decorated with Romanesque stone columns, which looks a bit Renaissance style.

The granite walls, painted in earthy yellow, may have looked gray and dull with the passage of time, but the aura of murder that characterizes the inspection bureaus of all the world's major cities has not diminished a bit, especially since the gate of the huge carved yellow pine is still filled with sandbags and barbed wire barricades.

Henry. Fernando. Lieutenant General Dantz is now standing with his hands behind his back in front of the huge window of the ornately decorated director's office on the fourth floor, looking out at the view of one of the best rooms in the building, with a view of the spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral Tower in the distance.

But if you want to go a little further, you'll have to go to the attic, and of course the proud Lieutenant General Dantz won't depreciate himself to go to such a dirty and cramped place just to see some boring scenery.

The grey flock of pigeons circled the same route around the dark roofs of several nearby buildings like clockwork hands, and I wonder why they didn't get tired of it.

The large and small skylight panes on the roof of the building shimmered in the sunlight, like a handful of diamonds sprinkled on a black carpet.

A few children were playing a game of chase on the rooftop of a nearby apartment building, giggling and screaming, even from here.

And on the roof of the building next to the apartment was a makeshift anti-aircraft fire point constructed by the Paris garrison.

In the middle of the bunker made of sandbags was a latest-style 20-millimeter anti-aircraft gun, and the slender barrel with a glittering black metallic luster was not pointing its head high at the sky, but was leaning weakly on the bunker, like a broken flagpole.

A handful of French soldiers in yellow-green uniforms were leaning against the sandbag wall and watching the children play games, laughing and cheering on a failed child.

This is Paris, an undefended capital.

Dantz shook his head with a wry smile, then let out a long sigh as he closed the window and closed the curtains.

Dantz returned to his overly elaborate desk, which had belonged to His Excellency the former Director of the Inspectorate in Paris, and Dantz felt that this desk seemed a bit extravagant even for the commander-in-chief of the army.

Let's get on with the work, Lieutenant General Dantz looked at the gilded table clock on the fireplace, it was still early for lunch, and there should be plenty of time to attend to some more business.

But when he bourezed up his spirits to fulfill his sacred duty, he found that he did not know where to start.

His Excellency, the commander-in-chief of the French Paris Theater of Operations, sat at his desk and looked at a pile of papers, stunned.

These days, he has done everything he should do and can do, and now none of the remaining problems are something he can or has the power to solve.

"Knock, knock."

Just as the general was facing his desk, the door rang at the right time, rescuing the war-wrenching commander from his misery.

"Come in."

The lieutenant general straightened the collar of his military uniform, and then said loudly.

"General!"

The door was opened and entered by a lieutenant colonel in his thirties, although he looked a little tired, but he could still feel the shrewd and strong temperament that he exuded from his body.

"Lieutenant Colonel Deel, you're finally back, I've been waiting for your report."

Dantz stood up and said happily.

"I'm very sorry, General."

The lieutenant colonel bowed his head respectfully and apologized.

"Alright, sit here, Lieutenant Colonel. Tell me what the Germans want. Lieutenant General Dantz asked expectantly.

"This ...... Your Excellency, I don't know what to say. ”

Deel walked over to his desk and sat down, then pulled out a document from the file bag he slung from his waist.

"Take a look at this first."

Deer put the document in front of the general.

"This ...... Here is my letter to the German commander. What's going on, the reply of the Germans. ”

"No reply, my general. The Germans didn't even look at it and retreated. ”

"How so, didn't you see their senior commander?"

"No, Your Excellency, I was greeted by a German ensign, and it seems that he doesn't want to hear me at all."

Lieutenant Colonel De El seems to be a little worried about this.

"Tell me all the details, Lieutenant Colonel."

Dantz leaned back in his chair and stared blankly at the snow-plaster reliefs on the ceiling, and now he felt the urge to cry, he couldn't figure out why he had ended up in this field.

When exactly did this damn nightmare start? Was it from the moment he himself accepted the appointment of the commander of the Paris theater of operations?

No, it should have been earlier, this nightmare had already started the day that the crazy Germans broke through the Weygand line.

When the German team relaunched the offensive to break through the Weygand line, the French cabinet was still dreaming of an unrealistic counteroffensive.

The surprise attack of the Germans once again caught the French government by surprise, and although the French had expected the German attack for a long time, no one expected it to come so quickly and so violently.

The intelligence that the French received from the British intelligence agencies at the time showed that there was a big problem at the top of the Germans, possibly involving a power struggle.

And it seems that the German ** team has also been greatly affected by this, which can be seen from the completely illogical behavior of the German ** team suddenly stopping the attack on all fronts and fully switching to defense.

The French cabinet was overjoyed when they heard the news, which they saw as a gift from God, a miracle, and a turning point in the great country's escape from the unfortunate fate it is now in.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the smiles that had not been seen for a long time returned to the faces of these officials, and the French Prime Minister's Office even held a dinner that evening, and the atmosphere at the dinner was as if France had won the war.

Indeed, no one doubts that France will be able to win this war any longer.

It's obvious that these professional politicians who have been in politics for decades know how long a power struggle can go on and how much chaos and harm it can cause to a country.

If the German top brass really fell into a turbulent situation because of the power struggle, the strength of the German team would be twice as strong as it is now, and they would definitely lose the war.

The then Deputy Prime Minister Camille. Shaw burped and swore that he had foreseen all of this from the very beginning of the war.

His Excellency the Vice Chancellor, who was already drunk and flushed, excitedly told everyone around him that this was the conclusion he had come to after carefully studying the structure of the German government.

The madmen of the Nazi Party were ambitious men, and if one of them had ambitions beyond the fear of Hitler the devil, it would have led to a fierce conflict, as had happened between Hitler and Röhm.

Everyone was deeply impressed by this, and could not help but express their admiration for the foresight and wisdom of His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister.

However, the generals of the French side were not as optimistic as the group of politicians, and in their opinion, the war had not yet reached the moment when it could decide the outcome of the war.

The Germans abruptly halted their advance and did not continue the offensive, which gave the French Army a valuable respite.

But it is too early to think that the French army can turn defeat into victory.

Due to the heavy losses in the previous operations, the French army now does not have the strength to launch a counteroffensive to regain lost territory, and at most it is only enough to maintain the status quo and confront the German army.

So, after pouring a few basins of cold water on Renault, who was hot-headed, Weygand got him to approve of the next step in French tactics.

Wei Gang's plan was to take advantage of this rare respite to speed up the construction of the Weigang defensive line, and at the same time to recruit a large number of reserve troops, including the transfer of troops from the colonies to the country, the urgent recall of foreign legions, the recruitment of new soldiers, and the formation of new troops.

France must also purchase weapons and strategic materials from abroad as soon as possible, accumulate all the strength of the French Republic as quickly as possible, and immediately begin to launch a full-scale counteroffensive against the German army to recover the occupied territories as soon as the strength of the French ** team accumulates to surpass those German ** teams on the opposite side.

Wei Gang's tactics are honestly not wrong, and any general would do the same, which is the most stable and safest approach.

But it's a pity that their enemy is the German ** team, and Wei Gang's conservative tactics are completely outdated in front of the German ** team, not to mention that they are still misjudging the actual situation.

This tactic, which remained at the level of positional warfare in World War I, not only tied all the existing French forces to the positions they had constructed, but also dispersed these valuable forces because of the length of the defensive line.

Due to their misjudgment of the situation, they mistakenly believed that the Germans would not launch a new offensive in the short term, and that they had plenty of time to prepare for the next German offensive, or at worst another 1914-style war with the Germans.

So the front-line French ** team began large-scale repairs, and built fortifications on the defensive line demarcated by Wei Gang.

At the same time, a large number of new recruits were added to the severely attrition troops, and these soldiers were placed in the most dangerous positions due to the tradition of seniority of the French ** team, which made this already fragile defense line even more fragile.

French officials did not know much about Nazi Germany, and they only saw the fierceness of the Nazi Party's power struggle from Röhm's fate, but they did not see the incredible efficiency of the Nazis when they tried to solve such problems.

Xu Jun and Hitler did not start a protracted bite attack as these officials expected, and both sides used the most common Nazi method, a quick and efficient way, to eliminate all the enemies from the **, although a little bloody, but it was indeed fast and efficient.

So when the Germans suddenly attacked, the French ** team was still repairing on their defensive line, without any psychological preparation.

Although these troops put up a very strong resistance, the Weygand line was broken through in a single day.

It is also a rare wonder in the history of the world that France should make the same mistake twice in succession, and be attacked by the same enemy again after the start of the war.

As a result, the French cabinet was completely confused, and they began to lament that God had abandoned France.

But there is no time for them to express any feelings, the German ** team has already launched a posture of outflanking the capital, and the government agencies now choose to either stay here and fight the Germans to the death, or choose to immediately evacuate here to preserve their strength and continue to command resistance.

All the cabinet members immediately chose the latter, and in less than half a minute, and without even the usual quarrels in cabinet meetings, the leaders of France decided the fate of the capital.

Poor Lieutenant General Dantz was chosen to be a symbolic presence in the capital, which was still under the control of the French government, and in fact his only task was to quietly and securely represent Paris and surrender to the first German officer to appear on the streets of Paris.

The question of whether the French High Command had seriously considered holding the city is now irrelevant.

Speaking of which, Wei Gang seems to have really thought about this problem, and he set up the Paris Army Group for this purpose.

But when the commander of the Paris garrison, Pierre. When General Herring came to the headquarters of the army group with the firm belief of shedding the last drop of blood for the republic, he found that this was a bad joke played by Wei Gang and him, and the army group was a complete joke.

And if he wanted to rely on this force to fend off the attack of the powerful German ** team on Paris, it would be a joke of jokes.

No one could rely on this retreating scattered army, which numbered less than 10,000, with only 200 small-caliber anti-tank guns, hundreds of machine guns of various calibers, 30 light tanks, and a demoralized army starved of ammunition to defend a city as large as Paris.

Even if Napoleon could crawl out of the crypt in the basement of Les Invalides and take command himself, it would only make him lie down one more time.

The French Cabinet and the French High Command withdrew from Paris on the same day, abandoning not only the city, but also more than three million Parisians who were still in the dark, two poor French generals and their troops.

The dutiful General Dantz took over the administration of Paris as soon as he was sure that all the government offices had been withdrawn from Paris, but he was immediately buried by documents that came out of nowhere.

The retreat of the French government was so complete that even the mayor of Paris and His Excellency the Inspectorate, including the entire city council, "retreated" with the large force, leaving behind a group of middle-level officials of various municipal departments, as well as insignificant clerks and ordinary officials.

Finally, the group of high-ranking officials did not disclose the news of the abandonment of Paris before running away, which can be regarded as a great favor to General Dantz, otherwise Paris must have fallen into panic and chaos by now.

However, Danz did not intend to hide the news, after all, the news that Paris had become an undefended city must be announced to the outside world as soon as possible, at least the Germans who were drooling and rushing towards it as soon as possible, and the city and her citizens should not suffer unnecessary losses.

Prepared for everything, Dantz announced the news to the world on radio in Paris.

As he had expected, the news caused a certain uproar among the citizens, but under the full control of the Paris Inspectorate, there was no major disturbance.

However, his news was released a little later, and the armored vehicles of the German reconnaissance troops had already appeared on the outskirts of Paris early the next morning, and as a result, those citizens who heard the notice and wanted to flee Paris did not have time to run away, and even some citizens who fled by car overnight were mostly frightened back by the German troops interspersed with high-speed troops.

In the days that followed, Paris was besieged by the Germans, and this siege lasted for two weeks.

However, while the German soldiers were sitting in bunkers with their rifles and boringly counting ants, the city of Paris, which was besieged by them, was not as peaceful as they imagined.

For two weeks, the besieged people staged a series of super-soap operas on the streets of Paris that mixed up all kinds of entertainment material.