After blockading Leiden, the Dutch sent just three men to recapture several strategic bridges near Warkenburg. @@@ .. When reinforcements arrived, the Dutch were clearing the Wehrmacht on the ground, while Dutch bombers arrived to destroy the landed transport. Although the Wehrmacht tried to establish a defensive line around the airfield, they were eventually forced to evacuate. The battle to liberate the occupied villages lasted several hours, but the Dutch army eventually prevailed over the Wehrmacht.

By the end of June 10 (the first day of fighting), the Dutch army had recaptured all previously occupied airfields.

German Army Group A was progressing smoothly, which made Li Mo breathe a sigh of relief, because the Seventh Army led by Li Mo was just outside the Ardennes Forest, and as long as the German army successfully took the Netherlands and Belgium, it could completely relieve Li Mo's worries.

At this time, Rommel had been dropped to Army Group A as deputy commander-in-chief, and the command of the Seventh Army was first in charge of Limer

The German Seventh Army commanded by Limer also launched a full-scale offensive on the morning of 10 June, and the Seventh Army faced Luxembourg, Luxembourg's military strength was negligible to that of Germany, and the entire population of Luxembourg was 300,000, and the regular army was only one division.

Luxembourg was located in the Ardennes Mountains, a vast and sparsely populated area, and the Seventh Army did not commit any crimes, and the inhabitants of Luxembourg did not feel that this was war, when the Seventh Army's rolling armored torrent passed by a certain village in Luxembourg, the men, women and children of that village would run to both sides of the road to look. You must know that Luxembourg is also a country with many boys and girls, and those girls who are waiting for the boudoir will chase after those young and handsome Seventh Army when they see them and give them their tokens.

This is a war, and it will become a blind date for those leftover women in Luxembourg, and Li Mo has never ordered that he is not allowed to fall in love on the next battlefield, if the two are really interesting, they will leave contact information.

On the afternoon of the twelfth, the Seventh Army arrived in the capital of Luxembourg. Luxembourg simply announced its surrender. And Li Mo actually did not accept their surrender, which is strange, Li Mo actually did not accept Luxembourg's surrender.

Limer's meaning is simple, Luxembourg did not declare war and enter war at all. It is not a hostile country between Germany and the EU. So there is no question of surrender or non-surrender at all. The Seventh Army's visit to Luxembourg this time was just a military exercise conducted by the two sides in order to increase their friendship with each other.

Li Mo can be regarded as saving Luxembourg's face and not letting them bear the shame of defeat and surrender. Luxembourg is also very interesting, and announced its accession to the European Union on three afternoons of the same day, and Luxembourg can be regarded as understanding that the Anglo-French alliance commander betrayed its allies, and it was simply a pig-like alliance leader. Now the EU is mighty, and the Anglo-French army is the tail of the rabbit - it can't grow.

From the German border to the northern French city of Sedan, a distance of 150 kilometers, the Seventh Army of Li Mo, except for mechanized troops, all the rest participated in the road construction army. (The Seventh Army had only two corps, including the 7th Panzer Army and the 3rd Airborne Army, which was at the rear airfields and did not follow the actions of the specialist troops.) ）

Of course, there is a reason why Li Mo is not in a hurry, the supply of tens of thousands of troops and tanks is not a joke, the replenishment must be guaranteed first, so that the troops can play a better offensive, about this Li Mo's subordinates also agreed, when Li Bismarck asked Li Mo to repair road machinery, Li Mo did not hesitate and tried his best to allocate it to Bismarck.

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For the remaining 70 kilometers, Li Mo walked another day, and on the afternoon of June 12, Li Mo's vanguard army reached the opposite side of Sedang City, this division was Li Mo's ace Seventh Armored Division, and the other two newly formed armored divisions were much behind. (There are only three armored divisions under the 7th Panzer Army, which are the 5th, 6th, and 7th Panzer Divisions)

Bismarck, the deputy commander of the 7th Armored Division of the Seventh Army, who arrived opposite Sedan and drank water from the Maas River in France, has been thinking about fighting for the honor of his armored division all the time since he became the deputy division commander.

Now the opportunity came, Bismarck with his own armored division, over the Ardennes slope Kankan, after a lot of hardships, and finally arrived at the opposite side of Sedan earlier than the other troops, but unfortunately Bismarck's armored troops were blocked by the French Maas River, Bismarck's armored division also had a bridge troops, a division of bridges of the bridge, can not be assumed to be a pontoon bridge across the Maas River, Bismarck has no choice but to send a telegram to ask Li Mo to urgently dispatch the bridge troops.

The French Second and French Ninth Armies, which were deployed near Sedan, were mostly composed of reserve units of Class A or B, that is, second-rate and current troops. And Li Mo's armored corps was almost aimed at the junction of the two armies. Later generations suspected that Germany was well aware of the French deployment plans. In fact, that was the reason why Li Mo had long been familiar with history.

According to the plan of the commander-in-chief of the British army in the north, the French Ninth Army, which was north of the French Second Army, would use its combined forces with the French Second Army as the original to turn forward to occupy the line of the Metz River south of Namor in Belgian territory, and this plan of action would require the French French Ninth Army to advance more than 70 kilometers. And the frontage occupied by the French Ninth Army in France will reach 80 km.

In fact, this is only the air distance, and in practice, considering the bend of the Metz River, it is much more than 80 kilometers. The French Ninth Army consisted of nine and a half divisions, including two light cavalry divisions, which would form a cover curtain in front of the French Ninth Army in order to delay a possible surprise attack by the Germans and buy time for the infantry divisions behind to occupy positions. The forces used by General Clapp's French Ninth Army to occupy the line of defense on the Mes River consisted of 7 infantry divisions. (At that time, the width of the defense of 1 infantry division was only 10 kilometers)

Of these seven divisions, there are only two regular divisions, the 5th Motorized Division and the 4th North African Division. There are also two A-class reserve divisions, the 18th and 22nd Divisions (2% officers, 7% non-commissioned officers, and 2% enlisted men), and the other two B-class reserve divisions, 61st and 5th Divisions (almost all of which are reservists). The remaining division, the 10th Second Fortress Division, had very few transports. Eight kilometres downstream of Sedang on the Mes River was the junction of the French Ninth Army and the French Second Army, which had only two infantry corps, and a cavalry cover like the French Ninth Army. According to Gammelin's plan, the French Second Army would remain in place. (To be continued.) )