Three Hundred and Seventy Nine Paris

"My God, I heard they will enter Paris today?" A citizen turned pale with fright, staring at his mouth and asked his companions: "I heard that these Germans are all demons."

"I don't know. People in the army say that they are all sick and consumptive ghosts who have been hungry for ten years." His companion shrugged and replied, "But I don't really believe this statement. If our Wan Dajun was killed by a group of sick and consumptive ghosts It is really ridiculous if it is killed."

"I heard that they will rape women, rob property, and kill all men, and throw them into the wilderness to feed their captive dogs." Not far away, a nobleman asked his subordinates: "Have you heard clearly? Are these real or fake?"

In the morning of this day, German troops had already entered Paris, but these reconnaissance troops did not stay long. They drove armored vehicles whizzing past the edge of the city, looked at the Parisian buildings with closed doors, and continued southward with a sneer. The search for the French troops went.

While the French citizens were commenting on the German invaders, these dusty German reconnaissance soldiers who hadn't bathed for a week were also laughing at their opponents: "This group of French people are really shameful, and they dare not open their doors anywhere." He got away with one shot."

"Yes!" The commander on the armored reconnaissance vehicle nodded, and then said: "As long as they dare to shoot, Yuan will let the Air Force drop at least 00 bombs on them. By then, you will not be able to find Paris. Because it's just a ruin. If it were, you'd miss it even more because you'd have to clean up the ruins of Paris for at least 20 days."

The city hadn't been this empty in a long time, and a full quarter of the 3 million French citizens of Paris escaped before the German troops moved south and approached Paris. Now these people are crowded on the various roads, mixing with the fleeing French troops, making the traffic in the whole area very congested.

And these hordes of people crowded the roads provided the Luftwaffe with the best targets. The German Air Force dispatched 2,000 sorties of -217 bombers and 5,000 sorties of Stukas in one go, causing tens of thousands of heavy casualties to civilians and French troops retreating south.

Subsequently, the dull sound of military drums shocked the whole of Paris, and the real German troops entering the city finally showed their faces. A foreign reporter stood on the street, looking in horror at these German soldiers who were described as monsters by the previous newspapers, and a strange thought came to his mind.

The first troops to enter Paris, France, were all riding tall horses, and the rumble of horseshoes could be heard clearly even a mile away. forward.

The resolute and deep eyes looked extremely cold under the helmets, grenades and map bags were hung on the tactical vests, and all kinds of small items such as grenades and map bags were hung on their backs, and they were all carrying firearms of different lengths on their backs. These German soldiers did not squint, riding through the city on horseback,

However, the number is a bit alarming, continuous back and forth, it seems that there are 10,000 people.

"When this group of cold-blooded German cavalry walked by, the Parisians would not be surprised even if they saw the marching team of robots. In fact, only peasant boys from Bavaria and Austria came over, riding fat A strong war horse with a length of several kilometers.” An American reporter described what he saw.

Because of the propaganda of the French government, some Parisians imagined the German soldiers as a rock-solid, cold-blooded army. Not "human".

Now these Parisians have finally seen their feared enemy, and when they tremblingly put their heads out of the window, or bravely took to the streets, the cavalry on the tall horses were almost gone, so these Parisians saw There were German artillery units riding horses, pulling 105mm caliber field guns and 75mm caliber field guns.

Before they were surprised by what they saw, groups of German trucks followed, and behind these trucks were all 150mm cannons produced by Krupp. In 1916, Krupp's cannons failed to allow Germany to attack the urban area of ​​Paris, but now another weapon "tank" produced by Krupp has allowed the Germans to pull the Krupp cannons onto the streets of Paris .

Some French believed the image of malnourished Germans portrayed by French propaganda, who were starved by a harsh wartime economy, who did not have enough food, starved and emaciated, and became the dictator Acador? A poor sacrifice in the hands of Rudolph.

But when these French saw the healthy face on the German's face, they really eliminated a lot of hostility. "Our newspaper actually said that these German soldiers haven't eaten for ten years..." A French woman stared at the German soldiers. As enemies, these soldiers walked briskly and neatly, their leather boots hitting the ground and making a creaking sound. sound. They walked in front of the French and looked at the French residents curiously.

"Look at these handsome soldiers! They are all good guys!" A French girl sighed. Then the people around her reminded her in a low voice: "Hey! Calm down! Our dead children, what do they look like?"

Immediately following the mechanized artillery into the city came Germany's war ace, the formidable tank force. These Leopard tanks were full of bullet marks, and the German armored soldiers with blackened collars leaned on the open hatch on the turret, looking at the beautiful scenes around them with a smile on their faces.

I have to say that Paris is a great city full of artistic atmosphere. Every plant and tree here seems to have the style of an artist. This kind of refreshing atmosphere is rarely seen by German soldiers who came here. Yes, so they looked around curiously like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

The tank engine roared, and on both sides were scouts and signal soldiers on motorcycles. They stopped from time to time to divert the crowd, and kept the French citizens who were approaching more and more boldly away from the dangerous German war machine. For fear of unnecessary accidents, the armored troops behind were even notified to load the assault rifles equipped in the tanks with magazines.

One after another Panther tanks rumbled past the Arc de Triomphe, and the German armored soldiers sang their battle songs, and the songs echoed over Paris, wave after wave. A French citizen watched the national flag near his home being quietly lowered and replaced by a black swastika flag with a white circle on a red background and sobbed sadly.

Because most of the armored units were thrown to the front line to do what they should do, there were not many German tank units passing through the city this time, and most of them were not the main force, so the Panther tanks only passed by a few times. After the first phalanx, the No. 3 tanks from other armored forces followed.

The performance of these tanks is actually not backward, but because of the brilliance of the Leopard tank, these "tests" produced in advance to accumulate tank production experience seem a bit old-fashioned. However, as the main force of the German second-line armored forces, the No. 3 tank was given more combat missions because of its low cost and easier production.

The troops following the No. 3 tank were a bit surprising.

The first is the low and ugly No. 3 assault gun. These small tanks without turrets are infantry support weapons. They belong to infantry self-propelled close support tasks or are used as mechanized artillery. Most of them are equipped with short-barreled 75mm artillery. tube 75mm gun, or replaced with a larger caliber 105mm short-barreled gun.

If these assault guns are considered neat, the messy and chaotic equipment behind them really made the French a little dumbfounded. One phalanx was modified from the tank destroyer of the Czech 38t tank, and the other phalanx was modified from the 40mm of the No. 2 tank. Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, followed by the improved 40mm caliber anti-aircraft guns of the No. 3 tank chassis, and then the mixed No. 2 tank modified 150mm self-propelled howitzers, No. tank destroyer...

The German Propaganda Department, who originally wanted to hold a grand city entry ceremony, ignored Yuan's sexuality and Guderian's sexuality as a front-line commander. It can be said that both teachers and friends belong to the kind of people who don't like to pretend A realist, they prefer to operate one thing efficiently, as for other aspects - if there is no, there is no, and if there is, it is better.

So the grand city entry ceremony was not carried out, but instead some front-line combat troops entered Paris directly, then passed through the city and continued to attack France southward. Some troops look clean because they are all cavalry troops who caught up later, while the real combat troops are all dusty and dirty, and they look like a bunch of sloppy little ones.

Some of the Panzergrenadiers who followed behind even had blood on their bodies, and many of them entered Paris with injuries, because they couldn't bear to give up the highest honor of the Germans who were the first to attack Paris. These men carried rifles, and some had gauze wrapped around their foreheads. Although they did not look menacing, they were definitely not friendly.

They roared past in trucks and armored vehicles, with the joy of capturing Paris on their faces, and drove towards their new combat goal. In their eyes, France had already been defeated, there was no doubt about it.

Just when the German army was continuously crossing Paris, in the headquarters of Army Group A, the two commanders of the armored forces who came by helicopter, Guderian and Rommel, who are collectively known as the twins of the empire, were promoted to the rank of admiral of the empire , was ordered to organize the new Panzer Army L (Rommel's Army) and G (Guderian's Army) two legions.

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