The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"Why wouldn't they?" Rundstedt asked: "Give me a reason. What I need is a realistic reason, not something like you believe in them, or you are their instructor!"

"Of course, Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief!" Qin Chuan said, "What I said is a realistic reason!"

After sorting out his thoughts, Qin Chuan replied: "First of all, we can't do this. Even if the French regiment did, as you said, cooperate with the French inside and outside and raised their guns at us, we can't do it now!"

"What?" Rommel was confused when he heard this: "You mean, we surrendered to them?"

Rundstedt smiled and said nothing, seeming to say that Qin Chuan's words were not worth refuting.

"No, Marshal!" Qin Chuan replied: "This is based on the overall strategic environment. We support not only the French regiment, but also the Egyptian resistance organization, the Greek resistance organization, as well as Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, etc. , in addition to Italy, Finland and other slave countries, the French regiment has been loyal to Germany at least so far and has made numerous meritorious deeds. If we just find an excuse to annihilate the French regiment, then these resistance organizations supported by us will. What do you think of Germany? What does the Servant Congress think of Germany?”

Rundstedt and Rommel were speechless. They obviously had not thought of this level.

"They will think that Germany is just using them, Marshal!" Qin Chuan said: "They will think that we are burning bridges across the river. Since we do this to the French regiment, of course we will do the same to them, and a chain reaction will form. Affect the trust of all resistance groups in Germany!"

Rommel nodded silently in agreement, and even persuaded Rundstedt: "What the Lieutenant Colonel said makes sense. Unless we can prove with evidence that the French regiment will be detrimental to us, we cannot act rashly!"

"Is there any other reason?" asked Rundstedt.

"Of course!" Qin Chuan replied: "We can give them freedom, real freedom, Marshal, but this is something the British and Americans cannot give them!"

"You're crazy, Lieutenant Colonel!" Rundstedt looked at Qin Chuan with wide eyes and said, "You mean...let them be autonomous?"

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief!" Qin Chuan replied.

"What good does this do to us?" Rommel asked: "If there is no one to command them and control them, why can't they surrender to the Allies?"

"They won't do this!" Qin Chuan replied: "On the one hand, as I said before, they are the targets of liquidation. On the other hand, de Gaulle disbanded and incorporated guerrilla organizations with the support of Britain and the United States. This means "If they surrender to the Allied forces, their troops will be reorganized, their officers will be disbanded as civilians, and then they will be arrested and liquidated!"

"Even so!" Rommel said: "We may have one more enemy, and it will be an enemy trained by us personally!"

"You're right!" Qin Chuan replied: "But if this enemy has a common enemy with us... they hope to gain real freedom from Britain and the United States instead of being a puppet controlled by Britain and the United States like the de Gaulle government. , then they must rely on our strength. In other words, they have the same interests as us. It is not difficult to guess what will happen next. There will be a civil war in France. Marshal, we do not need to fight the enemy ourselves. , Let the enemy fight among themselves, this is good for us, why not do this? "

Rommel and Rundstedt were stunned when they heard this.

Although they are battle-hardened marshals, they are not good at this kind of political method of provoking internal conflicts in enemy countries. In their minds, they think more about tanks, artillery, and airplanes, and then conquering the enemy. Who would have thought that war could still be fought like this.

"This is ridiculous, Lieutenant Colonel!" Rundstedt said: "You are playing with fire. If you are not careful, we will send a very powerful force to the enemy!"

"What's the difference?" Qin Chuan asked back: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, our defense line is from the Alps to the 'Maginot' line and then to the Ardennes area. Except for the Ardennes area, there are some differences. In other locations... there are more and fewer enemies, and the combat power is stronger and weaker. Is there any difference? "

What Qinchuan said is that what the Alps need are mountain troops.

As mentioned before, fighting in the plains and fighting in the mountains are completely different things. A unit that seems to be very effective in the plains will quickly turn into a worm once it reaches the mountains, especially the high-altitude mountains.

Not to mention the Maginot Line. The people hiding in the defense line were all new soldiers, but they could still use machine guns and cannons to easily knock down those elite troops in front of the bunker fortifications.

The Ardennes area is jungle warfare, but it is not conducive to the deployment of Allied troops, so there is really not much difference between more and fewer Allied troops.

"This is a small gain!" Rommel added: "We are taking a relatively small risk, but if we can succeed, we can gain great benefits!"

"Yes, Your Majesty Marshal!" Qin Chuan said: "And this also has a strong demonstration effect. As mentioned before, resistance organizations such as Egypt, Libya, and Greece are all staring at us. Allowing the French army to achieve real autonomy, whether or not it is allowed, will make them believe that we can give them freedom instead of colonizing them again after retaking their land like the British and American countries did, so they will be more biased Instead of reaching some degree of compromise with the Allies!"

"Can we succeed?" Rundstedt said with some doubt: "After all, France has always regarded Germany as an invader and exploiter!"

"I don't think this is a problem, Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief!" Rommel said: "The reason is that we didn't have a fierce conflict with France before. You know, France surrendered in just over a month. Instead, Britain fought several naval battles with them. The French hate the British, which is one of the reasons why the French doubted the de Gaulle regime. As for the Americans, they can be said to be unscrupulous after entering France. Now there is a rumor in France that "Americans are worse than Germans!"

"Yes!" An adjutant interrupted: "Some people also said "The Germans left, and we were occupied by the Americans again!"

"I think the lieutenant colonel is right!" Rommel said: "We can use this to intensify the contradictions between them, and we... just need to hold this line of defense, and we can watch them perform in front of us!"