Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Prime Minister Reno called the British Prime Minister's Office again. "Mr. Prime Minister..." As soon as he opened his mouth, a feeling of sadness surged into his heart, and he almost cried.

Who would have thought that France, the largest army power in Europe, would be defeated in just a few days?

In fact, various data show that France's reputation as "Europe's No. 1 Army Power" is not unfounded.

In terms of the number of troops, the size of France's conventional troops has always been maintained at around 3 million, surpassing the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and the United States, ranking first in the world. After the war started, France urgently summoned citizens to join the army, quickly expanding the total number of troops to 6.99 million in a very short period of time. This is an astonishing number. After all, the total population of France is only 41 million. This means that almost one in six Frenchmen will be drafted into the army.

In terms of weapons and equipment, France is not inferior to any world military power. Taking the army as an example, the French army is well-equipped, has a high level of mechanization, strong mobility, and has a large number of motorized units. On the eve of World War II, the French army had approximately 5,800 tanks, 14,000 artillery pieces, and 1,562 aircraft on the front line.

Take the navy as an example. The French navy was one of the most modern navies in the world at that time. It was second only to the United Kingdom in Europe and stronger than Germany. Its overall strength ranked fourth in the world. The French Navy has 1 aircraft carrier, 3 battleships, 7 heavy cruisers, 12 light cruisers, more than 50 destroyers of various types, and 101 submarines.

Not only that, France also spent 11 years building an impregnable Maginot Line of defense. This defense line is located in the northeastern border area of ​​France and is built of reinforced concrete. It has various cannons, trenches, fortresses, kitchens, power stations, hospitals, factories, etc. If the German army chooses to use this to make a frontal breakthrough, it will pay a heavy price.

Thinking of this, Prime Minister Reno still couldn't believe that they were about to face the reality of defeat.

This sounds absolutely ridiculous!

"What happened, Your Excellency Prime Minister?" Churchill asked as if he noticed something strange about Prime Minister Reno.

"Mr. Prime Minister." Renault took a deep breath and didn't intend to hide it anymore. He said in a somewhat broken voice. "We may lose this battle!"

"What?!" Churchill was suddenly shocked and asked subconsciously. "You're not drunk, are you?" It's only been a few days since the war began. What does it mean to lose?

"..." Renault sighed deeply. He wanted to drink to relieve his sorrow, but he was worried that the first news when he woke up after being drunk would be that France was completely defeated. He shuddered just thinking about it. How could he dare to get drunk. "Mr. Prime Minister, I am sober now and what I said was not nonsense."

Sober? Churchill felt an ominous premonition in his heart. "Has the counterattack along the Maas River already begun?..."

"Yes, Mr. Prime Minister. It failed. The counterattack failed. German armored units are crossing the river in a steady stream."

"Oh God!" Churchill couldn't sit still now. "I'll go over now! Mr. Prime Minister, let's meet and talk in detail." Putting down the phone, Churchill couldn't wait to order his men to prepare the plane and immediately set off for the airport.

Just as Churchill's special plane took off, in the French town of Montcornet, the vanguard forces of France's De Gaulle and Germany's Guderian, the pioneers of the great lightning warfare theory in modern history, collided.

The German side is a tank reinforcement company with 25 all-Jackal tanks (in addition to accompanying armored grenadiers and several Jaguar anti-aircraft vehicles); the French army is a battalion of armored troops with more than a hundred tanks. Various models are available.

This encounter could have been avoided, but it was discovered that the radio of the German reconnaissance vehicle of the French armored force had malfunctioned. By the time they rushed back to report, the French armored force was not far away from them.

Of course, the German tank soldiers with high morale would not retreat and faced them without hesitation.

Looking at the number of tanks on both sides alone, the German army is definitely at a disadvantage, but in terms of tank performance and personnel combat quality, the German army is a lot higher. This is also what German tank crews rely on to dare to fight.

Seeing the French tanks approaching in the distance, company commander Hans retracted into the car and shouted an order into the radio. "Get ready to fight! The leader is a B1 heavy tank with a length of 30m and a width of 48m. Place it at 500 meters and fire!"

Anyone who has played some tank games knows that as long as the target is pointed at the enemy tank in the game, the system will automatically calculate the distance and adjust the barrel pitch angle. This simplification applies to all tanks, whether they are modern or old. The design means that all tanks are equipped with laser rangefinders and ballistic computers. They are basically modern tanks at their core!

Of course, there are also some more hard-core games, where measuring distance, adjusting pitch angle, and adjusting various parameters require players to do it themselves, so the threshold for getting started is not that high.

People who have played this kind of hard-core game should have some experience with the difficulty of tank operation without modern technology, especially aiming and judging distance.

Tank sights during World War II were divided into non-linked and linked types. The former was relatively outdated, with one more step in the aiming process and took longer to fire. This type of sight was used by the early Soviet army; the German army had The 3rd and 4th began to use more advanced linkage sights, and the Soviet army only started to use them later.

This optical sight gives German tank gunners the biggest advantage: they can calculate the target distance without firing range-finding rounds in advance. All the German gunners have to do in advance is to remember the length and width of the enemy tank, and then they can use the magnification and magnification during war. The length and width of the target are converted to calculate the distance to the target; the first shot can reliably hit the target.

Although it was a head-on battle and there was no need to know the side width of the enemy tank, Hans still reported it out of habit. In fact, he didn't say it, but the other tank crews were already familiar with it; this was also his habit, as if he had an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

"Boom! Boom!" Whether it was nervousness or fear, the French tanks more than a thousand meters away began to stop shooting.

"These idiots." Hans curled his lips disdainfully upon seeing this. According to his understanding, let alone the Soma 35 medium tank, the Renault 35 is a light tank; even the B1 heavy tank has to be close to about 400 meters before it has a chance to penetrate one's own frontal armor. It is showing off to open fire from such a distance now. How many cannonballs do you have?

Sure enough, the opponent fired two rounds without hitting their own side. The most exaggerated impact point of the shells was hundreds of meters away from them! ?

The French seemed to realize that their actions were of no use; they walked forward a few hundred meters, then stopped and fired another round of shells.

"Those things don't last long..." Before he could finish his words, Hans, who was observing the enemy's situation on the periscope, suddenly felt as if he was hit by a speeding train. He hit the steel wall of the tank with a huge impact and vibration.

After shaking my dazed head, I felt a little more awake. ?A stream of heat slowly flowed down his cheek, and a familiar salty feeling appeared at the corner of his mouth. When he touched it with his hand, his palm was full of blood.

"Damn!" Cursing fiercely, Hans called to other crew members. "Is everyone okay?!"

"Oh, it's okay."

"Hey, it hurts!"

"It's okay!"

"damn it!"

Listening to the others' responses, Hans breathed a sigh of relief. Although everyone was in a panic, it was nothing serious. He estimated that the one fired just now was the 75mm howitzer from the opposite B1 heavy tank.

At this time, there was a continuous sound of gunfire all around. Hans hurriedly got close to the periscope and looked to the opposite side. He saw a dozen tanks in the tank group opposite catching fire and exploding! And they are all B1 heavy tanks that pose the greatest threat to them!

"Beautiful!" Hans cheered and ordered. "Everyone reverse the car!"

Following his order, the entire tank company began to shift into reverse gear, slowly retreating backwards, and distanced itself from the French army.