Looking back on the history of World War II, France’s time-consuming and labor-intensive construction of the Maginot Line has always been regarded as a big joke. The defense line that was supposed to be impenetrable did not play any role. German soldiers easily bypassed this luxurious line. The defense line then took less than 100 days to occupy France. From this point of view, this defense line is indeed a major mistake, but is it really the case?
After the First World War, in order to enhance its defense capabilities, France did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to build a fortification that was recognized as the strongest at the time. Since it takes time and effort, this line of defense What is it? The defense line is more than 390 kilometers long, and 15 military projects will appear per kilometer. The thickness of the wall once reached 3.5 meters. Not to mention bullets, even ordinary artillery shells are difficult to penetrate. The entire line of defense was organized and constructed by the French Secretary of War Maginot, so it is called the Maginot Line.
The entire Maginot Line deployed a total of 344 powerful artillery, 152 turrets, and 1533 bunkers, covering the entire line. When the enemy is approaching, the scouts discover the enemy's situation through the periscope. After receiving the news, the command center uses the mechanical transmission system to direct the artillery to adjust various angles in 360 degrees to bomb the enemy. A large number of daily necessities are also stored in the defense line, and there are conventional fortifications, such as barbed wire and wooden stakes, on the outermost periphery of the defense line.
France has the strongest army on the European continent, but in the First World War, the unrestricted direct confrontation of the flesh and blood against the German artillery caused France to suffer a big loss. Therefore, after World War I, France The population was drastically reduced, and France began to think about and proposed "uninterrupted linear defense strengthened by fortresses under the cover of field artillery." The Maginot line broke out of the shell, which not only won the support of the French government at the time, but also the people. Very agree.
Although the length of the Maginot Line has reached 390 kilometers, it still does not include Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. So why leave these three loopholes? In fact, during the construction of France, it was deliberately to prevent Germany from entering France from the border again, and to avoid making the French mainland the main battlefield of the war. In fact, during World War II, Germany did not enter France from the French-German border.
After the outbreak of World War II, France thought that the Maginot Line would be able to sit back and relax. The Germans must not dare to attack directly, but the Germans bypassed this line of defense, passed through the Ardennes area, directly entered the French hinterland, and occupied Paris. . So why doesn't France defend the Aden area? In fact, France has long discovered the Ardennes area, and has also taken full precautions and deployed heavy troops. In 1940, the German army began to attack the Ardennes area. The French army, who was waiting for nothing, never expected the German tactics-blitz. German Guderian gave full play to the essence of blitzkrieg, attacking the whole process, without rest and reorganization, and bombarded the French army. The army's defenses in the Ashan district collapsed across the board.
The reason for the failure of France in World War II cannot be said to be the cause of the Maginot Line. On the contrary, this line of defense was really solid at the time, and even Germany did not want to confront it head-on. At the same time, the Maginot Line also forced the Germans to attack Belgium and induced the Germans. Enter the Frenchman's big pocket in the Aden area, but the backward tactics can only be beaten.
