On June 9, just fourteen days after the Battle of France began.

The British began to carry forward their usual style of conduct - selling off their allies. The commander of the British Expeditionary Force General Hegel did not inform the French 6th Army that fought side by side, and ordered the British army to retreat from the Alas line.

The French army commanded by General Fayol stubbornly blocked the attack of the German 3rd and 7th Army on the Somme. Because these two German regiments suffered huge losses in the just-concluded Battle of Aras, they had no time to replenish and restore and then devoted themselves to the battle. Therefore, the attack was weak and they were unable to break through the French defensive positions.

Due to the wrong judgment of the direction of the British retreat, the armored troops of the German and Austro-Hungarian vanguards did not advance along the Seine River to the seaside after bypassing the defense line outside Paris, but turned their target to Amiens in the north. Unlike the hopelessly hopeless line of the Maas River and the eastern Somme River, the French troops defending the Oates River and Aras are well preserved, and the entire defense line has been persisted and has not been broken by the German army.

The Austro-Hungarian 39th Army led by Lieutenant General Miller and the vanguard of the German 9th Army met on the banks of the Oates River in the east of Carlisle to prepare to cross the Oates River. However, the French reserve army group commanded by General Fuxi had already built a solid defense line along the Oates River. The German-Austrian coalition's strong attack did not achieve results, but suffered heavy losses.

The problem now is that the Supreme Command is not sure about the target of the attack. The Germans advocated the capture of besieged Paris first, while the Austrians hoped to give priority to the elimination of the enemy's mobile corps and temporarily abandon Paris. This caused the inconsistency of the offensive and wasted time on the dispute between senior generals of both sides. Due to insufficient troops, the German and Austrian coalition forces were unable to break through the French River Oise defense line.

On the west bank of the Oise River, the French army built strict field fortifications with their terrain. The two sides were engaged in fierce artillery battles across the river bank. The French artillery positions were hidden in some villages or woods, and it was difficult to be destroyed. By the time the main force of the Austrian 7th Army arrived at the front line of the Oise River, the two sides had been confronting along the river bank for a week.

It was precisely because of this week that nearly 700,000 British troops had successfully retreated across the Seine and began to retreat to the Kotantan Peninsula. General Fayol cursed the treacherous British troops, and retreated while fighting and retreating across the Somme, and joined forces with Fuxi's troops.

General Fuxi received Milner and Churchill from England in the headquarters of Amiens with a blue face. He was very angry at the British's actions of fleeing without a fight. However, what made him even more angry was that the politicians who controlled the government were invincible. It was their internal struggle that France was in an unscathing desperate situation today. If they had chosen him, Betton or Casteno to take over as commander-in-chief of the French army when they were removed from the post of Commander-in-Chief Xiafei, they would not have been in the current situation.

Now he faces a choice whether to lead more than 600,000 people under his command to retreat to the Cotton Peninsula, and then retreat to Britain to continue to resist, or wait for surrender.

After weighing the pros and consciences for a long time, Fuxi still made up his mind to retreat to England first.

In this way, France may also preserve the power to fight for rights and interests on the front line in the post-war period.

Without further ado, Fuxi issued an order to retreat overnight.

The Austro-Hungarian Army's general attack only started at dawn on June 17. It was dawn and the river bank was still filled with morning mist. The artillery began, and the French artillery immediately began to fight back. In an instant, the entire banks of the Oates River were shrouded in smoke and artillery fire. Fuxi left all his artillery troops, but only four divisions of infantry defended the river bank. The French did not hesitate to spend hundreds of thousands of artillery shells in one day. Such fierce artillery fire made the Austro-Hungarian troops ready to attack unable to get to the river bank at all.

That night, the French threw down all their heavy equipment and artillery and fled in the middle of the night.

The next day, the Austro-Hungarian army encountered only a slight resistance and easily crossed the Oise River. However, they found the wrong direction and the forefront troops pursued Amiens, while Fuxi's main troops retreated from Rouen to south of the Seine River. On June 19, the Austro-Hungarian army successfully captured Amiens. Under the reconnaissance of the air force, they realized that the main force of the British and French coalition forces was retreating to the Kotantan Peninsula.

After retreating across the Seine, the British and French blew up all the bridges on the river, which greatly delayed the speed of the Austrian army's advance. Moreover, the Austro-Hungarian side was not able to catch up, so General Coves had to advance carefully to avoid being surrounded by the counterattack of the British and French coalition forces.

Under the personal supervision of Lee Haydn, Rudendolf reluctantly transferred the 3rd and 9th armies to join the Austro-Hungarian side's pursuit of the British and French forces.

The British and French coalition forces have built solid fortifications along the Orn River. Since June 21, the Battle of Cottontan started, the world's most densely packed troops. Due to the special terrain of the peninsula and the British still controlling the sea, the offensive forces could not spread on such narrow terrain. The two sides fought a tug-of-war here for two months.

On the Cotton Peninsula, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Allies were able to calmly transport more than one million people back to Britain. During the two-month Battle of Cotton, the attacking German and Austrian coalition forces and the defensive British and French coalition forces suffered heavy losses, with the German and Austrian casualties reaching 280,000 casualties, and the British and French coalition forces also suffered 220,000 casualties.

This was the only major battle between the German casualties in the entire European War that exceeded those between Britain and France.

The British side promoted the battle as a big victory, but Germany and Austria forced attacks to prevent the peninsula area, and there is nothing to say about the losses higher than their opponents.

Britain was determined to continue fighting the Allies, but now he is obviously unable to pose a threat to the mainland for the time being.

The French government hurriedly evacuated Paris before the German and Austrian coalition forces siege, and the cabinet went bankrupt. They established a temporary government headed by Clermontseau in Bordeaux. However, it was useless.

The Supreme Command of Germany and Austria issued an ultimatum to the Paris defenders, demanding that they surrender by June 25.

In order to avoid the entire city being destroyed by war, General Betan declared Paris an unguarded city on the afternoon of June 24, and 500,000 defenders laid down their weapons. The German Crown Prince led the 8th Army into Paris, and Austro-Hungary only symbolically sent an infantry regiment.

On the day when the German army occupied Paris, the Clemente government requested arbitrage negotiations to Germany and Austria through neutral Spain.

France surrendered.
Chapter completed!