Why did the 600,000 Belgian army in World War II stop the German army for 18 days?

It is because these soldiers have been resisting stubbornly, the gap between the forces of the two sides is very large, the number of Belgian equipment is seriously insufficient, the 600,000 army has only 42 light tanks, and it has not received the equipment support of the allies, so it is difficult to give full play to the greatest advantage in the course of the war, Germany took the initiative to attack, and then outflanked Belgium, so it chose to surrender after 18 days.

The Belgian army of 600,000 stopped the German army for 18 days basically by relying on a large number of people, and the Belgian army had a small number of equipment, resulting in the surrender of the well-equipped German army after only 18 days.

This is because Belgium has received support from other countries, and has also received assistance from other countries, which have provided him with a lot of troops and supplies, so that he can hold out for so many days.

A total of 13 million German troops (quoted from the Soviet Union in "The Great Patriotic War") participated in the war, and about 4 million were killed.

The total size of the army is maintained at about 5 million men. But the number of troops on each of the eastern and western fronts, which you asked, cannot be answered. The German army was in the habit of moving to the Eastern Front (before 1944) after a unit had been formed on the home or in East Prussia, and was withdrawn to the mainland or the Western Front after heavy losses or a large-scale rearmament.

As a result, by 1944, a large number of field troops had been transferred to the Western Front for recuperation.

After 1943, due to the large-scale landings of Allied forces in Sicily and Normandy one after another, a large number of troops originally organized on the Eastern Front were transferred to the Western Front, and some of the troops that had been resting on the Western Front were replenished to the Eastern Front.

A week after the Normandy landings, the ratio of forces on the East-West Front was about 9:1On the eve of the Ardennes counterattack, it reached 6:4, and then dropped sharply to 8:2. It should be said that since the start of the war against the Soviet Union in 41, this change of guard and the movement of troops have not stopped.

Before the Norman-land landings in mid-1944, Army Group B, which faced Britain to the north of France and the coast of the Netherlands, had 32 infantry divisions, as well as 7 armored divisions and 2 paratrooper divisions

South of the Royale in southern France, facing Army Group G in the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean, there were 13 infantry divisions, as well as 3 armored divisions ...

The total strength of the above two armies was 45 infantry divisions, 10 armored divisions and 2 paratrooper divisions, with a total strength of 57 divisions, but more than 1 4 of them had just been broken down from the Eastern Front and reorganized, many of them were about the same as empty shells, plus almost all the divisions, except for a few SS troops, almost all of them were seriously shortaged, and it is estimated that the total strength of these two armies at that time was only about 800,000 men, and before the start of the landing battle, there were still 250,000 of them to be used"workers", responsible for strengthening the fortifications of the Great Wall of the Atlantic, until the landing, the entire defense line was not completed by 40 percent...

In June 1944, all the 2.8 million German troops on the Eastern Front were transferred to Italy and the Western Front, 800,000 to Italy, and 430,000 Italian German troops were combined into one unit, totaling more than 1.2 million German troops, enough to drive 1.3 million Anglo-American troops into the sea. 2 million to the Western Front, and 760,000 German troops on the Western Front were combined into one unit, a total of 2.8 million German troops, enough for 2.87 million Anglo-American troops to go ashore!

The total investment on the Western Front was also in the millions, and about 900,000 were deployed on the Western Front at the same time in the latter part of World War II.

The total investment on the Eastern Front totaled tens of millions, and the German army on the front line was generally maintained at a scale of 3 million to 4 million for adoption.

Germany committed more than 3 million troops in 170 divisions on the Eastern Front. In just half a year of the battle, 5.5 million Soviet troops were captured. That's enough for a million people. Germany committed about 2.5 million troops in 143 divisions on the Western Front.

The German army in World War II can be said to be terrifying, their combat methods are very cruel, and the equipment is also very advanced, so there are no five times the number of troops to avoid them as much as possible, and do not go head-to-head with them.

During World War II, the German army was a very elite force, and the equipment was also the most advanced, and the war was very bloody and violent, which made other countries very afraid, and they did not have enough troops to dare to go to war with them.

On the morning of May 15, 1940, news of the surrender of the Dutch army reached Belgium. At 5 p.m., the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces, Gammelin, ordered the Anglo-French forces to quickly withdraw from Belgium. On 16 May, the Anglo-French forces began to withdraw from Belgium.

Under these circumstances, the Belgian army had no choice but to abandon the existing positions on the Antwerp-Namur-line and hastily retreat to the unprepared ambush positions in the rear. Soon, the new line of defense of the Belgian army was broken through by the Germans. On 17 May, the Germans occupied Brussels.

It's true. German bai

With the blitzkrieg method, the specific situation is within 27 days.

He conquered Poland, conquered Denmark in 1 day, conquered Norway in 23 days, conquered the Netherlands in 5 days, conquered Belgium in 18 days, and conquered France, known as the "strongest army in Europe", in 39 days.

Blitzkrieg: It was a tactic first and often used by the German army during World War II, which was to make a quick and bold attack on the enemy's rear regardless of the danger of being exposed by the armored forces and air supremacy. It makes full use of the quick advantage of planes and tanks to defeat the enemy by surprise attack.

It often first uses planes to violently bomb the enemy's important strategic facilities, the communications center, and then bombs the enemy's planes at airfields, gaining air supremacy, and paralyzing the enemy's command system. Then use a massive tank cluster to quickly charge and completely destroy the enemy's positions that are confused by air force bombardment.

Blitzkrieg is to combine surprise attacks and quick attacks to strike the enemy like lightning. It can demoralize the enemy under a sudden threat, so that it will collapse immediately at the first massive blow.

It's true.

What is even more bizarre is that Denmark was occupied in only half a day.

Do you know, do you know de Gaulle, he wrote a book about how the Panzer Army fought and how to advance quickly before World War II, but unfortunately it was favored by the German generals, and as a result, France was gone in 39 days.

It's true, he also said that he would solve the Soviet Union in 3 months, and as a result, he didn't fight until he died.

Of course it's true. Napoleon was the originator of the blitzkrieg, while Hitler took the blitzkrieg to the extreme. Except for the mistake of the "Sea Lion Project", otherwise history will be rewritten.