WI The 'Bridges' - May '40 are destroyed?

[merlin]

Suppose that the bridges of Maastricht and Sedan, that were attacked by the RAF and French air Force, with little or no effect OTL; were destroyed by RAF - Maastricht & French - Sedan.
What are the likely consequences?

Delay of the Belgian surrender?

Time for French reinforcements to seal the breech at Sedan?

Or just a temporary delay, while engineers construct a new and/or alternative crossings are used. But does the temporary delay create butterflies elsewhere?

Thoughts please.

[Astrodragon]

Originally Posted by merlin

Suppose that the bridges of Maastricht and Sedan, that were attacked by the RAF and French air Force, with little or no effect OTL; were destroyed by RAF - Maastricht & French - Sedan.
What are the likely consequences?

Delay of the Belgian surrender?

Time for French reinforcements to seal the breech at Sedan?

Or just a temporary delay, while engineers construct a new and/or alternative crossings are used. But does the temporary delay create butterflies elsewhere?

Thoughts please.

It would only be a temporaty delay, the German plan cant just assume all the bridges they need will stay up!
Howveer, it certainly would butterfly. First, there will be a delay while temporary bridges are put up. Second, traffic will almost ceratinly be more restriced across them.
It might give time for the planned Anglo-French counterattack to cut off the armoured spearhead, with disastrous effects on the Germans

[Alratan]

One of the most important possibilities this allows is for the French C&C system to catch up to the situation they were in.

[Theodoric]

Wasn't the Maastricht bridge in the Netherlands, and thus politically a bit harder to destroy before the whol invasion thing was well underway?