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

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.
 
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
 
One of the most important possibilities this allows is for the French C&C system to catch up to the situation they were in.
 
Wasn't the Maastricht bridge in the Netherlands, and thus politically a bit harder to destroy before the whol invasion thing was well underway?
 
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