The Third Reich under Ten Thousand Characters Volume 4: The Sorrow of France Chapter 16: Invasion and Defence

When Xu Yang was in Berlin, the war on the French front became a little fierce. The French army, who had changed to commander-in-chief, began to carry out local resistance in a planned manner, and more French troops were moving closer to each other. The French army, which had lost most of the heavy equipment, drove the remaining tanks to the front line and planned to launch a counterattack in Aras.

Between 16 and 20, the German air superiority was basically paralyzed due to the sudden cold air flow problem of the southward. German reconnaissance planes could not take off under thick fog, and combat aircraft could only stay at the airport and could not move. The army's eyes that lost the sky became slower.

Before this, it can be said that with the existence of the German Air Force, the army can effectively divide the French army, and the surrounding combat maneuvers are surrounded. The German army, which has lost its aerial reconnaissance power, can only send a large number of scouts to explore the enemy's movements in France. Facts have proved that it is quite difficult for scouts to perform reconnaissance tasks in the enemy. With the increasing number of missing people, the German front-line commander urgently hopes that the armed SS can open the front line faster to ensure the consolidation of the results of the war and suppress the rebellious Frenchmen.

The air-conditioning flow suddenly moved south from the Atlantic Ocean to help a large Allied gang. Without the surveillance of German reconnaissance planes, the Allied forces gathered a considerable number of troops quietly. The thick fog will affect the sight of the sky, but it will definitely not have any impact on the land. On May 21, before the thick fog dissipated, the Allied forces had already gathered a large number of troops in Alas. At this time, Guderian's armored vanguard had arrived at the mouth of the Somme River Abvere. Klester

The armored cluster has also reached St. Omer, and Rommel's troops have also reached the designated location. If there is a military map, you can find out from the map: the German army deliberately made a pass to allow the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium, and the French teams through this channel to reach the area near Berg, while St. Omer, Azbrook, and Abvere around Berg are stationed in Germany, and the only direction the Allied forces can lead to is Dunkorke.

The 3rd Armored Division, Division Headquarters.

Rommel and a group of staff were talking in front of the military map at this time. If they heard their conversation, they would definitely be surprised! Because all the attack routes of the Allies had been known by the German army, what the German army was doing was to create an illusion for the Allies on the surface: the German army was very weak at this time, making the Allies believe that they could break through the German defense line and reach the retreating position.

"Our troops generally lack gasoline. If this problem is not solved, our tanks will not be able to move, which will affect the added combat plan."

"His Excellency the Leader has allowed the Second Imperial Division of the SS and the Third Skeleton Division to enter Belgium and is expected to arrive at Newport, the closest seaport to Dunkorke in Belgium tonight. After the attack horn sounds, the two armed SS divisions will attack the remaining Allied forces in Dunkorke from the east. In addition, the Leader sent a telegram: The wolves are already in the sea."

"The artillery of all caliber transported over was assembled. They have entered the position you designated. However... Your Excellency, the commander of the artillery unit, York, is a little confused about the purpose of aiming the muzzle at the coast. He asked you what type of shells should be prepared?"

Rommel was still very monopolizing about looking at military maps. He did not slowly turn around and answer them one by one until all the staff asked. In addition, Rommel did not understand why the Army Command would transport so many artillery, such as the 150 large-caliber artillery, which had a range of only 6.5 kilometers. According to the command of the command, Rommel must open a passage, transport them to designated points to ensure the safety of the artillery, and then intensively bombard the designated points according to the command.

"What's there?" Rommel was also confused. The first thing he wanted to solve was the fuel problem. "There is a French supply area in Armantière's name, from which gasoline can be obtained. Order the First Kahn Armored Regiment to advance to this supply point and leave it to the military police company for defense after occupation. Well..." He pondered for a moment, "After the weather improved, I asked the Second Air Operations Team to drop the gasoline for our early combat for us."

Rommel always felt that the French army would not give up their supply points so easily.

"What? Oh! OK, guarantee to complete the task. Uh... no air support? OK. OK." Ma put down the phone, he took a deep breath, shook the phone again, and waited for the call to be connected. He shouted: "I need an Explore Motorcycle Company!"

Mahan was the commander of this armored regiment, and he was ordered to occupy a nearby French supply point. At this time, his troops were heading to Aler's Road, and his troops were the closest to Armantière. On the flank of the First Armored Regiment was the retreat route of the British Expeditionary Force. The reason why the French supply point was not ordered to explode was because it needed to provide gasoline and corresponding supplies to the retreating Allies.

The First Armored Regiment was the only regiment-level combat unit composed entirely of ii tanks. In the Battle of Ardennes, this unit did not establish any proud record, mainly because the ii tanks were too slow and were always left behind. When they were waiting to participate in the war, all they were left was some remnants of the French army. In the Battle of Symphony, the First Armored Regiment was the last troops entering the city, which made Ma Han a little discouraged, because his tank had not been fired so far.

Mahan walked out of the command vehicle to climb his own tank, his tank was always placed in the front of the sequence, and he was eager to fight: "Start!"

France has good transportation lines, and these highways provide convenient conditions for the German military invasion. The 291 Types of III advance in a long snake formation on the highway. The scene is quite spectacular from the flanks. The turrets of the tank bodies with beautiful lines occasionally make steel friction sounds turn. To the right of the highway is a dense forest. In order to prevent sudden attacks, the turrets of the First Tank Battalion were ordered to aim at the forest and then perform tentative shelling.

After the rumbling sound, the trees were hit by shells, wood chips flew everywhere, and the trees collapsed.

This is also one of the tactics of the German armored division. Without the assistance of reconnaissance aircraft, the purpose of this is to make possible hidden enemies think that the Germans have discovered them, and let the hiding enemies react and fight back to expose their own position. If there is really an enemy hiding and counterattacking, the German tanks will quickly distance themselves and launch an attack on the enemy with their battle formations.

Ma Han stood in the position of the commander and held the telescope in his hands to observe the forest. After three rapid-fire test artillery fires stopped, there was no movement in the destroyed forest. Ma Han immediately ordered: The whole regiment moves forward quickly!

In front of the First Armored Regiment, the motorcycle company sent to assist in the exploration was also moving slowly on the road. This motorcycle company had to do a lot of things. The accompanying combat engineers needed to detect whether the road was buried by the enemy's thunder. Scouts could not stay on motorcycles for a lot of time. These soldiers would do extended exploration and usually need to explore the 5 kilometers range on both sides of the road. This is also the main reason why the command center configured motorcycles for the entire company of the exploration company. A exploration team had three scouts and one car

You can ride a three-wheeled motorcycle with three people. The team leader of the exploration team has a signal-firing gun on his waist. When encountering an enemy, the team leader will fire an alarm signal to notify the company. There is a communication squad in the company. This communication squad will directly report to the combat command center according to the color of the signal flares fired by the exploration team. For example, yellow is encountering a small group of enemy troops. Red is encountering a large group of enemy troops. There is also a pink signal flare, which means; the enemy's armored forces are making breakthroughs! The signal flare command will be changed by the commander at any time.

"Commander, there is a railway line 22 kilometers ahead. Our army's 26th exploration team discovered that there was a French army stationed in the town ahead."

A report from the accompanying combat staff suddenly came from the headphones, which made Ma Hanwei really excited. He ordered the tanks to scatter into the fields and move forward quickly at a distance of 100 meters of combat vehicles.

The only disadvantage of signal guns is that they are too conspicuous. While the exploration team fired yellow signal flares, the French army also began to prepare for war. For the Allies, this railway runs through Azers to Dunkorke and is an extremely important transportation line.

The top French troops did not know why the German army did not destroy this railway line. The only thing they knew was that this railway could send the French troops besieged near the Scarp River to the Weigang defense line under construction in Dunkorke. In order to ensure the safety of this railway line, the Supreme French Command ordered the troops cruising on the Betina railway line to build a formation at the stations of each railway line to defend the safety of the station.

I have to say that this is really a foolish order. When the German army quickly broke through, perhaps they would not care about these small groups. After the German army completed its strategic movement, the French troops stationed in the army would definitely be crushed one by one. Just like now, the French commander stationed in Al was cursing the senior management. While ordering the remaining artillery to be moved to the formation for the soldiers in the infantry battalion, he desperately asked for help from the surrounding troops. To be honest, the French commander has not yet realized that he has sacrificed his life for the country.

There is a small town at this location where the French infantry battalion is stationed. The town is named Bernard, which is also the only station near Al. The soldiers shouted loudly to prepare for war and waved goodbye to the town girls. These town girls would stand at the intersection and look away from the soldiers. The eyes were absolutely reluctant, and more of it was a kind of fear of the arrival of the German army. French romance on the battlefield was definitely a great irony for the soldiers. Almost no one believed that an infantry battalion could block the enemy, but the residents of the town had no choice but to retreat. They could only pray that the German army could occupy the place gently.

The westward direction of Bena Town is a high slope, and further westward direction, the 4th Forward Company of the First Armored Regiment has reached the high slope.

The French troops around the town of Bena are also moving closer to Bena. Within about 15 minutes, the first wave of reinforcements will enter the town to assist in defense. More reinforcements are still on the way, and these French troops are directly ordered by the command headquarters to guard Bena at all costs to ensure the safety of the British Expeditionary Forces of Rube and Lille's retreat route.

Looking down from a high altitude, more than a dozen French groups gathered towards Bernard, and more German troops were also advancing towards Bernard.

The war is about to break out!
Chapter completed!