Volume 4 of the Third Reich under Ten Thousand Characters: The Sorrow of France Chapter 39: Prelude Three

The closer they get to the front line, the more ruins there are. Among these ruins, the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle are extremely eye-catching. Their bodies are buried in mounds and their limbs are exposed, as if telling a tragic battle story..com Under the flames of steel wreckage, it is like a torture in ancient Egypt; the bodies of the burned tank crew members have strange twists, their muscles are cracked, and their black bones are stuck to some strange oil tissue, mixed with the smell of gasoline and the burning sour smell of steel emit an indescribable but disgusting smell.

Soldiers may never know what the general is thinking. Their duty is to obey the orders of the commanders and fight bloody battles. On the contrary, the general may know what the soldiers are thinking, but in many cases, the general cannot pay attention to the soldiers' ideas. All the persons can do is to constantly arrange the soldiers' destinations according to the most reasonable commands calculated.

The transformation of temperament is a very subtle process. No matter whether you are willing or not, even if a person is so cheerful or intelligent before, once he walks from the bottom to the center of power, that person's mentality will definitely change.

Xu Yang had already walked out of the command car. He was standing on the body of a Type III tank and watching everything around him by the fire. For a long time, Xu Yang always buried his true feelings in the deepest part of his heart. He was walking on a road of no return, either fighting with support or dead.

Victory? There is no victory for the time being. The Third German Empire has no way to go. No one who knows the truth hopes that the world will see Germany rise again. The top military leaders understand the situation and they are happy to win local victory. They are always worried that the situation will develop in a bad direction, so they are becoming more and more cautious. The blitzkrieg itself is very obvious that Germany cannot experience a war of attrition. This is a major breakthrough in world military history. It also shows that Germany's sorrow is too few. If it wants to achieve a real victory, it may take a long time to go.

In the war years, civilians were the most vulnerable group and they could not resist. Because they had no way to resist when facing an efficient massacre army. Roads, ruins, everything they could do, the faces of civilians, men, women, young and old, left their faces before death, which was a helpless fear.

In a certain way, the French are not as good as the German army. The French are shouting slogans for France, exploiting them unscrupulously, asking for all the materials that French civilians can deprive them, and then showing their incompetence. These people, who should have been protected by the French, not only did not receive any protection from the French, but even more so, they also had to face the French.

Who did the French civilians confide in? Are the Germans? No! They now do not believe in anyone, and have become a group of helpless and pitiful people who have lost their faith, blindly searching for a place to settle in the war zone. They cannot settle in any place. The main traffic routes are either blown up by the French or occupied by the Germans. All they can do is wait for the trial of the new occupier, the Germans.

"His Excellency Leader, Major General Rommel's troops are 1 km ahead. Will they go to meet them?"

The French retreated very quickly, and their engineers kept destroying the road, causing great trouble to the German army that relied on mechanical marching. Some bridges on the road were also blown up. Because the French army left the necessary broken rear troops to interfere with the German engineers, the overall progress seemed very slow. Sometimes it was even necessary to clear all the French troops in an area so that the German engineers could have a way to continue their operations.

Xu Yang turned his head and looked at the commander of the No. J111 crawling from the inside of the tank, nodded slowly. He approached the radio of the commander and ordered directly: "The whole army is in an echelon formation! The vanguard raid troops continue to follow the French. Pay attention to keeping a distance from the French army. The troops in the rear stopped 1 kilometer in front for a short rest and urged the engineers to hurry up!"

Xu Yang's mood became a little annoyed. The destruction of the road ahead meant that his large army and the vanguard troops could no longer meet quickly. He was worried that the French army would be able to retaliate, and the situation of the vanguard troops might be very dangerous at that time. The vanguard troops only had a small number of tanks, and the others were armored personnel carriers, and there was not enough firepower to deal with the French tank cluster. However, the vanguard troops were ordered to retreat, and he needed the vanguard troops to continuously report the deployment of the French army.

Never ask why the air reconnaissance planes are not allowed to go to surveillance. The French chose the many sections of the forest as the retreat route. In the forest section, there were many blind spots in the air reconnaissance, and it was impossible to clearly monitor the movements of the French army. The air reconnaissance planes could only report the French's march route to the command center in detail, and it was impossible to determine whether the French had any lightning buried during the retreat or set up ambush.

There is also a more troublesome point. The French troops are no longer the defeated army that lost all their heavy weapons and equipment to escape, but are fighting under the command of a British major general with avant-garde thought. This troops not only supplemented many tanks, but also strengthened air defense equipment. It turns out that reconnaissance missions are not easy for reconnaissance aircraft to carry out reconnaissance missions in units with air defense equipment. In many cases, the pilots of reconnaissance aircraft need to rely on their own flight experience to avoid the French army equipped with air defense guns on the outer wings, which has also had a certain impact. The view of the forest section is originally poor. In addition, it is night, and the reconnaissance aircraft that conduct reconnaissance missions in the distance can only vaguely see the French troops marching. Whether they have made any small moves is unknown.

Xu Yang came to the headquarters of the Third Armored Division and learned about the specific situation from Rommel. The French knew from the civilians that the German army was changing defenses and launched a sudden attack. It seemed that they were not trying to open the traffic lines between north and south of France, but to carry out the combat mode of the first army. You should know that the combat mode of an army has certain rules, such as the combat mode of which section is good at, the firepower configuration of the participating sequence, the effectiveness of the armored forces of the participating troops, etc.

The war is not something that will end in one day or two, and it may happen at any time. The reason why the Allies failed was that on the one hand, the fatal mistakes in strategic deployment were made. On the other hand, not many people noticed it, but it really existed: after the German army was defeated in World War I, the world's impression of him was limited to the combat mode of World War I, and almost no countries knew the German operation mode and its firepower configuration. The Allies were unfamiliar with the German army, and the German army was the active attacking side. All the Allies who took the defensive attitude could do was to rush to fill in the loopholes. Almost no officer really thought about how to explore the combat mode of the German army, which also led to the collapse of the Allies like dominoes.

As the war time was delayed, the French army had recovered a little, that is, a little bit of vitality. The chaos in the high-level internal France caused the generals in front to not know how to take action, even Wei Gang, the commander-in-chief of the French Army. Wei Gang is very wronged now. The troops he can squander is less. There is a saying that war is just a continuation of politics. What Wei Gang is doing now is to strive to create favorable negotiation conditions for France, use troops to block the German army, and increase the bargaining chips for domestic politicians. From this point of view, the French are just struggling.

So, did the British admit that they were defeated? No! Her local area has not suffered any losses yet. In addition to the necessary sea blockade, the German army seemed to temporarily forget the British Isles. The negative emotions of the islanders were completely aroused. While roaring that they were ignored, they tried hard to prepare for the war, and then planned the so-called action in the dark, intending to make France and Germany lose both sides as much as possible. Before that, she might have rescued her troops first, so she desperately encouraged the French authorities regardless of the situation. She just yelled clearly: In order to save the trapped British people, the French will die! Attract the German army's attention and then die!

"Report that the road ahead has been repaired. Are you ordering the troops to continue moving forward?"

Xu Yang and Rommel looked at the sudden sound of the sound, and then looked down at the watch at the same time. The time displayed on the surface was 22:39.

Xu Yang nodded slowly and asked, "Your opinion is to gather the troops and launch a general attack in the early morning?"

Rommel's expression was exhausted. Even if the general was like this, there was no need to mention the soldiers at the bottom. Besides, Rommel has always been a commander who was very polite to the lower-level combatants, so he suggested that the troops should rest first and wait for dawn before launching an attack.

After receiving a positive answer, Xu Yang ordered the school: "The vanguard troops retreated and met with the headquarters. Send multiple reconnaissance companies to monitor the movements of the French army, and then stop."

This order is absolutely correct. After a long period of combat and marching, the soldiers of the 15th Army felt exhausted physically and mentally. There would be some unnecessary losses in combat at night, and it was not certain whether the French army had set up an ambush. It was very unwise to launch an attack at this time. The most important point was that Xu Yang had learned that the French army had built a temporary defense line near Montreui. The French army's intention of doing this was very obvious, which means that the French army could no longer retreat. Should they retreat into the sea to feed the fish? So there is no hurry.
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