Section 346 Saving Private Bertlan
The three battle groups at the level of the reinforced company have been wandering for most of the day, and the exchange of fire has passed 100 times, and although the casualties of the opposing side are very large, the casualties on the side of the armored company have also begun to appear, and those who have been overturned by the opponent's artillery, those who have been blown up by the opponent's grenades * shells, those who poked out their heads and shot were hit by the enemy's rifle and machine guns, and even an armored transport vehicle was blown up by the opposing soldiers holding a mine. At present, the three armored clusters have broken through separately under the contact of the radio station, although the Germans have strong troops, but there is no preset artillery position, and if you want to fight with the armored cluster, I am afraid that you will only be abused.
The armored clusters with one percent of the casualties were each looking for a ferry to return to the French line, and the fourth and fifth companies of the infantry led by Brigadier General Zhu Yunjie had already broken away from the queue and moved towards the artillery positions on the side of the canal, and then covered the retreat of the artillery. The first armored company and the cluster headquarters are all six-wheeled armored assault vehicles, and there is nothing to say about the defense and mobility, and it is a matter of course to use them to break the rear, and after calling for air support and beating the Germans of a cavalry battalion in pursuit, the two companies of Zhu Yunjie turned their heads and turned to the south, anyway, when the Germans moved over to intercept them, they would already be dozens of kilometers away.
While sorting out his own loss report and starting to record his experience in this battle, Zhu Yunjie realized that the military knowledge he had eaten in the year of the Zaolin Military Academy was actually prepared for this epic war. Whether it was the tactics, equipment, or command of the German army or the Entente, it was simply a standard hypothetical enemy that had been analyzed countless times in the lecture hall. With such an education, he may not have the experience of a French commander, but with a lot of plans in hand, the tactics against the Germans are more advantageous than the rigid French.
Now, with the exception of its own small detachment, the entire battle group has completely withdrawn from its position, and the Germans have not only failed to reach the east bank of the canal in these two days and nights, but have also lost no less than one division, and with the loss of artillery and other technical weapons, the strength of the Third Army has dropped considerably, not to mention the low morale. If it weren't for the fact that the French army had no strength to spare and counterattacked now, it would have been said whether the Third Army could hold the starting position.
The casualties of 15 armored vehicles and 115 fighters were exchanged for the two days and two nights of the German army's more than 80,000 people, and the German army was annihilated no less than 50 times. Of course, there is also the credit of the air force brothers, every time the German army gathered troops or mobilized artillery to encircle and annihilate them, the air support never disappointed them, the German defense line was beaten again and again without any resistance, and then their own armored forces quickly broke through, carried forward the speed of wheeled vehicles, coupled with the advantage of communication, so that he easily commanded the company, so the entire blocking battle was completed in a one-way transparent situation, and it is not surprising why the other side always made a bad move. It seems that the German army has tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of cannons, but the other side does not have much advantage in the unit area of the dispersed unit, on the contrary, the defense and mobility of the armored forces and the power of rapid-fire weapons allow the Wehrmacht with a small number of people to instantly output more and stronger firepower than the other side. Moreover, there is no constraint of fixed targets, a miss can be thousands of miles away, free choice of target and timing, and then there is good contact and cooperation, the German army seems to have more people and more guns, but it is always broken by the Wehrmacht's piecemeal blows, so that the German army suffers a dumb loss.
If the Chinese National Defense Force is also a pure infantry unit, with the same level of equipment as the volunteers in the Korean War, then this kind of blocking war, the Chinese side has no better choice than to choose favorable terrain and concentrate all its forces to defend it to the death, but Zhu Yunjie's Juque battle group is not, they use the tactics of wolves, they can use the width of the battlefield to gather and scatter, and they can fight and withdraw when they want, this kind of flexibility is the realm that all soldiers expect, and the Germans are forgivable.
Zhu Yunjie, who was thinking about it, suddenly heard the order of the distant division from the radio, he quickly took the headset handed over by the radio soldier, and recorded while listening, and after a while, he took off the headset and was stunned for a moment before giving instructions to the staff officers in the same car: "Turn to the northeast, we have a new mission." ”
"Huh?" The staff officers, who thought they were going to return directly to the West Bank, were taken aback: "There is still a mission?" What kind of task? Boss"
"Save Private Fowler."
“?” The staff officers looked dazed: "Who is Fowler?" Could it be Clemenceau's illegitimate son? It deserves an armored battle group and a brigadier general to risk his life to save. ”
It sounds like a fantasy that a soldier can safely hide in enemy headquarters for four years without being detected, but in France, it really happened, and it happened in a small village 25 kilometers away from them.
As the First World War entered its second year, the Anglo-French forces were defeated by the powerful German offensive, and the German army drove straight into France. At that time, in the village of Bertlan in northern France, there was a widow named Melmont Gobe, whose husband died on the battlefield against the German army, and her two children were also killed in the war. On January 15, 1915, she was passing through a wooded area when she spotted a wounded British soldier. The soldier told her. His name was Fowler, and his unit was scattered by the Germans, and he took refuge here. Melmontgobe realized that the Germans would soon arrive here, and she did not hesitate to take Fowler home and hide it. Unexpectedly, after the Germans occupied the village, they actually set up the headquarters of the Front Army in her home. From then on, Melmont Gobe hid Fowler under the noses of the Germans, and launched a long and difficult battle with the Germans to protect Fowler.
There is a storage cabinet in Melmont Gobe's bedroom, about 1.5 meters high and wide, there is a partition in it, which divides the cabinet into two parts, the right side is divided into several compartments for small items, and the left side is for hanging clothes, without a compartment. Melmont Gobe placed Fowler in the space on the left, the only place where her family could hide people. She dug a small semi-circular hole in the cabinet door for Fowler to breathe in, and also used it to deliver food in case of emergency. Because Melmontgobe's bedroom was frequented by Germans during the day, Fowler could only sit motionless in the cupboard, and only in the dead of night could he climb out of the closet and stretch. Melmont Gobe was busy with Fowler's food while healing Fowler's wounds. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the Germans, she often deliberately left the right cabinet door ajar.
Sure enough, her calmness did not arouse the suspicion of the Germans for a long time, and there was only one dangerous incident in between. Once, a German major saw that the left door of the cabinet had never been opened, and was curious to see what was inside. So, taking advantage of Melmongobe's inattention, he took the key in his hand and walked towards the cabinet. Melmontgobe looked back and saw this scene and couldn't help but be surprised. In a hurry, she strode ahead of the German major, quickly took down a silver-framed photo from the top of the cabinet, held it tightly in her arms, and panted and said: "This is the only photo of my daughter, and no one can take it away!" The German major had no intention of seizing the photo, and did not even notice that there was a photograph on the top of the cabinet, so he hurriedly comforted her, saying that he would never take her photo, and gave up the idea of opening the cabinet.
In fact, the whole matter was not so secret, and Melmont Gobey's hiding of British soldiers gradually became known to some villagers, but none of them told the Germans - although a considerable bounty was paid for informing. Instead, they take turns feeding Fowler, which strengthens Melmontgobey's determination to hide Fowler to the end.
Originally, from the discovery of Fowler in the woods in January 1915 to the withdrawal of German troops from the village of Patolan in October 1918, Fowler hid in the cabinet for 3 years and 9 months, which cannot but be said to be a miracle.
After the war, Melmont Gobey's deeds spread far and wide, and the British and French governments took it very seriously, and they praised her for her courageous spirit, awarding her an honorary knighthood and a large prize. Fowler's commander of the British army also made a silver plaque engraved with Melmont Gobe's story of hiding British soldiers, and personally came to her door and hung it in her room. Today, Melmontgobey's village is a French tourist destination, and the chest where she hid Fowler is the most famous attraction in the village.
Today, however, the process was greatly shortened, because Boss Wu suddenly remembered the legendary story of the soldier and the widow (it seems to be a bit ambiguous), and sent a telegram to the Yuan Si on a whim, hoping that they would wait for an opportunity to save the soldier, although he had been safe for almost a year. The original plan was to use the plane to land outside the village, cooperate with a squad of special forces to sneak attack the opponent's command organ, and then get on the plane and run after saving people. But what they didn't expect was that Zhu Yunjie and they were actually on the periphery of Bertlan Village, and found this situation on the map, according to the boss's instructions, the staff officers of the Yuan Division felt that the success rate of directly using armored forces to carry out an assault, and then saving people was more reliable than a dozen planes parachuting into the enemy-occupied area, so Brigadier General Zhu Yunjie led thirty-two chariots to start his journey to save Private Fowler.
The German troops, who had lost the movement of the other side, did not notice the turn of the Chinese troops at first, but thought that the other side must have returned to the West Bank after completing the blocking mission, but no one expected that the other side would go the opposite way and insert diagonally into the hinterland of the German army.
The soldiers of the headquarters of the Bavarian Musket Regiment were stunned as they watched the armored convoy rolling in the distance spitting tongues of fire, fighting and stationing, and the regimental headquarters in this village had been beaten and scattered.
When Fowler was carried out of the cabinet by two soldiers of the expeditionary force, and saw Melmont Gobe who was stopped by the soldiers, Fowler shouted very manly, "I hid in it, and she didn't know it." Let her go, you're going to get me. ”
In the midst of the laughter, Fowler was confused, and when he was stuffed into the car by a group of Asians in flower uniforms, he realized that he was really going to get out of the sea of suffering. God forbid, Amen!