In the northwest of the village of Rongseri, on the position of the 7th Royal Field Artillery Regiment, Chen Dao stood in front of the high-cocked muzzle of a captured 25-pounder howitzer, and without looking back, he stretched out his hand to Sergeant Beethoven beside him, and Sergeant Beethoven felt for an M24 long-handled grenade and put it in his hand.

In front of seven or eight captured British gunners, Chen Dao sneered and stuffed the explosive part of the grenade into the barrel, and then pulled the fuse on the wooden handle to push the grenade in.

Chen Dao and the others had just hid on the other side of the cannon shield when they heard a muffled sound like a fart, Chen Dao poked his head out from behind the cannon shield and saw an irregular opening on the barrel thirty or forty centimeters away from the muzzle, and the white smoke emitted when the grenade exploded floated around the barrel.

Chen Dao and Rommel took the position of the 7th Royal Artillery Regiment without much effort, and when they saw the German tanks and armored vehicles rushing towards them like fierce gods, the British gunners were caught off guard and did not even have time to escape, let alone the slightest courage to resist, and scrambled to raise their hands as prisoners.

Because they were behind enemy lines, Chen Dao and Rommel had no way to take the 24 captured 25-pounder guns with them, so they had to destroy them all.

Chen Dao led people to destroy the artillery here, and Rommel was not idle. He held a cosmic cigarette given to him by Chen Dao, and watched with several of his subordinates as a No. 4 tank repeatedly made forward and reverse movements, crushing captured machine guns, rifles and other small arms piled on the ground into a pile of parts.

The two worked closely together to destroy all the weapons of the 7th Royal Artillery Regiment and met again to discuss what to do with the prisoners in front of them.

Bringing a few hundred prisoners would definitely affect the follow-up battle, but they couldn't kill them all, so after some discussion, the two decided to take only the officers and non-commissioned officers among the prisoners away, and the ordinary gunners would stay there and leave them to fend for themselves.

The two singled out eight captured Bedford trucks to load the captured officers and non-commissioned officers, while the rest of the trucks were reduced to scrap metal in a burst of ping-pong gunfire.

Eight trucks of British troops were carrying. Chen Dao and Rommel's convoy set off again, and after crossing a large area of cultivated land, they drove onto the road leading to Reims from the village of Joncheri. Cut off the retreat of the 3rd Infantry Division to the west.

Chen Dao's Bandit No. 1 had just hit the road, and Captain Lorenz pointed to the west side of the road and shouted, "Colonel." Look over there. ”

Chen Dao looked west and saw a truck speeding west seven or eight hundred meters away from the road.

Chen Dao immediately shouted: "Give him a shot, you can't let him run away like this." ”

Bandit One hurriedly turned and aimed its head at the truck to the west, which had already driven more than a thousand meters and was about to disappear, Captain Lorenz hurriedly aimed and opened fire.

Chen Dao used his binoculars to see a flash of fire erupt from the right front of the truck, which seemed to be frightened. Make a drift on the highway and it disappears.

"Missed, let him escape." Captain Lorenz said regretfully.

"It's okay, he's lucky." Chen Dao said.

On the road to the village of Joncheri, Chen Dao and Rommel spotted two other artillery regiments of the 3rd Infantry Division, both of which were set up not far from the south side of the road, perhaps to facilitate the passage of supplies by road. Although they disguised themselves in positions with camouflage nets and branches, they were discovered by passing Germans.

After taking out the two artillery regiments in turn and destroying the captured weapons, Rommel had a new idea about the handling of prisoners of war.

Driving the captured officers and non-commissioned officers elsewhere, Rommel stood on a tank No. 4. Condescendingly, he shouted to the British gunners who were standing loosely in a group: "You have been captured by the 7th Panzer Division of the German Army, and I do not want to march with you, nor do I want to kill you all." So I decided to give you a chance to escape. Now I order you to run east along this road at once, you have three minutes to run for your life, and after three minutes anyone exposed to my vision will be machine-gunned. ”

Rommel waited for the interpreter to finish translating his words, raised his wrist and looked at his watch and said, "Now start the three-minute countdown, ready, start." ”

As a result, nothing happened, and the British gunners just stood there and watched Rommel in a daze.

Chen Dao stood aside and looked at Rommel who was a little embarrassed, snickering in his heart, those British prisoners didn't know that they were scared stupid. I still feel that Rommel, who is not tall and not fierce enough, lacks deterrence, in short, it is too faceless to give Lao Long. It seems that the wicked have to be done by Ben Bandit.

Chen Dao jumped onto the No. 4 tank with a box gun, raised his hand and swept at the British prisoners. The bullet hit the foot of the British prisoner in the front row. The captives jumped around in terror and turned around and fled into the crowd.

Little by little, the bullets fell into the crowd of captives, who retreated in panic before swarming onto the road and scrambling in the direction of the village of Rongcheri to the east.

"Your style is really simple and rude, but I like it." Rommel looked at Chen Dao and said.

Chen Dao replaced the box cannon with a new magazine, and calmly said to Rommel: "Your style is also very special, are you not afraid that they will leak our whereabouts to the British in Juncheri Village?" ”

"Our whereabouts have long been exposed, and instead of wasting their time here, we should use them to create panic among the enemy." Rommel said.

"Did you hear what they were shouting as they fled?" Chen Dao asked.

"It seems to be a word like the devil, and after today, you will definitely be a devilish image in their minds." Rommel quipped.

Chen Dao smiled at Rommel "hehe", looking at the strange expression on Chen Dao's face, Rommel felt a chill rise from his spine involuntarily.

"General Rommel, I would like to remind you that you made a small mistake when you introduced yourself. You only said that they were prisoners of the 7th Panzer Division, and they would definitely think of me as an unknown colonel in the 7th Panzer Division. When they returned, they would only say to their comrades that a colonel of the 7th Panzer Division had forced them to play an escape game at gunpoint, not that a Luftwaffe colonel had coerced them. As for whether that devil's title falls on my head or on the head of the 7th Panzer Division, I can only hehe. Chen Dao smiled at Rommel again.

Rommel stared at Chen Dao and blinked his eyes and was silent for more than ten seconds, then changed the subject and said, "When the time of three minutes is up, we should set off to pursue them." ”

Five minutes later, when Chen Dao and Rommel led their troops from the west to approach the village of Rongseri, the headquarters of the 3rd Infantry Division was already more chaotic than the vegetable market on the high ground north of the village.

Officers and soldiers scrambled to nearby vehicles, climbed onto them, and drove away with one foot on the accelerator.

The gunners of the two artillery regiments, who were released by Chen Dao and Rommel, still transmitted the panic to the survivors of the 3rd Infantry Division, and in the portrayal of those gunners, the troops of the two battalions led by Chen Dao and Rommel became a whole division, and it was also an armored division.

The British gunners told the story of how the Seventh Panzer Division used bullets to intimidate them into playing escape games, and the slow ones immediately treated them with machine guns, and these fueling descriptions further contributed to the spread of panic among the British army, and also pinned the name of the devil on the head of the Seventh Panzer Division.

By the time Chen Dao and Rommel's troops arrived on the heights north of the village of Juncheri, most of the British troops had fled by car to the area under the jurisdiction of the 21st Infantry Division of the South French Army, and there were only about 100 wounded on the high ground, who had been abandoned because of lack of space in their vehicles, and a dozen or so medical personnel who had volunteered to stay behind to take care of them.

Bandit No. 1 rushed to the high ground with a gust of wind, Chen Dao jumped out of the car, grabbed a major and asked, "Where did Montgomery flee?" Did you flee to the south? ”

The major medic looked at Chen Dao expressionlessly, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, and then he said sadly: "General Montgomery has died. ”

"How did he die, and where is the body?" Chen Dao asked in surprise.

"Over there," the major medic led Chen Dao to the site of the collapse, "your bombers blew up the bunker at the division headquarters, and General Montgomery and many officers were buried alive in it, so long has passed, and now even if he is dug up, there is no chance of survival." ”

Chen Dao's eyes swept over the live burial site, and saw the logs scattered in the soil, as well as shovels that were thrown all over the ground, and even a corpse that had only been dug up with the upper half of his body, and believed in the words of the British ** doctor.

"What are you going to do? Dig him out? Rommel walked up to Chen Dao at some point, looked at the scene of the live burial and asked.

"Forget it, I don't have a bad habit of appreciating corpses." Chen Dao replied.

The British ** doctor standing on the side did not look at Chen Dao and Rommel, but quietly pricked up his ears, and when he heard Chen Dao say that he didn't want to exhume Montgomery's body, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then plucked up the courage to say to Chen Dao in German: "Mr. Colonel, can I make a tombstone for General Montgomery here." ”

Chen Dao and Rommel stared at the British ** doctor together, and their eyes unabashedly showed appreciation.

"Of course you can, you see that there is no truck behind, the car is full of people from your artillery regiment, you go find a few people to help you." Chen Dao said.

"Thank you." The British ** doctor said.

"Wait." Rommel suddenly stopped the British ** doctor who turned around to leave, "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Walter. Watson. ”

"You're a man of courage, Dr. Watson." Rommel said sincerely.

"Thanks for the compliment, General." Dr. Watson nodded his head in thanks, still expressionless, and then turned away in style.

The moment he turned around, Dr. Watson reached out and touched his chest, which was already wet with sweat:

It seems that the Germans will not pursue the brothers who fled south, and they themselves are not taking a risk in vain, as for the rest of their prisoner of war career? I can only obey God's arrangement. (To be continued)