After Major Reiner and Chen Dao looked at each other for more than ten seconds, he gritted his teeth and turned around, shouting to the SS soldiers beside him: "Go back to the car and listen to Colonel Rosen's command." ”

Although Chen Dao belonged to the Air Force and did not belong to the SS system, Major Reiner did not want to challenge the iron laws in the army because of such a trivial matter as a traffic jam.

Major Reiner walked over to his car, a barrel car in third place in the Skeleton Division's convoy, and he gritted his teeth at the thought that today it seemed that he had to take a step back in front of Colonel Rosen and disgrace his men.

Chen Dao saw that the officers and soldiers of the Skeleton Division were returning to the car one after another, turned his head and said angrily to Schumacher and the others: "What are you still standing here for, waiting for me to invite you to smoke?" ”

Seeing Chen Dao's unkind expression, Schumacher and the others immediately dispersed in a hurry and ran to their own vehicles.

Seeing that the drivers on both sides had already taken their places, Chen Dao raised the muzzle of his submachine gun and waved it at the Type 251 armored car led by him, signaling it to retreat, and the Type 251 armored car hurriedly reversed and retreated, leaving the truck that it was holding ontowards.

Chen Dao waved to the Mercedes-Benz truck headed by the skeleton division, and the driver of the truck stepped on the accelerator, and the truck's engine snorted a few times before crossing the intersection.

Chen Dao pointed his gun at the second truck following behind him, forced it to stop, and then waved to the Type 251 armored vehicle at the head of the Ghost Combat Group, signaling it to move forward.

Half a minute later, the Type 251 armored car was on the west side of the intersection.

Chen Dao then stopped the second armored vehicle of the Ghost Strike Group and motioned for the Skeleton Division's truck to pass.

Under Chen Dao's command, the convoys of the two sides staggered through the intersection one by one, and the traffic was reopened.

Major Reiner's barrel car had just pulled over the intersection and stopped on the side of the road, he jumped out of the car and walked behind Chen Dao and shouted, "Colonel Rosen." ”

Chen Dao turned around and looked at Major Reiner suspiciously, and Major Reiner respectfully gave Chen Dao a military salute.

"I'm sorry, Colonel Rosen, I thought you were going to let your people pass first, but now it seems that my heart is too dark, I apologize to you."

Chen Dao stared at Major Reiner and didn't react for a while, but after a few seconds, Chen Dao's face suddenly changed, and he said to Major Reiner: "Major Reiner, how much enmity do I have with you?" You framed me like that? ”

Major Reiner saw Chen Dao's sudden change in face, and his heart suddenly lost his mind, and he said that his behavior had become a frame in the eyes of Colonel Rosen?

Seeing Major Reiner's dazed look, Chen Dao explained: "Look at the surrounding woods, as well as the buildings in the village, maybe there are French snipers hidden in them, do you salute me to tell those snipers that I am an officer and let them fire at me?" You've never been on the battlefield before, have you? ”

Chen Dao said this casually and really asked Major Reiner, Major Reiner was really the first time to go to the battlefield, he heard Chen Dao say this, and found that he really seemed to have made a serious mistake.

"Colonel, I'm sorry, I ・・・・・・" Major Reiner stammered and was speechless for a moment.

Chen Dao couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw Major Reiner's clumsy appearance, he patted Major Reiner's shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, I'm joking with you, with what I did just now, if there were snipers nearby, I would have opened fire a long time ago, how could I wait until you salute me." ”

Major Reiner finally figured out the situation, and couldn't help but smile dumbly, "I still want to thank you, at least I learned how to clear traffic with you, we have clashed with the army people because of rushing for the road on the way here." ”

"Our enemies are the French and the British, and there is no need to get along with our own people."

Chen Dao said that out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Bandit No. 1 was passing by the intersection, so he motioned to Major Reiner to wait for him, and then walked to Bandit No. 1.

When Chen Dao returned to Major Reiner, he already had two more bottles of wine in his hand, "My troops captured a batch of French grenades yesterday, I will give you two now, and you can help me destroy them." ”

Major Reiner was not polite, laughed and took the two bottles of wine, and said to Chen Dao, "I am happy to serve you." ”

After a few more small talks, the convoys on both sides had almost all passed through the intersection.

After saying goodbye to Major Reiner, Chen Dao jumped onto the Bandit No. 1 waiting on the side of the road, sat down in the carriage, and said to Captain Lorenz, "It seems that the Skeleton Division's life is very embarrassing. ”

Captain Lorenz was stunned and said, "Why do you say that? ”

"Don't you see the rifles and machine guns in their hands?" Chen Dao asked.

Captain Lorenz felt a little hot on his face, and it seemed that he had missed some detail.

"They had a ZB26 light machine gun mounted on the car, which means that they were using Czech equipment. And their age, many of the soldiers look like they are over thirty years old, and they are a little older. ”

"The SS was originally the police, and it was not their turn to fight, so of course they could only use some second-rate equipment." Captain Lorenz said.

Chen Dao smiled and was noncommittal to Captain Lorenz's words, after all, Captain Lorenz's words represented the views of the vast majority of the German ** team on the SS.

Chen Dao personally took action to solve the problem of traffic jams, and in the military headquarters of the 19th Panzer Army, with the arrival of General Liszt, Guderian's resignation turmoil finally subsided.

General Liszt brought orders from the commander of Army Group A, Rundstedt, to allow the 19th Panzer Corps to conduct "fire reconnaissance" of the French positions until a new offensive order was received from the Army Command, but the 19th Panzer Corps was not allowed to leave its current position.

General Liszt also enlightened Guderian, saying that Kleist had only stopped the 19th Panzer Corps by carrying out orders from the Army Command, and announced that Guderian would continue to serve as commander of the 19th Panzer Corps.

After some peace and mud, Guderian continued to stay in office, and all units of the 19th Panzer Army also continued to advance south under the banner of fire reconnaissance, but the Herman Goering Regiment, which was originally planned by Guderian to be retained as a reserve of the army, was transformed into a pioneer of the 19th Panzer Army and even Army Group A, running at the forefront of the whole army.

After receiving Mandolfel's latest battle report, Chen Dao learned that the 19th Armored Army had resumed its offensive, and his heart finally calmed down.

Chen Dao's heart was at ease, but Colonel de Gaulle, commander of the Fourth Armored Division of the French Army, was anxious.

Reims is a city in northeastern France, a sub-capital of the Champagne-Ardennes department of Marne and the largest city in the entire Champagne-Ardennes region. Located about 130 kilometers from Paris, the capital of France, the city of Reims is the only way to get to Paris from the Sedan region.

The 4th Panzer Division led by Charles de Gaulle had just moved to Reims today in case of a possible German attack on Paris.

In the French Army's building plan, the formation of the 4th Panzer Division is planned to begin on May 15 and be completed on July 1.

However, the German offensive on the Western Front on 5 May disrupted this plan, and when de Gaulle took office on 6 May, the 4th Panzer Division was an empty shell, with no staff and no troops, as they were converging on the Laon area from all sides.

Because it was not fully formed, the 4th Panzer Division was not sent to block the German breach on the Maas River, and thus escaped a catastrophe and was not besieged by a superior number of German tanks like the other three Panzer Divisions.

Yesterday, de Gaulle received an order to move his defense. Today, de Gaulle led the 4th Panzer Division, which was beginning to take shape, from Laon to Reims, joining the sequence of the 6th Army.

The thought of the German offensive that might strike at any moment made de Gaulle feel his heart twitch.

Only one of the four tank battalions was in place, and the only motorized infantry battalion was missing. The artillery regiment is in place, but the 24 105-mm howitzers on the compilation table have become 75 mm, is it possible that the caliber of the artillery has shrunk because of the sunny and dry weather these days? What the hell are the people in the army command doing, don't they know that the Germans could march on Paris at any moment?

After repeated questioning, de Gaulle finally determined that the three tank battalions would arrive tonight, and the motorized infantry battalion would arrive tomorrow.

Thinking of the predicament that the French ** team is now facing, de Gaulle decided to endure the rogue answer of his superiors, and held back his anger to integrate the troops and prepare for the next big battle.

At eight o'clock that night, the 46th Tank Battalion began to get out of the car at Reims, and when he saw the tall and mighty B1 tanks, de Gaulle felt that his hanging heart began to slowly fall back to its original position.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the train carrying the 2nd and 24th tank battalions also entered Reims, and it was at this time that de Gaulle felt that his hanging heart had completely fallen back into his stomach.

In the early morning of 13 May, De Gaulle, who had arranged the stationing of his subordinate units overnight, was about to seize the time to take a nap when an exciting piece of news cleared his sleepiness.

The 3rd Infantry Division, known as the Iron Division in the British Army, was about to arrive in Reims and defend Paris with them.

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