At eight o'clock on the night of May 15, the gunfire in the city gradually subsided.

Beginning at three o'clock in the afternoon, after four hours of hard fighting, the 1st Corps of the Skeleton Division, reinforced by the anti-tank battalion and the reconnaissance battalion, was able to control the situation in the city, and it took another hour for the 1st Corps to completely occupy this small town called Sypp, located 30 kilometers southeast of Reims.

No. 44 Wutong Street in the northern district of the city of Sypp is a four-storey spired church where Colonel Max Simon, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the Skeleton Division, has set up his regimental headquarters.

Major Reiner reported to Colonel Simon that the anti-tank battalion had been assembled in the east of the city and was ready to continue its march early tomorrow morning, and then dragged his tired body back to the temporary battalion headquarters in the east of the city.

Major Reiner's temporary battalion headquarters was in a hospital on the east side of the city's East Square, and at the gate of the first floor of the hospital, Major Reiner's orderly Freman saw Major Reiner's straddle motorcycle parked at the entrance of the hospital, and hurriedly hurried forward to meet him.

Following Major Reiner into the hospital gate, Freman said quickly, "Your quarters are in the second room on the right hand side of the staircase on the third floor, which used to be the doctor's duty room, and it was a single room. I've prepared dinner for you, and it's not cold yet. ”

Glancing at the duty room, which was about a dozen square meters, with a single bed, a set of tables, chairs, and a cabinet, Major Reiner nodded in satisfaction.

"Remember to wake me up at seven o'clock tomorrow morning." Major Reiner gave Freman an order and sent him away.

Major Reiner unfastened his belt and hung it on the hook of his coat behind the door, pinched his waist with both hands and moved his waist, which had been tightly choked for a day, and then sat down in his chair.

Picking up the bottle of Dutch gin on the table, Major Reiner poured himself a glass. Smelling the fragrant and enticing aroma of the wine in the glass, Major Reiner couldn't help but think of Colonel Rosen, who jokingly called this bottle of wine a "French grenade".

Soon after breaking up with Colonel Rosen, Major Reiner became annoyed, he was so bad at being a man, a colonel did not rely on his military rank to suppress people, but pulled down his value to make a cameo appearance in the traffic police to clear traffic, and then took the initiative to give himself two bottles of wine.

But what about yourself? He and Colonel Rosen only met for the first time, and they only said thank you and accepted each other's gifts, but now in retrospect, their actions were too rude, and by the time they reacted that they should give back the gifts, Colonel Rosen's troops had already disappeared, and it was too late to remedy them.

It seems that he has been with his father-in-law for a long time, and he has also been influenced by his father-in-law who can't be a person, and his level in dealing with people is getting worse and worse.

The Skeleton Division made enemies on all sides because his father-in-law and division commander could not be a man, and he was not even treated well in the SS system, let alone in the Wehrmacht.

Fortunately, his father-in-law, the division commander, has now come to his senses, and he is determined to make the Skeleton Division the third fully motorized unit of the Waffen-SS, like the LAH Motorized Infantry Regiment and the SS Special Mobile Division, provided that the Skeleton Division performs well in the French campaign and fights a few good battles.

My father-in-law not only conveyed the spirit of indignation and hard work to every subordinate, but he also practiced it himself, and he himself accidentally bumped into him on two or three occasions and secretly practiced the art of commanding troops with wargames.

Thinking of his performance in the city of Supp today, Major Reiner couldn't help but feel complacent, and said in his heart that he personally rushed to the front line twice today, and together with his subordinates, he used anti-tank guns to kill several firing points of the French army under the machine gun fire of the French army, and it can also be called a war, right?

In the German ** team, being able to fight and being a man is the two qualities necessary for a good soldier, and he has now achieved the first one, and the second one must be done quickly, and if he has the opportunity to meet that Colonel Rosen in the future, he must repay his gift, and he must not let him, nor let the people of the Air Force think that our Guards are very rude.

But then again, Colonel Rosen's troops were so well equipped that he couldn't even be jealous, and look at the thick and long guns on the Air Force tanks, which were at least 75 mm caliber. If you look at the short and thin 37mm anti-aircraft guns of your own troops, you are embarrassed to say that they are used to fight tanks.

And those Type 251 armored vehicles, you say that you Air Force people don't fly planes, what tanks and armored vehicles do you drive? How nice would it be if those equipment were given to us? After all, we are the real Marine Army. With those armored vehicles, at least one battalion of infantry in the Skeleton Division would no longer have to travel on bicycles.

Major Reiner was eating and drinking while thinking wildly, and he had eaten a meal for half an hour, and drank a third of the bottles of wine.

After eating, Major Reiner took out a white handkerchief and wiped his mouth, then took off his coat and plunged into bed.

After walking for most of the day and fighting for more than four hours, Major Reiner was so tired that he didn't even have time to cover the quilt before falling asleep.

I don't know how long I dreamed, and in his sleep Major Reiner heard the faint sound of cannons, Freman's shouts, and not only that, but he also saw Freman's big hands clutching his shoulders and shaking desperately.

"What do you want to do? Still won't let me sleep? Major Reiner shouted to Freman in his sleep.

"Major, hurry up, the French are attacking." Freman shouted as he shook Major Reiner's shoulder.

"What time is it?" Reiner asked.

"It's six, three・・・・・・ seven, it's time to get up." The anxious Freman saw that his commander was already asleep, and with a twist of his tongue, he swallowed back the six thirty points that had reached his mouth, and changed it to seven o'clock.

Hearing that it was already "seven o'clock", Major Reiner gradually woke up from his half-asleep and half-awake.

Rubbing his somewhat sore head, Major Reiner wondered if he had drunk too much last night, gin was a famous liquor, and he had unknowingly drunk a third of the bottle, which was really too much.

Freman saw that Reiner's eyelids were drooping and his energy was sluggish, and he thought that Reiner had not come to his senses, so he immediately poured him a bottle of "sobering medicine".

"The French are attacking, you have to get up quickly and command the battle."

"The French attacked? Where is it? Freman's powerful "sobering potion" did its job, and Major Reiner immediately came to his senses.

"I don't know, you listen to the sound of artillery outside." Freman said, pointing to the window of the duty room.

Major Reiner hurriedly pricked up his ears, and sure enough, he heard a continuous stream of explosions.

The door was pushed open with a "clang", and Reiner's adjutant, Second Lieutenant Kamp, hurriedly entered, "Colonel Simon has ordered us to send a company to the west of the city to support the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 1st Regiment, they are under the heaviest artillery bombardment, and the French are likely to launch the main attack from there. ”

Reiner jumped up from the bed and shouted, "You go and assemble the second company first, let them go to the west of the city, and I will be there immediately." ”

Second Lieutenant Camp hurriedly delivered the order, and Reiner, under Freman's service, hurriedly put on his military uniform and walked to the first floor while wearing his belt.

Before Reiner could reach the first floor, Ensign Kemp hurried upstairs and collided with Reiner.

"The division commanded that we should send a company to the north in the town of Somerpita to support the 2nd Regiment."

The town of Somerpita is ten kilometers north of the city of Sypp, and they are also under attack? What was the scale of this attack by the French? Reiner guessed as he ordered the trifecta to assemble and go to Sommerpita.

No sooner had Reiner reached the command room on the first floor when he received a third order, Colonel Simon asking him to send another anti-tank company to support the 3rd Infantry Battalion west of the city.

The French must have a lot of tanks in the west of the city, otherwise Colonel Simon would not have sent two anti-tank companies there, Reiner immediately made a judgment.

"Kamp, you stay here, Freman comes with me, and we'll go west of the city with the company to see what the French tanks look like?" Reiner shouted.

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