Wait, that tank has two guns on it, is it the B1 tank that repeatedly told the whole division to be on high alert in the telegram sent by the division commander a few days ago? It should be that.

Lieutenant Winter's suspicion was quickly confirmed, and the French B1 tanks rushed to the east embankment of the ditch with impunity, and fired at the German tanks on the west bank of the ditch through the ditch to cover the withdrawal of the French infantry.

A dozen Type 38T tanks, outflanked from the right flank of the French army, were the first to suffer the catastrophe.

Lieutenant Winter could clearly see that the Type 38T tankers were turning their heads to face the east bank of the ditch, firing across the ditch at the B1 tanks, which looked so formidable as they looked formidable, and that the two tanks were less than a hundred meters away from each other.

Even at such a close distance, the German Type 38T tank failed to penetrate the B1 tank, and all the 37mm shells fired by the Type 38T tank were bounced off by the front armor of the B1 tank.

The 38T tank, which was closest to the French tank, saw that it could not penetrate the front armor of the enemy tank, and immediately began to reverse to get out of the battlefield, but it only exited less than 50 meters before it was hit and stopped, and the tankers inside opened the hatch and fled in a hurry, but were swept to the ground by bullets fired from behind.

The other Type 38T tanks also fought and retreated when they saw that the situation was not good, but the distance between the two sides was too close, and they were destroyed one by one by the ditch in less than ten minutes, and the more than 50 tankmen who survived @◇ abandoned their vehicles and escaped in embarrassment.

The French B1 tank took out the German tank on the side of the ditch, and then turned its target to the German tank on the top of the dirt slope, and the German tank standing on the top of the dirt slope saw that it could not penetrate the enemy's armor. They didn't do useless resistance. Immediately reversed and retreated behind the dirt slope to take refuge.

Oops. They're crossing the bridge! Lieutenant Winter saw that three or four huge B1 tanks had already driven to the side of the stone bridge and were ready to cross the bridge, and one of the tank tracks led by him had already pressed against the stone bridge. Behind them, three or four hundred French infantry swarmed in, apparently reinforcements that had just arrived. To add insult to injury, behind those French infantry, there were more French tanks moving in the direction of the ditch.

What to do? The tanks of the XXV Panzer Regiment were clearly no match for the French tanks, and the French infantry were far outnumbered by themselves, and once they were allowed to cross the bridge, it was only a matter of time before the positions were lost.

Lieutenant Winter was anxiously thinking about how to deal with the pressing situation at hand. A man bent down and crept to his left.

Winter turned his head to look and saw that it was Second Lieutenant Dogen, the battalion commander, Major Koch's aide-de-camp.

"Lieutenant Winter, Major Koch asked me to convey an order, Captain Gauss has been killed, Major Koch ordered you to act as the commander of the second company, you must hold your position." Second Lieutenant Dougan said.

Lieutenant Winter was shocked or shocked by the order brought by Second Lieutenant Dogen, Captain Gauss was actually killed, no wonder he hadn't seen him for so long, and he hadn't received a new order.

There is also a battalion commander who wants to continue to hold his position himself, it seems that he does not know the power of the B1 tanks newly reinforced by the French. Lieutenant Winter hurriedly pulled Second Lieutenant Dogan, pointed to the French troops to the east, and said, "Look at the French on the other side. And their tanks, huh? Where did that tank go? ”

Lieutenant Winter realized that the French tank, which was supposed to have crossed the bridge, was missing, and his eyes swept around the battlefield and finally fixed on the stone bridge.

"The bridge is broken, do you see? That big guy actually broke the bridge. Lieutenant Winter laughed as he pointed to the broken stone bridge and the French tank lying on its side in the ditch.

"That guy is so unlucky." Seeing the tragic condition of the French tank, Second Lieutenant Dougan couldn't help but laugh.

Finding that the stone bridge was broken, the French tanks could no longer pose a threat to their positions, and the pressure on Lieutenant Winter's heart was suddenly relieved a lot.

"You go back and tell Major Koch that the bridge in my direction has been broken, the French tanks can't cross, they can't take my position with infantry alone, and he can let reinforcements go to support other positions first."

"I'll tell him, good luck." After saying this, Second Lieutenant Dogan bent down and slowly retreated, running towards the west side of the dirt slope.

After seeing Second Lieutenant Doagan leave, Lieutenant Winter lay down in the cornfield and continued to observe the movements of the French troops on the opposite side.

The breakage of the stone bridge clearly caused a disarray among the French tank units on the opposite bank, and the B1 tank group, which had no way out, lingered for a while on the east embankment of the ditch, fired a few indiscriminate shots at the top of the dirt slope, and then turned around and drove north along the east embankment of the ditch.

It seems that there are other bridges in the north where he can't see, but I don't know if those bridges can withstand the weight of those B1 tanks, Lieutenant Winter thought silently.

Without any hesitation, Lieutenant Winter called Friedrich and asked him to report to Major Koch on the radio on the Type 251 armored car on the latest movements of the French troops on the other side of the ditch.

Sending Friedrich away, Lieutenant Winter consulted with the other officers in the company and began to rebuild the line in preparation for a new French offensive.

One thousand two hundred meters northwest of Lieutenant Winter, Colonel Rosenberg, commander of the 25th Panzer Regiment, stood on the bank of the Doo River and watched the tanks of the 2nd Battalion drive through the river one after another.

The crossing site is located more than 300 meters north of the Revri Bridge, where the water of the Du River is only deep enough to submerge people's thighs.

After discovering this treasure, Colonel Rosenberg immediately made a decision and immediately asked the 1st Battalion of the 25th Panzer Regiment to take the lead in wading across the river to support the reconnaissance battalion on the east bank of the Du River, followed by the 2nd Battalion.

The 2nd Tank Battalion was accompanied by the infantrymen of the 7th Motorized Rifle Regiment, who took off their obstructive boots and walked through the river with their trouser legs up.

Looking at the orderly procession of crossing the river, Colonel Rosenberg's heart was not easy, he had already received a report from the reconnaissance battalion on the east bank of the Dow that the French B1 tanks had been found on the east bank of the Dow, numbering about thirty units.

Colonel Rosenberg immediately remembered the telegram sent by Rommel the other day, in which Rommel repeatedly stressed the need to be careful of the French B1 tanks, because the tanks of all the models currently equipped in the 25th Panzer Regiment were no match for it, and it could only be dealt with with 88-mm anti-aircraft guns or by calling Stuka dive bombers.

But now that the 296th Artillery Battalion is still on its way here, Stuka can't attack because the weather is so bad.

It seemed that his troops were going to suffer heavy casualties in the next battle, but as long as they could keep this bridgehead, it would be worth the casualties, Colonel Rosenberg thought with a heavy face.

"Are you Colonel Rosenberg, please?" A straddle motorcycle creaked to a halt next to Colonel Rosenburg, and an Air Force major jumped off the motorcycle and walked up to him and asked.

"I'm Colonel Rosenberg, commander of the 25th Armored Regiment of the 7th Armored Division, who are you?"

"I'm Major Schumacher of the Luftwaffe Hermann Goering Motorized Rifle Regiment, and my troops are going to cross the river here, so please let your men get out of the way and let my men go first." (To be continued......)

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