Chapter 138: The Iron Pincers Close
"Crushing corpses into leather pockets and burying wounded prisoners of war alive, are you sure you're not hallucinating?"
Major Schubert, commander of the 2nd Parachute Battalion of the Herman Goring Regiment, asked Captain Blair with a strange expression.
It was not the 7th Panzer Division that pursued this group of fleeing British troops, but the 2nd Paratrooper Battalion led by Major Schubert, the predecessor of the 2nd Paratrooper Battalion of the Hermann Goering Regiment was the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Parachute Regiment of the 7th Airborne Division, and Colonel Broll was the old superior of Major Schubert, and the two naturally met very enthusiastically.
Colonel Broll learned from Major Schubert that Hermangoling's regiment was fighting alongside the 7th Panzer Division, so he talked about the title of the Devil's Division, and asked Captain Blair to explain it to Major Schubert, which caused Major Schubert's strange reaction.
Colonel Brower asked, "Did you see the things you said with your own eyes?" ”。
"No, I heard from Captain Bush of the 8th Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, who was a classmate of our military academy and had fought against the 7th Panzer Division near the city of Sypp." Captain Blair explained.
"What did he say he saw?" Major Schubert asked.
He said that he had seen it with his own eyes, and that a group of infantry in camouflage uniforms followed behind the tanks of the Devil's Division, and that all the wounded British soldiers were nailed to the ground with bayonets, and even some of the soldiers who surrendered raised their hands were killed with bayonets. Please don't hand me over to the 7th Panzer Division under any circumstances, I know they're nearby. Captain Blair pleaded repeatedly.
Hearing the cry in Captain Blair's voice, Major Schubert said helplessly to Colonel Brohl: "You see that the men of the Army and the Waffen-SS have frightened this poor boy like this, and these prisoners should be left in your care." Colonel Rosen has already given the order. The principle of our Hermann Goering regiment is not to take prisoners. These captives are handed over to us. We will also find a way to transfer to the 7th Panzer Division. ”
Colonel Broll nodded in agreement, and when he heard Captain Blair's sworn cry, he was not worried about the safety of these British prisoners. In case what Captain Blair said was true, if there was any accident at the hands of the 7th Panzer Division in the future, wouldn't these prisoners themselves also become accomplices.
The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and Captain Blair could barely make out a few key words in Major Schubert's words with his German proficiency of fifty-nine points in his secondary school exam.
Colonel Rosen, giving orders, Herman Goering's regiment, not taking prisoners, heard these key words. Captain Blair's mind immediately made up bloody pictures in his mind.
Haven't these Germanic barbarians been civilized? They were all so savage, but fortunately they met one of the few civilized people in Germany.
In order not to slow down the march of the troops, Major Schubert handed over his prisoners to Colonel Brower and led his men back to the road they came, while Colonel Brower led his men to continue to capture the scattered British infantry.
In the southern part of Paris, Lord Gott, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, was in his new headquarters and listened quietly to Franklin, the commander of the First Army, who had just fled back to Paris, as he recounted the defeat of the First Army.
The First Army sent the 1st Infantry Division and the 50th Infantry Division to march separately in the direction of Mount Trajoli and Dreuer, but soon after the troops left Paris, German reconnaissance planes appeared overhead.
Under the devastation of the German Stuka dive bombers and ME-109 fighters, the corpses of the British infantry in the exposed wilderness were strewn all over the field, and the flesh of British soldiers was sprinkled next to every crater.
To add insult to injury, the German fleet had just left. The two tank units pierced the chaotic British marching column like two sharp swords.
The first to suffer was the 50th Infantry Division, whose marching column was cut into three sections by these two tank units. The troops at the back of the march fled back to Paris in a hurry, and the rest of the troops were in disarray, dying, fleeing, and surrendering, and the whole division collapsed in an instant.
Franklin, who was sitting at the military headquarters, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered the 1st Infantry Division to withdraw to Paris, so that they could avoid the same fate as the 50th Infantry Division.
Franklin's description was brief, but Lord Gott imagined the soldiers of the 50th Infantry Division being chased and run over by German tanks and armoured vehicles in the wilderness.
Who can be blamed for the miserable fate of the 50th Infantry Division? The French, of course, are to blame.
The German armoured forces had advanced so close to Paris that the French knew nothing about it, and even they themselves had made the great mistake of misjudging the situation of the battle.
Lord Gort comforted Franklin a few words and sent him away, leaving him alone to think of a solution.
The German armoured forces had already driven to the southern outskirts of Paris, where they could not go, and there was no need to talk about the north, where Gudery had installed the armor cluster, and to the east it would only get farther and farther away from the English Channel, and to the east there were dozens of German infantry divisions marching towards Paris.
As for the west, unless their own troops had enough ships to drift down the Seine all the way to the English Channel, provided that the Germans on both sides of the Seine held their hands high against them, they were not to be discussed.
France, though large, had no place for the British expeditionary force to go, except Paris.
Thinking of Paris, Lord Gott's heart moved, from dawn to now, there has not been a single German bomber bombing Paris, and only German reconnaissance planes hovering over Paris.
It seems that the barbarism of the Germans seems to have a bit of a bottom line, at least they also know to protect cultural relics and monuments.
In this case, the expeditionary force remained in Paris for the time being, and then thought of a way, and Lord Gott reluctantly made up his mind.
As for Wei Gang's order that Paris should not be defended and that the expeditionary force should not use Paris to fight, he had already torn it to pieces and thrown it into the wastebasket.
At 7:20 p.m. on 10 June, the 37th Reconnaissance Battalion of the German 7th Panzer Division and the reconnaissance company of the Hermann Goering Regiment arrived on the south bank of the Seine, west of Paris, and occupied Mount Trajoli on the Seine at 6 a.m. the next day, blocking the expeditionary force's last road to the English Channel on the south bank of the Seine.
At 8:40 a.m. on 11 June, the 19th Panzer Corps under the Gudeli Armored Group captured Rouen on the north bank of the Seine, cutting off the last passage for the British expeditionary force to flee to the English Channel on the north bank of the Seine.
At two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Italy declared war on France, and 300,000 Italian troops launched an attack on France in the Alps.
Two hours later, King Leopold III of Belgium ordered the Belgian army to surrender and promised that he would remain in Belgium and breathe with his soldiers rather than join the government-in-exile that had fled to London
"Ahahahaha" At the Palace of Versailles southwest of Paris, Chen Dao's crazy laughter came from the temporary residence of the regimental headquarters of Hermann Goering.
"Crush into a leather pocket! Bury the wounded captives alive! Also known as the Devil's Division, what do you say General Rommel would have on his face if he heard the British description of the 7th Panzer Division? I think it must be exciting. None of you are allowed to reveal this news, and I must tell him this news myself. Chen Dao wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes while ordering Schubert and the others.
Mandol Fil and the others clearly saw the gloating expression on Chen Dao's face, and couldn't help but look at each other, the head of the regiment actually liked this kind of low-level fun, why didn't we find out before.
Chen Dao smiled enough and said to Mantufer: "Our next task is to tighten the encirclement, and we must not let go of an Englishman, and this matter will be handled by you." Also, you shall at once prepare a telegram in my name, which will be forwarded by the Third Air Force to the Air Force Command, and then to the Air Force Command, which shall transmit to the Supreme High Command, that as soon as France surrenders, send someone to arrest or ask the French Government to hand over the Charles. De Gaulle must not let him run to England. ”
"Charles. De gaulle? The original commander of the French 4th Panzer Division? Is this person special? ”。 Mandolfil asked.
"His ability is far more than a division commander, and we can't be careless." Chen Dao said. (To be continued......)