Five kilometres northwest of the town of Ksuva, an H39 tank is moving alone towards the town of Ksuwa.

This H39 tank was part of the 25th Fighting Tank Battalion of the 3rd Tank Half Brigade of the 1st French Armored Division.

Commander John. Sergeant David huddled in the turret and was adjusting the car's radio, trying to make contact with the lost battalion leader.

On 6 June, the 1st Panzer Division received an order to support the 9th Infantry Division, which was in danger of being attacked by German Panzers.

The 1st Panzer Division was attacked by the Luftwaffe shortly after its departure and had to look for the woods to hide and wait.

The 013H39 tank commanded by David was unfortunately shocked by the shock wave of the aerial bomb during the air raid, and David had no choice but to abandon the car and flee into the woods with the driver Copperfield, until night fell and the German plane left before returning to the 013 tank.

The engine problem could not be solved by two tankmen, and after some contact, the tow truck of the maintenance department of the 1st Armored Division appeared in front of them and dragged them back to the maintenance base hidden in a wood.

After dawn on June 7, the maintenance crew worked hard all morning to finally eliminate the engine failure and get the No. 013 tank back in motion.

Just as David and Copperfield were about to set out to catch up with the larger force, the maintenance department radioed the bad news that the 1st Panzer Division and the neighboring 2nd Panzer Division had been heavily damaged by German Panzers in a morning tank battle. The remnants have retreated to various villages and towns near the battlefield to regroup.

High-power radio through the maintenance department. David learned that the remnants of the 25th Battle Tank Battalion and the 5th Mechanized Chasseur Battalion, where he was located, had reconstituted positions in the town of Ksuwa. Without hesitation, he embarked on a journey with Copperfield to find the long-lost main force.

With only two crew members in the H39 tank, David alone had to play the roles of commander, loader, gunner and radioman, making him a true all-rounder on the battlefield.

As the town of Ksuwa got closer and closer, David couldn't help but fiddle with the radio in the car to see if he could contact the main force of the 25th Combat Battalion and learn some updates on the situation.

David fiddled with the radio for a long time but couldn't find a reply on the commonly used channels in the camp, so he had no choice but to give up for the time being.

Lift the turret hatch. David was half exposed outside the turret and looked east, but the undulating terrain blocked his view.

The driver, Copperfield, also opened the cockpit canopy to ventilate.

"We should be able to see the town of Ksuva when we climb the dirt slope in front of us, so work harder." David shouted.

"Those B1 tanks in the division can't stop the Germans, what do you think we can do when we get to the town of Ksuwa? Adding to the Germans? Copperfield shouted.

"Drive your car and don't think about so many useless things."

"The Germans may be attacking the town of Ksuva right now, and it's too late for us to turn back and retreat." Copperfield shouted.

"If every French person is like you, what would happen to Paris? The Germans said on the radio that if they wanted to take Paris in three weeks, we had to fight back against their hubris. David said.

Copperfield ignored David and spread negative energy to David on his own: "Have you ever wondered why you can't contact the main force in Ksuva Town?" Maybe they've retreated from other roads, and we're going for nothing now. Let's withdraw. ”

"Even if we retreat, we can only retreat if the battalion commander gives us an order. We, O O Ready to fight. David suddenly shouted in horror, then twisted into the turret and closed the hatch.

Copperfield was not slow to react either, and quickly closed the cockpit door.

On the opposite slope, the outline of an armored car gradually became clear, and David could see at a glance that this armored car was not any kind of combat vehicle equipped in the 1st Armored Division, but only one identity, German.

Why did the armored vehicles of the Germans appear here? Could it be that the town of Ksuwa has really been lost? If that were the case, wouldn't it be very dangerous for him and Copperfield to be in a precarious position right now.

Fortunately, the other party only had one, it was still an armored car, and he still had the strength to fight, David skillfully manipulated the instrument, turned the turret and aimed at the armored car.

"There are too many of the other side, and there are tanks, let's surrender." Copperfield's panicked shouts reached David's ears.

Hearing Copperfield's words, David almost fainted.

"There's only one car on the other side"

David's words came to an abrupt end, and through the observation hole, he could clearly see that the moment he turned the turret, the armored vehicles on the opposite dirt slope had turned into a row, at least ten, and three or four tanks were mixed in.

The town of Ksuwa is over, and not even a single person has escaped. It's all over himself, and in this kind of wilderness, he can't even run, he can only fight to the death, David thought pessimistically.

"Don't open fire, that will kill us." Copperfield shouted.

"If you don't open fire, are you waiting to die?". David shouted.

"I've had enough of you, listen to me now, listening to you will only kill us all." Copperfield shouted.

After Copperfield finished speaking, he pushed open the hatch and jumped out of the tank, stood on the side of the road, and magically felt a white flag in his hand and waved it at the Germans on the opposite side.

David hesitated for a moment, looked out through the scope of the turret, and saw the muzzles of the four tanks on the opposite dirt slope staring at him, as if he was hesitating to fire.

"Come out quickly, don't do anything stupid." Copperfield shouted as he waved the white flag in his hand.

David heard Copperfield's shout, gritted his teeth, took out a white handkerchief in his coat pocket to wipe sweat, and drilled out of the turret and waved it at the Germans on the opposite side.

Seeing that the commander with a tendon in his brain finally decided to surrender, Copperfield secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

An armored car roared up to the two, and four German soldiers in green uniforms jumped out of the car. Call David and Copperfield to the side of the road. Let them raise their hands. Stroking them all over their bodies, their big powerful hands did not let go of any corner of their bodies where they could hide their weapons.

Confirming that they had no weapons on them, the German soldiers jumped back onto the armored vehicle and headed northwest, followed by a long line of steel.

David and Copperfield stood on the side of the road with their hands raised and quietly watched the armored vehicles passing in front of them, wondering what the Germans would do with them.

After the armored convoy drove away, they saw a column of tanks, watching the German tanks that were square and larger than their own H39 tanks, and the thick and long barrels raised in front of the turret drove in front of his eyes, David couldn't help but secretly rejoice. Fortunately, he followed Copperfield's advice, otherwise he would have turned into a dead corpse at this time, and Tank 013 was his coffin.

David roughly counted the tanks that had been driven in front of his eyes, and there were sixty or seventy of them.

Seeing that the German convoy was about to pass in front of his eyes, David wondered even more if the Germans didn't want to capture him.

The last two tanks stopped in front of them, and a commander in black uniform emerged from the turret of one of the tanks.

The commander shouted to David and Copperfield in unfamiliar French to let them go farther away.

They're not going to kill us, are they? The two of them ran fifty or sixty meters away with doubts when they heard the rumbling sound of cannons behind them.

Unable to resist the curiosity in their hearts, the two looked back and saw that the two German tanks were shelling the power compartment of their No. 013 tank. It wasn't until billowing black smoke came out of the power compartment that the two German tanks left contentedly.

As they passed, the commander shouted to them, "Go east and surrender to our infantry division." We don't have time to take you prisoner. ”

Looking at the German tanks in the distance, the two were dumbfounded, and it was not until the loud explosion of tank 013 that they came to their senses.

"And they just left?" David asked, staring at Copperfield in disbelief.

"They must be in a hurry to get to Paris, or they won't leave us alone." Copperfield said.

Copperfield guessed the purpose of the Hermangoling regiment, which at this time had only Paris in its sights, and all factors that would slow down their march were discarded.

They singled out weakly defended towns and villages, leaving only some of their forces to watch over those well-defended cities that might cause street fighting, and then bypassed and advanced against the clock.

Not to mention the capture of two people by David and Copperfield, even more captives were not worth the time wasted by the Herman Goring regiment.

They simply searched for the captives' weapons, told them to surrender to the infantry division behind, and then left the captives behind.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of 9 June, the reconnaissance company of the head of the Hermann Goering regiment appeared on the outskirts of Etamp, 50 kilometers south of Paris.

Two hours later, a tank battalion led by Major Schumacher rushed to join the reconnaissance company outside Etamp.

Twenty minutes later, Chen Dao, who was leading a large march behind, received a telegram from Major Schumacher.

"They occupied the town of Piso, southeast of Etangp, where they were going to spend the night, and he also said that he had met ogres there." Chen Dao said as he handed the telegram in his hand to Mandol.

"You mean Colonel Rosenberg of the 7th Panzer Division?" Mandolfil asked.

"That's him." Chen Dao said.

Captain Rosenberg, the commander of the 25th Armored Regiment of the 7th Armored Division, had a fat head and big ears, a very sleek bald head, and a mouth full of buckteeth.

If you dye him a layer of blue skin, he will be a live ogre image from "World of Warcraft".

Under Chen Dao's malicious propaganda, the nickname Ogre quickly spread throughout Herman Goren's regiment, so as soon as Chen Dao talked about ogres, Mandol knew that he was talking about Colonel Rosenberg.

"Our speed is fast, and the speed of the 7th Armored Division is not slow." Mandolfil laughed.

"I can guess that Rommel must have given the ogre an order to leave early tomorrow morning and enter Paris before us." Chen Dao also said with a smile.

Chen Dao's guess was correct, Rommel, who led the main force of the Seventh Panzer Division on the way, had just finished reading the telegram sent by Rosenberg at this time.

"He actually met the biker Major Schumacher of the Hermann Goering Regiment, and it seems that I really underestimated the speed of their advance. Send a telegram to Colonel Rosenberg telling him to leave as soon as possible tomorrow and to get into Paris before the Air Force men. ”

Rommel issued an order that was destined to be won.

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ps: The update time is a little late, please forgive me. (To be continued......)