"Colonel Rosen also said that he regrets not being able to have lunch with you in the town of Clayp and asks for your forgiveness." Major Wagler said.

"I'm sorry, but I broke my promise again." A voice came.

Major Wagler looked up and saw that it was Chen Dao.

Seeing Hausser's lieutenant general epaulettes, Chen Dao immediately guessed Hausser's identity, and then saluted Hausser, "Hello, General Hausser." ”

"Colonel Rosen, I've finally seen you." Hausser returned the salute and extended his right hand to Chen Dao.

After shaking hands with Hausser, Chen Dao sat down at the table, pointed to the map on the table and said, "I met a large number of French troops who were heading south, and I had to come back. They have more than a regiment in strength, as well as tanks, and my reconnaissance platoon is monitoring them. ”

Hausser asked solemnly, "How far are they from us?" ”

"The road distance is about 15 kilometers, and the straight line distance on the map is closer." Chen Dao said.

Major Schumacher and Ensign Wolf burst in with a chill, walked to the table, saluted Hausser, and said: "The enemy is two regiments, and they are heading south along two roads. ”

"My comrade-in-arms sent me a telegram that the French reinforcements were an infantry division, and they all left Stavanger this morning and went south," said Second Lieutenant Wolfe. Tank units have also left the city, and there are now only a few medics, gendarmes and baggage guards in the city to maintain order. ”

"We now have two regiments, the Führer and the German Regiment, plus the Norwegian troops and the Field Survey Corps, for a total strength of three regiments. The Germanian infantry regiment will arrive tonight, and by tomorrow night at the latest, the whole division will be assembled. In this way we have the strength of one division and another regiment, and in terms of strength we are not at a disadvantage, and even have a slight advantage. Hausser said.

"We are increasing our troops, the French are also increasing, who knows how many French troops will become tomorrow night? Two divisions? Three divisions? Chen Dao said.

"No, the French don't have our efficiency." Ensign Wolf said.

"Since the French landed in Stavanger, Air Force bombers have been bombing the sea near Stavanger whenever the weather permits. On the day Norway asked for help from us, our bombers even flew to the port of Stavanger to bomb the French ships, and they now did not dare to increase their troops in Stavanger during the day, and all the transport work was carried out at night, which was certainly not as efficient as ours. Second Lieutenant Wolf continued.

"I see," Chen Dao said, pointing to the map, "the poor French, guarding a nearby Sulla airfield but not using, the French mainland is 1,500 kilometers from Stavanger, their planes can't fly so far, and they don't have aircraft carriers, they can't transfer through aircraft carriers, which saves us a lot of trouble." ”

"Their planes will not be able to land even if they can reach Stavanger, and the Sula airfield has been completely destroyed by our bombing and will not be usable for a short time unless it is rebuilt with a large number of sappers." Ensign Wolf said.

"Our mission is to recapture Stavanger and Sula airfields," Hausser stretched out his finger and drew a circle in the Stavanger area in the southwestern corner of Norway, "With Sula Airfield, our air force can completely control the air supremacy in southwestern Norway, suppress all enemy movements in southwestern Norway in one fell swoop, and our future operations will be much easier." ”

"I know the importance of the Sula airfield, and I'm anxious, but I think the weather seems to be changing today, and if the weather gets bad we won't get the support of the air force, and the French will definitely take the opportunity to increase their troops, so I think we must take out this French infantry division as soon as possible and occupy Stavanger before the French reinforcements arrive." Chen Dao said.

Everyone discussed for a while, but there was no result for the time being, and Chen Dao finally said: "I think it is easy for us to defeat them, but it is difficult to annihilate them. I took part in the street battles in Kutno during the Polish campaign, which was very brutal, and in order to encircle and annihilate a Polish infantry division in the center of the city, we used two armored divisions, two infantry divisions, and a paratrooper division. The city of Kutno is a small city with a population of just over 30,000 people, and Stavanger is much larger than Kutno, with a population of more than 90,000. If we only crush them in the field, the remnants of their army will flee back to Stavanger, which will make it more difficult for us in street fighting. Therefore, we must aim at the war of annihilation, and try to destroy their living forces in the field. ”

"Can we ask for the help of naval guns, as we did this morning, the power of naval guns is not something that simple field fortifications can resist." Major Wagler said.

"Yes, but naval guns can only help us defeat them, not help us annihilate them, so we have to think of a good way." Chen Dao said.

Hauser looked at his watch, and then said: "The enemy is getting closer and closer to us, I think we should retreat now, lure the enemy away from Stavanger, and then find a way to annihilate them." ”

Seeing that the enemy was at present, Chen Dao and the others couldn't think of a good way for a while, so they had to agree to Hausser's suggestion.

Abandoning the newly captured towns of Klaipp and Klaipyan, the Germans withdrew their prisoners to the town of Brüna.

Because there were not enough transports, Colonel Eisen had to lead his men on foot. When Chen Dao and Hausser led their troops back to the town of Brüna, Colonel Eisen's troops had just arrived.

After the two sides met, Hausser began to assign tasks as supreme commander. He lined up the troops of the German Regiment, the Führer's Regiment and Colonel Eisen from west to east.

The German Regiment and the Führer Regiment each sent two battalions, plus two infantry battalions of Colonel Eisen, for a total of six battalions of troops were placed in the first line to establish defensive positions on a ten-kilometre front stretching from the coast to the west and to the Rafal Hill to the east.

The three battalions of the German Regiment, the three battalions of the Führer's Regiment and the bicycle reconnaissance company of the Norwegian Army were retained as reserves by the various units, while the field investigation team led by Chen Dao was retained by Hausser as a general reserve.

That night, Hausser's Germania Motorized Rifle Regiment arrived in Egelsund by train, and then arrived overnight in trucks and armoured vehicles to join Hausser.

When the Germans were building fortifications overnight, about five kilometers north of the town of Brüna, Major General Danglaar, commander of the French Army's 7th Infantry Division, ordered his men to do the same.

On 15 April, Dangral received a telegram from the Alpine Infantry Regiment that it had captured the towns of Klaipp and Klaipyan.

Overjoyed, Dangral ordered the regiment to stand by and wait for reinforcements.

In the early hours of April 16, Dangral was woken from his slumber by his adjutant and informed that the Alpine regiment was under fire from German large-caliber artillery and that its position was about to be lost.

By the time Dangral arrived at the communications room in full dress, the Alpine Regiment had lost contact.

Although Dangral was frightened by the destruction of the Alpine Regiment, under the strict order of the French Army Headquarters to expand the depth of the landing field, he still led the main force of the 7th Infantry Division to leave Stan Wanger and move south according to the original plan.

Shortly after leaving Stavanger, the reconnaissance battalion sent a report that the Germans had captured the towns of Klaipp and Klaipyan.

When the 7th Infantry Regiment at the vanguard of the 7th Infantry Division could already see the two towns through telescopes, the reconnaissance battalion sent another report that the Germans had retreated to the town of Brüna, and that the towns of Klaipp and Klaipyan were littered with dead bodies and French wounded.

After questioning the reconnaissance battalion and learning that the Germans were building a defensive position on the line of the town of Brüna, Dangral relented and ordered the troops to reoccupy the towns of Klaipp and Klaipyan.

Immediately after leading the division headquarters into the town of Klaipuyan, Dangral ordered the 7th and 21st Infantry Regiments to build fortifications on the front south of the town, west to the coast, and east to the west shore of Lake Flandersen.

The 25th Infantry Regiment, which served as the rear guard of the division, was sent to the north shore of Lake Flanderson to build a defensive line from the north bank of Lake Flanderson in the south to the city of Saunders in the north, while the two battalions of the 13th Brigade of the French Foreign Legion, which had originally defended the city of Saunders, were used as the general reserve by Danglaar.

Lake Flanderson had begun to thaw at this time, and it could be used as part of the defensive line, and Dangral was not at all worried that the Germans would attack him from the lake.

After arranging the garrison areas of the various divisions and comforting the wounded soldiers in the field hospital, Dangral and the staff officers began to think about a very serious question: what kind of weapons did the Germans use to leave so many huge craters in the two towns? If the 7th Infantry Division is hit by those weapons, how long will it be able to resist?

When Dangral was worried, Chen Dao, Hausser and others were also playing a game of brainstorming, how could they annihilate the opposing French infantry division in one fell swoop in the field battle and prevent them from escaping back to Stavanger?

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