Seeing that the division commander's "Command Tiger" was surrounded, other German tanks hurriedly rushed to the rescue, but they did not dare to shoot directly at the "Command Tiger" with their main guns.

Although theoretically, it is impossible for the 75mm tank gun grenade they are equipped with to penetrate the thick armor of the "command tiger", but everything is afraid of exceptions, isn't it? In the unlikely event that any of the parts of the "Command Tiger" were unreliable and were blown away by the explosion of the grenade, and the parts that flew randomly did not recognize people, if it accidentally flew to Rommel's brain, then they would all have to commit suicide to the Führer.

Therefore, the tankmen could only use machine guns to clear the French troops around the "Command Tiger" and relieve Rommel of the siege as much as possible.

Just as the men in the "Command Tiger" were struggling to get rid of the French infantry, a shout of killing rang out outside the crowd.

German Panzergrenadiers killed!

The equipment of the grenadiers was not comparable to that of this group of second-rate French troops, and this time, in order to better deal with the trenches of the Somme defense line, Rommel specially "robbed" a batch of MP40 submachine guns and M38 semi-automatic shotguns from the armament department to equip his grenadier troops.

Needless to say, MP40 has been specially requested by Lyon, and the MP40 firepower of the German army in this life is simply maddening.

However, the M38 shotgun was first seen on the battlefield.

On the battlefield of World War I, the U.S. military had equipped the troops with trench guns on a large scale, and after joining the European theater in the later period, the U.S. soldiers equipped with "trench sweepers" had beaten the Kaiser army to cry dad and cry mother, and the German high-level bluntly said that trench guns (that is, shotguns) were inhumane, and the German army would never use such guns, and the commander bluntly said that "any U.S. soldier who uses a trench gun will be shot on the spot as soon as he is captured!" ”

Of course, what the Kaiser government said about Lyon's Third Reich was not recognized, especially the phrase "the German army will never use it" was a fart for Lyon, so as early as when Lyon became the Führer, the development plan for the shotgun was ordered.

Later, the German gun designers said in an interview with reporters: "In fact, when I first heard that I wanted to design a shotgun, I refused, because, if you can't let me design it, I'll design it immediately, first I want to prevaricate, because I don't want to use some stunts to make up for it after the design fails, the gun 'Duang' is very bloody and violent, so that the soldier will scold me if he feels bad when he uses it, 'Didn't you say you wouldn't use this garbage gun before?' And this proves that the German government should fart when it speaks. Later, I also confirmed that the American trench gun is indeed TM good, and the German government does TM as a fart when it speaks, I used it for about a month, and it felt good, and then I asked them not to blow it after designing our own trench gun, because I wanted the soldiers to see that I hit people with a gun like this, and you will beat people with this gun will be like this! ”

And the reality proved that the designer was right, Lyon said that he was absolutely peace-loving, and then Germany beat Poland and swept Western Europe by the way. And the M38 shotgun he designed was really easy to use, and the French army suddenly fell into a large area after a shotgun.

However, it is said that the well-known designer has not been heard from since the interview.

In the face of the German Panzergrenadiers, whose firepower was so frenzied, the French soldiers surrounding the "Command Tiger" died a heavy death, and the surviving soldiers fled back to the trenches and fled all the way back to the second line along the communication ditch.

Seeing that the division commander's encirclement was lifted, and the German tank group no longer surrounded the "command tiger", they turned the head of the car one after another, ran over the French trenches, and then chased after the second line of the French army, intending to take the French position in one go.

The Panzergrenadiers rushed down the ditch where the French had fled to the next line, and the narrow trenches were a paradise for them, armed with a large number of MP40 submachine guns and M38 shotguns.

Rommel was woken up by the one he had just played, and he realized that his state of mind had changed badly because of the French army's successive defeats, but as the world's No. 1 army, they still had enough strength to fight the Germans, and there was still no shortage of excellent commanders like de Gaulle.

And although his "command tiger" is armored enough, when facing a large group of infantry alone, he is afraid that he will still be more than lucky.

"We withdraw, and the battlefield will be handed over to our boys." Rommel sighed.

"Okay." The driver replied, and then manipulated the "Command Tiger" to rumble out of the battlefield.

And not long after Rommel withdrew from the battlefield, the German army, which had been attacking smoothly, was hit unexpectedly, more than 20 French tanks rushed out of the woods on both sides of the position, and kept firing at the side armor of the German tanks at a distance of less than 500 meters, and the French 75mm anti-tank guns that had been hiding in the woods also opened fire one after another, and more than 20 German tanks and armored vehicles were knocked out in one round of attacks!

The Germans reacted in a hurry, turning the nose of the car and facing the thicker armor frontally at the French tanks and anti-tank guns, but this exposed the side to the second line of the French army, and the French army also had a lot of small-caliber anti-tank guns on the second line, these anti-tank guns may not be able to knock the frontal armor of the German tanks, but it is enough to attack the side armor.

Faced with a flank attack from both sides, the German commander had no choice but to order the troops to temporarily retreat to the first line of French defense, and the Panzergrenadiers, who were about to rush into the French positions, had no choice but to temporarily retreat without the cover of tank units.

But at this time, something happened on the battlefield that the Germans did not expect - the first line of defense, which had been cleared, actually appeared out of nowhere, and many French soldiers appeared out of nowhere!

The French soldiers who suddenly rushed out really caught the German panzergrenadiers by surprise, and the retreating grenadier battalion suddenly suffered heavy casualties, but fortunately, the grenadiers had strong firepower, and the subsequent two battalions of motorized grenadiers arrived, which eliminated the French army and stabilized the position.

Later, after interrogating the prisoners, the Germans learned that the French had dug a large number of anti-artillery holes in the hidden places of each trench, and according to de Gaulle's operational concept, the first line of defense The French only needed to delay the German attack, and then left a group of troops to hide in these holes, and when the Germans attacked the second line of defense, the soldiers in these holes came out again, and combined tanks and anti-tank guns hidden in the woods near the position to strike at the attacking Germans on three sides.

The German 3rd Panzer Division suffered from this trick, constantly making mistakes in the first line of defense, and failed to make any progress after changing hands several times.

However, this move against the 7th Panzer Division did not have the expected effect, and the first line of defense was forcibly occupied by the powerful and determined grenadiers.

Even de Gaulle had to admit that the title of "Devil's Division" of the 7th Panzer Division was not for nothing.