I have to say that this kind of filling with human lives is really not the combat style of the German army, but this is street fighting, which can infinitely reduce the strength of the offensive and defensive sides.

If de Gaulle's Fifteenth Army had not stopped the Germans here, the city of Romiy would probably not have been heard of, because it was so small, and it was more of a large town than a city, with very few buildings higher than three stories.

Under such circumstances, the 30th Infantry Division of the French Army stationed in Dongcheng District had to stuff as many people into the building as possible, so the German soldiers often encountered an embarrassing situation when they pushed the door of the building and went in and found that there was a platoon of French soldiers looking at themselves.

In this situation of extremely high soldier density, the German army still relied on its tenacious will to fight and strong combat skills to inflict heavy losses on the entrenched French 30th Infantry Division and took down the eastern city of Romei.

In the face of the approaching German army, the military headquarters of the 15th French Army, which had already existed in name only, did not choose to retreat to the safety of Xicheng District, but still stayed in the town hall building, intending to live and die with more than 100 soldiers of the military headquarters security unit.

The Germans appreciated the spirit of the senior French officers and immediately paid their respects to them with dozens of large-caliber grenades.

But neither side expected the five-story building to be unexpectedly hard, and the Germans were stunned by dozens of grenades without serious structural damage.

However, the Germans did not expect to solve the problem with artillery, and after the shelling, two infantry platoons attacked the building under the cover of assault guns, but the French troops who held on to this area were determined to fight, repelled several German attacks in a row, and even used anti-tank guns hidden in the ruins to knock out two German assault guns No. 3.

The German captain who commanded the attack was puzzled by the fact that there were few French troops who could not retreat in such a desperate battle, so he personally interrogated a prisoner of war.

The prisoner of war was obviously much more cowardly than the French officers and soldiers in the building, and before the Germans could be tortured, he shook everything he knew - including the identity of the building and who was stationed there.

The German captain was taken aback and immediately reported the situation to the front command. The senior German officers in the front command were very excited to receive this information, and they immediately carried out a small troop build-up around the building. By noon on the 12th, more than 1,200 German troops had gathered here.

The failure to assemble other forces also accelerated the pace of the offensive, and soon the Germans occupied all the houses around the town hall building, completely cutting off the town hall building from all other French forces and making it an isolated island.

Before the Germans could completely cut off the building from the rest of the building, the headquarters of the Fifteenth Army finally received reinforcements, and about a fully equipped French infantry company with two anti-tank guns entered the building, bringing the number of French troops in the building to more than 260.

In the early morning of the 13th, the Germans attacked the town hall building again at night, and about 300 German infantry quietly touched the position only 50 meters from the town hall building under the cover of the surrounding ruins.

The French army had long been prepared for the night attack of the German army, and they arranged sentries on each floor of the building to be on duty in shifts, and the whereabouts of the German troops were soon discovered by the French sentries because of the distance, and for a time the violent gunfire broke out, waking up the sleeping city.

Seeing that their actions were discovered, the Germans no longer twisted and pinched, and more than a dozen flares were quickly shot into the sky, indicating the target for the soldiers of both sides at the same time.

The French firepower was fierce, and they used their height advantage to suppress the German attack with light and heavy machine guns, knocking many German soldiers who were about to rush through the last distance to the ground.

In the face of such arrogant and wanton French machine gun fire, the German artillery with more than a dozen direct-aim guns was very angry, and the French tracer shells and machine gun muzzle fire were very conspicuous in the dark night, and the German artillery easily found the French fire points and aimed the muzzles at them.

This round of shelling of the Germans achieved good results, about 30% of the French machine-gun fire points disappeared, and the rest were frightened enough to hurriedly move their positions to avoid being called by the German artillery.

Taking advantage of the silence of the French machine guns, dozens of German soldiers jumped out of the ruins where they were hiding and rushed towards the main entrance of the first floor of the town hall building.

But how did the more than 30 MAS36 bolt-action rifles force back the attack of their MP40 submachine guns, which were no less numerous than their MP40 submachine guns? Soon, nearly half of the French troops stationed on the first floor were killed by the German soldiers, and the Germans managed to enter the town hall building.

Faced with the German commandos who had stormed the building and were armed with a large number of submachine guns and shotguns, the remaining 20 or so French soldiers on the first floor had to abandon their positions on the first floor and retreat down the stairs to the second floor.

The German lieutenant in charge of the German assault team saw that the French had abandoned their positions and fled to the second floor, so he led the assault team to follow closely behind, trying to rush to the second floor with the French army's ass.

But he didn't expect the French troops on the second floor to be quite ruthless, and when he saw the Germans following behind the butts of the troops on the first floor, he pulled the trigger without thinking about it, and sent several German commandos to heaven with about the same number of friendly troops.

Seeing that the French army was so ruthless, the German commandos had no choice but to retreat first to stabilize the first floor, and wait for follow-up support to arrive before attacking.

At this time, the sky was gradually getting lighter, and after a night of fierce fighting, the two sides finally stopped their movements, and the soldiers were able to take this opportunity to eat something and close their eyes for a while, ready for the more intense indoor battle that followed.

Davide was also a member of this commando team, and he was originally an Panzergrenadier serving in the Waffen-SS Panzer Division of the Lyon Andrés Guard Banner, where he was wounded in a battle, and after recovering from his injuries, he was given a month's leave of injury. However, less than two weeks after returning home, he received an order from his superiors to go to Belgium immediately and join a newly formed motorized infantry division of the Wehrmacht as a squad leader.

Although this paper order had led to his promotion, he was still very unhappy to be transferred from the most elite and prestigious Panzer Division of the SS closest to the Führer, especially when he was transferred to a newly formed motorized rifle division of the Wehrmacht.

But he soon noticed something different, as the new unit never taught them field skills, but spent their days practicing close-quarters combat in a small border town in Belgium — something new to him.

However, this also made him very puzzled, he didn't know what he was doing this practice for, until he was transferred to Romiyi.