Seven of his own infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed at once, which made the company commander feel distressed, and he had to order the remaining infantry fighting vehicles to retreat from the battlefield so as not to suffer even greater losses.

Without these defensive pillars, the German defense was weakened at once, and in the latter wave of the attack, the French troops rushed into the German defensive positions under the cover of their own mortars under German machine-gun fire, and engaged the Germans in fierce hand-to-hand combat.

In order to hold this area, the Germans had to abandon all forward positions and retreat to compress the defensive line, which was able to stop the momentum of the French offensive.

After this wave of attacks, the sky gradually darkened, and both sides invariably ceased fighting, licking their wounds.

Curled up in the trenches, the company commander held his gun and silently nibbled on compressed biscuits.

"Company commander, I'm back." The company deputy bowed his waist and trotted all the way from the traffic trench to the company commander.

"Are the casualties confirmed?" The company commander sat up, took out a pack of compressed biscuits and threw it to the company officer, and asked.

The company deputy skillfully unpacked the package with the moonlight, and Meimei took a bite before replying: "It's confirmed, the casualties of the troops are not optimistic, there are 17 casualties in a platoon, of which 8 are killed, 2 are lightly wounded, and 7 are seriously wounded; 11 died in the second platoon, there were no minor injuries, 6 were seriously wounded; 7 died in the third platoon, there were no minor injuries, 4 were seriously wounded; Eight of the four platoons died, three were slightly wounded and three were seriously wounded. ”

"How many are left with combat power?"

"Those who are lightly wounded can continue to fight, but those who are seriously injured can't, we have to send them back to the rear, otherwise they will die sooner or later."

"Ugh." The company commander sighed, "It's only been one day, and the casualties have reached one-third, which is heavier than the casualties in Barcelona at the beginning, so how should I fight?!" ”

"Actually, company commander, most of our casualties were caused by hand-to-hand combat with the French after the infantry chariot was withdrawn." Lian Deputy thought for a moment and said, "I think we can still fight as long as we find a way to take out the French anti-tank guns so that our infantry tanks can re-enter the field." ”

"I understand this, but how do I get rid of their anti-tank guns?" The company commander smiled bitterly, "Forget it, don't talk about it, you go and arrange it first, withdraw the seriously wounded, and send them back to the rear hospital in an infantry chariot." ”

"Okay." The company mate stuffed the remaining biscuits into his mouth, swallowed them with water, stood up, and left the traffic trench.

The company commander looked at the night sky for a moment, and then shouted in a low voice: "Communication soldier! ”

"In!" The communications soldier heard the company commander's shout, bent over and ran quickly.

"Have you made contact with the Sanlian next door?" The company commander asked.

"I just got in touch, I saw that you and Deputy Lian were talking, so I didn't remind you." The Signal Soldier replied.

When the company commander heard this, he took the walkie-talkie on the back of the signal soldier and connected it to the German military channel.

"Gray wolf, gray wolf! This is the jaguar, please reply when you hear it, over! ”

After waiting for a while, the company commander called again:

"Gray wolf, gray wolf! This is the jaguar, please reply when you hear it, over! ”

"......" After a burst of electric sound, the voice of the third company commander came from the walkie-talkie, "...... Here it is...... Gray wolf, over. ”

"Gray wolf, how's your situation over there? Complete. ”

"Huh...... I'm ...... ...... The situation is not good, the losses of troops ...... ...... Over a quarter, what about you? Over,"

"Alas, it's even worse on my side, the opponent is a French infantry battalion, armed with anti-tank guns, I have lost 7 infantry fighting vehicles, the reduction of troops is already a third, over."

"Jaguar, you can call...... ...... With the support of the vultures, there is not much pressure on the frontal battlefield,...... ...... The vultures have the ability to come and help us, over. ”

"Really?!" The company commander was so overjoyed that he even forgot to say "over".

"Yes, I just contacted my superiors, and they said that the Wehrmacht's 6th and 7th Panzer Divisions had inflicted heavy losses on the 11th Panzer Corps of the French on the line from Ndingen to Wilhelm, and now they are advancing towards Breisach, over."

It's rare that after saying such a long paragraph, the walkie-talkie didn't make an electric sound.

"That's great!" The company commander said happily, "I think I'm sure I'll hold on until reinforcements arrive, and it's over." ”

"Good luck then, done."

There was a way to deal with the anti-tank guns, which made the company commander happy, and he hummed a little song and felt that the moon was beautiful.

On the other side, the French soldiers also felt that the moon was beautiful, and the two French soldiers who were on guard sat side by side on a large rock, looking at the moon in the sky, and they were full of emotion.

"Seriously, Nino, seriously, I don't know why we have to come here to damn Germany and fight the damn Germans." A French soldier held his gun, looked at the beautiful moon and complained, "I really don't understand what those officers think." ”

"Well, Leo, who's to say it's not." The soldier named Nino chimed in, "It's so beautiful that I should have sat in my yard and watched it with my Ina." But now? All I can do is hold my damn gun! ”

As he spoke, he slammed the MAS36 bolt-action rifle in his hand.

"yes, I was supposed to be holding my Jenny at home." Leo patted his companion on the shoulder, "I'm going to retire after this fight and go back to marry my Jenny." ”

"Congratulations, then you must invite me to drink a wedding wine!" Nino congratulated with a smile, then took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, took out two, put one in his mouth, and handed one to Leo, "One for one?" ”

Leo ended up holding a cigarette in his mouth, then took a match from his pocket, lit it for Nino, and then lit it for himself.

After taking a puff, Leo felt much better: "Thank you buddy, this Blue Cartier cigarette is really good!" ”

"Thank you......" Nino just wanted to say "thank you", but only said one word, and then threw his head back and exploded into a watermelon.

Then, a gunshot rang out "belatedly".

"......" Leo was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to say "damn it", but he only said one word, and his head turned into an exploding watermelon like Nino.

"Two idiots, dare to smoke in the dark."

"How many are these?"

"My seventh, yours sixth."

"Alright, come on, one person will make up ten idiots, and we'll go back to sleep."

In the woods next to the German position, two German snipers whispered a simple conversation as they pulled the bolt, threw out a cartridge casing, and then pushed the next bullet into the chamber.

They were the German army's super-snipers, not precision shooters like Hoffmann, and they used specially built Mauser 98Ks with expensive 8x optical sights carefully manufactured by Zeiss.

They are the true Grim Reaper!