Chapter 391: Encounter
"Airplanes?" Juan muttered to himself suspiciously, then looked up in the direction where the voice came from.
Sure enough, several sets of bright spots flashing red and green sped across the dark night sky.
These are the navigation lights that must be turned on when the plane is flying at night to avoid collisions.
"What a plane!" Zhu An said, "There is a night mission on the Air Force's side?" ”
"Night missions?" The chief of staff shook his head slowly, "We are almost finished fighting daytime combat aircraft, how can we still be capable of performing night missions......"
"That is to say...... These horse-riding planes are Germans?! Juan's eyes widened.
Suddenly, he realized that something was wrong.
"Damn it!" He patted the driver nervously, motioned for him to stop, and shouted at the herald.
"Herald! Heralds! ”
"Here!" The herald, who was dazed and sleepy, was awakened by the sound of Juan shouting, and hurriedly jumped out of the car and ran to Juan's jeep, "What's the matter?" Sir? ”
"The order went down, the troops stopped advancing, all the vehicles drove off the road, and the infantry formed positions on the spot!" Juan said as he jumped off the jeep and pulled his rifle from his belt.
"Yes!"
"What's wrong? Why did it suddenly stop moving forward? The chief of staff also jumped off the jeep and asked Juan puzzled.
"Don't you notice it's too quiet?" Zhu An said as he looked for a suitable place to set up a command tent in the moonlight.
"Quiet?" The chief of staff was confused, "Isn't it normal to be quiet in the wilderness here?" ”
"No!" Juan shook his head, then pointed to the flickering firelight in the distance and said, "That's Romiyi, our current location is at most 10 kilometers away from there, but except for the firelight, there is no sound of firefighting coming from there!" ”
After a pause, he added, "I don't think that with the fierce fighting situation of Romei, the enemy and the enemy will invariably stop fighting at night!" ”
"yes!" It dawned on the chief of staff that Romiy was now the place where the fighting was most intense on the entire front, and that the Germans and French had assembled five divisions and a large number of scattered support forces, numbering at least 80,000 men.
Although it is night, even if the commanders of both Germany and France give up the night attack, there must be small groups of troops exchanging fire anytime and anywhere in a street battle battlefield of this scale, and now there is not a single sound coming!
"That only says a little bit......" The chief of staff looked at Juan in dismay.
"Romiyi is down!" Juan said solemnly.
That's right, as the two thought, Romiy had fallen before sunset, and the reason why it was so fast was mainly because the German tactics of division and encirclement worked wonderfully, a large number of French infantry were killed and captured, and two of the three French infantry divisions were wiped out by the Germans, and only the commander of the French 20th Infantry Division, Major General Yves, led the remnants of about 800 French troops to desperately break through the German encirclement and escape from the city of Romiy.
"Damn! We're hurrying and hurrying, it's still too late after all! The chief of staff said with chagrin.
"That wave of routs consumed too much of our time! Or we'll be in Romiy before sunset! Juan angrily punched the air, "I should have ordered it to be run over in the first place!" ”
"It's too late to say anything!" The chief of staff said, "What's next?" Spending on this? Why don't we go back? Preparing for the Battle of Paris ......"
"It's too late......," Zhu An said with a wry smile, "Those planes just now are not bombers, and we can't afford to launch an air attack at night, so what is the mission they are performing?" ”
"Hmm......" The chief of staff touched his chin and thought for a moment, "Scouting?" ”
"Scouting?" Zhu An shook his head and said, "The Germans have completely controlled air supremacy, if they want to scout, they can come in the daytime, why bother to come at night?" It's tiring to see nothing and not say anything. ”
"Then it can only be ......" the chief of staff's eyes slowly widened, "show their troops the way?!" Damn it! ”
While the two were discussing, all the trucks of the motorized division had already swayed off the road, and the infantry had been woken up from their sleep by their respective commanders, who jumped out of the trucks and dug up the fortifications with sleepy eyes.
But they were completely awake after a long time of half-sleep, as the ground shook from far and near, and the sound of "rumbling" engines poured into their ears.
The recruits may not have understood what it was made of, but the veterans understood it as soon as they heard it.
This is the nightmare of their lives, this is the sound of the German armored units advancing at high speed!
"Flares! Flares! Zhu An shouted in a panic to the divisional artillery that had just been deployed not far behind him.
"Woohoo!" With a few cannon shots, more than a dozen 155 flares were fired into the sky, and a large area ahead was immediately illuminated for the French army.
See what lies ahead. Every French soldier couldn't help but gasp.
There was no other scene ahead, but hundreds of tanks and armored personnel carriers were illuminated by flares, slamming straight into the French positions at a speed of twenty or thirty kilometers per hour!
"Artillery fire! Artillery fire! Suppress them! Don't let them rush over! Seeing this, Zhu An immediately yelled.
"Boom, boom!" The artillery positions roared again, and countless shells rained down on the charging Germans.
In the face of direct fire from large-caliber howitzers, heavy tanks with heavy armor will inevitably be blown into a pile of scrap metal, and the medium tanks in the German charge are even more miserable, and four No. 4 tanks were knocked back to parts on the spot.
When the German commander saw that he had been discovered, he no longer "twisted and pinched", and the German armored units turned on their headlights, while the German assault guns and self-propelled guns in the rear that followed the tank charge opened fire at the same time, firing a dense range of shells at the exposed French artillery positions.
In a series of explosions, the French artillery position was blown up into the sky by the German artillery, and Juan and his chief of staff, who were not far from the artillery position, were also affected by the blast wave, and were stunned by the violent shock wave on the spot.
Although it was nighttime, the German armored units still showed great combat effectiveness, and they did not show any mercy in the face of the French infantry who were densely formed because of the march, and frantically harvested the lives of French soldiers with scythes composed of tracks and bullets!
Within half an hour, the motorized division lost itself in the torrent of German armor, and all units gave up resistance, or surrendered to the Germans, or abandoned their armor and ran frantically. This encounter finally ended with the German army killing more than 1,000 French soldiers, wounding more than 500 people, and capturing more than 4,000 prisoners in less than an hour at a small cost of only 16 killed and 5 wounded.
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