Chapter 359: The Duel Between Rommel and De Gaulle! (c)
"Hey, yes, yes." Bruce also nodded repeatedly, and the corners of his mouth grinned to the back of his head, "You have good marksmanship, you will shoot first!" β
"Okay!" As he spoke, Philip tugged on the bolt of his gun, then slowly leaned over and poked his head out from behind the stone to glance at it.
But this glance startled Philip, who hurriedly retracted his head and pulled back Bruce, who had crawled out of the middle.
"What are you doing?" Bruce was also startled, but he was frightened by Philip, "What did you see scared like this?" Tigers?! β
"LLLe......" Philip was visibly stunned and stammered.
"Le lion (French "lion")? Don't be kidding, it's woods, Le lion is in Africa......" said Bruce trying to peek out again.
As a result, he was pulled back by Philip.
"Les Allemands! This time Philip finally said it was smooth.
"What?! German?! Bruce's eyes widened, and he exclaimed in a low voice.
After Philip took a few deep breaths to stabilize his emotions, he nervously admonished Bruce: "If you don't believe yourself, remember to be careful, if they find out we will be finished!" β
"Understood." Bruce nodded, then turned around and poked his head out cautiously to take a look.
Sure enough, as Philip had said, not far in front of them, a group of about 20 German infantrymen cautiously searched forward, one of whom had a large map in his hand, drawing something on it as he went.
Bruce looked at it for a while and then shrank back, his nervous hand holding the gun was shaking: "I'll go, so many Germans?!" What to do?! β
"Damn, how do I know what to do?!" Philip said angrily, "Anyway, where did this group of people come from?" Aren't all the Germans' troops on the railroad bridge? β
"No, I don't know......," Bruce shook his head, "there is no bridge over this river, how did they get here?" β
Philip groaned for a moment, and then said, "No, I have to go and see!" β
With that, he slowly moved down the slope.
"What are you doing?! Are you crazy?! Bruce was taken aback by Philip's actions, "There are twenty people on this team in front of us alone, who knows if there are more behind them?!" Aren't you going to die if you go like this?! β
"I have to go see what's going on on the other side of the river!" "But you have to go back, and the troops need to know that there are Germans in the forestβthough they don't know what they're here for." β
"If you don't go back, then I won't go back either!" Bruce shook his head and refused, "What if you die?" β
"Phew, frustrated!" Philip spat out to get angry, and then persuaded Bruce, "You have to go back, or what will happen if this group of Germans touches the ground?" β
"There are sentinels in the position, what if these 20 people can take our position?" Bruce said indifferently, "I don't care, anyway, if we want to go back, we will go back together, and if we want to go forward, we will go forward together!" β
"Okay, okay!" Philip waved his hand, "If you like to follow, just follow it." β
With that, he moved down the slope.
Seeing this, Bruce followed.
The forest was so large that the two crept around the flanks of the German detachment without much effort and rushed to the river.
It didn't take long for the sound of the rushing water to turn loud and loud, and the forest slowly thinned out a lot.
A short walk further on, the mighty Somme River came into view.
Along with it, there was also a pontoon bridge, on which quite a few German sappers were busy.
There is no doubt that they were widening and reinforcing the bridge for the passage of tanks parked on the other side of the river.
βshitοΌ I said how these Germans got here! Bruce said as he lay on the ground and observed the Germans.
"I didn't expect it, these Germans are quite yin! Yesterday, the two railway bridges that were still upstream launched a huge offensive, and in the blink of an eye, a pontoon bridge was built here! Philip said with a sneer.
"There is an old Chinese saying, how do you say it? Bright plank road, dark... Dark... Secretly masturbating Chen Cang? Bruce touched his chin and said.
"It's Darkness Chen Cang, you idiot!" Philip scoffed.
"Oh, oh, it turned out to be Dark Chen Cang...... Bruce scratched his head in embarrassment, "I said what is this plank road doing with Chen Cang for no reason, people don't have their own hands......"
"Alas, you're hopeless......" Philip shook his head and let out a long sigh.
"What are we going to do next?" Bruce quickly changed the subject, "Why don't we blow up the bridge?" β
"Blowing up the bridge? Do you have explosives? Philip gave Bruce a puzzled look.
"I don't, but the Germans do!" Bruce said, gesturing to a pile of shell boxes piled up next to the pontoon, "Look, they have so many tank shells there, if we detonate them, we're going to blow this bridge into the water!" β
"If you detonate those bombs, you can really blow up the bridge, but ...... But how do you detonate? Philip asked.
"With a gun, of course!" With that, Bruce removed the rifle from his back and pulled the bolt to load the bullet.
"Are you stupid?" Seeing this, Philip hurriedly pressed down the muzzle of Bruce's gun, "Let's not talk about whether your bullet can detonate the shell, but at a distance of almost 300 meters, the Germans will let you shoot you and you will definitely not be able to shoot!" β
"You let go of me! Isn't it just 300 meters? Our marksman can hit 800 miles, how can I not hit 300 meters?! β
"Where do you think you hit 800 miles?" Philip was taken aback.
"The last time the regiment organized us to watch a movie, wasn't the protagonist of the movie 800 miles away to kill the German machine gunner with one shot?"
"That's a god! God descends! The Virgin Mary possessed! What are you? Philip said angrily, "Let's go back and report this situation to our superiors, maybe we can get a medal!" β
With that, Philip took Bruce and retreated to the position.
Forty minutes later, the news that the Germans had erected a pontoon bridge downstream was reported in layers and finally reached de Gaulle.
"Humph! It is worthy of Schwebenburg, the Fifth Panzer Division is indeed not false! De Gaulle looked at the report in his hand and sneered, "Yesterday we launched a large-scale attack on my two railway bridges, and turned around and built a pontoon bridge for me downstream. Awesome! β
"Uh, General, the commander on the other side doesn't seem to be Schwebenburg......" one of the adjutants reminded.
"Huh?" De Gaulle was stunned in embarrassment, "Who is that?" β
"Rommel!"
"Rommel?! Hey, hey, hey......" Hearing the name, de Gaulle rubbed his hands excitedly, and his eyes were crooked with a smile.
This fluttering expression attracted the officers in the command headquarters to look sideways.
"Ahem...... Don't get me wrong, I don't have an adulterous affair with him! De Gaulle looked at the eyes of the officers, and quickly clarified, "I just want to fight him all the time, and now I finally have a chance!" β
"Uh, by the way, what about the two soldiers who found out about this? Did they come? I want to see them! What a great thing they have done! He changed the subject.
"It's still in the original army." Adjutant said.
"Well...... "De Gaulle, touching his chin, "then tell them that when this battle is over, I will marry ...... Ah no, apply for a medal for them personally! β