"What! What did you say! Is Rommel dead? How did he die and where? When? ”

Xu Jun was stupid at the time, how could it be that the unsinkable battleship Rommel, known as the master of tank warfare, died here? Are you kidding.

"General, General Rommel is indeed dead. On that dirt slope, those shells ...... "Seeing that Xu Jun's face was not good, Muller couldn't even speak."

"Slowly, from the beginning, what the hell is going on, and you also make our current situation clear."

"Yes, Your Excellency." Muller settled down, and then began to report the ins and outs of this matter to Xu Jun.

"We set out from Cambrai early this morning and advanced south of Arras, with General Rommel, as usual, rushing to the front with the 25th Panzer Regiment and the 37th Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, the 83rd Communications Battalion. And the 7th Motorized Rifle Regiment followed, and we followed behind the 7th Regiment. The 42nd Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion was on our flanks, while the 78th Artillery Regiment and the 58th Engineer Battalion followed at the rear with logistical baggage units.

Originally, we advanced smoothly without any resistance, except for two enemy reconnaissance planes flying by, nothing happened. But the road was too difficult to walk, the half-track personnel carriers that were supposed to be reequipped with us two months ago have not yet arrived, and the only three SDKFZ251s have been sent to the logistics repair shop because they have been hit by damn mines. The Mercedes trucks we use now can't run fast on this dirt road, and we're waiting for the 78th Artillery Regiment and the logistic engineer behind us to carry the load, you know, and those troops are as slow as infantry.

As a result, just after lunch, General Rommel rushed back with the 83rd Signal Battalion and the division headquarters, and he went to the 7th Regiment first, asking them to speed up and keep up with the 25th Panzer Regiment. Then I rushed to our regiment, and it seemed to be about 1:45 a.m., and I was sitting in the same car as the regiment commander. As soon as General Rommel arrived, he ordered us to speed up, but he felt that our speed was too slow, and not only could we not keep up with the 25th Panzer Regiment, but also distanced ourselves from the 7th Regiment in front.

Just as our regimental commander was explaining to him that we were waiting for the artillery and logistics behind, suddenly the reconnaissance vehicles of the 42 anti-tank gun battalion on our right flank sent a report that a large number of British tanks and infantry were approaching us. Then we got into fire with the British, and the 42nd Anti-Tank Battalion had PAK/38/37mm anti-tank guns, which were supposed to be able to deal with the British tanks. So General Rommel also sent the first battalion of our regiment to help the 42 anti-tank gun battalion defend against the opposing infantry. Then the 7th regiment also sent a report that their right flank was also attacked.

At the time, we all thought it was a harassing attack by the British, but we didn't expect that the enemy tank was a new model that we had never seen before. The 37-mm anti-tank guns did not work at all, and they could not even slow them down. The tanks crushed the 1st Battalion in an instant, it was a massacre, and not a single soldier of the 1st Battalion could run back. Then the tanks tore apart the positions of the 42nd Anti-Tank Battalion, and they ran over the 37mm guns, and I saw a brave artilleryman who was still firing at a distance of 5 meters from the tank, but he just couldn't penetrate the damn thing.

A whole company of anti-tank guns was killed in their gun emplacements, the rest were taken prisoner, poor ones. Mueller's voice was a little infarcted when he said this.

Xu Jun patted him on the shoulder and comforted him. Then Muller continued: "At that time the damned British were rushing directly through the anti-tank gun positions towards the road, only 1,000 meters from us, our light infantry guns and machine guns were still hanging from the trucks, and there was no shelter nearby, so we had to retreat to the left flank. Two No. III tanks and one Type 222 armored vehicle directly under the division headquarters volunteered to stay behind to stop them and cover the retreat of the infantry. May God bless them, they are all good boys.

We retreated to the southeast, but after leaving the dirt road, the trucks sank into the soft fields after a short time, and we had to rely on the soldiers pulling the guns to retreat. And then we withdrew here. Here we find this trench, which looks like it was dug by the French during the First World War, and they didn't fill it in after the war, just enough for us to use.

General Rommel ordered to establish defensive positions on the spot. At this time, we were left with only the 2nd and 3rd battalions and the elite guard detachments of the division headquarters, as well as a company of assault engineers from the 58th engineer battalion, a company of the 42nd anti-tank battalion on our left flank, and the rest of the non-combat units and communications battalions of the division headquarters. Only one company of 150-mm self-propelled guns of the 78th Artillery Regiment followed us, and the other towed 105-mm heavy infantry guns and 88-mm anti-aircraft guns did not know where to go, and it seemed that they had been lost, and our troops were indeed dragging too long on the dirt road, and they were still far behind us when the order to retreat was given.

General Rommel placed them in the woods behind us...... Then General Rommel called our regiment commander and the commander of the 3rd battalion to a meeting on the earthen slope. The order was for me to hold the first line, with anti-tank guns on my left rear flank, six 75-mm light infantry guns on the right flank, and 50-mm mortars in my position. General Rommel placed his command vehicle and the communications vehicle of the 83rd Communications Battalion under the dirt slope, because those vehicles also had at least one 20-mm machine gun on board, which would make up for our current lack of firepower. All the 20-mm machine guns of our regiment were placed on the dirt slope and were personally commanded by General Rommel.

Then the enemy began to attack, the first infantry charge was repulsed by us, and then they sent tanks, and just as we were about to open fire, the enemy actually bombarded us with field artillery, General Rommel and the staff of the division headquarters, as well as our regiment commander and the commander of the 3rd battalion, were directly hit in the first round of shelling, and also knocked out almost all of our 20 guns, and the second round of shelling knocked out those armored vehicles on the side of the hillside, and the entire divisional communications battalion was blown into the sky. My caller was also in there, and he tried to get a spare battery, but he was killed by the explosion, and he was only 20 years old.

All our radio stations were destroyed, so we lost contact with the rest of the troops. Then the enemy tanks attacked, but fortunately the sappers temporarily laid anti-tank mines in front of the position, coupled with the heavy smashing of our infantry guns and mortars, and the ME110s that came from nowhere to strafe them. God bless those brave pilots. We finally beat each other back, and your plane appeared in front of us. ”

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