While a group of German soldiers were busy catching prisoners and cleaning up the battlefield, a long and extremely ugly tank "suddenly" drove to the front of the line with black smoke.

After the tank stopped, a man wearing a German Army summer uniform, a Zeiss telescope lens on his chest and a tank cap lifted the hatch of the tank, jumped off the tank with vigorous skills, looked at the French troops all over the ground and said with a smile: "Yo, Romiy didn't catch it, but he actually hugged a rabbit by the way in the middle of the night, and I was lucky today!" ”

As he spoke, he put his hands behind his back and looked around at his "trophies", while the German soldiers around him immediately stood up and saluted when they saw him, and shouted with respect: "Long live the Führer!" Good evening, General Rommel! ”

That's right, this ordinary armored soldier is none other than Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel, commander-in-chief of the German Second Panzer Group and commander of the 7th Panzer Division of the German Wehrmacht.

In the face of the greetings of the soldiers, Rommel smiled back without exception, which made the soldiers feel more cordial.

After walking for about ten minutes, a jeep with headlights on came sharply from behind, and then stopped steadily beside Rommel with a sharp brake.

An officer with the rank of colonel jumped neatly from the co-pilot's seat, held his hat and smiled at Rommel: "Erwin, I have finally found you." ”

"Hey! Gauss! Rommel immediately gave him a warm hug when he saw the comer, "Why are you here?" The nasty staff officers of the division headquarters don't want you anymore? ”

"you!" Hearing this, Gauss smiled and gave Rommel a punch, "They don't want you, but as a division commander, you will never be in the division headquarters!" ”

Gauss, whose full name is Alfred Gauss, joined the army at the age of 17, was awarded an Iron Cross of the Second Class and an Iron Cross of the First Class for wounds wounded in the First World War, and was appointed Chief Staff of the Fifth Infantry Corps of the Wehrmacht in the early days of the Wehrmacht Reform in Lyon, and was transferred to the General Staff of the German Army in October 1937.

However, at the beginning of the war, he was personally ordered by Leon to be sent from the General Staff to the 7th Panzer Division as Chief of Staff, and many people said behind his back that Gauss had offended the Führer to be treated like this, but the real reason for this was only clear to Leon himself.

It's not that Gauss offended him, but the combination of Rommel and Gauss is a perfect match - one of them likes to drive tanks to the front line in wartime, and the other is good at commanding as chief of staff in the absence of the commander.

Gauss himself had no problem with this transfer, but Rommel was a little unhappy, and he had repeatedly revealed to Leon that the 7th Panzer Division did not need a chief of staff (since his previous chiefs of staff had accused him of his penchant for running to the front), so he was not happy about Gauss's arrival at first.

However, after a period of contact, he found that Gauss did not like to force him to keep him at the division headquarters as his previous chiefs of staff, but was very supportive of Rommel's decision, and was able to replace him in the command when Rommel went to the front, and coordinated the cooperation between various units very well.

Therefore, it did not take long for Rommel to change his view of Gauss, and Gauss was also very impressed by Rommel's excellent conducting skills, and the two soon developed from a simple working relationship to close friends. Rommel himself, on the other hand, admired Lyon even more because of this paper tune, and he thought that Lyon was simply a god in the world, and he could see at a glance what he needed.

"So why did you come to me? It's not your style to leave the division headquarters during battle. Rommel grinned.

"It's true that it's not my style to leave the division headquarters during the battle, but now the battle is over, isn't it?" Gauss said as he followed Rommel's example and folded his hands, "I'm here mainly to tell you about the unit we're fighting against. ”

"Talking as you go?" Rommel said and made a gesture of please.

"Okay!" Gauss nodded, and then walked forward first, followed by Rommel.

"The unit we are fighting against is a motorized division of the French army that has just been formed, and their original mission was to rush to the aid of the French defenders of Romiy, and to hold our attacking troops firmly in place before more of their reinforcements arrive." Speaking of this, Gauss laughed twice, and then continued, "It's a pity that they didn't expect us to move so fast, and they defeated Romiyi before they arrived, and they were not lucky, but we were bumped into ...... when they were marching intensively."

"Haha, yes." Rommel also smiled, "But most of the time we were able to defeat them today is due to the boys of the Air Force, if they hadn't sacrificed their rest time to show us the way and found the French trucks, we really wouldn't have been able to run into them on our march." ”

"That's ......," Gauss nodded.

"We have to pay it back." Rommel pondered for a while, and then said, "Well, when you go back, talk to the air force liaison officer at the division headquarters, ask who drove the night reconnaissance planes tonight, and then take out a few packs of coffee and canned food from my food quota and send them to people, just like the thank you gift given to them by our 7th Panzer Division." ”

"Okay!" Gauss nodded.

While the two were talking, another jeep drove up and stopped beside Rommel, but this time it was not the officers who jumped down, but several soldiers and a "human dumpling" tied up by flowers.

"Divisional commander! Chief of staff! Good evening! The non-commissioned officer who took the lead saluted.

"Hello!" The two returned a salute, then looked at the "human zong", and said suspiciously, "What are you?" ”

"Divisional commander! We caught a big fish, and we thought you would be interested, so we sent it to you right away! The non-commissioned officer smiled innocently, then pushed the "human dumpling" and pushed it to Rommel.

"Tell us the teacher, who are you?!" He snapped.

"You're not qualified to order me yet!" Although the "meat dumpling" was tied strongly, it did not lose the dignity of a high-ranking officer in the slightest.

"You! A captive is still so angry?! The non-commissioned officer's face puffed up when he heard the words, and he couldn't wait to go up and give the "human zong" two punches.

But Rommel stopped him.

"Untying people is not the hospitality of our 7th Armored Division."

"But the division commander, I'm afraid he will run ......," the non-commissioned officer said hesitantly when he heard this.

"What are you afraid of, he can still outrun our tanks?" Gauss said with a smile on the side.

"That's right!" The non-commissioned officer scratched his head, gave the senior officer a threatening look, and then neatly untied the rope from his body.

The senior officer's expression softened slightly, but his eyes were still full of disdain.

"You seem to be very unconvinced?" Rommel looked at him with interest and asked.