There was a small commotion among the soldiers, especially those who had only recently joined the army, and they hurried to their tiptoes to see Rommel as the legendary general.

"My warriors, you are all good, although you did not win the bright red military flag in the end, but your perseverance and fighting spirit have been perfectly reflected, you are a great soldier in the new era, I am proud of you!" Rommel exclaimed.

There was a round of applause in the ranks.

"Maybe you will say that the division is deliberately tossing you, making you do a night's useless work, and even delaying your normal rest time, if so, you are very wrong. Now, I think I should tell you the main reasons for this operation. "Rommel was not a genius orator, he liked to speak straight.

There was a sudden silence in the audience, waiting for General Rommel to reveal why the troops had been tossed all night.

"I don't think I need to say much about what this place is, and besides, when our steel army is stationed in this area, the Soviets know it at a glance through the intelligence services. If I had put you to sleep last night, perhaps you would not have seen the dawn of the East this morning......" Rommel's words took everyone by surprise.

"Obviously, the Soviets thought that we would sleep very well and sleep very well when we came from afar, exhausted, so they planned to attack our camp, but when they found out that we were not sleeping at all, but were training vigorously, their plan was thwarted." Rommel's words woke everyone up like a dream.

"When it comes to the Capture the Flag, you can really just enjoy the whole process, and I think you've all tasted the hardships, and in fact, the purpose is not to win the flag, but to give you the passion to get through a difficult night. However, many of you have gone back to the open to find other ways, and I think the direction and the theory are correct, but you don't have to look for it. From now on, your task today is to set up your tent and get a good night's sleep! ”

The troops were brought back by the units, and the soldiers, who had been tired all night, immediately set about setting up tents and reinforcing security measures around the camp.

At the dawn, the 2nd Battalion, which was the fastest, had already begun to have people with buckets and dirty clothes to bathe in the river.

"I have to say that compared to the clean and tidy bathhouse, we are not used to this kind of life of bathing in the wild." Speer spoke to Major Tucker as he walked.

"Yes, Lieutenant. It seems that we should intensify field training, especially in the field of mobile life, otherwise the troops will not be able to complete the task of combat readiness in a difficult environment. Major Tucker said with deep feeling.

"You're right, Your Excellency Major, the army can't win a battle if it's content with pleasure."

"Oh, there's already someone in the river." Major Tucker said, pointing to the creek ahead.

"Yes, it's Bill, it seems like we're not the first people to come to the river to bathe." Speer said with a smile.

"Hey! Good morning! Chiefs. I'm afraid it's not a good place for you...... though," Bill joked to Tucker and Speer, who had just walked to the river.

"Alright then, Sergeant. Let's go find a place that suits us, and you don't have to come along. Speer said, rolling up Bill's clothes they had put on the river beach and pretending to leave.

"Hey! God, that's not good, sir. We have changed our minds and welcome the Governors, please take a bath. Bill hurriedly made a "please" gesture.

"Yes, sir. We've scouted and it's hard to find a place like this for laundry and bathing anywhere else except here. However, there seem to be a lot of fish in the river, and occasionally touching the body, it is crispy and too comfortable. The honest Ernest gestured.

"Well, I'm sure Ernest wasn't lying." After Speer finished speaking, he put down the bucket and clothes and jumped into the river.

Major Tucker didn't seem to be used to it, and hesitated to get into the water.

"Come down, sir. We are not interested in your white belly. Oh! It's so comfortable, you can't enjoy such a relaxing and natural wild bath in Frankfurt, this is the best bathhouse God has given us. Everyone urged Major Tucker to go down the river.

I could almost smell the stench all over my body, and when I saw the clear river water, I felt a strange itch and unbearable feeling. With everyone's encouragement, Major Tucker finally gave up his remaining shyness and slowly descended the river and huddled with everyone.

"It's a great place to fish, and we can improve our food." Herbert proposed to prepare fishing gear, and he was to occasionally go down to the river to fish.

"I'm afraid it won't work, Herbert. General William Loeb has already said that the troops are strictly forbidden to go into the river to fish, and several brothers of the 92nd Division have already been punished, and if he finds out that you have violated discipline again, he will kick your ass. Ernest said worriedly.

"We are the 10th Panzer Army, and General William Loeb can't control us." Herbert said confidently.

"That's not good, what are we here for, I believe everyone knows very well in their hearts. Okay, let's rub each other's backs so it's more comfortable. Lieutenant Speer said, taking the lead in rubbing everyone's backs.

When the sun rose, the number of people who went down to the river to bathe gradually increased. Major Tucker and the others hurriedly grabbed their clothes and left the riverbank.

Except for the staff on duty, everyone had a good night's sleep. When Bill and Ernest got up, it was already five o'clock the next morning, and according to General Rommel's military plan, Major Tucker had already informed them in advance that they would go to the regimental headquarters with Lieutenant Speer to meet up with the intelligence officer, Major Gayhard Rommel, and then conduct a topographic survey of the vast area outside the camp for the next training, exercises, and actual battles.

Company H was only a few miles away from the regimental headquarters, and it only took more than 20 minutes to run. As veterans of the regiment, Bill and Ernest were the indispensable backbone of the survey. According to General Rommel's request, they had to complete the reconnaissance and mapping of the perimeter of Bialystok within a month, so that the units could simulate offensive exercises.

After breakfast, the group of four carefully camouflaged the military vehicles and then carefully surveyed the soil quality, altitude difference, hydrology, and areas where the troops might be dispersed and concealed along Ruda, Kneshin, and Rybnik.

Bialystok is surrounded by hundreds of swamps, shrubs and forests, which pose a challenge for surveying and mapping, but also provide good concealment for surveying and mapping work. Although they often encountered Soviet border patrol units in their work, they escaped danger again and again with good camouflage.

Geihard Rommel was a shrewd and capable intelligence master, a veteran of the First World War, and a lover of the United Affair member Madina, but for various reasons, they never came together.

After nearly a month of careful reconnaissance and surveying, the survey team finally identified two secret garrison bases based on Suprahir in the northeast of Bialystok and Shekerki in the northwest. However, because the marshes were too narrow for large regiments to fight, and because the surprise attack on the tanks also brought disadvantages, Geihard drew up a bold and creative military plan, which was signed by four men at the same time and handed to General Rommel.

After carefully analyzing the military plan submitted by the surveying and mapping team, Rommel laughed. Judging from the draft map, the two secret garrisons in the north were guilty of the same taboo, that is, the entrenchment of the two major crossings at Bialystok was very easy to expose the intentions of the German army.

Putting down the surveying and mapping materials, Rommel listened carefully to the opinions of the members of the surveying and mapping team.

In fact, Gaehard and others are not unaware of this as a drawback, but from the perspective of lightning military operations, they have two major advantages. Once the troops locked on the offensive line, the 10th Army's steel torrent could be driven through these two wide roads to the central square of Bialystok, and then form a front and rear attack on the four Soviet bases stationed north of the city.

After all, it was impossible for the Germans to stay in these two military points for too long, negating the possibility of revealing military intentions, and even if the Soviet patrols found out, it would be too late, and the German siege battle would probably have started at the same time.

Rommel very much agreed with this idea and promptly reported the military deployment to Manstein. At this time, Guderian's 74th Division was also moving closer to this area day and night.

The strategic goal of Defense Minister Zeckert and Army Commander-in-Chief Rundstedt was to storm Diavystok with lightning speed, cut off the Soviet supply routes, isolate the Soviet forces occupying Warsaw, and then break them individually. And the military deployment made by Geihard caters to this requirement.