"What's wrong?"

Rundstedt looked at Manstein with anticipation, since the Supreme Command adopted Manstein's plan, Rundstedt has always valued Manstein very much, and as he gradually came into contact with him, he found that Manstein was a military genius, so he attached great importance to any opinion of Manstein. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Get the infantry on!"

"Let the infantry go up? What do you mean? ”

Rundstedt was suspicious, and he couldn't understand what Manstein meant by this.

Is it just that Rundstedt doesn't understand? Almost everyone in the entire command was focused on Manstein, and no one could understand his words.

But because Manstein was the only person in the command at this time who had served as the commander of an infantry division, when he said that he had let the infantry go, everyone was really looking forward to what Manstein's purpose was.

"Let the infantry move closer to the bridgehead, and when it is close enough to the bridgehead, the artillery will start to fire and mix it with smoke grenades. After the artillery attack begins, a small number of infantry battalions and companies can be sent to each bridgehead to attack. ”

"Let the infantry attack directly? Chief of Staff, you're not mistaken, right? That would only increase unnecessary casualties, the infantry was too vulnerable. ”

"Tell me your reasons!"

Rundstedt stopped the dissenting staff officer and told Manstein to continue, believing that Manstein must have had his reasons for saying so.

"The reason why the French have not blown up the bridge is to wait for our tanks to get on the bridge, and what they are really worried about is not our infantry, but our tank troops! Therefore, it is more reassuring for the French to send infantry than tanks. ”

"Secondly, the infantry unit wants to have more and more vulnerable targets than tanks, so it will attract the attention of the French more, so as to provide another sense of cover for the sappers under the bridge."

"In the end, because the tanks did not go up to the bridge, and the infantry was only a small force, the French would not fight too much, and they would try to attract our tanks to the bridge to achieve their goals, so the infantry unit responsible for the attack was relatively much safer."

Manstein was not very persuasive, and he did not know if his explanation would convince the crowd present, so he could only hope that Rundstedt understood his intentions.

Apparently, Rundstedt got it!

"Just follow the instructions of the chief of staff to convey the order, but ask the armored troops to be ready to cross the river at any time, and once the explosives are successfully removed, start crossing the river immediately!"

……

The shelling began again, and the sappers under the bridge watched the smoke once again cover the river, and their hands moved faster, and they were also racing against time, defusing the bomb a second earlier, which not only meant that the entire army could attack a second earlier, but more importantly, it meant that they could leave this damn battlefield a second earlier, and no longer have to guard such a large pile of explosives that could kill them at any time.

There was a tense rush under the bridge, and on the bridge deck, the German infantry began to advance cautiously.

Li Ling's tank was not particularly far from the bridge deck at this time, and through the telescope, he watched the German infantry disappear into the smoke one after another, as for what happened in the smoke, it was not for him to see clearly, at this time, he could only wait for orders.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that the explosions on the other side of the river suddenly became violent, until his troops received an order from the command and a full-scale offensive began!

"The first battalion and the second battalion will attack with me, the third battalion will not move for the time being, and follow behind the large army, and the specific command of the third battalion will be in charge of the third battalion commander Weidenfeller."

After the attack began, Li Ling immediately gave an order, and the first regiment directly under him immediately moved, but at this time he had to leave the third battalion alone behind.

The Lee-style tank destroyer is indeed a good thing, but in this kind of hand-to-hand battle, this kind of crispy goods really can't get to the front line!

Click!

As a flash of lightning split the clouds in the sky, a torrential rain fell in an instant.

The thick fog from the smoke bomb quickly dissipated, and everything seemed to be in an instant, and as the smoke cleared, the situation on the battlefield was in front of everyone.

The bodies were strewn all over the trail at the edge of the bridge, and it was clear that the French, after discovering that the German infantry had begun to attack, immediately launched machine-gun fire on the bridge deck, inflicting heavy casualties on these German soldiers, while many more German soldiers were prostrate on the bridge deck, not daring to look up.

Manstein miscalculated, and instead of showing mercy to the German infantry in order to attract German tanks to the bridge, the French went straight to the killing, fearing that any German soldier would approach them, and the French apparently preferred that the Germans would never go up the bridge.

When the French saw that the German tanks began a large-scale attack, when they wanted to detonate the explosives that had been placed under the bridge, the reality told them that none of the explosives they had planted in advance exploded!

"No!"

With a long sigh of horror from the French soldiers, the German tanks began to rush onto the bridge deck and towards the opposite bank, while hundreds of rubber rafts were pushed down the riverbank, and the German infantry began to cross the river by various means.

German artillery bombardment began to be more inclined to the depths of the French positions, and they wanted to provide sufficient safety distance for the German units that were in full attack.

At this time, the other side of the Meuse River turned into a purgatory on earth in an instant.

Due to the limited number of tanks that could pass through the bridge at one time, more German tanks had to wait on the banks of the river, and during this time they were not idle.

Turning the muzzle of the gun, in the most direct way, these tanks spew out rage and smash their warheads into any building on the other side of the river that did not collapse!

The defensive line laid out by the French was reduced to ruins almost instantly in the face of such dense direct fire.

Li Ling sat in the command car, and could only observe everything around him with the narrow field of view of the periscope, and the pouring rain made it impossible for him to open the hatch at all, but this narrow field of vision was enough for him at this time, because it was almost impossible to have any enemies here.

Li Ling never thought about how the war could be so easy?

Isn't France much stronger than Poland? Obviously, when he attacked Poland, he experienced so many vicious battles, how could he change to a more powerful France, but it was so easy?

Now that his troops have not only passed through the Ardennes Forest, but even broken through the Meuse River defenses, how come they have basically not encountered any threats?

But who can say anything about war?

It may be safe at this time, but the next moment, you may encounter a crisis!