The soldiers defeated Maidstone without blood, everything looked so bright, and the British conspiracy against the rocket artillery battalion under them had gone bankrupt, and the road ahead was destined to be a smooth road, at least in the eyes of the officers and men of the 1st Division in China. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After having eliminated the enemy in Maidstone, the troops quickly occupied the main junctions and set up camp on the spot, intending to spend the night here and then continue the offensive the next day.

As for the British prisoners, they had their own logistical system, although they had become prisoners and had no weapons, but none of their things were destroyed, but they were driven to the suburbs, guarded, and cooked by their own fires.

At 10 p.m., the 71st Infantry Division of Second Class Infantry General Karl Wiesenberg finally caught up with the 1st Chinese Division, and when they arrived and saw the full number of British prisoners, the general seemed to be shocked except for shock.

(During the 0 years, the German Wehrmacht awarded a large number of generals, including the infantry alone, 70 people were awarded the rank of general, in those two years, the German Wehrmacht can be said to be a lot of generals, should have been major generals and lieutenant generals as commanders of divisional units in those two years, many of them were generals, of which the 71st Infantry Division has experienced three generals in just three years.) ）

Immediately after arriving in Maidstone, the 71st Infantry Division dispatched the 171st Engineer Battalion to begin emergency demining of the minefield behind Maidstone, while at the same time sending personnel to carry out reconnaissance work 5 kilometres to ensure that there would be no more minefields.

The appearance of the 71st Infantry Division can be said to have solved Kirsch's urgent need, and now he finally does not have to worry about the lack of infantry coordination and restraint when attacking the city in the future.

However, the fact that the troops may get along well with each other does not mean that the commanders of the two units get along with each other very well.

When Wiesenberg arrived, when he saw the large group of British prisoners, he immediately approached Kirsch, and even did not hesitate to use his position as general to ask Kirsch, who only had the rank of colonel, to hand over these prisoners to him.

It had only been two days since the heavy casualties of the 71st Infantry Division on Dover Beach, and Wiesenburg wanted to flay alive all the British who dared to appear in front of him, but Kirsch obviously would not agree to such a thing, and he did everything in his power to prevent Wiesenberg from making the mistake of abusing the prisoners of war.

In fact, Kirsch is not really sympathetic to these British prisoners, but because it seems that Weisenberg's anger is too great, if these prisoners of war are really handed over to Weisenberg, I am afraid that Weisenborg will really send someone to kill all the prisoners of war!

At that time, the impact of the massacre of prisoners of war will be unprecedented, and even affect the safety of the entire empire.

After arguing with each other for a full hour, Wiesenberg finally chose to agree with Kirsch's statement to ensure the safety of the group of British prisoners of war and release a small number of British prisoners of war, thus publicizing the high ground and allowing them to advance to the British rear, which would deal some damage to the morale of the British defenders.

Seeing that it was late at night, the two men made separate arrangements for the situation of their respective units, inspected the various posts, and told the captured British soldiers the news that they would release some prisoners of war the next day, and then returned to their respective places and fell into a deep sleep.

However, while the 1st and 71st Infantry Divisions of Huaxia were resting, the British troops did not rest.

Since the first large-scale war against Poland, the German war machine has developed an almost obvious pattern, that is, each attack usually begins after four o'clock in the morning, and is accompanied by a large number of air forces.

This pattern is obvious, and until now, basically no German ground force has broken it.

Now, the British have obviously figured out the laws of the German army's operations, and the 1st Huaxia Division has long been a thorn in their side, and the combat operations against the 1st Huaxia Division have quietly started in the middle of the night.

In fact, laying a large number of anti-tank mines in front of Maidstone and hiding the entire division's troops in civilian houses are indeed tactics aimed at the 1st Huaxia Division, especially the rocket artillery battalion directly under it, but this is not all, and even this is just a small beginning!

This entire division, according to the assumption of the British command structure, if it can defeat the rocket artillery unit, it will be the greatest victory, if it can't be defeated, there is nothing, as long as it can delay the pace of the German attack, then they have already completed the task!

It is even said that the command structure of the British army did not plan that anyone in this unit could be left alive, and the British army of this division had already announced the death penalty within their top management, and the time when the death penalty was announced was at the moment when this unit was officially stationed in Maidstone!

Due to the successful delay of this British division in Maidstone, the main force of the British army in the rear of Maidstone had plenty of time to assemble, at midnight, they still did not rest, the British ** team identified the first division of China, their purpose is very simple, that is, they would rather give up all other places, but also in the shortest possible time to concentrate all the forces that can be concentrated, to give this almost crazy German ace army a fatal blow!

During the day, because the Luftwaffe bombers had occupied the entire sky, and the few hundred fighters left in the British Royal Air Force had basically fought for nothing in just two days, so their troop movements were not particularly fast, but they still did not stop for a moment.

Before midnight, almost two-thirds of the British Army's remaining Pounder guns were all assembled in the village of Mapham, which was only 15 kilometers away from Maidstone, and at the same time, the British Army took advantage of the night to drive all the existing more than 100 tanks into Snodland, which is only 10 kilometers away from Maidstone, and at the same time, Two infantry divisions have also entered the city of Aylesford, no more than 8 kilometres from Maidstone.

When all the preparations had been made, the 1st Huaxia Division and the 71st Infantry Division were all asleep at this moment, and they didn't know it!

It wasn't until half past three in the morning that a rush of gunfire suddenly erupted, waking them up (to be continued). )

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