"Sir, are you nervous?"

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Second Lieutenant Yankel yelled at Recruit Luthor at 3 p.m. on May 4, 1940, and the weather was unusually gloomy with dark clouds and extremely low clouds.

This engineer company, which was one of the first infantry units to join the 19th Panzer Corps, had been resting here for about seven or eight hours, and as more and more troops had been assembled, they had now received new orders.

Three platoons, each heading to three different bridges over the Meuse, were to defuse the bombs planted by the French under these three bridges under enemy surveillance.

This was an extremely difficult task, but it did not mean that they had to pay a great price, and Army Group A had already deployed the strength of an artillery regiment to provide direct artillery support to each platoon.

Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ~~~

With the continuous sound of explosions, the area near the bridgehead on the other side of the river began to be hit violently!

"Let's go! Set off in full platoon and get on the dinghy! ”

Yankel lay on the bank of the river, directing his soldiers to board the dinghys that had been placed in the river, moving slowly, trying not to cause much movement.

In fact, they didn't need to be so careful at this time, because the opposite side was under heavy shelling, coupled with a few smoke bombs mixed in the middle from time to time, the French soldiers on the other side of the river did not have the time to pay attention to this place, and their attention was all on the German tanks parked near the bridge deck!

It wasn't until the last man boarded the dinghy that Yankel was relieved.

"Let's go, a squad is responsible for a bridge pier, and the action should be fast! But be hidden, and don't let the French discover our whereabouts! ”

Watching the three rubber boats quickly glide to the shore, an observation post quickly communicated the situation to the rear, and then the shelling ended, and two German tanks symbolically tried to get onto the bridge.

The road to the bridge was certainly not so smooth, and the French defenders opened fire on the two tanks almost instantly, although only machine guns and no artillery was used.

The two German tanks, as if in a panic after being attacked, immediately began to retreat, and even almost collided in the process of retreating.

At this point, it seemed that the first attempt by the Germans to cross the river was simply 'routed' by the heroic French defenders.

They shouldn't be attacking for a while, these Germans are rubbish. I'm going to take a break, you're staring at the point. ’

On a tall tower on the other side of the river, a Frenchman gave the task of observation to another recruit and left the observation point with a smile, in his opinion, it was time to choose a rest, and the Germans did not have the courage to attack without air support.

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"What are these French guys doing? Was this intended to blow the bridge into powder? ”

Seeing that hundreds of kilograms of explosives were not placed on the side of the bridge pier facing the French position, Yankel's eyes were full of shock, this was just the explosives planted by the French in the bridge hole, but I wonder if the French are determined to blow up these bridges.

But why don't the French bomb it now?

They were waiting, they were waiting for the Germans to attack, waiting for the German tanks to go up to the bridge, waiting for a small group of German tanks to drive over the bridge!

In this way, they will not only be able to prevent the German army from crossing the river, but they will also be able to kill a lot of tanks!

Dismantling explosives, especially those with remote heuristic devices, is far safer than dismantling mines and the like, nothing too sophisticated, and there is no need to be careful, as long as you make sure that the enemy does not detonate it remotely, there is no threat to this thing.

The smoke screen had not yet cleared, and the entire river was now almost enveloped in smoke from the smoke bombs that had just been fired, and no Frenchman could know what was happening in the river except from a few vantage points.

Yankel stood on the raft, controlled his body as much as he could, and then dismantled the explosives that had been piled up piece by piece, and put them on the boat.

Too much explosives were placed on each pier, and because of the height, the person who dismantled the explosives had to hold his head and arms up to deal with the explosives, so basically he had to change someone and continue to dismantle them every once in a while, which virtually extended the time to defuse the explosives.

At this most time-hungry moment, in this gloomy and gloomy weather, there was a sudden strong wind, and the sky had begun to thunder, and it was estimated that it would not be long before there would be a downpour.

"Hurry up, move fast! The wind is blowing! ”

Yankel was a little anxious, but he could only whisper to remind his comrades who were under the same pier, and he couldn't remind the other piers at all, he didn't dare to shout loudly, any sound at this time could leak out, so that the French would make a move to blow up the bridge in advance.

The wind blows up, which means that the smoke will be blown away quickly, and once the smoke is blown away, then they are very likely to be spotted by the French.

As the time passed, the smoke began to thin out, and Yankel's heart became more and more nervous, and when the smoke cleared completely, they lost the opportunity to return to shore even after dismantling the explosives.

However, without the complete dismantling of these explosives, the subsequent attack will not be carried out at all.

"What's going on, is there any news, has the explosives been dismantled?"

Rundstedt anxiously wandered around the headquarters, in this kind of ghost weather, it was completely impossible for his troops to get any air support, but now that the army was assembled, if it could not launch a quick attack, once the French reacted and sent a large number of artillery reinforcements, the result would definitely cause huge casualties.

"Not yet, now the wind is blowing and the smoke is starting to thin out, shall we do another shelling and then fire some smoke bombs?"

"Let me think about ......"

Rundstedt paced back and forth, now it was a dilemma, so it was true that the repetition would provide cover for the sappers, but would the French find out that something was wrong and detonate the explosives?

If the French really detonated the explosives, not only would their own troops face great difficulties in crossing the river, but they would also directly lose these sappers.

But if you don't do anything, when the smoke clears, the results of those sappers will not be much better if they have not been dismantled.

What Rundstedt hates most is doing multiple-choice questions, and it's like this.

He would rather command his troops to fight the enemy in the open on the plains than deal with the current situation.

But the problem now is that he is the commander-in-chief of the entire Army Group A, and he has to make a choice!

"Fight again, get the artillery ready!"

"Wait!"

Just as Rundstedt was making a decision to repeat his old trick, Chief of Staff Manstein suddenly stopped Rundstedt......