Chapter 545: Human Shield (Extra 8)

As the main coffers, this vineyard is at stake in France's national fortunes!

It can be said that with this batch of gold, France will not fail, even if it is all occupied by Germany now, it can make a comeback in the future, but if the gold here falls into the hands of the Germans, then France will no longer have the possibility of turning over, and in the future, it will have to be enslaved by Germany.

Here, the stakes are high!

Therefore, after learning the news of the accident here, Darlang dispatched troops and even came to the periphery of the manor in person.

Anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, all erected, it can be said that if the Germans want to continue to send supplies here, it is impossible, even if the German Stuka bombers are fierce, they can knock the other side down!

At the same time, if they want to airdrop supplies, they must have transport planes fly at low altitudes, and now, it is impossible for transport planes to fly up again.

In addition to the soldiers hastily transferred by the navy, there was also a reserve division from a nearby army station.

Yes, just an integrator!

At the same time, in the distance, two infantry divisions were hurriedly maneuvering towards this side.

Tens of thousands of French soldiers surrounded this manor on three floors inside and three layers outside, and now, as long as they attacked, it seemed that they could enter it at once.

Now, if the Germans in the north want to rush over, it will take at least two or three days, and they themselves, as long as they need half a day, will be able to completely cripple the other side!

I don't know what the reason is, the news of my own gold storage here leaked, which actually attracted the covetousness of the Germans, but unfortunately, it is useless, no matter how brave the Germans are, it is impossible to transport this gold away!

There are people on their own side all around, and the Germans are carried away by interests, and a small army parachuted in actually dares to occupy this place!

Obviously, at this time, Darlan did not know how murderous the German airborne troops in the encirclement were.

He looked at his watch, it was already nine fifty-five in the morning, and he couldn't wait any longer, the two infantry divisions, although they had not yet arrived, were about to attack.

"Order, in five minutes, launch an attack and take our manor back." Sitting in a chair, just below the vines, Dar Lang gave the order.

Ten o'clock, start the war on time!

The sailor, dressed in a sailor suit, holding a Lebel M1886 rifle, slowly moved in the direction of the manor.

Behind them, the soldiers of the reserve infantry division, also holding this ancient rifle, because it is a reserve division, they have less support firepower, and an infantry platoon can't take turns with a Shosha M1915 light machine gun.

The machine gunner held the machine gun, slightly back, and walked at the end of the queue.

Originally, the machine gun was supposed to provide support fire from behind, but now the firing range is very narrow, because there are grapevines everywhere, so the machine gunner can only accompany the forward.

The Shosha M1915 light machine gun is also known as the CSRG machine gun. It was the most produced light machine gun in World War I. But at the same time, its unreliability in performance has also been criticized.

The biggest feature of this gun is the 20-round half-moon magazine below. As the standard light machine gun of the Entente in World War I, a total of 262,000 units were produced.

Up to now, this kind of light machine gun has long been backward, but it still exists in large numbers in the French army, so to speak, after the First World War, France has not updated the weapons of its own troops, limited funds, and has gone to repair the Maginot Line.

They were moving slowly, and they were moving forward, and the vines were obscuring their view, so that they could not see very far, and the contact between the two sides would come at any time.

Suddenly, one of the naval soldiers who was walking in front stopped, and he looked ahead in surprise, the sight that made him unable to believe his eyes.

Germans, so shameless!

In the past few hours, the Germans have set up a defensive line near the manor, because time is very tight, their manpower is limited, so with the help of the grape ditch, a simple transformation has been carried out.

However, in front of their line of defense, they laid out a human wall.

Yes, it's a human wall!

The original men, all alive, were tied to the vines in front of the line, while the Germans, in the fortifications behind the vines, stood up with guns and waited for the French to come up.

If the French were going to come up, they would shoot without hesitation, but the French could not shoot, because they would hit the wall first!

The cashier of the Banque de France, Favre Jolly, whose face was covered in blood, had a premonition when he had just been tied up here, and he did not agree to live or die, and as a result, he received a rifle butt in his face and six teeth were smashed out.

When he was just tied here, he struggled for more than an hour, I don't know how the Germans tied it, in short, the more he struggled, the tighter he became.

Now, the rope of the thin telephone cord had reached his flesh, and he felt a great pain with every movement, and when there was movement on the other side, he finally opened his eyes.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, we're French, I'm a cashier of the Banque de France. Help..."

He reported himself to his home, most worried that the other party would shoot, he was the chief cashier of the Banque de France, one of the core personnel of the fish project this time, his life was very valuable, but he couldn't die here in a daze.

His shout woke up the lifeless Frenchmen who were tied up next to him, and they also shouted.

At this time, the French soldiers absolutely did not dare to shoot, they could not kill their own people.

They have a lot of scruples, and the Germans behind the human shield have no psychological burden.

Folksam, Skorzny's old subordinate, was sitting in the grape ditch, putting a grape in his mouth, and then he pulled the bolt of an MG34 light machine gun next to him.

"Fire!" At the same time as he gave the order, the light machine gun in his hand let out a chainsaw-like roar, the chain rattled, and 7.92 mm bullets flew over like a scoop.

In an instant, the French sailor at the front, with a few more holes in his body, fell backwards, and behind him, more people screamed and were shot.

The bullets were still lethal through the vines, and in the vineyard on this side, the French soldiers were shot as if they were in front of the Verdun meat grinder.

The Germans, almost no bolt-action rifles, they used repeating weapons!

In addition to the machine gun, which is an automatic rifle, they don't have to worry about bullets, and when they land in a giant glider, they bring enough bullets to hold out for a week!

Favre Joli let out a series of miserable screams, and behind him there were gunshots, bullets whizzing by, and even one of them grazed his ears, and his eardrums were in sharp pain, and at this moment, he thought he was about to die.