By the time the 4th Company of the 39th Panzer Regiment commanded by Rengelheimer arrived at the ferry, the battle here was already over.

As the company commander of this armored company and the commander of a company of Leopard tanks, Second Lieutenant Lengheimer, after flipping off the tank, found a paratrooper squad leader on the bank of the ferry bridge, asked about the situation, and said: "It seems that the battle here has long been over." How, what are the results? ”

The paratrooper squad leader smiled: "We used only one paratrooper platoon at the beginning to eliminate a company of Belgians on the position behind this bridge. Now, our platoon commander is taking care of eighty-three Belgian prisoners of war. ”

"You know, more than eighty people, that's more than the whole platoon combined. The platoon commander has been carefully guarding with people. When the paratrooper squad leader said this, his face was always filled with pride.

Rengelheimer knew that their group of paratroopers had gone all the way to the rear of the Belgian garrison's position so that the armored troops would not be delayed in crossing the bridge, occupying the positions behind the bridge and waiting for the armored troops to arrive.

If it weren't for the efforts of the paratroopers, perhaps by the time the Rungeheimer arrived, the Belgians would have blown up the bridge in advance and blocked the advance of the tanks. After all, the Leopard tanks would not cross the river, and even if the pontoon bridge could be rebuilt by sappers in the end, the speed of the army's offensive would be greatly delayed.

"Thanks to your paratroopers who attacked from behind the positions and occupied this area." Rengelheimer took two steps forward, stretched out his right hand and said, "If we attack from the front, most of those Belgians will choose to blow up the bridge and block us." ”

Rengelheimer did not comment on the fact that the paratroopers were outnumbered, capturing more than 80 Belgian troops with 20 or so men. Instead, from the perspective of protecting the integrity of the bridge for the paratroopers, he expressed his feelings and gratitude.

Of course, this is not to say that Rengerheimer was jealous of the major achievements of the paratroopers, and because of the psychological imbalance, he deliberately avoided mentioning them.

He noticed the pride on the paratrooper squad leader when he described this record, and he did deliberately avoid mentioning the comment on this record.

However, his motivation was not jealousy. On the contrary, Rengelheimer deliberately did not say his own evaluation of this, precisely in order not to make the paratroopers psychologically unbalanced.

If Rengelheimer really had to evaluate the achievements of the paratroopers, he would only say: "The results are good and worth celebrating." But this level of success is far from being extremely reverent. ”

You must know that before the paratroopers converged, the 4th Panzer Company of Rengoheimer had followed the regimental headquarters of the 39th Panzer Regiment to catch up with and defeat a French division headquarters and thousands of routed soldiers in one fell swoop.

Not to mention the difference in difficulty between defeating the French army and defeating the Belgian army, let's just say that the French troops that the Rengeheimer and they eliminated one after another along the way also eliminated more than the paratroopers.

Moreover, if their armored forces had not caught up with the two French divisions in front in pursuit, and by the time these two divisions rushed to the bridge position, even if the paratroopers had occupied the position, it would have been impossible to block the second round of attacks by the French troops of the two divisions, and they would have to lose their positions.

As for such a thing, the capture of several times the number of enemy troops of one's own......... For armored forces, it is even less worth showing off.

Rengerheimer still remembers the incredible instructions of their superiors when they first encountered the French army, who had captured more than 800 discouraged French soldiers, and could not advance smoothly because they had too many prisoners with them.

It is said that because the same thing happened so much, their commander, Lieutenant General Guderian, once said to the defeated soldiers caught up by the French: "I don't have time to take you prisoner!" Lay down your arms and get out of the way, lest you get in the way!" ”

What a domineering statement, just by virtue of the courage shown in this sentence, Guderian deserves to be a generation of armored generals.

And Guderian's handsome speech reached the lower troops, and the concrete implementation became - the armored troops collected the weapons of the French troops that were catching up, leaving the unarmed French soldiers, waiting for the infantry who caught up behind to be captured.

After all, without weapons, these soldiers are not much of a threat. Besides, a group of people who can surrender with weapons will be more comfortable when they are out of arms.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Rengeheimer would never have believed that the French soldiers, known as the world's first army, would have willingly called out their weapons and let two German soldiers with MP40 submachine guns guard them, squatting in place for hundreds of people, waiting to be captured by the German army.

You know, in the ten years before the start of the war, the French looked down on the German army at all, and looked down on the soldiers who had been defeated by them.

If anyone were to tell the French what was happening ten years ago, it would only be treated as an unattainable joke, as a cowhide that had blown through the sky.

If someone had really predicted this story ten years ago, he would have been ridiculed by the French, who would have been reminded of the "goodwill" of the French army that the French army had risen to the altar of the world's first army in the defeat of the German army, and that the German army was nothing more than a stepping stone to the strength of the French army. The stepping stone army captures the world's first army, isn't it delusional?

Looking at the actual situation now, is this a feng shui rotation? Faced with this dramatic role change, Rengoheimer suddenly felt like laughing. I still remember when I was a child, what he heard the most was how terrible the French were, and how miserable the German army was. Now it seems that everything is the opposite of the propaganda I heard as a child.

Renguelheimer remembers that just this morning, when the Leopard tanks of their 4th Panzer Company, which had been covered with the Iron Cross because of the camouflage paint painted on the mountain, drove through a small village, the French residents of this village thought that their Chinese-speaking soldiers were from the British army, and some people who dared to approach asked loudly in French which unit of the British army they belonged to, where they wanted to go, and if they wanted to show the way.

The French, thinking that the army they saw belonged to their allies, that the German army was still far away from them.

When Renguelheimer, who had studied French, smiled and said loudly in French: "No, no, no, we are from Germany and we are on our way to Paris." You don't need to, but you're welcome to lead the way." The panicked dramatic expressions on the faces of the French villagers, Rengelheimer felt that he would never forget them, it was so funny!

And now, until the moment when the paratrooper squad leader held the right hand that was outstretched by Rengelheimer, Rengelheimer still did not show off his great achievements along the way like the paratrooper squad leader.

They are all colleagues, and it seems that this paratrooper squad leader may be on the battlefield for the first time, so it will not disturb his enthusiasm. After a while, he will naturally know that the results of the armored forces will not be worse than their paratrooper units.