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The German troops stationed in Caen were in fact only a baggage regiment, whose task was to be responsible for the distribution, transportation and safety of Caen's supplies...... The security was mainly aimed at the sabotage of the French underground and the partisans.

When the expeditionary force attacked Caen, most of the German troops were scattered in all corners of Caen, and they worked continuously for more than twenty hours...... They have no choice, the front-line war is tight, the tasks are heavy and the troops are insufficient, even if they are too tired to do so, they have to hold on.

So the expeditionary force met almost no decent resistance along the way, except for two No. 3 tanks in the streets...... These two tanks were left in Caen for maintenance and had just been repaired, otherwise they would have been sent to the front line long ago.

But Tank 3 was no threat to the Chinese army, especially in the towns, where the expeditionary soldiers had to lurk in the houses on both sides and raise their bazookas when the tanks approached...... Then with a "chirp", it was solved.

The real trouble, it's the French.

At this time, they were supposed to sleep in their rooms, but because of the tension of the war, they were driven out by the Germans to carry supplies...... As soon as the battle began, these Frenchmen screamed and ran around.

This cannot be blamed on them, if there was any belligerent country in the Second World War that did not go through the baptism of war, I am afraid that it was France...... In fact, their greatest loss to this day has been bombing by the Allies.

The French people seem to complain about the damage caused by the Allied bombing, and they do not know that any other country, especially China, has already been covered with corpses in the war.

Because they have not experienced war, they are like new recruits who have just entered the battlefield and cannot control themselves, and some are even stupid enough to hold a stick and try to protect themselves......

The Chinese expeditionary force is Chinese, most of them do not know French, in their eyes, French-speaking French and German-speaking Germans are the same, and they look similar, German and French do not know anyway, so they can't tell the difference, plus it's a rainy night, so it is very difficult and dangerous to distinguish them from the enemy.

Fortunately, Zhang Chi asked a group of French soldiers accompanying the army to hold a bullhorn and shout to those people in French over and over again: "We are allies, all French citizens lie down, or stay at home and don't come out!" ”

This minimizes the loss of accidental injuries.

The battle lasted for more than half an hour, and more than 2,000 German soldiers of one regiment were killed on the spot, and only more than 500 surrendered and were captured.

Most of these Germans were killed in the middle of the battle for more than ten minutes...... The reason why so many people were killed was also because of this, the battle went on so fast that the Germans had not reacted or had time to surrender before the bullets were fired into their chests.

For another ten minutes, the soldiers were clearing out the remnants of the enemy and dealing with the German soldiers who were hiding in the houses of the French people.

Originally, Zhang Chi thought that after announcing the end of the battle, the French people would happily come out of the house to greet them, the "liberators".

But this is not the case, and the French people are still hiding in their houses.

Zhang Chi said to himself, maybe it was because they were too scared, or maybe they were worried that the Germans would fight again...... The latter is indeed something that Zhang Chi and the people need to worry about, because Caen is an important transportation hub for the German army, and the German army will not let it fall into the hands of the Allies, because this will represent the complete collapse of the German army.

Zhang Chi was right, and the news of Caen's loss soon reached Rommel.

Rommel, who had always been unfazed, turned pale when he heard this information.

"What? What did you say? Rommel still couldn't believe it was true: "Caen lost? Are you sure? ”

"Yes, Marshal!" The staff officer replied: "This is a message from Colonel Erhard at the last moment, according to him...... The enemy seems to be the Chinese! ”

"Chinese? How is this possible? Rommel said, "How did they do it?" ”

The staff officer shrugged his shoulders in confusion, the question stumped him.

Rommel figured it out himself, he looked at the map, and then slowly sat down in his chair: "So, the Chinese troops and the Zoaf Corps attacking our flank is actually a pretext, and its purpose is to make us think that they have not left the neighborhood all along...... But in fact, they have already split up to attack Caen under the cover of a rainy night! ”

"That's fifty kilometers!" The staff officer was a little puzzled: "They arrived overnight and we didn't know about it......"

And no wonder the staff officers find it strange.

Fifty kilometers, if you walk on a mountain road, it is impossible to reach it overnight, and if you take a car...... From Caen to Normandy, there were German reinforcements and supplies all the way, and it was impossible for such a large force to pass under their noses without knowing anything.

"It's those bombed-up roads!" Rommel smiled wryly: "We ignored them!" ”

The staff officer couldn't help but let out an "oh", and then his face was full of regret.

War is a very realistic thing, and victory and defeat are sometimes only one step away.

At this point, for example, if Rommel had considered in advance that the bombed-out roads would be a hole in the German defenses, he would have only had to send a small team of men to set up ambushes on these roads or simply lay mines...... That would frustrate the Chinese's plans, and then the Germans' plans would unfold smoothly, and then it would be very likely to defeat the Allies.

But now......

"Marshal, what are we going to do next?" The staff officer asked.

Rommel was silent for a while, then said: "The 2nd SS 'Reich' Panzer Division!" ”

The 2nd SS Panzer Division "Reich", an Panzer Division originally deployed in Paris, was rapidly reinforced in Normandy at the beginning of the war.

However, he relied on train transport from the railroad for reinforcements.

Most of the German-owned trains had been blown up by the Allies, and there were many "dangerous bridges" along the reinforcement routes of the 2nd SS Panzer Division, which allowed only one car to pass at a time, which caused the Panzer Division to advance at a rate of only a few miles a day, and only then could it reach the vicinity of Caen.

At this time, they had a severe shortage of fuel and could not move on...... Fuel is used to reinforce the front line and there is no time to take care of them.

Now, of course, the situation is different.

"Pass the order on!" Rommel ordered: "Fuel the 2nd SS 'Reich' Panzer Division at once, order them to retake Caen immediately!" ”