This breakthrough failed, and only 6,000 of the 37,000 men of the Ninth Army remained, and one of the six survived, and Hitler's squad originally had ten people, and now only the Brute Bull and Hitler remained. The squad leader was seriously injured and was sent to the rear for medical treatment.

Three days later, the General Staff issued an order rewarding officers and men for participating in the battle, and the entire army group was raised by one rank, whether killed or not, and Hitler became a private in the army because he killed a French non-commissioned officer and six French soldiers.

There were only 6,000 men left in the entire Ninth Army, and it was impossible for these 6,000 men to form a single army, so the General Staff directly broke up the Ninth Army, and 6,000 men joined the second, fourth, and sixth armies of neighboring units respectively.

Hitler was promoted to deputy squad leader by both Hitler and Manniu, and Hitler was assigned to an infantry squad under the Guards of the Second Army as deputy squad leader. It stands to reason that even if Hitler is meritorious, he should not be promoted so quickly, after all, he is a new soldier, he is not qualified enough, he has only joined the army for less than two years, and the army is a place where seniority is important, let a recruit manage a few veterans, can those veterans be convinced?

Hitler understood the reason when he arrived at the Second Army headquarters, and at the headquarters of the Second Army, a soldier stopped Hitler and took him to an office, where Hitler knocked on the door, heard the words "Please come in" and entered the office. It was an operations office, the walls of the office were covered with maps, and a very temperamental captain was sitting at his desk, with an air of confidence in his gestures.

"Hello Hitler, my name is Fedor von Bock, and I am the acting chief of the operations department of the Guards, you sit down first." The man in front of the office was still writing, but when he saw Hitler coming in, he stopped his pen and beckoned Hitler to sit down.

"Von Bock?"

Hitler seems to have heard of this person, and after thinking about it for a while, he remembered that the historical Bock was not the commander-in-chief of Army Group Center, one of the three army groups that the Nazi Barbarossa planned to attack the Soviet Union, and the German field marshal?

Army Group Center commanded by Bock reached 1.92 million at its peak!

Nima, this is simply a record-breaking, no one has ever commanded so many people to fight before.

Yes, this chief of operations is the German Marshal Bock in history, although Bock is not as famous as the three heroes of the empire, but in fact he is an extremely powerful general, the annexation of Austria, the capture of Poland, the surprise attack on France, and the assault on the Soviet Union are indispensable to his contributions, Manstein, Guderian and other famous generals have served under him, known as the "dragon among men", Rundstead, Manstein and he are called the excellent strategic masters of Germany in World War II.

At this time, Bock was thirty-four years old, not very old, and his uncle was the current chief of the German General Staff Falkingham, such a capable and background, his future military career was naturally on the rise.

"I was behind the battle of Ypres a few days ago, and I saw all of your heroic performances, which were very good, and your marksmanship was also very accurate."

"It is my honour to fight for Germany." Hitler also did not know how to respond to Bock's compliments, so he had to say the propaganda slogans of the time.

"Haha, that's good, I won't hide it from you, I will tell you directly, tomorrow night the Fourth Army and the Sixth Army will attack Ypre again, the French army thought that we had only attacked Ypre, and they would not have thought that we would attack again, so we attacked it unprepared, hit him by surprise, plus the strength of the two armies, Ypre will definitely be conquered, and take the entire northeastern France and the whole of Belgium in this battle. Of course, this time it was the actions of the Fourth and Sixth Armies, which had nothing to do with our Second Army, but, both I and you, had tasks. ”

Bock held a map on his desk, a map of Flanders, an ancient place name that included the present-day provinces of East and West Flanders in Belgium, the Pas-de-Calais and Nord departments in France, and Flanders, the main battlefield of the war between Germany and the Allies in World War I.

Bock gave Hitler a few pieces of paper with a plan for the battle, and Bock said: "Give you ten minutes to read it, and after reading it, tell me what you think, and what else can be added." ”

"Is this a test?" Hitler secretly said in his heart that Hitler was just an ordinary soldier who had no experience in writing war plans before, and there were many excellent staff officers in the army, so there was no need for Hitler to check and fill in the gaps.

Yes, it must be a test!

Hitler judged this way and looked very carefully at the contents of the hand-held Chinese documents.

The data shows that the French army had only more than 20,000 men on the Ypre defense line, adding up to only two divisions, while the German army joined the battle with a total of three corps, two of the three German armies carried out the main assault on the Ypre, and one army carried out an auxiliary assault on the Isère River next to the Ypres, and the 60,000 men of the two armies fought against the 20,000 people of the Ypre defense line, which could be completely overcome.

Immediately after conquering Ypre, he marched north to annihilate the coalition forces north of the town of Ypre and south of the English Channel.

The whole plan was no problem at all!

At this time, the German staff officers were undoubtedly the best in the world, the plans were written flawlessly, and Hitler could not find any loopholes at all.

"Can I see the map?" Hitler looked at the plan twice and found nothing.

There should be other loopholes, at least other vulnerabilities that Bock knows, otherwise he wouldn't have used this opportunity to test himself.

Bock nodded, pointing to the location of the town of Ypre. The town of Ypre is surrounded by flat terrain and there is no other way to attack it.

Hitler looked at it for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "There you have it, Ruidang Village!" This little hill! ”

Five or six miles behind Ypre is also the Isele River, the river surrounds Ypre, if the Ipre is overcome, then the Ipre rout will run to the rear, in the case of the pursuers behind it is impossible to say that they will cross the river directly, the rout will run and run to reach the most curved part of the river, that is, the village of Ruidang, where the coalition rout will definitely cross the river!

There is a small hill next to the village of Ruidang, and if the Germans set up an ambush here and suddenly open fire, the Allied forces will inevitably suffer heavy losses!

Bock stroked his palms and laughed: "Very good, you can see that this is a good place to block attacks, and there is potential to be a staff officer, I also studied it for a day, I just want to do something in Ruidang Village." By the way, do you know how to ride a horse? ”

"I will." Riding a horse Hitler learned before, and there was no problem at all with horseback riding.

"Okay." "I want to gather the elite and form a cavalry company, and when the Ipre line is torn apart, I will make a quick assault, occupy the small hill next to the village of Ruidang, and then attack the scattered enemy forces from a high position, and extend the victory, and if I succeed, I will have a medal." I would like to invite you to join, and if you do, I will promote you to ensign. ”

In times of war, everything was chaotic, and Bock had all the means to do it, and it was easy for Bock to quietly raise the rank of a soldier.

"Gladly!" Hitler grinned, and then he frowned and asked: "Sir, this is not enough time, the speed of the cavalry company is very fast, but we can't ride up the mountain on horseback, we can only go up the mountain on foot, plus the arrangement of the position and rest, these all take time, I am afraid that we have just gone up the mountain to arrange the position, and the enemy's rout will come." ”

Bock nodded and said: "That's true, this task is very difficult, so the people I selected are all the elite of my Second Army, and I think an elite of more than 100 people can complete this mission." ”

Hitler looked at the map, thought for a few minutes, and then suddenly thought of the plot of a certain TV series, and suggested: "Why don't we swim over the Isère River tonight from the town of Ypres." ”

The Isère River originates in the Ardennes and flows into the English Channel, cutting through the Ypre Line, splitting the entire line in two, and if you swim along the Isère, you can swim to enemy-occupied territory.

"How is it possible......" Bock laughed silently: "This section of the Isère is guarded by French troops on both sides, and if there is any movement in the river, they will shoot and shoot, where can they swim through?" ”

"We can tie a stone to our body, sink it to the bottom of the river, and breathe with a hollow iron pipe or bamboo, and ...... Just use iron pipes. ”

Hitler forgot that there was no bamboo in Europe, and that bamboo existed only on both sides of the equator.

Bock was surprised, and didn't expect it at all: "You mean people are in the water, and then stretch out the iron pipe to breathe, hey, this method is good, just use your method, cross the river tonight!" ”