Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Somme Ceasefire (Part II)

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There is an idiom in China called "rat thrower", when the truck started and slowly drove out, the soldiers on the Allied side were a little flustered, but no one fired a shot, most of them were looking at each other.

"Sergei 1st class, sir, they're in the car and gone!" Joseph. Dietrich hesitated, and his raised hand trembled slightly: "The chief didn't forget about us, did he?" ”

Marcus. Ergen was a little dumbfounded when he heard this, and immediately shouted: "Clean up the guys, let's hurry downstairs and follow!" ”

The five-man crew at the Clock Tower Platform couldn't be happier this time, as two guys were trying to clean up the 60mm mortar, only to be overwhelmed by Marcus. Ergen kicked it alone.

"Blow it up, blow it up!"

Dropping one or two grenades, the last soldier unscrewed another grenade and threw it, and before the explosion could be heard, he immediately ran off his feet, presumably as he jumped down a flight of stairs, and the whole bell tower shook violently, and then the sound of a loud explosion came.

"Frank, you idiot!"

"You ordered it to be blown up!"

"Can't you wait for everyone to go out?"

"Can't! Then I won't be able to go down! ”

The movement of blowing up the mortar was a little loud on the battlefield that was gradually quieting down, and Li Qi and the others, who had driven a distance, turned their heads to look when they heard the movement, but from their point of view, they only saw a puff of smoke rising into the sky, and they couldn't see any figures.

Five trucks, the back compartment of the truck is not very large now, eight generals and nineteen colonel-level officers became prisoners, plus at least twenty members of the Storm Commando, in fact, every truck was crowded with people.

The truck was full of people, and there was a large group of Storm Commandos running after it.

There is no way to do it, after all, there are not enough trucks, and there are a lot of people coming in, so what can be done? I can only run after him!

Ewald. Feng. Kleist borrowed a gap and deliberately lowered his voice and asked, "Captain Richie, what's the next plan?" ”

Richie already had an idea when he got into the car, and he looked at the captured generals, especially at Douglas. Haig and Robert? Neville, without suppressing his voice, said, "We're going to the field hospital now. ”

In fact, the initial goal of Operation Shenhel was to beat the field hospital on the outskirts of Malevillere, but it was only because of repeated accidents that it became what it is now.

The field hospital was not just a hospital, it was also a concentration of German prisoners of war, with at least 400 German prisoners in it, and possibly more. Again, they need more vehicles, preferably trucks.

Wa~er~ter. Modelch looked at Richie in surprise, wondering why the captain knew so much.

You must know that because the Guards are directly under the royal family, they can borrow much more resources than Li Qi and others, but they didn't know in advance that there would be information that the Entente generals would go to beat the field hospital on the outskirts of Villere, or they read Li Qi's report later, and they really found out with a direction.

"It would be ridiculous for you to expect to receive your companions there, thinking that you would be safe if there were more of them." Douglas. Haig seemed to have come back to his senses, and although he still looked embarrassed, he was very calm: "There's a battalion from Wales. ”

Richie probably doesn't understand Douglas. Haig specifically referred to Wales as he meant, but others could understand it.

Scotland, England, and Wales formed the United Kingdom, and then Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries formed the Commonwealth. With such a behemoth, she can't be monolithic, there will definitely be internal struggles. In recent years, the Scots and Welsh have not dealt with each other much, and if there is no European war, it is very likely that the Scots and Welsh will fight on their own.

Douglas. What Haig meant by that was that it would be a hilarious thing for Richie and the others to use his status as a British general to demand the surrender of the people in the field hospital.

Lieutenant General Robert of the French Army, who had made a lot of trouble? Neville seemed quieter, no, more than quiet, and if he looked at it sufficiently, it should be said that his expression seemed to have been severely struck, and his expression and eyes were full of sluggishness.

Naturally, Richie and others will not know about the "political storm" that is brewing in France recently, and it is not clear at all about Robert? Nivelle & Joseph. Jacques. CΓ©saire. Xia Fei is competing with each other.

"First Morris. Gustave. Gammelin was killed by a cannonball during his inspection, and now it is my turn to be taken prisoner, has God abandoned the great France? "Robert? Nivelle looked up at the sky with a blank look at the few planes, then turned to look at Ewald again. Feng. Kleist, asked, "Are you the mastermind of this operation?" ”

Ewald. Feng. Kleist shook his head violently, pointed at Li Qi, and said in a neutral voice: "This Captain Li Qi, who graduated from the Senior Military Academy, is the planner and deployer of Operation Shenhull. He paused here and asked hesitantly, "You just said that Maurice. Gustave. Ganmalin was blown up? Excuse me, isn't he the commander of the garrison division in your base camp? Our shells did not hit Paris, why did he ......"

"That was in the early hours of June 21. (Please recall Chapter 16) "Robert? Neville looked desperate and muttered, "There's no more cannonballs......"

Yes, everyone had long since noticed that the cannonade was no longer audible, but they didn't know when the cannonade would stop.

"What is the point of this operation?" Douglas. Haig looked at Li Qi and said, "Think that if you kill or capture a few generals, the war will be won or lost?" ”

"If we do this with the intention of pleasing His Majesty, would you believe it?" Richie said this when he borrowed Kurt. Zeitzler's kettle is in the middle of drinking water.

"Oh......" Douglas. Haig actually nodded: "Congratulations, especially to you, the initiator and deployer of the operation, you will receive the Order of Merit (Blue Max) issued by your emperor himself, and become a hero of the nation, one of nearly 700 heroes." ”

Douglas. Haig was absolutely right when he said that, after the outbreak of the war, the Order of Blue Max was promulgated somewhat widely, and by November 16, 1916, the number of Blue Max recipients was 687, completely losing the rule that scarcity is precious.

Because the Order of Blue Max was issued too much, Wilhelm II later made a remedy that was not a remedy, and he issued a decree that all the medal accessories that were previously in gold of the Order of Blue Max should be changed to silver gilding, so the Order of Blue Max also had another name called the Medal of Merit with Oak Leaves.

Richie, of course, heard Douglas. Haig's taunt, but he didn't care at all. What he cared about was that the name of that Gan Malin sounded a little familiar, and the other thing was that the whole front was quiet!