Chapter 44: Rich seizures
Of course, there are also a small number of stubborn French tank crews, who are not afraid to use the French tanks that cannot be used as fixed batteries, and their fate is to fulfill the oath of the tank crews and let the tanks become their graves.
The heroic resistance of these tanks could not change any situation on the battlefield at this time, but only slightly delayed the speed of the pursuit of Lower Luxembourg, if there were no two German troops in front of them to outflank the main group, the French 11th Panzer Division in the case of losing tanks, maybe some of them could escape, but Rommel had already sent troops to copy their rear road, and they still had a chance to escape.
Rommel's "Eye of God" has been watching the entire battlefield, although the battle on Bismarck's side is fierce, but the intensity of the French attack is obviously not large, it seems that they are waiting for their own armored division to break through the German block, so as to surround the German army in the village of Philipsville. Their calculations were very good, and this idea was not bad, which was why the attack of the French 4th Infantry Division in North Africa was not very strong.
It's just that the 11th Armored Division of the French Army has been surrounded, and they didn't notify them when they fled, which is also doomed to the tragedy of the 4th Infantry Division of the French North Africa.
Since the battle situation was so smooth, there was no enemy situation within a radius of 60 kilometers around, Rommel who used the "Eye of God" with his eyes closed was really sleepy, and the use of the "Eye of God" was very draining.
Time was slipping, the tide of battle was developing in a very favorable direction for the Germans, there was still rumbling cannons and gunfire in the distance, the fighting on the battlefield was no longer so fierce, no one bothered Rommel, and the next battle was almost without Rommel to command, and his Luxembourg and Bismarck knew what to do.
Three hours later, Rommel was woken up by his own adjutant:
"Divisional commander, divisional commander...... Wake up......"
Rommel opened his eyes and saw his adjutant Wald's soft call with a smile on his face, and Wald's smile had already told Rommel that the two French divisions opposite had been annihilated:
"My adjutant, is there anything pleasing to you, otherwise your smile would not be so sweet."
Rommel was in a happy mood and teased Wald, but this kid was thin-skinned, and Rommel's ridiculous words made Wald's face crimson:
"Report to the division commander, we have annihilated the two French divisions, these French are really unbeaten, once they are surrounded, they will immediately kneel and surrender, it seems that after Napoleon, the French will no longer have men."
Rommel looked at the watch on his wrist, and it took only three hours to annihilate two French divisions, and Rommel couldn't help but nod his head happily and approvingly:
"Yes, settle the battle in three hours, rest all the soldiers for an hour, and then rush to Sifri."
Rommel's order surprised Wald, and he hurriedly reminded:
"Division commander, our 7th Panzer Division has been marching and fighting for the past few days, and it is already very tired, even now, because the sky is dark, many French stragglers have fled, this is a good opportunity to capture prisoners, or wait until we understand that the French stragglers are captured, and then march into Sifri."
Rommel opened a map on the small table, pointed to it with a pencil in his hand, and said:
"Thirty kilometers from here to the Little Maginot Line, five kilometers after the Little Maginot Line is the French border town of Sifry.
Wald, you must know that the Anglo-French forces have already transferred their main forces to the three Lowland countries, and our few armored divisions are going to cut off the retreat of the Anglo-French forces entering the Three Lowlands by sudden and thunderous means.
At this time, the Maginot Line was the emptiest time, and the commander of the Anglo-French army, Gamblerin, had already understood our intentions, and he would definitely draw troops from the heart of France to strengthen the Maginot Line, so we had to raid overnight, and take advantage of the emptiness of the Maginot Line to tear apart the Maginot Line that the French thought was impregnable. ”
"But our soldiers have been fighting and marching for several days, and they have not been well rested."
"This is easy to do, let the soldiers of the logistics unit drive, all the soldiers of the combat unit rest in the car, and after taking Sifri, we will spend half a day resting."
"What about the French soldiers who have been captured?"
"Send a few logisticians to the prisoner of war camp set up on the beachhead!"
Rommel's orders were quickly transmitted to the units, and no one in the 7th Panzer Division questioned Rommel's orders, as their division commander always brought them from victory to victory.
The army is a monster that constantly feeds with victory, and only continuous victory can make a unit have the pride of despising the world, and only then can it dare to face all strong enemies without fear.
The cleaning of the battlefield continued, and the French rifles and light machine guns were of no use to the 7th Panzer Division, because the bullet caliber used by these guns was not the same as that used by the 7th Panzer Division.
The caliber of the Maxine heavy machine gun is the same, and this one can be used a lot, but not too much, because this thing is too heavy, it is inconvenient to move, and it can easily become a target for enemy mortars.
There are a lot of armored vehicles in Rommel's hands! Originally, Rommel's Seventh Panzer Division was equipped with 96 armored vehicles, and now more than 80 have been captured, so many armored vehicles, Rommel's GM34 general-purpose machine gun is obviously not enough, these Maxine heavy machine guns have become the standard for all armored vehicles, the firepower and shooting continuity of Maxine heavy machine guns, with the mobility of armored vehicles, then Rommel's armored vehicles are the nightmare of the enemy infantry.
Mortars, these weapons, the number of mortars deployed in the German armored division is not very large, because the main means of attack of the armored division is to use armored units as an assault force, and Rommel's 7th Panzer Division is only equipped with 36 50-mm mortars and 18 81-mm mortars.
For Rommel, who had the idea of artillery, how could this mortar be enough, Rommel directly doubled the mortar in his hand.
"What? Not enough artillery? Then draw directly from the infantry. ”
The captured radio station can already completely cover the platoon-level units, as for the artillery, Rommel really has no way to equip himself, because he really has enough artillery, if Rommel continues to expand his artillery unit, it will inevitably affect the movement speed of the 7th Panzer Division, and the French artillery needs to be towed by trucks.
The most important thing is that Rommel captured more than 120 French tanks, these captured French tanks are almost all Soma 35, the performance is comparable to the No. 4 tank, and now these tanks have become Rommel's trophies, Rommel allocated all these more than 100 tanks to his own 7th Infantry Brigade (including the 6th and 7th Infantry Regiments and the 7th Locomotive Battalion). )
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