The French beachhead was repeatedly ravaged by 150 heavy howitzers and 88 anti-aircraft guns, and the fortifications built by the French army on the soft sand were blown to pieces, and the stumps and broken arms of the French soldiers and various gun parts were everywhere.

The soft river sand positions fundamentally protected the French soldiers, and the fortifications built on the soft river sand could not withstand the bombardment of 88 anti-aircraft guns and 150 howitzers.

A battalion of German troops crossing the river, with more than 200 remaining men, had by this time ascended to the French beachhead on the other side of the Meuse, and these German soldiers immediately occupied the positions left by the French and set about consolidating the beachhead.

Suddenly, a burst of heavy artillery fire fell on the beachhead, and the power of these shells was extremely great, and the German soldiers who had just landed were wantonly ravaged by the heavy artillery of the French army, and many German soldiers who had just landed on the beachhead were blown into the sky.

The French heavy artillery blew up the soft sand of the beachhead, which was mixed with various human stumps and weapon parts, and the German infantry company that had just landed suffered heavy casualties on the beachhead, which had few fortifications.

It had just landed, and Rommel had lost almost two companies, and this was when Rommel had the "Eye of God" and absolutely superior artillery.

Rommel, in his makeshift command post on the banks of the Meuse, had been alternately observing the battlefield with binoculars and the "Eye of God", and the French heavy artillery was so well hidden that each cannon was covered with thick branches.

The "Eye of God" detection function is equivalent to an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, which can only look down from the sky, and the "Eye of God" does not have the function of perspective, which caused Rommel's "Eye of God" to not find the French army's excellent hidden heavy artillery, and Rommel has no experience in these hidden means on the battlefield!

As soon as the French heavy artillery began to fire, it was immediately captured by Rommel's "Eye of God" to the precise position, and Rommel hurriedly used the radio station to tell his heavy artillery battalion the French heavy artillery position.

Less than five minutes after the French heavy artillery was arrogant, Rommel's heavy artillery counterattack began, and the French heavy artillery itself was not much, Rommel had 36 105-mm howitzers and 10 150-mm howitzers in his hands. The heavy artillery positions of the French army were destroyed in an instant by the German artillery, who knew their exact coordinates.

At the cost of more than 100 casualties, the 7th Panzer Division established a semicircular beachhead with a radius of less than 500 meters on the Meuse River, and such a beachhead was of course very fragile, and as long as the French could counterattack with artillery fire regardless of losses, half a battalion of German troops who had only crossed the river could not hold the beachhead that had been ravaged countless times by artillery fire.

But the French army had been blown apart by the fierce and accurate artillery fire of the German army, and the French army, which had already been drawn most of the defensive forces, did not dare to counterattack at all, they just desperately called for reinforcements, including air reinforcements.

At this time, the main forces of the Anglo-French army were already engaged with the Germans in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and other places, where they could draw troops back to reinforce the Sedan line behind them, and everything could only be relied on by themselves.

The French army, which is tactically dull, has no courage to take the initiative to counterattack, and since Napoleon, this country has not produced an outstanding war genius, and art is their specialty, so forget about fighting!

Rommel, of course, was not going to let go of such a good moment and immediately let the engineer battalion erect heavy and light pontoons, heavy pontoons for the passage of tanks and self-propelled guns, and light pontoons for the passage of infantry and trucks. Rommel's 7th Panzer Division was a mechanized Panzer Division in the full sense of the word, with 218 No. 4 tanks, 54 self-propelled guns, more than 800 trucks, 96 armored vehicles, and more than 1,300 motorcycles.

With so much heavy equipment in the Seventh Panzer Division, if there were no two pontoon bridges, it would not have been possible to pass on time, and Rommel did not want to stay by the Meuse River for too long, after all, the air force of the British and French forces was not vegetarian at this time, and Rommel had no absolute victory over the enemy's aircraft except for anti-aircraft guns.

The 7th Panzer Division was fully mobilized under Rommel's orders, all the anti-aircraft guns were arranged in the river crossing section, other armored divisions only had 50 small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, and there were four 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, and Rommel had a full twenty 88-mm anti-aircraft guns more than other divisions, the power of 88-mm anti-aircraft guns needless to say, its rate of fire was not simple, reaching 15-20 rounds per minute (with semi-automatic loaders), such a powerful anti-aircraft fire, the British and French forces wanted to blow up the pontoon bridge through air strikes, It's definitely a bit difficult.

The erection of pontoon bridges and the crossing of the river were carried out at the same time, and the 7th Armored Division originally carried some river-crossing tools - rubber boats in order to cross the river, some of which were lost before, and now there are more than a dozen of them that can be used, and these river-crossing tools cannot be idle like this! Some infantry squads carrying light and heavy machine guns are still allowed to ride.

Although the rubber boat crossing the river was slow, it took more than ten minutes to go back and forth, and only one squad of heavily armed soldiers and ammunition could be transported at a time, but these soldiers were very important for the expansion and consolidation of the beachhead, which was too small in a radius of 500 meters, and the French could drive the Germans to the Meuse River to feed the kings with a single charge.

At the makeshift command post on the Meuse, Rommel said to Hans, the chief of staff beside him:

"My chief of staff, you are here to be responsible for the coordination of the various troops, and I will go to the probe position on the other side."

Although Colonel Hans was plotting to overthrow the Hitlerites, he would never mess up the war, and Hans and the other conspirators also loved Germany deeply and were willing to give everything for Germany, and they wanted to overthrow Hitler just because they thought that Hitler would push Germany into the abyss again by launching a war.

"No, division commander, you are the commander of the whole division, and your position should be in the command room, so you can't take risks easily, let's send a regiment commander over!"

Rommel's character was one of "always being with his own soldiers, even in the most dangerous firing line." Hans's persuasion was doomed to be ineffective, and Rommel smiled and said to Hans:

"I like to be with my own soldiers, they can fight on the front line, why can't I go to the front line? I trust my soldiers to protect their division commanders. ”

After Rommel finished speaking, he beckoned his adjutant Wald and a radio station signal soldier out of the temporary headquarters, and at the gate of the headquarters was the guard company, and Wald went to the guard company to ask for a guard platoon, and followed Rommel to cross the river.

As soon as Rommel appeared on the beachhead, the morale of the German troops who had already crossed the river was immediately high, and the greetings of "good division commander" continued one after another. The appearance of a general on the front line is a morale boost that cannot be ignored, but fortunately Rommel has the "Eye of God", there are no French soldiers nearby, and of course there are no French blockers.