"Sir, let your soldiers scatter, follow behind the tank and you'll be attacked!" Rommel shouted loudly to Manstein, concentrating almost all the troops they could find in order to attack this important transport hub. Two companies of Panzergrenadiers, as well as 7 tanks, including Rommel's crew. And the Belgian bridge guards they attacked did not have even a single anti-tank gun.

The Belgian defenders were already relatively quick to react, but they were still not ready to face the elite German armored forces, and Rommel had added 4 records to himself these days, just three artillery pieces and 1 car.

The bullet could only leave a shallow pit in the front armor plate of the No. 3 tank he was driving, like a shallow pockmark on his face, which was difficult to distinguish if he didn't look closely. But these mottled traces illustrate the experience of this tank, which is as awe-inspiring as a military medal.

The trembling as his tank moved forward shook slightly. Through his periscope, he saw the Belgian infantrymen beaten into a sieve by Prinz, a rookie who had grown rapidly during the war, especially after he forced him to kill a prisoner of war. I also saw the enemy's machine-gun position, which had been drowned in white smoke by Jurgen with a coaxial machine gun.

Manstein's Panzergrenadiers also matured in the war, and the frenzied but rigid attacks of yesteryear were gone, replaced by extremely efficient means of attack.

"Suddenly! Suddenly! Suddenly! Suddenly! "Seeing that the German tanks did not easily change direction, and that according to combat experience, two anti-aircraft artillery positions had been eliminated, the Belgian defenders finally couldn't help it, and an anti-tank gun hidden in the corner opened fire in advance.

Because it was a small-caliber anti-tank gun, it had a high rate of fire, and while the Type 3 tank turned its muzzle, the gun tilted four 35 mm high-speed shells at Rommel's tank in one go.

Although the front armor of the Type 3 was very strong, and although these shells could not effectively penetrate the front armor of the Type 3, this ferocious combination punch stunned the Rommel crew at once. The strong vibration made people dizzy, Rommel felt his internal organs in the tank swaying, the temporary armor steel plate in front of the tank was actually pierced, and because of the vibration, the solder joints fell off, and half of it fell to the ground.

"Mark! Reversing! Rommel, who was still in a state of vertigo, knew that he had to adjust his position at this time, and quickly gave the order.

However, it seemed that he had lost his sense of direction after being beaten, and Mark drove the tank on. Half of the fallen armor plate was on the hull of the vehicle, the other half was stuck in the ground, and the tank was bent as soon as it advanced, and then it was kicked aside by the tracks.

Rommel shook his dizzy head and shouted to John, "Ahead! Probably at 11 o'clock! Near the broken low wall! Aim and fire! No need to wait for parking! ”

"Boom!" As soon as his words fell, the revenge fire of the 205 tank rang out. A shell hit the wall directly, turning it into a crumbling brick, but this shell was a little far away, and the Belgian defenders' anti-tank guns were on the right side of the wall, but the shell hit the left side of the wall.

"Rommel! You idiot! In the end, it's up to me to save you! In the headphones, an arrogant voice rang out.

As soon as the words fell, just behind the anti-tank gun, a tank climbed up a steep slope and smashed the fence wall behind them. The Belgian soldiers, frightened by the sudden flanking attack, immediately threw away their armor and fled, and the steaming cannon was abandoned.

However, the onrushing tank did not seem to intend to let any enemy go, and the machine gun kept firing, knocking several Belgian defenders to the ground. Tank Commander 204 Davis's arrogant laughter irritated Rommel's eardrums through the intercom, and it sounded so pleasant to him.

"I'll leave it to you!" Rommel, for his part, recovered, and saw that the Belgian defenders were retreating towards the bridge, and it was clear that they wanted to push to the other side and blow up the bridge. So Rommel gave a crazy order in a loud voice: "Mark! Burn the wind! Overtake these Belgians and drive up to the bridge. ”

So a crazy scene appeared in the eyes of the German and Belgian troops. A bullet-riddled No. 3 tank suddenly began to accelerate and sped up the road at a very fast speed. Soon the tank was out of the cover of the German infantry, and its machine guns continued to strafe, knocking down one Belgian soldier after another in front, and soon because of casualties and fear, the retreating Belgian soldiers consciously gave way to a way.

The tank frantically moved forward, passing through the pursuing German soldiers, past the fleeing Belgian soldiers, and finally took the bridge before everyone approached. In everyone's shocked eyes, the muzzle of the 205 tank black hole hole was aimed at the Belgian soldiers, and the meaning was very obvious: "Surrender!" Or die! ”

Soon the Belgian defenders gave up their resistance, throwing their guns to the ground and raising their hands high......

The Germans struck the banks of the Meuse with incredible speed, taking advantage of the negligence of the defenders to capture the important bridge in one fell swoop, and the steel torrent of the 1st Panzer Division broke through the Meuse line in only three hours, and they were now heading towards the front of the Meuse, which could be said to be the main transportation center in the rear of the Anglo-French forces.

In order to cooperate with Moltke Jr.'s attack, Schlieffen ordered General Crook's army group and General Beagle's army group to desperately hold back the main forces of the French and British expeditionary forces and prevent them from moving south for reinforcements. General Shiringen's troops were ordered to launch a diversionary attack on the French in the direction of Alsace and Lorraine, creating the conditions for Moltke Jr. to capture Sedan and cut off the rear flank of the Anglo-French army.

At this time, there was a lot of noise in the headquarters of the British and French forces, and Xia Fei, who was as slow as Santa Claus on weekdays, also stood in front of the combat map seriously.

"The presence of the Germans in Sedan means that the retreat of the Allied forces in Belgium has been cut off, which we cannot tolerate, and we must immediately send a large army to encircle and suppress this army and protect the safety of the rear flank!" Sir French, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, who had deliberately rushed back from the front, said loudly.

Compared with the course of the battle, French was more concerned about the safety of the British Expeditionary Force, which was nearly 200,000 troops of all the elite of the British army, and once there was any accident, French could not bear the terrible consequences.

Xia Fei waved his hand to stop the quarrel, and the focus of the quarrel was on whether to send troops to encircle Moltke Jr.'s army, but the prevailing view was that the French army took the opportunity to invade German territory, which was the main reason why French were in a hurry.

The French were sympathetic to Alsace and Lorraine, and in revenge for their defeat in the last war, every French man held his breath to retake those regions and invade German territory. The same was true of Chauffeur, who divided the main forces of the coalition in two, with the French army in the north defending against the main German forces together with the British Expeditionary Force, and the main force on the right flank, where most of the tanks were concentrated, took the opportunity to break through the German-French border and invade German territory.

Looking at the map, Xia Fei seemed to have made up his mind, and he turned his gaze to Sir French: "According to intelligence, the Germans are weak in the border area, and the progress in Belgium and the Netherlands is slow, they cannot break through the defensive line of the coalition forces in the north, and we can draw some troops to surround the advancing Moltke corps." Then concentrate forces to attack from the German-French border area, forcing the Germans to retreat to defend their core. ”

Xia Fei's views represent the views of most French generals, and indeed of France as a whole, who have an unusually strong attachment to revenge. In the end, French was persuaded by Xia Fei, but in fact, it was not the French who finally persuaded him to take revenge, but a series of fortress fortifications in the Netherlands and Belgium. The main German forces had been blocked there for several days, and it seemed that there were no effective means to break through the defensive line.

The order was given from the Allied headquarters, and the French Third Army was ordered to move south, but very slowly, and did not seem to worry at all about the capture of Sedan. The commander of the Third Army, Lieutenant General Roy, even hoped that Sedang would become the focal point of attraction for Moltke Jr.'s army, thus creating the conditions for the Third Army to completely annihilate this force. In addition to the 3rd Army, there were two divisions of French troops in the Sedan area, and the 5th Reserve Army from Paris would also be replenished there.

The situation was not as smooth as Xia Fei expected, the 1st and 2nd armies on the right flank launched an offensive in Alsace and Lorraine, the Foch corps, which acted as the vanguard, was resolutely resisted by the Germans in the Molang area and could not survive, and the 6th Army led by Ferdinand of the German Bavarian **** took the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive, and the left and right flanks of the French army were defeated and retreated under the onslaught of the German army. De Casittel, the commander of the French Second Army, intended to continue the retreat, but was stopped by Foch, who believed that the best defense was to attack, and this suggestion was accepted by De Cassitre, so the French launched a counterattack, temporarily repelling Ferdinand's Sixth Army and stabilizing the front. But at the same time, the French army temporarily lost the ability to attack. (To be continued.) )