Rommel couldn't help his air defense forces at this time, he could only watch, the traverser is definitely not omnipotent, the war is a country's comprehensive strength, and Rommel, who was ravaged by the enemy's air force today, has already made up his mind at this time to loot wealth after he invades Paris, and then devote himself to the research and development of various advanced weapons.

Otherwise, even if Rommel was a traverser, he would only be abused under the endless research and development ********of new weapons by Britain and the United States. The little scientific and technological advantage that Germany accumulated in the early days of World War II will soon be surpassed by Britain and the United States, and if it does not increase investment and speed up the research and development of new weapons, Rommel will still be a dead end in history, and Rommel will not cross over to find death.

An hour later, just when the two sides were exhausted, Rommel's "Eye of God" found that a large group of planes came to the southwest, and the number was also more than 100, which could startle Rommel, if the British and French forces supported more than 100 planes at this time, then their pontoon bridge would be absolutely saved, and maybe the hundreds of trucks hidden in the forest would also be in danger.

Rommel hurriedly enlarged the "Eye of God" and carefully looked at the signs on this group of planes, Rommel quickly saw clearly the cross icon on these planes, and Rommel was relieved that the air force reinforcements he had been calling for had finally arrived, and the more than 100 planes that came were all relatively advanced BF109 fighters of the German army.

The BF109 fighter was definitely better than the British and French planes during the French campaign, and the bombers and battles of the British and French forces were certainly not the opponents of the BF109, not to mention that they had been in the sky for an hour, and there was not much ammunition and fuel left.

A few minutes later, German planes flew into the battlefield and immediately strangled the remaining 70 or so planes of the British and French forces.

The British and French fighters fled the fastest, and the Germans did not pursue them in order to annihilate all the enemy bombers, and the British and French bombers were now in a catastrophe, they were shot down by the German BF109 fighters like dumplings, and none of them escaped.

In this Anglo-French air raid, about 110 planes were lost, and more than 70 planes were shot down by Rommel's anti-aircraft artillery alone.

Of course, Rommel's losses were certainly not small, just the gunners and machine guns of the anti-aircraft guns, Rommel lost almost more than 200 people, but fortunately, there was no loss of supplies and pontoons.

After Rommel personally sent a telegram of thanks to Catherine, he sent a telegram on the battlefield situation to the great marshal and commander-in-chief of Army Group A, Rundstedt, in which Rommel emphasized that he was about to cross the river, and that Rommel wanted the higher authorities to order his left and right flanks to speed up the march to avoid the danger of him being flanked by the enemy from both sides.

After Rommel sent the telegram, he immediately returned to the division headquarters from the beachhead, and at the same time ordered the engineer battalion to immediately resume the bridge, because Rommel had given advance warning of the enemy's air raids, there were no casualties in the engineer battalion, and the pontoon bridge was unharmed.

In this case, there was no delay in the construction of the bridge, but they accelerated the progress of the bridge, and after an hour, the two pontoon bridges were completed. Historically, Rommel only built a sixteen-ton pontoon bridge on the Meuse River, because Rommel only had No. 2 and No. 3 tanks in his hands at that time, and the sixteen-ton pontoon bridge was basically enough, but Rommel's tank troops encountered big trouble when passing the sixteen-ton pontoon bridge.

The current of the Meuse was very fast, the pontoon swayed so much that the tanks drove on the pontoon as fast as a snail, and one tank accidentally drove into the Meuse, and it took Rommel's tank about five or six hours to pass through fifteen tanks.

Since Rommel is a super German fan, he must know these things, so his engineering unit has long been equipped with a 30-ton pontoon bridge, and when erecting the pontoon bridge, try to straighten the pontoon bridge as much as possible, so when Rommel's tank passes through the pontoon bridge, it can be almost the same as walking, and it can pass one in about two or three minutes.

The first to cross the river were two armored companies, a total of 24 No. 4E tanks, and four 88-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, these 88-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns were the big killers in Rommel's hands, at this time there was no kind of British and French tank that could withstand the bombardment of 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, and it is not an exaggeration to describe 88-mm anti-aircraft guns with tank openers.

Of course, Rommel's modified 88-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun also had defects, because he used the chassis of tank No. 3, which weighed only seven or eight tons, which was obviously not enough, and if the 88-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun was fired, the recoil distance would be more than a meter.

Such an 88-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun was clearly unqualified, and Rommel, as a last resort, welded a herringbone steel bracket in the tail of the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun. When firing a cannon, you need to open the herringbone bracket, and like any other cannon preparation, just put it away when you don't fire it.

The advantage of such an 88-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is that it can keep up with the maneuver of tank troops and can quickly reach the designated combat position, but the disadvantage is that the firing point needs to open the herringbone bracket, and at the same time, it is not possible to change the gun position when firing the gun.

Rommel's command tank was a modified tank No. 4, tank number 168, the tank had its cannon removed and replaced it with a pitch-black wood, ammunition racks were removed from the tank, a high-power radio station was installed, and there was only one driver, a telecommunications officer, and an adjutant ****** inside the tank.

The 168 Command Tank is outwardly indistinguishable from the other Tank IV, except that it has an antenna about two meters long on its roof.

Why did Rommel modify such a command tank, because Rommel always likes to be on the front line to command, his motto is to be with his soldiers at any time, and Rommel does not want to die under stray bullets in a daze, so he modified such a No. 4 command tank, so that he can be on the front line at any time.

As soon as more than twenty tanks passed through the pontoon bridge, Rommel's command tank followed, and at this time the light pontoon bridge also passed a battalion of motorized infantry, if it was a steady general, he would definitely use these forces to continue to strengthen the bridgehead, but Rommel immediately launched an attack on the second line of defense of the French army with these forces.

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