"The 7th Locomotive Battalion, the 58th Engineer Battalion, the 83rd Communications Battalion, an artillery battalion, plus a motorized infantry battalion directly under the division."

What kind of troops are these, even the communications battalion has been sent out to fight, except for the 7th Locomotive Battalion under the 7th Infantry Brigade, the divisional motorized infantry battalion and the artillery have combat effectiveness, the other units can only be regarded as "garbage".

Rommel gave Bismarck's troops only 1,500 combat troops, and used 1,500 men to block an enemy division, and the division commander really looked up to Bismarck, but Bismarck had already boasted of Haikou, so he could only accept Rommel's orders.

"So where is my final bottom line?"

"Just keep the village of Philipville, and it's up to you how you arrange it."

After Rommel gave the order, he boarded his command tank and went to Luxembourg to command the battle, eating the enemy's armored division is the main task at present, even if Bismarck loses the village of Philipville, it doesn't matter, as long as Rommel can successfully eat the French armored division, this French infantry division in front of Bismarck can't run.

Rommel left the sad-faced Bismarck in the village of Philippville, and he left with more than a hundred trucks that followed the attack of the main army, of course, Rommel left Bismarck enough ammunition to use up even if he fought fiercely with the enemy for five or six days.

On the issue of ammunition supply, Rommel has never been stingy, only sufficient supplies are the guarantee of victory, if the supply can't keep up, even if the elite troops, they can't win, the historical Rommel in North Africa, is because there is no supply and hate defeat, the current traverser Rommel, will not be in such a fool.

The village of Philipville was no longer safe, and of course Rommel had to take his supply convoy away, and he still didn't know how effective the two French divisions were. In case of a stalemate, this is a life-threatening thing without ammunition.

Five kilometres northwest of the village of Philipville there is a hilly area overgrown with trees, and two hundred metres from the hill is a road leading to the village of Philipville, which Luxembourg reached on Rommel's orders.

After Luxemburg arrived at the ambush site, he carefully looked at the terrain, and he was so satisfied with this ambush position that Luxemburg thought in his heart: "I don't know how the division commander knew about this excellent ambush field, could it be that the division commander has been here before?" ”

No one could answer Luxembourg's question, and even if he asked Rommel himself, Rommel would not be able to give him a satisfactory answer.

Luxembourg immediately began to set up, and under his direct command there was an armored regiment of 218 No. 4 tanks, an anti-tank battalion, and an artillery regiment. Originally, the anti-tank battalion of the 7th Panzer Division had 36 37-mm anti-tank guns and 14 50-mm anti-tank guns, but their division commander had already transferred 36 anti-tank guns to the infantry regiment, and the 37-mm anti-tank guns were only more than 800 kilograms.

Don't underestimate the 37-mm anti-tank gun, at the beginning of World War II, the anti-tank gun capabilities of the 37 gun were still relatively powerful, and there were only a few tanks that he could not penetrate the frontal armor. Although the effect of putting the 37mm anti-tank gun in the anti-tank battalion is not very large, but in the hands of the infantry, it is definitely fast-moving anti-tank gun fire! What's more, the 37 mm anti-tank gun can also fire super-caliber grenades, and its armor-piercing depth is 110 mm, and no tank in the early days of World War II could withstand such a grenade bombardment, but when loading super-caliber grenades, soldiers need to risk their lives to run in front of the cannon to load.

Luxembourg did not have 36 37-mm anti-tank guns, but 24 more 88-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. This thing is not placed, fighting tanks, planes, and fortresses, everything is in the line, until the middle of World War II, no tank can withstand it, and in the late stage of World War II, the power of 88 mm guns is slightly insufficient, especially the emergence of IS series tanks.

For example, the IS-2 heavy tank produced in the Soviet Union in 1943. The armament uses a 122 mm cannon of 43 times diameter, which can fire tracer armor-piercing shells and anti-personnel blast grenades. Vertical armor-piercing with a thickness of 1000 mm at a distance of 160 meters using tracer armor-piercing shells.

The car weighs about 45 tons, and the chassis performance is about the same as that of the IS-1, and the weight of the IS-2 is the same level as the German "Panther" medium tank (44 tons), but the overall performance is more than that of the heavier "Tiger", and the firepower is more than that of the "Tiger".

Although the number of anti-tank guns in Luxembourg's hands has decreased, his anti-tank ability is to crush the opponent in the here and now, as long as the enemy's tank enters the firing range, it will definitely be sent to hell.

Luxembourg deployed anti-tank on the edge of the woods, and the anti-tank battalion brought more than 20 MG34 machine guns were enough for them to defend against the onslaught of enemy infantry, and a hundred meters behind the anti-tank guns was the 25th Panzer Regiment, which was lined up, and the distance of 100 meters was very reasonable, whether it was to support the anti-tank battalion or assault.

As for the artillery regiment in Luxembourg's hands, it was on the edge of the woods about 1,500 meters behind him, in fact, this artillery regiment only had two battalions, namely 105 howitzers and 150 howitzers, and the other battalion was equipped with 75 mm field guns, which was transferred to the command of Bismarck, and Luxembourg had so many heavy artillery support, Luxembourg did not have the slightest worry about this ambush.

It has to be said that the quality of the German troops, they began to set up an ambush from the time they reached the woods, and when they were ambushed, it took only twenty minutes, and the artillery group behind them was just as fast, and by the time Rommel arrived at the artillery position with more than a hundred trucks, the artillery had already deployed all the artillery, and the artillery was already beginning to calculate the firing elements.

The supply convoy must not be put together with the artillery, in case the enemy's artillery comes to a counter-fire attack, once the ammunition and supplies of more than a hundred trucks are detonated, even the gods will be unable to survive, and the supply convoy retreats and continues to retreat for about two or three miles.

Rommel parked his command car behind a huge rock about 500 meters from the artillery position, which was definitely an anti-slope for the enemy's artillery, and the enemy's artillery could not hit it at all.

Rommel did not rest in the command tank, but kept using the "Eye of God" to observe the situation in the surrounding 60 miles, the larger the range of viewing, the lower the clarity, if Rommel was looking at the range of 60 kilometers at a time, the "Eye of God" would be reduced to 5 meters, and he could almost see a truck or tank clearly.

Suddenly, Rommel's "Eye of God" saw a large swarm of buzzing "mosquitoes" appear in the sky to the southwest, and the "mosquitoes" seen by the "Eye of God" must have been airplanes, this group of planes came from the direction of Paris, needless to say that it was a group of French air raid planes.

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