Chapter 72: Radio Silence
"In the past few days, there have been a lot of brothers who have broken through from that side passing through here, and now they are all reorganized in Hurlo, Mr. Colonel, why don't you go first."
"Thank you......"
Luxembourg retrieved his fake papers, then climbed back into the tank, and the entire armored force passed through the French checkpoint with ease. It was also during this period that the French rout troops continued to pass through here, so the French major at the checkpoint relaxed his vigilance.
After passing Luxembourg at the checkpoint, they continued for some time, and when the two bridges over the Somme were scarcely in sight, Luxembourg immediately divided his troops into two groups and drove towards them.
Luxembourg went to the road bridge, which was the focus of the raid, and there was also a checkpoint at the head of the road bridge, which Luxembourg did the same and passed the inspection with ease.
The Gallic chickens seem to be naturally retarded in this regard, and they could not have imagined that the proud Germans would use the means of sneak attack, and they did it in their French military uniforms, which was entirely the act of spies, and they could be shot directly if they were caught, because spies did not enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war.
As soon as Luxembourg drove up the road bridge with the armored troops, he immediately ordered the armored vehicles following by the on-board radio to pretend to break down, and then put the on-board infantry down.
The Germans who came down from the armored vehicles were of course wearing French uniforms, and their main task was to control the bridges and check for wires that had detonated explosives, which was the main thing.
In case the French secure explosives under the bridge, if Luxembourg blows up the bridge as soon as they make a move, then Luxembourg will not fall short, the important thing is that the 7th Panzer Division will be blocked by the Somme, and it will be forced to cross the Somme River without knowing how much sacrifice it will take.
Finally stopped on the bridge were five tanks, six armored vehicles, and sixty soldiers. As soon as the infantry got out of the car, they pretended to look at the scenery and looked for wires on the bridge. After the search of these infantrymen, no wires were found on the bridge, so the French did not plant explosives under the bridge at all.
Historically, as was the case, Rommel's troops routed the French troops defending the bridges as soon as they arrived, and it took Rommel a total of three or four hours to capture the two bridges, and if the French had planted explosives under the bridges, they would have had plenty of time to detonate them.
Unfortunately, they did not plant explosives under the bridges, which allowed Rommel to easily occupy the two bridges, and Rommel became the first German unit to break through the Somme, and other German troops immediately swarmed through the two bridges, and the Weigand defense line laid out by the new French commander-in-chief Weygand immediately collapsed.
Since there are no explosives planted under these two bridges, what else is there to worry about in Luxembourg! His tanks were the first to open fire on the French artillery placed at the bridgehead. Luxembourg was followed by more than 50 French tanks of various types, as well as dozens of half-track armored vehicles.
The firepower was unprecedented, at least for the French troops guarding the bridge. Suddenly guns rang out along the bridge of the Somme, explosions rang out one after another, and the artillery fire and pillboxes placed by the French army on the banks of the Somme were destroyed one by one.
The machine guns on tanks and armored vehicles are the weapons that harvest life, and many Frenchmen are sent to God without even reacting, and the sound of machine gun fire is like fried beans.
Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles opened fire at the same time, the scene was very spectacular, although there were dozens of large light bulbs around the bridge, but this light could not let the storm cover the gorgeous "fireworks", dragging the light bombs in the air "whizzing" shuttle, and the screams of the French soldiers converged in the uprising, making the night sky a little weird.
As soon as Luxembourg moved and the railway bridge did it at about the same time, the attack was so sudden that the surprise attack gave all the French troops no time to react, and although the French troops stationed at the two bridges had a whole regiment, the French army hardly posed the slightest threat to Luxembourg.
The whole sneak attack went smoothly to the point of no return, Luxembourg successfully occupied the two bridges over the Somme, and in order to prevent the French counterattack, Luxembourg still seriously organized the defense forces, and at the same time used radio at the same time as the division commander Rommel.
Upon receiving Luxembourg's radio report, Rommel immediately ordered Luxembourg to advance along the road to Paris. It was about one hundred and fifty kilometres from the Somme to Paris, and if the 7th Panzer Division had not been in the mood for war at all, it would have reached the outside of Paris by tomorrow morning.
Why did Rommel rush forward so desperately? He wanted to be the first to enter Paris, was Rommel for honor? This is just one of the reasons, the other main one being that Rommel wanted to loot the Bank of France and dozens of museums in Paris.
Looting the wealth of France is what Rommel wants to do the most, if you want to change your own destiny and change the outcome of Germany's destruction, you can't do it without money, the huge mistakes of Germany in the development of weapons in history, Rommel does not want to repeat it, if Rommel has no money, it is absolutely impossible to correct Germany's mistakes in weapons research and development.
Originally, Rommel in history was attacking Cherbourg, and Rommel would not do such a useless thing when he travels now. After Rommel broke through the Somme, he sent another telegram to Army Group B, and Rommel ordered the entire division to shut down its radio stations and implement radio silence.
Rommel did not want to receive orders from above, he was now thinking that if he rushed into Paris, France as soon as possible, there were two roads from the Somme to Paris, France, one was to detour through the Seine to the back of Paris, France, and the other was to go directly to Paris, France.
Of course, Rommel will not attack the Seine as he has done historically, it would be a complete waste of time, because France will soon declare Paris an undefended city, and Rommel's siege of Paris is unnecessary, it is better to rush directly to the city of Paris, and then be the first to enter the city and loot the wealth.
With the might of victory, the 7th Panzer Division commanded more than 300 tanks, more than 200 armored vehicles, hundreds of artillery pieces, and hundreds of trucks of ammunition supply, and went straight to Paris, the capital of France.
The new commander-in-chief of France, Weygand, had just deployed the troops in the French hinterland to the defensive line, and as a result, the Seventh Panzer Division pierced the Weygand defense line with a single sword, and the Seventh Panzer Division drilled directly into the French hinterland, and they left behind the heavy troops of the French army, and there were almost no defensive forces in the French hinterland.
The 7th Panzer Division advanced overnight, to the surprise of all the French, they encountered almost no decent resistance on the road, and the small French did not dare to brush the tiger's whiskers of the 7th Panzer Division, so Rommel's 7th Panzer Division advanced extremely smoothly.
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At this juncture
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The feelings of those who have loved are too deep
I remember it all
You don't wait to say okay
Happiness too
I was wrong and the tears dried up
I regretted letting go
Just a music box for memories
It's still spinning, how to stop
Your reply is messy
At this juncture
I think of the white dove by the fountain
The sweetness was scattered
Emotions are inexplicably pulled
I still love you
And you sing on and off
Pretend it's okay
Time has passed
Love faces a choice
You're cold and tired, I'm crying
Unhappiness when leaving
You write by hand on a card
Some love is only given to this and it really hurts
What's wrong you're tired
Say good happiness
I don't want to say anything
Love fades, dreams are far away
Happy and unhappy
Count how reluctant you are
The feelings of those who have loved are too deep
I remember it all
You don't wait to talk about happiness
I was wrong and the tears dried up
I regretted letting go
Just a music box for memories
It's still spinning
How do you stop?
What's wrong you're tired
Say good happiness
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I was wrong and the tears dried up
I regretted letting go
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It's still spinning
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