Chapter 31: The Capture of the Captives (I)

The "Eye of God" accurately allowed Rommel to see the situation around sixty kilometers, the French Ninth Army was retreating on all fronts, and about fifteen kilometers away from them, there was a French division rushing to reinforce it, which was not good news, if this division stabilized the rout, it would be a very tricky thing for Rommel.

How could Rommel let such a thing happen, so he immediately gave Luxembourg a combat mission:

"Falcon, I'm No. 1, order your troops to immediately pursue the rout army and occupy the village of Grankie ten kilometers away, remember to block the road next to the village of Grankie, there is a French division in front of you that is rushing to reinforce and defeat him, I will support you with artillery, and the air force will also come immediately."

"Falcon understands ......"

Luxemburg pursued the French with only twenty-four tanks and one motorized infantry, and Rommel had only four 88mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, but he still ordered these 88mm anti-aircraft guns to open fire to support the attack of the armored forces.

The 88-mm anti-aircraft gun could also bombard the ground, with a longer range and higher accuracy than the German 150 howitzer, and of course the fleeing French army had no targets worthy of 88 artillery bombardment. These four 88-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns were just aimlessly bombarding the fleeing French troops, and their purpose was to continue to make the fleeing French troops even more panicked, so that they did not dare to stop their escape at all.

The troops that landed afterwards immediately expanded the defensive positions at the breach, which hardly required Rommel to give an order, the deputy division commander Bismarck and the chief of staff knew what to do, these two deputies of Rommel were really good, although they were not very famous in history, but their operational command ability should definitely not be underestimated.

How could the French rout run past the tanks, when the tanks in Luxembourg caught up, these routs looked at the mighty and majestic No. 4 tank, and they were directly frightened to their knees, and they had no choice but to surrender on their knees.

Luxembourg had time to capture the prisoners, so he simply told the infantry following the tanks through the radio to tell the French soldiers to lay down their arms and then assemble at the beachhead, where they were sheltered.

When the French soldiers were taken prisoner, they saw that the German soldiers were so amiable, and their nervousness was immediately relaxed, and they threw away their weapons and walked obediently to the beachhead without any escort.

People have a herd effect, and the German tanks have rushed in front of them, and even if they want to, they can't escape. A small group of courteous French prisoners threw away their weapons and walked towards the beachhead, and more French soldiers followed suit, throwing away their weapons and following the crowd towards the beachhead, and some of the low-ranking French officers took the initiative to maintain order.

The highway has long been blocked, because several cars were destroyed on the road by German artillery fire, and the vehicles and people of the French rout gathered on the road, and the entire rout army could not move at all, but there was no French army to run on the path, and I don't know if the romantic French soldiers were funny.

Of course, Luxembourg's tanks could not be pursued by road, but tanks did not only drive on the road, but also through the fields on both sides of the road. In the case of impassable roads, Luxembourg immediately ordered its own tanks to pursue in the wilderness.

The motorized infantry who followed the tank, of course, gave up the motorcycles in their hands for the time being, a platoon of soldiers was left to guard the motorcycles, and the remaining soldiers all climbed onto the tanks and rushed quickly towards the village of Grankie, the target of their attack, Luxembourg did not dare to delay now, where he wanted to block the reinforcements of the French army, this task was not insignificant, after all, his strength was a little bit.

At all times there were moldy people and lucky people, and the rows of German soldiers who were left behind, who had missed an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, only to be patronized by the god of luck.

The platoon commander of this platoon was named Nevia, and Luxemburg ordered him to stay and guard more than 100 motorcycles and some ammunition trucks left by the Germans, which were quite valuable, brought by Rommel from Germany, and in the future, they would almost rely on the ammunition they carried and captured, so they should not think about supplies, because Rommel ran too fast, even if there were supplies, they could not be delivered to him.

Luxembourg, of course, understood the importance of these munitions, so they left a platoon of infantry to guard it, because the French army was not far away.

Navia They were still nervous before, but after the French troops who fled from behind saw them, they immediately laid down their arms and surrendered, those French troops no longer had the slightest will to fight, Navia's mind was flexible, since the French prisoners were so easy to grasp, not far ahead, there were thousands of French troops in the rout!

Then why don't we catch some French prisoners, it's also a credit to catch more prisoners! Thinking of this, the platoon commander of Navia immediately beckoned the three squad leaders under him to his side and whispered:

"Brothers, do you want to make meritorious service?"

Of course, the three squad leaders under Navia want to make meritorious contributions, and the soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers, and the three of them nodded heavily at the platoon commander Nevia and said:

"Yes! Could it be that the platoon commander has a way? ”

Nevia smiled and pointed to the French rout on the road in the distance:

"Where is our credit!"

"But Colonel Luxembourg ordered us to guard the motorcycles and ammunition trucks! If the French army took advantage of the chaos to blow up our ammunition truck, we would all be shot. ”

"What are you afraid of, you take one squad to guard, I take the other two squads to capture the prisoners, and the brothers and Lao Tzu go to catch the French......"

"Platoon Commander ......"

Nevertheless, Nevia forcibly rushed out with two squads of twenty-four German soldiers on six motorcycles, each with three Germans on board, and the motorcycles were equipped with an MG34 machine gun.

Navia took his two squads of twenty-four people and rushed towards the French troops on the road, although Navia was bold, but he was not without brains, this kid knew French, he sat in the sidecar of the motorcycle, holding a horn in his hand, and when the motorcycle was still four or five hundred meters away from the French army, he asked the motorcycle to stop, and the kid shouted with the horn:

"Listen to the French troops on the other side, you have been surrounded, our tank troops have rushed to your front, if you can't escape, immediately lay down your arms and surrender, you will be treated as prisoners of war, and all officers will also be treated as officers deserve.

If you are recalcitrant and you will only be annihilated, think of your wife and daughter, your beautiful lover, if you are killed, they will become the people in the arms of others, are you willing?

A man would not want his wife, daughter and lover to become someone else's plaything, so what are you hesitating about! Hurry up and surrender!

Give you three minutes to think about it, and then I'll machine fire, and if you don't surrender after fifteen minutes, I'll call for artillery fire and send you all to God, and let your wives and daughters and lovers become playthings in someone else's arms...... Start the timer. ”

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