"I'm going to let you go to the other side of the road, and cars 203 and 204 will follow me and set up defensive positions on both sides of this road." Yuri pointed not far away and said, "203 is attracting fire on the road, and 204 and my car are setting traps on both sides. ”

"Wait! Wait a minute! Yuri! I want to stay on this side of the road. Rommel suddenly objected: "Just put one of our tanks still there?" ”

"Rommel, you're more experienced here, and I'm going to stay and command the entire platoon battle, so I have to send you, understand?" Yuri said helplessly.

Rommel thought for a moment, then smiled: "Next time and next time, give me all your chocolate!" ”

"Deal." Yuri thought for a moment, then nodded, "There should be no enemies on your side of the path, but you should be cautious." Got it? ”

Rommel slipped into his commander's command hatch and loudly ordered Mark in front of him to start the engine, while Rommel put on a headset and a walkie-talkie. The tank shuddered again, the engine roared, and black smoke spewed out from the exhaust pipe.

Rommel adjusted the intercom, and then gave the battle order to the crew: "Go south from the road on the right side of the town, turn right at the third intersection, target Highway 3, and go!" ”

"Rommel! The other tanks haven't started yet...... Only we go? Jurgen looked at him puzzled and asked.

"That's right! Let's go to the trail! Give Davis their chances on the road. I'm not short of tanks anyway. Rommel smiled, then leaned against the hatch and yawned: "I don't know when I can have another holiday." ”

With a slight shake of the tank, Tank No. 205 finally came to their defensive line. Several huge craters lay across the middle of the road, and in some of the collapsed houses around them, a group of German soldiers were lying on their backs enjoying the sun. Except for the slight white smoke in the crater, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the war.

"Welcome to the Route 3 intersection." An officer with a Mauser rifle on his back walked up to Rommel's tank and smiled: "I'm in charge of the defense here, thank you for coming to support." ”

"How's it going?" Rommel asked casually.

"We lost 39 people and 83 soldiers remained." The company commander pointed to some of the trenches behind him: "They launched 3 attacks, and the fire was very heavy. One Renault II tank was used for the last time. ”

"I need a camouflage bunker, can you lend me some?" Rommel looked at the terrain in the distance, then asked. The tank combat training received before the battle is finally coming in handy, and the previous battles were all about supporting the infantry, breaking through the position, or the collision of the iron view is more adrenaline-pumping!

"That's no problem, I can lend you 20 soldiers, but time is not much, based on past experience, in another half an hour, the French will attack again."

"Then let's not waste time, let's get started!" Rommel pointed to a collapsed house and said, "There are two walls to use, just pile up the furniture inside and put it outside." ”

"One platoon of 7 soldiers! I need people! Fast! Fast! The company commander commanded loudly.

Soon, the rubble was cleared, and Rommel's tank drove down the small road and slowly drove into the building with only two walls left. The barrel of Tank 205 protruded out of the window of the building, merging with the entire collapsed building. Rommel picked up the binoculars, looked at the hillside in the distance, and then looked at the path on the other side, which was not wide, and raised his eyebrows unconsciously.

And behind the hillside that Rommel had just swept with his telescope, a French Renault II tank drove forward slowly, followed by another Renault, then a third, then a fourth. If one looks from the top of the hillside, one will see dozens of French tanks, armed with blackened infantry, heading for Rommel's defensive position.

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Second Lieutenant de Gaulle proudly got into his Renault tank and shouted to the crew: "This time we are determined to win, and there should not be many German defenders near Stone." ”

"They scared away when they saw our tanks!" One of the Heavy laughed in response. As a tank platoon leader. Second Lieutenant de Gaulle had four Renault II tanks, a 45 mm tank gun built by France based on Chinese technology, similar to or even better than the German No. 3 tank in armor and mobility.

"The German armoured forces are rapidly attacking westward, and I judge that they must be trying to encircle the main forces of our army in Belgium. But after all, they underestimated us France, and with our 1st Panzer Division attacking the flank in Stone, it was still a question whether they dared to plunge into the English Channel so quickly. De Gaulle said, pointing into the distance.

The crew knew that this second lieutenant platoon commander had a deep background and liked to delve into strategy and tactics, and they did not answer when they heard him talk to himself. In fact, they were already very tired, drove three hundred kilometers continuously from the German-French border area, and after entering the war zone, they left the comfortable train and advanced on tank tracks. By the time the 1st Tank Division arrived, a third of its Renaults had broken down, and less than 200 were capable of fighting, while with Ensign de Gaulle, more than 40 and more than 2,000 French infantry were attacking the Germans.

"So this time we attacked Stone, are we nine out of ten?" One of the crew members asked not wanting to embarrass the commander.

"It's up to us to see if we can secretly display the warehouse." De Gaulle pointed to the hillside in front of him and said: "If we can take this place, we can avoid the main road that the Germans are focusing on, bypass the main defensive positions of the German army, and cut into Stone." ”

He glanced at his crew rather proudly, and then continued: "In order to achieve the suddenness of this attack, there is no time for Germany to call for help, and there is no artillery preparation. ”

De Gaulle got out of the tank, lifted the roof and shouted around, and then kept waving his arms, the lack of the Renault tank is that it is not equipped with radio, the electronic technology is relatively backward, and the French factory does not have so much production capacity to provide radio equipment for the troops in a timely manner. The French even considered importing a batch of radio equipment from China to make up for the shortage of communications facilities in the French army.

The French tanks slowly rushed up the hill and then rushed to the narrow gap where only a few tanks could pass at a time, so most of the French soldiers and tanks could not deploy.

"Right ahead! French tanks! Two cars! Rommel held the telescope and shouted: "Renault 2, aim and fire!" ”

"Armor-piercing bullets!" Jurgen pressed his face to the scope and shouted loudly.

"Armor-piercing shells! Reloaded! John, with his muscular arms, pushed a cannonball into the bomb bay and reported loudly.

"Fire!" Rommel commanded loudly.

"Boom!" An armor-piercing bullet flew towards its target with a loud bang, and the huge impact caused a puff of smoke and dust to be thrown around the tank.

"John! Load! Jurgen yelled.

"Reloaded!" John replied loudly again as he pushed the cannonball into the bomb bay.

Directly in front of them, a French tank was paralyzed on the road by a shell that pierced the hull of the vehicle, emitting a puff of black smoke. However, the tank next to this tank did not stop, and still rushed in the direction of the German position as fast as possible.

"Boom!" Another armor-piercing shell erupted from the muzzle of the gun, flying towards its target with strong kinetic energy, this shell was so powerful that it directly destroyed the turret of the Renault tank that rushed up, the huge impact force distorted the entire turret, and the rapidly advancing French tank also staggered and stopped moving forward with such a powerful knock.

The No. 205 crew, with the exception of Prinz, are all tank veterans who have been trained for more than a year, they have a more advanced aiming system, the tank gun is also more stable, the firing range is longer, and the tacit cooperation makes the hit rate amazing.

"The target is destroyed! Adjust the turret! Rommel put down his binoculars, held the intercom in his hand and shouted, "Mark! Reverse 5 meters! We need to move the location a bit! John! Continue armor-piercing shells! I saw French tanks coming up again! ”

The tank quickly retreated a few meters and left where it had been parked. Rommel raised his binoculars and saw more French tanks pass over the wreckage of the two tanks and rush towards the German defenders' positions.

"Armor-piercing shells! Load! Jurgen's eyes rested on the scope and he continued to shout loudly.

"Boom!" The shell flew out of the barrel again and hit an Emma-III tank that rushed towards it, and this time the French tank driver was not so lucky, the whole tank burned, and the tank driver burned and tried to climb out of the tank, only to stop struggling halfway through.

"French tanks! Loading armor-piercing shells. Jurgen didn't stop, and shouted loudly again.

"O my God! Where did so many French tanks come from? Prinz looked at John to the side with some horror, and John did not speak, but just stuck his head on the periscope and waited for the next order. (To be continued.) )