After Rommel became a field marshal, his fame and power could change his fate and that of Germany. At that time, Germany was just beginning to decline, and Rommel could change the fate of himself and Germany by himself, but maybe, everything was unknown.

After Rommel fell asleep, the 7th Panzer Division launched an attack on the outskirts of the Ardennes Forest in Belgium according to the original plan, and at first it was extremely smooth, and all the bunkers built by the Belgians were destroyed by the artillery of the 7th Panzer Division, and not a single bunker remained.

Everyone was secretly amazed at why the German artillery was suddenly so accurate, and everyone didn't think about it in any other way, and they couldn't have thought that these bunkers were actually hit by their division commander Rommel with the "Eye of God" consciousness control shells.

When the 7th Panzer Division successfully entered Belgian territory, trouble arose, because the Belgian army kept blowing up roads and bridges while retreating, and the road through the Ardennes Forest, which was not wide, was now full of craters, and not even a tank, let alone a truck, could not pass through.

It seems that these Belgian troops never thought of holding the border, otherwise they would not have hoarded so much explosives along the road, and as soon as the German army attacked, the Belgian army did not hesitate to completely destroy the road and bridges, which could only be done with the intention of fleeing in advance.

The engineer battalion of the 7th Panzer Division was now busy, they were building roads and bridges in front of the entire division, and even if Rommel had prepared a few bulldozers and excavators for the engineer battalion before the war, the speed of road repair and bridge construction was still not fast. It's nice to be able to travel 30 kilometers a day.

If we advance at this speed, even if it takes five days, we will not be able to cover more than 150 kilometers in the Ardennes Forest, and the chief of staff Hans and the deputy division commander Bismarck are now in a state of anxiety, and can only watch the 7th Panzer Division struggling to move forward in the Ardennes Forest like a snail.

When Rommel woke up, it was already the next morning, Rommel fell asleep for a day and a night this time, and when he woke up, Rommel still felt that his head was still aching, it seems that in the future, there is nothing to do to control the landing point of the shell, the front-line commander is in a coma, and if he does not do it, the whole army will be destroyed, Rommel has secretly decided in his heart that it is not a matter of life and death, and he will definitely not play the stupid thing of using the "Eye of God" to control the landing point of the shell.

As soon as Rommel woke up in the command car, Hans, the chief of staff, immediately told Rommel about the current predicament of the 7th Panzer Division:

"Division commander, we are now trapped in the Ardennes Forest, the retreating Belgian army has blown up all the bridges from the Ardennes Forest to Sedan and blown up the road to the point that there are big potholes everywhere, even if we use all the sappers, our advance speed is still slow, less than 30 kilometers a day, our 7th Panzer Division will definitely not be able to reach the Meuse River on time."

The Germans were so dull, was it just a matter of sappers to build bridges and repair roads? Besides, Rommel could carry this large number of sandbags this time, which was used to establish improvised defensive positions, and the infantry sapper shovels could only be used to dig trenches, not to repair bridges and roads?

Rommel did not blame his chief of staff. Hans is a good person, and he gets along with Rommel very well, but Rommel knows that Hans is actually one of the conspirators who plotted to overthrow Hitler.

"Chief of Staff Hans, this problem is easy to solve, order all the officers and soldiers of the 7th Infantry Brigade to immediately take the sapper shovel and load sandbags, and use sandbags to fill in the big holes on the road, and the engineer battalion is only responsible for repairing the bridge, and transfer all the logistics personnel to them."

Hans hurriedly said:

"Commander, those empty sandbags can't be misappropriated! At that time, when we encountered the enemy, we used it to build temporary fortifications. ”

The chief of staff was stubborn and stubborn, and Rommel had no way, and the German soldiers were like this:

"My Chief of Staff, when is it now, if we can't get to the Meuse as scheduled, it is a trivial matter to be sent to a military court, so it affects the whole situation of the war, we will all become sinners of Germany, those empty bags that are not very important, can't they be misappropriated?"

Now Hans had nothing to say, and he nodded and said:

"Alright! I agree with you. ”

Rommel's order was quickly issued, and all the infantry and logistics troops of the 7th Panzer Division were mobilized, and even Rommel and the personnel directly under the division headquarters symbolically participated in the work of repairing the bridge and repairing the road.

Two or three people fill a sandbag, it only takes about three minutes, nearly 10,000 people work at the same time, even if there are more big potholes on the road, it is not enough to fill. The advance of the 7th Panzer Division accelerated sharply the next day, and on that day the 7th Panzer Division advanced a full 110 kilometers in the Ardennes Forest.

At nine o'clock in the morning of the third day, on the Meuse River led by Rommel, Guderian to his left was still struggling in the Ardennes Forest, Rommel arrived at the designated position a day earlier than Guderian, and of course Rommel's 7th Panzer Division became the most prominent force.

When Rommel looked at the wide Meuse with his telescope, he began to feel worried, he was faster than in history, and arrived at the Meuse a day earlier. Don't underestimate this day, when Rommel was attacking in history, his left flank was Guderian's Panzer 19th Army, and his right flank was the Panzer Fifth Division.

That is to say, when Rommel is attacking, he hardly has to worry about his two flanks being attacked by the French, even if Rommel runs faster than other troops after entering the territory of the country, but the French army does not dare to attack Rommel's two flanks, because there are five German armored divisions behind his two wings, even if these armored divisions do not advance side by side with Rommel, it is an invisible threat!

If you don't attack immediately at this time, the French army will definitely strengthen its defense overnight, and increase the strength of the defense, and arrive at Rommel on the Meuse River a day in advance, at this time you have to fight if you don't fight, otherwise you will delay the fleeting warplane.

Because the commander of Rommel's 7th Panzer Division advanced too fast, Army Group A did not expect it, and the French defense troops on the opposite side did not expect that there were really not many French defense troops in the upper reaches of Sedan, and they still lacked tanks and artillery.

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