Chapter 22 Precision Guidance

The two army groups of German AB were well hidden, and before the Anglo-French forces launched an attack on the Dutch and Belgian borders, they all thought that Germany would storm the Maginot Line, and it was because of the mistakes in judgment of the Anglo-French forces that their allies Holland and Belgium did not make too many preparations for war.

As a result, the war broke out suddenly, and Germany's powerful mechanized forces took the Netherlands and Belgium by surprise.

The loose defense of Belgium reassured Rommel not a little, and he was not afraid of a bloody battle with the Belgian army, but afraid that the Belgian army would take advantage of the Ardennes Forest to resist and sneak attack everywhere, thereby delaying his pace through the Ardennes Forest.

Rommel's powerful artillery unit had obtained a map of the Belgian border defense provided by Rommel a few days earlier, which of course Rommel had detected with his "Eye of God".

The quality of the German artillery was quite high, and they immediately calculated the firing elements according to the layout diagram of the Belgian army provided by Rommel, and at 5:30, at the beginning of the shelling, countless shells smashed like hail at the bunkers, artillery positions and other valuable targets of the Belgian army.

After the shelling began, Rommel rested on a chair in the command post with his eyes closed, and of course Rommel could not sleep at this time, he was quietly observing the effect of the shelling with the "eye of God".

The effect of the shelling was relatively good, many Belgian fortifications were destroyed by shelling, but some strong bunkers were not destroyed despite being hit by several shots.

Even if the quality of the German artillery was high and the defense map provided by Rommel was accurate, the German artillery could not bombard the shells at one point continuously, because after the cannon was fired, it would be a little distance from the recoil, and the landing point of the second shell would naturally deviate from a little distance.

Ten minutes of heavy shelling, about five Belgian bunkers were not destroyed, and for the sake of the lives of his own soldiers, Rommel opened his eyes, picked up the phone in front of him and connected to the artillery regiment.

"Artillery regiment? I am the division commander Rommel, and I order you to immediately concentrate the 150-mm heavy artillery bombardment against the enemy's 7th bunker, 12th bunker,...... Three rounds of fire were fired in turn. ”

After receiving Rommel's order, the artillery regiment immediately mobilized 10 150-mm heavy guns in its hands and fired three times in turn at the positions mentioned by Rommel.

After Rommel gave the order, he closed his eyes and rested on his chair, which had almost become Rommel's habit, of course, he was using the "Eye of God" to observe the effects of the shelling.

The heavy artillery group covered the fire, and the shells of the 150 mm guns did hit the remaining Belgian bunker, but one bunker, as if favored by God, was covered by concentrated fire and fired three times, all the shells exploded around the bunker, and not a single shot hit the bunker.

Rommel unconsciously thought that the third round of shelling should have been hit! Sure enough, in the third round of shelling, all ten 150 heavy artillery shells hit the bunker, and the bunker directly turned into cement powder.

Rommel was pleasantly surprised by this discovery, his "Eye of God" could actually control the landing point of the shells, Rommel did not believe it, and hurriedly used his consciousness to control the other shells, and it was really useful, the shells controlled by Rommel fell accurately on the position where Rommel was about to be hit, and Rommel continued to control it several times, and he found that he could control ten shells at a time to fall on the same place.

This side function of the "Eye of God" must be incomparable, simply put, Rommel can easily turn his heavy artillery into a precision-guided missile for later generations, and Rommel can directly use the heavy artillery group to attack any location he wants to attack.

Just as Rommel was about to control the landing point of the cannonball for the fifth time, he suddenly felt a wave of dizziness hit him, and Rommel almost fell from the chair to the ground, it turned out that there was such a side effect of controlling the landing point of the cannonball.

Rommel hurriedly stopped his detection with the "Eye of God", and now he has no way to detect, because the scene he saw with the "Eye of God" is blurry, and Rommel, who originally wanted to stand up, tried several times without success, because he was like a soft-footed shrimp at this time.

Rommel's adjutant Wald discovered Rommel's abnormality and hurriedly helped Rommel and said:

"General, you haven't rested for three days, just leave it to Chief of Staff Hans here."

"Hmm...... Let Chief of Staff Hans come over. ”

Wald hurriedly called Chief of Staff Hans, who was looking at the map, to Rommel, and Hans saw the pale Rommel and asked very worriedly:

"Teacher, your complexion is very bad, do you need to call a doctor to take a look?"

Rommel said weakly:

"No need, I need to rest, you organize the troops to attack according to the original plan, the Belgians have absolutely no decent resistance."

"Okay......

As soon as Hans promised Rommel, Rommel tilted his head and fell unconscious, and the combat command room was suddenly in chaos, and the division commander suddenly fell into a coma when the battle began.

The military doctor was soon called into the operational command room to help Rommel diagnose, and the results soon came out, in the words of the doctor:

"You don't have to worry, the division commander is in good health, he just fell asleep temporarily because of fatigue, so there will be no problem if the division commander sleeps well."

At the beginning of the war, the commander of the 7th Panzer Division, Rommel, fell asleep, and the 7th Panzer Division, under the command of Deputy Division Commander Bismarck and Chief of Staff Hans, launched an attack on the Belgian border according to the original plan.

The attack went so smoothly that all the bunkers in Belgium were razed to the ground, and the Belgian soldiers who were not killed by the bombing fled frantically in various means of transport, and these fleeing Belgian soldiers, while escaping, kept blowing up roads and bridges with explosives.

From the Ardennes Forest to Sedan in France, there was only a not very wide road, and when Germany launched a full-scale attack on Belgium, the Belgian border troops were instantly defeated, and the Belgian and Anglo-French forces ordered all Belgian troops along the way to blow up roads and bridges as much as possible to stop the German advance, while the Anglo-French troops quickly sent troops from the French border to support Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

The main forces of the Anglo-French army thus fell into the trap set by Germany, and as soon as the main forces of the Anglo-French army entered Belgium and the Netherlands, their fate was sealed. Rommel is now only a small division commander and cannot participate in the highest decision-making, but Germany did fight the war well in the early stage, and Rommel only needs to fight well and escalate.

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