The breeze is gentle and refreshing, bringing a little coolness to the summer afternoon.

In the vicinity of Alvi at the foot of the Ardennes, the original land of life and prosperity has been transformed into a different scene by the effect of war. The deep trenches with twists and turns twist and turn on the tapestry land, like the blade wounds on the snow skin of a young girl, difficult to look at and shocking; And the barbed wire fences laid in key areas create a bit of a solemn atmosphere in a peaceful atmosphere.

Next to a Panzel I tank numbered 027, Panzer Second Lieutenant Guderian was carefully surveying his surroundings. A large number of German soldiers were busy in the trenches, and they either waved shovels to dig the trenches wider and deeper; Or carry sand and stones, and build a thick breastwall on the front. More than 100 meters away, a squad of soldiers was fiddling with their water-cooled Maxim machine guns; Under the cover of turquoise foliage and the protection of sand and stone barriers, the machine gun position has already possessed a considerable degree of concealment and offensive defense.

Seeing the few tanks scattered in the distance, a bitter smile crept up Guderian's face.

Yesterday evening, Guderian's tank unit suddenly received an order to go to the Alvi front line overnight to join the airborne troops and jointly defend this key front nearly ten kilometers long, completely blocking the main French army in the encirclement of their main forces. Guderian, who felt a heavy responsibility, did not dare to slack off, and immediately after completing the supply preparation, he called the driver and gunner to board the chariot, and then followed the large army to the northeast quickly. However, this long-distance maneuver, which lasted nearly twenty hours, was clearly not up to the task of this first-generation tank. The tank units, which had lost half of their losses due to various failures in the previous advance battle, broke down one after another in this ultra-long field maneuver. Only six tanks managed to reach their destination. Guderian's car also broke down three times while on the road. If it weren't for the fact that he and the other two crew members would have already developed superb maintenance skills. At this moment, I can only wait for rescue in a wild country.

Oil replenishment, parts inspection. In order to prevent anything from going wrong with this big guy who loved and hated it again, after the supply truck, which was responsible for transporting fuel and various parts, arrived in the dust, Guderian and the crew carefully inspected and maintained their car from beginning to end. When they put down the wrench and pliers in their hands, they were already covered with oil and dirt; Just as I was about to find a place to clean, the familiar terrible siren suddenly sounded throughout the sky!

"Qiang Qiang ......" accompanied by the roar of the engine, and the hard-working and loving track once again spun sonorously; Guderian, half-leaning out of the observation port, familiarly directed the tank's advance, driving to the rear of a slope as a shelter point. It's not too late. The loud roar like the beating of the heavenly drum exploded on top of the position, and the fire burst into the sky; The long green grass fell sideways under the sweep of the rushing air waves, dancing close to the ground, and occasionally fragments broke through the air, chiseling out dents and holes in the ground.

After several days of fighting, the German officers and men, including Guderian, had calmed down from the initial panic and were fully adapted to the pre-war fire preparation of the French 75-mm cannons. Although this cannon surpassed the German army's own infantry guns of the same caliber in terms of rate of fire and power per shot, its single straight trajectory allowed the German army to find a lot of shelter in complex battlefields. Guderian, hiding behind the slopes, stared at the sky, as if expecting something; After a short time, I saw two huge beige airships breaking through the dense clouds; They are also surrounded by nearly twenty small black dots. Like a guard mantis next to the Leviathan.

By 21 May, the German encirclement of the French in the foothills of the South Ardennes had taken shape. The French army considered both from the ease of breaking through the encirclement. Or for the sake of escaping from the retreat after the ascension, a breakthrough from the Alvi area, where the Germans had just carried out a day's airborne landing, was the only choice. For this reason, the German Kirov airships, which were able to hold themselves for more than a few days, paid extra attention to this place; When the reconnaissance airship detected the movement of the French army, Kirov, who was adjacent to the area, quickly rushed towards this side with all kinds of aircraft that had taken off from the field airfield. In the early days of the war when the Allied forces lacked air defense means, the German airships were almost invincible on the Western Front!

"Boom!" With an earth-shattering thunderous roar, the earth trembled; Guderian, who was leaning against the hills, saw thousands of red lights suddenly surging in the sky on the other side, like a magnificent scene of the red sun breaking through the vast sea. The mules and horses neighed, the air waves rolled, and thousands of miles away, the blue giant trees were still blown to one side, and the branches and leaves shook wildly. With a seven-ton bomb load, the Kirov airship once again became the absolute master of the battlefield, and every time a bomb fell, it was surrounded by layers of purple and red waves, and from the sky, it was like a giant blood chrysanthemum with a radius of tens of meters stretching and blooming on the ground.

Under the thunderous and lightning blows of the German air forces, the French army's originally dense and violent artillery preparations soon became sporadic and sparse. Occasionally, a few shells crashed into German positions, posing no threat to the fortifications of the entire defensive line. Just as Guderian breathed a sigh of relief, the mournful sirens that had been silent sounded again; With a frustration in his heart, he quickly jumped out of the tank and climbed up the towering mound behind him in three steps and two steps. In the vast wilderness, the grass grows like a forest. Through the high-powered Zeiss telescope attached to the commander, countless French infantry cavalry could be faintly seen surging out of the mountains and ravines, merging into a surging river, roaring and surging towards their positions like the ice cracking of the spring river.

"Are these French people crazy, why do they attack our defenses so violently in the absence of artillery support?" Guderian put down his binoculars suddenly, and his young and unruly face was now full of shock. However, it was too late for him to think about the situation at this moment, and thousands of cuirassiers and red-trouser infantry were like thousands of red lions and horses rushing towards their positions, and a great battle was imminent. He quickly rushed down the dirt slope, got back into the tank compartment, and shouted orders to the driver. Moments later, the nearly 10-ton vehicle roared again, slowly skirting the dirt slope and heading to the front line of the battlefield.

"Bang!" An orange-red flame burst out at the thin muzzle of Tank 027, and the shell flew hundreds of meters, blasting a charging French cavalryman into a severed limb and flying flesh. In an instant, the guns whistled intensively, and the machine-gun units on the German positions opened fire; Countless bullets swirled and flew violently, "plopping" into the flesh and blood of the French soldiers and horses, and the French troops were swept down like wheat harvests. In the sky, although the Gotha bombers, which had been targeted to clear the French fire, began to return after dropping their bombs, and the low-endurance Fokker fighters returned satisfied after a circle, dive, and strafing, the two floating island-like Kirovs still cruised in mid-air, occasionally causing violent landslides and tsunamis explosions under them. As far as the narrow and fierce eyes could see, the French officers and soldiers shouted in amazement and screamed like birds and beasts; This tyrannical and hideous shark mouth paint has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of every French officer and soldier, becoming a lingering nightmare shadow for them.

At this moment, Guderian's tank had stopped moving, and with the quiet idling of the engine, the driver began to control the Maxim machine gun at the front of the hull and fired at the charging French officers and soldiers. A large number of corpses of French officers and soldiers fell when they landed a few hundred meters away. Looking down from above, the red and blue waves of the French army seemed to be loaded with an invisible wall of grinding meat; Before they could take a few steps, several tiny blood holes would automatically burst into their bodies, screaming and crashing to the ground.

However, to Guderian's shock, despite the unimaginable losses suffered by the French officers and soldiers, they were still fearless, braving the German bullets and bullets to launch round after round of human attacks. Seeing the fierce charge of the French army in such a desperate regard, Goodry was relieved and finally understood the reason. If the French do not break out of the Alvi area before the arrival of the follow-up main forces of their southern flank cluster; Then once the follow-up main force of their own side goes here, they will have no chance to get out of the encirclement!

Artillery fire roared, catapults rained down. In the face of the charging French troops, the German machine gunners showed no mercy; The muzzle of the gun turned back and forth, shooting a large number of French soldiers in the path of the charge. A massacre similar to that of the Salbul defense in Alsace was repeated, with each step the French had to pay a staggering price in the face of the Germans' reinforced machine-gun positions. Just as the German machine guns were strafing the lives of the French soldiers, a huge explosion suddenly sounded again from their position, and it was as dense as a wild wave crashing against the reef!

Goodry was startled in peace of mind, and suddenly opened the hatch and looked around. I saw that a few kilometers southwest of the German position, there was also a faint overwhelming flow of red and blue people; And the dense artillery fire was whistling from this unit, and he could even see the trajectory of the shells dancing wildly in the sky. Seeing this scene, Gudry was relieved. Although their own troops descended from the sky blocked the escape and retreat of the French troops in the encirclement, they were attacked by the French troops from both sides when they went too deep; Will your troops really be able to hold the line and hold back the French? (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the reward of the book on February 30~~