Chapter 19: An Irresistible Fate?

"What the hell are you two doing! I asked the soldiers in your class, and they all said that they were separated from you, and it took you so long to withdraw, and the last batch of soldiers who withdrew were much faster than you! I thought you were dead! Vincent shouted angrily with red eyes.

"Hey, don't be angry, we just went to get revenge on those pesky French." Daniel smiled awkwardly as he told Vincent about the previous incident.

"So, the two of you took out three infantrymen and a B1 tank at the last minute? Should I call you heroes? Yes? War! It's not something that a single hero can control! The actions of the two of you are too dangerous, and even if you succeed, the benefits are minimal! You don't have to be involved in the rest of the battle! Face the wall! Vincent became even more angry after hearing the legendary experience of the two of them, you are worried about whether something will happen to the two of them, and if something happens, you will not have to be sad for a while, but these two bastards swaggered back and tell you, how heroic and dangerous things we have done, I am worried in vain! The point is that these two bastards don't know that their own safety is important to their friends?

"Huh? Can you not be like this, the little black house is terrifying! We are meritorious men, you can't do this to us! "As soon as Licorice heard that he was going to be confined, he immediately refused to agree, and you still confined me after I made meritorious service? This brother can't do it!

"I'm the boss! I've got the final say! Guards, pull them both away! Vincent turned his head with an expression of I don't listen, I'm the boss, and I have the final say.

The two guards in the back walked over with an embarrassed face, just now they had been following Vincent, they heard these things clearly, not to mention today's incident, yesterday Licorice sniped the commander of the enemy's armored company with a shot but the whole battalion knew.

"Linus, let's go, don't let people take the initiative to arrest you into the little black room, then your image will be completely ruined! Ha ha! Daniel looked away, and when he saw that Vincent had made up his mind, he immediately decided to listen to the boss, isn't it just confinement, can it really be locked up for how long they can't be.

"Humph! Let's go! Licorice agreed with an unhappy face when she heard Daniel's words.

As the sun set, in the evening, the Greater German Infantry Regiment launched another attack on the town of Stoney, this time with the support of the 64th Infantry Regiment, and the French army with heavy casualties finally could not withstand it, and the town of Stoney fell into German hands again. This time, however, as a large number of German troops crossed the Muse, the French could no longer afford to retake the town.

To the south of the town, where it used to be, Licorice lay behind the wreckage of a pile of anti-tank guns, watching the French army in the distance gradually retreat with complicated eyes, and the battle for the town that lasted for several days was finally coming to an end, and in the end, we still won, even if you repelled us again and again, but the attacks of the Greater German Regiment again and again were still rewarded. Of course, Vincent's confinement will not last long, and it will only be closed for half an hour, and the so-called small black room, just kidding, where is the confinement room on the territory that has just been occupied, at most it is to find a clean room for you to lock up, and the next battle is actually impossible not to let licorice participate, after so many days of street fighting for this town, repeatedly advancing so many times, and finally seeing that it is about to win, let you wait for news at home, which is a very demoralizing thing.

For the next two days, the Great German Infantry Regiment was able to rest well, the German armored divisions were transferred and guarded by two infantry divisions, the French suffered heavy casualties in the previous battle, and the German army also withdrew the armored troops and threw them into other combat areas, and although the overall situation was decided, the battle was still going on, but now it was an engagement between the infantry, and the infantry on both sides fought brutally like the First World War under heavy artillery fire. According to the final casualty statistics, in two days of fierce fighting, the casualties of the German Greater German Infantry Regiment were as high as 600 men, of which more than 100 were killed, and its casualties were more than half of the casualties of the regiment in the entire French campaign. The French suffered equally heavy casualties, especially among the two infantry regiments that took part in the battle. In terms of lost tanks, the French lost almost forty vehicles, while the Germans also lost more than twenty.

In fact, Vincent is very right, war is not individual heroism, at least until you have absolute power, in this situation where life is only worth one bullet, the individual cannot turn the sky. The most memorable battle of Stoney is probably the single assault of the B1 heavy tank, this kind of tank combat with the excellent protection and firepower performance of the single vehicle, breaking into the enemy line to be outnumbered, is not uncommon in this war, after the French B1 tank, the Soviet KV-1 and the German Tiger have staged similar blood-pumping war myths. However, in actual war, the side that appears in this kind of heroic invincible and unparalleled characters is often the side that is in a weak position in the whole battle. This seemingly contradictory phenomenon illustrates a problem that is easily overlooked, that war is not a one-on-one duel between knights, nor is it a simple comparison between individual technical weapons, at least in the absence of destructive forces, but an all-out contest between entire armies and even entire nations, and only by achieving overall superiority can one become the final victor.

Licorice did not get a short rest, and although he had not been involved in the infantry battles in the town of Stoney for the past few days, the Großdeutsche Infantry Regiment received a new order, and another rapid march began. On 20 May, the Greater German Infantry Regiment began to move towards Saint-Omar, successfully completing the task of encirclement and division on the same day, and successfully severing the main forces of the Anglo-French forces in northwestern France and still in Belgium from central and southern France. The next day, the Germans suffered a fierce counterattack, and the Great German Infantry Regiment at Arras was stubbornly resisted by the British and French forces, and this battle saw the British Matilda heavy tank, another tank that rendered the German 37mm anti-tank guns useless, and finally the 88mm anti-aircraft guns were flattened and used as anti-tank guns to penetrate them. In the hard battle, Licorice heard that the skeleton team on the other side had been beaten even worse, and even many soldiers had been captured, and even showed a gloating smile. After two days of hard fighting, the Anglo-French counteroffensive attempt was successfully crushed with the support of the air force. Then all the way to the battle, around Dunkirk to fight, when the final less than ten kilometers away from Dunkirk, the heavens made a big joke, like fate, licorice received an order from the superiors, the whole line to stop the attack, all the troops had to stop in place, silently watching the fruits of victory that originally belonged to themselves slipped away in front of their eyes, this scene, like another time and space in the repetition of history.

At this moment, Licorice felt very depressed, could it be that this is fate? A thousand apostles of the Lord God have come to this world and have not brought any change to it? Dunkirk was at hand, the main forces of the Anglo-French army were waiting for their harvest, and they could only stop there, watching the enemy flee, why was this? Licorice is very clear about the results of letting these enemies escape, without these seeds, Britain will not have any threat, don't look at the British now domestic conscription of two million, but they are all recruits, without any combat ability, these more than 200,000 expeditionary forces that fled back will basically be officers in the future, and if these people are not let back, the African battlefield will not be able to meet such strong resistance, with the combat command and coordination ability of the desert fox, it is easy to take the troops all the way to the Middle East, why let them go? And there are still the remaining main forces of the French army, without these, there will be no more Freikorps, then the surrendered Petain can only follow the Germans, and no longer follow the yang and the yin. Without all this, then Germany would not have fought on multiple fronts, and would not have been constantly harassed in the rear and bombed by thousands of planes because of Britain's geographical location. In the case of being bombed by Allied aircraft, Germany's production capacity at its peak in 44 years was more than twice that of the Allied and Soviet armies combined, so what if Britain was defeated and its rear was saved? Is it possible to have a torrent of steel that is even more terrifying than a woolly bear?

It is precisely because of the clear understanding of these that Licorice feels more and more uncomfortable and powerless, more and more painful, and the pain that he can't change all this, he doesn't love Germany, because he has never been a German person, and Germany is not his homeland, he is reluctant, but this army, these friends, with the passage of time, he has actually begun to get used to this kind of life, no need to look for things that he doesn't even know, and he doesn't have to think about what he needs to do next, as long as he obeys the order and charges with his comrades, it is enough. If history cannot be changed, then is the final outcome of the Great German Division also doomed, is this the sorrow of the ants? Even if you understand all this, you can't make any changes. With the withdrawal of more than 300,000 British and French troops, licorice became more and more decadent every day, and he had no intention of fighting at all.

It was not until half a month later that the French army was forced to surrender, and the Greater German Infantry Regiment was ordered to garrison Lyon, and then after another half a month, the whole regiment marched into Paris.