Chapter 11: Faith
Licorice heard the words and looked, only to see a French army in the distance wearing an officer's hat, and a military uniform at a glance to know that the French, who were different from the soldiers, were about to leave this position under the escort of several soldiers, licorice visually measured the distance, about 800 meters, for licorice who has only been in the army for a year, it is really difficult to shoot at a moving target at this distance. Don't look at the training ground where licorice can shoot a 1,000-meter target with a quadruple lens, but it's completely stationary, and there's enough time for you to aim, and there's no terrible environment like the battlefield, and even in that perfect environment, licorice doesn't have the bull's-eye to shoot a 1,000-meter target. But there's always no loss in giving it a try, isn't it, if you hit, you earn, and if you don't hit, you won't lose anything, so Licorice decided to give it a try.
Licorice lay quietly on the position, his hands and elbows pressed the ground, closed his left eye, aimed with his right eye, felt the current wind speed with his body, and silently calculated the distance and the speed of the target's movement in his heart, as time passed, the target was getting closer and closer to the military vehicle.
"Bang~~~~" The soldier next to the officer fell to the ground after a blood flower appeared on his body, and there was no movement after two convulsions, there was no doubt that this was crooked, and the officer quickly reacted that someone was attacking him, and fled quickly.
"Kara~" Licorice unhurriedly pulled the bolt, reloaded himself, and then aimed at the tires.
"Bang~~~" The right rear tire of the military vehicle exploded directly.
"Kala~~" reloads again, aims at the left rear tire, and blows this up, okay, it's time to hand over the next thing to the above. The officer was furious when he saw that the only means of escape had been destroyed, and after smashing the officer's hat directly on the ground, he turned around and fled back to the position.
"Charge, take this position!" The deputy company commander gave the order to charge, and as the two assault guns cleared the way, the soldiers began a new round of attack. With Licorice blowing both of the car's rear tires, the officer gave up on running away and tried to hold on. However, this did not save them from their doomed defeat, and after several rounds of mortar bombardment, four No. 3 assault guns rushed to the French position, followed by the infantry, and the French soldiers who were powerless had no choice but to surrender.
Licorice was eating chocolate while watching the rows of French soldiers walking out with their heads pointed at guns by German soldiers, and asked Sergeant Anton Neumann next to him with a smile, "What about the French officer?" It's the one who just wanted to escape! ”
"Haha, that coward actually committed suicide, he was a company commander, and he was ordered to be stationed here, but he only had half a company's strength, no wonder the resistance was so weak when we attacked here." Sergeant Anton Neumann said with disdain on his face.
"Clean up the battlefield, the old rules, the prisoners and wounded are sent to the 1st Armored Division behind, and the search and rescue of the pilots who have just parachuted out, all sent to the 1st Armored Division behind, rest and recuperate and then set off immediately, we need to go to the battalion headquarters to rendezvous." Vincent's voice rang out.
After a little rest, Licorice got into the troop carrier and continued the rapid march. However, it was two hours to join the battalion headquarters of the third battalion, and it was seen that this posture was to gather the strength of the entire Greater German Infantry Regiment.
From time to time, there were large groups of British and French bombers and fighters flying in the sky, ignoring the Germans on the ground at all, but flying directly in the direction of the Maas River, and then it would not be long before they flew back messily, at least half less than when they went, licorice even saw a few British and French planes flying here in a hurry with black smoke, and several ME109 formations behind neatly bit their six o'clock, one of the ME109s flying in front of them directly accelerated by a dive under the cover of the wingman, and approached an enemy plane, With two easy rounds of point fire, one wing of the enemy plane broke off, and the plane fell straight to the ground like a bird with broken wings. The remaining few enemy planes converged with a wing of Allied planes that came to support from a distance and turned their noses again, and fought again, a German ME109 was bitten by the tail of two enemy planes, and after circling in the air several times to try to get rid of it to no avail, it called for the support of its teammates, and when its teammates rushed to support, they flew directly towards their teammates with the two enemy planes behind them, and after reaching a certain distance, they quickly pulled up, passing by their teammates, and his teammates were just starting to pull up
Already aiming in one direction and starting to fire, the bullet grazed the tail rudder of the wing of the ME109 that was being pulled up, and hit the nose propeller and cockpit of an enemy aircraft, and then quickly made a drum maneuver, not only dodging the enemy plane that had lost its pilot, but also rolling to the rear of another enemy plane, and in the panic of the opponent, he used the coaxial machine gun in the nose to sweep away the tail rudder of the remaining enemy plane, and Licorice witnessed the birth of a flying ace.
"Looking at this situation, it should be that the British and French forces are gathering planes to bomb the pontoon bridge on the Muse, our air force has already bombed most of their airfields at the first time of the war, and to be able to assemble so many planes, France has begun to work hard, but their struggle will be useless, we have the best pilots and air defenses." Sergeant Anton Neumann raised his head and looked at the wonderful ace air battle in the sky, and said with a proud face.
"You forgot to say that we still have the strongest army! Both the armored forces and our infantry regiments. Vincent, who walked to the licorice at some point, looked at the plane falling in the sky, and the enemy pilot who parachuted out, and said calmly.
"Sergeant Neumann, you take some men to get all those pilots back and send them to the 1st Panzer Division." Vincent issued an order to distract Sergeant Neumann and motioned for Licorice to stay.
"Yes! Sir. Sergeant Anton Neumann saluted and gave the order, and then ran away to find the man.
"According to Henry, you've been busy lately?" Licorice asked with a grin.
"Of course, Henry went to be a deputy, although he was busy, but many things were carried by the company commander above, but I became the company commander directly, and when the war was imminent, I was so busy these days that I didn't even have time to train. Although there are many subordinates who help with management, as a commander, you must know these things, not only to deal with the replenishment and adjustment of personnel in various units, but also to be responsible for all kinds of military supplies, food, ammunition, clothing, and even the gun maintenance oil you just used up. Vincent grumbled wearily, and teased licorice in passing.
"Come on, you see I'm still a big soldier now, and I don't have any position, but now you don't go to discuss the battle plan with the regiment headquarters or something, is it really okay to come and chat with me?" Licorice took out the chocolate given by Henry, twisted one and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it a few times, and then said slowly.
"The plan has been set for a long time, and even what we are going to do next is very clear, I heard that your recent performance has been very good, if nothing else, your corporal rank and promotion documents are already on the way, but I think that when the promotion documents arrive, they will definitely be outdated, with your ability, it will be easy to become a sergeant at that time." Vincent reached out and picked up a chocolate from the tin box in Licorice's hand and threw it into his mouth, then said with a smile.
"Corporal? So I'm about to become an officer? I'm really looking forward to it, hey! This is what Henry gave me, limited edition! I've already eaten my own portion. Licorice saw that a company commander in Vincent's dignity had snatched food from his own hands, and immediately complained dissatisfied.
"Wait for the supply convoy to arrive tomorrow and give you another share from my share, don't be so stingy, I heard that the tobacco share of the Youth League has been replaced with candy and chocolate, I think it must be suitable for you!" Vincent smiled and said as he ate chocolate, in his eyes, licorice is a child who will never grow up, personality.
"I don't want to be one of those brainwashed lunatics in the youth league, but speaking of which, it seems like I could try to trade my tobacco for a box of chocolates with someone else?" Licorice tilted her head to think about the possibility of such an act, and Licorice did not approve of the Führer's dogma.
"It's true that the youth league is a bunch of brainwashed madmen, a bunch of poor people, but I feel that their will deserves respect." The youth regiment here refers to the armored division in the SS, not anything else, you know, the youth regiment is a compulsory organization, and the members have already exceeded eight million people, all of whom are reserves, but only a few people can join the armored division of the SS, because the faith fanatics are only a minority after all.
"We're about to march on Stone, it's an important place to defend Sedan, and if it's lost, it's no longer safe, so Stoney is important, and the French know that, and I'm here to tell you, be careful, I don't want to wait until the end of the war to lose a vital friend." After talking about the questions of the Youth League, Vincent remembered the point of coming to Licorice today, turned his head and said in a very serious tone.
"I know, I'll be careful, look there, the Maginot Line, which the French claim to be able to easily fend off us, is now crying behind us! We are invincible! "After these days of fighting, Licorice has developed a firm confidence in the Greater German Infantry Regiment, and no enemy will be able to withstand the attack of the Greater German Infantry Regiment, and no enemy will be able to break through the defenses of the Greater German Infantry Regiment, this is the belief of the whole regiment.