Bruce sat listlessly with his head down, and Bowman complained that the decadent life of Berlin’s heroic motorcade made Bruce, a drunkard and goat, pay for his body, and he just gasped when he was loaded with more intensity in the battle.
Later, two assault guns were out of the pass, and a warning position was set up on the periphery. Then a truck and a truck of infantry passed by, and stones and broken bricks temporarily filled the crater, jumping off trucks and unloading anti-tank guns to establish a stronger defense.
Stick to it together. The company commander of the grenadier came over and took a closer look at the barrel of the No.113 tank, which is like a god. It was painted with a white circle representing its previous record, but apart from that gun, the tank was almost the same as the wreckage.
The crawler on the right side has fallen off, and the guide wheel on the same side has been smashed into pieces. The shells scattered not far away have penetrated the tank’s side armor and hit the tank crew. Of course, the tank in other places is also full of bullet marks, and more than half of the skirts on both sides have been blown away, and a few pieces of noodles have been left, which are almost the same as screens.
The whole turret has been hit several times, and the hanging basket at the rear of the turret has been destroyed. The original thing has long since disappeared. The only thing that is still intact is the white sheet that has been used as the roof of the medical room.
A tank is neither big nor small, but even an exhaust pipe less than twenty-one times the size of a tank was shot off, and even the running light less than the size of a fist was hit, so it is not difficult to imagine how close the tank was facing at that time.
The company commander of the grenadier handed the cigarette case to Ryan on the fender of Ryan’s tank. Ryan never smoked. Ryan pulled out one and lit it with the company commander’s lighter. He took a deep breath but was choked to cough.
The grenadier company commander was stunned and then laughed. "First time smoking?"
"Ahem, it’s the first time I smoked." Ryan nodded, his fingers were not very skilled, and he spit out smoke with a cigarette between his fingers. "How are things over there?"
"More than six people died, almost half of them." The company commander sighed lonely and said with some pride and cynicism. "We also wanted to retreat, but we didn’t leave when we saw that you were still fighting. My soldiers had to face up and didn’t lose the habit of running by themselves."
"You are all good soldiers, and so is Clark." Ryan took another drag on his cigarette, which made him cry again, but he was still stubborn. "This cigarette is really spicy. It hurts to take a breath."
"The small German factory doesn’t handle tobacco and cut tobacco carefully, even the filter cuts corners naturally, which makes people choke." The company commander smiled and looked up with his fingers touching the outer packaging of half a box of cigarettes. "We were ordered to evacuate to Si Tong for a rest after half an hour, waiting to replenish you? When will it be withdrawn? "
"I don’t know when I’m waiting for my troops to come, and I’m not sure that my line has been broken …" Here he remembered the soldier with round eyes again.
When they met for the first time, the company commander Carter pointed to this man and introduced, "This is Private Clark. He is a mechanic, and of course he is in charge of the machine gun in front of your car."
Ryan remembers that at that time, unlike others, he immediately stood at attention in return, which looked very standard. Carter added a word of praise to him: "He is the most normal soldier in this dormitory! The technical level is quite excellent. "
However, whether it is the company commander Carter who took Ryan into the small dormitory or Clark, the most normal soldier in Carter’s shape, has disappeared. They have become memories, and if the whole battalion disappears, who will testify against them?
"If you are not afraid of trouble, I can help you inform the regimental headquarters and let the infantry over there tell you that your hand is coming." The grenadier company commander was very enthusiastic to help while smoking a cigarette.
The army is a very strange place where people are cold-blooded enough to kill and fight without blinking an eye; People here are indifferent enough. Veterans usually don’t remember the names of new recruits. People here are loyal enough. Honor and friendship can surpass life for a soldier.
Although they are indifferent and cold-blooded, they worship the strong from their bones. When they decide that they admire people, they will not change easily all their lives. What is even more puzzling is that this feeling has continued from Caesar’s time in Rome and has not changed at all. It is not difficult for you to understand why some soldiers can’t even borrow a cigarette. Some soldiers borrow a truck and some people send it with a smile.
Ryan smiled and shook his head, then took another drag on his cigarette, still choking and coughing. "No, they should have come."
Yes, the infantry has arrived, and the defense line has been reinforced by one anti-tank gun after another, which has made the defense line in the south of Si Tong impregnable. I think there will never be such a fierce battle like this pass battle again
"It’s my honor to fight with you." An old smoker smokes faster than many grenadiers in Rennes. The company commander threw his fingers into the dirt with cigarette butts, crushed his boots and spit out the last mouthful of smoke and said, "You are welcome to visit Company 1 at any time. What are your plans? "
"Kill the French until they realize how miserable our enemy is," Ryan said with a light smile as he looked at his fingers burning cigarettes. "I will kill two tanks at a time without a scratch!"
"Ha ha ha ha! Take care! " The grenadier company commander was stunned and then laughed before continuing to say, "I hope to see you again."
Then the company commander of the grenadier turned and left, and Ryan took the last sip of his cigarette and threw it aside. He shouted to the depressed Bruce and Bowman, "Come and help me move the things out."
So three people climbed the tank to work, moved the remaining shells out of the tank one by one, piled them into a trapezoid, and then there was a machine gun, a toolbox, a small mirror in the corner of the drum, and a coaxial machine gun. Of course, a leather tube and a petrol tank, and they also searched the oil in the tank.
When they moved all these things out, Marcus came over with two other tanks, distributed ammunition and oil, put Andre in a tank, and then others took a seat and detonated the 113 Leopard tank, which was no different from scrapping. After that, they were ordered to return to Si Tong.
Chapter 3 3 Limited Investigation
"Report!" Staff knocked at the door and said
"Come on in!" Guderian is staring at his desk with a huge map, carefully looking at the surface and drawing the positions of both sides’ troops. His office is in a mess. This is the Si Tong city government building. When he escaped, he didn’t take anything with him and made a mess of his things like a thief.
"Just now, about 1 km south, the 1 ST Panzer Corps of the French army launched a storm." The staff handed the document to guderian and said, "I heard that it was very large and hundreds of tanks were dispatched."
"Don’t easily believe that people complain, dear Bob." guderian smiled and threw the papers aside. "They always exaggerate all kinds of difficulties. For example, they don’t say that they are tired and need to rest, but they say that their tanks are out of gas. In the same case, they can bravely repel the enemy ten times and one hundred times. They need to give them a month’s holiday."
Lying about the record has been born since the war, sometimes because of statistical errors, sometimes because of asking for credit, sometimes just to cover up one’s own mistakes and losses. This kind of thing is really avoided, and sometimes it is exaggerated and encouraged because of the need of war propaganda
Of course, there is a very famous proverb that tells people that it is extremely irresponsible to exaggerate their achievements-"Don’t exaggerate your achievements often, or your company will send you to carry out it even harder once", which is why everyone will carefully consider the consequences before choosing to brag.
A qualified general needs to have many necessary skills, which happened to be boasted by the identification department. Obviously, he often fought in the first line and even personally went to the battlefield. guderian saw these problems more thoroughly. When he heard that there were hundreds of tanks attacking, the first reaction was disbelief.
"General, our army repelled this time by a small pass road, and the French attacked and destroyed 29 tanks." The staff had to briefly introduce the results of a report from the 9 th motorized infantry division
"Two tanks? Rely on the 9 th motorized infantry division. Is it that the 3 rd SS armored division helped? " Guderian straightened up and took off his eyes and looked at his secret with a monocle. "Did the French really send out hundreds of tanks? Are we losing a lot? "
"General, we lost 63 soldiers in the pass and two others were seriously injured," the staff officer said. "In addition, when the French attacked expect the unexpected, there was a tank of our army, which was destroyed."
"A tank?" Guderian one leng and then according to the in the mind vaguely uneasy mouth continued, "how can you keep a tank for so long? Are the crew members alive? "
"According to several reports from the scene, this tank is our army’s tank ace No.113, and one crew member was killed and one was injured. It’s nothing serious for others," the staff recalled. "And a report from the technical appraisal department has just been sent, and they are responsible for collecting the damage parameters of the destroyed Leopard tank. This report needs to be sent back to the technical department in Berlin."
Number 113? Ryan tank? Guderian heart could not say the taste mouth asked 1 "who was killed? Who is injured? "
Then he dialed the staff and went out to the office responsible for document classification. He grabbed the report of the Ministry of Defense and looked at it carefully. I don’t know if I saw the photos taken at the scene and the recorded words, which made guderian, who had been through the war, gasp in a gasp.
The photo shows that the right track of the Leopard tank was hit, broken and fell off, and the guide wheel on the same side was also broken into several scattered pieces. The shells penetrated the tank side armor from here and hit the tank crew.
Of course, there are other photos to show that this tank in other places is also full of bullet marks. More than half of the skirts on both sides have been blown away, and a few pieces of noodles are still covered with dense holes.
Moreover, the whole turret of this tank was hit several times. More analysis shows that it was only because of the angle problem that it was completely avoided. The key point is that the position of this tank was adjusted very wisely and correctly several times.
Guderian was slightly relieved when he saw the casualty analysis behind him, showing that gunner Andre was injured and a crew member named Clark was killed-he didn’t know that these two men had been to these names in some commendations, which reassured him. After all, he knew Ryan. Hade
"Just hand in this report truthfully, don’t make any exaggeration, and don’t include how many French tanks were destroyed by the Frederick rocket launcher?" Guderian tidied up the report and put it back on the reference desk, then asked.
"About five tanks were destroyed, which was the result of the other tanks being too dense." Staff guderian replied from the rear.
Guderian nodded and then stood up to one side and was at a loss. The civilian officer ordered, "Help me draft a commendation and send it to the army … In addition, the 1st Panzer Corps submitted an application to Lieutenant Ryan? Harder applied for the Iron Cross of Oak Leaf Knight. "
"Lieutenant?" The chief of staff glanced at guderian and nodded, "I understand the general. I will sign an order to promote Ryan to lieutenant commander."
"Just give him a holiday and let them go with the battalion. Don’t arrange anything else for them. When the replenishment tank arrives, give him priority to change a tank." guderian thought for a moment and said.
Then he went out halfway, stopped and added, "Choose the best crew for him to cooperate with their crew. Remember to use your head more when you do this, and arrange a crew who can quickly integrate into their crew. Is it necessary to be skilled?"
Guderian thought for a moment, and then went on to explain to his staff, "In addition, choose something good from the supplies to supplement them, saying that it was my reward and condolences to their camp."
"yes! I’m white "staff nodded his head.
"Is there anything else?" Guderian looked at his familiar staff and knew that there must be something wrong with his constipation expression, so he asked 1.
"General rundstedt sent a message that the oil transportation must be delayed for two days for some reasons before it can be delivered to us," the staff said. "He suggested that we wait for the infantry to come and then continue to the west."
"Oh?" Guderian was stupefied, and then his eyes turned to white, and he bent around rundstedt. It must have been under the pressure of the army headquarters to stop the armored forces from attacking. The army has always been very worried about the radical sickle-wielding action. This time, he wanted to stabilize the front line and bypass the Fuehrer to restrain the armored forces as radical as the Fuehrer.
"How many days will the military oil last?" Thought of this section guderian frowned and asked.
The staff naturally knew this kind of thing like the back of his hand and immediately replied, "We have seized a part of French armaments in Si Tong, and the quality of gasoline is quite high, plus we mixed it with ourselves for less than five days, but this part of gasoline seized materials has been reported to us, so it is not easy for us to bring it directly …"
"Immediately send a telegram to the regimental headquarters to tell them that the gasoline we seized was detonated because of the destruction of the French army." guderian wiped dozens of tons of materials from the books with a stroke of his hand.
He was not satisfied enough, and the chief of staff, who was already very difficult for himself, added, "Show me the original text."
After a few minutes, this article was sent to guderian to meet and wrote that the oil transportation was chaotic because of the rapid advance of the troops. The regiment troops suspended the front-line troops to supply oil, and the ministries could discharge the reconnaissance troops in addition to strengthening their defense to confirm the French army’s further movement and prepare for the later action
After reading it, guderian threw the article at his desk, and then hung up a confident smile on his face. He nodded a little map to his chief of staff and said, "Ordering the 1st Armored Division and 1st Regiment to move westward is to investigate the French army’s movements, but you can talk to their head privately and tell him that I have given him the farthest investigation distance, Laan."
"Aang? Is that too far? " The chief of staff felt that this kind of business was no different from disobedience on the battlefield, so he crustily skin of head and asked, "If this kind of thing is investigated …"
"No one will pursue it." guderian waved his hand to cheer up his own chief of staff. "Since General rundstedt gave an order not to ban troops from reconnaissance, it left us an excuse. Do you understand that?"
It’s certainly not easy to disobey the orders of the commander-in-chief of the army for the front-line generals of the unified army, but who is an idiot with insufficient IQ who can be mixed into hundreds of thousands of army commanders? They naturally know that the orders of the army general command run counter to the wishes of the Fuehrer, and they must choose the root problem of "who to obey"
Rundstedt, of course, is a wise man. He ordered the troops to be restrained, which was in line with the meaning of the Army General Command, and limited the investigative power to the men. It was disguised support for guderian and Rommel to continue their attacks, but they were limited to shirking their responsibilities if the front-line military headquarters and division headquarters did not move forward.
And once it is investigated, it is that the imperial high command and the army general command fought with the immortals, and there will be no front-line officers and soldiers with them.
Chief of staff, nature is not a fool to hear guderian say so, and he will understand the cause of the matter. He immediately nodded and ordered the troops to move on "reconnaissance".
Chapter 31 31 Coalition differences
Everyone who knows Rommel knows that this man is a natural adventurer, and those so-called energy leaders seem to be worthless before him. General Rommel likes to get into Tanqueray and attack with his own troops. General Rommel likes to lean out of the plane in a light plane to take pictures of his own troops; The most dangerous experience of this somewhat rash general was that he hit the staff officer less than two steps away.
Of course, if you are familiar with the real history of the French war in World War II and the history of the African Legion, you will find a tragic thing. This is General Rommel, a commander who loves disobedience on the battlefield. Once he finds an opportunity, whether it is true or not, he will attack.
This brought him the reputation of desert fox and buried the bane of his later defeat. Now he has a more prosperous "holy family" than in another time-compared with Hitler’s love, this time Rommel was single-handedly pulled up by arcado, and privately he claimed to be the head of state and pro-army. Lislet and guderian made almost the same decision.
He patiently arranged the headquarters in Lislet, then lost his staff and entourage and climbed a leopard tank. With his "reconnaissance troops", he continued to launch a "general investigation" that made everyone laugh and cry.
This time, the limited investigation detected the French town of Malli in one breath, and Rommel came to the periphery of Malli in a unique way. After learning that the French defenders had no ability, he decided to let him attack with Reagan’s few troops.