Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 7: Desert fox that died on the grass

"What! What did you say! Rommel is dead? How did it die, where? When?"

Xu Jun was stupid at the time. How could it be possible that the famous German army soul, the unsinkable battleship Rommel, known as the master of tank warfare, died here? What a joke. Fastest update

"General, General Rommel has indeed been killed. On that slope, those shells..." Seeing Xu Jun's face, Muller couldn't even say anything.

"Speak slowly, start from the beginning, what happened, and you should also explain our current situation clearly."

"Yes, Lord General." Muller settled his mind and then began to report the ins and outs of this matter to Xu Jun.

"We set off from Cambrai this morning and marched south of Arras. General Rommel rushed forward with the 25th Armored Regiment and the 37th Armored Reconnaissance Battalion and the 83rd Communications Battalion as usual. The 7th Motorized The Infantry Regiment followed, and we followed the 7th Regiment. The 42nd Anti-tank Artillery Battalion was on guard on our wings, while the 78th Artillery Regiment and the 58th Engineer Battalion followed the rear with logistic units.

Originally, we advanced very smoothly without any resistance, except that two enemy reconnaissance planes flew by, and nothing happened. But this road is too difficult to walk. The half-track personnel carrier that was supposed to be replaced two months ago has not been shipped yet, and the only three sdkfz251 have been sent in because they got caught in a **** landmine. Logistics repair shop. Now the Mercedes-Benz trucks we use can't run fast on this kind of dirt road, and we have to wait for the 78 Artillery Regiment and the logistics engineers behind to pack up. You know, those troops are as slow as infantry.

As a result, just after lunch, General Rommel rushed back with the 83rd Communications Battalion and Division Headquarters. He went to the 7th Regiment first and asked them to speed up and keep up with the 25th Armored Regiment. Then we rushed to our group. It seemed to be around 1:45, when I was sitting in the same car with the group leader. As soon as General Rommel came, he ordered us to speed up. He felt that our speed was too slow. Not only could we not keep up with the 25th Armored Regiment, but it was also far away from the previous 7th Regiment.

As our regimental commander explained to him that we were slow to wait for the artillery and logistics behind us, suddenly the reconnaissance vehicle of the 42nd anti-tank artillery battalion on our right flank sent a report that a large number of British tanks and infantry were approaching us. Then we caught fire with the British. The 42nd anti-tank battalion had pak/38/37mm anti-tank guns, which should have been able to deal with those British tanks. So General Rommel sent the first battalion of our regiment to help the 42nd anti-tank artillery battalion against the opponent's infantry. Then the 7th Regiment also sent a report that their right wing was also attacked.

At the time, all of us thought it was a British harassment attack, but we didn't expect the enemy's tank to be a new model we had never seen before. The 37mm anti-tank guns had no effect at all, and they couldn't even slow them down. Those tanks smashed the 1st Battalion in an instant, it was a massacre, and none of the 1st Battalion soldiers came back. Then the tank shredded the position of the 42nd anti-tank battalion. They ran directly from the 37mm gun. I saw a brave artillery gunner fired when the tank was 5 meters away from him, but he couldn't penetrate it. Damn it.

A whole anti-tank battery was killed in their gun position, and the others were captured, those poor people. "Müller's voice is a bit choppy here.

Xu Jun patted him on the shoulder and comforted him. Then Mueller went on to say: "At that time, those damned British rushed directly through the anti-tank gun position towards the road, only 1,000 meters away from us. Our light infantry artillery and machine gun were still hanging on the truck, and there was another nearby. There was no shelter at all, so we had to retreat to the left. Two tanks and a Type 222 armored vehicle directly under the division voluntarily stayed behind to stop them and cover the retreat of the infantry. God bless them, they are all good boys.

We retreated to the southeast, but after leaving the dirt road, the trucks sank into the soft fields after a while. As a result, we had to rely on the soldiers to pull the artillery to evacuate. Then we withdrew here. Here we found this trench. It looks like it was dug by the French during World War I. They didn't fill it in after the war, so it just made us use it.

General Rommel ordered the establishment of a defensive position on the spot. At this time, we only have the 2nd and 3rd battalions and the guard detachments of the division, assault engineers from a company of the 58th Engineer Battalion, and a company of the 42nd Anti-Tank Battalion on our left. The rest are divisions. Non-combat forces and communications battalions. The 78th Artillery Regiment had only one company of 150mm self-propelled artillery following us. The other towed 105mm heavy infantry guns and 88mm antiaircraft guns did not know where they went. It seems that they were lost. We were on the dirt road. The team was really dragging too long, they were still far behind us when the retreat order was issued.

General Rommel placed them in the woods behind us... Then General Rommel asked our regimental commander and the 3rd battalion commander to have a meeting on the slope. The order is for me to hold a line. The anti-tank guns are arranged on my left rear wing, and the right rear wing are six 75mm light infantry guns. I also put 50mm mortars in my position. General Rommel put his command vehicle and the communications vehicle of the 83rd Communication Battalion under the **** ~ IndoMTL.com~ because those vehicles still have at least one 20mm cannon, which can make up for our current lack of firepower. All the 20mm cannons of our regiment were placed on the **** and commanded by General Rommel himself.

Then the enemy began to attack. The first infantry charge was repelled by us. Later, they sent tanks. Just when we were about to fire, the enemy bombarded us with wild artillery, General Rommel and his division. The staff officers, our regimental commander and the 3rd battalion commander were directly hit in the first round of shelling, and almost all of our 20 guns were destroyed. The second round of shelling destroyed those armored vehicles on the hillside. The division communications battalion was bombed into the sky. My reporter was also inside. He wanted to get a spare battery, but he was killed directly. He was only 20 years old.

All our radio stations were destroyed, so we lost contact with other troops. Then the enemy tanks launched an offensive. Fortunately, the engineers temporarily planted anti-tank mines in front of the position, plus our infantry guns and mortars, and the few me110 pairs that did not know where they came from. They fired. God bless those brave pilots. We finally knocked the opponent back, and then your plane appeared in front of us. "

()"The Battle of Resurrection in the Third Reich" only represents the author's Fengrui point of view. If the content is found to violate national laws and conflicts, please delete it. The position is only dedicated to providing healthy and green reading platform. 【】,thank you all!