Battle of the Third Reich

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

Xu Jun was stupid at the time. How could the prestigious German Army's soul, the unsinkable battleship Rommel, known as the master of tank warfare, die here? What a joke.

"General, General Rommel is indeed dead. Just on that dirt slope, those shells..." Mueller even said that Xu Jun's face was not good.

"Speak slowly, start from the beginning, what the **** is going on, and you have made our current situation clear."

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

"We set off from Cambrai early this morning and advanced towards the south of Arras. General Rommel took the 25th Panzer Regiment and the 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 83rd Communication Battalion as usual. The 7th Motorized Infantry Regiment followed In the back, we followed the 7th Regiment. The 42nd Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion was on our wings, and the 78th Artillery Regiment and the 58th Engineer Battalion came with the logistical force behind.

We were advancing very smoothly without any resistance. Except for two enemy reconnaissance planes flying past, nothing happened. But this road is too difficult to go. The half-tracked personnel carrier that should have been replaced with us two months ago has not been shipped yet, and the only three sdkfz251s were sent in because of the **** mines. Logistic repair shop. The Mercedes-Benz trucks we use now do not run fast on this dirt road, and we have to wait for the 78 Artillery Regiment and logistics engineers behind, you know, those troops are slow like infantry.

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

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

At that time, all of us thought it was a harassment attack by the British, but we did not expect that the enemy's tank was a new model that we had never encountered. The 37mm anti-tank gun had no effect at all, and it did not even slow them down. The tanks destroyed the 1st Battalion in an instant. It was a massacre, and no soldier of the 1st Battalion could come back. Then the tank tore up the position of the 42nd anti-tank battalion. They ran directly over the 37mm gun. I saw a brave artillery still firing when the tank was 5 meters away from him. Damn things.

A whole anti-tank gun company was killed at their gun positions, and the others were captured, those poor people. "Müller's voice was a little bit intrusive here.

Xu Jun patted his shoulder and comforted him. Then Mueller went on to say: "At that time the **** British went straight through the anti-tank artillery position and rushed to the road, only 1,000 meters away from us. Our light infantry and machine guns were still hanging on the truck. There was no shelter at all, so we had to retreat to the left. Two tanks III and one type 222 armored car directly under the division voluntarily stayed to stop them and cover the retreat of the infantry. May God bless them, they are all good guys.

We retreated southeast, but the trucks that left the dirt road did not drive for a while and then fell into the soft fields. As a result, we had to rely on the soldiers to pull the artillery. Then we withdrew here. Here we found this trench, which appeared to have been dug by the French during World War I, and they were not filled in after the war, just so that we could use it.

General Rommel ordered the establishment of defensive positions on the spot. We only have the 2nd and 3rd Battalions and Divisional Guards at this time, as well as a assault engineer of the 58th Engineer Battalion, and a company of the 42nd Anti-tank Battalion on our left wing. Ministry of Non-Combat Forces and Communication Battalions. The 78th Artillery Regiment only had a company of 150mm self-propelled artillery to follow us. The other towed 105mm heavy infantry guns and 88mm anti-aircraft guns did not know where they went. It seemed that they were lost. We were on the dirt road. The team is really too long. They were still far behind us when the evacuation order was issued.

General Rommel placed them in the woods behind us. . Then General Rommel asked our head and the 3rd Battalion Commander to go to Tupo for a meeting. I ordered to stick to the first position. The anti-tank gun was placed on my left rear wing. The right rear wing was six 75mm light infantry guns. I also put a 50mm mortar on my position. General Rommel put his command vehicle and the communication vehicle of the 83rd communication battalion under the earth slope, because those vehicles also have at least one 20mm cannon, which can make up for our current lack of firepower. All the 20-mm machine guns of our regiment were placed on the earth **** under the command of General Rommel.

Then the enemy began to attack. The first infantry charge was repulsed by us. Later they sent out tanks. Just when we were about to fire, the enemy bombarded us with wild artillery. General Rommel and the division staff And our regimental commander and 3rd battalion commander were directly hit during the first round of shelling. They also killed almost all of our 20 guns. The second round of shelling also killed those armored vehicles by the hillside. The entire division communication battalion It was bombed into the sky. My telegraph soldier is also inside. He wanted to get a spare battery, and he was directly killed. He was only 20 years old.

All our radio stations were destroyed, so we lost contact with other troops. Then the enemy’s tanks launched an offensive. Fortunately, the engineers placed anti-tank mines in front of the position. Together with our infantry artillery and mortar, they also had a few me110 pairs that did not know where they came from. They fired. God bless the brave pilots. We finally hit the other party back, and then your plane appeared in front of us. "

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