Sickert China’s extremely sad and glorious newspaper finally came to an amazing thing. Although the flag could not be lowered at half mast according to the national ceremony, the blue sky and white flag of the Nanjing Presidential Palace did not rise to the top today, but it was a full foot short.
Arcado just sat quietly. He knew that the suffering people had always followed the old saying-"A drop of water pays off with a gush of water". He knew that Germany had walked off the stage in a daze. sickert and China found the most memorable years of his life. arcado supported the old man to do more and more, so the people of China remembered this friend and rewarded him with 40 million ardent gratitude.
Arcado felt that he could feel that the machine tools for producing cannons in Wuhan Military Factory turned faster; Workers worked overtime to load one shell after another into ammunition boxes and sent them to the front by slow but never-ending porters.
Arcado felt that he could feel the perseverance and silence of the sea battlefield. People held German rifles in the cold wind, and their flesh and blood proved that this nation had never fallen.
The nation that has inherited thousands of years of history, the ancient, rigid, stubborn and stubborn nation, the weak, inclusive, inferior and timid nation, they have a straight backbone, and tanks can’t bend the backbone; They don’t cool down when they have blood. They are so kind and kind that they forget the unhappiness in Jiaozhou Bay because an old man from sickert was buried in Nanjing.
Why did you just leave? Arcado thought silently that he thought of meeting the train in sickert. When he met for the first time, he thought of * * * in the Defence Force every night. He looked at sickert with a dim expression. What wet the collar? Arcado reached out and touched it, only to find that he couldn’t see clearly.
How many familiar people have just left? The stubborn diplomatic war god, Lester Lehsmann, and the wise industrial arrogant Carl? Hindenburg, the stubborn and powerful marshal … Now another old man has left this world silently but does not smell it.
"Surely you won’t be too lonely." arcado sighed. How grand will the funeral be? Will it be full of China customs? Will there be the paper money that evokes the soul and is familiar with the square hole? Will someone shed tears and pray for an old man like you?
Anna came in quietly without knocking at the door. arcado stopped behind her. She knew that her lover was in a bad mood. She knew that the respectable old man was arcado’s elder.
"Fuehrer!" Anna didn’t call her accustomed address, but solemnly called arcado’s post. She woke up in disguise and said, arcado, he is now the head of state, and ten thousand people in Germany admire the head of state. We must cheer up the German head of state.
"Ah …" arcado said with a sigh of relief and a light heart. "What is it?"
"General Leenders ted! A regiment has captured Sedang, and the French ninth army line has collapsed, "Anna replied.
"I know," arcado slowly got up and shook his body, and the SS system restored his former straight back. "Give him back! Continue to attack as planned … I’ll wait for his good news. "
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"attention!" A German official reached an order.
"Hua" rang neatly at attention. At the forefront of Ryan’s team, he silently watched five wooden sticks crucified, which was still a facial expression.
These five graves lie quietly in a grave. These new graves are all German soldiers killed in the crossing of the river. Looking around, there are nearly a hundred soldiers crying silently, but Ryan is holding his lips and looking at the grave in the middle. There is a straw garland hung by the captain of tank No.125.
"I can’t cry. That doesn’t mean I’m not sad. I know you are a good company commander," Marcus Lane said softly. "I will live with your share."
"You lie here and say that killing is not enough, killing is not enough, and blood is not enough." Raine whispered, "I don’t know how to tell you that I will come back here to see you after the French."
"I know you are all sad, but do you remember the words we sang in our battle song?" Battalion commander looked at his hands face with a hint of sadness and said
Some people took the lead in singing, but the sound was tragic but stronger than firmness. Soon everyone sang along, and the familiar melody became more and more magnificent. Their songs were more dignified than seeing their comrades off.
"If we are abandoned by the goddess of fate,
If we can’t go back to our hometown from now on
If the bomb ends our lives,
If we are doomed,
Then we are loyal tanks.
Will give us a metal grave. "
"Ryan!" The battalion commander glanced at Ryan and shouted, "The first row is under your command for the time being until you die or I find a better candidate."
"Yes!" Ryan attention big replied
"The company commander is temporarily represented by the second platoon leader." The battalion commander turned to the distance and "rested for two hours and then set off west along the highway."
Chapter 2 2 Fortress
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The border between the two countries is the famous Maas River, and not far from Belgium, there is also an Albert Canal. These rivers are like fortresses guarding Belgium’s fragile border defense line.
In 1914, the German team entered Belgium from the same place and the same road to resist a possible German invasion. The Belgians built a grand fortress project here as early as the early 1930 s.
This fortress is located three miles south of Maastricht. The small village of Emaer is the strongest fortress in the whole western Europe. Emmanuel Castle can be called the fulcrum fortress at the northern end of each important place, and the south point to Liege is the only way to the hinterland of Belgium.
Their fortress invested a lot of money to make the whole fortress impregnable. Ironically, they hired a German engineering team to complete the whole fortress construction project. The German engineers made the whole fortress strong and abnormal, but they sent a copy of the drawings to the German Defence Forces.
In order to occupy this important fortress, the Germans put in five well-trained paratroopers’ assault troops, which are the A regiment, and the 1 ST German cavalry held this offensive line
This time, the German paratroopers decided to attack in a more novel way-they took a glider to land directly on Studente’s plane, and chose a glider instead of a parachute. First, they were afraid that the operation would be exposed before the engine of the ju52 transport plane made a huge noise. The second is that he is afraid that the paratroopers will not be able to form an assault force when they are scattered. He needs these soldiers to land and attack together.
They moved five gliders in the early morning, leaving the ju52 transport plane 7 feet away from Aachen. Each glider was towed by a paratrooper equipped with p44 assault rifle or g42 machine gun flame thrower.
At the first light of dawn, these box-shaped transport gliders made of iron, wood and canvas quietly landed just seven miles away from the target with the ghost of a landing sled. They made all preparations for this operation. The paratroopers were secretly trained for three months, and the training was so harsh that two paratroopers were sentenced to death for violating discipline.
The glider troops were divided into four detachments, code-named concrete, steel, granite and iron. Their five-mile target in Fiona Fang was Albert Canal and three bridges.
The steel detachment landed on the west bank of Albert Canal and quickly attacked the railway bridge at the northernmost intersection. The concrete team occupied the middle bridge, that is, the Havin concrete viaduct in Floan.
Two detachments and later paratroopers guarded the two bridges together, and they built bridgeheads on both sides. The Belgian army’s counterattack was quickly repelled.
German paratroopers are in trouble at the southernmost bridge. What’s the distance? Emaer fortress is less than a mile away. The target glider of the iron detachment was discovered by the Belgian defenders a few minutes before landing. They were desperate and killed more than three German soldiers, but the Germans had the last laugh. In the end, they captured the bridge and drove away the Belgians in one breath.
The code-named granite detachment is the most unusual. They were ordered to take Egypt directly. Fort Emaer, which covers an area of 175 acres, is a pentagon. Usually, there are 12 Belgian soldiers stationed here, but this morning, there were only 75 soldiers inside the city wall because of the relief.
The cliffs along the canal guard the northeast of the fortress. There are also anti-tank trenches and a 2-foot-high wall on all sides to defend the fortress. The tunnels of the four-access turret are full of rotating turrets equipped with various weapons. The only drawback is that there are not many anti-aircraft guns, and there are no mines on the ground of the wide fortress.
Ah? Emaer fortress is very vulnerable to medium attack, which is why Germany chose it as the target. The Belgian machine gunner was dumbfounded. Fifteen German gliders landed safely on the lawn at the top of the fortress. German paratroopers bravely jumped out of the plane and rushed to their target with artillery fire.
All Germans are blasting experts, and they brought a considerable part of two and a half tons of explosives. There is a new device on the explosive surface, which is shaped like a concave hemisphere. This device can make the explosive force center and easily destroy heavy concrete fortifications.
Each of these explosives weighs 1 pound and can blow up several feet thick steel plates. Since studying aerial photographs and fortress maps, the engineers know the place where they put the explosives like the back of their hand. In less than one minute after landing, they blew up more than half of the selected targets.
Moreover, during the explosion, they found that the Belgian defenders cut corners, and there were two turrets whose roots were not capable of attacking after being decorated. They were so fierce that the Belgian defenders were forced to retreat to the ditch to seek shelter. They called artillery forces outside the fortress to shell their fortress from the outside.
German paratroopers were forced to hide in the bunker they had just blown up, waited for the shelling to stop, and then killed it. They threw the remaining explosives into the Belgian garrison tunnel and blew the Belgian army to the ground.
However, due to the large number of Belgian defenders and their desperate resistance to the German * team, they were temporarily unable to control the whole fortress, and they had to wait for reinforcements to arrive before they could finish it.
The reinforcements were faster than expected. These troops crossed the Mas River with unimaginable speed. arcado and his generals planned a little spy plan to make them proud. The plan was to cross the Mas River bridge as quickly as possible.
A special task force arrived near these bridges in imitation Belgian military uniforms, pretending that the retreating troops were close to the target, and then they seized several important bridges at close range.