Chapter 608 Advance to Paris

When using grenades, they can shoot several kilometers away. At this distance, the 88mm tank gun of the Panther 3 tank can just be used to provide them with fire support!

Kurt was standing on the embankment, looking at the fortifications of the French army on the other side. There were bombings by Stuka bombers, reinforcements from his own side, and the counterattack on the French side was getting weaker and weaker.

"Report, the sappers have found a river bank suitable for bridging." At this moment, an adjutant beside Meier said.

"Then what are you waiting for, build the bridge now!" Meier said: "Our tank, ready to cross the river!"

"Buzz, buzz." Engineer Locke drove his truck and slowly backed away.

From the outside, his truck, like other Ford trucks, has an all-wheel drive, off-road chassis, but the rear top is different. Its back has steel plates and hydraulic cylinders.

At this time, he was slowly retreating to the back, and behind him was the river bank.

One point, another point, until the rear wheel was firmly next to the river bank, the squad leader in command shouted loudly: "Stop!"

He hit the brakes.

"Chichichi." The squad leader on the side came up and moved the hydraulic operating lever in the middle of the truck. After only hearing a few clicks, he saw the steel plate on the top and slowly propped it up!

The steel plate moved back, moved, and then turned over.

This is the bridge leg! It stuck firmly into the river, pretty solid, and then the second steel plate was just in place, and the deck was ready.

"Go!" shouted the squad leader.

The truck moved forward, and the second truck came upside down again.

This time, the truck fell all the way to the just-paved bridge deck, back, and back, to the edge.

They are a special unit, and their mission is only one, that is to build bridges!

In the lowland countries of Europe, there are many water networks. If you want to advance in these countries as soon as possible, you cannot avoid a problem, that is, building bridges.

Where there is a bridge, they can take it, and where there is no bridge, they need to build it themselves!

To this end, the German military industry department has specially developed this bridge erection vehicle, which is connected one by one, and constantly moves forward, and finally a bridge that directly reaches the opposite side can be erected.

Compared with the previous method, their bridge construction is mechanized and fast.

"Boom!" Just as the third bridge-carrying vehicle was going backwards onto the bridge, a shell exploded near them, splashing a column of water several meters high.

The bridge builders have nothing to fear. They have long been psychologically prepared for this situation.

If you build a bridge and want to cross the river, but on the other side of the river is the enemy's position, if you find yourself building a bridge, is there any reason not to do it? In later generations, some bridging vehicles used trucks, some used tanks, and became special bridging tanks. Although they have the meaning of waste utilization, they also have the meaning of protecting engineers.

And now, Germany is not rich enough to use tanks to build bridges, they are just ordinary ten-ton military trucks, and now, the artillery shells fired from the opposite side instantly pose a threat to them.

This threat, of course, was only temporary. When they found out that the other party was firing, the German tank soldiers here went into a state of rage.

When they got the bridge here, a tank company was already moving here. As soon as they arrived here, they saw their sappers who were risking their lives to build the bridge. Is this okay?

"Boom, boom!" In an instant, here, more than a dozen tanks opened fire on the opposite side. At least five or six shells hit the first shot, and the other side was instantly dumbfounded.

The barrel of the tank is slowly turning, and the grenades are stuffed inside. As long as the opponent emerges again, they will be beaten immediately!

Whether it's a field gun, a machine gun, or a rifle, even if a sniper who doesn't have long eyes dares to shoot, his grenade will hit the opponent's head without hesitation!

In front of the eyeing tanks here, the other side has no courage to fire again. They only have one chance. Once they fire, they will be abolished!

While the bridge was being built here, almost only one turret and the infantry fighting vehicle on the hull were exposed on the river. It had already moved to the opposite side. When the hull of the vehicle was exposed wetly and rushed towards the opposite side, the French army, Has begun to retreat unstoppable.

They were already very good, in other directions, the French army had almost no resistance and surrendered directly, and here, at least, they also resisted symbolically, until the German armored vehicles moved up, and they did not The retreat began.

The soldiers jumped out of the armor, like tigers preying on their prey, and rushed to the position of the French army on the opposite side. In the sky, Stuka was still wandering, ready to shoot and kill the still resisting French army.

Here, just after the bridge in the last section was erected, the Panther 3 tanks rumbled up!

There was no one in front of them to guide, so the drivers showed their heads and drove up at high speed, not afraid of falling off at all. The width of the bridge was almost the same as the width of their tracks.

Every soldier who can join the SS and become an SS armored division is very good. These drivers are all veterans, and they can drive past with their eyes closed.

The Oise River defense line has been opened a gap, Paris, right in front of you!

At this time, the city of Paris was in a panic.

The streets were jammed with cars. When they learned that the German army suddenly moved to the Oise River, the Renault government panicked. Wei Gang's defense line could not stop the fierce Germans at all!

Paris was about to be conquered by the Germans. Renault took government officials and hurriedly moved from Paris to Tours.

Sitting in his car, looking out, Renault felt heavy.

Next to it is the tall Eiffel Tower. Thinking of the capital of France, which is about to be trampled by the iron hoofs of the Germans, Reynolds felt heartbroken.

Paris is the capital of France. The history of this place can be said from the fourth century AD. A tribe of Romans occupied the Gaul village on the island and established the capital of the "Parisian" people, from which Paris got its name.

Since the sixth century AD, Paris has become the capital of the Kingdom of France, and subsequent feudal dynasties in France have taken Paris as their capital.

If it is closer, it should start after the September 1870 Revolution, when France established the Third Republic, which has continued to the present. The republic and the monarchy, constantly alternating in France, seemed to herald France's ill fortune.

Now, as the leader of France, he is leaving his capital! France, the future is slim! Thinking of this, Reynold's face filled with tears, and his departure seemed to herald the twilight of the French Republic.

On the horizon, it was already sunset, as red as fire, and as hot as blood.