It turns out that it was not the German army that caused trouble to the expeditionary force.

The German army stationed in Caen was actually just a baggage regiment, and its mission was to be responsible for the allocation, transportation and safety of Caen's materials... Safety is mainly aimed at the destruction of French underground organizations and guerrillas.

When the Expeditionary Force attacked Caen, most of the Germans were scattered in every corner of Caen, and they worked continuously for more than twenty hours... They had no choice. The front-line war was tight, the tasks were heavy and the troops were insufficient, so they had to hold on even if they were too tired.

Therefore, the Expeditionary Force had almost no decent resistance along the way. Apart from driving two No. 3 tanks on the street...these two tanks were left in Caen for maintenance and had just been repaired, otherwise they should have been sent to the front line long ago.

However, the No. 3 tank was not a threat to the Chinese army, especially in towns. Expeditionary soldiers only needed to get into the houses on both sides and lurked in the houses. When the tanks approached, they raised the bazooka... and then a "chubby" sound was solved.

The real trouble is still the French.

At this time, they were supposed to sleep in the room, but because of the tense war, they were driven out by the Germans to transport supplies... As soon as the battle started, the French screamed and ran around.

This cannot be blamed on them. If any participating country in World War II had not been baptized by the war, it would be France... In fact, the biggest loss they suffered until now was the bombing of the Allied forces.

The French people seemed to have complained about the losses caused by the Allied bombing. They did not know that any other country, especially China, had already been full of corpses in the wild during the war.

Because they have never experienced war, they are like new recruits who have just started on the battlefield and some people are even stupid enough to hold a stick to try to protect themselves...

The Chinese Expeditionary Forces are Chinese, and most of them do not know French. In their eyes, French-speaking French and German-speaking Germans are the same, and they look similar. They don’t know German or French anyway, so they can’t tell them. In addition, it’s a rainy night, so it’s very difficult and dangerous to distinguish them from the enemy.

Fortunately, Zhang Chi asked a team of French soldiers who accompanied the army to hold a trumpet and shouted to the people over and over again in French: "We are the Allies, all the French citizens are lying down, or stay at home and don't come out!"

This minimizes the loss of accidental injury.

The battle lasted for more than half an hour, and more than 2,000 German troops in a regiment were shot dead on the spot, and only more than 500 surrendered and captured.

Most of these German troops were shot dead when the battle was going on for more than ten minutes... The reason why so many people were killed was because of this. The battle went on too fast, and the German troops had already shot into their chests before they could react or had time to surrender.

In the next ten minutes, the soldiers were clearing out the remaining enemies and dealing with the German soldiers hiding in the French people's rooms.

Originally, Zhang Chi thought that after the battle was announced, the French people would come out of the house happily to greet them, the "liberators".

But this is not the case, and the French people are still hiding in their rooms.

Zhang Chi told himself that maybe it was because they were too scared, or they were worried that the Germans would fight again... The latter was indeed something Zhang Chi and the people needed to worry about, because Caen was an important traffic hub for the German army, and the German army would not let it fall into the hands of the Allies, because this represented the complete collapse of the German army.

Zhang Chi was right, and the news of Caen's loss soon reached Rommel.

Rommel, who has always been calm, turned pale when he heard this information.

"What? What did you say?" Rommel still couldn't believe it was true: "Caen lost? Are you sure?"

"Yes, Marshal!" replied the staff officer: "This is the message sent by Colonel Ehard at the last moment, and according to what he said... the enemy seemed to be Chinese!"

"Chinese? How is this possible?" Rommel said: "How did they do it?"

The staff officer shrugged at a loss, and this question stumped him.

Rommel figured it out by himself. He looked at the map and then slowly sat on the chair: "So, the Chinese troops and the Zoafu Corps attacked our flanks as a cover. The purpose was to make us think that they had not walked away nearby... But in fact, they had already divided up some of them to attack Caen under the cover of a rainy night!"

"That's fifty kilometers!" The staff officer was a little puzzled: "They arrived overnight but we didn't know anything..."

No wonder the staff officer felt strange.

Fifty kilometers, if you walk on a mountain road, it is impossible to get there overnight. If you take a bus... from Caen to Normandy, there are German reinforcements and materials all the way, and it is impossible for such a huge army to pass by under their noses without knowing anything.

"It's those bombed roads!" Rommel smiled bitterly, "We ignore them!"

The staff officer couldn't help but say "Oh", and then he looked full of regret.

War is very realistic, and victory and failure are sometimes only one step away.

For example, at this point, if Rommel considered in advance that the bombed highway would be a loophole in Germany's defense, then he only needed to send a small team of people to set up ambush on these highways or simply bury landmines... that would thwart the Chinese plan, and the German plan would be able to unfold smoothly and then it would be very likely to defeat the Allies.

But now...

"Marson, what should we do next?" asked the staff officer.

Rommel was silent for a while and then said, "SS 2nd 'Imperial' Armored Division!"

The SS 2nd "Imperial" Armored Division, an armored division originally deployed in Paris. When the war started, the armored division quickly reinforced Normandy.

However, he relied on train transportation from the railway for reinforcements.

Most of the trains owned by the German army were blown up by the Allies. At the same time, there were many "dangerous bridges" that only allowed one car to pass by at a time on the reinforcement route of the SS's 2nd "Imperial" Armored Division, which resulted in the advancement speed of this armored division being only a few miles a day, until then it was barely reached the vicinity of Caen.

At this time, they were in a serious fuel shortage and could not continue to move forward... Fuel was used to reinforce the front line and had no time to take care of them.

Of course, the situation is different now.
Chapter completed!