Chapter 102 When Ghosts Meet Skeletons (2)
"SS Skeleton Division? I haven't heard of it. You should quickly guide the traffic, we can't delay it for too long."
Chen Dao's mind was full of thinking about why Guderian and Mandofire stopped and were not in the mood to deal with small matters such as traffic jams, so he ordered Schumacher in anger.
Schumacher heard the anger contained in Chen Dao's tone. He didn't know that Chen Dao's anger was because of the 19th Panzer Army's stopping march. He thought that Chen Dao was angry about traffic jams, so he had to jump out of the tank and go to the intersection in front to negotiate with the Skeleton Division.
Not long after, Chen Dao finally waited for Mandofir's call. The content of the telegram was concise and the order to suspend the attack came from the Army Command, and the specific reason was unknown.
"The order from the Army Command, damn it must be the guy with the old lady's mouth in secret that Halder had a secret trouble."
After reading the contents of the newspaper, Chen Dao immediately thought of Halde, who he had always disliked.
After kneading the telegram into a ball, Chen Dao hugged his arms and frowned and thought about how to call back.
Seeing Chen Dao's expression of not being close to people and animals, Captain Lorentz and the four orderly soldiers who were in the car were sitting upright, not daring to take a breath, for fear of being angry by Chen Dao.
Half an hour later, in the small village called Nelson on the left bank of the Maas River, Mandofir received a call from Chen Dao.
After reading the main text of the telegram, Mandofir's eyes remained at the end of the telegram, "Immediately execute when I receive the telegram", and he took off his military cap helplessly, letting the heat in his head radiate.
More than ten seconds later, Mandofir, whose mind was cool, immediately issued an order, and the whole group continued to move south, targeting Neschato on the Mas River.
Mandofir himself also tended to continue to go south and headed straight to the border of Farsi, but he had to stop due to the orders of his superiors. Now with the orders of his immediate superior Chen Dao, he led his troops to continue to go south and had legal support, so he did not hesitate to execute Chen Dao's orders of continuing to go south.
After the Herman Goring regiment was launched, Mandofir sent another telegram to the 19th Panzer Army headquarters to inform them of the whereabouts of the Herman Goring regiment.
Mandofir didn't know at this time that the incident of the armored forces stopping advance had already lit a fire in the Army Group A, and his telegram was like adding fuel to the fire.
Floin Town on the north bank of the Maas River, now it has become the temporary location of the Klester Armored Cluster Command. In the field airport opened temporarily in the east of the town, Goodrian looked at the chattering Klester in front of him and felt that the heat on his face was enough to fry an egg.
After defeating the counterattack of the French Third Armored Division on May 10, Kleist ordered the 19th Armored Army to stop advancing and maintain its scope of action within the occupied area.
Guderian, who was eager to go south, certainly refused to agree, so he argued with Klester on the phone and finally persuaded him to allow him to conduct a certain range of fire reconnaissance in the next twenty-four hours.
As a result, Guderian's "reconnaissance operation" ran 50 kilometers, and he also captured several villages and towns with French remnants stationed along the way.
Last night, Guderian received a strict order from Klester. The entire 19th Panzer Army was on standby and was not allowed to move forward any further. He also asked Guderian to report his duties at the Armored Cluster Command at 7 o'clock this morning.
When Goodrian flew to the field airport in Floin, Klester had been waiting here for a long time.
Seeing Guderian get off the plane, Kleist walked up to Guderian and taught him a lesson, blaming him for not accepting the order and attacking south without authorization.
Guderian was unprepared for the attitude of Christ, and he thought that his troops had worked hard to march overnight. Not only did he not receive a reward, but he was scolded, which was really unbearable.
When Goodrian felt his scalp tight and his hair was about to stand up, Klester seemed to have spoken too much in one breath and his head was a little lacking in oxygen. He stopped and gasped for Goodrian's lesson.
Guderian, who had already been unable to bear it, seized the opportunity without hesitation: "If you think everything I did is wrong, then I quit and you can find a more suitable person to complete the task."
Kleist felt his breathing seem to have stopped for a while, and after a long time he asked, "General Guderian, what did you say just now? Please say it again."
"I said I was going to resign," said Goodrian.
A hint of panic flashed across Klester's face, and he was speechless and could not speak for a long time. The two of them fell into speechless embarrassment.
The appearance of a staff officer broke the awkward atmosphere between the two. The lieutenant staff officer handed a telegram to Kleister, "The 19th Panzer Army Headquarters urgently."
Klester took the telegram and started to read it. Guderian stared at the telegram in Klester curiously, constantly guessing the contents of the telegram in his heart. Could it be that the French army counterattack? This is probably the case. The only thing that can make the military headquarters send urgent telegrams is the French counterattack.
Klester quickly finished reading the telegram, and his facial features twisted together.
"Look at this telegram, your subordinates openly disobey. These are all good things you did. I now announce that your position has been removed. The commander of the Second Armored Division, Wyer, will take your position, and you can leave." Klester turned his head and left after handing the telegram to Goodrian.
After three or four steps, Kleist turned and pointed at Goodrian and said, "Tell Lieutenant Colonel Mandofir when you go back that I will send him to military court."
After reading the telegram, Guderian finally knew the reason why Kleister got angry. The telegram said: Lieutenant Colonel Mandofir called the Military Department, and the Herman Goring Motorized Infantry Regiment had gone south alone to open the way for the Army Group.
Good, Hasso! Guderian first gave a thumbs up for his old subordinates' courage in his heart, and then remembered the threat of Kleister to send Mandofir to the military court, and the special relationship between Kleister and Mandofir. He suddenly felt that things became very tricky and completely beyond his control.
I hope this incident will not affect Hasso's family harmony. Guderian secretly prayed for his old subordinate Mandofir.
Half an hour later, Guderian returned to the 19th Panzer Army Headquarters. He first sent a report to the Army Group A, and then announced to the military personnel that he would resign. With the voices of the military personnel, Guderian unmoved to pack up his luggage and wrote the report by himself, preparing to return to the Army Group A, and then make a complete report on the cause and effect of the incident.
The resignation report sent by Guderian to the Army Group A was no less than a bombshell, and immediately echoed at the Army Group A. Army Group A. Army Group A. Respondingly ordered Guderian not to leave the Army, waiting for General Liszt, the commander of the 12th Army Group. He was entrusted by the Army Group A. Army Group A. to handle the matter with full authority.
Chen Dao didn't know that his telegram caused a stir in the Army Group A. After sending the telegram, he waited for a long time but had not waited for the convoy to move forward again. Finally, he couldn't help but lead a few followers to the intersection.
At this time, the crossroads had already quarreled. The ghost battle group that was advancing from east to west and the skeleton division that was advancing from north to south were dissatisfied with each other. The more quarreled, the more excited the two sides became.
The officers and soldiers who were standing on the front line of the quarrel had already begun to stretch out their arms and roll up their sleeves, and a group fight was about to break out.
Chen Dao looked at the scene of the quarrel that was about to escalate into a fight, reached out to touch his right waist, but felt empty.
Turning back and snatched the MP38 submachine gun from the orderly soldier, Chen Dao pulled the bolt and swept half of the bullet into the sky, and the intersection was immediately cleared.
Chen Dao walked to the confrontation crowd with a submachine gun, looked at the tanks and trucks that were holding each other, and found that the conflict was even more intense than he had imagined.
The front of a Mercedes-Benz truck of the Skeleton Division was parked southward in the middle of the intersection, blocking the way of the ghost battle group. The front of a 251 semi-track truck headed to the left front wheel of the truck, making the truck unable to move. The two cars just crossed the intersection and refused to give in to each other.
Chen Dao stared at the two cars for a while and turned his gaze to the officer led by the Skeleton Division.
Chen Dao held the MP38 submachine gun in his right hand, put the muzzle of the submachine gun upwards on his shoulder, and said to Major SS: "Major, what's your name?"
"Mr. Colonel, I am Carl Reiner, the battalion commander of the Anti-tank Battalion of the SS Skeleton Division."
"I am Colonel Heinz von Rosen, the commander of the Luftwaffe Hermann Goring Motorized Infantry Regiment. Now I am in command here, bring your people back to the car with you." Chen Dao said.
Major Reiner glanced at Chen Dao's epaulette again, patiently, and tried to lower his voice and said, "Col. Rosen, my troops are eager to go south now. Please give way to your subordinates."
"You are anxious, and I am anxious too, so we can't spend time here indefinitely, what do you think?" Chen Dao asked back.
Chapter completed!