"Hisser Marshal!" Just as several people were discussing the issue of the French regiment in an intense manner, a staff officer handed Rommel a telegram.

Originally, the telegram should have been handed over to Longdestedt because he was the commander-in-chief.

However, because of Longdestedt's lack of energy and health problems, they do not often stay in the command center or process documents. As mentioned earlier, Longdestedt's "no work" before 10 o'clock in the morning.

But Rommel is the opposite. He is energetic and well-known as a workaholic, and sometimes even eats and sleeps in the command center.

So over time, his subordinates were used to reporting to Rommel instead of Longdstedt.

"Our reconnaissance plane found that the enemy was heading to Ghent and transporting supplies in the science popularization area!" said the staff report.

Rommel glanced at the telegram and asked, "Is the transportation volume large?"

"We can't observe for a long time!" The staff officer replied: "But the convoy I saw has no end!"

The reason why I couldn't observe it for a long time was that Germany had no air supremacy and could only take a closer look at the gap between British and American fighter jets patrolling, and then quickly retreated.

What I saw was a convoy rather than a train, because the railway lines in northern France were basically blown up by Britain and the United States. Then, when the Germans withdrew, they exploded again. Locomotives and other locomotives could drive away, and those who could not drive away were exploded on the spot.

Therefore, it will be difficult for the Allied forces to resume railway transportation in France for a while.

Rommel thought for a while and said, "Order the reconnaissance troops to reconnaissance every few hours, including at night!"

"Yes, Lord Marshal!"

This is actually Eisenhower's "Fireball Plan".

In order to meet the supply of the three British and American armies at the same time, Eisenhower collected almost all French military and civilian vehicles. These vehicles were transported back and forth on the road like ants moving back and forth between the Normandy port and the Belgian border.

In fact, this is the difficulty of transportation... The materials are either crossed the English Channel or transported by air, but they all have to face the extremely bad road conditions in France.

The reconnaissance results came out the next day, and it is said that the reconnaissance troops also lost two reconnaissance aircraft.

"The Allies transport supplies day and night!" Rommel said: "The destination is the Belgian border, and it is obvious that their target is still the Ardennes!"

"Yes!" Longdstedt agreed.

"But this time it seems a little different!" Qin Chuan said: "Two supply points, one north and one south..."

"They want to attack from both sides at the same time!" Rommel looked down the map, looked right along the popular science, and then shouted: "Damn, they want to attack Metz Pass!"

"What are we there?" asked Longdstedt, who was obviously not very familiar with Metz Pass.

"We have more than 10,000 people!" Rommel replied: "There is a fortress, Metz Fortress!"

Ronderstedt breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Rommel continue: "But they are all military academy students!"

"Military school student?"

"Yes!" Rommel replied: "Fortress Metz... is used as an educational base by them. It is more like a university town where the military academies of the National Defense Forces and the SS are located!"

Longdestedt was stunned when he heard this.

Then Longdstedt asked again: "Is the fortress sufficient to defend against the enemy's attack?"

"Who knows?" Rommel said: "We don't even know how many troops the enemy has attacked this direction!"

"Why didn't we consolidate the defense here before?"

"We are short of troops, and the enemy has been attacking along Highway 69 in the north!" Rommel replied.

"We need people to organize these military academy fights!" Longdstedt said: "Otherwise, they will likely collapse before reinforcements arrive there!"

"Of course!" Rommel agreed.

Then Longdestedt and Rommel turned their attention to Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan was stunned for a moment and soon realized what their gaze meant.

"No, Your Excellency Marshal!" Qin Chuan said: "I don't think I'm very suitable for this task!"

"Tell me why!"

"I..." Qin Chuan thought for a while before answering: "I have never been to military academy!"

"Please, Lieutenant Colonel!" Rommel couldn't help laughing: "This is not a reason!"

Longdestedt also said, "I also think no one will be more suitable for this task than you. There are even your battle examples in their textbooks, and I believe there are more than one!"

"Absolutely this is!" Rommel agreed.

The two old marshals teased Qin Chuan one by one, which made Qin Chuan feel a little unbearable. At the same time, he knew that this could not be refused, so he could only agree: "Okay, Marshal, you won!"

"Very good!" Rommel patted Qin Chuan on the shoulder and said, "Of course, I won't send you alone. The 1st Infantry Regiment should be the one who carries out the mission. You can take helicopters to reinforce in batches.

"Yes, Marshal!" Qin Chuan responded.

Helicopter reinforcements are indeed a good way. They can quickly and easily deliver troops to the target area, but because they do not have air supremacy, they can only set out at night.

Due to the limited helicopters assigned to it, the 1st Infantry Regiment was divided into three batches, one batch every night to the Metz Fortress.

Originally, Qin Chuan thought the German army should have three days to prepare, so the 1st Infantry Regiment was enough to all arrive at the Metz Fortress.

But soon Qin Chuan discovered that he was wrong... He didn't know that his opponent was Patton.

And Patton was also the kind of decisive person. He even drove along the road towards the Metz Fortress at night when the 3rd Army had not yet reserved enough fuel and supplies.

In Patton's words, "We prepare for one more day, and the enemy will prepare for one more day. So, I would rather prepare for one less day and both my enemies!"

Therefore, the 3rd Army's vanguard troops rushed to the front of the Metz Fortress in just twenty-seven hours and blocked the airspace of the Metz Fortress with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns so that helicopters could not enter and exit.

Of course, this is all a story.

While Patton's vanguard troops were starting, Qin Chuan and Colonel Slein led the First Infantry Battalion to fly toward the Metz Fortress in a helicopter

For confidentiality reasons, the reinforcements were merely informing Colonel Becker, who was in charge of the defense of the Metz Fortress, to transport a batch of supplies to the fortress, and to order Colonel Becker to prepare for acceptance.

So, when helicopters stopped in the square and a team of soldiers emerged from it, Colonel Becker couldn't help but wonder.

"The information I got was to receive supplies!" said Colonel Becker.
Chapter completed!