Original sentence: As the Germans moved in, what remained of the once-formidable First Army was hopelessly surrounded at Lille but counterattacked and resisted fiercely in a delaying action aiming to buy time for the beleaguered Anglo-French defenders of Dunkirk.General Jean-Baptiste Molinié's 40,000 remaining men engaged seven German divisions (including the 4th, 5th, and 7th Panzer Divisions, roughly 110,000 men and 800 tanks), capturing General Fritz Kühne of the German 253rd Infantry Division in the fighting and halting the German capture of Dunkirk for three days
Edited sentence: As the Germans moved in, what remained of the once-formidable First Army was hopelessly surrounded at Lille