The tank stopped suddenly, and the turret slowly turned to the right, pointing to the position where Major Reiner and the others were crouching.

Oops, found out! Reiner was startled when he saw this, and shouted violently, "Hide." ”

Freman and the gunners, who were hiding around the corner, also noticed the danger, dropped their guns and took refuge behind the building.

After a screeching sound of metal, a cloud of white smoke "snorted" from the ground at Major Reiner's feet.

Looking at the extra crater on the ground, Major Reiner considered whether it was time for him to retreat, he finally experienced the feeling of Sergeant Morman and the others at this time, this kind of battle that was absolutely suppressed by the enemy in terms of equipment was really impossible to fight, and the gap in strength could not be made up by personal bravery.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Major Reiner gritted his teeth and quickly glanced down the street, and saw that the tank was slowly advancing, less than a hundred meters from the corner where he was hiding.

Retracting his head, Major Reiner pushed Freman beside him, "Retreat, retreat, it's coming." ”

The tank drove from west to east, and several men could only flee south, only to run head-on into four infantry fleeing north.

"Don't run this way, there are British tanks in the street behind." A private at the head shouted to Reiner and the others who were running towards him.

"There are also tanks on the street behind us." Freman cried out in horror.

The two fleeing sides invariably stopped and looked at each other, and each saw the despair in each other's eyes.

Ten people on both sides together became two blocked "rats", no matter which of the tanks on the street behind either side turned around, ten people would be exposed to the empty streets, and then become the prey of British tanks to be shot mercilessly.

"I ・・・・・・ we ・・・・・・," Freman stammered.

"Shut up!" Reiner yelled at Freman, who was held back when he tried to surrender.

In the nick of time, Major Reiner looked up at the building next to him, and then shouted to follow me.

The nine men followed Major Reiner to the gate of the building next to him, and Major Reiner grabbed the handle of the gate and twisted and pushed it vigorously, but to no avail, the door was obviously locked.

Major Reiner took two steps back, raised his pistol and "banged ・・・・・・" at the position of the door lock, and opened a magazine with a "bang", turning the lock of the wooden door into a honeycomb, and then kicked it violently, and the private next to him also reacted, picked up the butt of his rifle and smashed it against the door.

The two took turns to exert force, and the wooden door was finally overwhelmed, and it flipped inward with a "bang".

"Fast forward." Major Reiner shouted, and the Fremen Nine rushed into the dark hallway without hesitation.

Major Reiner took a pistol to cover the crowd at the end, and the moment he entered the door, Major Reiner saw a tank driving out at the intersection of the street to the south.

Seeing the tank's tall body, smooth and beautiful side projection, and the long barrel, Major Reiner involuntarily let out a "Damn." Then he stormed the building.

The second British tank that appeared was almost twice the size of the first British tank I saw, and the armor must have been thicker when it was larger, and its turret was not equipped with a weak machine gun, but a real artillery, and compared to the tank I had just seen, the tank I had ambushed with a 37mm gun was completely rubbish.

The 37mm anti-aircraft gun couldn't even beat the previous garbage tank, so how could it fight against this British tank, which looked even more powerful?

Major Reiner held back a breath of anger and led a few people to the third floor before stopping.

Major Reiner pointed to the door to the right of the staircase and said, "Smash it open, let's go inside." ”

After a few loud bangs, the door on the right was smashed open, and ten people broke in.

The building is clearly a residential building, and the rooms inside are residential. Upon entering the house, Major Reiner found that the two-bedroom house was empty.

The owner of the house had apparently fled in a hurry, the two doors of the master bedroom cupboard were half-closed and the three drawers below had been pulled out and thrown to the floor, and colorful clothes and garbage were thrown everywhere.

Major Reiner summoned everyone to the living room, raised his right hand and pressed the button on the grip of the pistol, pulled out the empty magazine, and replaced the pistol with a new one.

Glancing at the nine soldiers, who were either panicked or depressed, Major Reiner said: "The east, north, and south sides of the city are full of our friendly forces, and they will not sit idly by while we are wiped out by the British, and they may already be on their way to support us. You all give me spiritual points, and we will hold on until reinforcements arrive. If we can't beat the tanks of the British, can't we beat their infantry? ”

Reiner quickly counted the weapons in everyone's hands, including two Luger pistols, one ZB-26 light machine gun, one MP38 submachine gun, and five Mauser 98K rifles.

Reiner gave his pistol to Freman and told him to guard the staircase with another man with a pistol.

After arranging for another MP38 submachine gun to be fired into the second bedroom, Major Reiner took the rifle he had exchanged from Freman and personally occupied the master bedroom facing the street with the ZB-26 light machine gun, and the other four riflemen were driven by Reiner to the fourth floor.

Looking through the window at the crowds of British infantry on the street below, Major Reiner patted the machine gunner on the shoulder, then pointed to the far side of the street.

More than fifty meters away in the street, five British infantrymen were advancing eastward behind a Matilda 1 tank, and the machine gunner turned his gun on the British infantry and pulled the trigger.

A string of bullets flew by, and several British infantrymen who were caught off guard fell behind the tank, but the tankman of the Matilda 1 tank was unaware and continued to drive forward.

The rest of the British infantry on the street reacted quickly, and in less than a minute, a hail of bullets flew towards the window where Major Reiner was.

・・・・・・Countless shards of glittering glass flew around, mixed with wood chips from window frames, and Reiner and the two machine gunners had to stay out of the windows to avoid the British bullets.

The rain of bullets from the British army lasted for two or three minutes before it subsided, and Major Reiner was just about to approach the window against the wall when he saw a dark brown, pineapple-shaped lump of iron fly in from the window with white smoke, fell to the ground, and stumbled to a stop more than a meter in front of him.

The two machine gunners in the bedroom ran out screaming, and Major Reiner's brain went blank, and he subconsciously raised his leg and kicked the grenade out of the air, hitting the wall and bouncing off the other side of the bed, and he himself plunged into the side of the bed by the door.

The grenade exploded in the room with a "bang", and although there was a bed between it and the grenade, Major Reiner felt that the grenade had exploded in his head.

After the explosion, Major Reiner felt as if countless flies had been drilled into his ears, and these flies flew around with their wings spread and made countless buzzing sounds.

Major Reiner tried to keep his eyes open, but all he saw was pitch black with countless Venus in between・・・・・・

At the top of the staircase, Freman stared at the corner of the staircase without blinking, and he clearly heard the sound of "ooh" coming from the wooden staircase.

Listening to the slow, steady thump, Freman had a vivid picture in his mind: a British soldier with a pot-lidded steel helmet, an khaki military uniform, and an Enfield rifle was carefully climbing the stairs step by step・・・・・・

With both hands clenching the Luger pistol in his hand, Freman bit his lip and stared at the corner of the stairs. To his left, another private, also with a pistol, was also sweating profusely and staring downstairs, waiting for the British to rush upstairs.

A figure staggered behind Freman, holding down his left shoulder, stooping down to pull out the grenade that Freman had stuck in his belt, unscrewing the lid and igniting the fuse.

The grenade hit the wall at the corner of the staircase and bounced off the second floor, screams and explosions were heard almost simultaneously, followed by the wails of the wounded.

"Don't crouch there and be stunned, let's go upstairs." Major Reiner shouted as he grabbed Freman's shoulders and shook his head.

In ten minutes, only eight of the ten people on the third floor remained, and two riflemen were killed.

One of them was shot in the neck by a British machine gun, and there was only a bit of flesh left in the neck connecting the head to the body; The other was blown up by a grenade thrown by the British from the window, and his flesh was blurred and his face could not be seen clearly.

Under the orders of Major Reiner, Freman endured vomiting ** to retrieve the remaining ammunition from the bodies of the two deceased, and followed the others back to the fifth floor.

You can throw a grenade on the third floor, I don't believe you can throw it on the fifth floor. After retreating to the fifth floor, Major Reiner thought resentfully・・・・・・

Outside Sypp, Montgomery put down his binoculars and looked at his watch with a frown.

"It's eleven thirty o'clock, and the battle in the city is not over, go and ask Colonel Glenn when he can invite me to lunch in the city?" Montgomery said to the major staff officer beside him.

Montgomery didn't wait for Glenn's answer, but he waited for something unexpected.

"Who hit the green smoke bomb, what are they going to do?" A lieutenant staff officer shouted pointing to the south of the city of Xupu.

On a dirt slope three kilometers southeast of Xupu City, Chen Dao was lying on the front of the Bandit No. 1 car, looking at the green smoke rising from the south of the city from the telescope, and muttered: "It seems that we came in time, and the skeleton division has not been dismantled by the British." ”

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