Chapter 151: Collapse

The armament on the German armored reconnaissance vehicles was not suitable for this kind of battle. Many people may have the misconception that the machine guns and machine guns on armored vehicles are set up to attack enemy infantry units, although it is not wrong to think so, but the main task of these weapons in actual combat is to attack the enemy's fire points and suppress the enemy's machine gun fire.

The armored vehicle is a stable firing platform, and the accurate sighting system allows the vehicle-mounted machine gun and machine gun to obtain a longer effective range than similar ones, and can carry out precise strikes against targets outside the effective range of the enemy's machine guns. At the same time, the armor shell gives the shooter better protection, allowing him to aim more confidently in the rain of bullets.

In order to achieve better shooting accuracy, the turret armament of the armored vehicle sacrifices operational flexibility, and the change of direction and angle of fire needs to be adjusted by the operating handwheel, which makes these vehicles very difficult to suppress fire at long distances, but relatively sluggish when dealing with high-speed moving group targets.

The KK30 20mm cannon on the 231 armored vehicle uses a standard 10-round magazine, and the fire lasts only four seconds if fired continuously, although the lethality of the warhead is amazing, but in the situation that the target is constantly moving fast, a 20mm high-explosive shell often can only kill one or two unlucky cavalrymen. In contrast, the Coaxial Machine Gun caused a higher proportion of casualties, after all, it used a chain of 150 rounds, which lasted longer and covered a larger area.

But the problem is that the rate of fire of the MG34 is still too fast, and one hundred and fifty rounds lasts a few seconds longer than the machine gun.

The officers and men of the second platoon have rich battlefield experience, and when they were still in the sequence of the 3rd Panzer Division, the 3rd Motorized Reconnaissance Battalion fought many tough battles on the French battlefield and defeated the resistance of many French infantry companies.

However, this was the first time they had fought with the enemy's cavalry unit since joining the army, and because of the lack of experience in this area, the platoon commander made a small mistake in command, he underestimated the speed of the cavalry's sprint, and in order to annihilate the opponent, he put the enemy too close.

Although in the first wave of fire, the second platoon almost killed one-sixth of the enemy troops, but the armored vehicles quickly ran out of magazines, and there was a clear gap in firepower, and at the same time, the Bedouin cavalry showed their tenacious and tenacious side to the Germans, they did not quickly break up under the fire like the enemies the Germans had encountered before, but seized the short gap of ten seconds in the fire of the Germans, continued to charge on horseback, and quickly closed the distance between the enemy and us.

The Saber-toothed Tiger's 50mm cannon was no more useful than a machine gun in this situation, and although Snarr loaded the chamber with high-explosive grenade shells, it only killed and wounded a few cavalrymen near the place where the shells landed, and did not have the desired effect of delaying and intimidating. It was the coaxial MG40 machine gun next to the artillery, and under the inspiration of the commander, it relied on turning the turret to make a beautiful fan, and overturned more than a dozen Bedouin riders one after another. But this was also the limit of what the Snarr crew could do, the MG40 had an even more terrifying rate of fire than the MG34, and the chain of 150 rounds was consumed almost instantly.

But the advantage was still on the side of the Germans, and the Arabs had only some light weapons, which were simply not able to inflict substantial damage on German armored vehicles.

These Bedouin cavalry are all equipped with British Lee Enfield cavalry rifles, these short-barreled rifles sacrifice part of the range, other indicators are no different from conventional rifles, the Saudi royal family prefers German-made weapons, the royal family is equipped with Mauser rifles produced in Germany, as a close ally of the royal family, the Juhaina tribe received 2,000 Lee Enfield cavalry rifles given by the British. Adil was given 500 rifles, most of which were equipped with his descendants.

These fighters had never fought with armored vehicles, and they did not know that their bullets could not penetrate the armor of these vehicles, so they continued to shoot at German armored vehicles as they charged.

The British supplied the Arabs with only regular lead-core warheads, and the German armored vehicles looked like they were sparkling on the outside, but in fact at most the hull was scratched a little paint, and a few bullet holes were pierced in the fenders and toolboxes.

Although the cavalry was attacked all the way, they still quickly approached one hundred and fifty meters, and they were able to rush into the German formation in a dozen seconds at most. At this time, of the two hundred elite Arab cavalry, only more than one hundred and twenty remained, and the rest of the warriors had already fallen on the way to the charge.

"God is great!" "Oooo

"Rush forward!" Adil shouted orders to his subordinates.

The magistrate miraculously survived the charge, considering that he was in the first row of the line, and all the riders who charged with him had fallen by this time, including the cavalry captain Farouge, the most skilled Bedouin warrior who was obviously not very lucky, and when the first wave of guns fired, he and his horse disappeared in the charge.

Adil himself didn't understand how he had managed to get out of that terrible fight, but he was convinced that it must have been arranged by the true God, and that he was clearly favored by the true God. With the protection of the true gods, he would never fail, and the magistrate once again summoned up his courage, believing that if he rushed to the side of these armored vehicles, he would definitely find a way to deal with these monsters.

But in the next second, the magistrate suddenly realized that all this was just a joke played by the true god on him, and he was not protected by anything, but more like a vicious curse.

Seventy cavalrymen on the right side of the road were attacked fiercely from the flanks, and the three platoons of loading and searching, which were advancing along the coast, smoothly penetrated between the cavalry and the coast, and the platoon commander improvised the troops from the charging formation into a column, almost parallel to the cavalry, and the vehicle-mounted machine gunners flipped the Bedouin soldiers to the ground one by one as easily as shooting targets.

But this was not the end, it was only the beginning of a massacre, just when the cavalry on the right flank was thrown into disarray, and the left flank where Adil was located was suddenly attacked by ground forces.

Just seventy meters from the road on the left side of the road (from the Arab perspective) is a low, inconspicuous earthen beam, probably the result of natural weathering, yet another marvelous work of nature. At this moment, a row of human heads with steel helmets suddenly appeared on the earthen beam, and then, like a volcanic eruption, poured a rain of bullets on the cavalry.

At a cursory glance, Adil saw that at least ten machine guns were armed on the other side, a rather terrifying number, enough to crush the courage of the bravest Bedouin warriors in the tribe and make them lose the confidence to continue fighting.

"Ahh Adil let out a terrible howl, and he seemed to have seen what happened to him.

The reluctant magistrate put the revolver back into his waist, held the scimitar in one hand, and tugged hard at the reins with the other, and the white Arabian horse struggled to stop, and the desert elf neighed upright, raised its two forelimbs high, and kicked the horse's hooves into the air.

While the cavalrymen were still puzzled by the strange actions of their masters, a scene of disbelief occurred when their most admired chieftain, the noble governor of Yanbu City, the great emir, turned his horse's head in the next moment, and began to flee towards the wilderness on the left side of the road.

The morale of the Bedouin elite cavalry completely collapsed at this moment.

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