The New Zealand soldiers were fierce and fast, and although mines were constantly exploding around them along the way, they rushed forward with bayonets in their hands.

It's an awe-inspiring style of combat, but it's also stupid at the same time.

It is said to be awe-inspiring because it was the Germans who installed "S" shaped bouncing mines in front of the position, which the Allies called "Bouncing Betty".

As the name suggests, a bouncing mine is a mine that can re-explode in mid-air when triggered...... Ordinary mines explode underground, and most of their energy is absorbed by the ground and can only cause damage in a small area.

The "S" type bouncing mine uses a very creative design, which is equipped with a sleeve at the lower end of the projectile body with an open upper end and a closed lower end, which is equivalent to a gun barrel.

When the mine is triggered, the first thing to detonate is the propellant at the bottom of the projectile, so the projectile is fired out of the sleeve like a mortar shell, and the projectile is detonated when it bounces to a height of about 1.5 to 2 meters...... As a result, 360 steel balls are presupposed to explode around the projectile body.

Sometimes a single mine can knock infantry within a radius of tens of meters to the ground, and even worse, most of these soldiers are wounded but do not die...... On the battlefield, a wounded soldier will always be more troublesome than a dead one, because it not only loses its combat effectiveness but also needs several soldiers to help.

This made the "S" mine the most terrible nightmare for the Allies.

And the soldiers of the 2nd New Zealand Division actually forced their charge in front of such a powerful anti-infantry mine...... I'm afraid that the Germans don't have this kind of courage.

It's not because the New Zealand soldiers are stupid that they do it, but because they're stepping on thunder with their lives...... But sometimes you have to do it on the battlefield.

Say they're stupid because they're not British, they're New Zealanders.

From the perspective of "only talking about interests between countries", why did New Zealand soldiers help Britain fight the war? And it is often used as cannon fodder by the British.

Similarly, there are a few Australian troops...... These two colonial armies were even more heroic on the battlefield than the British infantry, and they fought everywhere in World War I and World War II with little benefit for their own country.

On the other hand, the psychological servility of the "empire on which the sun never sets" is blinded by the brilliance of its "world's largest power", coupled with some feelings for the "mother country", so they hug Britain's thigh without thinking.

Under the power of the "S" mines, the momentum of the New Zealand division was much weaker when it rushed to the second line of defense, and the German firepower was stronger at this time, and several times the charging New Zealand division was suppressed.

This is very normal in the eyes of Lieutenant General Austin, the opponent is the German army, its quality and firepower are incomparable to the British army, and it is normal to be slightly blocked.

At the same time, Lieutenant General Austin also received reports that New Zealand soldiers had spotted many fake tanks hidden in the bushes during the charge.

This convinced Lieutenant General Austin that he was right and that he would emerge victorious...... He intended to use this victory to boost the morale of his soldiers, even though there were not many German troops in front of him.

However, just as the tanks of the British 15th Panzer Division were rushing forward at full speed, and the British troops were also rushing forward after the New Zealand soldiers, three red signal flares rose into the sky.

Lieutenant General Austin immediately felt that something was wrong, and the three red flares were fired from the direction of the German army.

Flares......

Its meaning, of course, is to order the attack of troops distributed in different positions...... In some cases, signal flares are more effective than communication equipment, and orders given with communication equipment may be interfered with, and so on, resulting in some units not receiving them.

This means...... The Germans had other troops.

Lieutenant General Austin was vaguely aware that he had jumped into the trap of the Germans, so he hurriedly ordered into the walkie-talkie: "Retreat, the whole army retreats to Matru!" ”

But at this time, it was too late to retreat, and it was very difficult for the tank to turn around, especially since most of the British tanks were still on the Esplanade, and turning around would inevitably occupy most of the road, and it would be necessary to repeatedly move forward, reverse, and turn...... This is one of the reasons why most modern tanks require the ability to turn on the spot, not for the sake of coolness, but to shorten the tank's turning time and avoid traffic jams and chaos in the event of an emergency.

A few loud noises came from the road...... It was the explosives planted by the Germans on the Corniche, and its position was in the second half of the British tank formation, and the two tanks were just above the explosives, so they were blown up and overturned on the side of the road with a "boom".

There was a big crater on the road in an instant, and a tank behind it couldn't stop it, or because it couldn't observe the outside situation in the tank, it thought it was just an ordinary shell, so it slowly drove into the pit......

Needless to say, with the weight and failure rate of the "Matilda" tank, it will definitely not be able to get up, and the tank crew inside will not be better, but I am afraid that they will have broken their heads and even fainted.

Then, German tanks drove out of their hideouts...... In order to avoid the detection of the British scouts, they all used the desert hiding method, that is, digging a pit in the ground and driving the tank into it, covering it with a layer of board and even covering it with mud to camouflage, and the British scouts may not be able to spot them even if they pass over their heads.

As soon as they received the order, they roared out of their hiding places like giant beasts emerging from caves...... Then the British tanks were in front of them, and they immediately stopped to adjust their muzzle aiming.

The tank guns moved slowly, and with the sound of cannons, armor-piercing shells were fired with a whistling sound towards the British tanks that were turning on the road.

The main force of the British tanks on the road was paralyzed in an instant, because many of them were turning around and crossing the road, and they could not move when they were pierced by the armor bullets, so it became an obstacle and blocked all the tanks on the road.

Some tanks rushed to the side of the road to get around, but the wheat fields on the side of the road obviously could not bear the weight of the infantry tanks, so they were stuck in them and could not move, like salted fish being dried on the beach.

The machine guns of the German tanks also rang out, and the bullets of the infantry converged and poured ferociously into the wheat field, and the wheat that had grown more than one meter high was hit by the high-speed flying bullets, and the broken wheat stalks and the ripe wheat were carried into the air by the inertia of the bullets and splashed everywhere.

Of course, the focus is not on the wheat, but on the New Zealand soldiers who charged in the wheat fields...... They fell in rows screaming, and the blood that burst out soon dyed the wheat fields red.

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