The moment he jumped out of the car, Qin Chuan was shocked by the scene in front of him: dozens of tanks had already been scattered and lined up in a rough line, advancing forward in a mighty way, and a cloud of smoke and exhaust was set off in the rear.

The rolling of tracks, the roar of engines, the sound of gunfire coming and going...... Coupled with the smell of gunsmoke and blood in the air, Qin Chuan felt small and helpless for the first time.

I feel small because I am only a small part of all this power, even dispensable.

Feeling helpless because life and death are simply beyond human control, no matter how good you are or how unwilling you are, just one bullet or a small piece of shrapnel here is enough to get you out forever.

"Keep up!" Kuhn yelled at the soldiers: "Use the tank as cover and follow the tank!" ”

The veterans actually didn't need to command at all, they hid behind the tank and advanced with the tank at the first time.

The recruits stumbled forward under the command of the squad leader...... They always have problems of one kind or another, and they don't know if it's because of nervousness or something else.

However, this didn't seem strange, Qin Chuan remembered that he was almost frightened to the point of being unable to move when he faced this scene for the first time.

By this time the tanks had slowed down, making it easy for the soldiers to catch up with them and hide behind...... This will give people a little sense of security, because at least there is a dead spot for bullets and shells behind the tank, but Qin Chuan also knows that it is not necessarily safe to do so, because if this "bunker" is pierced by an armor-piercing bullet and detonated, it will be a huge explosive bag for the infantry behind it.

However, the war is like this, whether Qin Chuan wants it or not, he can only follow behind the tank with trepidation.

Occasionally the tank would stop and aim forward and fire...... This is one of the reasons why tanks slow down, they have to stop to fire, otherwise there is no accuracy at all.

The only exception in this regard is the Matilda (the American Sherman tank can also shoot on the move, although it has not yet appeared in Africa at this time, so it will not be discussed).

The Matilda tank had a lot of load wheels (ten small diameter load wheels on each side), and because it was slow, the tank was relatively smooth in motion, and the gunner could barely aim and shoot...... But this is just to try your luck with shells to get a little head start, and at the speed of the "Matilda", it can be said that marching shooting will not play a role...... Enemy tanks are faster than them even if they stop and fire.

Qin Chuan took advantage of this time to look at the opposite side, and the British army six hundred meters away also had fifty tanks lined up and slowly approached the German army, and their formation was more neat than the German army, which gave the British army the upper hand.

Fortunately for Qin Chuan, the British tanks were significantly less infantry than the Germans...... Qin Chuan thought that this should be that a considerable part of their cars were destroyed by German tanks on the road, which can be seen from the smoking and burning cars behind their tanks.

"Collapse!" A strange sound came from the front, and a stream of air swept up the dust around the tank.

At first, Qin Chuan didn't know what was happening, but then he realized that it was an armor-piercing projectile fired by the enemy, which hit the tank's armor and bounced off.

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but think in his heart, what would happen if this shell was not bounced off but penetrated the tank?

Soon Qin Chuan knew, with a crisp sound...... The sound was like a small mallet cracking an eggshell, only louder. Then a tank on the left shook and never moved again...... When I looked from the side, I couldn't see any problems, and when I crossed the tank position, I saw a circular bullet hole shot in front of me at a small angle, as thick as a calf, and the bullet hole was still smoking outward.

Qin Chuan didn't know whether the tank crew inside was alive or dead, he only knew that no one had crawled out of it.

Compared with the "No. 3" tank that the German army invested in North Africa, the British "Crusader" tank had an advantage.

IN TERMS OF PROTECTION, THE FRONTAL ARMOR OF THE "THREE" TANK IS 47MM, WHILE THE FRONTAL ARMOR OF THE "CRUSADER" TANK IS 49MM.

THE TANK NO. 3 WAS ARMED WITH A 37MM ANTI-TANK GUN, WHILE THE CRUSADER WAS ARMED WITH A 2-POUNDER OR 40MM ANTI-TANK GUN.

(Note: In general, tank guns are modifications of anti-tank guns, for example, the "No. 3" tank gun is a modification of the PAK36 anti-tank gun, and the "Crusader" tank gun is a modification of the 2-pounder anti-tank gun)

That is, the "Crusaders" were somewhat better than the "Three" in terms of firepower and protection. Although it is only an insignificant few millimeters, it is the difference on the battlefield whether the target can be penetrated or penetrated by the target, and once penetrated...... It means that the tank becomes a pile of scrap metal.

Actually, that's not the most important thing.

More importantly, the British were better prepared, after all, they knew early on that they were facing German tanks, so they had deployed their tanks in battle formation and arranged anti-tank guns and howitzers before that, while the Germans rushed to fight because of Colonel Albridge's carelessness.

Although the quality and reaction of the German army compensated for this deficiency to some extent, the result of the hasty response was that the German formation did not fully develop.

For example, the terrain of the British army was clearly chosen, they placed the anti-tank guns on the flanks of the tank formation and on a relatively high hill in the middle, and the British even had some time to build improvised positions for their anti-tank guns out of sandbags.

It can also be seen from this that the British armored unit is well-trained, otherwise it would not have been possible to choose and build a position so quickly when the two armies were approaching each other quickly.

After all, this is the 7th Panzer Division of the British Army, known as the "Desert Rat...... The division had routed 230,000 Italian troops a few months earlier and pursued 1,300 kilometers in the desert.

On the other hand, the Germans had anti-tank guns improvised after jumping out of the car, and many of them were blocked by cars and tanks behind the tanks and could not function properly.

As a result, one German tank after another was destroyed and "paralyzed" in the desert, and more than a dozen were lost in the blink of an eye, and even a few of them caught fire because they were hit by the engine and then exploded into fragments......

Qin Chuan couldn't help but get anxious, he knew that in this case, the tank was the only pillar of the infantry, and if the tanks were all destroyed, then the infantry would only be slaughtered by the tank.

But in front of you are enemy tanks...... The sniper rifle in his hand was almost useless, and if anything, it was to occasionally shoot a few foot soldiers poking their heads out from behind the tank.

"Khooth!" There was a crisp sound, and another tank was destroyed.

This seems to be telling Qin Chuan...... The situation of the German army became more and more serious, and the 5th Panzer Regiment and the 1st Infantry Regiment could only be surrounded and annihilated by the British army.