Chapter 149: Combat
Where could the car hit the tank, just listening to a loud "boom", the car was completely deformed, flipped in the air several times, and then fell to the ground fiercely, and was hit so hard that the soldiers inside were afraid that none of them would want to come out alive.
The car that Qin Chuan was riding in may have really been said by Yakop, the driver is very skilled in driving, he sometimes walks in a serpentine shape, sometimes slightly steps on the brakes to reduce speed, and then presses the accelerator to the end and rushes at full speed......
Qin Chuan knew that the driver's approach was right, which was a bit like an infantry machine gun against the enemy...... If the infantry wanted to escape, they had to run in an irregular zigzag line, and they had to be fast and slow, and the same was true for cars under the fire of airplanes, except that the former had two legs and the latter had four wheels.
As a result, the bullets and bombs of the British plane fell like raindrops, and there were at least a few shuttle bullets and a few bombs Qin Chuan was sure that it was aimed at his car, because the car had just flashed in that straight line or slowed down, and soon bullets and bombs fell where it should have been, and the explosion point of several of the bombs was so close to the car that the shock wave lifted the wheel of the car body to one side and suspended it in the air.
Eventually, the bombing stopped, and the car slowed down and resumed its smooth ride.
With a "wow", at least five people in the carriage vomited on the spot, and suddenly there was a strong sour smell in the carriage.
Yakop said a little proudly: "What did I say? Our drivers will keep us safe! ”
As he spoke, Yakop knocked on the partition of the cab and shouted to the driver through the contact window: "Hey, well done, you saved our lives!" ”
"You're welcome!" The driver replied, "Because I don't want to die either!" ”
The driver's answer is very realistic, everyone is in the same car, that is, "in the same boat", so saving others is also saving yourself.
On the other side, the staff officer reported the bombing situation to Ochinlek: "General, we have blown up thirty tanks and thirty-five cars of the enemy!" ”
"Did they stop?" General Auchinlake asked.
"No!" The staff officer replied: "They are still advancing towards the Corniche!" ”
"God!" General Ochinleke let out a wail, he didn't know what to do with the situation.
"General!" Major General Richie suggested: "Send the 10th Panzer Regiment for reinforcements!" ”
The 10th Panzer Regiment was a makeshift armored regiment of the 200 "Stuarts" that the British had just replenished, and at this time they were located 20 kilometers east of Matru, and if they rushed to reinforcements at full speed, they would be able to reach the battlefield in less than half an hour.
After thinking about it, General Ochinlek shook his head and said, "No, we can't afford to suffer another loss, order them to withdraw to El Alamein to garrison!" ”
"General!"
"Obey orders!"
"Yes!"
……
Rear Admiral Ritchie is obviously at odds with General Auchinleck's thinking on this point, and it is not clear who is right and who is wrong, the 10th Panzer Regiment is the last armored force of the British army, if this batch of tanks is also sent up and finally annihilated by the Germans like in the previous battle, then the British army will no longer have an armored force to defend.
Although Major General Rich's choice may save the 13th Army, it may also wipe out the entire army or even lose the whole of Africa...... General Auchinleck could not bear the consequences of this defeat and insisted on his idea.
The result......
The German 21st Panzer Division "rumbled" to the Esplanade, where the British 15th Panzer Division was hurriedly arranging defenses along the road.
But it was too late, and the preparation time of the British army was too short, especially since the road was only about 20 meters wide, and it was crowded with infantry, cars, artillery, tanks, etc., and only some of their soldiers had time to set up the anti-tank on the side of the road, and the tanks were struggling to cross the large stones used as guardrails on the side of the road, and several "Matilda" even broke down and stopped in a strange position among the stones.
THEN THE GERMAN TANKS APPEARED IN FRONT OF THEM, AND THE BARRELS OF 50MM THICK BLACK HOLES STRETCHED OUT FROM THE BUSHES, AND THE TRACKS EASILY ROLLED OVER THE DATE TREES, MAKING A "GURGLING" CRACKING SOUND, LIKE A TREE TRUNK MOANING IN PROTEST.
Then the tanks stopped in rows, although uneven, but roughly lined up in a straight line, facing the groups of bewildered British troops with self-esteem.
"Get down!" The British officer shouted a command.
Almost at the same time, the tanks opened fire, and with a roar, the British Matilda tanks were hit one after another......
The fire did not explode, because the German tankmen knew that they were going to face the unusually heavily armored Matilda, so they used armor-piercing shells.
50MM CALIBER ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS CAN PENETRATE THE FRONTAL ARMOR OF THE "MATILDA" AT A DISTANCE OF 400 METERS, AT THIS TIME THE ENEMY AND US ARE ONLY MORE THAN 200 METERS APART, AND MANY "MATILDA" ARE STILL FACING THE GERMAN TROOPS FROM THE SIDE, SO THIS ROW OF ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS PASSED OVER AND DOZENS OF VEHICLES WERE PARALYZED ON THE GROUND ON THE SPOT AND COULD NO LONGER MOVE.
"Free Fire!" Bazel commanded loudly.
Immediately, there was a burst of gunfire, and the German soldiers who had been hiding behind the tanks and had been preparing one after another pulled the trigger and fired pieces of bullets at the British troops, only to make the British ghosts cry wolf in chaos.
Qin Chuan raised his gun and pulled the trigger, and with a "bang", the bullet killed an anti-tank gunner......
The shield of the anti-tank gun usually has an observation hole more than ten centimeters long and wide, only in this way can the gunner hide behind the shield to observe the target and adjust the Zhu Yuan, and Qin Chuan hit the target through this observation hole.
"Bang!" Another gunshot rang out, and Qin Chuan knocked down a mortar man.
The British mortar was clever enough to hide behind a Matilda tank destroyed by armor-piercing shells, and then used the mortar's curved trajectory to fire shells in the direction of the Germans.
He doesn't need to shoot accurately, he just needs to fire the shells.
Because the mortar was a fuse, and the Germans were in a grove of dates, the shells would detonate in the air when they hit a branch or trunk, so the shrapnel and fragments of the trunk would fly from top to bottom like a goddess scattering flowers, even if the German soldiers were hiding behind the tanks.
In general, the only way to suppress this mortar is to use a mortar.
The problem was that the Germans could not use mortars in the woods...... The shells will be blocked by branches and trunks, or even explode right in front of them.
So for a while, the Germans couldn't do anything about him.