"They're coming!"

Just as Qin Chuan and Eberhard were getting together to smoke a cigarette, someone shouted.

Qin Chuan and Eberhard hurriedly threw away their cigarettes and raised their rifles.

Looking at the opposite side through the sniper scope, Qin Chuan unexpectedly found that the U.S. troops were still using tanks to launch a forcible crossing like last time, and this time they didn't even have enough tools to force the crossing, because there were many improvised rafts, and many U.S. soldiers had made some temporary floating tools and planned to swim across the ...... Truth be told, in this case, a solo swim is safer than using an assault boat or rubber boat.

However, this is also a bit of an obvious incongruity for the US military, which has always been very well equipped.

"Something is wrong!" Eberhard said: "Americans shouldn't fight like this!" They were a little too valiant...... They know they won't be able to break through our defenses! ”

Qin Chuan understood the meaning of Eberhard's words: the German defense has not weakened, and the firepower and offensive intensity of the US army have not increased but decreased, so unless there is any unexpected situation, it will be difficult for the US army to break through the German defense line.

Qin Chuan immediately contacted Kuhn, who was located on the island of Saulsi in the north.

"Report the situation!" Qin Chuan said: "Did the Americans also attack you? ”

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel!" Kuhn replied, "They obviously lack the means to swim across, and I think they should put their main force on Route 69!" ”

More precisely, because Montgomery interfered with it, the US 3rd Army was not well supplied, and later the US 3rd Army even had to drag the German artillery and shells captured from the warehouses all the way from Normandy to the front line and put them into use.

After hanging up the phone, Qin Chuan hid in the trench in a daze, letting the gunshots and cannons sound outside, and from time to time a few shells exploded nearby, setting off a piece of rubble and even blood and corpses falling from the sky.

If this happened to the Soviet Union in front of him, Qin Chuan would not feel strange at all.

The peculiarity of the Soviet army was that their pressure was not on soldiers or public opinion, but on the superiors or Stalin, that is, they were responsible to their superiors and not to their subordinates. As a result, Soviet commanders could blindly demand that their soldiers charge bravely, and even if they lost a battle, they could shift the blame to the soldiers.

The U.S. military is different, they are responsible for both superiors and subordinates, and public opinion can even force commanders to explain and even be questioned by the military.

For example, Patton has not been able to be promoted because he did not play well, in fact, his performance on the battlefield is much better than Montgomery, his problem is that he does not speak in front of the media, coupled with the "ear ring incident" was held by the media, resulting in Patton although talented but Eisenhower did not dare to use it.

From this point of view, Patton did not dare to let the American soldiers rush to their lives in a swarm when directing the operation.

On the other hand, the officers and men of the US military also have a greater degree of autonomy, and if they believe that this is a meaningless battle at the expense of the lives of their subordinates, then they will choose to disobey.

That said, the U.S. forces must have had their purpose in doing so, or rather, there was a reason for Patton to convince his two infantry divisions to carry out this senseless crossing.

What is the reason for this?

The only reason was that the forcible crossing carried out by these two divisions was a feint.

If it is a feint against the big and small islands of Solsi, then their real target should be...... Shanbir Island!

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan hurriedly made a phone call to the baker in charge of Xiangbier Island.

"Get ready for battle now!" Qin Chuan ordered: "The Americans are likely to attack you!" ”

"But, Lieutenant ......Colonel," the baker asked, puzzled, "how can they come!" ”

"I don't know!" Qin Chuan replied: "I only know that they can come over and do as I say!" ”

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel!" The baker answered, and immediately organized the defense of Chamberil Island.

But the baker is somewhat powerless...... There are only more than 3,000 people stationed on Shanbir Island, and these 3,000 people are not cadet soldiers, they are more automobile soldiers, cooks, maintenance personnel, etc., and some of them have not even shot targets a few times.

Even so, the bakers ordered them to go into pillboxes and trenches to prepare for defense.

After Qin Chuan gave the order, he poked his head out with a telescope to observe the movements of the enemy on the other side of the river.

Then he saw a side of "smoke".

In fact, it was not "smoke", but the exhaust of tanks and vehicles...... Qin Chuan made a judgment at the first time, it was an armored force, an armored unit with a large number of tanks.

However, tanks cannot cross the river, so what is the use of a large number of tanks?!

In the next second, Qin Chuan understood.

"Amphibious tank!" Qin Chuan shouted: "They have amphibious tanks, and maybe amphibious landing ships!" ”

Eberhard's eyes widened when he heard this

"Lieutenant Colonel!" Eberhard said: "You mean that they are armed with amphibious tanks and amphibious landing ships like us? ”

Qin Chuan didn't know how to answer...... The idea of amphibious tanks and amphibious landing ships should be said to have been originally owned by the Americans, who invented these things according to the needs of the battlefield when fighting the Japanese army in the Pacific theater and applied them in the European theater.

Qin Chuan just used them on the Germans in advance according to his own advantages.

But at this time, there was no time to explain so much, Qin Chuan replied: "Yes, they plan to force the Moselle River with amphibious tanks, and their goal is the island of Xiangbier...... Tell them to be anti-tank! ”

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel!" Eberhard immediately relayed the order to the island of Shanbier.

"All artillery concentrated in the middle of the river!" This was Qin Chuan's second order.

The so-called middle channel refers to the middle point between the small island of Solsi and the island of Great Solsi.

This was supposed to be the most powerful part of the fire, as the large and small islands of Solsi could form a crossfire against it.

The problem is that most of the artillery on the islands of Solsi, large and small, is deserted...... As mentioned earlier, the guns on the batteries were replaced with machine guns, and only some of the worn guns were concentrated in the rear by model and calibre and were used as artillery.

Therefore, Qin Chuan did not dare to hope that they could block the offensive of the US armored forces.

So Qin Chuan gave the third order: "All ME63 are concentrated in the middle!" ”

Before Qin Chuan finished speaking, he saw the US armored troops appear in the sight of the telescope...... Sure enough, just as Qin Chuan guessed, those amphibious landing tanks, because Qin Chuan saw the tents on their bodies in the telescope, and some of them were even inflated and ready to be launched.