On the outskirts of Dunkirk, on the first line of temporary defense that the British Expeditionary Force had just established, several young British soldiers were tiptoeing to carry two boxes of ammunition.

Just this morning, the Germans had hit their makeshift position. In other words, the sniper positions of the French in front had already been captured, and the Germans were about to rush to the British positions.

After moving the ammunition box into a requisitioned dilapidated two-story house, several British soldiers met the company commander who came out of the house.

"Good work," the company commander waved at the young soldiers, and asked kindly, "Did any German shells fall near you on the way here?" ”

"Not really, except for the few shells in the morning, the other artillery fired by the Germans fell on the French positions." As the leader of the squad among several soldiers, a slightly older British soldier stepped forward and returned to the road.

"That's right........" Their company commander touched his chin and thought for a moment for two seconds before he slowly spoke: "I guess the French won't be able to hold out for long, and the news I got is that they only have the last line of positions left to be taken by the Germans." Perhaps, right now, the Germans will rush in front of us. ”

"You'd better bring me the ammunition from the Dunkirk dock as soon as possible. Time is running out for us to prepare for this sniper position! The company commander said with an ugly face.

Relying on this private house, which had been emptied, the company commander took the remaining 37 men, which was equivalent to the remnants of a reinforced platoon, to build a simple defensive position, which became part of the new sniper line set up by the British Expeditionary Force.

On the second floor, by the east-facing window, they set up a Vickers heavy machine gun as a suppressive fire. On the first floor, four British soldiers armed with rifles guarded two east-facing windows. On the periphery of the house, soldiers squatted in temporary dug foxholes as peripheral firepower.

It seems that this position is decent, and it seems to have some effect. But the British company commander knew very well that such an improvised defensive position was nothing more than a trivial matter that could be solved by calling a few Stuka in front of the Germans. The excellent positions that could really resist the passage of Germany had long been lost in Belgium.

The current Dunkirk, not to mention building a complete defensive position, is already a big trouble to find a few troops who are still willing to fight sniper warfare.

Everyone is in a hurry to board the fleet to return home, everyone wants to leave this hellish place, who wants to run to fight the Germans?!

"The supplies are easy to do," the British squad leader scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "Now the docks in Dunkirk are full of supplies that have been discarded by the army on the beachhead." All kinds of heavy equipment, ammunition supplies, artillery vehicles, you name it. As long as we have enough people, we can ship it to you. It is...... The beachhead was so chaotic that we couldn't organize it at all. ”

The British company commander had heard about the chaos on the Dunkirk beachhead. It was heard that the Luftwaffe was targeting large ships for concentrated attacks, sinking 3 Royal Navy destroyers and 33 transport ships including 5 large ferries, and severely damaging 7 British destroyers, forcing General Ramsay of the British Royal Navy to order the withdrawal of the remaining 8 naval warships from the transport fleet and repatriation to the mainland, so as to avoid the loss of these warships and affect the future operation against the German invasion of the British mainland.

The "dynamo plan" was only three days old, and the withdrawal of coalition troops accounted for only about 1 percent of the total number of coalition forces in the Dunkirk area. And now the navy has withdrawn its warships, and the transport fleet has suffered heavy losses, and the main dock in Dunkirk has long been paralyzed.

Even the small British company commander in front of him knew that there was no way out if he continued like this. At this rate, even if the convoy does not continue to lose, it will take another 300 days to withdraw all the besieged coalition forces.

300 days? The Germans estimated that it would take another 3 days to reach the Dunkirk beachhead, and there were 300 days to save a generator to plan to use!

"Forget it, even if you get those cannons on the beachhead, I won't have the manpower to use them here." The British company commander patted the squad leader on the shoulder and said heavily, "Just help me get two more boxes........ No, a box of bullets came over, and we won't need it if there's more. ”

"Yes!" After the squad leader gave a military salute, he led the people away without looking back.

Looking at the few logistics soldiers who were far away, the company commander who remained in the position said to the adjutant as if laughing at himself: "I used to hear my father's generation say that it seems that the Germans were the same thing in the last world war, and they don't seem to be very powerful. As a result, I know now that the German army is really not simple. At the very least, they are more like the world's No. 1 than our French allies, who claim to be the world's No. 1 Army. ”

"Isn't it," his adjutant nodded sympathetically, "When I first came to France, I thought that I only needed to fight a tailwind battle behind the French army to win." Who would have thought that this group of French people said they were invincible in the world, but they were so unreliable when they started a war, that we would suffer with it......."

While the two were talking, suddenly the sentry on the second floor interrupted them with a loud roar: "Company commander! The French seem to have been defeated and are fleeing to our side...... Oh, God! There are still Germans in pursuit behind them! ”

The two chiefs, who were chatting in the staircase, immediately rushed into the master bedroom on the second floor, picked up the two rifles placed against the wall of the room, pulled the bolt and checked the bullets, and then ran to the window of the master bedroom and pointed two guns out of the east side.

However, the French soldiers who fled in front were too much of a problem. They distracted the British troops from the position, so that the British officers and men did not notice that several Mauser 4x sniper rifles tied to the same gray camouflage cloth as the church walls were pointed at the same moment on a church building diagonally to the east.

This is not a German precision shooter who plays a role in medium and close range, but a real German sniper, a battlefield death that can kill the opponent and harvest life from a long distance.

What's even more terrifying is that there are now 4 Grim Reapers, diagonally opposite!

"Bang! Bang! Bang......." The sound of gunfire from countless sniper rifles, mixed with the screams of the French routs who were deliberately driven by the Germans, took advantage of the chaos to take the lives of the British positions.

The British soldiers, who had been far away from the battlefield in the morning, were killed one by one, and their heads were blown like tomatoes and their skulls shattered.

When the French routs were ecstatic and ran to the friendly positions, they saw more than thirty corpses still emitting heat. or leaning against the mound of earth in the foxhole, or hanging over the window of the building.......

"Plop!" A timid French soldier, after seeing a mess of brains and blood on the side of a pile of rubble, fell to his knees next to the corpse of a British soldier with a bloody face.

In the end, the Frenchmen who were with him chose to raise their hands and stopped running for their lives.

Perhaps surrender would be more suitable for this vulnerable group of people than to flee.