Several flares rose into the sky, and the "ball" finally began.

"Hidden!" Bazel turned around and yelled.

But in fact, there was no way to hide at this time, the desert was flat and there were no fortifications, and the soldiers did not dig foxholes in order to clear mines, and what was worse was that there were mines everywhere, and the soldiers did not dare to move at all, and most of them could only bury their heads in the sand.

Several of the recruits seemed to have thought of something that would provide them with concealment...... Tank.

So they got up and ran in the direction of the tank.

"Come back!" Qin Chuan shouted.

But it's too late......

The whistle of the cannonballs soon rang out, far and near, and then there was a roar that exploded into the nearby desert like an earthquake.

Qin Chuan saw that a tank was submerged in a pile of shells in an instant, and it was blown up to the point that there was not even a wreckage left...... In fact, it is not that the tank has been blown up, and even if the tank is destroyed internally, it will not disappear in front of it, but the shell will blow up a large crater in the desert and make it "disappear" completely.

It was the recruits who really disappeared, and there was not even a bit of scum left.

These recruits may be smart and they react quickly, but they are still not smart enough...... In the desert, the most important piece of equipment on land is the tank, but it is also for this reason that the tank is the enemy's preferred target.

Coupled with the fact that the tank's large size makes it stand out, the tank is by no means a place to hide.

Shells exploded around the German soldiers in patches, and everywhere there was a heat wave from the explosion of the shells, and the sand and soil were constantly falling from the sky like rain, and from time to time a whole piece of something would fall...... This thing looks the same as sand, but Qin Chuan knows that the sand in the desert is not sticky, and it is impossible for it to be blown up to the sky and fall down like this. So, in fact, they were all the stumps and flesh of the soldiers who had been killed, but the sand covered in a layer was difficult to make out in the moonlight.

The German artillery returned fire at the first opportunity, but the artillery of the 21st Panzer Division was too weak...... An armored division has only one artillery regiment of more than 50 guns, which is nothing compared to the hundreds or thousands of artillery pieces of the British army at every turn.

Later, Qin Chuan learned that the British army had mobilized 500 artillery pieces in this battle.

The reason why the British waited until this time to open fire, in addition to allowing the Germans to go deeper into the minefield in order to inflict more damage, as Bazel said, was to urgently bring in more than 100 American-made "Priest" self-propelled howitzers.

Five hundred guns against fifty guns, there was no doubt that the British army had an absolute superiority in this artillery battle, so much so that the German artillery regiment was covered by British artillery fire after only a few shells...... The fire from the artillery at night was very obvious, and the British immediately discovered the location of the German artillery positions and suppressed them.

The British were so successful in this that the German artillery was largely ineffective in the battles that followed.

Fortunately, the British artillery could not determine the exact location of the Germans in the dark of night...... After a blast of fire, the world was covered with smoke and dust, and even if the flares rose into the air, it was impossible to see anything.

Another embarrassment for the British was that they were bombing their own minefields, and if they continued to bomb them like this, they were afraid that the enemy would empty all the mines instead of killing a few.

So after a few minutes, the artillery fire stopped.

Of course, this was only a temporary stop, and when the British found the target, they would fire another round of shells.

As soon as the cannon fell, the screams and wails of the German soldiers immediately rang out, followed by the sound of a call for medical personnel.

"Captain, what are we going to do?" Someone in the darkness asked Bazel.

"Keep demining!" Bazel replied: "Only then will it be possible for the tank to rush up and break through the line of defense!" ”

Bazel's cries silenced everyone, and in this case the demining continued?

But sometimes the battlefield is so cruel, it is never a place to "retreat in the face of difficulties", and sometimes you must move forward even if you know that you are dying.

Someone asked dissatisfiedly: "Why don't we let the artillery blow it up with shells?" ”

"Don't be stupid!" Another soldier replied: "The enemy's artillery is much stronger than ours, and as soon as the artillery fires, it will be finished!" ”

Yakop, who was lying beside Qin Chuan, spit out the sand in his mouth, and then whispered to Qin Chuan: "But in fact, this is not much better...... We are at least a kilometer from the enemy's lines, and at this rate we will have at least three hours to get through the minefield, and then ......"

Yakop didn't say anything, but Qin Chuan understood what he meant.

If we continue to demine under British fire, we will be ...... three hours later The Second Infantry Company is afraid that all of them will die, and of course this includes Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan didn't know what to say, he wanted to do something to change the situation, but he helplessly found that he couldn't change anything at all.

There was a "boom", perhaps because of panic, or because the smoke and dust from the shells covered the moonlight, and it didn't take long for a soldier to detonate a mine.

The explosion of the mine may not have been a big deal, but the light from the explosion would have given good instructions to the British artillery observers, and it was not long before another barrage of shells rained down.

As soon as the cannonball was believed, Qin Chuan heard Bazel's cold command: "Keep going!" ”

"Captain!" One soldier objected: "We're all going to die here!" ”

"Somebody's got to die, didn't they?" Bazel replied coldly: "If everyone thinks like you, what is the difference between us and the Italians?" ”

The soldiers fell silent when they heard this, and they had to admit that Bazel had a point, because war is like that.

"Wait!" Qin Chuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and then said to Bazel: "Captain, the enemy is bombing with the bright light when the mine explodes!" ”

"So what?" Bazel said: "Is it because of this that we don't clear mines? ”

"No, Captain!" Qin Chuan said: "Why can't we let the British clear mines for us? ”

"What do you mean?" Bazel asked.

"We can detonate distant mines with rifles!" Qin Chuan said.

Bazel couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and then immediately agreed with Qin Chuan's suggestion.

"Good idea, Sergeant!" "Then they will come in with shells, and the shells will detonate the mines!" said Bazel! ”

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied, "I'm not sure if it's useful, but we can try, can't we?" ”

"Why not?" "There's no loss to us anyway!" ”

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