Chapter 12 Collaboration

The battle went well, and the British defenses were much weaker than they thought, and they simply placed a few gunners in the buildings or put sandbags in the streets to build a simple defensive line.

This was simply vulnerable to the German army, which was in front of the tanks, bombarding all the buildings that might have the enemy...... Then the German soldiers, under the cover of their comrades, would approach the building, pull off the grenade and throw it through the window or doorway.

The grenade used by the Germans was the S24 type, which was a bit like a potato masher. The long wooden handle contained a round metal projectile filled with explosives. This grenade produces little or no shrapnel and kills the enemy mainly by the force of the explosion. In fact, it was more about temporarily incapacitating the enemies in the building, and then the German soldiers rushed in and eliminated all the enemies hiding inside.

Of course, not all those hiding in buildings are enemies.

In fact, most of the buildings are occupied by Libyans, or residents of Agdabia...... Strictly speaking, these inhabitants were still on the same side as the German army, because Libya was a colony of Italy at this time, and Italy was an ally of Germany, so Libya was also an ally of the German army.

But the Germans didn't care so much, and they drove the screaming inhabitants out of the buildings, many of them wounded, and the blood was particularly glaring on the white turbans and clothing.

The German soldiers brandished their rifles at them and gathered them together like prisoners to contain them.

For this, Qin Chuan felt understandable.

Even from a survival point of view, the German soldiers could not put themselves at risk by thinking about the lives of the Libyan civilians, and if the war really meant to keep the civilians away, the British should not mix in with the Libyan civilians and use them as their protection.

The quality of the German soldiers was very good, and what was especially commendable was their spirit and attitude of solidarity and cooperation.

Qin Chuan had never been in the army, so I don't know if the Chinese army or other armies were like this, but the German army was ...... Whenever and wherever you meet, you will encounter a group of scattered soldiers, who don't even know their numbers and names, but they can fight together as long as the battle requires, and they work together as if they were originally a unit and have been exercised.

If other troops, I am afraid that it will inevitably think:

"You're not my superior, why did you order us to fight?"

"Do the merits belong to your troops or to my troops?"

"If it's your troops, then aren't we risking our lives to fight to make a wedding dress for you?"

……

The German soldiers did not care about this, and the baker ordered five stragglers to join the group on the way, and the five soldiers did a great job, especially one of them, Private Werner.

Werner talks a lot, seems to have ADHD, and has to take something to play with in his hand from time to time...... Sometimes it's a bullet, sometimes it's a grenade.

"Hey, you're a sniper?" Werner asked.

He threw three bullets back and forth in his hand like an acrobatic clown

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied.

"How many enemies have you killed?"

"I don't know!" Qin Chuan said: "I haven't counted it carefully!" ”

In fact, Qin Chuan knew very well in his heart how many enemies he had killed, and he even remembered the appearance and experience of every enemy who died under his hands...... Later, Qin Chuan learned that this was the reason why he hadn't killed enough people, and these memories would be blurred in the future because more and more people died under his hands.

"Uh-huh!" Werner looked Qin Chuan up and down, perhaps noticing that Qin Chuan was one rank lower than him, so he said with some doubts: "It's the first time I've seen a third-class private...... You didn't pick up your sniper rifle, did you? ”

"Don't doubt it!" Big Bear, who was wiping the machine gun, turned his head and said with a smile, "You can trust him if you had joined sooner...... You can see that he blew up the whole building! ”

"With his rifle?" Werner said: "How? ”

"And he just did it!"

Werner smiled and said nothing.

Qin Chuan didn't know what Werner was laughing at at first, but later learned that Werner wanted to compare with Qin Chuan.

Timo Werner is really good, like he can talk to someone while tossing three bullets back and forth in his hand.

Timo Werner's strength lies in his quick movements and quick reflexes, which he played a key role in attacking a two-building stronghold.

It was a "D" junction, where the British had placed their very clever firepower, leaving dozens of British soldiers in the buildings on either side of the street across the crossing, each with an anti-tank gun and an unknown number of machine guns.

In this way, they could not be seen by German soldiers standing in the vertical streets, and at any given moment, whenever a German soldier attacked one of the buildings, he would show his flanks and backs in front of the British in the other building, even if it was a tank.

As a result, dozens of German soldiers and corpses who died in various postures were piled up at the intersection, as well as a No. 3 tank...... It had apparently been pierced from the rear by an anti-tank gun, and it was still emitting choking black smoke.

"Frick!" The baker shouted at Qin Chuan: "Do you have a way to suppress them?" ”

Qin Chuan looked around and replied embarrassedly: "Sergeant, they are in a good position, unless we blow up the two buildings next to them, we can't see them!" ”

The baker looked on both sides, and there were indeed two abandoned tulou, and the enemy was hiding in the dead corner behind the tulou.

"So......" said the baker, "can we occupy these two buildings and shoot at them?" ”

"I'm afraid it's not a good idea!" Big Bear replied: "They have anti-tank guns, and they have demolished everything that can be hidden in these two buildings, and we can only be their target if we do this!" ”

Big Bear was right, the British apparently took these circumstances into account and prepared in advance.

Now, it seems that the best thing to do is to blow up these two buildings completely, but that doesn't seem to be the best way to do it.

"I have a way!" Werner said.

"What can you do?" The baker asked.

But before the baker could finish speaking, Werner rushed out with a bag of explosives on his back......

"Da da da......" The machine gun rang out quickly, but miraculously failed to hit Werner.

It wasn't a miracle, but Werner had chosen the right route: he didn't make a turn at the D-junction like everyone else, and if he did, he would have been knocked down on the road like everyone else, including the tank.

Werner sprinted as fast as he could, into a low house between the two buildings.

The British apparently did not expect him to do this, and their firepower was used to block the road, and the low house was a dead end.