The three-mile journey was only about half an hour for the German mechanized troops...... A considerable part of this time is actually consumed in the preparation of the troops before they are deployed, such as the assembly of troops, the organization of logistics troops, etc., and the actual time for marching on the road is only ten minutes.

The destination is flat, with no hills or heights to hide into, not even a hill bag.

So, when the order was given to build fortifications and organize defenses, the baker complained: "God, they must be crazy enough to choose this hellish place as a blocking position, and the enemy artillery can see us from a few kilometers away and blow us to pieces!" ”

"The Commander must have their ideas and arrangements, doesn't he?" Alfredo answered.

"Maybe it wasn't the commander's arrangement!" Werner glanced at Qin Chuan with a smile and asked, "Sergeant, what should you know, or is this your plan again?" ”

"No, Werner!" Qin Chuan replied, "I just know that this will be a very difficult battle!" ”

It's not that Qin Chuan deliberately lied, but that this plan was inconvenient to disclose.

This has nothing to do with secrecy, because there is not much time left before the start of the war, and the personnel in the troops are relatively simple, except for the German officers and soldiers, and the possibility of British spies being mixed with them is very small, and even if there are British spies, when the German army strictly controls the radio station and the surrounding area is full of endless desert, the spies have no way to transmit information to the British army.

The reason why Qin Chuan didn't say it was because this battle was to be lost to the British army, and only if it was really lost could the British army chase with confidence.

And to "lose really"...... Naturally, the German soldiers could not be let know that this was acting.

"You're scaring me, sergeant!" Werner laughed, not believing that Qin Chuan would have no way at all.

Qin Chuan could only shrug his shoulders and express his helplessness.

The Germans moved very quickly to build their positions, with the sappers pulling barbed wire in front of the positions and laying mines, the artillery arranging artillery positions behind, and the infantry digging several trenches in battalions in the middle...... The infantry generally does not have only one trench in an open area, if there is only one, then once it is broken by the enemy, it will only be pursued and killed, and digging a trench every few hundred meters and digging a communication trench between the trenches can solve this problem very well.

The armor was well concealed in the back by digging a pit in the ground that would allow the tanks to enter, exposing only the barrel and part of the turret, and then covering the top with canvas, so that it would be difficult to find their location even on the ground, let alone planes in the sky.

Seeing this, Alfredo couldn't help but sigh: "What you can complete in twenty minutes, we may need twenty hours!" ”

"It should never be finished!" Werner laughed: "Because the enemy had already arrived before that!" ”

"If I were you, I'd ask the commander, 'Sir, we're all going to surrender anyway, so why bother building these damn fortifications?' ’。 ”

The soldiers laughed at the sound of a coax

Alfredo's face was a little ugly, but he couldn't refute it.

"Sorry, Alfredo!" Werner said: "Just a joke! ”

"No!" Alfredo smiled bitterly and replied, "You are telling the truth!" ”

This is indeed a fact, the total strength of 230,000 Italian troops surrendered 130,000 in just a few weeks, which means that surrender has become a kind of atmosphere and inertia for the Italian army.

Not to mention the rest, even Alfredo himself not so long ago had the idea of surrendering if he met the British, and they were not even ashamed.

But I don't know when Alfredo's concept has completely changed. This may be the so-called "those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black".

"Air raid alert! Shelter! At this time, someone shouted, and then the piercing air defense sirens sounded.

The soldiers jumped into the fortifications that had not yet been fully constructed, and several cars that were transporting and distributing ammunition hurriedly started and drove to the open area.

But it was already too late, and several "mosquito" bombers suddenly appeared over the position and swooped down with a whistling sound......

The position of the British troops was to the east, which gave their planes often a first-hand advantage, as the east side was usually the direction from which the sun was coming from, making it difficult for scouts to spot them from a distance.

Then I only heard a few explosions of "boom", and the ammunition truck was hit by an aerial bomb, and the detonation of the ammunition made the car burst out in an instant, and a martyrdom of fire was blown to pieces, even Qin Chuan, who was hiding in the trenches, could feel the heat wave surging from overhead.

And this was just the beginning, the sky was soon chaotic, everywhere was the whistling sound of planes and bombs, as if there were countless swarms of bees hovering overhead, and what was even more terrifying were the bombs that exploded on the ground, and every vibration made the sand of the trench fall down, and Qin Chuan suspected that he was going to be buried alive by the sand.

Therefore, not only did the Italians build fortifications that did not make much sense, but the fortifications built by the Germans did not play much role.

Ten minutes later, the whistling of the plane finally stopped, but the explosion did not stop.

It was a shell from British artillery.

Qin Chuan poked his head out of the trench to take a look, and sure enough, he saw rows of artillery shells whistling and exploding on the German positions, and the shells set off waves of sand like sea water rushing towards the German soldiers in the trenches. In the direction where the sound of artillery came, groups of British tanks lined up in a neat formation to cover a large number of British soldiers approaching the German defense line step by step.

"They're coming!" Qin Chuan heard Kuhn shouting: "Get ready for battle!" ”

One by one, the soldiers set up their weapons in the trenches.

The situation is a little frustrating, because the British army is neat and the various arms are very closely coordinated, such as the bombardment from the air just now, and for example, following the pace of the British infantry behind the tank...... the "Matilda" tank is slow and slow, but sometimes the slow speed will form a certain pressure, a certain kind of power, just like the heavy infantry in the era of cold weapons holding a huge shield to slowly advance towards the enemy, although the enemy has time to think or react, but there is nothing to do about it.

At this time, the Germans also felt the same way in the face of the "Matilda" tank...... Seeing the danger approaching step by step but unable to fight it, that kind of powerlessness and helplessness will increase the fear in the heart, just like if a person dies because of a sudden situation, he will not be afraid of anything, but if the doctor tells him that he has something and a terminal illness only has a month to live, the fear in his heart will increase day by day.