237 Bitter battle Benha
"Boom!" Just as the German 88-mm cannon bombarded the hull of the experimental No. 5 tank, the battle was at its peak in Benha, North Africa. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info A shell landed on a German position, kicking up a cloud of sand.
Not far from the place of the explosion, a German machine-gun emplacement was firing heavily, and tracer bullets were drawn out of it and flew across the street in the distance.
Dense bullets rained down the streets with tracer bullets, hitting the walls in clusters of white smoke.
Bullets were embedded deep in the walls of the sand-and-earth buildings, and behind the ruins were British infantry huddled together to avoid the hail of bullets.
An M3 tank burst out from behind a wall, its tracks shattering the low wall blocking its path, and staggering across the street like a ferocious predator.
Originally, it was indeed a terrible machine that eats people, and the bullets hit its body, leaving only a piece of spark, which could not hurt it at all.
"Keep up! Come on! Offensive! In a shout, the British soldiers climbed over the walls and the ruins of buildings where they were hiding, and began to attack the German positions on the other side of the street.
The machine guns on the M3 tank were fiery, and tracer bullets swept at the German foxholes and trenches, crackling on sandbags.
At this point in the fighting, the British army actually had no reason to retake Benha, they couldn't even break through the German army in front of them, how could they defeat the more formidable enemy in Cairo?
However, General Auchinleck did not think so, and he hoped to take advantage of the dispersal of the German army to annihilate as many living forces as possible.
If the Germans are allowed to raid and intersperse at will, it is very likely that Tanta will be surrounded by the Germans, and there will be no chance to retreat to Port Said.
Because of this, General Auchinleck's idea was to first take advantage of the dispersal of the German army, inflict heavy damage on the combat units opposite the German army, and then return to Tanta and immediately retreat to Sede.
Now that Cairo has been lost, it is of no practical significance for Tanta to continue to hold on as a transportation hub. So he was going to abandon Tanta and retreat to Sede or beyond.
Now Auchinleck thinks that the Suez Canal cannot be left to the Germans under any circumstances, and that he wants to rely on the Suez Canal to deploy a defense line to prevent the German army from entering the Middle East.
After all, Iraq and Iran are the world's oil production bases, and these places are worthy of continued defense by Britain no matter what.
At least, not to the Germans.
"Suddenly! Dodo! The British Bren machine guns fired wildly, covering the infantry to follow behind the tanks, desperately attacking the German troops defending in the streets.
Dozens of British soldiers, carrying their own weapons, followed behind the tanks, and lowered their bodies as much as possible, and they were already less than ten meters away from the German positions.
A German soldier with an MP-38 submachine gun suddenly stood up and pulled the trigger on the side of the British soldiers.
"Ahh And the weapon in his hand, at this time, also sprayed tongues of fire, firing a dense bullet.
One by one, the British soldiers who followed the tanks fell, and those who were hit by the bullets screamed and fell over, until the German soldiers who fired the shots were hit in the head by the bullets and fell back into the foxholes where they were hiding.
A long wooden stick flew out of the German trench, a black lump of iron on one end and white smoke on the other.
Germany's most famous M24 grenade is probably the most recognizable grenade in the entire World War II......
"Boom!" Before the British infantry could come to their senses, the wooden-handled grenade exploded next to the M3 tank, just over two meters away from the tank's tracks.
The dust kicked up by the explosion suddenly obscured the figures of the British soldiers on the side, two or three people fell because of the explosion, and the others coughed and squinted, let their ears ring, and continued to rush towards the German positions.
If they stand here stupidly, the next grenade or bullet flying in some other direction will kill them sooner or later. Hurry up and rush into the German positions, maybe there will be a glimmer of life.
Sometimes it's so ironic that those who stand still are not necessarily cowardly, but those who charge valiantly do so for their lives......
"Phew!" The British soldier picked up the Lee Enfeld rifle and aimed it at the German soldier who had poked his head out of the trench, and fired it with just the right shot.
The German soldier who poked out his head fell down in response, as if he had been hit on the head by something, and the whole person instantly lost his soul, and collapsed on his back in the trench.
At the same time, another grenade flew out of the German trench and landed on the other side of the M3 tank.
Because of the result of dropping the bomb without aiming, there was not a single British soldier at the place where this grenade landed.
"Boom!" After a huge explosion, the German grenade caused no casualties at all, but only startled the British soldiers, who had not yet recovered their hearing, by the smoke and dust.
"For His Majesty!" A British soldier jumped past the M3 tank covering him, rushed to the front of the German trench, picked up his weapon, and pulled the trigger on the German army inside the trench.
The German soldier inside, who was so suppressed by the American M3 tank that he couldn't raise his head, looked up just in time to see this brave British soldier.
"Phew!" The British soldier with a Lee Enfeld rifle opened fire, and the bullet pierced the chest of one of the German soldiers in the trench, splattering a patch of blood.
And when the British soldier pulled the bolt of his gun, next to the German soldier who was killed, another German soldier picked up his Mauser rifle and fired a shot at the British soldier.
The bullet pierced through the British soldier at once, and blood gushed out of the hole behind him, splashing in the face of another British soldier who was charging behind him.
The splash of blood made the British soldiers behind him pause suddenly, and under the frightened eyes of the British soldiers behind, the British soldier who was hit turned around and fell down expressionlessly.
"Suddenly! Dodo! On the other side of the position, while the M3 tanks were ceaseing fire and changing magazines, the German MG-34 machine guns roared again, sweeping down five or six attacking British soldiers in an instant.
At the same time, however, more than a dozen British soldiers jumped into the German trenches, and the two sides immediately scuffled together, and the fierce white-knuckle battle began.
The bayonet pierced through the chest, blood gushed out along the bloodletting trough, and the battle was ruled by bloody and cruel bestiality in this second, returning to the most primitive and criminal state.
"Phew!" Drawing the pistol from his waist, the German squad leader in the trench realized that he had another weapon that could kill the enemy.
He drew his pistol and fired it at the enemy's head, which immediately made him feel how useful the pistol was assigned to him.
In contrast to the expensive luxury Ruger P-08 pistol, which could only be armed with generals and high-ranking officers, the front-line combat units of the German Army were armed with a simplified production of the Browning 1935 pistol.
This pistol is very powerful, and can carry 13 rounds, and the lethal effect is very good in front-line combat, so it is being mass-produced and supplied to the German front-line combat units.
Because the German army is massively popularizing automated individual weapons, there is also a very frustrating deployment rule here.
As a front-line combat unit, the Eastern Front troops have no combat missions and the best secrecy conditions, so they give priority to equipping STG-44 assault rifles.
Rommel's troops on the expedition to Africa were unable to be equipped with STG-44 assault rifles, so they gave priority to supplying a batch of MP-38 submachine guns, as well as Browning 1935 as an automatic weapon supplement.
Therefore, the German squad leader drew his pistol at this time, and instantly felt the "care" of the weapons procurement department for him.
When he knocked out the British soldier in front of him with his second shot, he found himself literally the master of the trenches. He aimed at another enemy and shot them in the head.
The German soldier, who was fighting with the British soldier, found that the enemy's head on his body suddenly blossomed, and then the opponent, who was still alive just a moment ago, fell next to him at once.
"Phew!" The last bullet came out of the chamber, and the German squad leader, who had already used his pistol, had killed at least five British soldiers who had rushed into the trenches.
But more British soldiers were pressing over, and the battle here seemed destined to end in a British victory.
But the situation just likes to turn around, in the ruins behind the German army, a Stalker tank suddenly rushed out, followed by this Stalker tank destroyer body, there is another Stalker!
The two Stalker tank destroyers stopped behind the German line one after the other, and began to unhurriedly aim at the British M3 tanks in front of them.
"Boom!" Without the slightest politeness, the M3 tank of the British army fired a shell that hit the front armor plate of one of the pursuers directly in front.
Unfortunately, the shell was visibly bounced off by the inclined armor and did not penetrate the target at all. The Stalker tank that was hit was still adjusting its barrel in a hurry.
"Boom!" Before the British M3 tank could fire a new shell, the pursuer opened fire, and one shell pierced the M3 tank, setting the tank on fire.
As if pouring cold water on the hot iron rod, the British attack cooled down in an instant, many British soldiers fled quickly, and more British soldiers directly dropped their weapons and chose a safer way to survive - surrender.