Chapter 3 Tank Battles
Running forward with the exhaust and dust all the way, after a while, Qin Chuan and a group of German troops came to the front of the sand dunes.
The speed of the tank's advance suddenly slowed down, and the pace of the troops also stopped, Qin Chuan poked his head out curiously to see that a row of British tanks had appeared on the hill in front of him, one after another, poking out the barrels of black holes from the sand dunes......
Qin Chuan didn't feel scared when he first saw these tanks, he was used to understanding everything with the thinking of a peaceful society, so his first reaction was that this was just a transfer car, and the two sides honked their horns, and then went their separate ways.
But soon Qin Chuan realized that this idea was wrong: this was the battlefield, there were enemy tanks in front of him, and even worse, there were many more enemy tanks than the tanks on his side.
Then, before Qin Chuan could react, fierce gunfire rang out.
The whole world was in chaos in an instant: shrapnel flew around, bullets hitting the armor of tanks were clearly audible like bursting beans, screams, shouts, and orders...... Everything burst out of nowhere.
Where can Qin Chuan care about shooting, he only knows to curl up his body behind the tank as much as possible, and only hopes that all this can pass quickly.
But this is obviously a fantasy, because once the battle begins, it ends with the defeat of one of the sides.
No sooner had a German soldier leaned out than he was hit in the face by a bullet and fell to the ground. He fell in front of Qin Chuan, the bullet passed under his nose, which made his face blurry and blood gushing out like a spring, what was even more terrifying was that he did not die on the spot, holding his head with both hands and trembling in pain, he wanted to scream but couldn't scream, his feet twitched desperately, twitched...... The endangerment rate slowed down, the force became smaller and smaller, and finally stopped.
Qin Chuan couldn't help but shout, he didn't know why he was shouting, and he didn't know what he was shouting...... He just wanted to let out the fear in his heart as much as possible, or he would go crazy.
Then I heard a "boom", and a wave of heat came from the tank...... The tank where Qin Chuan was hiding was destroyed.
In fact, by this time there were only a few German tanks left.
The main tank of the German army was the "Three" tank, and the British army was the "Matilda".
ALTHOUGH THE GUN OF TANK NO. 3 WAS THICKER THAN THAT OF TANK MATILDA (TANK NO. 3 HAD BEEN REPLACED WITH A 50MM GUN, WHILE TANK MATILDA WAS STILL USING A 40MM GUN), THE FRONT ARMOR OF THE MATILDA 78MM WAS ALMOST TWICE AS LARGE AS THAT OF TANK NO. 47.
This created an awkward situation: British tanks could easily penetrate the armor of German tanks, while German tanks had a hard time doing so on the front.
"Retreat!" Qin Chuan heard an order.
Qin Chuan was so frightened that he forgot to run away, but this sound reminded him, so he got up and ran ......
The baker shouted loudly behind him, which made Qin Chuan realize that he had done something wrong again, but he couldn't care about it so much. He just wanted to get away from this place of right and wrong as soon as possible, or hide behind the others...... He even wants to tell everyone that this war has nothing to do with him, that this is not his world.
Qin Chuan did something wrong at this time, because "retreat" does not mean escaping, retreating is a retreat that covers each other at different levels, otherwise, he will show his back in front of the enemy and be slaughtered by the enemy, especially if the enemy has tanks...... The tank's machine guns and artillery were enough to shoot everyone who fled in front of it.
However, Qin Chuan was lucky, because the British tank was on the hill, and when it drove down the hill to pursue the German army, it would have a large depression angle and could not aim farther, otherwise Qin Chuan would have been beaten into a hornet's nest.
However, behind Qin Chuan, the Germans were not so lucky.
Covering each other's retreat cost them the best time to retreat, and the British tanks drove down the hill one by one, and then unexpectedly massacred the Germans with artillery and machine guns.
"Damn it!" Seeing this, Rommel, who was watching the battle in the sky, couldn't help but shout: "Anti-tank gun cover!" ”
The pilot quickly conveyed the order by radio.
But it soon got a frustrating response:
"General!" The pilot said: "Our tank guns have long been fired, but they cannot penetrate the enemy's tanks, and we are helpless against them!" ”
THE 5TH LIGHT DIVISION WAS ARMED WITH THE PAK36 ANTI-TANK GUN, WHICH COULD BARELY REACH 50MM AT A DISTANCE OF 500 METERS, AND OF COURSE COULD NOT PENETRATE THE 78MM ARMOR OF THE BRITISH "MATILDA" TANK.
Rommel couldn't help but secretly say "It's over", and what he had been worrying about finally happened...... If this continues, the German and Italian armies will not only be unable to pursue the British army, but will be defeated by the British army and return to the starting point...... Even whether Tripoli can hold on is a question.
"Order them to hold on!" Rommel ordered: "Beat the British back no matter what!" ”
"Yes!" The pilot answered, but couldn't help but think in his heart: Hold? What to keep? Continuing to hold out in such a situation will only be slaughtered by the enemy.
And Qin Chuan was one of the people who was hunted down.
Qin Chuan ran wildly all the way, followed by the sound of tracks, machine guns and artillery of British tanks, and from time to time a few shells exploded nearby. Several times, the shock wave of the cannonballs pushed Qin Chuan down.
The only thing that made Qin Chuan feel fortunate was ...... The speed of the British "Matilda" tank is very slow, otherwise it would have killed in front of Qin Chuan at this time.
"Block them!" Qin Chuan heard the German officer shouting an order.
Qin Chuan looked back and immediately felt a little ashamed of his behavior...... Their comrades are still fighting on the battlefield, and although they behave a bit like mantis arms blocking cars, they still try to use everything they have, such as explosives packs and grenades, to stop the advance of the British tanks, and they even managed to blow up two tanks.
However, it is clear that this still does not change the outcome, and the British tanks advance unhurriedly, like an indestructible wall, followed by groups of British troops with saucer helmets, who occasionally emerge from behind the tanks to pull the trigger...... As the gunfire rang out, one German soldier after another lay in a pool of blood.
At this time, Qin Chuan felt that something was wrong, the historical Afrika Korps fought all the way to Egypt in the early days, how could the British army be so powerless to fight back now?
Moreover, if this situation continues, the German army is only afraid of a major collapse.
Didn't the Germans have the equipment to deal with the tanks of the British "Matilda"?
No, they do, but they probably don't even know it.