First, the first to withdraw were the logistics troops and artillery.

Among them, the artillery units not only withdrew, they entered the second line at the first time, laid their positions and prepared for battle.

After ten minutes a regiment of infantry was withdrawn, an infantry regiment in a car.

This infantry regiment had obviously fought with the British army, and when Qin Chuan passed through the defensive line, he looked back at them from the back compartment, only to see that everyone's faces were covered with black gunsmoke, their clothes were in tatters, and many of them were still wrapped in bandages.

From this, it can also be seen that the condition of the 15th Panzer Division is not too bad, at least they are still retreating in an orderly manner.

As the 15th Panzer Division retreated, the battlefield also moved towards the 21st Panzer Division's defensive line, and British bombers suddenly appeared over the defensive line and dropped bombs one after another...... The British Air Force had apparently spotted the 21st Panzer Division's defensive line, and they were trying to block several passages in the minefield for the 15th Panzer Division, as well as preparing for the next British attack.

Soon, British artillery also joined the bombardment...... These artillery pieces were supposed to be bombed under the guidance of British reconnaissance planes, and the explosion point was very accurate; one shell after another exploded in front of the position, and the mines and barbed wire were blown up into the sky at the first time.

In the smoke and firelight, German soldiers and vehicles continued to escape through the barrage and back to the defensive line...... They were the last troops of the 15th Panzer Division to be withdrawn, and they were supposed to be soldiers of the 15th Panzer Regiment and the 16th Infantry Regiment, but they were mixed with each other and no one could tell their numbers.

They ran frantically in front of the position, turning around from time to time and raising their guns to shoot backwards, but the bullets fired could not stop the British pursuit at all, because it was the "General Grant" tank that walked in front of the British ranks.

Although the "General Grant" tank was a tank used by the United States to urgently reinforce the British army, it was much better than the British army's "Matilda" and "Valentine" tanks.

Its advantages are mainly reflected in maneuverability and firepower......

In terms of maneuverability, the top speed of 42 kilometers per hour is obviously not comparable to that of the "Matilda", and the failure rate is much smaller than that of these infantry tanks.

Its firepower is particularly good, with two guns plus three machine guns (course machine guns, coaxial machine guns, and an observable command dome in the commander's position with a machine gun).

This kind of firepower was completely an arsenal against the infantry, and the machine-gun bullets "rattled", and in an instant, a large area of the fleeing German soldiers in front of them was swept down, and the two guns also roared from time to time, blowing up cars and armored vehicles full of soldiers to the ground.

Qin Chuan and the German soldiers who stayed in the trenches felt very helpless, they could only watch quietly like this, watching their comrades fall in front of them one by one or be blown into the sky by shells and could not do anything.

Soon the front of the position was littered with corpses, and some German soldiers raised their hands to the British and chose to surrender...... Any army has soldiers who surrender, and the Germans are certainly no exception.

The situation improved when German fighters entered the battle.

First there were a lot fewer bullets and bombs from the air, and then the German artillery opened fire.

Before that, the artillery feared a double blow from the British Air Force and artillery...... The air force is very important for artillery warfare in desert battles, because the reconnaissance opportunity will immediately discover the enemy artillery positions that are firing and send the coordinates to their own artillery and even carry out artillery comparisons, plus there are also fighter planes strafing and bombing, and it will not be long before the side without air superiority will be destroyed by the enemy artillery.

This allowed the German artillery not to dare to open fire until the fighters arrived.

Pieces of shells were fired, and soon a barrage was created between the fleeing Germans and the British tanks that were chasing them.

This barrage destroyed several tanks, and of course inevitably injured some of its own people by mistake.

But the mishaps were well worth it, as the shells managed to stop the British tanks from advancing, especially since the smoke and dust from the explosion temporarily deprived the machine gunners of the British tanks.

It was at this time that the German deserters stumbled into the German lines.

"Quick, here......" Werner beckoned to a German soldier with a wounded arm.

Perhaps because of his wounds, the German soldier struggled to run, which left him behind, and the other soldier almost dragged his other hand into the trench...... Finally they were about to reach the end, and one step further would be a safe trench for them for the time being.

However, at this moment, a string of machine-gun bullets "whizzed" over......

The two of them fell into the trench like a tree stump, their flesh blurred, and the splash of blood stained the trench and the faces of the German soldiers.

"Fuck it!" Werner cursed as he raised his "English crossbow" in the direction of the British army.

Qin Chuan didn't think much about it, and pulled Werner down.

A volley of bullets flew past the scalps of the two men...... Werner was a little out of his mind, he should have known that the situation just now showed that the enemy's Heavy was focused on this position, and his actions were no different from looking for death.

The sound of German anti-tank guns soon rang out.

Anti-tank guns and "General Grant" tanks are two extremes...... The former has a low gun body and strong concealment, while the latter has a tall body and is an obvious target on the battlefield, and because the anti-tank has a strong external perception ability and a long range, it often forms a certain advantage over the tank in the position.

After destroying three British tanks, it further stifled the offensive of British tanks.

But the anti-tank guns also had shortcomings, their shortcomings were that they did not have armor protection, and the distance of about a kilometer from the enemy was completely within the fire range of the enemy infantry's mortars, so needless to say, another volley of shells smashed over...... The sound of anti-tank artillery immediately weakened a lot.

The British tanks approached as they approached, using mortar and long-range artillery shells to suppress and clear the way, followed by groups of British soldiers.

This group of British soldiers was very experienced in combat, and from time to time they leaned out from behind the tank in groups of two or three to shoot...... "Enfield" rifle had a high rate of fire and a large ammunition capacity, so such a cover shot could provide good fire support for the tank, coupled with the guns and machine guns of the "General Grant" tank, so that the German soldiers could hardly poke their heads out of the trenches.

It's time for tanks to come on the field, Qin Chuan thought to himself, otherwise, if this continues, the British army will send a large number of 2-inch mortar shells to the German trenches under the cover of tanks, and then charge again...... The German line collapsed.