At this time, the British tank company had lost its formation, and all vehicle groups blindly followed the leading actions of each platoon. The general leader of the platoon is the platoon commander's car, and following the orders of the company commander, each tank platoon begins to choose its own line of attack.

When fighting at night, it is very dangerous to reveal one's position, the three destroyed Matilda are already burning red at this time, and the ammunition on the vehicle is still detonating, and the friendly troops in the same column have increased their horsepower one after another, and quickly fled from these three valuable artificial light sources.

Now Philip had only twelve Matilda tanks in his hands, barely enough to fit four platoons, but in reality the tanks were divided into six units, and the remnants of the vehicles that had lost command joined the nearest tank platoon on their own. However, due to the haste, there was some confusion in the order, and as a result, some platoons now had four or five tanks in them, while others had only one platoon commander left.

Philip's Matilda II roared across the road, crushing a row of low bush walls on the other side of the road, and began to climb up Mount Akham, at some point, the wingman that had been following him on his left flank disappeared, and now he was the only tank left in the company command platoon.

"Each platoon should pay attention to spreading out the formation, not concentrating together, keeping a distance between vehicles, and each vehicle group can attack freely once it finds a target. Gentlemen, fight now for your honor and your lives, perhaps we will all die here, but the final victory will belong to England, God bless the King, God bless the British Empire. ”

Philip could only do this at this time, this order meant that he was ready to give up the unified command of the tank company, and gave the platoon the right to move freely, and each tank platoon now fought separately, whether they chose to continue the fight or retreat, all the responsibility would be borne by him, the company commander.

"Fire! Kill the Germans! ”

"It's a pleasure to fight under your command, sir."

"How can we die here, watch out for the right. Hasten! Hasten! ”

The headphones that have been silent since just now suddenly became noisy, and the words of the company commander swept away the depressing atmosphere that had been shrouded in the company, and indeed there is nothing to fear now, it is nothing more than death in battle, the enemy is extremely powerful, but he is not a soft persimmon that can be kneaded, if you want to take Lao Tzu's life, then take your head for it.

The rebelliousness and bravery in the blood of the Anglo-Saxon barbarians began to awaken, and these soldiers did not have the same eloquence as the company commanders, but they showed their determination to the commander with their actions.

Mount Akaham is a little steeper than Mount Oaks. Almost close to the tipping point of the Matilda's maximum climb, the tank drivers could no longer care about the two engines, all the vehicles had raised their rpm to the maximum, the engines roared wildly, and the heavy infantry tank began to assault the hillside occupied by the Germans at a speed of eight kilometers per hour.

In order to increase the grip when climbing, and to avoid German shelling, some platoons began to take a zigzag line, while constantly firing at the German positions with the weapons on the turrets.

For the German tank company, such an attack was vulnerable and ridiculous. Neither the Coaxial Machine Gun nor the 40mm rapid-fire gun could damage the latest Tank 4 unless the opponent's character burst hit the tank's tracks, but at most it would make the 4th incapacitated. Still unable to inflict fatal damage.

However, the German 75 mm guns were so powerful that they had already been shown to be able to penetrate the frontal armor of the Matilda II at a distance of 1,000 meters, and it was not the 75 mm vertical deck of the wheelhouse, but the 78 mm curved armor in the lower part of the front of the hull. The steel plate, which once made the 37mm and 50mm guns helpless, was as fragile as a piece of glass in front of the new 75mm tank guns, and the Germans preferred to use a hot dinner knife to cut the butter. The warhead penetrated the armor plate unhindered, leaving a bullet hole in the steel plate with melted edges, and then creating a hell behind the armor plate.

The night also brought some difficulties to the Germans, and the Germans' existing night observation technology was not much ahead of the British, and they still mainly relied on flares and searchlights, and generally relied on the naked eye to search for targets.

When the British turned off their headlights and began to rush down the road, the German tanks began to maneuver. The bushes that had been hiding had lost their concealment significance, and the bright muzzle flashes of the guns had also hindered the Germans' own observations.

The German tank company got off to a good start, with only half of the tanks involved in the attack, but it caused damage to four opposing tanks, and Captain Snyder was very pleased with this. This was not the first night battle in which his tank company had participated, but it was the first time since the replacement of this new tank, which was very memorable for the company.

The performance of the German Model 4G on the battlefield made these experienced old tankers love it, and after using this tank, the pile of old models has become garbage in their eyes, and it is not denied that those models have some merits, but compared to the Model 4G, they are not at all a level of things.

Major Philip climbed all the way up the hill, the engine was already showing signs of inadequacy, this tank used the engine of a civilian vehicle, it was completely a trick made by the misers of the War Department, and even put a tank with a bus engine, one horsepower was not enough to install two, they only considered the price of the whole vehicle, but did not think about how the soldiers driving this kind of thing would feel, the heads of the Ordnance Bureau saved the army a sum of money, but the soldiers on the battlefield had to pay with their lives for it.

The commander used the coaxial machine gun to fire back and forth at the edge of the woods on the hillside, and the blue-white tracer bullets pierced through the bushes and hit the trees behind, some of the bushes and blades of grass were set on fire, and the inadequately burned blades of grass emitted dense smoke, which instead covered a large area.

The Germans did not stay in their original positions, and Philip guessed this, and he thought that the Germans would not be stupid enough to stay there and wait to be beaten, and they would have reacted accordingly. But where exactly are the Germans hiding? Philip gripped the armrest of the periscope and searched carefully, when suddenly he saw a series of tracer bullets shoot from behind a row of bush walls on the left, like a shiny ruby chain, sweeping out from under the dark bushes and whipping into a Matilda tank in the front row on the left.

Philip seemed to be able to hear the crisp metal chisel of bullets hitting the hull, and from the periscope, he could clearly see the trail of tracer bullets flying in the air in the darkness by the turret armor, these 7.9mm bullets were useless, and at best cut through Matilda's camouflage livery.

The problem is that the firing position of this machine gun is somewhat strange, for a tank that angle is too low, could it be that the Germans put the machine gun on the bottom plate of the tank?

"Attention! There are German infantry! A loud warning from the driver came through the headphones. This made Philip suddenly realize that his thinking was somewhat limited, and such a low position was not a German infantry.

The German infantry joined the night battle, which was definitely not good news for the British tank company, but the situation was already dire and some other troubles would not make things worse.

"This is Madame Blue! Tanks, enemy tanks on the right side of that big house! They rushed down! Note! The tanks of the Germans rushed down the hill...... "I," exclaimed a captain over the radio. Philip remembered that Mrs. Blue was the nickname of the No. 2 car in the third row, and the commander was Private Max in the Army.

The warning in the headset stopped abruptly, and a fireball rose up on the hillside in front of Philip's car on the left, and the bright light of the fire outlined the Matilda tank.

"I see, tank, eleven o'clock, one hundred and seventy yards!" The cannon reported loudly.

"Fire fire, fire!" Philip shouted loudly in distraught. The German tanks had made a circle on the hillside, they had gone around to the left of the British tank company, the British tank company had to turn immediately, and the two sides had come close to within two hundred yards, which could only happen in a night battle.

"Shoot flares and shoot flares over the enemy's heads. Free Fire! Philip shouted loudly with the microphone, wondering why the Germans didn't use flares first.

The British tanks began to make an emergency turn in twos and threes, and it was very risky to do such maneuvers on such a ramp, and if the movements were not smooth enough, then it was likely to break the tracks. A Matilda suffered this kind of bad luck, due to the failure of an engine before, the power of the whole vehicle has been insufficient, in the rush of the driver did not have time to change the appropriate gear, the result is a little violent when steering, one side of the track failed to withstand this sudden torque, directly from the position of the towing wheel collapsed.

The driver did not know that his tank had a fatal failure at this time, and still stepped on the accelerator to climb up, the tank continued to move forward four or five meters, the track shoe on the left side completely fell off from the hub, the load wheel on that side was directly crushed on the land of the ramp, and the track on the other side continued to rotate under the drive of the engine, due to the uneven force on both sides, the tank suddenly deflected to the left, the load wheel was deeply shoveled into the mud, and the tank turned half a circle in place, With a cacophony of mechanical friction, the engine stalled.

The crew of the tank knew that they were going to be unlucky, and that it was the worst thing to encounter on the battlefield, but the crew members were not ready to give up resistance, they began to turn the turret, and fired a series of tracer bullets towards the mansion in the distance, and the two-pounder gun also began to fire continuously, they no longer cared if they could hit anything, they just wanted to use their shots to hinder the enemy and allow their companions to take advantage of the opportunity to attack.

The crew was clearly prepared to sacrifice themselves, and the Germans unceremoniously met their expectations, and a barrage of tracer bullets strafed the immobile British tank leaning on the hillside, and three seconds later, a series of high-speed armor-piercing shells fired from two directions hit the stubborn target almost simultaneously, ending the lives of the four brave British tankmen in an instant. (To be continued......)