Chapter 436: Captive
Tanks with infantry "rumbled" along the streets towards the port.
Then the German soldiers saw a line of defense, still made of sandbags, but this time it was defended, as can be seen from the muzzles of the guns poking out of the sandbags and the helmets that only showed the tops.
Then someone shouted in English: "Here they are!" ”‘
But before the words fell, the tank gun adjusted the angle of the muzzle in a burst of sound, and then with a "boom", it blew a big gap in the defense line.
Where did the British soldiers dare to resist, some raised their hands on the spot and surrendered, while others fled back with a burst of screams from their comrades.
Then, the tanks "creaked" up, and when they reached the bottom of the street, the surroundings suddenly opened up, and what I saw was a crowd of British soldiers crowded on the docks, and at the other end of the docks were a dozen landing craft, apparently the British fleet intended to use these transport boats to save some of them.
The British soldiers panicked as soon as they saw the German tanks appear in front of them, and the first part of them raised their hands and surrendered when they saw that they would definitely not be able to escape, and the British soldiers at the dock thought that there was still hope of escaping and crowded to get on the boat.
The tank unceremoniously aimed at the landing craft and fired a shell, although it missed and exploded in the seawater, but it scared the landing craft enough to start driving towards the sea...... Some British soldiers climbed on the landing craft and did not stand firmly, and fell quite a bit.
However, few of these landing craft failed to escape back, because the Italian fighters quickly swooped down and fired a row of bullets, and one of the landing craft was hit bright red on the spot, perhaps the pilot was killed, and the landing craft drew an arc on the sea surface and crashed back to the pier at high speed.
An Italian bomber dropped a bomb that failed to hit the landing craft, but the waves set off overturned it entirely, and then another fighter plane fired two rows of bullets downward...... The bullets stirred up two high lines of water in the sea, and more than a dozen British soldiers were knocked down in pools of blood, and the sea water suddenly glowed bright red.
And a few miles away in the British Navy...... There's nothing they can do about it.
They did not even dare to shoot at the Italian fighters with their anti-aircraft guns, because it was well known that if the angle of the anti-aircraft guns was lower than 45 degrees, then the shells were very likely to explode on the ground, and the result would be to kill a large number of British soldiers gathered in the harbor.
Soon, German tanks poured out of several street crossings, and they completely surrounded the port.
Colonel Slain raised his trumpet and shouted to the British soldiers, "Glad to meet you, soldiers of the 15th Infantry Division!" I think any resistance is pointless, you say? Or do you still want to try?! ”
Of course, the British understood what Colonel Slain meant, so thousands of British soldiers raised their hands one after another.
The First Frontier Corps was not interested in receiving prisoners, because for a unit like the First Battalion, which was accustomed to fighting in the desert, each captive was a mouth for food and water, which not only had no effect but also consumed a large number of precious provisions.
The Goering Division was a new unit, they had no shadow of this, and at the same time they needed to be meritorious, so they organized and housed prisoners of war.
Qin Chuan, Colonel Slein and others went to open the doors of the warehouses one by one, and cheered when they saw the British canned beef, canned fruit, etc., and then moved to the car without saying a word, what cigarettes, chocolates, beer, etc., all the food was moved to the car, and the car was full was not enough, the clothes were unbuttoned and then stuffed inside, and some people were still eating while moving, and the gobbling up was so that the others couldn't help laughing.
It's really not that the soldiers are "short-sighted", but that the soldiers eat bread and potatoes every day, and the smell of birds fades from their mouths.
Moreover, other supplies, such as piles of shells and bullets, were of little use to the Germans, and if anything, they were used to transport them to the partisans.
The most useful thing is probably fuel, although Algeria has dug up oil, but this thing is not too much, not to mention that Algeria will not be able to produce gasoline for a while.
Stuffing a piece of chocolate into his mouth, enjoying its slightly bitter sweetness, Qin Chuan felt his fatigue relieved in an instant.
He sat down on the beach and watched the British Navy drift away...... They feared that if they continued to stay here, they would be bombed again by German and Italian planes, after all, the air supremacy in this area no longer belonged to them.
"Captain!" Colonel Slain sat next to Qin Chuan and sighed, "Your plan has succeeded again!" ”
"It's just luck!" Qin Chuan replied: "We need it very much!" ”
"Yes!" Colonel Slane nodded.
He understood what Qin Chuan meant, even if the German army won this war, the strength of the allies was still much stronger than the German army, and there was still a long way to go to defeat them.
"What about the rest of the British and Americans?" Colonel Slein asked: "I mean, the 3rd American Division, and the British troops in the Catania direction!" ”
Qin Chuan shook his head and said, "It's hard for us to capture them, or rather...... It would be quite a heavy price to capture them! ”
"Just like the United States did on the beachhead!" Colonel Slain agreed.
"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "They have sufficient ammunition and sea supremacy, and air supremacy will soon return to them...... I mean, the British will move the air wing from North Africa to the island of Malta. In this way, the British could build a defensive line on the Catanian plain similar to the American beachhead, and any troops that came close to this line would first have to pass through naval guns, warplanes, and bombers! ”
"And then ......," said Slane, "they can get the soldiers away in batches by landing craft, by lifeboats!" ”
Qin Chuan nodded: "But tanks, cars, armored vehicles...... These things have to be kept! ”
"Of course they're going to blow it up!" Colonel Slein said: "Just like they did on the African battlefield!" ”
"Yes!" Qin Chuan quipped: "The British are already very experienced in this area!" ”
Colonel Slane couldn't help but laugh: "Yes, they are very good at this!" ”