There is no turning back in a tank encounter, especially if there is not much difference in speed between the tanks and the enemy and when they are in range.

The reason is simple, if you turn around and run away at this time, it means exposing the weakest part of the armor in front of the muzzle of the enemy tank, and the enemy can chase and open fire until the target is completely destroyed.

Therefore, the duel between tanks and tanks is often the most brutal, and there is only one choice for both sides to choose from...... Advance until the enemy is eliminated or you are destroyed.

Of course, it would be a different story if the Germans were facing the British Matilda, which was traveling at a speed of only 10 kilometers per hour.

Qin Chuan felt that something was wrong when he heard the fierce artillery fire in front of him, because most of the artillery fire came from the enemy's direction, and this situation was almost impossible if the Germans were confronted by a British convoy.

Sure enough, after a while, Kuhn ordered: "Encounter the enemy tank unit, prepare to get off!" ”

Qin Chuan thought that the German soldiers would complain a few words at this time, after all, it was Colonel Albridge's mistake.

But to Qin Chuan's surprise, the soldiers didn't say anything, including Werner.

This can be said to be a manifestation of the obedience, unity and quality of the German soldiers.

Obedience and solidarity are easy to understand, a soldier is to unconditionally obey the orders of his superiors, even if the order is wrong. At the same time, only when soldiers are united can they have combat effectiveness, and they can even turn defeat into victory.

The quality is that the German soldiers realized that it was useless to complain, complain, and regret at this time, and all they could do was to try their best to stand with their superiors to tide over the difficulties, otherwise things would get worse and eventually affect themselves.

If just one or two German soldiers wanted to do this, it might not help, but if the whole army did this...... Then this will condense into a terrible force.

The car followed the tank all the way, and the car with the artillery had stopped, which was determined by the longer range of the artillery.

I saw German soldiers jumping out of the car one by one, setting up cannons and carrying shells, every soldier knew what he had to do, even if a few shells flew around him from time to time and blew up a few German soldiers into the sky.

Further back, the anti-tank guns were also erected, perhaps because the anti-tank guns were lighter and more convenient, and when Qin Chuan saw them, the artillerymen were already firing shells at the opposite side.

Ironically, the German artillerymen used the British 6-pounder anti-tank guns......

With a "boom", a car suddenly stopped as if it had hit a pillar, and there was a scream of soldiers in the compartment.

The car was hit by an armor-piercing projectile.

The armor-piercing projectile is characterized by no charge, that is, no explosion, and only relies on kinetic energy to penetrate the target, so the damage it can cause after hitting a car is very limited...... Most of the screams of the 10 soldiers in the carriage were caused by fragments from the armor-piercing bullets that destroyed the car, but the casualties were very limited.

This is a characteristic of British tanks, or it can also be said that it is a common problem of tank warfare.

Tanks generally carry two types of shells, one that pierces deep and high but does not explode armor-piercing shells.

The other is a high-explosive projectile that will explode to produce a large number of fragments, mainly for anti-infantry personnel.

This creates a question: what shells should the enemy choose if he has tanks and infantry.

When loading armor-piercing shells, it is possible that the target tank has driven out of its field of vision, and the tank is facing the large number of infantry in front of it, but it is powerless.

Loaded with high-explosive shells, the infantry can hide behind the tank......

These situations often leave tanks at a loss and waste their fighters.

So there is a combination of the best of both worlds: high-explosive armor-piercing shells.

The high-explosive armor-piercing shell is charged only in the rear half, the front half is responsible for penetrating the armor, and the second half explodes inside the tank, which not only solves the previously mentioned problems, but also gives greater damage to the target tank...... Purely armored shells sometimes hit the target without causing much damage to the target or personnel.

However, "the ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny", the high-explosive armor-piercing shells produced by the British army are filled with a "picric acid" charge, which itself is sensitive to impact, which makes the British army's high-explosive armor-piercing shells often explode in advance at the moment when the shells collide with the tank armor, which not only cannot cause damage to the target, but will also reduce the armor-piercing ability in stages, so the British tank soldiers are more commonly used to bring only armor-piercing shells without high-explosive shells...... Dealing with the infantry is left to the artillery or machine guns.

The German artillery shells did not have this problem, the German high-explosive armor-piercing shell is a TNT charge that is relatively insensitive to impact, and a cushion cap made of plastic is added above the charge cavity, which can effectively prevent the high-explosive armor-piercing projectile from hitting the surface and exploding.

The pros and cons of this soon became evident on the battlefield...... Both sides invariably target cars and armored vehicles behind each other's tanks, as they are larger and easier to penetrate.

However, the armor-piercing shells of the British tanks pierced a hole in the German cars, and even some cars were hit a few times and still drove forward, even if they were damaged and stopped, the soldiers inside were slightly injured.

The German armor-piercing shell hit the British car, but it exploded inside the car, because the charge was not much, so the explosion was not violent, but because it exploded inside, few soldiers inside could walk down...... Later, when cleaning the battlefield, Qin Chuan once saw a car hit by a German high-explosive armor-piercing projectile, and it didn't look like a big problem on the outside of the car, but the British troops in the back compartment were already a blur of flesh and blood.

With a "......", the car braked suddenly, and Qin Chuan and the soldiers fell forward due to inertia.

Before everyone could react, Kuhn hysterically shouted at the soldiers: "Get out of the car, get out of the car, quick!" ”

The soldiers stood up, grabbed their weapons, and jumped as fast as they could. This is in addition to the command and there is a fear from the heart...... Everyone, including recruits, knows that cars are the enemy's best targets, especially those that stand still.

The moment Kuhn jumped out of the carriage, a shell passed through the glass on the left side of the cab and then shot out from the rear right, Qin Chuan only heard a whistling sound in the air, as if a small plane was flying overhead.

Look at the car again, half of the compartment has been stripped off...... Fortunately, there was no one in the carriage, so there were no casualties.

It didn't take long for Qin Chuan to realize that he was wrong, because the driver was still in the cab, and although they were not hit by the shell, the burst glass was inserted into their faces, necks, and bodies at an extremely high speed.

Their wounds were so numerous that the paramedics simply couldn't bandage them in time to stop the bleeding, and they ended up being two numbers on the sacrifice list because of excessive blood loss.