Chapter 69: Cruise (2)
"Forward!" Major William didn't think much of it, waved his pistol and gave the order.
This is the common sense of infantry and tank cooperation, the side with tanks must use the advantage of tank defense and firepower to force the enemy step by step, compressing the enemy's living space, until the tank's tracks crush the enemy's position and defense.
But in fact this order was wrong, in this case wrong, because the enemy was not on land, but on a cruise ship, and on a moving cruise ship...... There is a sea between the tank and the cruise ship, and although the distance is not far, the tank will never be able to cross this chasm.
Originally, this was nothing, there was an unbridgeable gap between the enemy and us, and the firepower confrontation between the two sides was formed, that is, the German army could not pass, and the British army could not pass, and the two sides had more firepower than whom.
And there is no doubt that the British army has the advantage, they have a dozen tanks plus a dozen armored vehicles, plus more than 500 veterans with rich combat experience...... Not to mention the rest, it was just that the "Enfield" rifles in the hands of the British army had an advantage in the rate of fire, and all this together was not a problem at all to suppress a German infantry company.
The problem was that the Germans were high on the cruise ship and at the same time in the shadows.
As a result, tank guns with small elevation angles became waste in the first place, and machine guns on armored vehicles basically lost their effectiveness...... If the machine gun was to fire, it would have to be used as a tripod on a person's shoulder, as if it were an airplane, but this would undoubtedly be an excellent target for the Germans, and it could even kill with a single shot.
To make matters worse, the British were still in an extremely empty dock with few buildings to hide...... It should be said that the British army has tanks and armored vehicles to hide, but because the German army is located on the high place of the cruise ship and looks down, it is difficult to stop the British army behind only tanks more than two meters high and armored vehicles more than one meter high.
So it was immediately clear which was better and which was inferior, and one by one the British fell in the bullets of the Germans, and the British did not even know where the Germans were hiding.
Qin Chuan was even more at home at this time, and the windows of the cruise room were all excellent sniper positions...... Usually used for viewing, they are all chest-high height, just enough for Qin Chuan to set up a rifle on the windowsill.
Qin Chuan didn't even need to think about it, the next sniper position was the window of another room...... Sometimes he ran to this room and shot twice out of the window, sometimes he ran into that room and shot twice out of the window, and then ran back to the same room and fired a few more shots.
One mortar after another fell under Qin Chuan's gun...... At this time, the only thing that can threaten the cruise ship is the mortar, and the shells fired by that thing will explode on the cruise ship and shoot a lot of fragments like shrapnel.
But the British mortars were so visible on the docks that the British did not get a few shells from start to finish...... The British mortars had been completely suppressed by the condescending Germans, with several corpses next to each mortar, or simply a shell that blew up the British artillery and its men.
What's worse is ...... Cruise ships will move.
Under Bazel's command, the cruise ship slowly drove two hundred meters upstream...... Although it was only a short 200 meters, it came to the flank and rear of the British troops outflanked from the left flank, and all the British troops hiding behind the tanks were exposed to German fire, and they were still densely packed.
Then there is no need to think about it, a flare goes down, bullets and shells "boom" downward, and the British soldiers scream and fall in pieces amid the sound of gunfire and artillery.
Then the ship slowly moved downstream......
Major Wilhelm watched this big guy dangling in front of him, and immediately guessed that the Germans wanted to attack the British army on the right side this time, and immediately ordered the right side through the walkie-talkie: "Adjust the direction, pay attention to cover, they are coming from the sea!" Cruises, watch that cruise! ”
But it was already too late...... The cruise ship went down the river at a fast pace, giving the British army not much time to prepare, and it was difficult to make a quick and accurate response in such a short time.
Captain Gna, who was in charge of commanding the right flank, had not yet reacted to what was going on when he saw a black behemoth on the sea appear in front of him silently, and then with a "Teng" sound, a flare illuminated the surroundings as if it were daylight......
Gunfire and artillery soon rang out, and Captain Gna hurriedly ordered loudly: "Hide! Adjust the direction! ”
The British reacted fairly quickly and immediately hid on the other side of the tank, but this did not seem to protect their safety, in addition to the fact that the Germans could see the British troops hiding behind the tanks from a higher position, and more importantly, the tanks did not know what was going on, and still moved at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour, so that the British troops who needed cover were constantly exposed and killed one after another.
There were corpses everywhere, blood all over the floor, and there were wounded British soldiers lying on the ground holding their wounds and screaming, but their cries were not long, because a few bullets would soon be replenished to silence them completely.
Captain Gerner knew that he would become one of the corpses sooner or later, so the cat lowered himself and climbed in front of an armored car...... There were five British soldiers on board, pitifully under enemy machine-gun fire, four of the five were clearly dead, leaning back on their seats in different positions, their blood staining everything around them.
The driver was miraculously still alive, but he was afraid that he would not live long, his mouth kept spitting blood, and he looked at Captain Gerner who opened the car door with a distress look.
Captain Gerner hesitated, then pulled the driver out of the driver's seat...... He needed this armored car to escape, and the driver stood in his way.
The armored car was quickly restarted, and as soon as it stepped on the accelerator, it rushed into the tank group...... It was a clever move, and Captain Gna wanted to escape under the cover of the tank, as he seemed to know that a sniper was aiming at him.
Captain Gna guessed correctly, Qin Chuan happened to notice him.
Qin Chuan even saw him tear his injured subordinates off the driver's seat and abandon them without hesitation...... Although it can be said that it is normal to do this in order to survive on the battlefield, it is a bit too much to be an officer to do this to his subordinates.
So Qin Chuan made up his mind not to let the officer go back alive, although he thought that it might be more beneficial for the Germans to let the officer go back alive.
The officer was cunning, he drove the armored car at the same speed as the tank, so that he could hide in the dead corners of the tank and advance.
Qin Chuan knew what he was waiting for, he was waiting for the flare to go out.