There's a lot going on today.,There's only two chapters.,Tomorrow will continue five more!

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The 21st Panzer Division was on the road around the clock.

At this time, they simply dared to stop and rest, because every soldier knew that for every minute they rested, the enemy's preparation would be one more minute, and once the enemy's defense and firepower were strong to a certain extent, it would not be something that an armored division or even the Afrika Korps could break through.

In fact, the German soldiers behind the car compartment were better, they could at least sleep on the guardrail in the carriage.

The drivers of the car were tired when marching, but the main and co-pilots could be rotated, and their combat pressure was not as great as that of the soldiers who were directly involved in the battle.

The saddest thing was the tank driver, who had to drive the tank on the march, and the tank compartment was always filled with the stench of fuel, gun oil, and sweat, and the heat in the hatch was almost suffocating when the hatch was lowered. Coupled with the heat of the engine and the scorching sun, the temperature in the cabin reached unbearable levels.

Qin Chuan saw several tanks parked on the side of the road during the march...... They were not destroyed by the enemy, nor did the tank malfunction, but the driver could not stand the pressure and fatigue and fainted.

"Why don't they let the drivers alternate?" Werner asked.

"There are not enough tank drivers!" Kuhn replied: "We lost more than fifty tanks in Matrou, and in addition to that, we captured a number of American tanks......"

Needless to say, the extra drivers were mostly arranged to drive the "Stuart".

"Air raid alert!" At this time, Kuhn, who was holding the walkie-talkie, turned around and shouted.

This means that enemy planes are bombing again.

However, unlike the tension of the previous bombing, the soldiers were indifferent, as if Kuhn had said something inconsequential.

It's really different now than it was before.

First of all, there is the mentality of the soldiers: the number of bombings has increased, and the soldiers have become accustomed to it, and some soldiers still lean on the guardrail to "whirring" and sleeping, because even if they wake up, they can't change anything.

What's more, the warnings are different.

Kuhn was talking about "air raid alerts" rather than "air raid covers".

The "air raid alert" just prepares the soldiers to be bombed, and does not need to be hidden.

This is not to say that the 21st Panzer Division is not afraid of bombing by enemy aircraft, but because it is daytime, and enemy planes come in waves every half hour or so...... If it had been concealed every time it was bombed, then the 21st Panzer Division would not have to march, and it would have been easier to stay where it had been and concealed.

But because the 21st Panzer Division had to rush to the El Alamein Line and launch an attack as soon as possible, it could not stop, even if it was bombed by the enemy.

There will be a problem, the tanks of the 21st Panzer Division may be blown up before they reach El Alamein.

This was not unfounded, as the Germans had already lost twenty-one tanks in the bombardment, and another fifteen cars had become a pile of scrap metal.

Of course, Rommel was not stupid enough to do useless work, so he mobilized all the German fighters to provide cover for the 21st Panzer Division.

The Luftwaffe's cover mode was to use reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter the perimeter of the 21st Panzer Division, and as soon as the enemy situation was observed, the fighters patrolling the vicinity were immediately notified to rush to intercept it, and the fighters located in Matru and Tobruk were to be urgently lifted into the air to participate in the battle...... Matru is only a little more than a hundred kilometers away from the 21st Panzer Division, and for a fighter with a speed of more than six hundred kilometers per hour, this distance takes only ten minutes.

Therefore, the "air defense alert" almost means the beginning of air combat.

Werner looked overhead, and the canvas on the roof had been cut open by shrapnel at some point, and the slit was still floating in the wind and casting a flickering light and shadow in the car.

Werner stood up, leaned against the railing, pulled the thorn from his waist and stabbed it upward, then twitched back and forth like a saw and cut the canvas, which was cut and drifted away in the wind.

"It's so much better!" Werner said.

"What are you doing here?" Jakop was a little unhappy with Werner's approach: "Do you want to see a bomb fall from the sky? Or a fighter plane that the enemy swooped down? ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the recruits sitting in the middle, and his meaning was obvious, which would affect the mentality of the recruits.

"The invisible danger is what worries you the most, doesn't it?" Werner raised his head at the recruits: "If you don't want to, I can plug it with a poncho!" ”

"No, that's good!" The recruits approved with Werner's approach.

"Yes, I do feel better!" Another recruit replied.

So Yakop said no more.

In fact, not only the recruits, but even Qin Chuan felt that this was better...... It's like finding an outlet for the fear that is closed in your heart.

Admittedly, you are more frightened when you see a plane swooping down or a bomb falling overhead, but you are relaxed when you don't see that...... There's at least a moment of security in that.

Then with a "woo", the figure of a fighter plane flashed through the gap, which made the soldiers' hearts rise to their throats.

Werner cautiously poked his head out and looked into the gap, and said, "It's the British plane, they've arrived, but they haven't bombed us!" ”

"Why?" One recruit asked, "Are they treating us like British troops?" ”

It's not like a recruit is talking nonsense.

Eighty percent of the cars used by the German army were "Matador" military cards captured from the British, plus the "Mammoth" command vehicle, the "Stuart" tank, and various types of armored vehicles.

On the way to the march, some British stragglers mistook the 21st Panzer Division for their own troops, so they happily came to defect, waving their hands and shouting as they ran: "Hey, we're here, help!" ”

When they approached, they were shocked to find that the muzzle of the German black hole was aimed at them.

In addition, Qin Chuan and others also saw several convoys that were bombed by the British Air Force...... These convoys escaped from the British army in Matru, but because the Germans also used "Matador" military trucks, the British pilots took it for granted that they were Germans marching towards El Alamein, and without saying a word, they swooped down with a burst of indiscriminate bombardment.

However, Qin Chuan thought that this time it should not be this reason, after all, this is a large-scale convoy and there are dozens of "No. 3" tanks in front.

"It's because of this ......" the baker quickly replied, and he raised his head towards the back of the car.

Following the baker's gaze, I saw several groups of warplanes lined up in the sky, with black iron crosses clearly printed on the wings.