Derek exclaimed excitedly after seeing the skyrocketing fireworks, "In this case, they won't last long!" ”

"But we're also going to speed up, flares are getting fewer and fewer, and we don't have much time left." Trode said in a deep tone, "Besides, we can't keep that person waiting too long. ”

As Trood had expected, it wasn't long before the man didn't move again after firing a flare that was more off-targeted.

"Damn, we're on our own!" Derek spat at the mouth and said, "Shoot the flares and prepare for the pursuit!" ”

One flare after another flew into the sky, illuminating the British tanks as they prepared to retreat, but due to the distance, there were only vague borders, and the enemy was rapidly retreating into the darkness.

Troude ordered loudly: "Give me chase, not a single one can be let go!" Although they had already destroyed several tanks, Trode's instincts told him that Lamont's tanks were not among them.

Although the German tanks were much faster than the Churchill I infantry tanks, in this dark night, even with the help of headlights and flares, the possibility of the enemy lying in ambush behind the towering grass could not be ruled out, so those speed advantages were almost completely unplayable, but they were slowed down and distanced by the enemy because of the need to prioritize the situation.

Derek picked up the microphone and shouted inside, "Trode, this won't work!" We can't catch up! ”

"Wait a minute" Trode picked up the map and looked at the situation here, the map in his hand was quite sloppy, no, it should be said to be concise. The map shows only a few obvious landmarks and the distances between them.

Of course, such a half-finished product that cut corners was not given to them by the local defenders, let alone given to them by the General Staff, which they painted themselves

During the day, after Derrick had been taught the basics of drawing at Trode, he had the idea to prepare a map of the place. After looking at the map of the local defenders, he and Derek agreed that the map, while detailed, was too large to show the details they needed.

So the two of them went out of the city, and after surveying the field, they drew up a map in duplicate, one for Derek and Trode. And now is the time to show its value. After studying the map "carefully", Trode came up with a workable solution.

"Derek, let's cut corners!" Trood continued: "They look like they are preparing to retreat from the edge of the oasis, and if we want to catch up with them safely, we need to enter the oasis so that we have time to go around their flanks. ”

"Are you sure you can walk tanks in there?" Derek was a little skeptical, after all, tanks are generally only suitable for wild or towns, such as oases, and it will be quite difficult to fight.

Trode agreed, "At least there are no big puddles or swamps except for the lake in the middle, and we can't sink into them." ”

After hearing this, Derek immediately felt that he should adopt his tactics, and ordered the team: "Then hurry up, all the staff turn 30 degrees to the right and enter the forest!" ”

Although the lights were on, because the trees in the forest were so dense, each tank in the squad hit something to varying degrees, which became an obstacle to its progress. But if you compare this speed to the long detour near the edge of the oasis and the ambush of Lamont with fear, I don't know how much faster.

"Click~~~"

Trode's No. 217 tank toppled a small tree, and the tree made a long sound as it fell, which would have been quite a nice sound to listen to in normal times, but in a situation where both sides were nervous, and the roar of the engine covered most of the sound, no one would have noticed.

In the dense forest, the tank's vision is extremely poor, and Trode keeps looking at the compass to keep himself in the wrong direction. The problem with this is that in order to make their route coincide as much as possible with the planned route, they have to run over more things than bypass them.

"Damn, it's slower than expected," said Trode, gritting his teeth, for this part of the journey had been initially calculated by Trode during the day, and the time required to pass through it was naturally chosen during the day. He thought that in the evening, he would only need a little more time, but the fact was that they had spent a lot of time in order not to lose their way. In this way, the plan to reach the edge of the oasis before Lamont was about to fail

Seeing this, Trood issued a new command in order to speed up: "All IV tanks should increase their horsepower and get around obstacles as quickly as possible to reach the target location without too much deviation from the target direction." However, the IV. Annihilator, which had poor cross-country ability, first gathered together and headed straight towards the target point. ”

"Okay!"

"Yes!"

"Roger!"

The IV G medium tanks were moving quickly through the woods, and although there was no qualitative leap in speed compared to before, there was a slight increase, which was at least enough to intercept the retreating Lamont team.

However, when Trode and the others rushed to the predetermined location, they found that they were still one step too late. In a relatively flat clearing near the target, both Trod and Derek noticed the very obvious anomaly - the plurality of grass was overwhelmed, and they all fell in one direction, so it only means that Lamont's team passed here before Trode.

Although the track prints were very easy to pursue, Trode followed the track prints and saw that it was not the edge of the oasis they had expected, but on the contrary, it was the center of the oasis.

Derek hammered the steel plate next to him fiercely, and said with some dejection: "He actually drilled into the dense forest in such a dark day, is he going to fight us to the end at this time?" ”

Trood understood the meaning of Derrick's tone, and he also knew that for an opponent like Lamont, if he was allowed to take advantage of the time and place, and the opportunity, then it would be like climbing to the sky to defeat him, although he was now outnumbered, but if he continued to go deep into the dense forest, the damage caused would be immeasurable