The decisive battle against the Third Reich

The three-mile journey only takes about half an hour for the German mechanized troops... A considerable part of this time is actually spent on preparations before the troops depart, such as the assembly of troops, the organization of logistics troops, etc., the real journey on the road The march lasted only ten minutes.

The destination was flat, without any hills or highlands to hide in, not even a small hill.

Therefore, when the order to build fortifications and defenses was issued, the baker complained: "God, they must be crazy to choose this damn place as a blocking position. The enemy artillery can see us from a few kilometers away and attack us." We were blown to pieces!”

"The commander must have their own ideas and arrangements, right?" Alfredo continued.

"Maybe it's not the commander's arrangement!" Werner glanced at Qin Chuan with a half-smile, and asked, "Sergeant, you should know something, or is this your plan again?"

"No, Werner!" Qin Chuan replied: "I only know that this will be a very difficult battle!"

It wasn't that Qin Chuan intentionally lied, but that the plan was not convenient to reveal.

This has nothing to do with confidentiality. The reason is that there is not much time left before the war starts, and the personnel in the army are relatively simple. Apart from German officers and soldiers, the possibility of British spies among them is very slim. Even if there are British spies, the German army strictly While controlling the radio station and surrounded by endless desert, the spies had no way to pass the information to the British army.

The reason why Qin Chuan didn't say anything was because this battle was about to be lost to the British army. Only if they really lost could the British army pursue it with confidence.

And if you want to "lose really"... naturally you can't let the German soldiers know that this is an act.

"You scared me, sergeant!" Werner chuckled, not believing that Qin Chuan could do nothing.

Qin Chuan could only shrug his shoulders and express his helplessness.

The German army built their positions very quickly. Engineers pulled barbed wire to lay mines in front of the positions, artillerymen set up artillery positions at the back, and infantry dug several trenches in battalion units in the middle... Infantrymen generally do not have only one trench in open areas. If there is only one, then once the enemy breaks through, it will only be chased and defeated for thousands of miles. Digging trenches every few hundred meters and digging traffic trenches between the trenches can solve this problem very well.

The armored forces were well hidden at the back. The method was to dig a hole in the ground for tanks to drive into, exposing only the barrel and part of the turret, and then cover the top with canvas, so that no one could tell They are planes in the sky, and even on the ground it is difficult to find their location.

Seeing this, Alfredo couldn't help but sigh: "The fortifications that you can complete in twenty minutes may take us twenty hours!"

"It should never be completed!" Werner laughed: "Because the enemy has arrived before that!"

Jacop interjected in a weird voice: "If I were you, I would ask the commander: 'Sir, we are all going to surrender anyway, why bother building these damn fortifications?'"

With a coax, the soldiers laughed.

Alfredo looked a little ugly, but he couldn't refute.

"Sorry, Alfredo!" Werner said, "It was just a joke!"

"No!" Alfredo replied with a wry smile: "What you said is the truth!"

This is indeed true. The Italian army with a total strength of 230,000 surrendered 130,000 in just a few weeks. This means that surrender has become a trend and inertia for the Italian army.

Not to mention other things, even Alfredo himself had the idea of ​​​​surrendering once he encountered the British army not long ago, and they were not even ashamed.

But I don’t know when, Alfredo’s concept has completely changed. This may be the so-called "those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black".

"Air raid siren! Take cover!" Someone shouted at this time, and then a harsh air raid siren sounded.

The soldiers jumped into the fortifications that had not yet been completely constructed, and several cars that were transporting and distributing ammunition hurriedly started and drove to open locations.

But it was too late. Several "Mosquito" bombers suddenly appeared above the position and swooped down with a roar...

The British army's position in the east gave their aircraft an advantage because the east was usually the direction from which the sun shone, making it difficult for scouts to detect them from a distance.

Then there were just a few "boom boom" explosions, and the ammunition truck was hit by an aerial bomb. The explosion of the ammunition caused the car to burst into flames in an instant and was blown into pieces. Even Qin who was hiding in the trench Kawa can also feel the heat waves coming from the top of his head.

And this was just the beginning. The sky soon became chaotic, with the roar of planes and bombs everywhere, like countless swarms of bees circling overhead. What was even more terrifying were the bombs that exploded on the ground. , every vibration caused the sand in the trench to fall down, and Qin Chuan suspected that he was going to be buried alive by the sand.

Therefore, not only the fortifications built by the Italians were meaningless, but the fortifications built by the Germans also did not have much effect.

Ten minutes later, the roar of the plane finally stopped, but the explosions did not.

Those were shells fired by British artillery.

Qin Chuan poked his head out of the trench and saw rows of artillery shells roaring towards and exploding on the German position. The shells set off waves of sand that rushed towards the German soldiers in the trench like sea water. From the direction where the gunfire came from, groups of British tanks lined up in neat formations to cover a large number of British soldiers approaching the German defense line step by step.

"They are coming!" Qin Chuan heard Kuen shouting: "Get ready to fight!"

One by one, the soldiers set up their weapons in the trenches.

The situation is a bit frustrating, because the British army is neatly organized and the various arms are closely coordinated, such as the bombing from the air just now, and the pace of the British infantry following the tanks... The "Matilda" tank returns slowly. Slow, but sometimes slow speed will create some kind of pressure and some kind of power, just like the heavy infantry in the Cold War era holding a giant shield and slowly advancing towards the enemy. Although the enemy has time to think or respond, there is nothing he can do about it. .

At this time, the German army also felt the same way when facing the "Matilda" tank... Seeing the danger approaching step by step but unable to compete with it, that kind of powerlessness and helplessness will only increase the fear in the heart. It is like if a person because of If he dies in an emergency, he won't be afraid of anything. But if the doctor tells him that he has a terminal illness and only has one month to live, the fear in his heart will increase day by day.