The decisive battle against the Third Reich

The tanks "rumbled" forward, and the infantry covered and followed up from behind. In the blink of an eye, they were in front of the British army.

At this time, the moment came for the British army to engage in close combat with the German tanks.

The British army actually invented many close-quarter anti-tank equipment, such as sticky anti-tank grenades and Molotov cocktails.

But on the one hand, these anti-tank grenades themselves have great safety risks during transportation and storage. For example, the incendiary bottle is a glass bottle containing a mixture of yellow phosphorus and petroleum. When using it, you only need to throw it towards the target. The bottle After rupture, the yellow phosphorus spontaneously ignites when exposed to air, which can ignite a fire on the tank and overheat the engine.

The problem is that these fragile and breakable bottles will inevitably collide during transportation, and they need to be stored together with other munitions. If one or two of them are broken, it will cause a big accident.

Therefore, British soldiers generally do not take this thing to the battlefield. It is no different from committing suicide.

The sticky anti-tank grenade does not have these problems. It is like an inverted flask. The upper part is a spherical sticky substance. After being thrown, it can stick to the tank and explode after a five-second delay. Its armor-piercing ability is also quite good, it can penetrate 60MM thick armor and can also damage enemy infantry with shock waves.

The problem is that this thing weighs two pounds, and ordinary British soldiers can barely throw it 20 meters away, which is even within its own killing range.

What's worse is that this sticky grenade also requires that the target must not be dusty, otherwise the bomb will not be able to stick to the tank and blow through it... This is simply a joke for tanks fighting in the desert, because any tank has armor on it. It's all covered in a thick layer of dust.

The British soldiers even laughed at this: "Oh, great! Why don't they write in the instructions that the enemy tanks must be cleaned before throwing this grenade?"

From this we can also see some flaws in the British army's equipment research and development, and these flaws are not individual, but universal, just like they developed "infantry tanks" and "cruise tanks" that are not suitable for battlefield coordination. .

The reason is actually very simple... The British have been ranked number one in the world for too long. No one in the world can compete with them, so equipment research and development is naturally not targeted. Many of them are taken by self-righteous experts. They thought so and so and then mass-produced them. However, once the war started, they found that these equipments were useless at all or did not work as expected.

On the other hand, the British army thought that they would not lose to the enemy tanks in this battle... You must know that 50 "Matildas" fought against 15 German "Pop 3"s, which was a proper occupation in terms of tank battles. Absolute advantage, so close anti-tank grenades and the like are redundant, tanks will solve these problems.

Unexpectedly, the Germans gave them a big surprise... All the "Matilda" tanks were stuck in the sand, unable to move and fight.

At this time, it was too late for the British army to regret it. All they had in hand were rifles, machine guns and the like, and they had no way to deal with the enemy's tanks.

As a result, the German tanks rushed into the British defense line very smoothly, and the sound of machine guns and artillery soon began.

The "Plank 3" tank is different from the "Crusader" tank. In addition to a parallel machine gun parallel to the main gun, it also has a heading machine gun. When the main gun is aimed at important targets such as British anti-tank guns and mortars, there is a chaos At the same time as the bombardment, the directional machine gun fired at the British infantry indiscriminately.

At this time, the German 50MM mortar also came into play... The trajectory of this thing is a curve, and the shells can pass over your own tank and hit the enemy. The only disadvantage is that the gunners cannot see the target.

But it doesn't really matter if you can't see the target, because there must be enemies on the other side, dense enemies. Just follow the tank and keep firing shells forward.

So a massacre began. The British troops fell in pieces under the German machine guns and artillery shells. Although Qin Chuan, who was following the tank, could not see the most tragic scene in front of him, he could see it through the gaps between the tanks. The British soldiers whose flanks were knocked down by bullets and artillery shells heard bursts of screams and calls for help coming from the front. What Qin Chuan couldn't accept was that they were treading on meat crushed by tank tracks, so After a while, the military boots turned red and were stained with a thick layer of minced meat, just like the yellow mud stuck to them when walking into the mountains. They felt heavy when walking on them.

Soon the British army collapsed and began to flee, unable to defend themselves.

But it is not so easy for the British army to escape from the Germans. The German "Plank 3" tanks are not "Matildas" that can only travel at a dozen kilometers per hour. They are "Plank 3" tanks that can travel at a speed of more than 40 kilometers per hour. Chasing the British infantry all the way, they shot and killed the fleeing British soldiers wildly. The German soldiers riding tricycles and armored vehicles also consciously caught up and cooperated with the tanks... As a result, only the German steel monsters were seen in the desert. They chased the British troops like a herd of sheep, knocking them to the ground in pieces as they chased.

Soon, the British soldiers discovered that they could not escape at all, because several tanks on both wings had moved in front of them to form an encirclement, so the British soldiers could only raise their hands and surrender.

In this battle, the German army captured more than 2,000 British soldiers, 30 vehicles loaded with supplies, 50 artillery pieces of various types, and 36 "Matilda" tanks.

The "thirty-six" here refers to tanks that are intact and can still be used... Lieutenant Colonel Burton ordered the tank soldiers to blow up the tanks at the last moment and then surrender, but the fact is that the tank soldiers did not have this chance, and the tank soldiers themselves had no choice but to stay in the tank. Blow up the tank, and once they get out of the tank, unless they have their hands raised, they will have been killed by a group of German soldiers guarding outside.

The moment the gunfire stopped, Qin Chuan sat down on the ground. He looked numbly at the corpses and body parts around him, as well as many injured British soldiers mourning among the dead... The injured people no longer cared whether the people around them were their own people or the enemy, they just wanted to Someone comes to save him or give him a break.

The Germans would obviously choose the latter. Several soldiers stepped forward and drew their pistols, and then with a few "bang bangs", everything was over.

"You have made another great contribution!" Bazel sat next to Qin Chuan: "Although they didn't say it, I know this was your idea again, right?"

As he spoke, Bazel raised his head towards the "Matildas" that were stuck in the sand and unable to move.

"Yes, sir!" Qin Chuan replied.

Qin Chuan was not proud of this, because he felt that the deaths of the British soldiers in front of him were all caused by himself.

Bazel seemed to see through Qin Chuan's thoughts. He patted Qin Chuan's shoulder and stood up, saying: "This has nothing to do with you, sergeant! As long as there is a war, this will inevitably be the result. The difference is that it is dead. It’s them or us!”

Qin Chuan nodded.

Bazel was right, even if Qin Chuan didn't make any suggestions, these would still happen.

Qin Chuan can't change anything. What he can change is his own chance of surviving in this troubled world.