The decisive battle against the Third Reich

The British army, who did not believe in evil, made several more attempts, one of which they even brought flamethrowers.

The British army uses the American M1 flamethrower... In fact, the British also have their own flamethrowers. The shape of the flamethrower used by the British army is a bit strange. Perhaps for the convenience of portability, the British army made the fuel tank round. There is also a small air compression bottle in the middle, so the British soldiers nicknamed it the "lifebuoy".

It should be said that British soldiers are very creative in naming their weapons and equipment.

However, the British army in North Africa was not equipped with flamethrowers... They fought in the desert before. The empty terrain of the desert is not suitable for flamethrowers. The terrain here is empty, and the range of flamethrowers is very short, only about 20 meters. It is difficult for a flamethrower to get so close to an enemy in open terrain and run away.

Secondly, you can throw grenades when you get close to about 50 meters. Before that, you can also use mortars for squads, so the flamethrower becomes a useless thing here. (The flamethrower is more suitable for dealing with complex enemy fortifications on complex terrain)

Fortunately, the British army did not equip the US military but had a lot of equipment, so the British army urgently mobilized dozens of them from the US military.

In fact, the British army not only mobilized flamethrowers, they also mobilized flamethrowers from the US military... The British army did not know how to operate this thing. Although it sounds quite simple, the weapons and equipment, especially A highly dangerous weapon such as a flamethrower can burn you to death if it is improperly operated.

This is not an exaggeration, because it sprays flames, and there are strict regulations when operating. For example, the spray gun must have a certain upward angle. Below this angle, the flame will easily fall to the feet of the spray hand and ignite itself.

Of course the Germans were prepared for this... The flamethrower was invented by the Germans, and of course they knew that it was a weapon for dealing with caves and bunkers.

So when the tunnel fortifications were being built, Dominic asked Qin Chuan: "What if the enemy uses a flamethrower?"

"They can't threaten us with that thing!" said the baker: "The tunnel has two turns!"

At this time, the flamethrower did not use napalm, but used petroleum mixed fuel. Flamethrowers using this fuel had a short range, short burning time, and the flame would not splash or turn along the tunnel.

"Of course!" Dominic replied: "It's true that they can't burn us, but that's not what I'm talking about. That thing will drain the air in the tunnel!"

Obviously, Dominica has more experience in this area than the Afrika Korps.

Later I learned that as a paratrooper who fought against the Soviets on the Eastern Front, Dominic had the experience of using flamethrowers to kill Soviet soldiers hiding in caves.

Of course Qinchuan would not let this happen. The US military had used flamethrowers many times on the battlefield to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, and at that time they used napalm fuel with a longer range and greater power.

The British army used flamethrowers during their seventh attack. It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon... The British army had not stopped since the morning, either shelling or launching attacks.

After the attack fails, they will retreat to sum up their experience, and then change their tactics and try again.

This time the attempt is of course the flamethrower.

At this time, they had become smarter, and specifically selected a few tunnel entrances where the cover was not very good... so that they would not have to worry about a few bullets being shot in the back from time to time.

And another advantage of the flamethrower is that the path it shoots is a curve instead of a straight line... Just like water sprayed from a faucet, if it is tilted up at an angle, it will spray in an arc under the influence of gravity. out.

This eliminates the need for the spray operator to stand directly in front of the tunnel entrance to spray, thus avoiding the risk of being shot by snipers in the tunnel.

But for safety reasons, the British army still threw a few smoke bombs at the entrance of the tunnel... It would be no joke if an enemy sniper hit the fuel bottle, and the outside would burn into a mountain of flames in an instant.

Then, to be precise, the US military flamethrower climbed from bottom to top to a suitable position for spraying. As soon as he stood up, he pulled the trigger and sprayed flames towards the entrance of the tunnel... The flamethrower usually had to stand up before spraying. And be prepared to retreat, not because you are worried about being shot by the enemy, but because you are worried that the flames will burn you. For the same reason, prone spraying is obviously very dangerous, so it is generally not used.

In the tunnel, the German snipers immediately realized the danger when they saw the flames coming from the entrance of the tunnel.

As mentioned before, the curved tunnel is not worried about the flames spraying at the tunnel entrance... they even only stay in the first half of the tunnel entrance, but these flames will use up the little air in the tunnel. If If the British army continues to spray, the tunnel will soon be in a state of hypoxia.

"Fire!" the sniper turned around and shouted to the rear.

"Fire!" The news was passed loudly.

When the news reached the entrance of the tunnel, the several German soldiers guarding there immediately moved the sandbags that had been prepared and piled them on the narrow entrance of the tunnel. After that, they used engineering shovels to shovel several piles of soil from the ground to fill the gaps.

In this way, of course the air will not be sucked out.

In fact, it was safer to be burned by the British army in this way: the passage from the tunnel entrance to the main tunnel became an oxygen-free zone. If the British wanted to attack quickly, they would have to carry oxygen bottles first.

The British troops outside were in a very embarrassing situation at this time... They didn't know whether this method worked because they couldn't see the enemy at all.

"What are your orders, sir!" the American flamethrower asked Major Eugene. He had already taken turns with another flamethrower to spray out three fuel barrels.

There are two choices before Major Eugene:

One is to continue burning like this, but there will always be an end to the burning. The US military does not carry many flamethrowers, not to mention that if it burns endlessly, no matter how many fuel barrels it is, it will not be enough.

The other is to go in and see if the enemy has been burned to death, that is, to see if this method is useful.

However... what if the enemy is not dead? Going in would be tantamount to suicide, and Eugene could already see the panic in the eyes of the British commandos.

But this moment had to come eventually. After consuming another set of fuel cans, Major Eugene waited for more than ten minutes for air to enter the entrance of the tunnel... and then he nodded towards the commandos.

Several commandos nodded, took a few deep breaths, threw in a grenade as usual, and then rushed in with the power of its explosion.

"Bang!" Gunshots rang out again in the tunnel, and Major Eugene knew that this tactic had failed again.