The decisive battle against the Third Reich

third chapter

Following the exhaust and dust, Qin Chuan and a group of German soldiers arrived in front of the hill after a while.

The tank's forward speed suddenly slowed down, and the troops also stopped. Qin Chuan curiously poked his head out and saw that a row of British tanks had appeared on the hill in front...

Qin Chuan was not scared when he first saw these tanks. He was used to understanding everything with the thinking of a peaceful society, so his first reaction was that they were just interchange vehicles. Both parties honked their horns and then went their separate ways.

But Qinchuan soon realized that this idea was wrong: this was a battlefield, and there were enemy tanks in front of him. What was even worse was that there were many more enemy tanks than our own.

Then, before Qin Chuan could react, fierce gunfire rang out.

The whole world suddenly turned into a mess: shrapnel was flying around, the sound of bullets hitting the tank armor was clearly audible like exploding beans, screams, shouts, orders... everything suddenly broke out.

The baker shouted an order: "Free fire! Destroy the enemy and use the tank as cover!"

But Qin Chuan couldn't care less about shooting. He only huddled his body as much as possible behind the tank, hoping that all this would pass quickly.

However, this idea is obviously unrealistic, because once the battle begins, it will eventually end with one side being defeated.

As soon as a German soldier leaned out, he was hit in the face by a bullet and fell to the sky. He fell in front of Qin Chuan, and the bullet passed under his nose, which made his face blurred and blood gushed out like spring water. What was even more terrifying was that he did not die on the spot. He held his head in his hands and shivered in pain. I wanted to scream but couldn't, my feet were twitching and twitching desperately... The speed was getting slower and slower, the strength was getting smaller and smaller, and finally it stopped.

Qin Chuan couldn't help shouting. He didn't know why he was shouting, and he didn't know what he was shouting... He just wanted to let out the fear in his heart as much as possible, otherwise he would go crazy.

Then there was only a "boom" sound, and a wave of heat surged from the tank... The tank Qinchuan relied on to hide was destroyed.

In fact, there were very few German tanks left at this time.

The main tank of the German army is the "Panzer III" tank, and the British army's tank is the "Matilda".

Although the tank gun of the "Panzer III" tank is thicker than that of the "Matilda" (at this time, the "Panzer III" tank has been equipped with a 50MM tank gun, while the "Matilda" tank still uses a 40MM tank gun), but The 78MM front armor of the "Matilda" is almost twice the 47MM armor of the "Panzer III" tank.

This caused an embarrassing phenomenon: British tanks could easily penetrate the armor of German tanks, but German tanks found it difficult to do this from the front.

"Retreat!" Qin Chuan heard an order.

Qin Chuan was so frightened that he forgot to run away, but this sound reminded him, so he got up and ran away...

The baker shouted loudly from behind, which made Qin Chuan realize that he had done something wrong again, but he didn't care anymore. He just hopes to get away from this land of right and wrong quickly or hide behind other people... He even wants to tell everyone that this war has nothing to do with him and that this is not his world.

Qin Chuan did indeed make a mistake at this time, because "retreat" does not mean escape. Retreat is a retreat with mutual protection at different levels. Otherwise, he will expose his back in front of the enemy and be massacred by the enemy, especially When the enemy has tanks...the tank's machine guns and artillery are enough to kill everyone who escapes in front of it.

But Qinchuan was lucky, because the British tank was on the hill. When it drove down the hill to pursue the Germans, there would be a large depression angle and it would be unable to aim farther. Otherwise, Qinchuan would have been beaten into a hornet's nest.

However, behind Qinchuan, the German army was not so lucky.

Covering each other's retreat made them lose the best time to retreat. The British tanks drove down the hills one by one, and then without any surprise, they used artillery and machine guns to massacre the Germans.

"Damn it!" Rommel, who was watching the battle from the sky, couldn't help but ordered loudly: "Anti-tank gun cover!"

The pilot quickly relayed the order over the radio.

But I soon got a frustrating response:

"General!" said the pilot: "Our tank guns have already opened fire, but they cannot penetrate the enemy tanks. There is nothing we can do against them!"

The 5th Light Division is equipped with the PAK36 anti-tank gun. The penetration depth of this anti-tank gun can only barely reach 50mm at a distance of 500 meters. Of course, it cannot penetrate the 78mm armor of the British "Matilda" tank.

Rommel couldn't help but secretly said "It's over". What he had been worried about finally happened... If this continues, not only will the German and Italian troops be unable to pursue the British army, but they will be defeated by the British army thousands of miles back to the starting point... or even even Whether Tripoli can be defended is a question.

"Order them to hold on!" Rommel ordered: "Fight the British back no matter what!"

"Yes!" the pilot responded, but he couldn't help but think: Hold on? What to keep? If you continue to hold on in this situation, you will only be massacred by the enemy.

And Qin Chuan was one of the people being hunted.

Qinchuan ran all the way, followed closely behind by the sound of tracks of British tanks, machine guns and artillery, and from time to time a few artillery shells exploded nearby. Several times, the shock wave of the shell pushed Qin Chuan down.

The only thing that made Qin Chuan feel lucky was... that the British "Matilda" tank was very slow, otherwise it would have been in front of Qin Chuan by now.

"Stop them!" Qin Chuan heard the German officer shouting an order.

Qin Chuan looked back and immediately felt a little ashamed of his behavior... His comrades were still fighting on the battlefield. Although their behavior was a bit like a mantis trying to block a car, they still tried hard to use everything they had, such as explosives. They used bags and grenades to block the progress of British tanks, and they actually succeeded in blowing up two tanks.

But it is obvious that this still cannot change the outcome. The British tanks advance forward slowly, like an indestructible wall, followed by groups of British troops wearing saucer-shaped helmets. From time to time, they He emerged from behind the tank and pulled the trigger... The sound of gunfire passed by, and one after another German soldiers fell in a pool of blood.

At this time, Qin Chuan felt that something was wrong. In history, the African Legion marched all the way to Egypt in the early days. How could the British army be left without the ability to fight back now?

Moreover, if this situation continues, the German army will probably collapse.

Didn't the German army have the equipment to deal with the British "Matilda" tank?

No, they do, but they may not even know it.