The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Bazel did what he said and immediately commanded the troops to take action.

In Bazel's assignment, the tasks were based on platoons. Each platoon was responsible for three blocks. In addition, Bazel and his company were responsible for one block, which completed the distribution of the ten streets on the front of the British attack.

At each platoon, the platoon leader further refined the tasks, that is, allocating tasks on a squad basis.

In fact, the tasks at this time were no longer entirely assigned on a squad basis, mainly because the troop attrition was too large, such as Berg's 2nd Squad... Berg killed six of his subordinates and was executed himself. There were two more who had not come out in the desert, and in the end only one soldier remained.

The soldier's condition was that he was blown away by the approaching sandstorm and therefore did not follow the company in pursuit of Bushila, making him a blessing in disguise.

There was only one soldier in a squad, which obviously could not complete the task independently, so Kuhn organized him into three squads... According to the normal organization of the German army, there should be four infantry squads plus a 50MM mortar squad (3 people), and then Including the platoon (5 people), a full platoon has 48 people.

However, in actual battles, there are often not so many people due to attrition and no time to replace them. The most common method is to temporarily leave the establishment empty and transfer soldiers to other squads to form a full squad. This allows for better command and easier coordination.

Qin Chuan's company had a very serious attrition. A platoon often only had two or even one squad left. In addition, the task time was tight, which forced Bazel to allocate all the logistics personnel in the company, such as the cooking squad. Call in to make up the numbers.

"Sergeant!" Several soldiers carrying rifles walked up to Qin Chuan, who was busy carrying gasoline barrels, and said, "The captain asked us to report to you. What should we do?"

Qin Chuan couldn't help but glance at Bazel... This was not Qin Chuan's business. These soldiers should report to Kuhn.

Bazel turned his head just in time, and when he saw Qin Chuan giving him a confused look, he replied: "Kun is not here, you assign them a task and let them take charge of a street!"

"Yes, sir!" Qin Chuan replied, then pointed to a street next to him and said, "Did you see that street? All you have to do is walk along the street in the direction of the enemy. Don't come into contact with the enemy. Always keep a few hundred meters away from the enemy. Our cars will transport the gasoline barrels to the appropriate location. All you have to do is move the gasoline into the buildings on both sides of the street, and then poke a few holes in the gasoline barrels to let the gasoline out. Flow out, do you understand?”

"Understood!" several soldiers replied.

"Go!" Qin Chuan confessed: "Pay attention to safety!"

"Don't worry, sergeant!" several German soldiers replied excitedly.

Qin Chuan thought they could do it, because compared to fighting the British army head-on, this task can be said to be simple and safe... The British have always focused on destroying buildings, and the soldiers only need to remember to keep a distance from the British army. That's it.

But Qin Chuan underestimated the "courage" of these gang leaders from the cooking class, or rather their curiosity... Although these gang leaders have been in the army for some years, they have few opportunities to actually fight the enemy. Most of the time they are dealing with pots and pans in the area 3 to 5 kilometers away from the front line. This gives them a subconscious impulse to go to the front line to see the enemy. Even if they fail to kill the enemy, it is not in vain to fire a few empty shots. Become a soldier.

But what they didn't expect was that this time they were facing enemy tanks and a large number of infantry, and these tanks and infantry were highly vigilant.

The result of the group soldiers hiding behind the houses and shooting... was that a large number of artillery shells soon poured towards their position, including tank guns, howitzers and mortars, which instantly destroyed the nearby buildings. It became a ruin.

After a while, two leading soldiers covered in blood were carried back.

"What happened?" Qin Chuan asked.

"You have to send someone else to perform the mission!" the medical soldier replied: "We only found these two people!"

Qin Chuan was speechless.

"I can send you some more people!" Bazel noticed the situation here.

"No, Captain!" Qin Chuan looked at that street and replied, "Maybe keeping this street would be a better choice!"

Qin Chuan noticed that the street was long and straight, with some slopes.

The mission went smoothly. The British army was advancing on the other side. The German soldiers moved the gasoline barrels into the building one by one. Before leaving, they punched a few holes in the gasoline barrels to let the gasoline flow out. Sometimes the soldiers A few explosive packets will also be thrown next to the oil drums. Of course, some of these explosive charges were wired and ready to go off.

The British army did not notice this when passing these specially treated buildings, because they destroyed these buildings further away, and the collapsed buildings not surprisingly buried the oil barrels.

In fact, if the British soldiers were more careful, they would still be able to find some clues, such as gasoline constantly seeping out of collapsed buildings, and the smell of gasoline in the air becoming stronger.

But none of this attracted the attention of the British soldiers... The smoke of artillery fire and the exhaust of the tanks covered up a considerable part of the smell. At the same time, the British soldiers focused more on whether there were enemies in the building in front of them or how to destroy them. Architecturally, the entire force penetrated more than 500 meters into the trap without knowing it.

Until a tank crashed into a building and coincidentally pushed an oil drum out of the building...

"What is this?" A British second lieutenant looked blankly at the oil drum in front of him.

At first, the British second lieutenant thought it was just a German soldier who left an oil drum somewhere and was taken out by a tank. However, when he stepped forward and found several small holes in the oil drum that were obviously man-made, the gasoline was just like When the water came out like a spring, the British second lieutenant quickly understood.

"This is a trap!" the British second lieutenant shouted: "Let's go back quickly!"

But no one listened to him, even his subordinates looked at him in surprise.

The rank of the British second lieutenant is too low. He has no command authority over the troops. On the other hand, all the British troops believe that they are determined to win this battle. If this continues, they will undoubtedly win the battle soon. What else will happen? trap? !

"Gasoline!" the British second lieutenant shouted anxiously: "They have planted gasoline in this area!"

Only then did the British soldiers notice the gasoline barrel pointed by the second lieutenant that was still leaking oil, and suddenly realized.

"Go back, go back!" Someone shouted: "Call the tanks back too!"

However, it's already too late...