Chapter 359 Tunnel Defense (3)
The British army, who were unbeliever, made several more attempts, and once they brought a flamethrower.
The British army used the American M1 flamethrower... In fact, the British also had their own flamethrower. The flamethrower used by the British army was a bit strange in shape. Perhaps for the sake of portability, the British army made the fuel tank into a round shape and there was a small air compression bottle in the middle, so the British soldiers gave it the nickname "lifebuoy".
It should be said that British soldiers are still very creative in giving nicknames to weapons and equipment.
However, the British troops in North Africa were not equipped with flamethrowers... They were fighting in the desert before. The empty terrain of the desert was not suitable for flamethrowers. The terrain here was empty, and the range of the flamethrower was very short, only about 20 meters. It was difficult for flamethrowers to run away so close to the enemy on the open terrain.
Secondly, you can throw grenades around 50 meters. Before that, you can also use mortars, so the flamethrower has become something that is not useful here. (The flamethrower is more suitable for dealing with the enemy's complex fortifications on complex terrain)
Fortunately, the British army did not have the equipment but had a lot of equipment, so the British army urgently called dozens of them from the US army.
In fact, the British army called not only flamethrowers, but also transferred the US flamethrowers... The British army didn't know how to operate this thing. Although it sounded quite simple, weapons and equipment are especially dangerous weapons and equipment like flamethrowers. Once the fire is improperly operated, it will burn itself to death.
This is not an exaggeration, because it emits flames and there will be strict regulations when operating. For example, the spray gun must have a certain upward angle. Below this angle, the flame will easily fall under the jet hand and ignite itself.
The Germans were certainly wary of this... The flamethrower was invented by the Germans, and of course they knew that this thing was a weapon to deal with caves and bunkers.
So when building the tunnel fortifications Dominic asked Qin Chuan: "What if the enemy uses a flamethrower?"
"They can't threaten us with that thing!" said the baker: "The tunnel turned two turns!"
At this time, the flamethrower did not use napalm, but used oil mixed fuel. The flamethrower with this fuel had a short range, had a short combustion time, and the flame would not splash or turn along the tunnel.
"Of course!" Dominic replied: "They can't burn us, but I'm not talking about this. That thing will drain the air in the tunnel!"
Obviously, Dominic is more experienced in this regard than the African Legion.
Later I learned that as a paratrooper who fought with the Soviets on the Eastern Front, Dominic had the experience of killing the Soviet army hiding in a cave with a flamethrower.
Of course, Qin Chuan would not let this happen. The US military has used flamethrowers many times on the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, and at that time they used napalm fuel with a longer range and greater power.
The British army used flamethrowers during the seventh attack, and it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon... The British army has never stopped since the battle started in the morning, either bombarding or launching an attack.
After the attack fails, they will retreat and summarize their experiences, and then change a variety of tricks to try again.
This time, of course, was the flamethrower.
At this time, they had become smarter and specially picked up a few tunnel entrances with not very good cover to take action... so that they would not have to worry about shooting a few bullets from time to time on their backs.
And the flamethrower has another advantage, the path it produces is curves rather than straight lines... Just like the water sprayed from a faucet, it will tilt upwards at an angle and then it will spray out in an arc under the influence of gravity.
This allows the jetter to not have to stand directly in front of the tunnel entrance to spray, which can avoid the danger of being shot by snipers in the tunnel.
But for safety reasons, the British army still threw a few incendiary bombs at the entrance of the tunnel... If the enemy sniper hit the fuel bottle, it would not be a joke. It would instantly burn a mountain of flames outside.
Then, to be precise, the US flamethrower climbed from bottom to the position suitable for spraying, and pulled the trigger to spray flames at the tunnel entrance as soon as he stood up... The jetter usually had to stand up and prepare to retreat before spraying, not because he was worried that the enemy would be shot, but because the flame would burn him. The same reason was obviously very dangerous for lying spraying, so it was not generally used.
In the tunnel, German snipers immediately realized the danger when they saw the flames sprayed from the tunnel entrance.
As mentioned before, the curved tunnel is not worried about the flames that sprayed into the tunnel entrance... They even stayed in the first half of the tunnel entrance, but these flames would consume the air that was not much in the tunnel. If the British army continued to spray, the tunnel would soon be in an oxygen-deficient state.
"Flame!" the sniper turned around and shouted to the back.
"Flame!" This news was heard one after another.
When it was transmitted to the tunnel entrance, the German soldiers guarding there immediately moved the sandbags that had prepared too early and piled them on the narrow tunnel entrance. After that, they used engineer shovels to shovel a few piles of soil from the ground to fill in the gap.
In this way, the air will certainly not be pumped out.
In fact, it would be safer to be burned by the British army: the passage from the section from the entrance of the tunnel to the main tunnel became an anaerobic zone. If the British wanted to attack quickly, they would have to carry an oxygen cylinder first.
The British army outside were in a very embarrassing situation at this time... They didn't know whether this method worked because they could not see the enemy at all.
"What is your order, sir!" The US flamethrower asked Major Eugen. He had already taken turns to spray three fuel barrels with another flamethrower.
There are two options before Major Eugen:
One is to continue burning like this, but there will always be an end if it continues. The US military does not carry many flamethrowers, not to mention that if it burns endlessly, no amount of fuel barrels will be enough.
The other is to go in and check whether 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 is like committing suicide. Eugen has seen the panic in the eyes of the British commando.
But this moment is coming. After consuming another fuel tank, Major Eugen waited for more than ten minutes to allow the air to enter the tunnel entrance... Then he nodded to the commando.
Several commando members nodded, took a few deep breaths, threw a grenade into it as usual, and rushed in with its explosive power.
Chapter completed!