Chapter 40 Artillery Battle
The position suddenly became chaotic, with bombs and shrapnel everywhere, like a pot of boiled porridge.
This was the first air strike that Qin Chuan encountered, and since then the fear of the air strike left a shadow in his heart.
This is not only because the charge of aviation bombs is much larger than shells, the vibrations it produces when it hits the ground and explodes are like earthquakes again and again, but also because it makes a special and extremely terrifying roar when it drops into the air... The roar is like a countdown to the near, from far to near, from dull to loud, and then a "boom" sound... a large number of soldiers were lifted into the air high.
Qin Chuan felt like he was in the stormy waves of the ocean, with lightning and thunder in the sky, and the waves on the sea were surging. Every huge wave that came could tear Qin Chuan to pieces. Only then did Qin Chuan realize how fragile the sense of security he got from his comrades... No one could help him, and of course he could not help anyone. All Qin Chuan could do was lying tightly on the ground, letting the waves of sand attacks around him but not daring to act rashly.
Qin Chuan even had the urge to run out because he couldn't help thinking that maybe a bomb was falling on his head... but in the end he still held it back because he knew that the result of running out was to disappear from this world.
Finally, the explosion gradually weakened.
Qin Chuan found that he had been buried almost by the sand raised by the bomb... In fact, many people were indeed buried. They were either fainted by the bomb or injured, buried under the sand and unable to climb out. At the same time, their comrades did not find it for a while, so they lay in the sand forever.
Fortunately, Qin Chuan was still conscious. He crawled out of the sand with his hands and feet and saw... he didn't recognize anything around him: the place that was supposed to be a house turned into rubble, the place that was supposed to be a trenches turned into flat ground, but there were large overlapping pits in the places that were supposed to be a trenches.
"Beep..." Qin Chuan heard a sharp whistle, and someone shouted in a hoarse voice: "Be ready for battle, the British tanks are coming!"
Qin Chuan shook off the sand on his helmet and looked into the distance. Sure enough, he saw British tanks approaching from the front, with at least hundreds of vehicles, followed by groups of murderous British soldiers holding "Enfield" rifles.
They are not fast, perhaps because they are worried about anti-tank mines, or to keep up with the infantry behind them, but they have the aura of destroying any obstacles in front of them.
Looking at this scene, Qin Chuan couldn't help feeling shivered. He felt that in front of these tanks, the German soldiers, including himself, were like mantis in the "mantis blocking the chariot". Qin Chuan didn't think that blocking would have any meaning.
This idea made Qin Chuan think of running away for a while, but he finally held back... At this time, Qin Chuan was already a squad leader, with ten soldiers under his command, and they all stared at him. They ran away at the battle, and they were afraid that they would end up like Berg.
Qin Chuan really hoped that his superiors would issue an order to retreat, but the result disappointed him. They never received this order.
"Are they crazy?" Qin Chuan felt a little incredible: "What are we using to stop these tanks?!"
In Qin Chuan's questioning eyes, the howling of the shells suddenly sounded.
The sound of artillery came from the German direction. The shells crossed Qin Chuan and others and smashed into the tank group. Then, radiant sand and soil exploded. Of course, there were British soldiers in it, and the British tank team also became in chaos.
When Qin Chuan saw this, he understood that the German army used it to block the enemy tanks from advancing.
This is a very clever approach. The German army occupied the city of Tenger. There are many buildings in the city, which are a good place to hide artillery... Otherwise, setting up artillery positions in the desert will be like lice on bald heads for the enemy fleet, which are easily discovered and destroyed.
But now, the German artillery has survived the fierce bombing of the British army.
Not only that, because the German artillery was scattered and hidden in the building complex, while the British artillery was deployed outside the city, so one was in the open and the other was in the dark... This is also the reason why the British artillery has not fired artillery until now.
Soon, the British artillery began to fight back. They wanted to suppress the German artillery fire to cover the attack of the tank troops, so the two sides, who were going back and forth, launched a fierce artillery battle over the position.
The German artillery was prepared for this. In fact, the artillery fire strike on tanks was only part of the German artillery, and the other part of the artillery was ready for combat and waited for the British to fire.
The British army exposed the position of their artillery positions as soon as they fired, so the German artillery shells poured towards the British artillery positions like raindrops.
Then, fewer and fewer artillery shells were fired from the British direction, while the German artillery fire became more and more fierce.
If it weren't for some British fighter jets and bombers in the air diving down to attack the German exposed artillery, the British army would have been repelled at this time.
The British tank group slowly approached the German positions under the German artillery fire.
The German officer shouted: "Let's fire!"
The gunshots rang out in an instant, and German soldiers emerged from the sand and raised their weapons to shoot at the enemy.
There is also an advantage that the position was bombed by the British army... When the trenches were blown away, the German soldiers were randomly distributed in the sand of the position, with irregular positions. Even the sand and smoke from the bombs were well disguised by these soldiers, making it difficult for German soldiers to be discovered even during the day.
This is very important for the German army that lacks anti-tank weapons... The lack of anti-tank weapons means that tanks must be blown up close. To blow up tanks close, they must be able to get close to tanks. The camouflage of sand gives German soldiers the opportunity to get close to tanks... This is something that the British army did not expect.
A German soldier was lying in the sand and motionless. Even if a tank rumbled past him, there were even several British soldiers stepping on his body... The British army thought it was a corpse, so they almost ignored its existence.
He is waiting for an opportunity.
Finally, this opportunity came... a tank was heading towards him, and the tracks raised sand flows like flowing water brought by water trucks rolling towards him.
He clearly realized that the tank's tracks would be rolled on him, and he even thought that his identity card would be broken... This is the only thing that comrades can recognize him, and it is also a certificate that his family knows his whereabouts.
Therefore, he will become one of the missing people on the battlefield.
However, he did not move, nor did he hesitate.
He silently calculated the speed of the tank, and saw that it was almost done, so he pulled the cluster grenade hidden in the sand and ignited it hard.
Chapter completed!