Chapter 50 Tugla
Soon, the soldiers looked at Qin Chuan differently, because this was a phenomenon that the army had never seen before. A sergeant could actually determine the strategic direction of the entire army... This could almost be said that Qin Chuan was commanding the army.
"Do you know?" Werner said to Qin Chuan: "When I know that this plan was made by you, I feel much more relieved!"
"Why?" Qin Chuan asked.
"Because I know your ability!" Werner smiled: "More importantly, I know you can't come up with a way to kill yourself, don't you?"
Qin Chuan couldn't help laughing. Werner was also a smart person and knew that Qin Chuan would not be so stupid as to kill him.
At this time, a command was passed down:
“Go ahead at full speed!”
“Go ahead at full speed!”
...
The troops accelerated the marching again. Just as everyone was wondering, Bazer shouted to Qin Chuan a few meters away: "Sergeant, the Colonel asked me to tell you, you guessed it, the British only had a small number of troops in the strongholds east of Tugel, and most of them were logistics personnel. This is the information we just got from the British general, and we are lucky!"
The German soldiers couldn't help but cheer in a low voice, and then the soldiers were greatly excited.
Werner even quipped, "Hear? We are lucky, what did you think of? I thought of Fevin Mary, I hope to seize her in Tugla!"
(Note: Fei Wen. Mary is an American movie star and won the 12th Academy Award for Best Actress for her movie "Gone with the Wind")
"Werner!" reminded the baker: "Fevin Mary is an American, but you want to seize her from the British!"
"Don't worry!" Werner replied: "They all speak English!"
The soldiers couldn't help but laugh with knowing laughter.
"Stop the sound!"
"Stop the sound!"
...
The orders passed down let the soldiers know that the target was ahead.
"Be ready for battle!" Bazel ordered.
So everyone took the gun off their backs to do some basic inspections and pressed bullets on the rifle.
"Follow me!" Bazel, who was in front of him, turned around and whispered: "Don't shoot unless you have to, do you understand?"
"Yes, sir!"
Under the leadership of Bazel, everyone ran forward with their waists. After turning over a sand dune, they saw a bunch of bonfires... This made Qin Chuan and others a little incredible.
It is not impossible to create a bonfire in the desert. In fact, raising a fire in the desert is one of the survival skills.
As mentioned before, the temperature difference between day and night in the desert is very large, and the temperature often drops to one degree below zero at night. The bonfire can not only keep warm, but also scare away wild animals to avoid attacks.
but……
This technique is only effective in peacetime, if a bonfire is set up in a state of war...it almost means showing your position to the enemy, so the German army strictly forbids this.
From this we can also see how relaxed the British defense was... but this is exactly what the German army hoped.
It is easy to tell from the bonfire that the target is about one kilometer ahead, and this distance should be said to be far away, but the troops obviously planned to catch the enemy off guard before dawn, so they accelerated their speed again and leaned towards the bonfire.
Eight hundred meters.
Qin Chuan saw several machine gunners stopping. They assembled the MG34 with a tripod as quickly as possible and built a simple trench.
The MG34 is the world's first universal machine gun...that is, it is a machine gun that can be used as a light machine gun or a heavy machine gun.
This is actually a product forced out of the Treaty of Versailles. After World War I, Britain, France and other countries did not allow Germany to produce heavy machine guns, so the Germans thought of a way: to produce a thing that looks like a light machine gun on the surface but can be turned into a heavy machine gun at any time. This thing is MG34.
If it is equipped with a 75-round drum, then from a traditional perspective it is a veritable light machine gun.
But if you install a tripod and use 200 rounds of ammunition chains to supply ammunition, it will turn into a heavy machine gun. It can even be used as an anti-aircraft machine gun to use a plane...
At this time, the German machine gunners used it as heavy machine guns. When they were ready, they could say that the battle had been half won, and the British army was not even aware of it.
Five hundred meters.
Another wave of MG34 was assigned, and this wave was obviously used as a light machine gun. With them, there were several riflemen, who were used as the cover of machine gun fire.
Qin Chuan no longer moved forward. He found a seat and lay down. After thinking about it, he lifted his gun and ran a few dozen meters away and found a seat again... The position just now was too close to the machine gun, and the enemy's attention was easily attracted by the machine gun and affected Qin Chuan's pond fish.
Qin Chuan raised his rifle and looked forward, and then he realized that the British soldiers in front of him should be car soldiers... The bonfire that was flashing and dark illuminated the "Bullfighter" military cars parked neatly behind him.
Two hundred meters.
The British army had not yet discovered the German army that was constantly approaching them. It was obvious that their sentinels were asleep.
But at this time the German army began to hesitate.
Because at this time they face two choices: whether to continue moving forward or start a battle on the spot.
The former may not be a good choice, because it will cause hand-to-hand combat between the two sides, and at the same time it will cause the German army to lose all the advantages of all the firepower that has been arranged... The enemy and us are mixed together and the machine guns cannot fire.
If the latter starts the battle, it seems that it has given up a good opportunity to attack again.
The German army obviously chose the latter because Qin Chuan saw that they arranged 50MM mortars... This type of platoon was generally equipped with the German army with short-barrel mortars, and almost every platoon had one, which could exert strong combat power at close range.
Then, a gunner aimed the shell at the gun mouth and gently put it on... With a "tent" sound, a shell was fired.
The shells accurately hit a bonfire, and only exploded the sparks and the fire flew around. The British army lying on the blanket suddenly woke up from their dreams. Their first reaction was to reach out to hold their guns and turn over to observe the situation...
But they were all in the bonfire and could not see clearly what was happening outside the bonfire. The Germans could see them at all, so there was a more violent sound of gunfire, and bullets and shells poured towards the British army like raindrops, and the British army was immediately stunned.
After a while, the German army stopped, and then someone raised a trumpet and shouted to the British army in English: "If you want to survive, raise your hands. Any resistance is meaningless. You are already surrounded!"
It was obvious that the German army wanted to save ammunition, otherwise they would not be interested in captives.
Chapter completed!