Under Major General Evans' personal command, a special commando team was quickly formed.

The assault consists of 20 tanks, 20 armored vehicles, 10 cars and 500 commandos.

The tanks are all "Valentine" infantry tanks.

This is because the "Valentin" tank has two great advantages compared to the "Matilda" tank... the failure rate is low and the body is low.

(Note: The "Matilda" tank is 2.51M high, and the "Valentine" tank is 2.27M high)

The low failure rate can ensure that the commando will not block the passage due to failure and affect the subsequent vehicle's advancement due to failure.

The low body allows the tank to advance in low-lying areas to prevent the turret from being discovered by the enemy.

Because of these advantages, although Valentine is not as good as Matilda in terms of firepower and defense, it was still selected without surprise... In fact, in the next few years, the British army gradually replaced the Valentine tank with a larger caliber gun and completely replaced the "three-high" tank with high failure rate, high body and fuel consumption.

The armored vehicle is the Beaverette light armored reconnaissance vehicle... This kind of armored vehicle has an observation hole on the right for the driver to observe and drive, and a "U"-shaped shooting slot is opened on the left. Soldiers can set up a Tobrun machine gun here to shoot while they are moving. And because it is open, the commandos riding in it can jump out of the car and develop a battle formation at the first time, which is very suitable for assault operations.

Ten cars are loaded with ammunition required by commandos.

Five hundred commandos... These are elite soldiers carefully selected by Major General Evans from the 15th Armored Division. Some of them have experienced veterans in the First World War, and some are newcomers who have performed well on the battlefield and made many achievements.

Major General Evans's idea was that the German army had only one dissatisfied infantry company in Tobrook Port, and there were basically no heavy weapons... The reason why "basic" is used here is because Major General Evans is not sure whether the German army would take out heavy weapons such as anti-tank guns from the warehouse to use.

But even so, Major General Evans believed that under the firepower of 20 tanks and 20 armored vehicles and the attack of 500 elite commandos... this German infantry company would soon retreat, and the warehouse would undoubtedly return to the hands of the British.

Next is the most important thing: these 500 commandos will build a line of defense around the warehouse by relying on tanks and armored vehicles, and defeat all German troops who attempt to regain the warehouse or blow up the warehouse.

Major General Evans believed they could do this, because the German army had only more than one thousand troops, and most of them had been dragged on the defense line by the frontal attack of the 15th Armored Division, and at most two or three hundred people could be transferred to the warehouse for reinforcement.

Two or three hundred German troops attacked the five hundred elites with tanks and armored vehicles defense... Major General Evans believed that this was a sure thing.

Major General Evans even organized this group of commandos to conduct a simulation exercise... The British army had occupied Tobrook, so they knew very well the terrain of Tobrook Port and the location of the warehouse. They organized an exercise based on these and took two hours.

From this point of view, Major General Evans is also a careful commander.

The problem is... Major General Evans's exercise is mainly about the problem of rapid deployment and garrison after occupying the port. He did not expect that the commando's offense would not reach that point at all, so his exercise not only did not play the due role, but instead formed a psychological misleading for the commando.

The commando set off on time at 3 a.m.

This time is also accurately calculated. The time when the commando sneaks through the passage, the time when the commando arrives at the Port of Tobrook, and then occupy and deploy defense... All these things take more than two hours. (A part of the reason is that the maximum speed of the "Valentine" infantry tank is only 24 kilometers per hour)

Then it was almost dawn, which was beneficial to the defensive commando. At the same time, the commando only needed to hold on for about half an hour to get air support, so he was even more sure to win.

In order to cooperate with the commando's sneak attack, the 15th Panzer Division also launched a fierce attack on the front of the defense line, both in artillery fire and tanks, and only made the entire defense line rumbling.

Qin Chuan and others in Tobrook Port knew nothing about this. Some of them even started yawning because they were on the relatively relaxed second line. To be precise, they were not challenging to guard the warehouse. If they were on the battlefield where they were killed at any time, I was afraid that no soldier would dare to relax a little.

So, although Qin Chuan knew that this was wrong, he couldn't help but hide in the corner with a few subordinates and smoked... This was not a problem of smoking addiction. Qin Chuan was not addicted to smoking at all, but the pressure on the battlefield was too great. The soldiers needed some external help to release this pressure. Cigarettes were one of the easiest and most convenient methods.

After carefully lighting the cigarette, everyone consciously used their helmets to block the fire. They didn't want to be the target of a sniper hiding in the dark because of smoking, although there is little possibility of a sniper here.

"Do you know?" Werner said to Qin Chuan: "I think they should give you an Iron Cross!"

"Forget it!" machine gunner Bowen said with a smile: "They will only treat these records as sacrifices..."

"Shh!" Werner made a gesture to tell Bowen to stop talking. Bowen nodded tactfully.

At first, Qin Chuan thought that Bowen was joking, but later he learned that Bowen said something was true... This was done by Himmler, the national leader of the SS. He used flowers to offer Buddha to turn the confirmed sniper results of the front-line snipers into "a sacrifice dedicated to the head of state". By the designated date, all the sniper results of all snipers will be cleared.

You should know that it is very difficult for German snipers to confirm the results of the battle.

First of all, the targets that sniper shoots during the entire offense or defense are not counted as official results, because this is what a soldier should do, not the sniper's credit.

Secondly, the results of the battle must be witnessed by two or even more bystanders.

Finally, the superior needs to confirm the seal.

Qin Chuan thought about it and almost all the enemies he had killed before were shot and shot during offense or defense... In other words, his results were still zero.

But even if the results that are so difficult can be obtained, it means that "zero" is "zero"... No wonder the soldiers have complaints. You should know that this is the record they achieved at the risk of their lives, but was easily presented to the head of state by those who hold high positions... What power do they have to do this?!

Qin Chuan didn't agree with this after knowing it, because he knew very well that the reason he fought here was not for the result.
Chapter completed!