Chapter 67 Port Defense
A flare rose into the air and the tank was approaching.
The British tanks increased their horsepower and rushed towards the port at the fastest speed, but the infantry tanks were infantry tanks. Even at the fastest speed, they still seemed to be moving, and the British soldiers following them could only trot all the way.
The British believed that tanks were auxiliary to infantry, so they reduced the speed of the tank to adapt to infantry. On the contrary, the Germans believed that infantry was auxiliary to tanks, so they let infantry ride cars and motorcycles to adapt to tank speed.
The facts also proved that the Germans were right, and they used victory time and time again on the battlefield to laugh at opponents who reduced the speed of the tanks to adapt to the infantry.
A flare rose into the air and the tank was approaching again.
Qin Chuan couldn't help but think in his mind, if the British did not attack step by step like in front of him, but formed a quick team of armored vehicles to launch a sudden attack on the port...
The speed of this light armored vehicle can reach seventy yards, which will make the German army not have time to react at all. The British could smash all German soldiers into sieves and successfully occupy the port.
Fortunately, the British did not do this. They were more keen on "insurance" or "dull" attack methods. Otherwise, Qin Chuan would probably become a corpse at this moment.
Another flare rose into the air, and the tanks were closer.
Under the light of the flare, Qin Chuan could even see the driver's observation hole in the middle of the tank.
The British commander poked half of his head out from above the turret and looked forward with his eyes... The tanks advanced in the dark and had to maintain coordination with the infantry, which forced the commander to do so to maintain the formation of the tank.
Qin Chuan's fingers on the trigger couldn't help but tighten, but in the end he still didn't fire... He had to wait for Bazer's order.
Finally, Bazer, who had been observing the enemy with a telescope, shouted at Qin Chuan across the street: "Frick, give them some excellence!"
Qin Chuan immediately understood Bazer's intention. He wanted Qin Chuan to make a good start to stimulate the morale of German soldiers... The German soldiers did need this very much at this time, because there were much more enemies than them and their equipment was much better. Most of them, including Qin Chuan, actually thought they were dead.
So everyone turned their attention to Qin Chuan, while some looked at the German army opposite, guessing which British army Qin Chuan would choose as the target.
"Don't be ruthless, Sergeant!" Werner added in a low voice.
Qin Chuan felt an unprecedented pressure, but he quickly controlled his mood, took a deep breath and aimed at the target, and his index finger continued to press on the trigger, and then with a "bang", a bullet headed straight to the opposite side.
The bullet hit a tank leader who was emerging. Due to gravity, he immediately fell down and disappeared, leaving only a red and white mixture on the hatchback behind.
"I've hit it!" the soldiers shouted.
"Let's fire!" Bazer ordered loudly at this moment.
The soldiers raised their weapons in their hands and fired at the British army. The bullets hit the tank armor and made a "kneading" sound of gold and iron fighting. The Mars that were knocked out seemed particularly obvious in the dark.
The British army also began to fight back, and the tanks were side by side with machine guns, spitting out flames, and the British soldiers hiding behind the tanks also kept leaning out to shoot.
Although both sides fought back and forth fiercely, the hit rate was actually very low... The German firepower was difficult to pose a threat to the British army protected by tanks. The British tanks and armored vehicles were shooting randomly because of their poor vision.
This gave Qin Chuan an opportunity to take advantage of it. He shot and shot the tank captains one by one... The tank captains hadn't noticed them at first, and they were not surprised to find out until Qin Chuan aimed at the fifth target, so they hid in the tank one after another and covered the hatch.
But this obviously increased the pressure on the tank crew... The tank was not equipped with a night vision instrument at this time, and all the crew members hiding in the gaps of the flares were blinded. Not only the machine gunners, but even the driver did not know whether they had deviated from the direction.
What's even more terrifying is that in the dark they didn't know when a shell would be fired or an anti-tank grenade would be dropped to blow them into flames along with the tanks.
"Keep going!" Commando Commando Major William shouted behind his back, and at this time he realized that the situation of the battle was not as easy as he and Major General Evans thought.
"Flag!" With Major William's order, several flares rose into the sky.
In an instant, the German positions lit up, and Qin Chuan, who had not had time to close his eyes, was also dazzled.
The British army took advantage of this time to open fire, tank guns, machine guns, and various guns from soldiers' hands rushed in like raindrops.
A shell exploded in front of the anti-tank gun...Anti-tank guns are always the first to attack the target, because this is the only equipment that the opponent can threaten the tank at a long distance.
Fortunately, this shell did not hit the anti-tank gun, perhaps because the enemy gunner could not accurately aim in the dark... The gunner in the tank was difficult to judge the distance of the target, especially in the dark. Whether it could hit the target often required luck.
But a shrapnel that exploded from the shell passed over Qin Chuan's head and streaked over the abdomen of a German soldier who was shooting against the wall at a tricky angle... Qin Chuan could even hear the shrapnel tearing sound when the shrapnel cut off his clothes or it could be said to be his belly.
The soldier watched his stomach roll out and fell all over the ground with an incredible look, like a package falling on the ground. Because the temperature was low in the early morning, the intestines were still steaming.
The soldier slowly knelt down and tried to stuff them back in a daze, but before he could move, he fell to the ground and was unconscious.
"Fire!" Bazel shouted at the anti-tank gunner.
A few "boom" sounds, five anti-tanks immediately fired shells at the locked target, and three of the five shells hit, which was excellent enough for infantry who had not received professional training.
But the results of the battle were disappointing. Except for one shot that happened to hit the tank track so that it could not move, the other two shots bounced open.
"What's going on?!" Bazel cried.
Qin Chuan soon discovered the reason. Compared with the "Matilda" tank, the inclination angle of the front armor of the Valentine tank is larger, which makes it easier to produce jumps and increase physical thickness even though its armor thickness is slightly lower than that of the "Matilda".
Then another batch of anti-tank shells were fired, and only then was the luckless destruction of a tank, but the other tanks were still approaching the German army step by step.
Chapter completed!