Chapter 100: Building Defense

The three-mile journey only takes about half an hour for the German mechanized troops... A considerable part of this time is actually spent on preparations before the troops depart, such as the assembly of troops, the organization of logistics troops, etc., the real journey on the road The march lasted only ten minutes.

The destination was flat, without any hills or highlands to hide in, not even a small hill.

Therefore, when the order to build fortifications and defenses was issued, the baker complained: "God, they must be crazy to choose this damn place as a blocking position. The enemy artillery can see us from a few kilometers away and attack us." We were blown to pieces!”

"The commander must have their own ideas and arrangements, right?" Alfredo continued.

"Maybe it's not the commander's arrangement!" Werner glanced at Qin Chuan with a half-smile, and asked, "Sergeant, you should know something, or is this your plan again?"

"No, Werner!" Qin Chuan replied: "I only know that this will be a very difficult battle!"

It wasn't that Qin Chuan intentionally lied, but that the plan was not convenient to disclose.

This has nothing to do with confidentiality. The reason is that there is not much time left before the war starts, and the personnel in the army are relatively simple. In addition to German officers and soldiers, the possibility of British spies among them is very slim. Even if there are British spies, the German army strictly While controlling the radio station and surrounded by endless desert, the spies had no way to pass the information to the British army.

The reason why Qin Chuan didn't say anything was because this battle was about to be lost to the British army. Only if they really lost could the British army pursue it with confidence.

And if you want to "lose really"... naturally you can't let the German soldiers know that this is an act.

"You scared me, sergeant!" Werner chuckled, not believing that Qin Chuan could do nothing.

Qin Chuan could only shrug his shoulders and express his helplessness.

The German army built their positions very quickly. Engineers pulled barbed wire to lay mines in front of the positions, artillerymen set up artillery positions at the back, and infantry dug several trenches in battalion units in the middle... Infantrymen generally do not have only one trench in open areas. If there is only one, then once the enemy breaks through, it will only be chased and defeated for thousands of miles. Digging trenches every few hundred meters and digging traffic trenches between the trenches can solve this problem very well.

The armored forces were well hidden at the back. The method was to dig a hole in the ground for the tanks to drive into, exposing only the barrel and part of the turret, and then cover the top with canvas, so that no one could tell They are planes in the sky, and it is difficult to find their location even on the ground.

Seeing this, Alfredo couldn't help but sigh: "The fortifications that you can complete in twenty minutes may take us twenty hours!"

"It should never be completed!" Werner laughed: "Because the enemy has arrived before that!"

Jacop interjected in a weird voice: "If I were you, I would ask the commander: 'Sir, we are all going to surrender anyway, why bother building these damn fortifications?'"

With a coax, the soldiers laughed.

Alfredo looked a little ugly, but he couldn't refute.

"Sorry, Alfredo!" Werner said, "It was just a joke!"

"No!" Alfredo replied with a wry smile: "What you said is the truth!"

This is indeed true. The Italian army with a total strength of 230,000 surrendered 130,000 in just a few weeks. This means that surrender has become a trend and inertia for the Italian army.

Not to mention other things, even Alfredo himself had the idea of ​​​​surrendering once he encountered the British army not long ago, and they were not even ashamed.

But I don't know when, Alfredo's concept has completely changed. This may be the so-called "the one who is close to vermilion is red, and the one who is close to ink is black".

"Air raid siren! Take cover!" Someone shouted at this time, and then a harsh air raid siren sounded.

The soldiers jumped into the fortifications that had not yet been fully constructed, and several cars that were transporting and distributing ammunition hurriedly started and drove to open areas.

But it was too late. Several "Mosquito" bombers suddenly appeared above the position and swooped down with a roar...

The British army's position in the east gave their aircraft an advantage because the east was usually the direction from which the sun shone, making it difficult for scouts to detect them from a distance.

Then there were just a few "boom boom" explosions, and the ammunition truck was hit by an aerial bomb. The explosion of the ammunition caused the car to burst into flames in an instant and was blown into pieces. Even Qin who was hiding in the trench Kawa can also feel the heat waves coming from the top of his head.

And this was just the beginning. The sky soon became chaotic, with the roar of planes and bombs everywhere, like countless swarms of bees circling overhead. What was even more terrifying were the bombs that exploded on the ground. , every vibration caused the sand in the trench to fall down, and Qin Chuan suspected that he was going to be buried alive by the sand.

Therefore, not only the fortifications built by the Italians were meaningless, but the fortifications built by the Germans also did not have much effect.

Ten minutes later, the roar of the plane finally stopped, but the explosions did not.

Those were shells fired by British artillery.

Qin Chuan looked out of the trench and saw rows of shells whizzing in and exploding on the German positions. The shells raised waves of sand that rushed towards the German soldiers in the trenches like seawater. In the direction of the sound of the artillery, teams of British tanks lined up in neat formations to cover a large number of British soldiers and approached the German defense line step by step.

"They are coming!" Qin Chuan heard Kuhn shouting: "Get ready for battle!"

The soldiers set up their weapons in the trenches one by one.

The situation was a bit frustrating, because the British army was well-organized and the various arms were closely coordinated, such as the bombing from the air just now, and the pace of the British infantry following the tanks... The "Matilda" tank was slow, but sometimes the slow speed would create a certain pressure and a certain power, just like the heavy infantry in the cold weapon era holding a huge shield and slowly advancing towards the enemy. Although the enemy had time to think or respond, they had no way to deal with it.

The German army had the same feeling when facing the "Matilda" tanks... watching the danger approaching step by step but being unable to fight it, the powerlessness and helplessness would increase the fear in their hearts. It's like if a person dies due to an emergency, he will not be afraid of anything, but if the doctor tells him that he has a terminal illness and only has one month to live, the fear in his heart will increase day by day.