Chapter 103 Trap

Then Colonel Olbrich understood: the Matilda tanks fired some shells in the battle to make them lighter. In addition, the Matilda tanks have more road wheels to make them run more smoothly, which also makes it less likely to sink into the sand.

But this also means that the critical point has been reached.

Colonel Olbrich ordered the armored vehicle driver to stop, then stood up and said to himself in the direction of the British army: "A little further forward, a little further forward..."

A shell exploded next to Colonel Olbrich's armored vehicle. Obviously, the British tanks had discovered this eye-catching German officer, and more importantly, this German officer had entered the range of the tank gun.

Then there were several more shells... The Matilda tank is different from the Crusader tank. This tank is mainly used as an infantry tank to cover the infantry charge, so it carries more high-explosive shells to kill infantry.

"Colonel!" The driver couldn't help but get nervous: "They found us, we should evacuate!"

"No!" Colonel Olbrich replied calmly: "Just wait and see, Kurt, they are finished, but they don't know it yet!"

Lieutenant Colonel Burton on the other side also got excited, because he saw that victory seemed to be just around the corner. The German officer had given up escaping, and the speed of other German soldiers was getting slower and slower... They seemed to have reached the limit of their physical strength.

"Speed ​​up!" Lieutenant Colonel Burton shouted into the intercom: "All units, full speed!"

Lieutenant Colonel Burton no longer cared whether the "Matilda" would break down. As long as half of the fifty tanks could successfully rush into the enemy's position, the Germans would be finished!

"These damn Germans!" Lieutenant Colonel Burton cursed: "Let you taste the power of "Matilda"!"

Before he finished speaking, the speed of the tank slowed down and then stopped.

"What's going on?" Lieutenant Colonel Burton asked.

Lieutenant Colonel Burton's first reaction was that the tank had broken down, but he clearly heard the roar of the tank engine again.

"Lieutenant Colonel!" The driver replied: "I think it might be that our tank got stuck!"

"Damn it!" Lieutenant Colonel Burton cursed.

At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Burton did not realize the seriousness of the problem. He thought that it was just his tank that got stuck and could not move because of an accident, until another tank reported: "Lieutenant Colonel, tank No. 8 got stuck in the soil and could not move!"

At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Burton realized something, his face turned pale, and then he grabbed the mobile phone and shouted: "All tanks stop moving! Repeat, all tanks stop moving!"

But it was too late, one tank after another rushed into this critical area and got stuck in the sea of ​​sand one after another... No matter how they stepped on the accelerator, the tracks were idling in the sand. In fact, it was not idling, but digging up the sand in front to make the tank sink deeper, so after a while, no one dared to step on the accelerator anymore.

Colonel Genna, who was watching from a distance, didn't even know that the tanks had fallen into the trap. He asked the staff officer: "What's going on? Why did they stop?"

"I don't know, Colonel!" the staff officer replied.

"Colonel!" A signalman holding a microphone shouted to Colonel Genna: "Our tanks are stuck in the sand and can't move. Lieutenant Colonel Bolton requests reinforcements!"

"What?" Colonel Genna was stunned when he heard it: "But how is this possible? The German tanks..."

Suddenly, Colonel Genna realized that the German "Type 3" tank was much lighter than the "Matilda" tank, so he stopped talking and stood there with his mouth open.

After a long time, Colonel Genna came back to his senses and shouted: "God, the Germans didn't bring us here on purpose!"

"Colonel!" The signalman shouted again: "Lieutenant Colonel Burton requests reinforcements!"

"Quick!" Colonel Genna shouted: "Send the anti-tank troops to build a line of defense to cover those tanks, and the engineers will find a way to get those tanks out!"

"Yes!" The staff officer responded and immediately passed the order down.

Usually at this time, the British army should abandon the tanks and escape, but Colonel Genna knew what this meant... It was not just a matter of dozens of tanks, but also a matter of the German army encircling the right wing and interspersed to the side of the British defense line, causing the British defense line to collapse completely.

So Colonel Genna did not dare to give up easily. He hoped to temporarily use anti-tank guns to resist the German attack, so that the engineers would have time to get the tanks out.

Colonel Genna believed that there was still a great hope of success. After all, the thickness of the armor of the "Matilda" could surpass the entire German army... and those "Matilda" tanks were just stuck in the sand and unable to move, not unable to fire. As long as they could withstand one or two waves of German attacks, the engineers would have a chance to change the situation.

However, this was just Colonel Genna's wishful thinking.

Colonel Genna was right about one thing. The "Matilda" tanks were indeed stuck in the sand and unable to move. There was no problem with the tank guns.

The problem was...

Once the tanks were stuck in the sand, their heads would tilt downward, and the tilt angle of the tanks was very limited. At the same time, if the tank body was unbalanced, the turrets could not be rotated to find the target... This would make it impossible for the gunners to shoot at all.

In other words, most of those "Matilda" tanks were iron lumps that could not shoot.

Colonel Olbrich certainly would not miss this opportunity. He waved his hand in the direction of the British army and said only two words: "Attack!"

The sound of artillery soon rang out. It was the howitzers and 80MM mortars behind the troops. Their target was clear, that is, the British anti-tank guns that came to reinforce... Although the British 6-pound anti-tank gun had better armor-piercing ability than the German PAK36, it was three times heavier than the PAK36, which meant that it needed to be towed by a car most of the time. If it was pushed by manpower, it would require a lot of people and the speed was also very slow.

This made the British anti-tank gun unit a big target. After a round of artillery shells, the desert was littered with cars and anti-tank gun parts.

Even if some anti-tank guns were lucky enough to be deployed to the front line, they were soon blown up by the shells of the "Panzer III" tanks... The "Panzer III" tanks were neither as slow as the "Matilda" nor lacked high-explosive shells like the "Crusader". They had already entered the range and destroyed them before the British had time to load shells for the anti-tank guns.

And this was just the beginning, as the tanks were followed by groups of infantrymen rushing forward...

The situation suddenly reversed, and the British army was attacking the German army, but now the German army was attacking the British army.