Chapter 19 Vickers Heavy Machine Gun

The sound of gunfire soon became a chorus, just like a long-awaited opera troupe suddenly started singing, which caught people off guard. Then, with the sound of whistles, German soldiers came out from all corners and buildings, and launched a charge towards the British defense line under the cover of tanks, artillery and machine guns.

These charges were actually just a cover to attract the firepower and attention of the British army. Because only in this way, the action of several anti-tank bombing schools would not attract the attention of the British and attract a large-scale counterattack from the British... In fact, the British army's combat effectiveness at this time was even stronger than that of the German army, because the German army's 88 anti-aircraft guns could not reach and could not destroy the British army's "Matilda" tanks at a long distance, so the British army's "Matilda" tanks were almost invincible. If the British army launched a counterattack against the German army under the cover of the "Matilda" tanks, I am afraid that the German army would be in trouble.

But the British army is the British army after all. Their conservative nature means that they will only launch a counterattack when they have a strong advantage. For example, when they faced the Italian army before, now facing the German army, especially when they thought that the German army had a large number of tanks, they only considered defense.

The British approach is obviously wrong, because the advantage of tanks lies in their mobility. Using tanks for passive defense like the British... is just using them as artillery or bunkers.

Qin Chuan has not fired.

The reason why Qin Chuan did not fire is very simple. He did not find any British troops on the opposite side who were targeting anti-tank guns... This is one of the advantages of the German PAK36 anti-tank gun. Its height is only 1.1 meters, which is much shorter than a standing soldier. This height is difficult to be discovered on the battlefield, especially the gunners often pile some sandbags in front of the anti-tank gun or hang some rags, plants, etc. in front of the shield for camouflage.

So even though the anti-tank guns fired shells at the school's load-bearing wall one after another, the surrounding British soldiers didn't pay much attention... The British even thought that the anti-tank guns were originally aimed at British tanks, and they hit the school wall by mistake because they missed the target.

Qin Chuan was very clear about one thing: the snipers deployed in this area were used to cover the anti-tank guns. Since no one was targeting the anti-tank guns, the snipers certainly didn't need to fire.

But the other snipers didn't realize this... Soon, the snipers hidden behind the window began to shoot, and then the snipers hidden behind the hole in the wall couldn't wait to fire one bullet after another.

Seeing this, Qin Chuan frowned. This might be because he didn't explain it clearly before... He thought the snipers would understand what he said, "The key is to cover the anti-tank guns."

Soon, the shooting of these two groups of snipers had a counter-effect: before this, not many British soldiers noticed this street, but now, the British army found the anti-tank guns while looking for snipers.

"Bang!" Qin Chuan pulled the trigger.

The person he knocked down was a British officer hiding behind a sandbag. This British officer had obviously discovered the anti-tank gun, because the angle of his telescope was fixed in the direction of the anti-tank gun.

What was worse was that this British officer also stuck his head out and looked at the explosion point of the anti-tank gun, and then his face was full of astonishment.

Qin Chuan knew that the British officer must have seen the German army's purpose or conspiracy from the explosion point... But he could never tell others, because a bullet pierced his head at the moment he was about to hide in the sandbag.

However, Qin Chuan was not sure whether he had hit him, because at the moment he pulled the trigger, a gunshot was heard from the upper right.

That was the second lieutenant, his sniper position was on the roof, and he and Qin Chuan chose the same target and pulled the trigger almost at the same time.

As for who killed this British officer... I'm afraid even the second lieutenant and Qin Chuan couldn't tell, because they used the same rifle to shoot the same bullet, and even if they dug out the bullet that hit the British officer, they couldn't tell who its owner was.

"Bang!" Another gunshot.

Qin Chuan fired another bullet, and he killed a heavy machine gunner.

It was a Vickers heavy machine gun, and this was the first time Qin Chuan saw this kind of heavy machine gun on the battlefield.

The reason is that the Vickers heavy machine gun is a water-cooled machine gun. It must constantly add water to the thick water-cooling jacket of the barrel to cool it, otherwise the barrel will have problems due to overheating... It is actually a lightweight version of the Maxim machine gun.

It is a weapon with very powerful firepower and a very important weapon in the British army.

But the problem is that water is very precious in the desert... Although the British army's logistical supplies have always been sufficient, they are not luxurious enough to support the Vickers machine gun.

This forced the British army to basically abandon the Vickers heavy machine gun and only equip some for defense in cities where there is no shortage of water... Asdabia is a city.

This Vickers was facing the street corner where the anti-tank gun was located, and it was also high above. Qin Chuan knew that with its firing rate of 500 rounds per minute and the angle, it could almost turn the anti-tank gunners into sieves with just one pull of the trigger. So Qin Chuan had to take the initiative.

"Bang!" Qin Chuan fired another bullet.

At this time, he was already a little flustered, because he had to control the Vickers, and Vickers had two or three assistant shooters, and there were also infantrymen next to him. But Qin Chuan had a bolt-action rifle in his hand, and his speed was only enough to kill the newly added assistant shooter...

Simply put, if one shot missed, the result would be a devastating blow to the German anti-tank gun.

Soon, the second lieutenant also noticed the danger, so he joined the ranks of controlling the Vickers machine gun. The two of them fired one shot after another, and soon a pile of corpses were left next to the Vickers machine gun.

But the British infantry also discovered the sniper position of the two... Qin Chuan actually didn't like to fight the enemy at a distance of 300 meters, because this would prevent the sniper from taking advantage, while the high rate of fire of the "Enfield" rifle was reflected.

For example, now, several British soldiers fired their rifles with a "pop" sound, and the bullets flew towards Qin Chuan and the second lieutenant like raindrops, making them unable to raise their heads at all.

At the same time, the British army quickly sent a few more people to operate the Vickers... As long as the Vickers sounded, both the sniper and the anti-tank gun would be ruthlessly suppressed by its dense bullets.

However, what can be done now?

Continue to shoot the machine gunner?

That must be done at great risk.

But if you don't do this, the plan is likely to fail...