Chapter 44 Gasoline (II)

Basel did what he said and immediately commanded the troops to take action.

Basel assigned tasks based on platoons, with each platoon responsible for three blocks, and Basel led the company to be responsible for one block, so the ten blocks on the front of the British attack were assigned.

When it came to each platoon, the platoon leader further refined the tasks, that is, assigned the tasks based on squads.

In fact, the tasks at this time were no longer completely assigned based on squads, mainly because the troops had too many casualties, such as Berger's 2nd squad... Berger killed six of his men and was executed himself, plus two others did not come out of the desert, and only one soldier was left.

The soldier was blown away when the sandstorm came, so he did not follow the company to chase Bushira, which made him survive.

A squad with only one soldier obviously cannot complete the task independently, so Kuhn assigned him to the third squad... According to the normal organization of the German army, there should be four infantry squads plus a 50MM mortar squad (3 people), plus the platoon (5 people), a full platoon has 48 people.

But in actual combat, there are often not so many people because of the reduction in personnel and no time to replenish them. The most common practice is to temporarily leave the organization vacant and transfer soldiers to other squads to make up a full squad, which is better for command and easier to coordinate.

The company where Qin Chuan is located has suffered serious reductions in personnel. A platoon often has only two squads or even one squad left. In addition, the time of the task is tight, which forced Bazel to transfer the logistics personnel in the company, such as the cooking squad, to make up the number.

"Sergeant!" Several soldiers carrying rifles walked up to Qin Chuan, who was busy lifting a gasoline barrel, and said, "The captain asked us to report to you. What should we do?"

Qin Chuan couldn't help but glance at Bazel... This was not Qin Chuan's business. These soldiers should report to Kuhn.

Bazel turned around and saw Qin Chuan looking at him with a puzzled look, so he replied, "Kuhn is not here. Assign them a task and let them take charge of a street!"

"Yes, sir!" Qin Chuan replied, and then pointed to a street next to him and said, "Do you see that street? All you have to do is walk along the street in the direction of the enemy. Don't make contact with the enemy. Always keep a distance of several hundred meters from the enemy. Our cars will transport the gasoline barrels to the appropriate location. All you have to do is move the gasoline into the buildings on both sides of the street, and then poke a few holes in the gasoline barrels to let the gasoline flow out. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Several soldiers replied.

"Go!" Qin Chuan said, "Be careful!"

"Don't worry, sergeant!" Several German soldiers answered excitedly.

Qin Chuan thought they could do it, because compared to fighting the British head-on, this task can be said to be both simple and safe... The British have always focused on destroying buildings, and the soldiers just need to remember to keep a distance from the British.

But Qin Chuan underestimated the "courage" of these cooks from the kitchen squad, or more precisely, their curiosity... Although these cooks have been in the army for some years, they have few opportunities to fight the enemy. Most of the time, they deal with pots and pans in an area 3 to 5 kilometers away from the front line. This makes them subconsciously have an impulse to go to the front line to see the enemy. Even if they fail to kill the enemy and fire a few blank shots, it will not be in vain.

But what they didn't expect was that this time they were facing the enemy's tanks and a large number of infantry, and these tanks and infantry were highly alert.

The result of the cooks hiding behind the house and shooting... was that a large number of shells soon poured towards their position, including tank guns, howitzers and mortars, which instantly turned the nearby buildings into ruins.

So after a while, two bloody cooks were carried back.

"What happened?" Qin Chuan asked.

"You are going to send someone else to carry out the mission!" The medical soldier replied: "We only found these two people!"

Qin Chuan was speechless.

"I can get you some more people!" Bazel noticed the situation here.

"No, Captain!" Qin Chuan looked at the street and replied, "Maybe keeping this street would be a better choice!"

Qin Chuan noticed that the street was long and straight, and there was a little slope.

The mission went smoothly. The British army advanced on the other side, and the German soldiers moved gasoline barrels into the building on this side. Before leaving, they poked a few holes in the gasoline barrels to let the gasoline flow out. Sometimes the soldiers would throw a few explosive packs next to the oil barrels. Of course, some of the explosive packs were wired and ready to be detonated.

The British army did not notice these when they passed these specially treated buildings, because they destroyed them farther away, and the collapsed buildings buried the oil barrels without surprise.

In fact, if the British soldiers were more careful, they could still find some clues, such as gasoline constantly seeping out of the collapsed buildings, and the smell of gasoline in the air was a little stronger.

But none of this attracted the attention of the British soldiers... The gun smoke and tank exhaust covered up a considerable part of the smell, and the British soldiers focused more on whether there were enemies in the building in front of them or how to destroy the building, so the entire unit went more than 500 meters deep into the trap without knowing it.

Until a tank coincidentally pushed an oil barrel out of a building when it crashed into it...

"What is this?" A British lieutenant stared blankly at the oil barrel in front of him.

At first, the British lieutenant thought that it was just a German soldier who left the oil barrel somewhere and was brought out by the tank. But when he walked forward and found several small holes on the oil barrel that were obviously man-made, and gasoline was gushing out like a spring, the British lieutenant quickly understood.

"This is a trap!" The British lieutenant shouted: "Let's retreat quickly!"

But no one listened to him, even his subordinates looked at him with surprise.

The British lieutenant's rank was too low, and he had no command of the troops. On the other hand, because all the British troops believed that this battle was determined to win, there was no doubt that they would win soon. Where would there be any traps? !

"Gasoline!" The British lieutenant shouted anxiously: "They have laid gasoline in this area!"

The British soldiers only then noticed the gasoline barrel that the lieutenant pointed to, which was still leaking oil, and suddenly realized it.

"Go back, retreat!" Someone shouted: "Call the tank back too!"

However, everything was too late...