Chapter 70 Cruise (Part 2)

"Forward!" Major William waved his pistol and gave the order without thinking much.

This is common sense in infantry-tank coordinated operations. The side with tanks will definitely use the advantages of tank defense and firepower to advance towards the enemy and compress the enemy's living space, until the tank tracks crush the enemy's positions and defenses.

But in fact, this order is wrong. It is wrong in this case because the enemy is not on land but on a cruise ship, and it is a moving cruise ship... There is a sea between the tank and the cruise ship. Although the distance is not far, the tank can never cross this gap.

Originally, this was nothing. There was an uncrossable gap between the enemy and us, which formed a firepower confrontation between the two sides. That is, the German army could not get through, and the British army could not get through, so the two sides competed to see who had a better firepower.

There is no doubt that the British army has the upper hand. They have more than a dozen tanks and more than a dozen armored vehicles, plus more than 500 veterans with rich combat experience... Let alone other things, the "Enfield" rifles in the hands of the British army have an advantage in firing rate. All these combined together can suppress a German infantry company without any problem.

The problem is that the German army is located at the top of the cruise ship and in the dark.

Therefore, the tank guns with a small elevation angle are first of all useless, and the machine guns on the armored vehicles are basically useless... If the machine gun wants to shoot, it must use the shoulders of people as tripods like shooting planes, but doing so will undoubtedly become a perfect target for the German army, and it can even kill two people with one shot.

What's worse is that the British army is still in an extremely empty dock, and there are not many buildings around to hide... It should be said that the British army has tanks and armored vehicles to hide, but because the German army is located at the top of the cruise ship and looks down, it is difficult for the tanks with a height of more than two meters and the armored vehicles with a height of more than one meter to stop the British army behind.

So the superiority and inferiority were immediately clear. One after another, the British soldiers fell under the German bullets, and the British soldiers didn't even know where the German soldiers were hiding.

Qin Chuan was even more comfortable at this time. The windows of the cruise room were all perfect sniper positions... Usually used for viewing, they were all chest-high, just right for Qin Chuan to set up his rifle on the windowsill.

Qin Chuan didn't even need to think, the next sniper position was the window of another room... Sometimes he rushed to this room and shot two shots out of the window, and sometimes he rushed to that room and shot two shots out of the window, and suddenly ran back to the original room to shoot a few more shots.

One after another, the mortarmen fell under Qin Chuan's gun... At this time, the only thing that could threaten the cruise ship was the mortar. The shells fired by that thing would explode on the cruise ship and shoot a large number of fragments like shrapnel.

But the British mortars were so obvious on the dock that the British army was unable to fire a few shells from beginning to end... The British mortars were completely suppressed by the German army, and there were several corpses next to each mortar, or simply a shell blew up the British army with both the gun and the people.

What's even more terrible is... the cruise ship can move.

Under the command of Bazel, the cruise ship slowly sailed upstream for 200 meters... Although it was only a short 200 meters, it came to the side and rear of the British army that was outflanking from the left wing. All the British soldiers hiding behind the tanks were exposed to the firepower of the German army, and they were still densely packed.

There was no need to think about what would happen next. A flare went down, and bullets and shells poured down "Huahua", and British soldiers fell down in groups screaming in the sound of gunfire and artillery.

Then the cruise ship slowly moved downstream again...

Major William watched the big guy swaying in front of him, and immediately guessed that the German army wanted to use the same trick to attack the British army on the right side. He immediately ordered the right side through the walkie-talkie: "Adjust direction, pay attention to cover, they are coming from the sea! Cruise ship, pay attention to that cruise ship!"

But everything was too late... The cruise ship was moving downstream at a fast speed, giving the British army little time to prepare, and it was difficult to make a quick and accurate response in such a short time.

Captain Genna, who was in charge of commanding the right wing, received the order and hadn't reacted to what was going on when he saw a black giant silently appear in front of him on the sea. Then, with a "bang", a flare illuminated the surroundings as bright as day...

The sound of gunfire and artillery soon rang out, and Captain Genna hurriedly ordered loudly: "Hide! Adjust direction!"

The British army reacted quickly and immediately hid on the other side of the tank, but this did not seem to protect their safety. The reason was that in addition to the fact that the German army could see the British soldiers hiding behind the tanks from a higher position, the more important thing was that the tanks had no idea what was happening and continued to move forward at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour, which continuously exposed the British soldiers who needed cover and were shot one after another.

There were corpses everywhere, blood all over the ground, and British soldiers lying on the ground holding their wounds and screaming, but their screams did not last long, because a few bullets would soon be added to make them completely quiet.

Captain Genna knew that if he continued like this, he would sooner or later become one of the corpses, so he lowered his body and crawled to an armored vehicle... There were originally five British soldiers on the armored vehicle. They were poorly shot by the enemy's machine guns. Four of the five were obviously dead. They leaned on the seats in different postures, and the blood on their bodies dyed everything around them red.

The driver was still alive miraculously, but he was afraid that he would not live long. He kept spitting blood from his mouth and looked at Captain Genna who opened the car door with a look of help.

Captain Gener hesitated for a moment, then pulled the driver off the driver's seat... He needed this armored vehicle to escape, and the driver was blocking his way.

The armored vehicle was quickly restarted, and then he stepped on the accelerator and rushed into the tank group... This was a smart move. Captain Gener wanted to escape under the cover of the tank, and he seemed to know that there was a sniper aiming at him.

Captain Gener guessed correctly, Qin Chuan just happened to notice him.

Qin Chuan even saw him pull the injured subordinate off the driver's seat and abandon him without hesitation... Although it is normal to do this to survive on the battlefield, it is a bit too much for an officer to do this to his subordinates.

So Qin Chuan made up his mind not to let this officer go back alive, although he thought it might be more beneficial for the German army to let this officer go back alive.

This officer was very cunning. He drove the armored vehicle at the same speed as the tank, so that he could hide in the blind spot of the tank and move forward.

Qin Chuan knew what he was waiting for, he was waiting for the flares to go out.