Chapter 94 Charge (Part 3)

To some extent, the role of the German 50MM mortar is somewhat similar to that of the Japanese grenade launcher... The Japanese also used grenade launchers as close fire cover on the battlefield and then charged at the enemy, and it worked again and again. Even the National Army had to imitate the grenade launcher because it was unable to resist the Japanese grenade launcher's mode of charging after a row of shells, hoping to "fight the enemy with his own way".

The 50MM mortar has a greater range than the Japanese grenade launcher, and the range is also longer. The barrage of bullets is of course different. I saw a series of radiating smoke and dust bursting behind the tank, which made the British army scream.

This made Qin Chuan and the German soldiers rush to the front of the tank very smoothly, and then the gunfire suddenly stopped... This is also one of the advantages of the 50MM mortar, which is very closely coordinated with the infantry.

This is mainly because the mortar gunners are very close to the infantry, and the infantry are all within the gunners' visual range, unlike the long-range artillery gunners who cannot see the infantry at all and need to communicate with the radio and calculate the coordinates.

On the other hand, the gunners of the 50MM mortars are infantrymen trained in the infantry training camp... In addition to rifles, the basic training of the German infantry also includes mortars, anti-tank grenades, M24 grenades, rifle grenades, etc., and then soldiers with better mortar shooting performance are selected to equip 50MM mortars to form a mortar group.

The advantage of doing this is that the artillerymen of the mortar group are very familiar with the tactics and speed of the infantry charge, and can even reach the level of "telepathy".

Just like now, the mortar gunners stop shooting when they should stop shooting.

Almost at the same time, the German soldiers who rushed to the front pulled the ignition of the M24 grenades and threw them behind the tanks in rows...

"Boom boom" sounded one after another.

The British army, which had been suppressed by mortars and could not raise their heads, was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when they were suddenly bombed by a row of grenades.

"Go, boys!" Bazel waved his pistol and shouted: "Kill them all!"

The German soldiers shouted, got up from the ground and rushed forward with bayonets.

The sound of gunfire soon rang out, and the squad leader holding the MP40 took the lead and rushed to the front. They rushed to the back of the tank and fired a burst of submachine guns. After a round of bullets was fired, the soldiers with bayonets rushed up closely behind them... It can be seen that the German army was right to equip the squad leader with MP40. The squad leader rushing to the front can not only let the MP40 take the lead and suppress the enemy, but also improve the morale of the soldiers.

Qin Chuan, the squad leader, is different. Although his squad has two MP40s, they are not in his hands... Qin Chuan couldn't help but secretly said that it was better not to use submachine guns, otherwise he would have to rush to the front to block bullets.

The two assault riflemen, Werner and Keller, did not hesitate at all. They held their assault rifles and covered each other. After one person finished firing a round of bullets, the other person would go up. Occasionally, Werner had time to pull out a grenade and throw it forward, which killed dozens of British soldiers in one breath. When Qin Chuan and others rushed up, there was an open space in front of them... To be precise, it was not an open space, because the open space was full of British soldiers' bodies.

"Bang!" A gunshot sounded.

A British soldier who was injured and fell to the ground was shot in the middle of his eyebrows by Qin Chuan just as he was about to pull the melon-shaped grenade in his hand.

But it seemed too late, because the safety had been pulled when the British soldier let go.

Qin Chuan was about to shout "Get down", and the quick-eyed Werner had already grabbed the grenade that was about to fall to the ground from the British soldier's hand and threw it towards the British army.

With a "bang", the grenade exploded among the British soldiers... Werner's reaction speed once again refreshed Qin Chuan's perception of him.

But just with this hesitation, there was a gap between Keller and Werner's submachine gun combination, and a team of British soldiers with bayonets pressed forward.

Keller and Werner consciously made way... For bayonet fighting, the submachine guns in their hands that did not have time to load the magazines were not much better than fire sticks.

"Bang!" Qin Chuan used the last bit of time to raise his gun and shoot another bullet.

He knocked down a British soldier holding a Thompson submachine gun. Qin Chuan noticed that it was equipped with a drum magazine, a drum magazine of 100 rounds of bullets... If it was fired, I'm afraid Qin Chuan's squad would be wiped out in an instant.

Then Qin Chuan had no chance to shoot, because a bayonet had stabbed him fiercely, and the snow-white and sharp blade flashed a dazzling light in the sun, like a poisonous snake eager to drink blood.

Qin Chuan didn't think much, he raised his rifle and put his bayonet aside... At this time, Qin Chuan saw his opponent clearly, he was a young man who was less than 20 years old. In a hurry, Qin Chuan couldn't see his face clearly. Qin Chuan only felt that his blue eyes were full of fear.

This was the first time that Qin Chuan had such a close contact with the enemy. He couldn't imagine that two completely strangers would kill each other... If possible, Qin Chuan would rather use the method of rock-paper-scissors to solve it.

But this is obviously unrealistic. This is a battlefield, a battlefield without mercy and morality.

At the moment of separation, the British soldier shouted again and raised his bayonet to stab Qin Chuan, looking crazy and not leaving any tricks.

Qin Chuan realized that the two of them had to decide life and death, so he moved aside to avoid the other's bayonet, and then with a force on his arm, the bayonet pierced into the chest of the British soldier... It seemed easy, but it was not easy.

It was easy because the British soldier's bayonet fight had no rules at all, or it could be said that he stabbed randomly without caring about his own life and death, which doomed him to failure... Qin Chuan didn't even stab the bayonet, he just pointed the bayonet at the opponent's chest, and then the British soldier who couldn't stop the momentum rushed up.

It was not easy because Qin Chuan clearly felt the pause of the bayonet blade entering the flesh, and the friction between the two ribs, which made Qin Chuan feel a chill in his heart.

But this was not worse.

The bayonet may have pierced the heart, and a stream of warm blood spurted out from the wound and splashed Qin Chuan's face. Qin Chuan saw in the blood that the British soldier in front of him had a whole face twisted in pain. He grabbed Qin Chuan's rifle tightly and tried to pull it out, but it was useless.

Soon, he lost his strength and slowly knelt down. After a few rapid and difficult breaths, he finally stopped moving. His hands slowly loosened and fell weakly to the ground along with his head. However, his body did not fall to the ground because the bayonet was still in Qin Chuan's hand, as if it was hanging on the bayonet.