"You'd better leave this, sir!" Alphredo persuaded the lieutenant: "They're not easy to mess with!"

"But you are an Italian soldier, Alphredo!" said the lieutenant.

The lieutenant was not actually concerned about this, but in fact it had nothing to do with him. He was just a little embarrassed.

"I know, sir!" said Alphredo. "But it would be easy for the Germans to ask for help from a soldier who knows English who can communicate with them, right?"

The lieutenant nodded, then glanced at the German soldiers with guilt and left in shame at first glance. Only the sound of cheering from the German soldiers came from behind.

"I won't regret it!" Qin Chuan asked Alphredo.

"What?" Alphredo was stunned. After reacting, he shook his head and said, "No, of course not! Let me go back now... You know, like them, I will be very unaccustomed to it!"

Qin Chuan nodded to express his understanding, because Qin Chuan himself is the same. If he was asked to return to a peaceful society, he would probably not get used to it.

Then a rare period of peace appeared on the battlefield in North Africa... Both the enemy and us fought exhausted and were accumulating strength to prepare for the next attack.

It was not until this time that the German soldiers had time to carry out some necessary desert combat training.

Training includes understanding various desert diseases, as well as practicing in the wild and learning how to cross the desert... Most of this content is that soldiers have experienced and learned to deal with in previous battles, so it is not very meaningful to teach.

It is worth mentioning that the equipment shipped to Africa has undergone some upgrades to some extent...

The PAK36 anti-tank guns were all replaced with PAK38, which is exciting and good news for both anti-tank artillery, tank soldiers and even infantry.

Because before that, only a few 88 anti-aircraft guns were able to deal with the British "Matilda" tanks, and this situation changed after the PAK38 appeared.

The PAK38 has a 50MM caliber, which can penetrate 78MM armor at a distance of 500 meters, which is exactly the thickness of the front armor of the British "Matilda" tank.

Of course, it is not satisfactory to break through at a distance of 500 meters, but it is undoubtedly much better than the helplessness that even the rear armor could not penetrate when using PAK36 before.

Correspondingly, the newly transported "No. 3" tanks are all equipped with PAK38 modified 50MM caliber tank guns.

This made the German soldiers cheer, because in this way, the "No. 3" tank, which could not fight with "Matilda", would instantly have an absolute advantage... The "No. 3" tank may penetrate "Matilda" at a distance of 500 meters, but the two-pound cannon of the "Matilda" tank cannot do this.

In addition, the "No. 3" tank has the advantage of speed, the "Matilda" tank will undoubtedly turn into iron coffins.

Qin Chuan was not surprised by this. He knew that the German army's equipment should be upgraded at this time.

In fact, the German army had these equipment from the beginning, and there were quite a lot of them.

But Hitler was unwilling to put them on the African battlefield.

This is because Hitler believed that it would not take much advanced equipment to defeat those British colonial armies. After all, Africa is also a secondary battlefield for Britain, and most of the Germans faced the British colonial armies.

In fact, Hitler was completely wrong about this. The German army did not launch a land attack on the British army, so the British army could completely invest the elite army into the African battlefield. At the same time, Churchill attached great importance to the African battlefield beyond Hitler's imagination, mainly because of the control of the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean. This led Churchill to tighten his belt and support the African battlefield with all his strength, and even broke through the German submarine blockade bypassing the Cape of Good Hope to transport troops and equipment from the British mainland.

Another more important reason is that at this time, Hitler was planning to attack the Soviet Union, so he was unwilling to invest too much troops and equipment into Africa.

It was not until Hitler received a report from Rommel that he found that the equipment of the African Legion could not deal with the British "Matilda" tanks that he could not change these equipment.

This can also be regarded as a mistake by Hitler. Before that, he should have collected enough information, such as the thickness of the "Matilda" tank armor, the amount of British troops possessed, etc.

If Hitler knew this from the very beginning and equipped the African legion with PAK38, Rommel would be able to take down Egypt in one go.

Qin Chuan has seen this "No. 3" tank equipped with a 50MM tank gun.

That was when the German army used the battleground test of the new "No. 3" tank... Compared to the British's attitude of dividing the tank into "infantry tanks" and "cruising tanks" with a slap in their heads, the Germans were still very rigorous. They wanted to see the breakdown effect of the new tank on the "Matilda" tank in actual combat.

It is actually very easy to do this. The German army has a large number of "Matildas" captured from the British army.

Of course, the German army was still reluctant to use the "Matilda" that could be used as experimental works. They used trailers to drag several of the failed and unrepairable parts to the experimental site by tanks that were almost dismantled.

Qin Chuan was also present at that time because the scientists wanted to make the experiment as close to actual combat as possible, so they asked the soldiers to follow behind the tank... Qin Chuan didn't like this task at all, because it meant that he and his comrades had to follow behind the tank under the scorching sun to eat dust.

The "No. 3" tank stopped, and with a "boom", the tank body trembled and a shell shot out.

"Six hundred meters, cannot penetrate!"

The tank then moves forward. At the beginning, it will hit every 50 meters apart. After 500 meters, it will hit every 10 meters, and at least three rounds... It is possible to penetrate vertical angle armor at a distance of 500 meters, which does not mean that it can really penetrate "Matilda" armor, because the target tank armor is inclined.

Finally, the first breakdown occurred at 450 meters.

The researchers couldn't help but cheer, which almost means that the tank is fine.

They guessed correctly. The final test result was that the front armor can be effectively penetrated within 400 meters, the side armor can be effectively penetrated within 500 meters, and the rear armor can be penetrated at a distance of 900 meters.

(Note: The PAK38 anti-tank gun can penetrate armor plates with an angle of 30 degrees and a thickness of 50.8mm at a distance of 914 meters, and the rear armor of the "Matilda" is 50MM)

The technicians were very satisfied with the experimental data. One of the officers with the rank of colonel recorded the data while slightly showing off, saying to Qin Chuan: "They can protect you very well!"
Chapter completed!