Chapter 12 Collaboration
The battle went smoothly, and the British defense was much weaker than expected. They just arranged a few gunmen in the building, or built sandbags on the street to build a simple line of defense.
These were simply vulnerable to the German army with tanks. The tanks walked in front and bombarded all the buildings that might have enemy... Then the German soldiers would approach the buildings under the cover of their comrades, ignited grenades and threw them in through the window or door.
The grenade used by the German army was M24 type, which was a bit like a potato masher. The long wooden handle was filled with a round metal bullet body, filled with explosives. This grenade rarely produced or did not produce shrapnel, mainly to kill the enemy through the power of explosion. In fact, it was more to temporarily cause the enemy in the building to temporarily lose its resistance, and then the German soldiers rushed in and eliminated all the enemies hiding inside.
Of course, not everyone hiding in the building is enemies.
In fact, most of the buildings are Libyans, that is, residents of Agdabi... Strictly speaking, these residents are still on the same front as the German army, because at this time Libya was an Italian colony, and Italy was an ally of Germany, so Libya was also an ally of the German army.
But the Germans didn't care about so many, they drove the crying residents out of the building, many of them carrying wounds, and the blood looked particularly dazzling on the white turbans and clothing.
German soldiers waved their rifles at them, and then gathered them together like prisoners to control them.
Qin Chuan thought this was understandable.
Even from the perspective of survival, German soldiers could not put themselves in danger because of considering the lives of the Libyan people. If the war really wanted civilians to walk away, the British army should not be mixed with the Libyan people and use them as their guardians.
The German soldiers have good qualities, and what is particularly commendable is their spirit of unity and cooperation.
Qin Chuan has never been in the army, so I don’t know if the Chinese army or other army are the same, but in the German army... they meet a group of disbanded soldiers anytime and anywhere. They don’t even know the number and name, but they can fight together as long as they need to fight, and their cooperation is like they are originally a unit and have been exercised.
If other troops are concerned, I'm afraid they will inevitably think:
"You are not my superior, why should you order us to fight?"
"Does the military achievements count as your army or my army?"
"If it's your army, then we risk our lives to fight and make wedding dresses for you?"
...
The German soldiers didn't care about this. The baker ordered five separated soldiers to join the team to fight together on the road, and the five soldiers did a very good job, especially one of them was Private Werner.
Werner talks a lot, and seems to have ADHD. From time to time, he has to take something to play with in his hands... Sometimes it is a bullet, sometimes it is a grenade.
"Hey, are you a sniper?" Werner asked.
He threw three bullets back and forth like an acrobatic clown in his hand.
"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied.
"How many enemies have you killed?"
"I don't know!" Qin Chuan said: "I haven't counted it seriously!"
In fact, Qin Chuan knew very well how many enemies he had killed. He even remembered the appearance and experience of every enemy who died under his hands... Later, Qin Chuan realized that this was the reason why he had not killed enough people. In the future, these memories would be blurred because more and more people died under his hands.
"Hmm!" Werner looked up and down at Qin Chuan. Perhaps he noticed that Qin Chuan was one level lower than him, so he said with some confusion: "This is the first time I saw a third-class private... Didn't your sniper rifle be picked up?"
"Don't doubt it!" Big Bear, who was wiping the machine gun, turned his head and said with a smile: "You can trust him as much as you can. If you join earlier... you can see him blow up the entire building!"
"Use his rifle?" Werner said: "How did it do it?"
"He just did it!"
Werner smiled and said nothing.
Qin Chuan didn't know what Werner was laughing at first, but later he realized that Werner wanted to compete with Qin Chuan.
Werner is indeed excellent, just like he can throw three bullets back and forth in his hand while talking to someone else.
The advantage of Werner is that his movements are very agile and quick to react. Werner played a key role when attacking a stronghold composed of two buildings.
It was a "Ding" intersection, where the British army arranged very clever firepower. They left dozens of British troops in the buildings on both sides of the intersection's horizontal street, each with an anti-tank gun and an unknown number of machine guns.
In this way, the German soldiers standing in the longitudinal street would not see them. At any time, whenever German soldiers attacked one of the buildings, they would light their flanks and backs in front of the British troops in the other building, even if they were tanks.
Therefore, dozens of German soldiers and corpses who died in various postures were piled up at the intersection, and there was also a No. 3 tank... It was obviously penetrated from the rear by an anti-tank gun, and it was still experiencing choking black smoke.
"Frick!" The baker shouted at Qin Chuan: "Is there any way you can suppress them?"
Qin Chuan looked around and replied in embarrassingly: "Sergeant, their location is very good. Unless we blow up the two buildings next to us, we can't see them!"
The baker looked at the sides and found that there were indeed two abandoned earthen buildings, and the enemy hid in the dead corner behind the earthen buildings.
"So..." said the baker: "Can we occupy these two buildings and shoot them?"
"I'm afraid this is not a good idea!" Big Bear replied: "They have anti-tank guns, and they have removed all the hidden things in these two buildings. We can only become their targets when we do this!"
Big Bear is right, and the British obviously considered these situations in advance and prepared them.
Now, the best way seems to be to completely blow up these two buildings, but this seems to be a good idea.
"I have a way!" said Werner.
"What's your solution?" asked the baker.
But before the baker finished speaking, Werner rushed out with an explosive bag on his back...
"Dadadada..." The machine gun sounded quickly, but it miraculously failed to hit Werner.
In fact, this is not a miracle, but Werner chose the right route: he did not turn at the "Ding" intersection like others, and if he did, he would be knocked down on the road like others including the tank.
Werner rushed to the bottom as fast as possible and rushed into a low house between the two buildings.
Chapter completed!