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Chapter 18 Vickers Heavy Machine Gun

The sound of guns and cannons quickly turned into a circle, just like the long-awaited opera troupe suddenly started singing. Then, with a whistle, German soldiers emerged from all corners and buildings, and charged towards the British defense line under the cover of firepower of tanks, artillery and machine guns.

These charges are actually just a cover, and the purpose is to attract the firepower and attention of the British army. Because only in this way can the actions of several anti-tank bombing schools not attract the attention of the British and attract large-scale counterattacks from the British... In fact, the British army's combat effectiveness is even stronger than that of the German army at this time, because the German 88 anti-aircraft guns cannot enter and destroy the British "Matilda" tanks from a long distance. Therefore, the British "Matilda" tanks can almost be said to be invincible. If the British army uses the "Matilda" tanks as cover to launch a counterattack against the German army, they are afraid that the German army will not be able to take advantage of it.

But the British army was the British army after all, and their conservative character destined that they would only launch a counterattack if they had a strong advantage. For example, when they were fighting against the Italian army before, when they were facing the German army, they thought the German army had a huge number of tanks, so they only considered defense.

The British were obviously wrong in their practice, because the advantage of tanks lies in their mobility. They used tanks for passive defense like the British... that was just to use them as turrets or bunkers.

Qin Chuan has not fired.

The reason why Qin Chuan did not open fire was very simple. He did not find any British troops targeting anti-tank guns on the opposite side... This is one of the benefits of the German PAK36 anti-tank guns. Its height is only 1.1 meters, which is much shorter than a standing soldier. This height is difficult to detect on the battlefield. In particular, the gunners often pile some sandbags in front of the anti-tank guns or hang some rags in front of the shields, plants and other things to pretend.

So although anti-tank guns fired shells at the load-bearing wall of the school one after another, the British troops around didn't care too much... The British even thought that the targets of these anti-tank guns were originally British tanks, but they accidentally hit the school wall because they missed them.

Qin Chuan was very clear: the snipers arranged in this area were used to cover anti-tank guns. Since no one targeted anti-tank guns, the snipers certainly did not need to fire.

But other snipers did not realize this... Soon, the sniper hidden behind the window began to shoot, and then the sniper hidden behind the hole in the wall couldn't wait to fire a bullet.

Seeing this, Qin Chuan couldn't help frowning. Maybe he was blamed for not explaining it clearly before... He thought the snipers would understand what he said, "The key is to cover anti-tank guns."

Soon, the shooting of these two groups of snipers took a counterproductive effect: not many British troops noticed this street before, but now, the British troops discovered anti-tank guns while searching for snipers.

"Bang!" Qin Chuan pulled the trigger.

He defeated a British officer hiding behind a sandbag. The British officer obviously discovered the anti-tank gun because the angle of his telescope was frozen in the direction of the anti-tank gun.

What's worse was that the British officer poked his head out and looked at the anti-tank gun explosion point, then looked at the shocked face.

Qin Chuan knew that the British officer must have seen the purpose of the German army or conspiracy from the bombing point... But he could never tell others, because a bullet penetrated his head when he was about to hide in the sandbag.

However, Qin Chuan was not sure whether he was hitting him, because just the moment he pulled the trigger, a gunshot sounded from the upper right.

It was the second lieutenant, his sniper was on the roof, and he and Qin Chuan chose the same target and pulled the trigger almost at the same time.

As for who killed the British officer... I am afraid that even the second lieutenant and Qin Chuan could not judge, because they used the same rifle to shoot the same bullet, and even if they dug out the bullet that hit the British officer, they could judge who its owner was.

"Bang!" Another gunshot.

Qin Chuan fired another bullet, and he killed a heavy machine gunner.

It was a Vix heavy machine gun, which was the first time Qin Chuan had seen such a heavy machine gun on the battlefield.

The reason is that the Vicks heavy machine gun is a water-cooled machine gun. It must constantly add water to the thick water-cooled sleeve on the barrel, otherwise the barrel will have problems due to overheating... It is actually a lightweight version of the Mark's machine gun.

It is a very powerful weapon with great firepower and an important weapon in the British army.

But the problem is that water in the desert is very precious... Although the British army has always had sufficient logistics supplies, it is not as luxurious as it can support the Vicks machine gun.

This forced the British army to basically give up the Vicks heavy machine gun and just equip some cities that are not short of water for defense...Asdabia is a city.

This Vicks was facing the street intersection where the anti-tank gun was located, and it was condescending. Qin Chuan knew that with its firing rate and angle of 500 rounds per minute, it could almost knock the anti-tank gun gunners into sieves with just one trigger. So Qin Chuan had to take the initiative.

"Bang!" Qin Chuan fired another bullet.

At this time, he was already a little busy because he had to control the Vickers, but Vickers had two or three deputy shooters, and the infantry next to him followed him one after another. Qin Chuan had a bolt-pull rifle, and his speed was only able to kill the newly added deputy shooter...

Simply put, as long as one shot is missed, the result will cause a devastating blow to the German anti-tank gun.

Soon, the lieutenant also noticed the danger and joined the ranks of controlling the Vicks machine gun. The two of them shot each other at one shot, and in a short while, a bunch of corpses were left beside the Vicks machine gun.

But the British infantry also discovered the sniper positions of the two... Qin Chuan actually disliked fighting against the enemy at a distance of 300 meters, because this would prevent the sniper from playing the advantage. On the contrary, the high firing rate of the "Enfield" rifle was reflected.

For example, now, several British soldiers fired their rifles "bang" and the bullets flew towards Qin Chuan and the second lieutenant like raindrops, making them unable to raise their heads at all.

At the same time, the British army quickly sent several more people to operate Vix... As long as Vix fired, whether it was a sniper or an anti-tank gun, it would be ruthlessly suppressed by its dense bullets.

However, what can I do now?

Continue shooting the machine gunner?

That must be done with great risks.
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