"Open fire!" Qin Chuan ordered loudly.

The French soldiers immediately pulled the trigger and fired bullets at the British army. Then more than a dozen British soldiers screamed and fell into a pool of blood.

However, the gunfire exposed the positions of the French soldiers, so the British cover units quickly launched a counterattack.

These cover units include tanks at the foot of the mountain. Of course, tank guns do not play much role at this time... First of all, the elevation angle issue, and secondly, direct guns are difficult to pose a threat to French soldiers hiding at the edge of the position on the top of the mountain.

In fact, not only tank guns, but most of the bullets fired by anti-aircraft machine guns are scary but difficult to hit French soldiers. The reason is very simple. French soldiers are at high places and are hiding in trenches, so it is difficult for machine guns at the foot of the mountain to effectively suppress them.

But the French soldiers were frightened by the bullets flying everywhere above their heads and making sharp whistles, or they were shocked by the enemy's blood and screams. Many of them only held guns and watched the enemy rush upwards but did not dare to pull the trigger, or hid in the trenches and dared not appear.

"Continue shooting!" Qin Chuan ordered loudly: "Otherwise they will rush up and kill you!"

But Qin Chuan's efforts were hard to do. French soldiers seemed to have forgotten everything during training. Less than half of them could fight normally, and some even screamed and ran away... Stefan, who said he wanted to give the British good looks, was one of them.

Of course, they failed to escape successfully, and the German soldiers on the second line pressed them to the ground immediately.

What made Qin Chuan feel relieved was that Winette was very calm from beginning to end and pulling the trigger again and again to kill the target. She also did what a sniper should do... changing positions from time to time and killing the most dangerous enemies.

After the war, Qin Chuan asked Vinette: "Aren't you afraid?"

"No, of course I'm afraid!" Vinette replied.

"But you don't look like that on the battlefield!"

"That's because I always believe there is someone around me!" Venet looked at Qin Chuan and said, "He will clear all the threats for me, right?"

"Oh!" Qin Chuan said: "This person must be very handsome!"

"Go to you!" Venett laughed.

But the battle is no joke, the situation was very dangerous at that time... As soon as the firepower of the French soldiers weakened, the British soldiers took advantage of this time to press forward.

This does not mean that the British army would occupy the top position or anything else. The German army built fortifications on the back slope, and there were many well-trained German troops. It was still far from the British army to occupy the top position.

However, if the British army rushed up like this, the casualties of French soldiers would be greatly affected.

At the critical moment, Bazer ordered: "Second Company, move forward!"

The German troops on the second line immediately rushed up. As soon as they entered the top of the mountain, they threw out a row of grenades amid the whistle, raised their guns and fired after a burst of explosions, and soon they attacked the British offensive.

"It seems that your troops need to be retrained!" Bazer said as he passed by Qin Chuan.

Kuhn said a nice thing to Qin Chuan: "Please, Captain! They are French, and no matter how they train, they will be useful!"

While saying this, Kuhn looked at Qin Chuan with sympathy, and then shook his head slightly.

Qin Chuan didn't know what to say at this time.

Indeed, the first time the recruits went to the battlefield, there were problems of one kind or another, but the poor performance of the French camp was also a bit too much.

"Lieutenant!" Werner came to Qin Chuan with several deserters, including Stefan, and asked, "How to deal with these people?"

Qin Chuan responded coldly: "Take it back!"

In the tunnel, under the faint light of the kerosene lamp, the angry Colonel Slein said to the French soldiers whose face was pale and trembling, "Now, you know what war is! No, let me say, this is not war, because if it was a real war, you have died at the British's gun. Oh, by the way, there is another possibility... that is, you surrender to the British!"

Colonel Slain turned his head and said to Qin Chuan with a little reproach: "You should be tough on them!"

As he said that, Colonel Slein drew his pistol and loaded it. Several German soldiers pulled Stefan and several deserters tied up and knelt on the ground.

Colonel Slain walked up, and pulled the trigger with a "bang" at the back of one of them from behind. The bullet splattered a pool of blood through his head. The soldier fell to the ground like a sack without any anger.

Colonel Slain did not hesitate, then walked towards the second person, pulled the trigger, and another person fell down after a gunshot.

Stefan began to cry: "No, Colonel, I will not run away again, I promise..."

"Bang!" The gunshots stopped Stefan's begging for mercy.

"Do you know why I did this?" Colonel Slein put away his gun: "Because this is the battlefield, you must abide by German military rules when wearing German uniforms, and the German army... will never tolerate deserters, never!"

Before leaving, Colonel Slain also said to Qin Chuan: "Lieutenant, although you were right before, this time..."

Colonel Slain looked at the French soldiers and said, "I think you are wrong. You can't pin your hopes on them!"

As he said that, Colonel Slain turned around and walked out of the tunnel, leaving only a few corpses with broken brains and the smell of blood and gunpowder in the air.

After being silent for a long time, Qin Chuan said to the French soldiers: "I forgot your family, forgot your family's business, and forgot that they will be revenge by the Algerians... All you have to do is to live back from here, do you understand?"

"I understand, sir!"

"Yes, Lieutenant!"

...

The French soldiers answered tremblingly.

Qin Chuan said nothing. They had already endured enough today, so they signaled several subordinates to clean up the bodies and returned to the tunnel as the command center.

Qin Chuan has always been reluctant to smoke in the tunnel because it will make the already turbid air worse, but he still couldn't help but ignite a red Gaul... it was the red one received from Vinette.

While smoking a cigarette, Qin Chuan was thinking:

These French people did not have a strong desire to fight, and they even held a glimmer of hope in their hearts that they could still become allies with Britain... Although they didn't say it, Qin Chuan knew that they had such thoughts.

In particular, the Allies have now attacked Tunisia and the offensive is very fierce, while the Germans have to hide in the tunnel like rats.
Chapter completed!