Chapter 43 Gasoline (2)
Bazer did what he said and immediately commanded the troops to launch an operation.
In Bazer, the allocation task is based on platoons, each platoon is responsible for three blocks. In addition, Bazer leads the company to take charge of one, and allocates the ten blocks on the front of the British attack.
When we arrived at each platoon, the platoon leader further refined the tasks, that is, allocating the tasks based on the shift.
In fact, the tasks at this time were no longer entirely assigned in squads, mainly because the troops were reduced too much, such as Berg's 2nd squad... Berg killed six subordinates and was executed himself. In addition, there were two people who did not come out of the desert, and in the end there were only one soldier left.
The soldier was blown away when the sandstorm came, so he did not follow the company to chase Bushra, which made him survive in disguise.
There was only one soldier in one squad, and it was obvious that he could not complete the task independently, so Kuhn organized him to squad three... According to normal organization, the German army should have four infantry squad plus a 50MM artillery squad (3 people), and a platoon full of platoons (5 people) had 48 people.
However, in actual combat, there are often not so many people because of the reduction of personnel and the lack of time to replenish. The most common method is to temporarily leave the organization empty, and the soldiers are transferred to other squads to form a full-time squad, so that the command is better and it is easier to coordinate.
The company where Qin Chuan is located has a serious reduction in staff. There are often only two shifts or even one shift left in a platoon. In addition, the task time is tight, which forced Bazer to transfer all the logistics personnel in the company, such as the kitchen team, to make up the numbers.
"Sergeant!" Several soldiers carrying rifles walked to Qin Chuan, who was busy carrying gasoline barrels, and said, "Captain, let us report to you, what should we do?"
Qin Chuan couldn't help but look at Bazel... This is not Qin Chuan's business, these soldiers should have been reported to Kuhn.
Bazel just turned his head and saw Qin Chuan, who was casting a puzzled look, replied: "Kun is not here, you assign them a task to take charge of a street!"
"Yes, sir!" Qin Chuan replied, then pointed to a street next to him and said, "Did you see that street? What you have to do is walk along the street towards the enemy, don't contact the enemy, always keep a distance of hundreds of meters from the enemy, our car will transport the gasoline barrel to the appropriate position, what you have to do is move the gasoline into the buildings on both sides of the street, and then make a few holes in the gasoline barrel to let the gasoline flow out. Do you understand?"
"I understand!" several soldiers replied.
"Go!" Qin Chuan said, "Be careful!"
"Don't worry, Sergeant!" Several German soldiers answered excitedly.
Qin Chuan thought they could do it because compared to head-on combat with the British army, this task can be said to be both simple and safe... The British have always focused on destroying buildings, and the soldiers just need to remember to keep a distance from the British army.
But Qin Chuan underestimated the "courage" of these soldiers from the kitchen squad, to be precise, curiosity... Although these soldiers have been in the army for some years, they have few opportunities to fight against the enemy. Most of them deal with pots and pans 3 to 5 kilometers away from the front line, which gives them a subconscious urge to go to the front line to see the enemy. Even if they fail to kill the enemy, they will not be in vain for a few empty guns.
But what they didn't expect was that this time in front of them were enemy tanks and a large number of infantry, and these tanks and infantry were highly vigilant.
The result of the group hiding behind the house and firing... It was soon a large number of shells poured into their locations, including tank guns, howitzers and mortars, which instantly turned the nearby buildings into ruins.
So in a short while, two blood-covered soldiers were carried back.
"What happened?" Qin Chuan asked.
"You are going to send someone else to perform a mission!" The medical soldier replied: "We only find these two people!"
Qin Chuan was speechless.
"I can transfer some more people for you!" Bazer noticed the situation here
"No, Captain!" Qin Chuan looked at the street and replied: "Maybe it would be a better choice to keep this street!"
Qin Chuan noticed that the street was long and straight, and had some slope.
The mission went smoothly, and the British army advanced on the other side. The German soldiers moved gasoline barrels one by one at this end. Before leaving, they made a few holes in the gasoline barrel to let the gasoline flow out. Sometimes the soldiers would throw a few explosive packs next to the oil barrel. Of course, some of the explosive packs were pulled on the wires and prepared for detonation.
The British army did not notice these specially treated buildings because they destroyed these buildings further away, and the collapsed buildings buried the oil barrels without surprise.
In fact, if British soldiers were more careful, they could still find some clues, such as the continuous seepage of gasoline in the collapsed building, and the gasoline smell in the air became stronger.
But none of these attracted the attention of British soldiers... The smoke of artillery fire and the exhaust of tanks covered up a considerable amount of smell. At the same time, the British soldiers' attention was more focused on whether there were enemies in the building in front of them or how to destroy the building, so the entire army went deep into the trap for more than 500 meters without knowing it.
Until a tank crashed a building by coincidence, it pushed an oil barrel out of the building...
"What is this?" A British lieutenant stared blankly at the oil barrel in front of him.
At first, the British lieutenant thought it was just a German soldier who left the oil barrel somewhere and was brought out by a tank. However, when he walked up and found that there were several small holes in the oil barrel that were obviously artificially caused, and gasoline was coming out like spring water, the British lieutenant quickly understood.
"This is a trap!" The British lieutenant shouted: "Let's retreat soon!"
But no one listened to him, and even his subordinates looked at him with surprise.
The British second lieutenant's rank was too low, and he had no command of the troops. On the other hand, it was because all British soldiers believed that this battle was determined to win. If this continued, there would be no doubt that they would be able to win soon. Where would there be any other traps?!
"Gas!" The British lieutenant shouted anxiously: "They have laid gasoline in this area!"
Only then did the British soldiers notice the gasoline barrel that the second lieutenant pointed at was still leaking oil, and suddenly realized.
"Go back, go back!" someone shouted: "Call the tank back too!"
Chapter completed!