"Smoke bomb!" Bazel shouted.

The advantage of the German army is that the company level has its own fire-forced fire support, and the fire-force is not weak... Each of their platoons has a fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-forced fire-force

In other words, a platoon is equipped with 50 rounds of mortar.

In this way, the three infantry platoons in the entire company have three mortars.

In fact, in many cases, the German infantry company is equipped with five 50MM caliber mortars because the German army also has an anti-war chariot group under the company's organization.

This anti-war vehicle team was originally equipped with PzB anti-tank rifles... One team leader, six team members, and each two were equipped with an anti-tank rifle, that is, three anti-tank rifles.

But speaking of this anti-tank rifle is a bitter tear: its armor-piercing depth is only 30 mm within a distance of 100 meters, while the British "Matilda" tank even has a rear armor of 50 mm, which means that the anti-tank gun cannot penetrate even the rear of the enemy tank.

This time it became a laughing stock in the German army, and the anti-war chariot team was powerless to do anything to enemy tanks.

However, this is not the worst.

Even if an anti-tank rifle cannot fight a tank, it is OK to fight armored vehicles or enemy cars on the battlefield. After all, armored vehicles can barely be regarded as "war vehicles".

There will be no problem with this in terms of penetration. The anti-tank rifle can even penetrate the target 300 meters away (Note: The piercing depth of the PzB anti-tank rifle is 25 mm in 300 meters).

The problem is... the anti-tank rifle is a big guy. It goes to the front of the trench like a cannon, and it will be discovered by the enemy from afar and become a target, which makes it easy to become an enemy sniper, machine gunner or even mortar strike target. At the same time, the 16 kilogram weight of the anti-tank rifle makes it difficult to transfer quickly.

So this thing became a complete useless thing. German soldiers were unwilling to bring equipment that could not effectively attack the enemy but were specifically trapped on the battlefield. They would rather replace anti-tank rifles with machine guns or 50MM caliber mortars.

The company Bazer changed the anti-war chariot group into two mortar groups, so the entire company had 5 mortars.

With Bazer's order, five mortars "boomed" and fired a row of smoke bombs into the front positions, and in an instant a cloud of smoke rose between the positions between the enemy and us.

"Get the bayonet!" Bazel ordered loudly.

Colonel Albridge, who was commanding on the front line, noticed the smoke immediately and couldn't help but burst into anger.

"What are they doing?" Colonel Albridge cursed: "Are you actually firing smoke bombs in front of the tank? Don't they know that this will affect the tank's shooting?"

Colonel Albridge was beaten to the point of being angry by the British army and had lost the calm that a commander should have, otherwise he would have known that smoke bombs would also affect enemy tanks when they affect their own tank shooting.

However, what surprised Colonel Albridge even more was still behind. With a mortar shell passing, a German infantry actually charged towards the enemy with smoke and dust!

"Hell!" Colonel Albridge yelled hysterically: "What unit is this? Let them stop this stupid approach immediately!"

"Yes!" the adjutant responded.

"God!" Colonel Albridge continued to roar: "How did these infantry get out of the camp? How can we hope to win when fighting with these idiots..."

But before he finished speaking, Colonel Albridge seemed to find the problem. British tanks seemed to have little reaction to the infantry charging forward, and so were British infantry behind the tanks.

Of course, British tanks would not react. As mentioned earlier, the main target of the "Crusader" tank is the enemy's tank, so it does not even have a heading machine gun, only a side-by-side machine gun installed alongside the tank's main gun.

Heading machine gun, also known as front machine gun, is installed on the right side of the driver in the cab and is also a radio operator, and can shoot up and down, left and right. This thing is the real infantry killer, because it is separated from the gunner and the shooting world is not restricted by the main gun... The early "Crusader" tanks were not equipped with heading machine guns.

The parallel machine gun can of course also strafuse the infantry.

But the problem is...

The parallel machine gun rotates with the main gun, and the same person operating the main gun and the parallel machine gun are the same person, that is, the gunner. At this time, the gunner is controlling the main gun and nervously looking for the tanks on the opposite side in the smoke, so of course it is impossible to operate the machine gun.

What's more, the vision and external perception inside the tank were very limited, so the gunners and other tank crews did not realize that infantry had already launched charges on them in the smoke.

As for the British soldiers behind the tank, they may have found that the German infantry was charging. After all, the desert was strong and the smoke was also thin. You could vaguely see the enemy leaping forward.

The problem is that the enemy's mortar shells poured towards them in pieces, and they could not organize effective defenses in a short period of time. They wanted to notify the tank but could not contact the tank soldiers.

(Note: The tank did not have external telephones at this time. It was not until the Vietnam War that the United States installed telephones at the back of the tank so that the infantry hiding behind could easily talk to the crew in the tank for coordination)

So the British army could only watch the German soldiers rushing up with bayonets.

Qin Chuan was one of the soldiers rushing forward in the smoke. At this time, he couldn't tell what he felt... The suffocating smoke, the shells exploded in front of him, and the bullets flew past his head with a roar. What's even more terrifying was that monster-like "crusaders" tanks stood in front of him. Their gun barrels were towering, and from time to time, they also "boomed" a "boom" to shoot out an armor-piercing bomb on the opposite side.

Although Qin Chuan knew that these tanks would not threaten his safety, it was also the basis for Qin Chuan's proposal to charge... But these were enemy tanks after all, a killing machine. As long as their gunners discovered something and turned their attention to the ground, or their drivers accelerated and stepped on the accelerator...

All of this made Qin Chuan's feet as heavy as if they were filled with lead, but Qin Chuan still tried to make himself leaped forward and follow the shells that extended forward, because he knew that his only way to live was to move forward.
Chapter completed!