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Earlier than the hordes of Matilda tanks arrived at the German positions with artillery shells.

Montgomery mobilized two of the three divisional artillery regiments to shell the German positions, and forty-eight twenty-five-pounder guns smashed countless shells one or two hundred meters in front of the German positions.

Fifteen minutes later, seeing countless large and small craters in front of the German position, the British artillery thought that the minefield in front of the German position had been destroyed, and immediately extended the artillery fire to the trenches of the German infantry, and began to suppress the real artillery fire.

The position of the 2nd Regiment of the Skeleton Division was filled with gunsmoke and dust, and countless yellow mud wrapped in the newly sprouted verdant grass flew into the air and fell into the trenches. The Skeleton Division's infantry lay silent in the trenches, allowing the dirt to fall on their shoulders and backs to bury them.

They covered their ears and opened their mouths wide to minimize the damage to their eardrums caused by the explosion, but there were still many people with gurgling blood in their ears.

Major Brown, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st British Armored Brigade, sat in his beloved 141 Matilda 2 tank, looked excitedly at everything that was happening in front of him through the lookout hole in the turret, and said with a smile to his artillery commander Willis on his right: "It seems that the artillery boys want to kill the Germans before we see them, and not leave us a chance to get merit." ”

Without waiting for Willis to speak, the driver Rice shouted at the top of his voice: "I hope they can leave me a few German artillerymen, and I also want to enjoy the pleasure of pressing anti-tank guns into parts." ”

Willis laughed and scolded: "Rice, you have learned badly. Don't listen to the braggadocio of car No. 147 Rolls, how can the Germans be so stupid as to see the tank rushing in front of them and not run away, and still fire at a distance of five meters. Do you think those two-pounder gunners of the 20th anti-tank artillery regiment in our division would do something like that? ”

But what Rouse said was true, and he said that when he saw the German gunner pointing his tank at such a close distance, he was frightened, and thought he was going to die, but nothing happened but a local sound. Later, he showed me the deepest crater in the front armor of the tank, and said that the crater was made by the German gunner. ”

As soon as Rice's words fell, Brown heard a violent explosion in his ears, and there was a continuous clanging sound on the steel plates of the body.

The shelling of the Germans! A thought crossed Brown's mind, and he hurriedly turned his head to look behind the car through the lookout hole, and sure enough, he saw shells exploding one after another in the infantry group and Matilda 1 tank group following behind.

The German shelling was completely expected by Brown, who unhurriedly observed the reaction of the infantry behind him, the intensity of the German artillery bombardment was not great, but it only slowed down the infantry following the tank group, and did not completely suppress them.

Brown turned his head reassuringly, and said in his heart that the Germans not only had weak combat effectiveness of anti-tank artillery, but also that the firepower of suppressive artillery was not very good, and the only thing he had to worry about now was the German tanks, and by the way, not to be directly hit by the grenades of the German artillery.

As soon as Brown's heart stopped, he heard a terrible shout in his ears: "We've been shot, God, the gas tank is on fire, abandon the car, all abandon the car, quick!" Ah······h

A long scream came, and Brown shuddered involuntarily, and he could hear that it was the captain of car No. 147, Sergeant Law, who had just screamed.

Brown did not dare to show his head, and hurriedly looked to the left and right through the observation hole, but was horrified to find that there were already two Matilda 2 tanks on the right, and a corpse was still hanging on the turret of one Matilda 2 tank, the upper half of the body was hanging down from the outside of the turret, and the lower half of the body was inside the turret.

Brown couldn't see the appearance of the corpse, but he could see the numbers one, four, seven, or three on the white paint on the turret of that tank, it was Sergeant Rouse, and he died like that?

Before Brown could recover from the shock of Sergeant Rouse's death, there was an explosion that shook the battlefield from the flames and smoke of the wreckage of the 147 tank. In the explosion, the turret of the tank and the body of Sergeant Rouse were thrown into the air four or five meters high by the blast, and then tumbled and fell.

Brown clearly saw the top half of Sergeant Law's body being thrown out of the tank's turret in the air, dragging more than a meter of intestines in the air and spinning freely like a kite, before falling heavily to the ground.

What kind of weapon killed him? Sergeant Brown was shocked and furious.

"Tanks of the Germans, twelve o'clock direction." Gunner Willis shouted, his voice filled with panic, "Oh my God, he's on us." ”

Brown hurriedly leaned over to the periscope and looked out, and sure enough, at a distance of more than 400 meters in front of him, he saw a German tank, which had no turret and was low, aiming at his tank with an unrecognizable gun.

"Rice, turn fifteen degrees to the right." Brown shouted.

As soon as Brown's words fell, he heard a thunderclap in his ears, "Rumble······" Brown's eyes went dark, and his body shook violently, almost falling headlong from his seat.

Biting the tip of his tongue violently, Brown's mind barely regained consciousness under the stimulation of the sharp pain.

"Rice, stop, Willis, kill that guy."

Rice immediately carried out his order, Brown felt his body shake, and the tank stopped.

A short time later, Brown heard a familiar loud noise, and the forty-millimeter tank gun on the tank opened fire.

"One more shot." Before the smoke in the tank had cleared, gunner Willis shouted to the loader, and a few seconds later, with another loud bang, a second armor-piercing projectile of forty mm caliber flew out.

Almost at the same time, a second familiar thunderclap sounded in Brown's ears, and Brown didn't blacken in front of him this time, and scolded: "Two shots in a row are grenades, that bastard on the other side is definitely on purpose, kill him quickly." ”

"The scope is shaken loose, I can't hit it for sure, that bastard is so hateful." Willis scrambled to recalibrate the scope in an attempt to restore the accuracy of the tank gun.

Brown was not idle, he shouted into the radio microphone: "Hound calls fox, hound calls fox." ”

No one answered on the radio, but Brown heard a loud local noise, followed by a viscous liquid spraying onto his drooping right hand, followed by the screams of Claude the loader, "We've been punched through, Willis is finished." ”

Brown followed the prestige, and the loader Claude pointed at Willis and jumped and jumped, and Willis, who was sitting on his right leg, had strangely disappeared above his chest, and a rib was exposed in the bloody chest cavity, and Bai Sensen's bones were particularly glaring in the dim tank.

Brown slowly raised his right hand, looking at the pungent red liquid hanging from his right hand, and the muscles in his face twitched.

"Rice, reverse, reverse, let's retreat." Brown screamed······

About 600 meters in front of Brown's 141 tank, a German sergeant stood next to an 88-millimeter anti-aircraft gun in a bunker more than half a meter deep and shouted to the observer: "That tank is still moving, one more shot." ”

Ten seconds later, Brown heard another local noise from his beloved tank, followed by a pungent smell of burning.

"Abandon the car, evacuate all." Knowing that the power compartment must be on fire, Brown hurriedly gave the order to abandon the car, and after shouting, opened the hatch of the turret and drilled out.

Brown sat on the turret and had just pulled his feet out of the turret when he heard a familiar thunderclap in his ears, and a third 105mm grenade hit the turret of the 141 tank.

A wave of air came, and Brown's body flew away from the tank and split in the air, and the blood beads fell to the ground, staining countless verdant grasses······

Two minutes later, a shrill "creaking" sound was heard from behind the positions of the 2nd SS Regiment, and more than eighty tanks of various types crossed the trenches and rushed towards the charging British.

The German counteroffensive began after the 296th Anti-Aircraft Battalion, with the close cooperation of twelve 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, four No. 4 assault guns and twenty-two No. 4G tanks, took out all twelve Matilda 2 tanks face-to-face.

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