Chapter Eighty-Six: Interspersed

The car roared forward, and the air was filled with the foul smell of dust and gasoline...... It was a gift left to them by the 5th Panzer Regiment at the front.

The recruits became nervous again, Qin Chuan saw large drops of sweat dripping down their cheeks, and several recruits were pale and short of breath, looking out of the car window from time to time, as if they were afraid of the enemy or the shells suddenly appeared in front of them.

"Take it easy!" Qin Chuan reminded the recruits: "Our tanks are ahead, they are much more advanced than the enemy's tanks, and they will destroy all obstacles in front of them!" ”

Hearing this, several veterans of Werner couldn't help but look at Qin Chuan in confusion, because they knew that what Qin Chuan said was not the truth...... The German tank No. 3 may be better than the Matilda in maneuverability, but it is still slightly inferior in face-to-face combat.

But they quickly understood and tacitly understood each other, because they knew that although it was a lie, it was a white lie.

This kind of lie is often needed on the battlefield, for example, the baker often says to his subordinates: "Do what I say, and you'll be fine, I haven't lost a single soldier until now!" ”

I'm afraid that even the recruits won't believe this lie, but it will make them feel better.

Sure enough, the recruits' nervous mood calmed down a lot.

The convoy continued to move forward, getting closer and closer to the battlefield, and occasionally a few shells exploded nearby, but the convoy still had no intention of stopping.

At this time, not to mention the recruits, even Qin Chuan was a little nervous.

Because this is the first time he has faced such a situation...... Crossing the line of fire in a car is like playing a Russian turntable, the difference is that the Russian turntable is a bet on life and death by stuffing a bullet into a revolver, while here, it is a carload of people who are killed by a certain probability of shells.

Qin Chuan could only comfort himself in his heart: "The probability of being hit by a cannonball is not large, so it's safe like this!" ”

However, the unfortunate thing still happened, "boom", with a dazzling light, a shell smashed on a car on the right, because the fuel tank was full of gasoline, the whole car instantly burst into bright flames and flew into the air, the soldiers inside were blown out, like a package of marbles were exploded in a radiant shape to fly in all directions.

Qin Chuan clearly saw that some of the soldiers were waving and struggling in the air, of course, most of the soldiers were afraid that their hands and feet would have left their bodies in the first place.

The car had shattered into pieces when it hit the ground, parts and pieces of iron were scattered all over the ground, and a tire with fire bounced and rolled in the desert until it escaped the terrified sight of the soldiers.

An urge to get out of the car arose spontaneously in Qin Chuan's heart, because he couldn't help but think that the next shell would hit his car, and then they in the car would also end up in the same fate.

Soon Qin Chuan knew that he was not the only one who had this idea, because a recruit asked Kuhn in a trembling voice: "Sir, why don't we get out of the car and walk?" ”

"Because we didn't get orders!" Kuhn flatly declined the request.

In fact, it is really not suitable to get out of the car and walk at this time, because it is now a fast intersperse, and walking will definitely not be able to keep up with the speed of the tank.

However, worse was yet to come, and soon the convoy was spotted by enemy planes, and several fighters immediately swooped down and fired a series of bullets at the cars.

A patch of blood erupted from the other side of the car...... Each car was crammed with 30 to 40 soldiers, like a can of human flesh, with only a few millimeters of steel plates in the way, and a few bullet shots could take the lives of a string of soldiers.

One of the cars seemed to have been hit in the fuel tank, so just listen to the "boom", the whole car turned into a big fireball, and the screams followed, most of the soldiers were burned to death before they could get out of the car, and a few sitting in the back of the car rolled out of the car, but they could not extinguish the flames on their bodies, they rolled wildly in the sand for a while, and then never moved again.

However, the situation soon improved, as several German fighters rushed to fight with the British fighters.

Because they couldn't see the situation above with the hood of the carriage on their heads, Qin Chuan and the others could only stare at the top, their ears were full of the whistling of fighter planes and the "click" sound of machine guns, and everyone's eyes were full of fear, whether they were recruits or veterans, because they didn't know when a bomb or a row of bullets would blow up the car they were riding in and themselves into pieces.

Once again, Qin Chuan discovered that human life was so fragile in front of the war machine.

Several armoured vehicles stopped, and the machine gunners set up anti-aircraft machine guns and fired into the sky, and then a British fighter plane fell from the sky with a piercing whistling sound and a burst of black smoke.

In the end, the British fighters chose to leave because they could not withstand this double attack from the ground and the air.

The carriage erupted in cheers, and the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief...... Although the enemy fighters did not bring much casualties to the convoy from beginning to end, the pressure it put on the soldiers was extraordinary, because in front of the enemy fighters, the soldiers seemed to be waiting for them to pick, and the person who picked which car would have to die, which would give people a very weak and frustrated feeling, and there was also a great psychological pressure.

The convoy continued to move under artillery fire, and more and more shells were blown up in the vicinity, but not on a large scale.

Qin Chuan thought that this should be the reason why most of the British artillery was used in the direction of Kapzo Village to fight fiercely with the Germans, and the Germans also had artillery and air power to suppress them, otherwise a piece of artillery would cause heavy casualties to the Germans.

Further on, Qin Chuan noticed that several scouts were holding signal flags on the sand to direct the convoy to the left, and on their right, a "three" tank was stuck in the sand and could not move, and several tank crews were scrambling to get it out, but it was not easy to do this in the desert.

This is often the case in the desert, which is mainly caused by the difference in sand, especially in some places that are exactly between the weight of the tank and the car, which is even more confusing, because such sand cannot be detected even by scouts in armored vehicles, and only after a tank is trapped in it will the problem be discovered.

But it was too late to find out......

Just like now, the tank crew is both a shovel and a self-saving wood, but it still doesn't help...... This situation can generally only be dragged by other tanks, but now that it is an emergency of the war, it is impossible to stop other tanks to do this.