"Fire!" Qin Chuan ordered loudly.

The French soldiers immediately pulled the trigger and fired bullets at the British, and more than a dozen British soldiers immediately collapsed in a pool of blood screaming.

However, the gunfire revealed the location of the French soldiers, and the British covering units soon launched a counterattack.

These cover units included tanks at the foot of the hill, which, of course, did not play much of a role at this time...... The first was the problem of elevation angles, and the second was that it was difficult for the direct-fire guns to pose a threat to the French soldiers hiding at the ridge of the position on the top of the hill.

In fact, not only the tank guns, but also the bullets from the anti-aircraft machine guns were mostly scary but difficult to hit the French soldiers, for the simple reason that the French soldiers were hiding in the trenches at high places, and it was difficult for the machine guns at the foot of the mountain to effectively suppress them.

But the French soldiers were frightened by the bullets that flew all over their heads and whistled highly, or rather, they were stunned by the blood and cries of the enemy, and many of them only watched stupidly with their guns in their hands as the enemy rushed upwards without daring to pull the trigger, or hid in the trenches and did not dare to raise their heads.

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

But Qin Chuan's efforts were in vain, the French soldiers seemed to have forgotten everything during training, and less than half of them were able to fight normally, and some even ran away screaming...... Stefan, who originally said that he wanted to look good to the British, was one of them.

Of course, they did not succeed in escaping, and the German soldiers on the second line crushed them to the ground at the first time.

What made Qin Chuan feel relieved was that Venete was very calm from beginning to end and pulled the trigger again and again to kill the target, and she also did what a sniper should do...... Change positions from time to time and kill the most dangerous enemies.

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

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

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

"That's because I've always believed in someone around me!" Venette looked at Qin Chuan and said, "He will remove all threats for me, will he?" ”

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

"you!" Vignette laughed.

But the fight was no joke, and the situation was dangerous...... As soon as the firepower of the French soldiers weakened, the British soldiers took advantage of this time to press up.

This is not to say that the British will occupy the hilltop position or anything, the Germans have fortifications on the anticline, and there are many well-trained German troops, and the British are still far from occupying the hilltop position.

However, if the British had rushed forward in this way, the casualties of the French soldiers would have been great.

At the critical moment, Bazel ordered: "Second Company, advance!" ”

The Germans on the second line immediately went up, and as soon as they entered the hilltop position, they threw a volley of grenades at the whistle, and after a burst of explosions, they raised their guns and fired, and it didn't take long for the British offensive to be stopped.

"Looks like your troops need to be retrained!" Bazel said as he passed by Qin Chuan's side.

Kuhn said a good word for Qin Chuan: "Please, Captain!" They are French, and no matter how much they train, it will not be useful! ”

As he said this, Kuhn looked at Qin Chuan with sympathetic eyes, and then shook his head slightly.

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

It is true that recruits will have problems of one kind or another the first time they go to battle, but the poor performance of the French battalion is also excessive.

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

Qin Chuan responded coldly: "Take it back!" ”

In the tunnel, in the dim light of a kerosene lamp, an enraged Colonel Slein said to the French soldiers, whose faces were pale and still trembling: "Now you know what war is!" No, let me say, it's not a war yet, because if it were a real war, you'd be dead by the guns of the British. Oh yes, there's one more possibility...... That is, you surrendered to the British! ”

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

With that, Colonel Slein drew his pistol and loaded it, and several German soldiers pulled up the bound Stefan deserters and knelt on the ground.

Colonel Slane stepped up and pulled the trigger with a "bang" on the back of one of the men's heads, the bullet splattered through his head and a puddle of blood, and the soldier fell to the ground lifeless like a sack.

Colonel Slain did not hesitate, then walked over to the second man, pulled the trigger, and another man fell after a gunshot.

Stefan began to cry: "No, no, Colonel, I won't run away again, I promise......"

"Bang!" The gunfire brought Stefan's pleas for mercy to an abrupt halt.

"Any idea why I'm doing this?" Colonel Slein put away his gun: "Because this is the battlefield, you must abide by German military regulations when you wear German military uniforms, and German troops ...... Deserters will not be tolerated, never! ”

Before leaving, Colonel Slein also said to Qin Chuan: "Lieutenant, although you have been right before, but this time you ......"

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

With that, Colonel Slain turned and walked out of the tunnel, leaving only a few corpses with bursting 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: "Forget your family, forget your family's business, and forget that they will be retaliated against by the Algerians...... There's only one thing you have to do, and that's how to get back alive from here, you know? ”

"Understood, sir!"

"Yes, Lieutenant!"

……

The French soldiers replied tremblingly.

Qin Chuan didn't say anything more, they had already endured enough today, so he motioned to a few subordinates to clean up the corpses, and returned to the tunnel that was the headquarters.

Qin Chuan had always been reluctant to smoke in the tunnel, because it would make the already turbid air worse, but he couldn't help but light a ...... It was the Red Gaul from Vignette.

While smoking a cigarette, Qin Chuan thought about it:

These Frenchmen, they did not have a strong will to fight, and even they always had a glimmer of hope in their hearts, that is, they could still become allies with the British...... Although they didn't say it, Qin Chuan knew that they had such thoughts.

In particular, now that the Allies had reached Tunisia and were attacking fiercely, the Germans were hiding in the tunnels like rats.

This made them think that the Allies would eventually win, so it was impossible for them to die for the German army.