Chapter 420: Tanks
Fierce gunfire rang out in an instant, but most of them were not fired by the US military...... The U.S. military didn't understand what was going on, and although some of them were near the quarreling soldiers, they even saw someone shooting, but they only thought it was a mistake, a misfire or an individual incident, who would have thought that these British soldiers in front of them were all Germans!
On the other hand, the Germans were mentally prepared early in the morning, and immediately launched an attack on the American troops at the moment when the guns rang out, and the unsuspecting American troops were instantly thrown into chaos.
In fact, even more confusing belonged to the Italian soldiers, who didn't even understand what was going on...... Didn't they surrender? Aren't the British and Americans allies? Why are they all in a mess here?
In a daze, they could only lie on the ground and raise their hands, or just run around, which made the scene even more chaotic, and some of the Americans thought that these Italians were also fake surrenders, so they raised their guns and beat them to a bloody blur without saying a word.
Werner and Keller were by Qin Chuan's side for the first time, both of them were carrying Thomson submachine guns, and as soon as the trigger pulled the bullet, they poured "whoosh" at the US troops in front of them, and beat the group of US troops in front of them who had just had time to pick up their guns into a sieve on the spot...... The blood splashed from the U.S. military made Qin Chuan feel like the roof was leaking, dotted, warm, and a little fishy.
However, Qin Chuan didn't dare to hesitate, he immediately fell to the ground and set up his rifle.
At this point, he was holding an Enfield rifle, which was not as accurate as the K98K, but as mentioned earlier, it was the fastest bolt-type rifle with the fastest rate of fire, and it could fire twice as many bullets as the K98K in the same amount of time.
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out.
Qin Chuan killed an American GI wearing a tank cap.
The 1st Infantry Division was a well-trained unit, but it was perhaps an instinct to escape, and in the confusion they were all gathered behind the tanks.
If you let the tanks move at this time and cover the infantry to advance towards the "British army" of Qinchuan, I am afraid that the tide of the battle will be reversed.
Therefore, Qin Chuan's primary target is tank soldiers.
"Bang!" Another gunshot rang out.
This time it was a tank soldier who was about to jump into the tank, and Qin Chuan believed that he was the commander of this tank, because he was still inspecting this tank not long ago.
"Watch out for their tanks!" Qin Chuan turned around and shouted.
When he turned around, he quickly pulled the trigger and killed a tank crew.
The German soldiers, of course, knew that their focus was on tanks, so they fired and charged at the tanks.
When they rushed to the tank, they would climb onto the tank and throw a flamming grenade into the tank compartment, and then a "boom" would be heard and a cloud of green smoke would come out of the tank compartment.
However, in the end, a dozen tanks were put into action...... Qin Chuan believed that the crew of these dozen tanks stayed in the tank to rest, after all, this place in Sicily was humid and warm, and there were a large number of annoying flies and mosquitoes outside, and sometimes there were scorpions, snakes and other poisonous insects.
That's where they come into play...... The tanks were activated and ready for battle at the first opportunity.
Then there were a few "pops", and the headlights of the tank cars were turned on one after another, and there were also a few searchlights, which illuminated the German side of the snow white in an instant, but the Germans were so illuminated by these lights that they could hardly open their eyes.
This was something Qin Chuan didn't expect, in fact, these were unplanned situations.
However, Qin Chuan was not worried, he just lay on the ground and looked at his watch quietly, watching the pointer jump to nine o'clock one by one......
Several flares rose in the sky, followed by the whirring of cannonballs, which exploded in batches in the vicinity a few seconds later.
Of course, these shells could not pose a threat to the tanks, because the tanks were behind the high ground, that is, in the dead end of the shells, but everyone knew what that meant...... The Germans launched a counteroffensive against the American troops.
This made the American troops, who had been holding their ground, panic again, because they realized that they had to face the double blow of the enemy from inside and outside, and at this time it was still dark, and all the American troops were not confident that they could win in such a situation.
However, the US tanks still organized their defense with a desperate mentality, and perhaps the commander of the US armored forces was not in a hurry...... He divided three tanks to deal with the "British army" in Qinchuan, and the other tanks followed up to organize defense at the crossroads.
It should be said that under normal circumstances, this approach is still very correct, because even the worst tank has an absolute advantage over pure infantry, not to mention that the "Sherman" tank is still a tank with quite good performance, plus there is infantry coordination, and it is not too much of a problem to defeat and eliminate those "British troops" that have mixed in.
On the other hand, it is barely enough to block the pass with ten "Shermans".
But what the US commanders did not expect was ...... This is not the general situation.
The First Infantry Corps carried more than 300 bazookas, and this was the time for them to take effect.
The tank turned on its headlights to cover the infantry advancing towards the Germans, and as they advanced, they fired wildly forward, but most of the Italian soldiers killed were lying on the ground and did not dare to move...... Although these Italian soldiers all raised their hands and shouted "Don't shoot", "We surrender"!
But the deceived American GIs didn't care so much, they cursed loudly while shooting bullets at the Italian soldiers, and even directly rolled them up with their tracks, and in an instant blood splashed and wailed.
If there is a chance to explain, the American GIs will know that these Italian soldiers are more wronged than Dou E...... The Italian soldiers surrendered genuinely from the very beginning and never deceived anyone.
However, the battlefield was like this, it was never a place to be reasonable, so the Italians could only fall in rows under the bullets of revenge of the American GIs, and many did not even understand what was going on until they died.
This is also not a good thing for the US military, because their rifles, machine guns and even tank guns are aimed at the targets that are running around, and the vast majority of these people are Italians, which means that the US troops are aiming at the wrong targets.
There is no room for error on the battlefield, because there is often no second chance to make mistakes.
Just like now, the American soldiers did not know that in the darkness there were German soldiers taking out bazookas, loading rockets, and then aiming at the slowly advancing American tanks on their shoulders......