Chapter 425: Innocent People Affected

By the time David and the others came out to surrender, it was already forty minutes later.

Colonel Slain looked at his watch and saw that there were only fifty minutes left before the counterattack, so he waved to the soldiers and they took the prisoners to the road.

On the way to the march, Qin Chuan saw a very interesting scene. The soldiers who took the prisoners were serious and nervous... It was normal for them to be nervous. After all, they were disguised as British soldiers and walked into the enemy's defense zone. If the enemy saw through them by mistake, it would immediately turn into a melee.

In sharp contrast to them, the Italians were relaxed and comfortable. Although they raised their hands, they were talking and laughing all the way, as if they were being taken on vacation. Some people even asked the "British soldiers" for cigarettes. It seemed that they really regarded the British as allies.

This scene made Colonel Slain curse secretly: "Fuck the Italians!"

David walked to the "British soldiers" cautiously and looked them up and down, as if he wanted to distinguish the authenticity of these "British soldiers".

Qin Chuan caught up with him and pushed him hard, shouting in English: "Follow me, if you hope someone will come to rescue you, you are wrong!"

"Sir!" An Italian who knew English responded: "We don't want anyone to rescue us!"

Then the Italian spit in the direction of David and his men and said: "Especially these Germans!"

"Oh, really?" Qin Chuan replied casually.

"Of course!" The Italian replied: "They pushed us to the battlefield with guns and buried mines behind us!"

Qin Chuan looked at David unexpectedly. Burying mines is a good idea. This made the Italian who wanted to retreat have to consider whether it was more dangerous to face the enemy or to face the mines.

"If it weren't for them, we would have surrendered long ago!" The Italian continued: "So, you'd better teach them a lesson..."

Before he finished speaking, he cried out in pain, because the butt of Qin Chuan's gun had fallen on the Italian's face.

"You are not qualified to tell me what to do, Italian!" Qin Chuan said, "You'd better know your position, understand?"

"Yes, sir!"

"Move your legs!" Qin Chuan shouted fiercely, "Speed ​​up!"

The Italians restrained themselves a lot.

Alfredo happened to be beside him. He shook his head helplessly and whispered to Qin Chuan, "Captain, they don't want to fight on their own land because they think it will cause serious damage to their hometown!"

Qin Chuan nodded to show his understanding.

This may be a little incredible to Asians. In the Asian cultural circle, there is a consensus of "defending the country". The more the enemy invades their hometown, the more they will resist, even if it turns into a scorched earth in the end. This is "better to die with honor than to live in disgrace".

But many people in Europe don't think so, such as France...If they can't stop the Germans and want to burn the war to their own country, then they might as well surrender, so that France can be spared from the war.

Italy had similar ideas. There was no problem fighting in North Africa. Once the war spread to Italy, the whole nation would panic, and then Mussolini would step down and take the blame. Then they would secretly contact the Allies to discuss surrender.

But Italy ultimately failed to escape the fate of being a battlefield, because the German army quickly occupied Italy and used Italy's mountainous and lake-rich terrain for defense.

As they were talking, the team came to the British defense zone. Several searchlight poles hit the team. Seeing the team's appearance, they let them go without asking any more questions. There were even a few British soldiers asking on the side of the road: "Are they prisoners captured from Norad?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "We occupied it!"

"I knew it, we heard gunshots. Well done!"

The team walked a few miles deeper, then turned right on the fork road and turned to the direction of the US military.

Several Italian soldiers with good sense of direction shouted: "Sir, are we going in the wrong direction?"

"Shut up!" Qin Chuan replied impatiently: "Let's go another way, otherwise you guys will make our tanks unable to move!"

This is a good excuse, after all, there are indeed many British transport vehicles coming and going on that road.

So when the group arrived at the US military checkpoint, they said the same thing.

But they didn't expect to be stopped by American soldiers.

"No, no, go back!" The American soldier waved his hands and said with a stern face: "We have not received any orders to let the British and Italians pass!"

"Sergeant!" A "British officer" said to the American soldier: "But the order we received is..."

"That's your order, not ours!" The American soldier interrupted the "British officer" impatiently: "Don't tell me this nonsense, go back to your road!"

"What happened?" Qin Chuan walked up and asked.

"Sir!" The "British officer" reported to Qin Chuan: "The Americans won't let us through!"

"Any problem, sergeant?" Qin Chuan asked the American soldier.

"You know, Captain!" the American soldier said: "From the beginning we have drawn our own boundaries. The British fight the British, and the Americans fight the Americans! So..."

The American soldier raised his middle fingers to the team and swung his hips a few times in a lewd manner, causing the nearby American soldiers to laugh.

So Qin Chuan understood that it was not that the American soldiers had any suspicion of their team, but that the Americans and the British had a "personal grudge"... From the beginning of this battle, the American soldiers were very unhappy with the British. The so-called "battle plan" formulated by Montgomery was seriously biased towards the British army, as long as you are not a fool.

In fact, Montgomery had even more excessive behavior in this battle in history: an infantry division of the US Army had surrounded a German armored division, but in order to prevent the US Army from making merit and stealing the limelight from the British Army, Montgomery ordered the US Infantry Division to break contact with the German Army and retreat. Not only did they retreat, but they were also required to retreat all the way to the landing beach.

This order also made Alexander and Montgomery a laughing stock among military historians.

Of course, the media would not tell these scandals. Britain needed to create a hero to boost the morale of the people across the country, so the only thing they publicized was how wise Montgomery was and what kind of victory the British and American troops had achieved in Sicily under his command.

And Qin Chuan and their team... were affected.