Chapter 427 Tanks

Intense gunfire rang out immediately, but most of them were not fired by the US military... The US military didn't understand what was going on. Although some of them were near the quarreling soldiers and even saw someone firing, they only thought it was an accidental injury, misfire or individual incident. Who would have thought that the British soldiers in front of them were all Germans!

On the other hand, the Germans were mentally prepared early in the morning. The moment the gunfire rang out, they immediately launched an attack on the US military. The unprepared US military was immediately beaten into chaos.

In fact, the Italian soldiers were even more confused. They didn't even understand what was going on at this time... Didn't they surrender? Aren't the British and Americans allies? Why are they fighting here again?

Confused, they could only lie on the ground with their hands raised, or run around, which made the scene even more chaotic. Some Americans thought that these Italians were also pretending to surrender, so they raised their guns and beat them into a bloody mess without saying a word.

Werner and Keller immediately protected Qin Chuan. They both held Thompson submachine guns. As soon as the trigger was pulled, the bullets "swooshed" towards the American soldiers in front of them, and shot a group of American soldiers who had just picked up their guns into sieves on the spot... The blood splashing from the American soldiers made Qin Chuan feel like a leaking roof, with stars, warmth, and a little fishy smell.

However, Qin Chuan did not dare to hesitate. He immediately lay on the ground and set up his rifle.

At this time, he was holding an "Enfield" rifle. This rifle is not as accurate as the K98K, but as mentioned before, it is the fastest bolt-action rifle. In the same time, it may fire twice or even more bullets than the K98K.

"Bang!" A gunshot sounded.

Qin Chuan killed an American soldier wearing a tank cap.

The First Infantry Division is indeed a well-trained unit, but it may also be said that it is an instinct to escape. In chaos, they all gathered behind the tank.

If the tanks were started at this time and covered the infantry to advance towards Qin Chuan and other "British troops", I am afraid the situation would be reversed.

Therefore, Qin Chuan's primary target was the tank soldiers.

"Bang!" Another gunshot.

This time, the one knocked down was a tank soldier who was about to jump into the tank. Qin Chuan believed that he was the commander of this tank because he was checking the tank not long ago.

"Watch out for their tanks!" Qin Chuan shouted back.

When he turned around, he quickly pulled the trigger and killed a tank crew member.

The German soldiers knew that their focus was on the tanks, so they rushed towards the tanks while shooting.

When they rushed to the tanks, they would climb onto the tanks and throw a ignited grenade into the tank compartment. Then, with a "boom", a cloud of green smoke came out of the tank compartment.

However, in the end, more than a dozen tanks started to move... Qin Chuan believed that the crews of these tanks were staying in the tanks to rest. After all, Sicily is humid and warm, and there are a large number of annoying flies and mosquitoes outside, and sometimes there are scorpions, snakes and other poisonous insects. It is better to hide in the tanks and have a good sleep than to endure these outside.

This just made them play a role... These tanks started at the first time and were ready for battle.

Then, with a few "pops", the headlights of the tanks were turned on one after another, and there were also several searchlights, which instantly illuminated the German side in white, and the Germans were almost unable to open their eyes because of these lights.

This was something Qin Chuan did not expect. In fact, these were all unplanned situations.

However, Qin Chuan was not worried. He just lay on the ground and looked at the watch quietly, watching the pointer jump to nine o'clock one by one...

Several signal flares rose in the sky, followed by the whistling of shells, and a few seconds later, the shells exploded in batches nearby.

Of course, these shells could not pose a threat to the tanks, because these tanks were behind the high ground, that is, in the blind spot of the shells, but everyone knew what this meant... The German army launched a counterattack against the US army.

This made the US army, which had originally stabilized its position, panic again, because they realized that they had to face the enemy's double attack from inside and outside, and it was still dark at this time, and all the US troops had no confidence that they could win under such circumstances.

However, the US tanks still organized defense with a desperate mentality, perhaps because the commander of the US armored forces remained calm in the face of danger... He allocated three tanks to deal with Qin Chuan's "British Army", and the other tanks continued to organize defense at the crossroads.

It should be said that under normal circumstances, this approach is still very correct, because even the worst-performing tanks have an absolute advantage over pure infantry, not to mention that the "Sherman" tank is still a tank with excellent performance, plus there is infantry coordination, it is not a big problem to defeat and then eliminate those "British Army" that have sneaked in.

On the other hand, relying on ten "Sherman" tanks to block the pass is barely enough.

But what the US commander did not expect was... This is not a general situation.

The First Infantry Regiment carried more than 300 rocket launchers, and this was the time for them to be put to use.

The tanks turned on their headlights to cover the infantry's advance towards the German army, and they fired wildly as they advanced, but most of those killed were Italian soldiers who lay on the ground and dared not move... Even though these Italian soldiers raised their hands and shouted "Don't shoot" and "We surrender"!

But the deceived American soldiers didn't care about that. They cursed loudly and fired bullets at the Italian soldiers fiercely, and even ran over them with tracks. Instantly, blood splattered and wailing was heard everywhere.

If there was a chance to explain, the American soldiers would know that these Italian soldiers were more wronged than Dou E... The Italian soldiers surrendered sincerely from the beginning and never deceived anyone.

However, the battlefield is like this. It has never been a place where reason can be argued. Therefore, the Italians could only fall down in rows under the revenge bullets of the American soldiers with injustice. Many people did not even understand what was going on until they died.

This was also not a good thing for the US military, because their rifles, machine guns and even tank guns were aimed at those targets running around, and most of these running around were Italians, which means that the US military was aiming at the wrong targets.

Mistakes are not allowed on the battlefield, because there is often no second chance for mistakes.

Just like now, the American soldiers don’t know that in the darkness, German soldiers are taking out rocket launchers, loading rockets, and then aiming at the slowly advancing American tanks...