Chapter 45 Contradiction

"Detonate!" Bazel gave the order when he saw the time was right.

The engineer who had been prepared for a long time pressed the switch hard, and there were loud "booms" one after another. There were one or two violent explosions on each street.

The explosion was secondary. The oil barrels lifted by the shock wave and the flames were the main ones. They quickly ignited the surrounding ruins that had been infiltrated by gasoline, making them ignite like torches.

Then, the flames spread to other places like dominoes. Soon, the western half of Tenggertenger was burning, and it looked like a city of fire from a distance.

And the British army was inside.

Then the shrill cries soon rang out. At that moment, Qin Chuan truly experienced what "ghosts crying and gods howling" meant... Some of the screams sounded like wolves, some like monkeys screaming, and some like the sounds of some birds. But no matter what they sounded like, they were all desperate cries made with the last bit of strength in extreme pain. It was like an ice knife piercing the depths of Qin Chuan's soul, making Qin Chuan shiver even in the high temperature of the desert and the flames.

Then Qin Chuan saw some people in the flames, or more precisely, firemen. They were like evil spirits from hell, waving their hands and running around in the streets and buildings. Some rolled on the ground, as if trying to put out the flames on their bodies... But this was obviously in vain, because there was no place for them to stay in the flames everywhere.

The situation of British tanks was similar. They were invincible in front of German artillery fire and bullets, but they were extremely fragile under the flames... This did not mean that the flames would burn through the armor, but that the flames would ignite the engine and then the entire tank, and then the tank would explode into a ball of fire with a "boom".

Some tank crews were smarter. They stepped on the accelerator in the hope of rushing out of the sea of ​​fire as quickly as possible. Although they might still die, at least they would not die so miserably.

However, their idea was destined to be just a luxury... The heat of the desert area itself, coupled with the roasting of gasoline, caused the temperature nearby to rise sharply, and the engine of the "Matilda" tank could hardly work normally at such a high temperature.

So after a while, the tank stopped, and then flames spread like pythons and climbed onto the tank.

Qin Chuan saw the hatch of the tank open, and several British tank crew members climbed out from inside. They looked at the flames around them at a loss, and some of them even waved to the Germans for help... Soon they knew that they had no hope, so some people pulled out their pistols and pointed them at their heads, and then ended their lives with a "bang".

Although others were reluctant to do so, they had to follow suit as the flames approached step by step.

The German soldiers just watched them fall one by one quietly, and the soldiers did not move, because they knew that no matter what they did, it would be redundant, or it could be said that they were also shocked by the cruel scene in front of them, even though those who were engulfed by the flames were enemies.

As Qin Chuan who made this suggestion... He had only thought about how to defeat the enemy and save his own and his comrades' lives before, but now when he really saw this scene, he found that it was not as easy to accept as he imagined.

However, all this is not over yet.

One of the streets did not have much gasoline because of the casualties of the cooks, so it became the only escape route in the fire scene.

This caused many British survivors to move to this street. For a while, the street was overcrowded, and some British soldiers rushed in desperately... This inevitably caused some riots among the British.

However, this was just a small matter. This escape route was not actually an escape route, because on the other side of the street, the German soldiers had prepared cars full of oil barrels for them...

"Attack!" Bazel gritted his teeth and ordered. At this time, he seemed a little reluctant, even though he was already a veteran who had seen life and death on the battlefield for a long time.

As soon as the German soldiers received the order, they started the car and pressed the prepared stones on the accelerator. Then the car roared and rushed towards the British.

The panicked British army hurriedly fired rows of bullets at the car... The car should have lost power halfway. Its engine was in the front and there was no armor. The bullets could easily penetrate the engine and destroy it.

But the car rushed towards the British army at an unslowed speed due to inertia and the inclination of the street... Then it hit the tank used by the British army for cover with a "bang".

The British army was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but found that gasoline barrels had rolled out of the back of the car, and the gaps in the oil barrels were gushing out desperate gasoline.

Bazel calmly struck a match and lit a cigarette, then threw the match to the ground... A light blue flame came out with a "bang", and then rushed towards the British army like a wave.

"Back off, back off!" The British soldiers shouted.

But it was too late. With a loud "bang", the whole car was blown up into the sky where the flames passed. The oil barrels flew everywhere in the sky, and after falling back to the ground, they immediately turned into a ball of fire. What's worse is that they rolled on the ground with a "clang clang" like a wind and fire wheel.

Qin Chuan retracted his gaze and hid behind the wall. He no longer had the courage to face these, especially since they were caused by himself.

At this time, he saw Alfredo squatting in the corner. He stared at Qin Chuan with a pair of terrified eyes, as if he didn't know Qin Chuan at all.

Qin Chuan knew what Alfredo meant in his eyes. He wanted to say something, but he didn't say it in the end.

Because Qin Chuan knew that any words he said at this time were just an excuse, and no matter how gorgeous the words were, they couldn't change the fact that he caused the tragic deaths of these British people.

So Qin Chuan could only avoid Alfredo's gaze, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a cigarette with trembling hands and put it in his mouth. When he fumbled around in his pocket, he found that he didn't know where the match went.

With a "chi", Kuhn had walked to his side without knowing when. He lit a match to help Qin Chuan light the cigarette, then patted Qin Chuan on the shoulder and said, "Well done, Sergeant, you saved all of us!"

Qin Chuan didn't answer. He smoked the cigarette greedily, one puff after another.

Saving people, or killing people?

Hero, or devil?

Who can tell... Perhaps this is a battlefield full of contradictions. If you want to save people, you must kill people. When you become a hero on your side, you must also become a demon on the other side.