Chapter 64 Patrol

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After having a good meal and a good drink, the soldiers fell asleep on the beach in the gentle sea breeze and facing the sunset. Qin Chuan was one of them. After a long period of tension and fatigue on the battlefield, he suddenly relaxed and soon his eyelids were fighting. So he simply spread out a raincoat next to the campfire and covered himself with a marching blanket and fell asleep.

Later, Qin Chuan realized that what they did was very dangerous... The comfort of the seaside holiday made them almost forget that this was a battlefield. The enemy would not care whether they were on vacation or not, especially there was a pile of bonfires on the beach as their target...

When the soldiers were sleeping soundly, suddenly there was a shrill whistle in the sky, and then a shell exploded on the beach. The sea water and mud rushed towards the soldiers like a rainstorm, and immediately woke the soldiers up.

When Qin Chuan woke up, he was stunned for a while, because he dreamed that he had returned to the modern times and was playing on the beach, so he didn't understand what was going on at all.

Most of the other soldiers were in the same situation. Werner was quick. He turned over and picked up the engineer shovel to shovel the sand and put out the campfire.

In the darkness, there were several more whistling shells, and several shells exploded nearby. Fortunately, they did not hit the gathering place of the soldiers.

Then the sound of gunfire rang out... but these shells were fired at the defense line of the German army outside the city.

"They started the attack!" After Bazel reacted, he shouted to the soldiers: "Everyone get up, the vacation is over!"

The soldiers knew what Bazel meant. Although the German army took Tobruk, and Tobruk also had a rare solid defense line in the desert, the problem was that the German army was short of troops... More than a thousand people defended a 30-mile defense line, with an average of only 33 soldiers defending one mile, not to mention that the German army had to ensure the safety of Tobruk Port and warehouse supplies.

So of course the German army had to use every soldier, and even every soldier had to take on tasks that could only be completed by a few people, so of course the vacation was ruined.

Amid the soldiers' curses against the British, Bazel led his team back to the port in a hurry.

The port was already crowded with people and vehicles, and German soldiers were everywhere climbing onto cars and heading to the defense line like they were putting out a fire. Colonel Slaine passed by the troops in an armored vehicle. He saw Bazel and others shouting in the Mercedes-Benz car: "Captain, the defense of the port is handed over to you. You must ensure its safety, especially the supplies in the warehouse..."

"Yes, Colonel!" Bazel agreed very straightforwardly.

As the roar of the car gradually faded away, only Bazel and others were left in the empty port facing the whistling sea breeze.

"This is a good job, isn't it?" Werner said, "We seem to be lucky!"

The soldiers knew what Werner meant by this. The port and supplies... that was the core of Tobruk. If the enemy could get here, it almost meant that the entire defense line of the German army would collapse.

So, in any case, they could be considered the safest in the First Infantry Regiment.

"We've always been lucky, haven't we?" The baker said, looking at Qin Chuan.

"Don't take it lightly, our mission is not easy!" Bazel said, walking towards the port dispatch room that used to be the headquarters.

There Bazel found several maps, which were obviously left by Colonel Slaine on purpose... This also shows that Colonel Slaine was in a hurry when he left, and he didn't expect the British army to launch an attack at night.

"Look at this!" Bazel pointed to the map and said, "We have eight warehouses to defend, they are here, here, and here..."

Then Bazel assigned the defense of the warehouses, roughly each class was responsible for a warehouse, and the rest of the people were mobile forces or patrol forces.

Qin Chuan's class was responsible for patrolling, that is, lining up with guns and walking around to prevent underground organizations from causing damage.

Most of the underground organizations are Libyans. As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance. Italy's colonization of Libya will naturally arouse the hatred of some Libyans.

However, these armed forces were very weak and unsystematic... The reason was that many people in Libya at that time had no concept of a country at all. They did not care who occupied or ruled Libya. They only had tribes in their eyes. As long as they did not harm the interests of their tribes, they would be regarded as "idle matters" and even as long as they were given a little benefit... they would work for you.

Therefore, those tribes that would become underground organizations were either the Italian army that had grudges with them during the colonization process, or they were bought by the British army.

The equipment of these underground organizations was often very backward, and many people even used muskets for hunting, so although the German troops stationed at the port had only one infantry company, they were still full of confidence.

When leading the team through a bungalow, Qin Chuan unexpectedly found two unknown German soldiers standing at the door with guns.

"Who is locked up inside?" Qin Chuan asked.

"They are the crew members of the cruise ship, sergeant!" The guard replied: "The colonel asked us to watch them, maybe we will use them!"

Qin Chuan nodded.

Colonel Slaine's idea was right. Tobruk was a port, and several large cruise ships had been seized... These cruise ships could be used as transport ships between Italy and Libya.

Qin Chuan led the troops forward, taking out a map and memorizing the location under the starlight.

"Sergeant!" Werner asked from behind: "Do you think our troops can block the British attack?"

Qin Chuan listened to the sound of gunfire coming from outside the city and replied: "I think they can!"

"Why?" Werner was a little curious.

"The British seem to have made a mistake!" Qin Chuan stopped and looked into the darkness where the sound of gunfire continued to come from the distance and said: "Listen to the sound of gunfire, they seem to have spread their forces across the entire defense line and launched an attack at the same time! "

"I think their approach is very clever!" Werner expressed puzzlement: "Because they have much more troops than we do, and spreading the attack like this can make our already small troops even more dispersed!"

"What you say may make sense!" Qin Chuan said, "But you haven't considered...many positions on the defense line actually don't require many troops to defend, because there are a lot of barbed wire and mines there. We only need to arrange a few machine guns." It can prevent the British army from advancing. I think Colonel Slane does this, so that the troops can be concentrated, and the cars and armored vehicles can quickly get them to wherever reinforcements are needed!"

Werner suddenly realized after hearing this: "Mobile defense!"

"Yes, mobile defense!" Qin Chuan said: "Quick and fast maneuvers can make up for the lack of troops to a certain extent, because they can suddenly appear here and suddenly there, which is equivalent to twice or even more The troops are strong!”