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The opening shots echoed over the walls to you- the squad was opening up with their heavy machine gun, at quite a range. It wouldn’t be the most accurate fire, but against targets as large as trucks, it didn’t have to be. You thought about what you’d do as the reaction force, as you weren’t having anything demanded of you yet- you’d probably try and suppress the squad whilst your friendly infantry disembarked and prepared to attack on foot, a position from which they could utilize their own weapons.
Your squad, presumably guessing this by merit of being fellow mounted infantry once, would want to blind this supporting fire, to try and draw them closer, or at least keep themselves from coming under fire.
Indeed, you saw plumes of smoke puff up like cloud mushrooms. The tankettes would still be maneuvering. They wouldn’t be so confident if you had anti-tank rifles, surely; but not opening up with them had revealed your own lack of them. So long as they did not come into knife fighting range, they could rely on their armor to protect them to a degree.
So they’d circle around…and, unwilling to endure fire from multiple vehicles, the squad would probably cover themselves more. This would keep them from firing upon the approaching enemy, yes, but again- they did not need to hold that position to the last. Not when, upon being channeled into the base, the enemy would face far more withering fire,
