There is a little back story to this sequence. To the left, and out of the frame is an abandoned Panther, whose crew had bailed-out, and are now trying to get back into the tank.
The scout car has already killed the driver of the Panther. They must have been so distracted they completely missed the German PzFaust team hiding behind the wall.
Thanks to this timely action, the Panther crew (or what was left of it) scrambled aboard, got the thing going, and almost saved the day for the Germans.
The PzFaust Team survived this encounter; however, they had been spotted by a Sherman hiding