In July 1946, the 11th Parachute Regiment of the Northern Army, located in Egypt

When night falls, darkness begins to cover the land. At the front of the British line, searchlights were constantly swinging back and forth, shining on the positions ahead. After Montgomery escaped from El Alamein, he fled to Egypt with his tail between his legs. General Alexander took in the remnants of his 8th Army. More than 50,000 men were quickly broken up and added to the British defense line at the front.

Ever since the crushing defeat at El Alamein, every soldier has understood that Britain is on the brink of a precipice. Rommel, the desert fox, had humiliated the face of the British Empire. It's not just a matter of face to go on like this, the British Isles can't even eat enough! How could the empire of the sun never set receive such an insult!

The Americans came to Africa in the guise of a savior, and they were about to land in the rear of Germany. Chewing gum and holding cigarettes in their mouths, they look like materials for war. Fortunately, they have first-class equipment, first-class navy, air force, and second-rate commanders. There is also President Roosevelt, who is much better and more insidious than Comrade Xiaoxi. The salaries of these guys are several times more than those of the British army, and the food is unreasonable, but they are laughed at by the British army as "Italians on our side"!

The Royal Navy certainly had enough capital to laugh at the Americans, because they had barely lost a war, and relying on their great naval strength, Britain achieved the first vast colonial regime in human history. Now the resources under their control are constantly being transported to the mainland through the sea, supporting the war consumption of the British. Rommel's mission was to cut off a vital branch of Britain's maritime lifeline!

He had already drawn up an offensive plan, and he concentrated his tanks on the front line facing Alexandria, Egypt. But there was no hurry to attack, and the elite paratroopers secretly assembled in the rear. Prepare for another night raid. This time, Rommel, who was good at organizing the attack of the armored group, decided to use paratroopers as the main force and use the means of comprehensive penetration to break down the British defense line. In order to be able to transport more than 60,000 paratroopers at a time, Rommel applied for help from the mountain battalion, and Bai Qi sent him 1,000 new helicopters called "albatrosses," which were high-speed transport helicopters. Designed to be as rugged as a tractor, it can carry 100 heavily armed soldiers on a 3,000-kilometer long flight. Carrying capacity 30 tons! The weak point of this aircraft is that it is not bulletproof, and it is destined to be a logistics aircraft that can only be used as a transport aircraft. The production of the helicopter gunship "Vulture" is being stepped up, and it is estimated that it will not be able to catch up with the upcoming Egyptian campaign. In the face of the anti-aircraft artillery of the British army, which densely covered the entire front, the only way for the airborne troops was to raid at night. At present, the radar technology of the British is not very mature, and their limited radar is still deployed in the local sector station to guard against Luftwaffe air attacks. An effective means of dealing with night raids on the battlefields of Egypt is a giant searchlight! So the task of destroying the searchlight fell on Frenzen.

The airborne troops covering the attack must have a tactic of attacking from the east to the west, and the Air Force directly under the Afrika Korps has been studying operational arrangements since receiving Rommel's order. Xiao Afu, who is full of ghost ideas, was also invited to give advice, and Xiao Afu's technical recuperation, which is far more clever than modern people, is still very useful.

He proposed to use the new gadget of "bulletproof balloons" to attract British anti-aircraft fire, and take advantage of the fact that their barrels were red to surprise the troops into the battlefield in batches. Attack after the strike of the attack aircraft. The shape of the "bulletproof balloon" is like a British attack aircraft with red eyes and thick neck, which can withstand many blows from anti-aircraft guns before falling to the ground. The Air Force commanders present could not understand such a new thing, and in order to persuade everyone to adopt his plan, Xiao Afu went to the salon to make a prototype!

In fact, his idea was to mix real attack planes with fake planes and start attacking British anti-aircraft guns. When the anti-aircraft guns that exposed the target were ready to change ammunition after firing a shuttle of shells, the real aircraft struck at them. The point is that the fake plane should have a realistic effect and lure the British into being fooled. After Xiao Afu found the salon, he explained his intention. Sharon was still quite supportive, and they called up the drawings of the attack aircraft in the database and immediately carried out the design work on the fake aircraft. In order to further deceive the British, Sharon proposed that there should be two kinds of fake planes, one that was blown up in the sky, and the other that fell to the ground and turned into powder! In this way, it is convenient for the British to use the wreckage to determine the materials, structures and other data of the aircraft that they hate so much, and let them be a stupid ass blindfolded!

The salon activated the intelligent imitation function of the stove, using oil as the main material, and made a plastic airplane! This aircraft is an optimally designed aircraft towed into the target theater by FW190HSX, specifically to lure the British army into the trap! The wing of the fake aircraft adopts a wing-body fusion design, the wing with a large aspect ratio ensures that it can glide long enough distance, and the fight-resistant body is designed to withstand shells. When the Air Force commanders saw it, they were full of praise for the talent of the technical officer! They took photos with the fake plane that was about to "never return"! The salon was a tight and rapid production, but fortunately, such a simple thing did not require complex materials, and within half a day the big furnace was fully operational, and a full 1,200 fake airplanes were built! Three hundred of them are the kind that can be dropped on the ground and studied as guinea pigs of wreckage. When the air force assembled for attack at night, the dummy planes also arrived at the airfield and were fixed behind the attack planes with cables.

At 2 o'clock in the morning on July 24, 1946, it was the time when people fell asleep and fell asleep. The boys of the Air Force directly under the Afrika Korps drank strong coffee one by one and boarded the plane in good spirits. Sharon has created so many fake planes that each attack plane can't be used with two on it, and many can be saved for the next time! One by one, the attack planes roared out of the airfield, and in groups of three, they flew towards Alexandria, Egypt, like a three-three flight formation. The British were sleeping soundly at this moment, and the soldiers on guard duty immediately sounded the air defense alarm when they discovered the incoming plane! The real plane, which had already abandoned the glider, dropped a few inconsequential small ** on the chaotic port facilities, and then pulled up the nose to climb to the highest ceiling, and they made a big turn at the height, waiting for the moment when the fake plane was attacked by anti-aircraft guns. The weapons officer in the back seat had already prepared all kinds of ammunition, and his eyes were nailed to the sight indicator without blinking, waiting for the British 47mm anti-aircraft gun to spray tongues of fire. The British, who woke up from their sleep, saw so many planes trailing under the searchlight, and immediately began to attack with all kinds of anti-aircraft guns! In an instant, the entire harbor was filled with smoke from the explosion of anti-aircraft shells, and the fake planes obediently waited for the arrival of the shells, and one by one they were hit and burned in the sky! A few of them roared to the ground with flames all over their bodies, and a raging fire ignited!

The fact is that his tanks are scattering and fleeing! This time, the sudden desperateness of the British army still caused considerable losses to the German army, under the desperate attack of the Royal Air Force. //www. 52 German tanks were damaged, of which 3 Leopards could not be repaired! A total of 12 tank and infantry men were killed and 163 wounded! Although the tiger was able to escape, 2 vehicles were also injured to varying degrees. The soldiers who died were mainly heroic infantrymen, who braved life and death to fight with all kinds of weapons and bayonets against the low-flying bombing Royal Air Force! To a large extent, the tank units were saved from heavy losses!

This lesson made Rommel once again deeply realize the importance of air supremacy! He urgently sent a telegram to the General Commander of the Army asking for more troops and air forces to cope with the next strategic flanking attack.

The AWACS aircraft at high altitude - two GO229s on duty even swooped down to attack the RAF bombers, and the British cobbled together 230 planes this time to prepare for a dare to charge the German tanks with no return, and they even filled only the fuel for a single trip and allocated the weight to the ammunition. They had no intention of going back alive! For days, they were bullied by the Luftwaffe in the sky, and they broke out! Heaven forbid, these guys broke out at a very good time, and the German tanks suffered as a result!

Unlike the previous attack on Cluster Three, this time they fought with a mortal heart. So the results are brilliant!

More than 50 Leopards alone can no longer participate in this battle, and they urgently need to be repaired. Most of the leopards are the most squeamish fire control system and iron feet that have been blown up by **! The situation of the tiger is better, and after simple maintenance, it can immediately go into battle to kill the enemy! The worst thing was the weakly protected infantry brothers, and the accompanying trucks were blown up by British planes more than 30 units! It seriously affected the transportation of materials needed for follow-up operations, so that this mission of the tank cluster can be said to be half destroyed! The tanks carried only enough weapons for three days of fighting, and the idea of taking Egypt in one fell swoop was shattered by the British! Rommel was angry, he was angry not with others but with himself! As the supreme commander, he bears the greatest responsibility for this setback, a loss that should have been avoided. It is only because of my excessive trust in the tank, and it is my ignorance of the performance of the tank that has caused the biggest loss since the new tank!

But his determination has not changed, and he has repeatedly stressed that the task of the tank cluster remains the same. It was to pick up the paratroopers and raid Cairo all the way southeast along the port of Alexandria! Even if he lost more than 50 tanks, he continued to attack, because he believed that after several days of defeat, especially the defeat of El Alamein, the British army had little strength to resist! With just a quick tank raid, it's easy to take Cairo! Although a little risky. But in order to avoid fighting on two fronts, to avoid being caught between Britain and the United States. This risk has to be taken! In order for the offensive to proceed smoothly, he talked about arranging for the "albatrosses" he had just obtained to transport supplies to the tank cluster. The paratroopers of Alexandria will also be marching with the tanks as elite infantry! His general reserves, the Ranker Brigade and the Fogel Division, were also to follow behind the 90 Light Division towards the Nile!

What Rommel didn't know at this moment was that the successful night attack of 50,000 paratroopers had achieved unexpected and brilliant results! The British Mediterranean Fleet was almost completely wiped out by the planes, and they were unable to make an effective counterattack in the dark. When it comes to combat capabilities, how can the Navy compare with the elite of paratroopers? Therefore, many ships were captured by paratroopers and ships before they could lift anchor! The most important thing is that there is a small British treasury in the city of Alexandria, which was also captured by the paratroopers, although it is not much, but it is enough to spend the entire Afrika Korps for a year!

In short, everything that the British did not have time to transport or destroy in Alexandria fell into the hands of the paratroopers!

600 "Albatrosses" flew to the heavily fortified port city of Tubruk loaded with the recovered grain! This is where the center of the Afrika Korps will come next.