Chapter 228: Alamein's Gunfire (6)

This time it took so much effort, and it was lurking and desperate with the Royal Air Force, and there was only one strategic purpose. That's to make dumplings for the Eighth Army! In order to gain enough bargaining chips for Germany on the African battlefield, the British will be a little more considerate when Bai Qi arranges secret contacts with Britain and the United States to start peace talks.

In the international community, Americans who have always looked at the political situation in the world from the perspective of a businessman. They have always been unprofitable, and when they see that the Germans are very strong and difficult to shake with the current strength of the United States, they will definitely choose to turn enemies into friends. After all, the huge Soviet Russia was the regime that all the capitalist countries had always hated. The ideological differences are naturally divided into two camps.

In El Alamein, when Mungore learns that the bombing campaign he organized has been exhausted, he has already put a question mark on this war in his heart! It is true that the present exercise is far from optimistic, and the Germans who had been expected in the first place to run out of food and oil did not materialize. Their navy did not seem to be able to effectively block the German supplies. The new aircraft and tanks of the German army were much stronger than the British army in terms of technical performance. Even at the cost of ten tanks, it was not necessary to destroy a single German tank. The air supremacy of the German army is also a sharp blade hanging over his head! Any movement of the British army was threatened by the Luftwaffe, which made it extremely difficult for him to mobilize his troops. They now had to hide in the fortifications and wait for the Germans to attack.

The excellent tank tactics of the German army, combined with their excellent tanks, burst into a strong combat force. Although the British army amassed a lot of anti-tank guns, ** guns and mortars participated in the assault on the southern flank of the German army. But they nevertheless broke through the position with the help of attack aircraft and appeared in the defense zone of the 131st Infantry Brigade in the rear of the British army!

The 131st Brigade, which was all infantry, was simply unable to withstand the onslaught of nearly 500 tanks of various types, and they did not even have a chance to escape, so they took the third batch of German prisoners in the rear of their defensive line. The German tanks still continue to assault the sea, and together with the 40 Tigers that have arrived at the front line at El Alamein, they will achieve a strategic encirclement of the British Eighth Army!

Just as the stars in the sky were beginning to show their sights, the elite paratroopers of the German army arrived at the battlefield of El Alamein!

The fierce soldiers are extraordinary, and they have enough reason to treat others as if they were grass. Because they are the elite airborne troops of the German army! They had been training secretly for a month under Bai Qi's arrangement, and now they were using the weapons of the soldiers who were about to be fully reequipped for the German army. They are the only ones in the whole of Germany who have such the glory of being the first to eat crabs!

Airborne troops are born to be surrounded! They are accustomed to danger, and the survival of the elite of the Combat Skill Masters is the foundation of their existence. At this point, not a single other unit dared to compete with the Airborne Forces.

This time the battle was won by Rommel again, and he was now complacent. Under his command, more than 100,000 German-Italian troops had successfully encircled the vast majority of the British Eighth Army. In such an unfavorable situation, Montgomery still believes in what they call "super secret"! He still wishfully believed that the Afrika Korps was running out of fuel, and after a series of battles, the Germans' tanks were about to lie down. Determined not to let Rommel get better, Munggol formed a motorized rapid assault force with the armored vehicles of the 4th Dragoon Regiment and the 8th Light Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Light Armored Brigade of the 7th Panzer Division, plus the J Artillery of the 3rd Royal Mara Artillery Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the Royal *** Corps. They made a detour through the Katara Basin to the south to find and raid German logistics convoys. Their whereabouts are hidden, and their actions are resolute. The Land Rover armoured car they are equipped with is equipped with three additional machine guns, and the machine guns are equipped with powerful cobalt copper bullets!

Just when Rommel's tank assault forces managed to bypass the Alam Halfa Ridge and annihilate the Sherman cluster. The British raiding force also quietly set off. The assault force, which looked like desert rats, circled the battlefield all the way, spurred 30 miles south, and then turned back and headed west. In fact, their movements were monitored by German AWACS aircraft at all times, judging their route. An estimated copy of the original information soon appeared in Rommel's text message. When Rommel saw it, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly. It seems that the British are not willing to lose, they draw such a small detachment from the already weak defensive force to advance to their rear, with such a force is not important to the battle situation at all, what purpose do they have? Is it to find yourself?

Or is it a search for a logistics convoy? Thinking of this, Rommel did not dwell too much on this matter, and he told this information to his chief of operations, Baierlein. Order the other party to take full authority to deal with the matter. Then it was time to plan for the continuation of the attack on the British army. He got Bai Qi's iron order, the purpose of this battle was to annihilate the living force of the British army, and Bai Qi, who was famous for his annihilation war, naturally knew the difficulty of the battle. Therefore, the paratroopers had already arrived in the predetermined area under his secret arrangement, set up ambushes and formed positions.

The paratroopers formed by Goering have been close to Führer Hitler since the Battle of Crete. Due to the fact that the losses of the paratroopers were too great, the paratroopers, who were supposed to give the enemy a surprise blow from heaven, no longer played their due role. They were used as elite infantry, which reduced the risk factor but also greatly deviated from the original purpose of forming a paratrooper unit.

Once again, the battle was at a stalemate. The same was true for the encirclement and annihilation of the British Eighth Army, if the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and paratrooper divisions could not hold the agreed positions, the British who had sent reinforcements would run in and let the reinforcements open the passage to Alexandria. Then the 230,000 British troops will stage a Dunkirk-style retreat!

The current situation on the battlefield is complicated. It can be said that I have you and you have me, at the westernmost point of the battlefield, at the Koudeni Ridge, the defensive force is the Italian 21st Infantry Corps. Their defensive firepower was strengthened, with 40 rocket launchers and Terrified Aviation Rocket Launchers being their main anti-tank weapons. The infantry were now almost engineers, and they were building fortifications day and night. In order to prevent the British from sea raids, about 100,000 ** were also planted on the beach lot. These ** were all planted by the British on the battlefield of Tubruk, and the tools designed by Germany were brought up. After installing the new fuse, there was Belle to deal with their original owners.

The line of defense from the Cordene Ridge to the Katra el Abad Ridge was entirely defended by the Italian 10th Infantry Corps. They, like the 21 Army, are also equipped with 40 fire and aviation *** launch tubes. The previously captured individual weapons of the British army were also selected to improve their equipment if they could be used. With these new weapons, they were able to cope with the small attacks of the British army.

It's not that the Italians can't actually fight, it's that the level of their equipment is simply too backward. Basically, their firepower was maintained at the level of the German army during the First World War! Machine guns and cannons were copied from various countries. There were not even as many trucks in a division as there was a battalion in the German army, and the movement of the infantry basically relied on legs. And many of their officers were very unimpressed with Mussolini, and in their hearts they wished that he would be defeated. Of course, I don't have any enthusiasm for fighting! None of them led by example like Rommel, and of course they were not on the front line, but only in the headquarters to the telegraph soldiers

It's really that the operational command basically relies on the mouth! Their soldiers, of course, were under the influence of it, and they had no fighting spirit! One by one, small lives are very important, and the British army often captures thousands of Italians like harvesting crops with a single charge! Therefore, the three weak troops with poor equipment, poor fighting spirit, and poor command can win the battle before they can defeat the evil!

But since Rommel came to Africa, their mental outlook has improved considerably. Their fighting spirit has improved considerably. "Most Valuable Ally" is starting to live up to its name! Because Rommel treated them like human beings! His charisma infected almost all Italian soldiers! If you are human, you have blood, let alone a soldier! A soldier can fight, let alone a son of Caesar!

Rommel equipped them with powerful 40 rocket launchers, so that they were no longer at a loss in the face of tanks. He had lunch with them, ate the same meal, and asked them with concern if the food was delicious. He brought them potions to prevent mosquito bites and a cart of cold drinks, and arranged for them to enjoy the thrill of victory. Lead them from one victory to another! Soldiers should fight for such a marshal! Every Italian soldier became more and more like their elite unit, the Vogel Division, under Rommel's influence.

It's just that the infantry was doomed not to be able to keep up with Rommel, and their task was to defend. and also to build all kinds of fortifications. The four-hour work is not tiring, and they are divided into six shifts to work day and night. The defense line is as strong as a copper wall! In fact, in front of them there were also Italian armored clusters - two divisions of the 20th Motorized Army, the Litorio and Aret armored divisions. As a strategic mobile force, with the help of 30 attack aircraft from Frenzen, they blockaded and pinned down the 5th Anglo-Indian Division at Bal Ridge. They stood still outside the range of the Anglo-Indian division's anti-aircraft guns, but they always maintained a deterrent effect against them. Of course, the Indian Asans on the opposite side will not dare to come over and provoke them if they have nothing to do.

Ah San's enthusiasm for fighting is also very low, and their combat effectiveness can almost be ignored. In the face of the Italian Panzer Division, which was equipped with a variety of tanks such as the improved "Valentine", "Crusader", "Matilda", "Stewart", "M-type", etc., they had no chance of victory at all! Because the commander who commanded these tank battles was a tank warfare specialist from the German army - Ralph. Under Ralph's **, these Italian lads are already offensive and defensive, and they have a good battle formation. The improved tank received improved fire control due to increased horsepower, increased crew space, an air conditioning system, and armor plates. As a result, the combat level of the entire armored division has increased significantly. There is no problem in dealing with the British laymen who do not understand the essence of tank warfare!

The two divisions had a total of 98 "Crusader" tanks, which were widely known for their low reliability and hated by the British soldiers! Its low-quality engine and transmission system is very unreliable, and frequent mechanical failures simply cannot be called weapons.

But after such a rotten thing came into the hands of Xiao Afu. With a single click of his golden finger, he has been transformed into a monster with an off-road speed of 60 kilometers per hour and a perverted reliability! The redesigned and modified tank immediately became a battlefield weapon for the Italian army after the simplest solution! The tank's 40 guns have not changed, but the newly equipped *** has greatly increased its attack power! This new type of shell is a modified version of the Leopard 50 gun, which maintains an accelerated motion under the action of bottom exhaust after the gun is ejected, and does not stop accelerating until the end of the exhaust in the middle of the trajectory