On the evening of September 22, the northwestern border port of Egypt was Selum.

Some well-meaning natives had already noticed the strangeness of the town of Selum, and the ships with the rice flag on their bows and always swaggering in and out of the harbor were gone.

The number of British GIs who originally lived in the port was reduced by more than half, from nearly 1,000 to only about 200, and the faces of each GI were full of anxiety.

Captain Smith, who was neither deaf nor blind, knew as well as the officers and men of the company that in Libya, five kilometers west of the port of Sallum, the Germans and Italians had gathered at least ten divisions and were preparing to launch an attack on Egypt, and that Salem would be the first Egyptian city to be attacked, and the Seventh Company under his own command would also be the first to be attacked.

This is a reconnaissance aircraft belonging to the Luftwaffe.

Smash it, smash it, smash it, Captain Smith felt a burst of bitterness in his mouth.

In the past week, German and Italian planes have flown over the town of Selum with increasing number and frequency.

Enemy reconnaissance planes also circled over the town of Selum for longer and longer periods of time.

Everything indicates that the Axis ** offensive against Egypt is about to begin.

blamed himself for these eyes, and saw some unknown ** from his boss, Major Terry, so he framed him. As a left-behind unit was left in the town of Selum waiting to eat the bombs of the Germans.

Didn't I just see you sneaking out of the back door of the crescent brothel with the orderlies! We're all men. The wife has been away for a long time. It is understandable that I was sent to such a place where birds don't to drink wind and eat sand, and the anger is too big and needs to be vented, as for the reaction to be so fierce and even abused his power to retaliate against me?

Whenever he thinks back to his performance that day, Captain Smith can't help but want to grab his hair and beat him up.

When encountering that kind of embarrassing scene, he just pretended not to see it, but stupidly walked up to say hello, and stared at the back door of the brothel. When did your IQ become so low? Is it because he has been away from the civilized world of London for too long, and his IQ has been lowered by this group of natives around him? Well, it must be so.

It's all his own stupidity that ended up like cannon fodder. It also involved more than 200 brothers under his command.

The reconnaissance plane in the sky faded away, and night fell quietly. Captain Smith recovered from his chagrin and walked to the cafeteria for a tasteless dinner.

After dinner, Captain Smith toured the outposts and guard positions in the western part of the port of Sallum in his usual car, and after supervising the officers and men on duty, he returned to his lodgings in the southeastern part of the port.

This lodging had been carefully chosen by Captain Smith, and Major Terry, who had been sneaking into the brothel, had managed to preserve a shred of humanity and leave Captain Smith with an empathetic order before leaving.

Once the war started and the town of Selum was attacked, Captain Smith only had to do two things. The first is to immediately report to the higher authorities the news of the enemy's attack; The second is to lead his subordinates to escape.

After receiving this order, Captain Smith almost burst into tears, and said in his heart that Major Terry had not been obliterated by the bestiality in his heart. He left himself such a life-saving order.

Upon receiving the order, Captain Smith immediately moved his lodgings from the west to the southeast of the town of Selum. Be prepared to flee as soon as something happens.

Returning to his lodgings, Captain Smith ordered the communications corps living next door to send a telegram to Major Terry, who had withdrawn to the rear, and then read the book for a while before falling asleep.

More than three hours later, an elephant trunk-like object silently protruded from the water about two kilometers east of the town of Selum.

The "elephant trunk" slowly turned three hundred and sixty degrees, stayed in the direction of the town of Selum for several minutes and then retracted under the water.

A few minutes later, the water suddenly rolled like boiling water, and in the tumbling white splash, a submarine jumped out of the water like a monster of the deep sea.

As soon as the hatch on the deck opened, six gunners jumped onto the deck with agility, and then turned the 88-mm deck gun in the direction of the town of Selum to keep on guard.

Under the hazy starlight, more than twenty black shadows quickly jumped onto the deck, and then threw down three rubber boats on the sea.

More than ten minutes later, three rubber boats rushed to the southern shore of the port of Selum, and more than 20 black shadows jumped onto the beach one after another, and then disappeared into the darkness.

A few minutes later, an airwave fell into the port town of Bairdiyah, a small motorboat formation that had been on standby in the port for a long time set off, and about 40 minutes later bypassed the town of Selum and appeared in the sea near the landing site of the vanguard.

More dingons carried more than a hundred figures to the beach to join the vanguard, and then disappeared into the darkness.

Before they disappeared into darkness, the submarine and motorboat formations on the surface of the sea had long since disappeared without a trace

At 5 a.m. on 23 September, more than 200 armored vehicles of various types from the 37th Armored Reconnaissance Battalion of the 7th Armored Division of the German Army formed a long line on the road east of the eastern border town of Musayed, and rushed murderously towards Egypt behind a company of No. 4G tanks.

Ten minutes later, the convoy crossed the last six kilometers and appeared in front of an empty customs office.

The leading tank mercilessly broke the railing of the customs gate on the border and entered Egypt first.

About fifteen minutes later, a shrill siren sounded in the town of Selum.

Captain Smith rushed out of the bedroom disheveled, picked up the phone on the command desk and shouted, "Why are you pulling the alarm?" The enemy is attacking? How many troops are there? ”

"The Germans attacked, with at least one reinforced battalion of troops, more than twenty tanks and dozens of armored vehicles, and it was less than two kilometers from here, and we asked for a retreat, a request for a retreat."

On the phone, the shouts of a long line of gourdes were filled with horror.

A reinforced battalion, and more than twenty tanks, in the face of such a large force, Captain Smith did not hesitate, shouted into the phone: "Retreat, immediately retreat according to the predetermined plan." ”

Dropping the phone, Captain Smith immediately ordered his correspondent to radio his superiors that Selum had been attacked, and then asked the adjutant to call the departments in the harbor to evacuate.

By the time the troops of the 37th Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion entered Selum from the west of the town without firing a single shot, the 7th Garrison Company, led by Smith, had already rushed out of the port southeast of the harbor with more than 20 trucks and fled along the coastal road in the direction of Sidi Barani, 70 kilometers to the east.

On the north side of the road, three kilometers east of Port Sallum, Captain Shahet, a company of the cement assault company of the 101st Special Air Service Battalion, was lying on a small dirt slope and kept looking in the direction of Port Sallum with a telescope.

He had received information on the radio that the port of Sellum had been occupied and that the defenders had fled eastward by car.

It didn't take long for Captain Schacht to see the smoke and dust coming out of the road in the distance, Captain Schacht put down his binoculars, covered his mouth with both hands, and took a few breaths at his already numb hands, and then picked up the MP40 submachine gun behind his back.

A slight metal clash was heard on the positions on both sides of the road, the sound of the members of the cement assault company pulling the bolts to load the bullets.

Captain Schacht recognized two Bedford trucks at the head, followed by an unknown sedan, followed by about twenty Bedford trucks.

Sitting in the sedan must be an officer, trying to find a way to capture him alive.

Captain Schacht pondered for a moment and then explained a few words to the two snipers beside him, and then quietly waited for the battle to begin.

When the leading truck drove less than 200 meters away from the ambush position, a string of tracer bullets suddenly flew out from the north side of the road.

The tracer bullet flew to the left front wheel of the truck with a glaring trail, instantly poking a string of holes in the fast-moving tires, and the tires instantly deflated.

The truck headed by it was caught off guard and rushed down the road and rolled over on its side, and the ten British soldiers in the rear compartment were thrown out with guns in an instant, and before the wail sounded, they were beaten into a sieve by the flying bullets.

The fate of the second truck was even more miserable, it was hit by a machine gun bullet on the fuel tank, which instantly ignited a fire, and the soldiers on the car jumped out of the car to escape, and then fell to the side of the car with blood sprayed all over the body by the flying bullets.

The moment the gunshots rang out, Captain Smith's mind went blank for a moment, and a cold sweat broke out on his body.

In order to avoid the burning truck in front of him, Captain Smith's driver subconsciously slammed the steering wheel, and the sedan made an uncontrollable sharp turn, rushed down the not wide road, and bounced a few times in the sand on the side of the road before crashing into a sand pile and stopped.

The moment the car came to a stop, Captain Smith, who was sitting in the back seat, hit the back of the driver's chair in front of him headlong and fainted in front of him. (To be continued......)