The British army at Mesha Matru Line stretched about fifteen miles southwest from the sea to a high ground called Sidi Hamza.

There were dense minefields in front of the British positions, and behind them, the British 7th Armoured Division, the 4th Indian Division, and two separate infantry brigades lined up from north to south.

After discussing with Chen Dao and others, Rommel decided to focus the breakthrough on the middle of the British position, for the simple reason that the Fourth Indian Division was composed of a small number of British ** officers and a large number of Indian "Ah San" stationed here.

The 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Italian Blackshirts launched a diversionary attack on the British 7th Panzer Division and two separate infantry brigades on the left and right flanks of the front, respectively.

Middle of the front, Herman. The Goering Motorized Rifle Division and the 7th Panzer Division marched in unison to deliver a devastating blow to the positions of the 4th Indian Division.

The morning sun had just poked its head out of the horizon and happened to witness a shocking scene.

After the gray-white miniature mushroom clouds dispersed, the raised machine-gun bunkers turned into sunken morgues, and the continuous barbed wire and wooden stakes flew into the sky, twisting the fractures into twisted shapes.

The surviving British soldiers in the trenches crouched with their ears covered, allowing countless sand and gravel to fly into the trenches and hit every corner of their bodies, and then slid down their torsos and arms to the ground.

A thick layer of yellow sand soon accumulated under the feet of each British soldier, which reflected their iron-blue faces and bloodshot eyes.

From time to time, groups of British fighters flew in from the east. Trying to intercept German bombers. As soon as he arrived on the battlefield, he was drawn into a fierce air battle.

See the long-overdue Hurricane fighter. The pilots of the ME-109 fighter jets cheered and rushed forward, tearing apart their prey like wolves with fresh meat.

One after another, the Hurricane fighters pierced the ground with black smoke and flames, and some were even blown up in the air, turning into dazzling fireworks along with the pilots and planes.

In the face of the Me-109 fighter fleet, the British fighters, which were inferior in both numbers and performance, quickly lost the courage to fight and surrendered air supremacy to the Luftwaffe.

On the ground, the British Army did not sit still, and hundreds of Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns shot countless shells into the sky. He wanted to avenge his dead comrades, but under the blows of countless aerial bombs and large-caliber grenades, people and cannons flew into the sky, turning into all kinds of strange-shaped corpses and meat paste, and then became fertilizer for the earth.

Seeing that the British firepower on the opposite side had been suppressed by the bomber group of the Second Air Force, a general attack on the ground began.

Under the leadership of the armored engineer battalion, Herman. The Reichsmarshal's Panzer Regiment of the Goering Division, more than 150 No. 4G tanks of two armored battalions rushed out of their positions and rushed to the British positions, the paratroopers of the 1st Parachute Regiment followed closely in SDKFZ251 armored vehicles, and the 48 self-propelled guns of the Artillery Regiment followed far behind.

With yellow sand that obscures the sky. Murderous armoured clusters rushed through the middle of the battlefield to reach the minefields set up by the British.

The armored sappers jumped out of the armored vehicles, bravely rushed into the minefield with minesweepers, dug up the obscene mines one by one, dismantled the fuses and threw them aside.

Behind them, Panzer Regiment No. 4G tanks slowly followed the path carved out by the sappers, and used vehicle-mounted machine guns and powerful KWK40 tank guns to fire at the British positions behind the minefield, and machine gun bullets and 75mm tank shells rained down on the opposite British positions.

The artillery observation post also followed the tanks into the battlefield in SDKFZ251 armored vehicles, and they promptly reported the targets they found to the self-propelled guns in the rear, each of which summoned a bunch of shells to the opposite British fire point.

Under the power of the coordinated operation of all arms, the minefield in front of the position of the 4th Indian Division became a smooth road, and the 2-pounder anti-tank guns either overturned to the ground or turned into parts, and the corpses of the gunners lay on the sidelines.

The British machine-gun bullets sparked countless sparks on the Type 4G tank, but they still could not stop their advance, but instead revealed themselves and were subsequently destroyed by the shells one by one.

The moment the tracks of the No. 4G tank ran over the heads of the Indian soldiers, the paratroopers jumped off the SDKFZ251 armored vehicle and rushed to the trenches one after another, and began to clear the remnants inside.

The recalcitrant Indian soldiers, along with their British officers, were either beaten into a honeycomb by the MP40 or smashed to the ground with the butt of a rifle and then pinned to the ground with a shiny bayonet through their chests.

The recalcitrant British officers and men were in the absolute minority, and more British officers and soldiers fled along the communication trenches to the depth of the defensive line, and the German paratroopers immediately divided into two lines, one along the trenches and communication trenches, and the other continued to follow the No. 4 G tank to attack deep into the defensive line.

Chen Dao's Bandit One followed far behind the armored cluster, and he could clearly see through the telescope that a breakthrough had been made ahead.

After Chen Dao contacted Major General Funk of the 7th Panzer Division through wireless, and learned that the 7th Panzer Division on the right flank had also achieved a breakthrough in the position of the 4th Indian Division, he did not hesitate to put the 2nd Parachute Regiment as a reserve into battle and attack the exposed right flank of the British 7th Panzer Division to the north, in order to expand the breakthrough

In the city of Mesha Matru, Lieutenant General O'Connor anxiously asked, "Where is the 7th Armored Brigade?" ”

"The Matilda 2 tanks are relatively slow, and they should have just rushed to the rear of the position of the 4th Indian Division at this time."

"Inform General Augereau that reinforcements will arrive soon, and let him hold out for another hour, no, half an hour." O'Connor commanded helplessly.

What a mistake, I thought that the Germans would use the tactics of outflanking on both flanks, but I didn't expect it to be a breakthrough in the center, and as a result, the reserves that were put on the northernmost part of the position had to rush to the position of the 4th Indian Division to fight the fire.

Hopefully they would arrive before the Germans cut through the positions of the 4th Indian Division, Lieutenant General O'Connor pleaded silently, frowning.

Half an hour later, Chen Dao received a telegram from Lieutenant Colonel Schumacher, commander of the Imperial Marshal's armored regiment.

"Encountering a British tank cluster ahead, there are more than 40 Matilda 2 tanks, which is really a narrow road, so it is just right to use them to test the defense of the additional armor of the No. 4G tank." Chen Dao looked at the telegram and said with a sneer. (To be continued......)