The capture of the Meselja Ridge opened a door to El Alamein, and Rommel immediately moved to the ridge with the headquarters of the Afrika Army, along with the observers of the 400 motorized artillery battalion of the Greater German Regiment.

More than 20 minutes later, the 400 Motorized Artillery Battalion moved to the southeast of the Maisel Ridge, and immediately launched an artillery bombardment on the British positions north of the ridge under the command of the artillery observation post.

The shells of eight LEFH18 105-mm howitzers and four FH18 150-mm howitzers smashed numerous craters in the positions of the British troops in Lingbei.

Originally, because of the transfer of the 400 motorized artillery battalion, the British troops north of the Maisel Ridge were temporarily freed from the shelling, and they did not wait for them to secretly rejoice for a long time before they were suddenly shelled from the flank.

The Maiseljah Ridge in the south was occupied, the left flank of the position was exposed, and it was in danger of being outflanked by the Germans at any time, and panic instantly spread throughout the British positions.

Upon discovering the intentions of the Germans, the British forces north of the Messelja Ridge collapsed and retreated in the direction of El Alamein to the east, where the Greater German Regiment then launched a pursuit.

South of the El Alamein Line, Herman. The initial offensive of the Goering Motorized Rifle Division went smoothly as never before.

Due to the lack of troops, Major General Allen was unable to fully defend a front forty kilometers wide, so he had to concentrate his troops on several dangerous hills with a radius of about 15 miles around El Alamein on the coast, and the open space between the mountains was controlled by artillery fire.

After a smooth initial march. Proceed to the Ruwisat Ridge, just south of El Alamein. Herman. The Goering division met real resistance.

After observing the positions of the British troops on the Ruwesat Ridge for a while. Mandolfil did not entangle them too much, and after leaving behind the 1st Parachute Regiment, the 1st Light Artillery Battalion, and an engineer company, he led the main force of the division to detour through the Gobi Desert south of the Ruweisat Mountains, and continued to outflank the coastal road east of El Alamein.

Not long after the departure of the main force led by Mandolfer, the attack on the ridge of Ruwisat began.

The British positions on the Ruwesat Ridge were clearly standing fortifications, the outermost ones were on alert, and behind them were a series of anti-tank trenches, behind which were real defensive positions.

These positions are connected to the trenches by communication trenches. Machine gun positions supporting each other, numerous support points, bunkers and pillboxes were scattered throughout.

Lieutenant Colonel Schultz, commander of the 1st Parachute Regiment, placed the breakthrough point southwest of the Ruwisat Ridge.

Twelve Wasp self-propelled howitzers fired heavily at the British positions on the opposite side, and the paratroopers of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Parachute Regiment in SDKFZ251 armored vehicles followed behind the twelve No. 4 assault guns.

The heroic engineer company rushed to the front, braving British howitzers, mortars, and machine gun fire, and they did not hesitate to plunge into the minefield in front of the British position.

The shells set off fountains of yellow sand around the sappers, carrying deadly shrapnel in between.

A hail of machine-gun bullets snorted in the sand that hit them, leaving numerous bullet holes and the lives of German sappers in the sand.

The arrogance of the British army did not last long, and when the No. 4 assault gun advanced near the minefield, the nightmare of the British army came.

The assault gun No. 4 shook its stout muzzle. 105 mm grenades were poured into the holes of the machine gun bunkers, and a violent wave of air mixed with sawdust, yellow sand, and machine gun parts flew into the sky. There are also severed limbs and all kinds of horrific human organs.

Not far behind, the 81-mm mortars of the Heavy Weapons Company of the 1st Parachute Battalion joined the ranks of revenge for the engineers, and the mortar-shells made a terrifying arc in the air and landed accurately into the British trenches.

In the explosion, a Vickers heavy machine gun was overturned by the air wave, or directly reduced to parts, and the bloody corpse of the machine gunner lay on the side, red blood and colorful internal organs splashed into every corner of the bunker, exuding a fishy smell.

Under the ferocious fire of the German paratroopers and the overwhelming courage, the defenders quickly abandoned their outlying positions and hastily withdrew along the communication trenches to the main position.

The flight of the British troops reduced the pressure on the German sappers sharply, and the speed of demining increased dramatically.

One by one, obscene mines were dug out of the sand, fuses were removed and thrown aside, and the sappers advanced farther and deeper in the minefield, and after ten minutes, finally one of the sappers passed through the British minefield and climbed in front of the barbed wire fence in the British outlying positions.

One, two, three more and more German sappers passed through the minefield, and the No. 4 assault gun followed, crushing through the barbed wire fence with their steel bodies, and then over the British perimeter line with only dead bodies, to the anti-tank trench.

The anti-tank trenches of the British army blocked the advance of the assault gun No. 4 and the armored vehicles of the SDKFZ251 type, but provided a stage for the paratroopers to show themselves. They nimbly jumped out of the armored vehicle and followed the platoon and squad leaders towards the British positions where rifle and machine-gun bullets flew out.

Sergeant Steiner, a company and platoon, was the first to jump into the outlying trenches abandoned by the British, and led his men to rush into the anti-tank trenches along the retreating communication trenches of the British troops.

After the MP40 submachine gun erupted in a burst of angry flames, the bodies of two British infantrymen who fell behind fell down the trench ladder of the anti-tank trench.

On the edge of the trench behind him, assault gun No. 4 let countless shrapnel and bullets hit him, suppressing the fire of the British troops on the opposite side of the anti-tank trench with 105-mm howitzers and vehicle-mounted machine guns.

Farther behind them, two artillery observers, in a Type 251 armoured vehicle, operated the radio to keep in touch with the artillery battalion, directing the artillery gunners to smash shells into British positions two or three hundred meters across the trench.

The shells accurately landed on the support points, bunkers, trenches and anti-tank guns of the British troops, crushing the British troops to the point where they could not lift their heads.

The sappers rushed into the anti-tank trench with explosives packets and placed them on the trenches to carry out multi-point blasting.

In a series of earth-shaking mountains, countless pieces of yellow sand flew into the sky, and several gaps of different widths appeared in the continuous anti-tank trenches, and in the gaps were "bridges" paved with yellow sand.

"Let's go."

Before the smoke of the blasting had cleared, Sergeant Steiner shouted and took the lead in rushing out of the gap.

He panted all the way, taking advantage of the undulating terrain and craters to repeatedly do the tactical maneuvers of lying down and firing, jumping up and charging, and lying down again to fire, agile like a cheetah rushing into the British position.

After rolling on his side and rolling into the British trench, Sergeant Steiner knelt on one knee, raised the MP40 in his hand and swept away several British soldiers who were lying down to avoid German artillery fire more than ten meters ahead.

A dark shadow flashed above the trench and landed in front of Sergeant Steiner, a paratrooper.

The two looked at each other, nodded to each other in tacit understanding, and then led the paratroopers who jumped into the trenches one after another to continue the work of clearing the trenches.

Behind them, the sappers rushed to the anti-tank trench in an SDKFZ251 armored vehicle, and with the assistance of some paratroopers, the sappers unloaded sandbags from the wagons and threw themselves onto the yellow sand-paved "bridge", making the soft ground solid enough.

With the sound of squeaking metal, the tracks of the No. 4 assault gun ran over the sandbags, and followed the paratroopers into the depth of the British positions, followed by hundreds of armored vehicles over the anti-tank trenches.

As the armoured vehicles crossed the anti-tank trenches, the paratroopers, supported by more powerful firepower, cleared the British trenches more quickly.

German long-handled grenades and British pineapple-shaped grenades flew around the trenches, machine guns and submachine guns rattling.

After freeing themselves from the hard work of demining and "bridging", the sappers showed their murderous side.

The flamethrower spewed out blazing flames and drilled into the bunker along the firing holes of the frantically recalcitrant bunker, causing countless heart-rending screams and wails in the bunker.

One by one, the burning men with flames all over their bodies rushed out of the bunker and ran wildly, and then threw themselves on the sand and rolled on the ground to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but the painful struggle was ended by the kind German paratroopers with bullets, and the smell of burnt human flesh after being roasted soon appeared on the battlefield.

One after another, the British strongholds and trenches were captured, and the paratroopers shouted for their guns and rushed to the summit of Ruwisat Ridge.

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ps: Tomorrow is the college entrance examination, I wish you all good results in the exam, enter your favorite school, o(∩_∩)o~ (to be continued......)