However, it is an indisputable fact that the German army's attacks are rising higher and higher, and the British army is finally beginning to be unable to hold on, and the South African 2nd Infantry Division is collapsing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The battle on the front line has been going on, and in the rear headquarters, Oclekin, as the commander-in-chief of the British North African front, knows that Rommel can only capture Tanta, a transportation hub, if he wants to open up the situation in front of him.

And if the British army wants to continue to rely on the support of the Americans and hold on here, it can only hold on to the premise of holding Tanta!

It was for this reason that Oclekin put an end to the mistakes of his former British commander, believing that he could cope with all changes as long as he focused on guarding Tanta.

To be a turtle, to be a turtle that will not change for 10,000 years, this is Oclekin's plan, this is what Oclekin is ready to do.

He believed that as long as the British army remained unchanged, it would be able to avoid all Rommel intrigues and intrigues, so that the advantages of the other side could not be brought into play.

Did Rommel prepare like this? Of course not! When Rommel was attacking, his main idea was to take Damanhur, but he had no intention of storming Tanta.

As a front-line commander in Africa, he knew that if the British army held Tanta, it would be possible to hold out for ten or even twenty days. In this case, wasting time attacking Tanta is not a wise choice.

So all Rommel had to do was to occupy Damanhur. Because the capture of Damanhur is even a complete pull out of the Allied nails on the west bank of the Nile.

So that the Germans could move south along the Nile and hit Cairo in one go! The detour to Cairo is a real question for Rommel to give his opponent a question for thought.

Because of the two good ports of Alexandria and Matru, Rommel's supplies could be replenished continuously. The offensive power of the German army in this case could be guaranteed.

As long as Rommel's armored forces advance along the Nile and reach Cairo in one go, they will be able to plunder the large amount of military supplies hoarded in Cairo and obtain a huge amount of supplies.

With these supplies, Rommel's Afrika Korps could continue to storm eastward, directly to the Suez Canal, which was almost entirely undefended, and was no different from rushing.

Once Rommel's army captured the Suez Canal from the south, it would be able to block the transportation of strategic goods from the United States, and it would be able to encircle all British forces in Egypt!

This was Rommel's real intention in attacking Damanhur, and this is why he had his 21st Panzer Division attack with the Italian army.

Rommel did not want the ineffective offensive of the Italian troops to affect his entire battle plan, and he wanted to use his advantages to fight a magnificent offensive operation.

As a general with his own independent tactical ideas, Rommel had his own tactical characteristics.

In his writings, his style of concentrating firepower has already been reflected, and he once wrote: no matter how small the caliber of the weapon is, no matter how small the number of weapons, it must be used as intensively as possible.

Breakthroughs and detours are the core embodiment of Rommel's art of war, he likes to use a little breakthrough to drive the battle situation, and he also likes to use a wide range of detours to solve the enemy.

In the process of attacking, the side with superior strength will always try to expand the contact area between the enemy and our armies, so that it can give full play to its own superiority in strength as much as possible.

Extending the front line can put the side with inferior forces into passivity, and the big roundabout tactics that Rommel planned are like this.

This arrangement, in which the enemy forces are forced to disperse their forces and engage our side with superior forces, is not simply dispersed.

For example, if the forces of both sides are 100,000 against 50,000, if the battle line is expanded tenfold, an advantage of 10,000 to 5,000 will be formed at each point.

However, if only 7,000 is used to contain the enemy's 5,000 at nine out of ten points, then at a certain point, you can concentrate your forces and form an absolute superiority of 37,000 against the opponent's 5,000.

Of course, accomplishing this advantage is a complex process, and the side with fewer people also has many countermeasures.

What made the British defense passive the most was actually the serious underestimation of the offensive forces in the hands of Rommel by the 2nd Infantry Division of South Africa!

This is the biggest crucity of the British army, which is still struggling to cope with the German attack at this moment.

Modern warfare is often a comprehensive and systematic war, and miscalculations and predictions in each link may lead to miscalculations in the entire strategic link.

The problem for the British now was that they had closely monitored Italian ports in North Africa before the war, and they had very accurate data on the throughput of these ports.

In their minds, Tripoli is too far away to have the slightest impact on the battlefield in front of them.

Benghazi has a throughput of only 2,000 tons, while Tobruk has an unloading capacity of just over 1,000 tons.

There is almost no doubt that such a port would not be sufficient to support the present state of affairs of the German army.

It was precisely because of this accurate judgment of the logistical transport capacity that the British army was sure again and again that the German offensive would soon stop, or even just bluff.

But now it turns out that this judgment is wrong. The German army was clearly capable of resupplying, and this was the most lethal of all.

Before the Battle of Damanhur, British intelligence had deduced that the German-Italian army would be able to break through to the battle with about 300 guns on a frontal battlefield, but this judgment was grossly wrong.

In fact, the Italian army had more than 300 artillery pieces thrown into the battle for the frontal attacking troops.

And less than 100 German artillery pieces joined the attack sequence at the same time, which made the British army a little overwhelmed.

On the other hand, in the counterattack of Operation Compass, as well as in the Battle of El Alamein, the Germans captured a large number of British artillery.

Originally, these guns were not likely to join this attack due to lack of ammunition. However, with the occupation of Alexandria by the Germans, the Germans found a large number of British artillery shells here.

Because of this, counting the captured British artillery, the Afrika Korps concentrated a full 700 artillery pieces on the frontal battlefield.

It doesn't sound like a lot, but when you know that the 700 Axis cannons are against the 21 cannons of the 2nd Infantry Division in South Africa, the gap collapses.

Even if you count the British artillery elsewhere, the ratio of artillery between Britain and Germany is 7 to 1, and Britain is really not an opponent in the same class.

If you want to blame, it is to blame that the British army was captured with too much equipment before, so that most of the North African weapons and equipment accumulated over the years were lost to the Germans.

On the American side, the number of cannons in the supplies transported is very small. So in addition to the artillery carried by the Australian 7th Infantry Division, the British side did not add much artillery.

After all, the Americans sent more than 200 tanks to the British, and it would be an exaggeration if they could send hundreds more cannons.

The Germans smashed all the shells in their hands on my position! This is what the commander of the 2nd Infantry Division in South Africa thinks now. It was precisely because of such a huge difference in firepower that he lost two lines of defense in a row.

He had abandoned his second line of defense and retreated to the real city of Damanhur, but he still felt the fierce fire of the other side, as if he didn't want money.

Of course, this is not for money, because the artillery and shells are captured, and Rommel means that after these shells are exhausted, these British equipment will be scrapped.

So in a few days of attack, the Germans gave priority to firing these British artillery, with the aim of running out of shells and scrapping them quickly!

"The German army's logistical supply is abnormal! There's definitely something wrong with that! Definitely there is a problem! Oklakin drew a compass on his map, looked at the radius, shook his head, and said in a confused manner.

"It's not Tobruk, even if Tobruk has secret material reserves, even if it's three times the total amount we know before, it's not enough to support this German attack." As a general who has been in Africa for a long time, Oklegin knows logistics and supplies very well.

It can be said that fighting wars in Africa and the Middle East is about logistical supply, and it is impossible not to pay attention to it.

According to the traditional means of supply, it is absolutely impossible for the German army to launch such a battle, and even the battle of El Alamein cannot be fought!

Thinking of this, Oclegin grabbed the report from Alexander's side in front of him and looked at it twice: "The destruction of Alexandria, as well as the interference and blockade of the navy, is not Alexander!" ”

Alexander had already suffered a certain amount of damage when the British army retreated, although the British did not have time to destroy most of the buildings and storehouses, and spared a large amount of supplies.

But there was some damage to the port, and it will be difficult, at least for a short time, for Alexandria to return to its pre-war level.

Even if the Germans worked overtime to restore Alexander, there was still interference from the British fleet outside, and in this case, it was unrealistic to want Alexander to be fully operational.

"It's not Benghazi, it's not Tripoli...... It was too far from the battlefield to transport supplies from there to Alexandria anyway. The chief of staff was on the side, and said affirmatively.

"Baldi...... Too small......" once again rejecting his idea, Oclekin set his sights on the port of Matrou.

Even by elimination, Oklegin knew that there was only one suspect left, and he did not know what method the Germans had used to turn a small port into a large port that could support most of the North African operation.

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