It only took a few minutes from phase to crash.

Under the onslaught of the French armored group, the Indian and Australian regiments that broke into the defense line were crushed before they could organize a defensive formation.

No one can stand against the tracks of the steel behemoth.

The low, French tanks, armed with 47 mm and 75 mm guns, were in no way inferior in quantity or quality to the fifty or so tanks sent by the British.

Confusion occurred the moment the defensive line was recaptured by the French.

Fortunately for the Australians, there was a general panic when these Indian soldiers who took the lead found that their opponents, who had suddenly changed from black soldiers to white soldiers.

The battle quickly turned one-sided. Temporarily blended together, Indian and Australian soldiers, who had previously lacked experience in infantry and tank coordination, quickly opened up a gap with the support tanks sent by the British. And because of the confusion and divergence of formations, they also had to face several times more enemy forces than themselves.

In less than ten minutes, the Indian regiment, which was the first to be defeated, became the first victim. Their regimental headquarters were destroyed, regimental officers were killed, and a large number of junior officers either surrendered or were killed. And the will of the troops, along with the formation in which they were cut, also collapsed with the wind.

Immediately afterwards, the Australian regiment also collapsed. Under the influence of the wreckage and corpses on the ground and the surrender of the Indian friendly troops on their knees with their hands raised in high hands, the commanders of these Australians lost their initial courage and took the lead in surrendering.

In the end, the British tanks, deprived of infantry cover, had to turn around and break through.

However, deep into the enemy's hinterland, the rear route was cut off, and in the face of more local tanks than itself, as well as anti-tank guns placed on the French lines, coupled with the lack of infantry cover, their side fell into disarray...... It's too hard to break through.

Twenty minutes later, Wavell's main attack on the French army's northern defensive line against the black soldiers here was easily thwarted by the sudden ambush of Béronte.

The British lost 2 infantry regiments with half an armored regiment. Correspondingly, the French army in northern Algeria took advantage of this to capture a large number of guns and ammunition, and destroyed 32 British Mathilde tanks and captured another 19, strengthening their own strength.

The mood of defeat, like a miasma, began with the two and a half regiments of the British army's first round of attack, and quickly spread to the subsequent units.

At the beginning, Wavell also tried to use British troops as the spearhead, with Indian and Australian allies, and launched several rounds of secondary offensives to try to establish contact with the vanguard force that had been cut off. However, after many attacks were blocked by the French troops on the defensive line, and no progress was made in a short time, even Wavell, the commander-in-chief of the British Commonwealth army, gave up two and a half regiments as the vanguard.

The situation is no longer under his control.

"Shrink your forces, you can stop the pursuit."

Standing in his front-line headquarters, Belant commanded his adjutant in high spirits.

The slope in the distance has changed from the bare side before to the current appearance of gunsmoke.

The sound of artillery is still ringing. But the music was played by the British cannons to the French cannons.

From prediction, to ambush, to shooting, it went almost exactly as expected.

At this moment, Belante really wants to laugh.

He had fought with the Soviets and had seen what crowd tactics were.

He fought against the Germans and experienced the German army's mission-based command style.

He also fought the Italians and discovered how incompetent an army without equipment and logistical support was.

But today, it wasn't until he fought with the British that he discovered that the troops with good equipment and logistics could be beaten so badly.

To put it bluntly, the British army did not have the strength conditions of the Soviets to use the tactics of crowds, but they fought according to the Soviets' pit-filling style of fighting. 、

After going through so much, Belant can completely sum up that with the British army's conservative style of play, it is possible to deal with the Italians, but it is obviously too big to deal with the French army.

The three divisions under Berente were brought to Africa from mainland France, and they were the troops he brought out when he was still a lieutenant general.

Although these three divisions were originally only second-rate troops in the French army, under his training at Bironte, he thought that he had already built these troops into elite units that were stronger than the first-class troops of the French army.

The British did win more against the Italians with fewer wins, but this was not a big deal. As early as the French campaign, he used the current 3 French divisions to achieve better results.

This battle looks like a battle between 200,000 French North African troops and 120,000 Commonwealth African troops.

But in reality, both sides simply did not need to press all their troops up. The key to the absolute victory or defeat is only whether Wavell ate Willylente's French army, or Bellent defeated Wavell's British soldiers.

Whoever loses the core force will lose!

Wavell would bribe the French traitors and use traitors within the French army to find weak points in their defenses, something that Belant did not expect.

But it is precisely because of this that Wavell stepped into the trap deliberately set by Birant, so that Birant, who was preparing to set the bait, successfully caught a big fish.

In fact, the French army was divided into three lines of defense in the northern part of the border between Algeria and Libya.

The southern end of the defensive line, garrisoned by a small number of French soldiers, had no armored troops, but built pillboxes and anti-tank conical fortifications, which had a certain defensive capability.

At the middle end of the defensive line, the Moroccan corps brought by Admiral Alphonse was in charge, including a French infantry regiment and 30,000 black Moroccan soldiers, which belonged to the reinforcements that Belante had found in Africa, and which was also the main force that Vichy France could raise for him.

The North End Line was the one that seemed to be garrisoned entirely by blacks.

The northern end of the line is the longest and most critical. So Birant used it as a decoy from the start, as a location he used to win the first battle.

Fortified with Algerian soldiers, who were slightly inferior in combat effectiveness and equipment, Belante originally intended to let the British army break through the defense line with "good luck" when they fought on their own, and then be destroyed by the French ambush force.

The 66 B1 heavy tanks in Birant's hands were not very mobile and could not be used as a mobile firefighting team from a distance, so he had to deploy these tanks in advance where they were needed most.

Since the northern end of the defense line was the most important, Berlunte also placed tanks here according to their importance.

As for the southern and middle ends, on the one hand, there are certain anti-tank capabilities. On the other hand, it is not unacceptable to lose it.

After all, Béronte also left a French division behind the middle line as a reserve, which could be transferred to support these two lines at any time.

And Wavell's practice of bribing the traitor made him jump into the key defensive section of Belonte and enter the trap as soon as he came up. As for the other two ends of the defensive line, although Wavell also sent troops to attack, the scale was not large.

Of course, after buying off some French traitors and getting the supply of the southern defense line, Wavell still has certain expectations for the offensive in the southern section.

Now, for example, although the British army suffered heavy losses on the northern front, Wavell received a battle report indicating that the war was normal in the south.