One after another, the results of the Ni battle were reported from Major Daniel, and dozens of British tanks were destroyed in only half an hour, and only one German tank was accidentally damaged...... The damage was due to the fact that it was really difficult to identify in the dark of night, and the tank was also mixed with the enemy tank, so it was paralyzed in one shot.

Luckily, it was an armor-piercing shell, and the tank crew was only slightly injured and successfully returned to the unit.

Of course, none of this matters.

The important thing is that the British "Stuart" tanks can no longer harass the Germans as before, which allows the Germans to advance at full speed again on Alexander.

General Auchinleck's side quickly received the relevant information.

"General!" The staff officer reported: "The tanks of the Germans were mixed with our tanks, and our troops suffered heavy losses!" ”

"How could a German tank get into our tanks?" General Auchinleck was somewhat puzzled.

"They drive the Stuart tank!" The staff officer explained.

"Oh!" Auchinleck couldn't help but suddenly realize, and then frowned.

"Damn! It must have been the tanks they captured, these cunning Germans! ”

"Colonel Yarlin requests instructions!"

"Tell him!" Without thinking about it, General Auchinlake ordered: "Find out those tanks that have infiltrated and destroy them!" ”

"Yes, General!" So the order was quickly delivered.

But General Auchinleck's order was clearly inappropriate...... At this time, what should be done is to temporarily silence and gather the tanks that are confirmed to be their own, so that the tanks that belong to the enemy naturally have nowhere to hide.

However, General Auchinleck's order further exacerbated the confusion, which made it easier for the German tanks to fish in the waters.

Of course, General Auchinleck can't be blamed for this, as he has largely not dealt with this situation before...... The trench warfare of World War I was basically divided between warp and weft, with the enemy defending one line and one defense line on our side, separated by mines and barbed wire, bombarding each other with artillery fire, and occasionally launching one or two almost suicidal charges.

The battle for this kind of enemy infiltration into the opposing camp only began to show its sights in World War II.

Because he had no relevant experience, General Auchinleck gave a wrong order.

This time, the battlefield will be lively.

As soon as the order was given, all the British knew that the "Stuart" could be an enemy tank...... So everyone is a soldier.

It started out as a small mess.

Two squads of British tanks fought together because of a miscalculation. However, the two squads of tanks belonged to different tank groups, so both groups reported to their superiors: "We have found enemy tanks, we are fighting each other, and we are asking for reinforcements!" Request reinforcements! ”

Reinforcements soon came in a steady stream, and more and more of them became more and more chaotic, and it was even impossible to tell who was who after the fight.

Some of this is due to the German tank trouble...... They grabbed a group of tanks and ran away with a few shots, and the British tanks naturally did not let them go easily, and chased after them.

As a result, another group of British tanks drove on the opposite side, and I saw a group of tanks in front of me firing in their direction while firing their guns...... I took it for granted that it was an enemy, so I got entangled with each other.

It was an incalculable account, and the British tanks lost at least eighty tanks as a result of this melee.

"At least" because in the dark of night they could not tell which tanks were "missing" and which were destroyed, or which were enemy tanks and which were their own...... It is not certain that they counted the enemy's tanks in the statistics.

And the German 21st Panzer Division took advantage of this time to kill Alexandria in one go.

Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt after Cairo, but it is much more important than Cairo...... Because it was the most important port for the British army to communicate with the outside world (there was also Port Said, but Port Said was not as powerful as Alexandria, and if Alexandria fell into enemy hands, Port Said would also be blockaded by the air force).

As was said earlier, Alexander was not prepared for defense.

When the German tanks "Rumble" approached Alexander, the Afrika Army even built fortifications on the defensive line......

Defending the periphery of Alexandria was the 3rd African Division, formed from Egypt.

However, this force was more of a police force than an army, because they were usually trained to maintain law and order, and they did not even have the support of the Egyptian people...... The reason was that the Egyptians saw them as tools of British rule to enslave Egypt.

"Civilian support" may seem like an inconsequential option on the battlefield, but it actually determines whether the army has the spirit of the army or the courage to sacrifice itself against the enemy......

The reason is simple, the soldiers of the army are all from the common people, and they can even be said to be members of the common people.

If there is the support of the people, then there will be no shortage of enthusiastic young people in the army who have the belief of defending the homeland and the country, and these people are the backbone of the army.

Otherwise, the army would be full of soldiers who only took up guns in order to feed themselves, and these people who were already bastards would certainly not be willing to sacrifice their lives for the British.

The Afrika Army belonged to the latter group, so when the German tanks appeared in front of them, they left behind their sapper shovels and fled, leaving the Germans with an unfinished trench and barbed wire, as well as neatly arranged machine guns, artillery and boxes of unopened ammunition in the trenches.

"They're literally sending us ammunition!" "I was worried just now that we didn't have enough ammunition to fight the enemy, and now it seems that these worries are superfluous!" ”

"Don't take it lightly!" Kuhn reminded: "The next thing is the most difficult! ”

Kuhn was right, because it was Alexandria that stood in the way.

Of course, the German tanks were not capable of rolling the Egyptian second-largest city under the tracks as they had against Dirsiin, so the Germans had to face the most difficult ...... for the armored forces Street fighting.

The remnants of the 2nd New Zealand Infantry Division also knew this, so they were not stationed outside the city with the African Division.

It is true that the New Zealand 2nd Infantry Division lost most of its heavy equipment and anti-tank weapons due to its defeat at Matruo.

But that's not a problem for them.

Because Alexandria was a port, it had resources and supplies brought in by the British army from all over the world. All the New Zealand soldiers had to do was haul the equipment out of the warehouse and erect it into the building.

The most important and threatening of these weapons and equipment is the PIAT infantry anti-tank projectile known as the "English Bow and Crossbow".