Stephen heard it right, the word was indeed "reinforcements", and the reinforcements arrived!

To be honest, although Stephen heard the word "reinforcements", in his heart, he did not believe that the Italians would really have the courage to come and relieve the siege.

If the Italians could really defeat the outlying British forces surrounding Heights 3, they would not have been chased by the British all the way, and eventually had to ask the French army in Algeria to take them in.

In fact, the effect of the Italian army's counteroffensive has not been very good.

An Italian major general, who was almost shot by Berente, asked for meritorious service for his crimes, and was not shot by taking advantage of the fact that his wife's cousin's wife was Mussolini's mistress.

As a result, two days later, the Italian major general, who was supposed to appear around Heights 3 and lead his troops to relieve the siege, actually appeared on the British position.

Of course, he did not occupy the positions of the LinkedIn Army. Directly with the Italian troops, he surrendered to the British.

But Stephen still waited for reinforcements, Germans.

There were not many reinforcements, only two battalions in total.

However, the weight of this support army was very heavy, and they were personally led by the commander of the Franco-Italian African Army Group, German General Rommel!

The reason why Rommel, the commander of an army group, only brought two battalions to support, was actually very simple, because Rommel's African army group did not all reach him at all.

It is said that the 15th Armored Division, which arrived in advance, is actually an armored reconnaissance battalion, an infantry battalion, and a combat anti-aircraft artillery battalion that are ready for battle. The rest of the troops were either still on their way or their equipment was still piled up in Italian ports. Many of the armoured men arrived in the northern Algerian ports, but their tanks remained in the Italian ports, waiting to be loaded.

As for the 30th Infantry Division, which was planned to arrive at a later stage, I heard that it was on the way, and its vanguard, Lieutenant General Hans, who had already followed them, had just arrived in the Algerian capital, but it would not be possible to do it for a while until they had completed their assembly and formed a fighting force.

As a result, Rommel, the commander of the group army, really had only one reconnaissance battalion, an infantry battalion, an anti-aircraft artillery battalion, and a logistics column.

It is impossible for a logistics column to be sent to the front, unless it is a last resort. And the combat defense artillery battalion, the mobility ability is not enough for them to rush to the front line in time.

To say that the two battalions brought by Rommel, in addition to the reconnaissance battalion, which relied on its own armored transport vehicles and Leopard tanks to drive to the battlefield, the other infantry battalion, or seconded Italian transport vehicles, rushed to the front line with the reconnaissance battalion.

As a result, although Rommel had few people, his combat effectiveness was first-class and strong.

In just one round of strong attack, Rommel broke through the peripheral British front that the Italians had not been able to shake for several days, destroyed 4 British tanks and an armored car, killed and wounded more than 100 British soldiers, and then broke through the British blockade and came to the perimeter of the left flank of Heights 3.

"No matter which commander is attacking a position, he must be panicked when he suddenly finds that behind him, a unit that has always had strong armored force suddenly appears, right?"

Sitting in his armored command car, the corners of Rommel's mouth hooked up a conceited smile.

With the cutting-edge force of a reconnaissance battalion as the spearhead, and an infantry battalion advancing later, it was actually very easy to win the back of the British army, whose energy was distracted by the offensive mission.

"Order the troops, go on the attack as planned." Rommel waved his hand lightly and ordered.

The 16 modified Leopard tanks were placed in a triangular formation, and 18 wheeled armored vehicles, also modified, were evenly distributed on both flanks of the Leopard tanks.

These 16 Leopard tanks did not belong to the armored reconnaissance battalion. It was Rommel who had temporarily drawn tanks from an unfinished armored regiment.

If you only rely on the communication tanks of the armored reconnaissance battalion, the command tanks, and those wheeled armored vehicles, the combat effectiveness of the armored forces in Rommel's hands is probably not very high.

Because of this, he ignored the integrity of the other armored regiment and forcibly took all 16 Leopard tanks that had just arrived in that regiment in one go.

It was this battle group, improvised by Rommel, inserted into a British infantry position in a conical shape, but it showed considerable attacking power.

It was a battle that the British had never experienced when they were fighting the Italians and the black soldiers recruited by the French army.

The German infantry has a semi-automatic rifle with strong reliability and accuracy such as the G43, a medium tank like the Leopard tank, which is comparable in weight to the B1 heavy tank of the French army, and has a better combat quality and level than those Italian soldiers and those French black recruits.

The British army originally attacked the No. 3 position held by the French colonial troops, which was regarded as an easy job, although it was not taken for a while, but it was only a matter of time.

After all, the black soldiers who were improvised by the French army were very naïve, both in terms of marksmanship and tactical execution.

It's not too hard to fight against such an opponent.

If it weren't for Stephen, a French officer, who had studied trench warfare a little and built good fortifications, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to survive until now with the combat ability of a division of black soldiers recruited by the French army.

Of course, if Stephen, the French officers who were originally part of the Maginot Line, were brought to Africa by Béronte, they studied the fortifications of trench warfare thoroughly.

Then, Rommel, the commander from Germany, studied the most thoroughly aspect, which was to use elite force to launch an offensive.

Fortunately, Rommel's German soldiers, more adept than Stephen's Algerian soldiers, were able to carry out Rommel's tactical commands.

"If there were two more troops, I could turn over the British positions one by one." Rommel, who had already led his troops to defeat the British troops on the left flank of position 3, lightly stepped off his armored command vehicle and walked towards the French front-line command post in front of him.

Behind him was the German infantry who had just finished the battle, with a strong murderous aura on their bodies, strong and strong, neatly and solemnly scattered in two columns, in two straight lines.

Dozens of tall and mighty German tanks and armored vehicles also stopped outside Stephen's tent used as a front-line headquarters, attracting his black soldiers to probe their brains curiously, pointing at the steel behemoths brought by these German friendly forces.

"These are our allies?" A guard outside the tent asked his partner softly.

He really didn't expect that their friendly army would be such a strong and powerful team. There will be so many steel chariots that you can know are very powerful just by looking at them.

The wide tracks of the Leopard tank, the 5 mm thick skirt on both sides of the tank, the slender and powerful barrel, and the sloping and thick armor are all more shocking than the British tanks that black soldiers have seen these days.

"Yes! All of them are our allies! His companion, another guard, nodded in joy and excitedly.