I wish you brothers a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day!

You can eat moon cakes while enjoying the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, and I can only code words at home...... So, are you very lucky?

This book will be on the shelves on the 6th of next month, I hope the brothers will give more support, and it is not easy to code words in front of the computer, especially now that the environment is so difficult, and you will encounter mythical beasts at every turn, so that the soldiers can't make up their minds when they want to resign several times...... In case you resign and the book is lost to the beast again, then you really don't even have to drink the porridge. So the soldier can only code words while working, and that hard work is not something that outsiders can understand.

Brothers, please support the genuine version! A chapter is only a few cents, but it is a great support for the author, and the whole three-million-word book is the money of a few moon cakes, but it allows the author to continue to write, and there are more and better works in front of you, why not?

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Qin Chuan once again realized that the Germans had a "lightning" style of fighting with vigor and resoluteness, and they were almost immediately on the battlefield and engaged in the attack on the enemy's defensive line.

This approach was certainly correct, since the Germans always had an advantage in quality over their own opponents.

For a well-quality unit, even if there is not enough time to prepare, it can exert a strong combat effectiveness, because the soldiers know what they have to do.

For example, now, the artillery sets up their artillery to carry out artillery shelling on the enemy's lines, the tanks advance under the instructions of the infantry and the artillery fire that continues to move forward, the infantry follows the tank cover and coordinates, and the anti-tank guns are erected in the rear to prepare for the sudden appearance of the enemy's tanks......

On the other hand, the South African 1st Division, although they had a defensive advantage in the face of the sudden German attack, was at a loss for what to do, as can be seen from the bullets and shells they fired indiscriminately in the direction of the Germans without any purpose, and some of the shells even deviated from the position of the Germans several kilometers away...... This made the German officers and soldiers a little dumbfounded.

In fact, it should be said that this was the first time that German officers and soldiers fought against the South African colonial army, which is somewhat rare and strange.

The South African 1st Division, which is almost a primitive unit, differs from the primitive tribes in that they are armed with rifles and cannons instead of spears and bows and arrows.

However, their equipment is better than that of the primitive tribes, but the tactical thinking is still the same as that of the primitive tribes...... They believe that whether a gun or a cannon can hit a target is not based on some "three-point-line" or "parabolic ballistic" calculations, and they believe in gods more than these things.

To put it simply, if the gods bless, then they only need to point the muzzle of the gun in the direction of the enemy and pull the trigger to hit the target, otherwise it is useless to aim.

Therefore, the South African 1st Division often performed some rituals before the battle, such as asking the wizard to dance around the fire, or tying strips of cloth red with chicken blood to the barrel of the gun.

In line with this, they also believe that there is no need to learn any tactical actions such as concealment and leaping, because of course, it is not the marksmanship that plays a decisive role, but whether the gods have the ability to bless themselves...... The enemy can be accurately defeated because of the "white man's magic", and he will be hit because the "white man's magic" is stronger than the African gods.

So everything can be explained by gods and magic.

What's even more interesting is that the soldiers of the South African 1st Division also belong to different tribes...... Africa is the region with the most complex ethnic composition, and in this desert land, which is not large in size and most of the area is still unsuitable for human habitation, there are thousands of ethnic groups and tribes, and even more than 800 languages.

These different tribes believed in different gods, and different gods would have different ways of "blessing", so they would argue and even conflict with each other over whose "gods" would be more effective in warfare.

This was one of the reasons why Major General Alger, commander of the 1st South African Division, was incredulous when he received Lieutenant General Cunningham's request to hold the Gabshali Line.

"God!" Major General Alger said: "I should be glad that this force does not fight with each other, and that we should be able to hold off the German attack?!" ”

"Two hours, General!" The staff officer, who had just been transferred from England, seemed confident in this: "The lieutenant general only asked us to hold off the enemy for two hours, and then reinforcements would come!" ”

"Oh, really?" Major General Alger said angrily: "Let's make a bet, if you can command the troops to block the enemy for half an hour, you will be the commander of this division, how about it?" ”

The staff officer was speechless for a moment.

Facts also proved that Major General Alger was not angry, and the Germans easily tore through the defense line of the South African 1st Division with a single charge, and then the tanks led the German soldiers through the gap like a flood of embankments into the Gabshali Line.

The soldiers of the 1st South African Division, apparently believing that white magic had once again triumphed over their gods, abandoned their positions and fled, no matter how angry the British officers shouted.

Some of the factors that played a role in this were the 80 "Valentine" tanks left by the British on the Gabshali Line...... Because of its slow speed, this tank was assigned by Lieutenant General Cunningham to defend the Gabshali Line, and the remaining 50 vehicles were on their way to the Gabshali Line.

BUT THESE "VALENTINE" TANKS WERE ARMED WITH BRITISH TWO-POUNDER GUNS, THAT IS, 40MM GUNS.

PREVIOUSLY, THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE ONSLAUGHT OF TANK NO. 3, BUT NOW NO. III IS ARMED WITH A 50MM GUN......

Artillery superiority and telephone coordination made the "No. 3" tank as invincible as the "Stuart" tank of the British 9th Panzer Regiment.

Worse still......

If the "Stuart" tank can't beat it, at least it can run, while the "Valentine" tank can't beat it and can only wait for death in place...... Its maximum speed is only 24 kilometers per hour, and it cannot outrun the "No. 3" with a maximum speed of 40 kilometers per hour.

So after a period of indiscriminate resistance, the British had to resort to their last resort, blowing up the tank and surrendering.

This is considered the advanced wisdom of the British army, they did not let the "Valentine" tank fall into the hands of the Germans and become the enemy's weapon.

However, the Germans do not seem to have taken this kind of tank with the speed of the "Three" exactly right, such as the previously captured "Matilda", most of which were left in the Tobruk or Halfa Tooth lines for defense or as mobile batteries...... This infantry tank, whose speed was completely incommensurate with the speed of maneuver, was a kind of chicken rib for the German army: taking it with it would undoubtedly seriously affect the logistics and marching speed of the German army; Don't take it with you, tanks are a scarce resource in the desert anyway, and Matilda is a tank anyway.

The losses of the South African 1st Division were large, they lost almost all the artillery units and anti-tank guns.

It's just that most of these guns are obsolete and unused by the British army, such as anti-tank guns or two-pounder guns, and they are rusty...... It can also be seen from this that the British army is actually very far-sighted, and they know that it must be a waste to give good equipment to the South African 1st Division.

The South African 1st Division dropped so many guns that the roadside was littered with pieces of artillery that had fallen to the side or been blown up, and the defensive line was like a cannon graveyard.

In addition to this, 224 soldiers of the South African 1st Division were killed, 379 wounded, and 2791 captured. The rest of the people scattered and fled into the desert, and the German soldiers were not even interested in pursuing them.

Werner has a good explanation for this: "Their skin is a good protective color, and we can't even find it if you escape into the dark!" ”