"Enemy attack!"

"Spread out, spread out!"

"Don't retreat, go up, go up for me!"

"Sir, I can't stand it!"

"Oh God! We're finished! ”

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Violent fires, accompanied by the concussion of explosions, spread one after another over the French Algerian border positions.

The soft sand was blown away in all directions, and soon fell to the ground like a rain drops after losing its help. In the thick smoke, apart from the muddy dust and the pitch-black scorched earth, all people saw and heard was the severed limbs and stumps, wailing and screaming.

The howitzers of the British were unscrupulously staggered on the French positions, and their giant Mathilde tanks, like piranhas that smelled blood, appeared in groups in front of the French positions.

The opponents of these tanks were simply a group of Algerian colonial levies operating a small number of 37mm anti-tank guns.

It's a heartbreaking picture.

These black soldiers recruited by Belante were very brave and fired again and again without fear against the heavy tanks of the British. However, they were soon overwhelmed by the torrent of British armor. Everywhere the eye can see, the picture is filled with British tanks.

Farther away, many small tanks captured from the Italians also gradually jumped out of the horizon. This is the second wave of the British offensive replenishment!

On Algeria's border with Libya, Belante deployed a full 30,000 black soldiers. This number is not much, but it is definitely not less.

However, on this long line of defense, if it is evenly divided, 30,000 people is not enough at all. Even in the special environment of Africa, which only needs to defend important cities, 30,000 troops is only a barely qualified standard defense number.

But their opponent was the British army, which was extremely well-armed, and the guys they got in their hands were only some backward equipment that the French army had eliminated.

As for the anti-tank guns, it was not that there were no larger calibers, but that they were assigned only 37 mm caliber guns. As a second-rate unit of Belante, they were doomed from the very beginning to get their hands on the best equipment.

On the British side, an Indian infantry regiment and an Australian infantry regiment were advancing side by side, under the cover of tanks.

The officers kept urging the soldiers to speed up, and the wasteland was filled with the dense and heavy footsteps of the soldiers, coupled with the roar of the tank engines, and the occasional explosions, which was extremely oppressive.

And when the vanguard of the British army broke through the black soldiers' lines and officially invaded Algeria, everyone thought that this would soon be another great victory for Britain in Africa.

The British chose to attack the northern part of Algeria.

The reason for attacking here is simple, that is, the central and southern parts of Algeria are endless deserts. Further south, the Sahara Desert is far away. In Algeria, the only thing that really deserves to be strategic is its northern region.

Although the northern part of Algeria is only a combination of mountains and mountains, the environment here is much better than that of lifeless deserts. Algeria's administrative center and capital is also its northernmost point, relying on the seaport city of Algiers, which is located in the northern foothills of the Taylor Atlas Mountains in the north.

Breaking through the northern defense line of the French army, it can not only penetrate deep into the Atlas Mountains, eliminate the command center of the French army in North Africa in one fell swoop, and capture the famous French general Berente alive. If you take 10,000 steps back, you can also open up a route to the big oil fields in Algeria to the south, and easily choose the road to occupy these oil fields.

Having captured the oil fields of the French, it is time for them to surrender again in this battle!

Admiral Wavell in the British front command had already unabashedly smiled smugly at the scenery in the telescope.

In fact, the destruction of Algerian oil fields is only a last resort. Churchill gave him the order to occupy, or destroy, the Algerian oil fields. That is, occupation takes precedence over destruction.

Churchill was able to continue this unjust war in large part because of profit. The capitalists in Britain have long coveted the Algerian oil fields in the hands of the French, and have always been eager to take advantage of the oil fields by means of plunder, as their predecessors did in the Americas, in Asia, and in the African colonies.

In fact, this is no longer just a matter for the British. Wavell knew very well that the supplies in his hands were not scarce, but more abundant than before the war with Italy, and the shadow of the Americans was indispensable in this.

Algerian oil fields, this pie is too big for the French to enjoy alone. Of course, it's not enough to just share it with the Germans!

For the distribution of oil field profits, not only in Britain, but also in the United States, they began to send equipment to Wavell in Africa, which is why Wavell tried to fight this war.

In a democratic country, we still have to give an explanation to the people and the capitalists.

The Algerian oil fields meant hope for revival for the French, and for Britain and the United States, they were not a source of vitality for revitalization.

In addition, the means of the British Empire were much higher than the French could imagine.

It seems that the famous Belante who was blown into the sky by the French is nothing more than that. For such an important border defense line, he actually only used black soldiers to defend it. Wavell laughed as he lifted his high-powered telescope with one hand.

In his opinion, he only allowed the 7th Panzer Division to separate half of the tanks of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment, and successfully cooperated with the Commonwealth forces of Australia and India to open up the situation.

can rely on the strong and bully the weak so accurately and find a suitable breakthrough, the methods used by Wavell are actually not very authentic.

That's right, he bribed the traitors within the French army, learned about the weakness of the French army in Algeria, and knew the fate of Béronte, in the north!

It is not difficult to find a few traitors within France, especially at a time when the morale of the French army is low. Promise a lot of money, and then arrange a good back road for it, there are always a few fragile hearts.

However, Wavell still despised Biranger too much, he didn't expect that the other party set up the northern defense line so weakly, not to let the British army go all the way in, but to plan to take advantage of the situation to eat the British vanguard that attacked the defense line in one fell swoop!

This was what Berente learned from Manstein during the Polish campaign, using the defensive line as bait to pick out the opponent's attacking forces.

These soldiers from India and Australia saw that the breakthrough they had just rushed through was suddenly sealed by white soldiers who appeared in the French army's main formation.

And when they turned around, they found that in the direction of their charge, dozens of long and flat tanks filled with vertical coils and leaf springs also unconsciously appeared. This is a French tank not inferior to the Mathilde tanks sent by the British army to support the attack!

66 French-made B1 heavy tanks!

Obviously, the first war between Britain and France in Africa was destined to be not so simple and ordinary.

And that's just the beginning......