Just when Johnson was full of ambition and planning to end the battle, a British staff officer of his 24th Division rushed into the command and reported urgently: "Division commander...... North...... The commander of the second battalion stationed on the north flank sent a telegram asking for help! ”

In front of Johnson, whose smile was still dissipating, the staff officer looked at the confident division commander with a frightened face, and said in a trembling voice: "The second battalion can't stand it!" It was the Germans who attacked them! ”

"What?!" Johnson's face changed dramatically, and he quickly ran to the half-left sand table model, grabbing the table and staring.

The position of the 2nd Battalion was the northern flank of their entire sortie position, and it was also the northern gateway to the headquarters location.

"How can there be German troops here?!" Johnson only felt that his brain was completely confused: "What was the size of the German army attacking the second battalion, and how many tanks were they equipped with?" ”

"There is no detailed explanation in the telegram, and when the second battalion commander sent this telegram, the troops had already been defeated, and the detailed strength of the enemy army could not be detected at all." The staff officer sweated profusely and said: "However, the telegram mentioned that the German attacking force carried a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, and it should be the German troops who defeated the junction garrison before." ”

"Defeat the Germans of the 2nd Battalion of the Australian Army at the Junction?!" Johnson's heart suddenly cooled by half, and it was clear that the German army would not further disperse its already small forces. In other words, the German army, which successfully carried out the surprise attack, came to attack the side of the main position.

They were not at all going to attack Heights 4, as Johnson predicted!

Johnson's head was a little dizzy, and he found that he seemed to be detached from the truth from the beginning.

If there is any key part that he didn't think of, then this key point must be the other party's appetite!

Johnson really didn't guess that his opponent's appetite was so big. What the German commander wanted was not just a No. 4 height, he wanted to eat all the Commonwealth troops in this area!

A German army with less than a regiment, a colonial division that was crippled and had an unusually low combat effectiveness, wanted to annihilate 2 Commonwealth divisions? The commander of the other party, is he a madman!

Although Johnson's 24th Division also suffered a lot of losses, its combat effectiveness was not as good as when it was at full strength. However, the Australian 26th Division is a real integrated division, and its combat effectiveness is also very reliable, compared with the 5th Colonial Division of the French Army, it is almost different.

It is in such a huge gap that the opponent still wants to swallow the elephant with a small big snake. At this moment, Johnson has only one feeling in his heart - madness!

It is no wonder that the French army would launch such a large-scale attack on Heights 4, knowing that they were not strong, and then "had to" switch to the defensive.

The real purpose of the other side was not to take the No. 4 Heights, but to deploy a large number of troops to the south and southeast of the No. 4 Heights under the guise of attack, blocking the route for the No. 4 Heights garrison to return to the main position.

And the German force that attacked the junction garrison was not going to attack the east of Heights 4 by route. Their goal was in the opposite direction, the British army made a sortie to the north of the main position!

With the French offensive on Heights 4, the Germans made a swaggering detour under the noses of the British, and no one noticed it.

With a "plop", Johnson only felt that the strength of his whole body was drained, and he suddenly sat on the ground with a weak buttocks.

It's over, it's all over!

He turned his head and looked north of the headquarters where gunfire was heard.

The sound of explosions, shooting, shouts, is already getting weaker. Of course, this does not mean that the situation in the north is better. On the contrary, Johnson was almost certain that the reduction in his voice represented the British battalion on the northern flank, which had been almost wiped out by the main German forces, and that the battle was coming to an end.

Johnson's chest suddenly tightened, and the heavy pressure made him a little breathless. His previous guidance is now more like a joke.

......

"At this time, I think the commander of the British army should be very depressed, right?"

Although the 2 battalions led by himself were beaten all the way back by the British and Australian forces, it can even be said that they are holding their heads and running away. But Stephen's heart was filled with joy.

Stepping out of his makeshift front-line command post, Stephen walked vigorously through the traffic trench.

It is said to be a command post, but in fact it is nothing more than a makeshift tent set up on the back of a huge rock. As for the communication trench, it was also a shallow pit dug by the reserve company, which was expected to be brought by Adjutant Stephen.

It was a rudimentary line of defense, and there were few fortifications that could have called it a line, except for the foxholes scattered around.

But it was this rudimentary line of defense that became the end point of the British pursuit troops.

"It is estimated that the other party may even have the heart to die now." Stephen's adjutant, following behind him, also said with a relaxed smile: "Who would have thought that General Rommel of the German army was from the beginning to take down their main sortie position. Someone stole their home right under their noses, and they also transferred all their reserves to pursue us in the opposite direction, so that there were no troops to adjust after the German army appeared. I wonder if the German commander was too genius, or the British commander was too stupid. ”

In fact, Stephen's offensive on the southern flank of the main British position was only intended to contain the key defensive forces deployed by the British army here and create a good environment for the surprise attack on the northern flank of the German army. Through reconnaissance aircraft, Rommel had long learned that the British army had 2 battalions deployed on the southern flank and only 1 battalion on the northern flank. Therefore, he planned this classic "right elbow bending tactic" against the northern flank, where the British army's main position was the weakest.

This is one of Rommel's best tactics, using a small force to contain the enemy in front of him, using the main force to detour to the depth of the enemy, finding the weakness of the opponent's flank line to break through, and outflanking the enemy in front or crushing the enemy in the rear with superior forces.

However, this time, Johnson, who pretended to be clever, sent all his reserves to continue to pursue the French army on the southern flank, moving south, away from the main position. This made Rommel's bending tactics even more successful, and almost became another classic example in military history!

The time for a tooth for a tooth has finally arrived!

It's just that Stephen didn't expect this moment to come so suddenly, so quickly, and so dramatically.

At the moment when the French army was pinned down by the British army on all fronts and the main force under Belonte could not move, a partial division recruited by the colony and 2 battalions of German reinforcements were about to destroy the main force of the British army to launch the offensive on the southern front!

There is nothing more than this moment.

Looking to the north, Stephen and his French staff officers, French officers, gathered at the edge of the communication trench. Everyone has a feeling that there are not only familiar companions standing beside them at this moment, but also those naval robes who were shamelessly betrayed and sacrificed in Port Oran, and those army comrades on the Algerian border who died in the second betrayal of the British.

Stephen never thought that with this weak brigade in his hands, he could actually make the sinister and cunning British pay the price, and he could also use a hearty victory to avenge countless comrades in the robes who were betrayed and died tragically.

The British succeeded in the port of Oran, and through shameless deception and vicious betrayal, they took Admiral Darlan by surprise and lost a large number of their main ships. And this time, they almost got it again!

The British army went from being one step away from destroying the Algerian oil fields in France to the southern end of the main force that could not protect itself, and half of its foot stepped into a hell from which it could never recover. Stephen couldn't think of any other word to describe the scene but a miracle. After all, such a result was something he didn't dare to think about 24 hours ago.

"General Darlan, General Bironte...... We won. In the excitement, Stephen couldn't help crying in front of his subordinates: "Oil field...... Save! ”