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That is, when the South African 1st Division was building fortifications, Wu Min led the tank regiment to attack Alexandria.

As usual, the Italian army was still vulnerable, especially when they saw so many tanks and armored vehicles driving on the opposite side, and a considerable part of them were frightened by the roar of the "Sherman" tracks and the thick barrel, so that the Italian troops raised their hands and surrendered before Wu Min could give the order to open fire.

This forced Wu Min to order his troops to stop advancing, fearing that if he continued to advance in this way and take prisoners, the entire Italian army in Alexandria would soon cease to exist.

Fortunately, Wu Min was prepared, and he found a few English-speaking ...... from the Italian prisoners in advance It is basically impossible to find Chinese among the Italian prisoners, but there are several who can speak English, although their English is not very good, but this is not the point.

Wu Min took a moment to tell the Italian prisoners what to do through the American instructors in the team.

At this time, they came into play, and the Italian prisoners shouted over the loudspeakers: "Comrades, the Chinese prisoner camp is full, they will not accept prisoners for the time being, you go back to the line first, please ...... early next time you surrender"

Of course, there are different ways to say it when it comes to implementation, and it is almost enough to express this meaning anyway.

For example, someone shouted on the loudspeaker:

"Don't worry, as long as you retreat two miles, the Chinese will not harm you!"

"As long as you don't shoot, the Chinese don't fire either!"

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So there was an unbelievable scene in Alexandria, the Italian army and the Chinese army did not clash with each other as if they had made an agreement, the Italian army retreated unhurriedly in front, and the Chinese army advanced and occupied unhurriedly in the rear, and even waved at the Chinese soldiers who were advancing towards China, as if the two sides were not enemies but allies on the same front.

However, Wu Min did not relax his vigilance because of this, he knew the truth of "being careful to make a 10,000-year-old ship" on the battlefield, so after occupying a place, he sent troops to clear the houses, commanding heights, and strategic points in the occupied area, and fortified them layer by layer.

Unexpectedly, the Italian army withdrew very cleanly, and basically no Italian troops were found, and unexpectedly dozens of Italian soldiers were found sleeping in a warehouse.

When the Chinese soldiers secretly surrounded them and pointed their rifles to their heads to wake them up, the Italians were stunned.

Later, when I asked, I learned that this group of Italian troops was on duty last night, and the other Italian troops had withdrawn in a hurry and completely forgot about them in the warehouse.

In order to "commend" the cooperation of the Italian army, Wu Min ordered these Italian troops to return to the team, and also returned to the team with equipment...... Wu Min is actually reassuring the Italian army not to worry too much, and there will be no problem if they stay well.

The anti-tank trenches on the other side were almost dug up, and Zhang Chi immediately arranged for the troops to go up and build fortifications behind the anti-tank trenches.

Of course, the vast majority of these units were infantry and anti-tank artillery.

Zhang Chi's idea is simple.

According to British intelligence, if the Germans had an air force to attack Alexandria, then air supremacy would be in the hands of the Germans.

In this case, if you still fight a conventional war with the Germans, that is, the air force against the air force, and the tank against the tank, it is basically no fun.

The most likely outcome of such a fight is that after the Germans have gained air superiority, they will use their air superiority to cooperate with their armored forces and artillery units to attack the armored forces of the Chinese army, and the Chinese army, which has lost its air superiority, will only be passively beaten.

So Zhang Chi had no choice but to change his strategy, trying to use the infantry to block the enemy's aircraft and artillery, and hide the armored forces in Alexandria to preserve his strength.

The Germans also noticed this move by the Chinese, whose reconnaissance planes had been conducting reconnaissance over Alexandria.

"What are they doing?" "Do they want to dig a little ditch like that to stop my panzer division?" ”

Heinz Landau did not pay attention to the anti-tank trenches built by the Chinese army at all, because he did not feel that it would pose much of a threat to the German army, and they could even use artillery to flatten it if necessary.

It makes sense for Heinz Landau to think so, because the desert soil is soft, and in many places it is even sand, and the fortifications built on such terrain cannot be bombarded.

What Heinz Landau failed to take into account was that the Germans had been short of supplies for a long time, and now the supplies were just beginning to improve, but because of the large number of tanks and warplanes, they urgently needed fuel and ammunition for tanks and fighters.

As a result, the German artillery shells were basically not replenished, but the British and Chinese armies had absolute superiority in this regard.

So it was not as easy as he thought to level this anti-tank trench with shells.

Rommel also did not take this anti-tank trench to heart, the British had also built anti-tank trenches in front of the line in the past, but they were quickly filled by sappers, and they could only serve to delay the tank attack.

So Rommel had another idea.

He called Heinz Landau and said, "Major General, I'm thinking...... Did the Chinese drive tank units into Alexandria and fight with us in a street fight? ”

"Quite possibly, General!" Heinz replied: "They can perceive the strengthening of our air power, and the Chinese can effectively prevent our air force from annihilating its tank forces." If our armoured forces were to attack it, they would have to enter Alexandria and fight it in close quarters. I admit that in this they have an advantage, not because of the rest, the Chinese have a large number of bazookas in their hands, the range of which is much longer than our iron fist, and the accuracy is also higher, which is a terrible anti-tank weapon in street fighting! ”

Heinz Landau was a veteran of tank warfare, and he had the foresight to see the threat of bazookas to tanks in street fighting...... This has been proven time and time again even in modern battles, where bazooka shooters can hide inside houses next to the streets, or even attack the weak armor on top of tanks from the top of a building.

"You won't worry about this little trick, will you?" Rommel said.

"Of course not!" Heinz replied: "But we have to speed up the progress, because if the Italian 133rd Panzer Division surrenders, it will be very troublesome, and we had better cooperate with the Italian army before this to attack the Chinese army inside and outside!" ”

"That's right!" Rommel replied: "I'll contact the 133rd Panzer Division, and you're ready to attack!" ”