Litorio couldn't help but be very annoyed when he saw this, but he couldn't rush to gather his troops. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This was mainly due to the lack of communication equipment at that time, and the assembly order could not be quickly transmitted to all corners of the city.

However, the more important reason is the weak sense of organization and discipline in the Italian army...... The Italian soldiers, who had been following the poorly supplied Germans for months, dreamed of drinking wine or having a hearty dinner in the city's bars, preferably with a violin and a beautiful English girl across the street.

Therefore, even if they received the retreat order from the signal soldiers, it was not too late for them to hurry or think about enjoying themselves before going to assemble.

This directly led to the fact that the Italian 133rd Panzer Division had not assembled half of it after twenty minutes, and the tanks and armored vehicles were less than a third...... The Italian officers and soldiers all went out to show off with these equipment.

This made Litorio angry, but he had no choice but to leave his men and run for his life alone, not to mention that he also needed tanks and armored vehicles.

In desperation, Litorio sent several C200 fighters into the air to reconnoiter and search for information on the enemy's armored forces.

The C200 fighters quickly found the main forces of the new 1st Division and reported their position and speed to Litorio.

Litorio breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the information, there were still 30 kilometers to go from Alexandria, and there was still an hour to reach the enemy's advance speed, and the enemy's speed was about the same as the speed of his own armored forces...... That is, there is still time.

So he ordered the fighters to continue reconnaissance, and he continued to gather troops in Alexandria.

What Litorio had in mind was...... The Italian Air Force was mostly undertrained and relatively backward in size.

What is worse is that Italy's internal corruption and bureaucratic style are very serious, and the Air Force has actually become a ladder for the children of rich families and opportunists to be promoted and enter the top echelons, and they join the Air Force for a few months or a year and a half, and they are quickly promoted and reused without much training.

The air force is a technical branch, and it is very difficult to have any combat effectiveness without three or five years of training, and those student soldiers of the Japanese army who have been forced to go to the battlefield for three years of training can only fly suicide fighters to crash into warships, and where will the Italian air force have any combat effectiveness if they study for a few months or a year and a half.

Therefore, none of the Italian reconnaissance planes realized that a fast force of half-track armored vehicles had already advanced to the west of Alexandria.

In fact, one of the Italian reconnaissance planes had already seen this fast force, but he took it for granted that it was the defeated Italian troops who were fleeing, so he didn't pay attention to it at all.

This allowed the Chinese armoured convoy to rush all the way to the defensive line west of Alexandria.

This line was originally built by the British on the outer edge of Alexandria, but the direction of defense was the Afrika Korps in the west, and after the Italian army "captured" this line, they sent a regiment of infantry to garrison it...... After all, there is Alexandria to the east, and this line of defense at the back becomes a second line that does not need too many troops to defend.

It was for this reason that the Italian troops of one regiment stationed here did not think that they would be attacked at all.

They smoked in the trenches with great confidence, and the fortifications were almost untouched and unrepaired...... Originally, they were supposed to make the fortifications facing the west to the east, that is, to the enemy's side, and Litorio kept them for this purpose, but the procrastination of the Italian soldiers made them think that there was no need to be in a hurry...... The word "military intelligence" does not come to their minds.

What's even more ridiculous is that when the expeditionary force's half-track armored vehicles drove up, they thought it was their own people, and some Italian soldiers even waved excitedly at the expeditionary force and shouted: "Hey, is that the armored car captured from Alexandria?" Looks great! ”

This made Xu Jiaxing, the battalion commander who led the team, stunned, and didn't know what tricks these brown-haired, blue-eyed foreign devils were playing, so that he didn't know what to do for a while.

(Note: The Italian 133rd Panzer Division is from northern Italy, and most of the Italians have brown hair and blue eyes)

In fact, it is not surprising that the Italian army thinks so, you must know that there is Alexandria in front of them, if there is no gunfire in Alexandria, how can this defensive line located in the rear be in trouble?

But what they don't know is that the battlefield is a place where accidents happen from time to time, so they use the word "ever-changing", but by the time they realize it, it's too late.

Xu Jiaxing was stunned for a moment, and the armored convoy also drove to the Italian defense line.

It was then that the Italians realized that something was wrong, and although they could not tell which nationality was standing on the car, it was certainly not Italians.

So I don't know who started it, and the Italians panicked and went to touch the guns placed next to them, and at this moment the machine guns on the half-track armored car rang out.

A rain of bullets rained down on the Italian troops, instantly beating dozens of Italian soldiers exposed outside the trenches into a sieve.

The Italian army collapsed the moment the shots rang out, and they ran around and hid, shouting as they ran: "Don't shoot, we surrender!" ”

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It's a pity that Xu Jiaxing and other soldiers couldn't understand what they were calling at all, so the machine guns were still "whooshing", and from time to time a few grenades were thrown into the trenches, only to blow up the Italian army.

It wasn't until an Italian soldier picked up a white towel with a wooden stick in time and stretched it out and waved it a few times that Xu Jiaxing understood what they meant, so the gunfire slowly stopped.

Xu Jiaxing looked at the deputy battalion commander and said, "Are these gringos cheating, they have a regiment and we only have one battalion, so they surrendered after firing so many shots?" ”

The deputy battalion commander raised the binoculars and looked at it, and then replied: "It looks like they really don't fight!" ”

Looking at the eyes of the deputy battalion commander, he saw that a pair of hands and white flags had been raised in the trenches, and there were even many people who were afraid that the soldiers of the expeditionary force would not be able to see them, so they kept shaking the white flags in their hands.

As a result, the expeditionary force immediately added more than 2,000 Italian prisoners.