Chapter 736: The Situation Has Changed
The battlefield soon boiled, whether it was South African soldiers or Chinese soldiers, all of them hugged each other and cheered and jumped, many South African soldiers still had bad habits, holding guns and "banging" into the sky...... It was a custom for South African soldiers to celebrate their victories, but it was forbidden by the British as a barbarian. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
But as mentioned before, the characteristics of Africans are more casual, the front foot gives them orders and the back foot forgets what to do, and at this time the South African soldiers are ecstatic after the victory, and they have long thrown the British orders out of the clouds.
Later, this situation developed into an uncontrollable situation, that is, African soldiers and even Africans increasingly supported the willingness of Chinese troops to obey the command of the Chinese and refused to carry out the orders of British officers.
This is also easy to understand, because it is more beneficial for Africa to be close to the Chinese military, whether it is public or private.
Yu Gong, whether it is the British or the Germans, they are just fighting for the colonial rights of Africa, and the Chinese army, as a third party, has no such will at all, so the Chinese army is obviously more reassuring to Africa.
Privately, what the Chinese military has done has long won the trust of African soldiers.
The characteristic of these more primitive tribes is that once they have won their trust, they will treat you as one of their own, and they will be paranoid about you and stubbornly side with you regardless of whether you are right or wrong. Because they believe that if the same situation were to happen, the Chinese military would do the same.
From this point of view, the African soldiers are still very cute, at least much better than the British officers who are cunning and arrogant, and only do things for profit.
To that end, a meeting of tribal leaders was held within the African soldiers.
This is also one of the characteristics of African soldiers, although they are systematically British officers command South African junior officers, and South African junior officers command their subordinates, but in fact they still follow the old tribal system in private, and tribes often fight with each other...... This is another reason for the poor combat effectiveness of the 1st South African Division, which has more than 10,000 people in just one division, and there are hundreds of intricate tribes in it, each of which has its own interests and contradictions, and it is difficult to unify them into one army.
It was for this reason that this victory in the Alexandria line came as a surprise, and even the South Africans themselves could not believe that they could defeat the powerful Germans.
"Why do you believe the Chinese?" A pro-British South African tribal leader asked.
After a moment of silence, one of the tribal leaders replied, "Because they were sent by the gods to protect Africa, they are not like the British!" ”
The other tribal leaders nodded in agreement.
It seems that Toure's propaganda is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, at least the South Africans are convinced.
Then the other tribal leaders also expressed their opinions, and these opinions were strange and even hilarious:
"Because they are not as white as the British!"
Africans hate the white race because they bring them nothing but slavery and disaster.
"Because their witchcraft is very powerful!"
As the South African soldiers saw, the Chinese only needed a trench to defeat the Germans, armed with aircraft, artillery and a large number of tanks.
"The Chinese can lead us to victory!"
This is very convincing, because before this, the South African 1st Division had never won such a brilliant victory as in the Battle of Alexandria, and it had not even been united before, but now it was inexplicably united and defeated a powerful enemy with the Chinese.
There are many African soldiers who believe that this is Chinese magic or witchcraft.
Finally, Di Soya spoke: "I believe in the Chinese because they will not let us die in front!" ”
Di Soya's words immediately aroused a chorus of approval.
"They won't treat us as people!"
Tribal leaders nodded in agreement.
"They even rushed to the front with bayonets in their hands, have you ever seen any army like them?"
So the others said no more, there were so many troops in the Commonwealth Army, and it was true that none of them had ever done anything like this.
This is very similar to the South African tribes, as their tribal leaders often have to be ahead of the curve when fighting.
This meeting led to a consensus among the South African tribes, or perhaps South African soldiers, that is, the Chinese army is credible and can fight together.
This also created a crisis for Montgomery's subsequent command, a "real crisis".
Of course, that's all for later.
While the Expeditionary Force and the South African Army were still cheering on the battlefield, the news of the surrender of the Italian 133rd Panzer Division came...... This was actually expected by Zhang Chi, in fact, it has always been the Chinese army that did not let the 133rd Division surrender, otherwise they would have collapsed long ago.
On the other hand, the Italian 133 wanted to wait and see if the Germans could defeat the Chinese army and "rescue" them.
The current situation is that the Germans not only failed to save the Italian army, but were also routed by the Chinese army, so when will it not surrender at this time?!
At this time, Zhang Chi once again learned the Italians' ability to "talk serious nonsense".
"General!" The commander of the Italian Armored Division, Litorio, held his head high and said to Zhang Chi with a righteous attitude: "Please accept my respect for you, we are convinced to defeat such an excellent opponent as you!" ”
Zhang Chi couldn't help but open his mouth for a long time and couldn't close it, Litorio's appearance and tone seemed to be reluctant to surrender after a hard bloody battle, but the fact was ......
Zhang Chi just shook his head, he didn't want to argue with these Italians, because he didn't think it made sense.
Zhang Chi did look down on these Italians, because this is the law of the battlefield, and only by daring to sacrifice and shed blood on the battlefield can he win the respect of friends and enemies.
It's a very simple truth, but some people don't understand it.
"Major General!" Then Zhang Chi received a call from Montgomery: "Congratulations, what a wonderful battle, you have achieved a complete victory!" ”
"It's us, General!" Zhang Chi replied: "I have to admit that the South African 1st Division gave us a lot of help at a critical moment, and I didn't even have any hope for them before!" ”
"I was surprised, too!" Montgomery said, "I was about to ask what magic you used to make them so heroic!" It seems that you don't know either! ”
"So......" Zhang Chi asked, "Should we attack?"
"Attack?" Montgomery replied, "No, things have changed!" ”