"Major General!" At this time, Montgomery called Zhang Chi: "First of all, I should congratulate you, you have won another battle!" ”

"Just a small victory!" Zhang Chi replied with some frustration: "This is not a commendable thing!" ”

"Major General!" Montgomery laughed, "You don't know, if this victory, which you call a 'small victory,' happened to the British army, we should have opened champagne to celebrate!" ”

Montgomery's words surprised Zhang Chi a little, because Montgomery would never admit that the army of the "British Empire" would be inferior to the Chinese army, but now he said it easily in a ridiculous way. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"But...... I've got bad news for you! Then Montgomery's tone changed: "We have just received information that the Germans have transferred a whole air force to El Alamein!" ”

"What?" Zhang Chi couldn't help but be surprised: "An air team? ”

"Yes!" Montgomery replied: "More than three hundred planes!" ”

"But we only have more than a hundred planes!" Zhang Chi had obtained the relevant data from Montgomerin before the war.

"Yes!" Montgomery said: "So, we can't count on air supremacy!" Shouldn't we find another way? ”

Zhang Chi thought about it and replied, "No, General." Do you think we have a way out? ”

Montgomery didn't speak, he knew that Zhang Chi was right, even if he retreated now, where could he retreat? Can a tank still have a plane that can go fast? And behind Alexandria is Port Said, which is next to the Suez Canal and controls its exports.

After a pause, Montgomery added, "But how are we going to fight this battle?" ”

It is well known that air supremacy in desert terrain is very important, and the British, usually in possession of air supremacy or the ability to fight on an equal footing with the enemy in the air, now foresaw the imminent loss of air supremacy...... Montgomery didn't know what to do next.

"I don't know how to fight!" Zhang Chi replied: "But this battle must be fought!" ”

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Chi fell into deep thought.

It should be said that Zhang Chi and the Chinese army were very lucky, because the Germans gathered such fighters and probably intended to launch an overwhelming attack on Alexandria in the early morning, but by mistake...... However, the Chinese army was ambushed on the way and disrupted the whole plan, which bought the Chinese army a little time.

Otherwise, the skies over Alexandria should have been full of German fighters and bombers, which would have attacked together with the German Panzer Division...... The Chinese army will not be able to hold Alexandria, and it will be difficult for them to escape from the German bombardment.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi said to the communication soldier: "Let Brigadier Jack come to the future immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

It didn't take long for Jack to stand in front of Zhang Chi.

"I need people to build fortifications!" Zhang Chi said.

"No problem!" Jack replied, "How many people does the general need?" ”

"All!"

"All?" Jack was stunned by Zhang Chi's words: "What about Alexandria?" ”

"Put them aside!" Zhang Chi said: "My people will deal with it!" ”

"Okay, General!" Jack replied, "What kind of fortifications do we need to build?" ”

"An anti-tank trench!" Zhang Chi said: "But it's a little different from ordinary anti-tank trenches, you have to pile up all the excavated soil on the side close to us, understand?" ”

"Understood!" Jack nodded.

This is really simple, the important thing is that the South African 1st Division is also a famous "fortification division...... The British Commonwealth Army always used the South African 1st Division to build fortifications, so after a long time, the South African 1st Division fell to this nickname.

In fact, it was not only the South African 1st Division that built such anti-tank trenches, but also the Chinese army and even the Italian prisoners were urgently put into the fortifications, and Zhang Chi needed to use them to block the attack of the German tanks.

It's just that Zhang Chi quickly realized the speechlessness of the South African 1st Division.

Zhang Chi originally thought that the South African 1st Division should have completed their responsibility in two hours, but when he inspected the front line two hours later, he saw that the project was not half completed, and many soldiers of the South African 1st Division were resting.

"What's going on, Brigadier General!" Zhang Chi asked Jack angrily, "Do you know how dangerous we are now?" If the enemy attacks at this time, we may lose our lives because of your delay! ”

"General!" Brigadier General Jack raised his head helplessly towards the defensive line: "You see, we have worked hard to urge them to work!" ”

Following Jack's eyes, sure enough, I saw that the British officers were constantly scolding the South African soldiers to move, but helplessly, most of those African soldiers were grinding foreign workers, or it can be said that they were all in a negative state, and the British officers pretended to move when they came up, and as soon as they walked on their front feet, the South African soldiers stopped again.

"That's what they're in!" Jack explained: "That's why I don't think it's a good choice for you to choose the South African Division 1! ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help but be a little speechless.

He had heard before that Africans were lazy, for example, in modern Chinese, working eight hours a day can be said to be the norm, and even working more than ten hours is not a minority, but Africans working three hours is a great thing.

This may be due to the hot climate in the desert and the lack of water, as well as the fact that Africans are mostly nomadic gatherers...... The former will directly lead to people to move as little as possible in order to survive, and it is easy to lose a lot of water in hot weather without replenishment, while the latter allows them to survive without planning and too much labor.

So after thousands of years of evolution, "laziness" has almost become a characteristic of Africans.

China's farming people are the opposite of Africa, because they Chinese depend on growing crops for a living, so they must understand astronomy, geography and the growth habits of crops, and they must also rest from sunrise to sunset, and at the same time, they must think about problems in advance to prevent them from happening.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Chinese people have national characteristics such as diligence, thrift, and planning for the future, and the so-called "one side of the water and soil supports the other side", and the land and environment determine what kind of people living on this land will become.

Of course, Zhang Chi can't let the South African 1st Division go on like this, and this is even related to the life and death of the Chinese army.

But how can we change the lazy habit of the South African 1st Division? This is a thousand-year-old tradition of Africans, and it can't be changed by coercion and inducement, Zhang Chi believes that if he could, Brigadier Jack would have done it a long time ago.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi decided to follow the local customs and use the African method.