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But in fact, there is nothing to make a fuss about this phenomenon.

The first is the issue of attitude.

The British army has always regarded the South African 1st Division and even all the South African soldiers as cannon fodder, and the South African soldiers are not treated with due respect, they are like slave troops in the old society, so naturally they will not have the enthusiasm to fight.

What did the South African 1st Division fight for? In order to become a British colony?

What good did the South African 1st Division do if it won the war? Can you be a slave to a white man?

If you show your head, you will fight to the death with the enemy on the battlefield for the benefit of the British, so this war actually has nothing to do with the South Africans, and if you win or lose, you will be a colony of the great powers, and the difference is just that you will be a British colony or a German colony.

But the attitude of the Chinese is completely different.

The South Africans have never seen a single unit stand in front of them in battle, nor have they seen any unit treat themselves to the same standards, nor have they seen any unit sacrifice itself to save the South African division...... Although this is not the original intention of the Chinese military, at least on the surface, it seems so.

This enabled the Chinese army to win the trust of the South African soldiers...... Although the almost primitive South African soldiers have all kinds of weak backgrounds, they have one thing that is very cute, that is, they do not talk about politics or interests, in fact, they do not understand these things, they talk about righteousness.

This point is somewhat similar to that of the Chinese troops, which at this time also stressed righteousness and feelings, let alone "at this time," and for a long time to come, they still talked about the feelings of "comrades and brothers" in international politics.

Although this is wrong by modern standards, this is not the last vestiges of humanity left in the dark political struggle!

Therefore, it is only natural that the Chinese troops help the South African soldiers in this way, and the South African soldiers stand on the side of the Chinese troops.

As for the combat effectiveness of the South African soldiers.

It should be said that everyone has advantages, and in the same way all troops have advantages, the question is whether or not these advantages can be discovered and carried forward.

The strengths of the South African soldiers were desert survivability, battlefield adaptability, and hand-to-hand combat, which the British officers never discovered, or even ignored.

There are many reasons for ignoring them, such as the fact that the British look down on Africans with a sense of superiority, and the preconceived notion that Africans are worthless, so even if they see these advantages, they are quickly ignored.

For another example, British officers always judge others by their standards, just as Montgomery used the tradition of the British army to measure Zhang Chi, and also felt that Zhang Chi was a bad soldier.

The standard used by the British army to measure African soldiers was whether they could walk the front, whether they could listen to commands, and whether they could shoot guns in a standard posture...... If this is the case, then the African soldier is certainly not a good soldier.

But if they are used as troops in hand-to-hand combat, who would dare to say that they are not good soldiers?

Zhang Chi was also ashamed of this, because in fact, he had not discovered the advantages of hand-to-hand combat of the South African 1st Division before, he just thought: "Sending South African soldiers will not solve the problem, so simply not send them!" ”

I didn't expect the problem to be solved by mistake.

After a chaotic battle, the German Panzer Division finally could not hold out and retreated.

Speaking of retreat, in fact, only a small number of light tanks and armored vehicles at the back of the team, and some cars driving side three-wheeled vehicles can retreat.

They retreated under the orders of Heinz Landway, because Heinz Landway knew that there was no point in holding on to the current situation, and he did not want the 21st Panzer to be wiped out here.

If he could, Heinz Landau also wished he could die at the hands of the enemy.

But Heinz Landau also knew that if he died at the hands of the enemy, he would add a sum of merit to the enemy's book, which was worth showing off to the enemy, but it might be an eternal shame for himself...... Because the enemy will inevitably write in the history books the words "Kill the German Major General".

So Heinz Landau sat in an armored car with a dead face and walked on the way back to the German lines. Perhaps it was too hot, and beads of sweat continued to trickle down his forehead and then drip onto his epaulettes.

Unlike usual, Heinz Landau was not thinking about the reason for the defeat or what could be improved, but about how to face Rommel and his colleagues when he returned, and they would definitely make fun of his incompetence...... And his military career is afraid that it will end here, because no one, including Rommel, who has always trusted him to reuse himself, can forgive such a defeat.

And, even if Rommel could forgive himself, what would he do? The Führer would certainly have an opinion, and he himself might even be investigated by the SS.

Thinking of this, Heinz Landau gritted his teeth, looked at the guards around him and didn't pay attention, and suddenly pulled out the pistol on his waist and aimed it at his temple and pulled the trigger......

"Bang!" With a bang, blood soaked the guard's face.

The driver, unaware of what was happening, slammed on the brakes, and looked back at the commander in the back seat who had been splattered with blood on the spot and the frightened guard.

It is no wonder that Heinz committed suicide in the Landoux, a battle in which the Germans had a great advantage: many more fighters than the Allies, more advanced tanks, and anti-aircraft guns that terrified the Allies.

But all of this didn't work.

The reason why it didn't work was simply because of an anti-tank trench, an anti-tank trench that couldn't be more ordinary.

In the end, the battle ended with the German 21st Panzer Division losing more than 6,000 men and 200 tanks and armored vehicles...... The 200 tanks included all the Tiger tanks and most of the No. 4 tanks, which was almost all of Hitler's reinforcements in the North African theater.

To make matters worse, one of the Tiger tanks was captured intact by the Chinese army.

The reason why he was able to capture the whole was because his commander was killed by a stray bullet in the chaotic battle, and the driver drove the tank and wanted to turn around and escape, but because he was too flustered and because the "Tiger" was too heavy to operate in the desert, he rolled down from the sand dunes and rolled a few times, and the tank crew inside was all stunned and unconscious, while the "Tiger" tank stood there steadily, and Zhang Chi let people try to drive it and still be able to drive.