At 10 p.m. on January 14, a pale moon shone on the undulating desert of El Alamein. Limer's armored forces began to advance eastwards towards the British minefields.

The German defense line in front of El Alamein is also similar to that of the British Allied Army, and these places also need the assistance of armored divisions to resist the possible attack of the British Allied Army, Germany has 12 armored divisions, and these lines of defense use four armored divisions of Li Mo, so there are only six armored divisions that can be used by Li Mo for the attack, four of which are equipped with Leopard tanks, which are the soul of the German army, the most elite troops.

The other two mixed tank divisions are equipped with the Leopard and the Four, as for the other defensive tank divisions, the equipment is a little worse, the Fourth is their main force, and the Leopard has only one company, and the German Afrika Korps has this armor quota only after it has produced and supplemented it in Poland and Ukraine.

Li Mo commanded his armored forces to launch a powerful attack, and he committed eight armored divisions, which is almost all of his current base.

The tanks roared and roared through trenches and bushes, and the infantry braved the scorching waves of air and flying sand and dust to rush forward.

Li Mo, who had always calculated correctly, was wrong this time, he thought that the British army's minelaying areas and defenses were weak, but in fact they were very dense. The entire El Alamein positions were densely planted with all kinds of mines, and the Germans planted about half a million mines in front of their positions, how many were the British coalition forces? Li Mo did not know the exact number, but it was conservatively estimated that there would be no less than a million, and basically every inch of land in front of the British Coalition positions had mines. Moreover, all kinds of mines are mixed and buried, what anti-tank mines, anti-infantry mines, jumping mines, etc., there are too many varieties to say, which increases the difficulty of mine clearance, and there is no way to remove so many mines.

Limer's tank assault group was soon noticed by the British forces, and the British began a large-scale artillery bombardment, and under the fierce fire of the British army, the German armored vanguard was squeezed into the narrow area of the minelaying area. At this time, Li Mo hurriedly transferred his rocket artillery to the back of his armored assault group. Three hundred rockets were covered by artillery fire. You can blow up a large area, and no matter what kind of landmines will disappear directly.

But the fire of rocket artillery fire was particularly large, and it was easy to expose the target, and of course the assault of several armored divisions. It is also impossible to hide. The artillery of the British coalition army is still very powerful. Hurriedly launched a fierce artillery attack on Li Mo's armored assault group.

Of course, Li Mo's armored troops also suffered a little loss under the shelling of the British coalition forces, but as soon as the British coalition artillery group opened fire, their targets were also exposed. The FA223 helicopter group, which had been waiting in the air for a long time, swooped down on the British artillery group, and the rockets on the FA223 were a mortal threat to all the artillery, and the British artillery was suddenly muted under the attack of the German helicopters, and the violent explosions occurred one after another on the artillery positions of the British allied army.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, planes from both sides flew over the El Alamein front and began a blind bombardment.

For the first time, the heavy bombers of both sides launched a large-scale air attack on each other at night, and the German armored forces of the German army had already broken out of the dense minefield, and the bombers of the British coalition forces had to face the attack of the German planes in the air on the one hand, and on the other hand, they had to guard against the anti-aircraft fire on the ground, not to mention that it was still night, and the heavy bombers of the British coalition forces returned after dropping bombs indiscriminately, and the German planes were the same, and after a burst of indiscriminate bombing of the positions of the British coalition troops, they also hurriedly returned home, and the German planes were all on the island of Malta. They won't be staying long in El Alamein either.

Under the blind and indiscriminate bombardment of British planes, the German sappers desperately opened a not too narrow passage in the minefield with rocket artillery, and the German tanks swooped down on the British and American positions as soon as they broke through the minefield. For a moment, in the British positions, the flames and flares illuminated the entire battlefield as if it were daylight; Explosions, shouts, and the rattle of heavy machine guns rang out.

After consideration, Li Mo decided to change the original battle plan. The troops were ordered not to advance 20 miles east to the Alam Halfa ridge as originally planned, and then detour back to the ridge to attack the main British forces from the rear, but to turn all their forces across the ridge as quickly as possible. He targeted Montgomery's weakness – Alam Halfa. This modification by Limer overwhelmed Montgomery.

The Alam Halfa ridge had become a dangerous and fortunate area for the German Panzer Corps. At 3 p.m., Limer's tanks began to attack according to the new plan, but misfortune befell the Afrika Korps one after another.

At this time, a great storm blew in the desert, and the sky that was still moonlit was completely gone, and the whole sky was full of fingers. Although they managed to avoid the storm and the threat of the British Air Force, when they began to attack northward, they walked into a soft desert and had to slow down.

At this time, they were facing the commanding heights of the ridge, the 131 Heights. They stepped into the "death zone" on both sides. The British troops who held the 131 heights relied on the advantage of the terrain and used all kinds of firepower to block the German assault. The German army's ground wave impact did not work, mainly at night, the British soldiers used a large number of "large-caliber anti-tank guns", the tank could not find the anti-tank guns hidden in the shadows, a cheap shell is likely to destroy a tank, after Li Mo, who was commanding in the back, saw this situation, he decisively ordered his armored assault group to retreat temporarily, and then sent a small number of Leopard tanks, accompanied by the infantry to charge, Li Mo even ordered the infantry to rush in front of the tank, And the Leopard tanks that followed these infantry were only used as mobile batteries.

Soon the effect was revealed, the German army used the Iron Fist this range of rockets, slightly more advanced than the British "large-caliber anti-tank guns", for the mountain battle, or infantry is more advantageous, tank in the mountain war is indeed not the best weapon. The British forces began to retreat to the Alam Khalefa ridge, which was the commanding heights. The ridge was about three square kilometres, and the British had a division here, but the fortifications were improvised trenches dug and there were no permanent cement fortifications.

Soon, as the sky slowly brightened and the sky began to clear, greater doom befell the British army. The German tanks and artillery under the ridge let out an earth-shattering roar, and in an instant the positions of the British Allied troops were completely covered by artillery fire, and German bombers also flew in. The two sides launched a battle on an unprecedented scale, and in order to fight for the highest point of El Alamein, the battle in the air and on the ground did not stop.

…… (To be continued......)

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