The Panzer Division was ready, the battle began, the rumbling tanks lined up in a straight line and immediately rushed to the front, and Neville rushed to the forefront with a "Four" tank.

On this gravel plain, more than 200 "No. 4" main battle tanks of the 7th Panzer Division were mainly engaged in frontal combat, armored vehicles protruding from the flanks, fighting in long detours, where the Germans tried to bury the British troops.

In an instant, shells rained down on the ranks of the British soldiers, and many Egyptian cavalry were blown up on their backs, and flesh and blood flew everywhere, and then the armored division quickly cut into the enemy line to launch a new offensive.

The Egyptian cavalry, which had no anti-tank weapons at all, stabbed the steel plates of the tank with sabers and spears, or fired at it with rifles, while the German armorers hiding inside easily swept the Egyptian cavalry off their horses by shooting them through the holes of their guns.

Neville drove the tank to the forefront, turning the joystick to run the Egyptian cavalry in a serpentine manner, and when the Egyptian cavalry in front of him were buried under his tank tracks, Neville and his men and horses were crushed into pulp.

The other tankers were also enthusiastic about the game, and they stopped firing from the machine guns and turned to this crazy action.

The battle turned into a massacre, and the British soldiers were stunned by this savage style of play, and many Egyptian cavalry tried to flee in horror as their comrades were devoured by these steel monsters, men and horses, and their bones were gone.

However, this nimble and mobile steel beast was definitely no worse than their horses, and many Egyptian cavalry disappeared into the wilderness with the rumble of tanks.

In the sandy plains, the fierce Egyptian cavalry was helpless against the German tank corps, and their galloping horseshoe prints were quickly swallowed up by the criss-crossed tracks of the German iron wolves, leaving only large smounds of blood and minced meat......

Neville tried to push farther away, but the tank's tracks were so caught in dead man's flesh that he couldn't move, he lit another cigarette, and then jumped out of the hatch at great speed.

He picked up his machine gun and aimed at the surrounding British soldiers, "click ......", the Egyptian cavalry fell to the bottom, and then the bones were crushed by the German tanks that rushed up, and the Egyptian cavalry who escaped by luck was surrounded and killed by the outflanked armored vehicles, and the whole army was annihilated.

After nearly an hour of fighting, 15,000 Egyptian cavalry evaporated from the earth, and the only evidence of their existence was minced meat that had been crushed deep into the earth in the wilderness.

The destruction of the Egyptian cavalry opened the door to Egypt for the main force of the German armored division, and also opened the prelude to the defense of Egypt, which was the most incredible scene in the history of modern warfare.

The duel between the British cavalry and the German tanks was real, and there were heavy casualties, less than 1,000 Egyptian cavalry survived, and this was what Neville was left after those Egyptian cavalry raised the white flag and stopped attacking, and the rest were all buried in this land that belonged to them.

There is also a lot of controversy in real history about the Egyptian cavalry versus the German tanks, and there is a saying that this is the case.

This is a later report, and it is impossible to verify his authenticity:

"One of the most well-told anecdotes about the European theater of the early years of World War II is the desperate charge of German tanks by heroic Egyptian cavalrymen with their spears.

It is commonly said that when a cavalry brigade in Egypt broke through, because they did not understand the performance of the tanks, they launched a quixotic attack on the German tanks with their spears.

The Germans were taken aback, but soon came to their senses and mercilessly fired at the British with tank guns and machine guns, crushing the Egyptian cavalry with heavy tracks.

The battlefield duel imagined by the Egyptian knights turned into a massacre of disparity, and Don Quixote's joke was foolishly recreated.

The legend of the "saber tank" has been widely recognized, including by both sides of the war, and has been used in some serious historical documentaries.

Filmed by the British Army in 1959 by Roman? The film "Rottner", which reflected the life of the cavalry, starring British Junsky, played an important role in promoting the spread of this story.

So what does the truth of history really look like? Did the Egyptian cavalry really think that the armor of the tank was nothing more than a camouflage made of tin plates, so the flesh and blood of the war horse collided with the steel body of the tank? We might as well turn the page of history once again and enter that war-torn era.

The story of the "Sabre Tank" comes from the Battle of Croyan Hoof on September 19, 1941, when the British 18th Cavalry Regiment launched an attack on the junction of the 2nd and 20th motorized divisions of the Afrika Korps led by Rommel in the process of covering the general retreat of the British army in the "Egyptian Corridor".

In the course of the pursuit, the German armored units stationed around heard the news and attacked the unprepared Egyptian cavalry on the plain, the fierce strafing of machine guns inflicted great damage on the Egyptian cavalry without cover, the regimental commander Colonel Materaza and the regimental chief of staff were killed on the spot, the Egyptian cavalry lost more than 100 people, and the Egyptian cavalry that suffered losses quickly retreated.

The next day, the Italian war correspondent Giorgio ? Parada saw the corpses of Egyptian cavalry, horses, and broken spears lying on the battlefield.

The German tanks patrolling around the battlefield and based on interviews with German soldiers who participated in the battle published a famous newsletter saying that the British elite cavalry did not understand the performance of the tanks, and thought that the tank armor was a camouflage made of tin plates, and that they had been devastated by attacking the German tanks again and again with spears, and this report caused a sensational effect.

In this way, the myth of "the Egyptian cavalry charging German tanks with spears and sabers" spread.

Obviously, the Italian journalist's report was somewhat exaggerated, and some of the details did not correspond to the reality of the time, but the funny Italian was like that.

First of all, it is a bit unrealistic to say that the Egyptian cavalry did not know what tanks were, and thought that they were camouflages made of tin plates.

The tank was born in the First World War, and the German blitzkrieg against the British army was in 1941, with a gap of nearly 20 years, and the tank could not still be a secret weapon.

In addition, the British army was also equipped with tanks at that time, and the British Nile Army was able to use 220 light tanks and 650 medium tanks, so it can be seen that it is an exaggeration to say that the British Egyptian servant army did not know what tanks were.

Secondly, it is not historically accurate to say that the Egyptian cavalry units are charging with spears, the Egyptian cavalry before World War II is no longer the fat cavalry under the city of Vienna in 1683, the spear has disappeared from the standard equipment of the Egyptian cavalry in 1934, and the small number of spears retained are mainly used for honor guards and flags, and are no longer their combat weapons.

(To be continued.) )