293 has no choice

But the desperate resistance of the British army also temporarily dragged the German tank assault group, which allowed the British troops on the third line of defense a few kilometers away to retreat along the trenches, of course, this is a good thing for Germany, the British retreat at this time is a good thing, now is not the time for Germany to annihilate the British army in large numbers, completely breaking through the British defense line is the key, and at the same time expanding the second breakthrough, so as to escort their huge transport convoy through the second breakthrough.

The task of expanding the breakthrough is the task of the "Fifth Panzer Division" and the "Viking Division", and these two German divisions must at least expand the breakthrough to about 30 kilometers, so as to ensure that the transport convoy is not attacked by the British artillery, of course, the air force can also help to clear the British artillery on both flanks, and the advantage of the German tank forces with air supremacy is unparalleled.

Neville and Edward's tank assault group let go of the speed and raced on the Egyptian plains, while Steiner and Decker could only play the role of "nanny", which made Steiner and Decker shout "unfair", but in this case, it was impossible to make tactical adjustments, so it could only be arranged in this way, and Rommel could only adjust when he got to the city of Cairo and Cairo.

At this time, Rommel was also beginning to relocate his "former enemy command post", and there was a "long queue" of more than 3,000 cars on the road. Of course, this "former enemy command post" must follow the main forces, at least within more than 100 kilometers.

The steel frenzy carried the rolling traffic and kicked up the dust in the sky, like a dragon, straight to the heart of the British army.

Rommel had already arranged for Neville to stop at a distance of about thirty kilometers from Cairo, set up a cordon, wait for the follow-up troops, and then set up a consolidated ring defensive position.

The question is how many people Rommel has, 3 tank divisions, less than 40,000 people, this is the offensive force, at most one paratrooper division and supplementary division to defend the defensive positions.

With a total strength of more than 30,000 people in the supplementary division and the paratrooper division, it is possible to establish a relatively complete circular defensive position!

After Rommel's armored division assault group successfully broke through the two lines of British defense, it attacked Cairo with all its might, and Montgomery's retreating troops were also advancing towards Cairo.

Montgomery's British forces were certainly not able to outrun the fully mechanized German army, and Rommel's armored assault group was the first to reach Cairo, and Rommel immediately blocked the manpower to establish a defensive position in Huangxing.

Rommel directly divided the supplementary divisions into squads or platoon battle groups, which dug a small defensive position and then held there, one such battle group every 100 meters.

These battle groups functioned as the equivalent of outposts, and whenever they found an enemy, they would notify the command with the sound of gunfire or walkie-talkies, and Rommel would immediately reinforce the troops left at the headquarters.

After arranging the alert troops, Rommel arranged the mobile forces, and all the tanks of the 5th Panzer Division remained at the headquarters at this time, and they were to be divided into three tank mobile teams, each of which would be equipped with 50 Type 4 tanks and an equal number of armored vehicles.

After talking about the arrangement of infantry and armored troops, it is not finished, such a defensive line is not completely stable, and Rommel is still organizing manpower to urgently build a field airfield.

This field airport, Rommel has long been arranged, that is, to produce 5 * 10 meters thick 2 mm steel plates, with a large truck pulling, a 10-ton truck can pull 50 such steel plates, a hundred steel plates can build a field airport, need 20 trucks to carry the steel plates needed for the field airport, and Rommel brought 20 trucks of steel plates, enough to build a field airport.

It is also very convenient to build a field airport, first use the push-out machine to flatten the ground, press it with a roller, and then pave the steel plate, link it with rivets, it is very simple and fast, and the apron does not need a steel plate, and after bulldozing, you can park the plane with a roller.

The dirt runway is mainly unable to withstand the impact of the aircraft landing and sink, easy to destroy the plane and die, there is no problem with the paving of steel plates, there is no need to lay steel plates on the apron, and there is no problem at all to bear these aircraft after the soil rolled by the road roller.

After Rommel's armored assault group arrived in Cairo, he was busy building a defensive position in Huangxing, because Montgomery's reinforcements were not far from Cairo, so Rommel had to speed up the construction of the defensive position.

Rommel now has 3,000 vehicles in his entire convoy, and with such a huge convoy, it is necessary to establish a solid rear base for them, and not allow the enemy to break through or sneak attack.

Germany has three main armored divisions, a supplementary division and a paratrooper division, and this point of strength has to attack and defend such a large circular position, in this case, only Rommel's plan is feasible, the periphery is small-scale vigilance, the middle is arranged with mobile armored forces, and the auxiliary air force can completely ensure the safety of this circular defensive position, so that Germany's entire combat material is also safe.

Since there was no problem, Rommel immediately ordered Amini to parachute the paratrooper division around the ring defensive position with transport planes.

A general is supposed to fight with his own soldiers, of course, not to let the general take a submachine gun to the front line, that is not the position where the general should stay.

Rommel's military command post also had forty FA223 transport helicopters, which were also part of the mobile force when the ring defensive position was completed.

Cannons can't be loaded with these helicopters, but it's okay to load two people, bring two MG42s, the lower tank, the upper helicopter is equipped with machine guns, and now in this era there is that unit as its opponent.

Of course, the FA223 can only act on its own tank, otherwise the enemy's machine gun will be beaten down, because the FA223 has no armor protection at all, and it will be destroyed immediately if it is hit by the engine and fuel tank.

At this time, the other fronts of the British army were also retreating, but not as fierce as Germany, Germany continued to break through the British defense line, and the German armored assault group was already under the city of Cairo.

This situation was also reported to the British General Command, and the Supreme Commander Montgomery also panicked, and Germany used its powerful air power at the beginning of the war to destroy most of the British air force, so that the British army completely lost air supremacy.

Montgomery's troops were facing bombing by German planes at any time, and Montgomery, as the commander-in-chief of the British army, was helpless, and Montgomery, as the commander-in-chief of the British army, had no way to do it.

Will it continue to reinforce Cairo, or will it immediately run to the Suez Canal...... (To be continued.) )