Montgome's forces used for counter-encirclement included the elite British regular army and the servant army who were willing to be cannon fodder for the British army, and although Montgomer's forces for counter-encirclement were uneven, the total strength was more than 200,000. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Rommel's total strength under Cairo consisted of three armored divisions, one supplementary infantry division and one paratrooper division, two and a half of the three armored divisions were to be used to attack Cairo, and only two and a half divisions were to defend the ring defensive position.

Montgomery's anti-encirclement tactics against Rommel were successful, and the gap between the two sides was also very large, but Rommel had air superiority and better tank performance than the British army.

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It was impossible for Marshal Rommel's two panzer divisions to attack overnight, his armoured assault group had been attacking for ten hours in a row, and all the soldiers needed to rest, and it was certainly impossible to attack the city of Cairo, which was close at a foot in the evening.

Montgomery would also have chosen to march at night, which would have avoided German bombardment, and if the British had been able to advance lightly, it would have been possible for them to reach Cairo at 10 a.m. and the roads would have been clear, but Montgomery had not taken this into account in his battle plan.

If the roads had to be clear, so that the British could reach Cairo at dawn, were the roads in Egypt as clear as Montgomery thought? That's a bit of a stretch of assumption.

In the two days since the start of the war, the German army has dispatched several thousand sorties, and the German planes have not only bombed the positions of the British army, but also bombed the roads and bridges of Egypt.

Rommel arranged his troops, and the soldiers began to lie down in the ring defensive position, and the German soldiers who fought continuously were already very tired, except for the sentries sent by the supplementary division, the troops of the assault troops ordered by Rommel soon entered a sweet dream - they must rest well, so that the soldiers can have enough energy to fight.

The golden light pierced through the gaps in the morning glow and sprinkled on the grass growing in the brown earth, and the light that pierced the clouds was like golden threads, crisscrossing and weaving the light gray and blue-gray clouds into a beautiful pattern, but the beauty of the sky could not stop the cruel battle that was about to take place on the ground.

The large-scale movement of the British troops had aroused Rommel's alarm last night, and Rommel's "Eye of God" and the faintly discernible moonlight had spotted a large number of British troops coming towards his ring defensive position.

As soon as the day turned white, Rommel symbolically dispatched his own reconnaissance plane to collect intelligence everywhere, and this information was gathered to the former enemy's command post, and then analyzed by the professional intelligence staff of the former enemy's command post.

Rommel's Vision of God had long since discovered the intention of the British army to attack his ring defensive position, and Rommel sent a reconnaissance plane to investigate the situation of the British army in order not to attract the attention of others.

The British counter-encirclement forces in the north, east, and south were on time to reach the first 10 kilometers of the ring defensive position of the German 7th Panzer Division, while a British division that went to reinforce Cairo ran into great trouble.

Because the fleeing citizens of Cairo were flocking to the roads, and all kinds of vehicles were blocking the roads, the reinforced division, seeing that the roads were in this situation, hastened to order the soldiers to abandon their vehicles and walk, which was undoubtedly very correct.

But the British division commander didn't want to discard heavy weapons such as artillery, because the German tanks were powerful, and if the British lost these heavy weapons such as anti-tank guns, they would also die.

In this way, the British division that reinforced Cairo abandoned the road and began the painful march by means of horse-drawn horses, Egypt is a plain, even if there is no road, most places can pass through heavy weapons such as cannons.

It was only in this way that the British division that reinforced Cairo was completely slowed down, and it was considered a very fast speed of five kilometers per hour.

You must know that this British division is more than 100 kilometers away from Cairo, and even if they march for 12 hours in a row, they can only walk 60 kilometers, and it is impossible for them to enter the city of Cairo before dawn.

The German planes that were reconnoitring in the air in the morning discovered this British division intending to reinforce Cairo, they had marched to a distance of 30 kilometers from Cairo, and they had advanced 80 kilometers in one night, and they were still carrying a lot of heavy weapons, but there were countless horses killed on their marching route, and the British army was never short of military horses, and the British army was able to march so fast, completely because of the lives of military horses, and of course their soldiers were also extremely tired.

The news of the British encirclement from several sides was quickly delivered to Field Marshal Rommel, who asked the operational staff to quickly mark the positions of the British troops in several directions on the map.

The map shows almost exactly the same as what Rommel saw with the Eye of God, the British army pressed up from the north, east and south, and according to the information sent by the general headquarters, the British troops from these three directions were nearly 200,000 people, and it seemed that Montgomery was determined to eat the armored assault group.

Field Marshal Rommel looked at these British troops more than ten kilometers away from him, but he was not worried at all, but his eyes were firmly fixed on the British division east of Cairo.

This is the most dangerous enemy of the German armored assault group at the moment, if this regular British division with heavy weapons is allowed to enter the city of Cairo, and then they are defending with the help of various reinforced concrete buildings in the city, I don't know how many German soldiers will have to be sacrificed to annihilate them.

If two and a half armored divisions were stuck in Cairo, then Rommel would have to continue to storm Cairo, and he would have to face the counter-encirclement of the British army of 200,000 troops.

"All the planes of the Fourth Air Division were ordered to take off in three batches and use three batches of planes to bombard the British troops coming from the direction of the Suez Canal, and the Fifth Air Division also divided the planes into three batches, and their task was to attack the British troops in the ring defensive position.

Each batch was 30 minutes apart, all of them were loaded with ground bombs, including the "BF109", which also carried two ground bombs, and it was necessary to bomb the British infantry division east of Cairo with the intention of reinforcing Cairo, and told Amini that if a British reinforcement arrived in Cairo, he would go to the military prison and stay. ”

This was the second time that Field Marshal Rommel had given such an order, because the present situation seemed to everyone to be indeed, very dangerous, and even in the Ministry of Defense in London, England, thousands of miles away, Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and MacArthur of France all believed that Montgomery had a chance to turn defeat into victory, and this chance was very good. (To be continued.) )