Chapter 152, The Second Battle
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After a month's rest, the Desert Fox felt that he was almost there, and Montgomery also thought that he could fight the Germans again, and as for the Sixth and Seventh Armies, they were holding snacks and watching the show while eating.
This is known as the Second Battle of Selum, which kicked off near Selum, and as for the Second Battle of El Alamein, because of Lu Qiang's intervention, it is no longer there.
Near Selum, the armies of Germany, Italy, the United States, Britain and France gathered thousands of tanks and fought a tank battle here, but the British crusaders faced the German Tiger type, one cannon at a time, and their own tanks could not even tear the opponent's armor.
However, the new tank M46 of the US army has repeatedly made achievements, but it has also been destroyed a lot.
When the German King Tiger came on the field, the 150mm inclined front was almost incomprehensible, and the main gun was a 105mm anti-tank gun, which was super high and deeply penetrated, so that no tank on the entire battlefield could block the King Tiger cannon.
On the battlefield of tanks, almost the German tanks single-handedly took on the British and American tanks, and as for the Italian tanks, they were not much less than the Japanese Type 97, and they were completely soy sauce.
On the battlefield of tanks, Britain and the United States were defeated by the German Tiger King, although the number of Tiger Kings was not large, but they were almost all one-on-ten.
However, in other battlefields, the German-Italian coalition forces did not have the upper hand, the British and American offensives were fierce, the American army's tyrant style, all kinds of artillery were fought as if they didn't need money, and the German air force was almost destroyed by Lu Qiang's air force before the battle, and few of them could fly.
After a few days and nights of fighting, the two sides turned into a stalemate, and they couldn't take advantage of anything, so they could only look for opportunities.
In this case, if the Seventh Army entered the war, it would definitely be the last straw that crushed the German army, but without Montgomery's order, the Seventh Army continued to watch the theater and sell all kinds of snacks.
Under this stalemate, the American army decided to divide a force, bypass Selum, and attack the Germans from the flank, and even then, there was no intention of letting the Seventh Army fight, as if there was no Seventh Army at all.
The Allied troops deliberately ignored it, so that the Seventh Army was on fire, although they did not go to the battlefield and did not need to die, but they could not get the training of actual combat, and they were still a group of recruits.
"These foreign devils beat themselves hard, but they left us here to eat fart." Marut, the headquarters of the Seventh Army, the deputy commander looked at the map of the Allied and German engagements, full of displeasure.
"Don't worry, when they're almost done, we'll go again, and it's probably only a matter of a few days." The commander of the Seventh Army said, it seems that he already has a plan in mind.
"These days? I watched their battle situation, the two sides were half-hearted, the Germans had an advantage in tanks, but the Allied artillery was very strong, and with the help of aircraft, the Germans had a tendency to fall into the upper hand, and if they continued to fight, the Germans would lose sooner or later. The deputy commander stared at the map and said slowly, frowning.
"That's why I decided to launch an offensive in the next few days." The commander said, "By the way, when will the Avengers be delivered?" ”
"The news just now, it is estimated that it will arrive tomorrow." The deputy commander said.
"Hmm!" The commander nodded, "I've always heard that the Avengers are very powerful, but I don't know how powerful they are, and how they will compare with the Tiger King of the German army." ”
"It should only be strong and not weak, after all, the caliber is 120mm, and the armor is also very thick." For the Avengers, the deputy commander has a lot of confidence.
"By the way, has that batch of 59-2 arrived? Our armored units are waiting to change their outfits! The commander asked suddenly.
"It's already here." The deputy commander replied that as a deputy commander, he was in charge of managing the affairs of the army just like an internal affairs officer, and as for the commander, he was only in charge of the war.
The two armies of Selum were at a stalemate, and the Seventh Army was ready to strike at any moment.
Near the front line, Montgomery held a telescope and looked at the German defense line opposite, his face was full of gloom, the spirit before the battle had long since disappeared, although from a general point of view, it seemed that they had the upper hand, but only he knew that if he continued to fight, his troops would collapse. After all, his army is in various countries, it is very messy, it cannot be unified, and it gives him a headache to resist orders from time to time.
"Do you really want them to go up?" Montgomery muttered to himself, he was reluctant to let the Seventh Army come up, and he wanted to defeat the Germans and recover North Africa on his own. But in this current situation, if he continues to fight, he may not lose again, which is unacceptable to him, and if he loses again, it is estimated that he should step down.
"Damn it!" Thinking about it, he didn't think of any good way.
"Inform those yellow-skinned monkeys and let them go!" Montgomery reluctantly gave the order.
The commander of the Seventh Army, who had just received the telegram, was a little puzzled, and suddenly asked them to go to the front, was there any conspiracy?
The commander summoned a group of staff officers, read the telegram several times, and found nothing wrong, and in the end could only conclude that there was something they did not take into account.
Since Montgomery gave way, they couldn't afford not to give this face, and besides, the troops below were already on fire.
The commander had a call back to Montgomery to prepare and start the operation tomorrow.
The reason why it dragged on for a day was to wait for the Avengers to pull up, and they also had to test the performance of the Avengers.
Montgomery, for his part, agreed without thinking about it, he didn't think the Seventh Army would do anything at all, and there was nothing to do.
Since their Seventh Army was in the battle, they no longer had to hide and tuck, and the Mustang planes at the airfield immediately hung up their bombs, ready to have some appetizers against the Germans to celebrate the first battle of the Seventh Army.
The news that he was going to battle tomorrow soon spread in the Seventh Army. When the recruits heard that they were going to go to war, they would inevitably feel a little excited and excited.
The veterans are naturally very calm, and look at the recruits with disdain, going to the battlefield means death, these recruits who don't know anything are actually happy, they are really fearless.
"Why are you so excited, aren't you just going to the battlefield!" A veteran who wiped his gun looked at the excited recruits in front of him speechlessly, and finally spoke.
"Have you ever been on the battlefield?" The recruit who was questioned immediately asked rhetorically.
"Nonsense, I haven't been on the battlefield, how did the scar on my face come about." The veteran rolled his eyes and pointed to a long scar on his face, which he had been scratched by shrapnel from an artillery shell on the battlefield in Brisbane. (To be continued.) )