At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Youde received a report that the reconnaissance battalion of the 90th Light Division had raided the British Indian 10th Brigade on the march, and routed the brigade headquarters and the two battalions that followed the brigade headquarters.

Lin Youde was very happy after receiving the report.

"The defeat of the main force of a brigade by a battalion is a feat. I remember that the reconnaissance battalion of the 90th Division was equipped with the newly developed Puma wheeled armored vehicles, right? ”

"Yes sir." The staff officer replied respectfully.

"Well, very well, tell the commander of that battalion, I am very satisfied with their results, but I also ask them to remember their main task, to complete the interrogation of the prisoners and the investigation of the officers, and to report the enemy's movements."

As soon as Lin Youde's voice fell, the correspondent entered the command room, walked straight to him, and sent a telegram to Lin Youde.

Lin Youde took a look, and sure enough, it was the enemy's intelligence submitted by the battalion of the 90th Division.

"I'll see, the 10th Indian Brigade and the 1st Anzac Division ......" Lin Youde scanned the telegram and stuffed it to the staff officer, and stood up to look at the large map on the map table.

"The 10th Indian Brigade is here to meet the reconnaissance battalion," Lin pointed to the edge of the small mountainous area on the map that wandered away from the main body of Mount Sinai, "and according to the intelligence they have found, a division of the Anzac is advancing from here to the same place." It looks like the enemy is preparing to increase his forces in the direction of the breakthrough. ”

Lin Youde put down his pencil and frowned: "What's going on, it doesn't look like a prepared attack, it's too weird." ”

The premise of the offensive is to concentrate a large number of troops in advance in the predetermined direction of operation, rather than hastily transferring troops from the rear after the attack has begun.

Lin Youde felt more and more that this showed that his previous speculation was correct.

The British, not knowing where the 9th Indian Brigade had encountered the Turkish troops, thought they had been attacked, so they threw a backhand punch.

"What's this called......"

While Lin Youde was muttering to himself, his staff officer asked, "Sir, Your Excellency Commander, how should we deal with it?" ”

"Of course, it is to continue to increase the troops, the British army that has broken through is not like a soft persimmon, 15 suits may be able to deal with it, but the situation is complicated by being re-inforced. Although two armored chasseur divisions have been sent to pick up the 15 armor, both chasseur divisions are deployed behind the comparatively, and the response may not be able to catch up. ”

Although Lin Youde has been through more than ten years, at this time, he still habitually came up with the unique term "continuation of soldiers" (some explanations call it "receiving soldiers") for playing real-time strategy games such as interstellar, which made his chief of staff confused, but after all, he was the one who did the chief of staff, and his IQ was still good, so he quickly understood the meaning of this new word that Lin Youde spelled together with two German words (in fact, this is Lin Youde's masterpiece of translation).

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander, the continuation of the British may cause us problems."

"So we will continue to move troops to the war zone, and I'll take ......a look," Lin Youde looked at the map, moving the end of the pencil on the map, and then the pencil stopped on one of the troop logos, "Let the 1st Jewish Brigade leave immediately, the Jewish Brigade will be followed by the 3rd Romanian Brigade, remember to stagger the departure time of the two troops, I don't want them to be stuck on the road." ”

Then Lin Youde's pencil continued to move around the map.

"We also want to confuse the British, they must be very confused now, the Indian troops deployed in the mountains of Mount Sinai have suddenly reported being attacked, and now there are Indian forces in the movement west of Mount Sinai reporting an attack, the British must have been disorganized, and it is very beneficial to us, we want to create even more chaos."

As he spoke, Lin Youde pointed with a pencil at the main force of the Turkish army deployed on the northwest side of the Sinai Peninsula, near the Mediterranean coastline.

"Let the Turks immediately open fire on the British positions, using the heaviest guns, each cannon firing half a base of ammunition."

"Could it be a little too much," Sharon, who had been watching Lin Youde command, suddenly asked in his heavily accented German, "We don't have many shells in reserve right now, so I'm afraid it's not appropriate to hit half the base for such a confusing operation, right?" ”

"No, no, remember, Sharon," Lin Youde called Sharon's surname without any modifiers, "If you want to deceive the enemy, you must be willing to pay your blood, the more chaotic the enemy, the better our situation will be, and the greater the advantage." Half a base of ammunition is definitely worth the fare. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander." Sharon nodded in response, but Lin Youde couldn't see what was going on in his heart.

But Lin Youde doesn't care, anyway, as long as he Lin Youde finally wins this battle, every decision he makes will become a subtle stroke of genius and be talked about by future generations, and if he loses, no matter how correct the decision is, someone will try to prove that it is a bad idea.

However, at this time, Lin Youde suddenly remembered a point that he had overlooked: the general attack would start in the morning, because then the attacking side would have the longest time of light - night is only suitable for surprise attacks, and it is more efficient for large corps to attack during the day. And it was already in the afternoon, and it was not normal for the Turks to start artillery preparations at this time.

So Lin Youde gave an additional order: "Let the Turks not rush to open artillery, the shelling time is postponed until tomorrow, and accordingly, they should organize more artillery to join the shelling, I hope that the density of their projected fire will make the British think that they are about to attack." ”

With that, Lin Youde sat back in his position and watched as the staff officers translated the instructions he had just given into specific orders for the troops.

On the Confederate side, more than five battle groups of brigade or higher were now advancing towards the western foothills of Sinai, while on the British side there were at least two more battle groups concentrating on that side, although one of them had already been routed.

It is foreseeable that the command of the British Eighth Army will send more troops to reinforce after receiving the report of the Indian 10th Brigade, and it is always felt that if this keeps "adding fuel and vinegar", this battle will become an unbelievable large-scale melee.

Lin Youde licked his tongue.

"I can't just throw troops to the front line." He whispered in a voice that only he could hear, "I need to make a plan, a plan that can take advantage of the shì in front of my eyes. ”

Lin Youde sat in his position, staring at the map, and his mind began to run rapidly.

The purpose of waging a campaign is nothing more than two things: the first is to seize key points, and the second is to annihilate the enemy's living forces at a relatively small cost and gain an advantage in terms of combat power.

As for the first point, the battle that is currently taking place does not seem to involve any positions that the two sides will necessarily fight, and the city of Hasana is counted as one, but it is quite far from the current place of the conflict, and it would be better to make it the goal of the second phase. Then what needs to be done at this stage is to annihilate the living forces of the British army in large numbers.

In order to achieve this, the British needed to be induced to constantly throw their forces into it.

"In short, it's about making the British feel like they can win if they work harder." Lin Youde muttered like this, and then called out to his chief of staff, "Chief of staff, let the 12th Armored Chasseur Division stop and recuperate, and the 10th Division will also slow down its advance." ”

"Yes, sir, but why?"

"Because if we throw too many troops at once, the British will run, and it is not enough to run them away, counting the abundant supply of British troops in the colonies, and the troops will be restored to combat effectiveness after regrouping. We want to annihilate them, destroy the establishment, and not give them a chance to make amends. To that end, we need to make the British think that they have seized an opportunity to change the situation of the standoff. Lin Youde said.