The rout of the Dragoon Brigade and the Setlan Cavalry Division outside Kairouan marked the loss of British rear positions.

Although there were many generals with the rank of lieutenant general among the troops in Kairouan, when Jiang Yunzhi assigned Major General Ning Shuxin, commander of the 7th Army of the Guards, as the commander of the airdrop troops, all the allied troops in Kairouan seemed to feel that this was the way it should be.

The Royal Guards of the Han Empire, a major general is more reliable than the lieutenant generals or even generals of other troops, this kind of trust is not only because the Royal Guards are the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, but the Guards are using their victories again and again to prove their strength.

Because of the defeat of the 8th Army, Ning Shuxin did not rush to send troops to harass the defenders of the Soviet Union, but continued to strengthen the outer defensive positions of Kairouan and control the lights of Kairouan Airport to guide the Y-41 Tyrannosaurus Rex carrying heavy weapons to continue to land.

In the Gulf of Tunis, in the Gulf of Hammamet, in the Strait of Gerganai, the Allied Navy prepared for a day and night artillery fire on three planned landing sites. In addition to always paying attention to air supremacy near the landing grounds, the Navy's carrier-based aircraft and the Allied air forces on Sicily and Sardinia also constantly dropped aerial bombs and incendiary bombs on the tidal flats, and in some key areas, they also dropped a certain amount of ruby precision-guided bombs.

Of course, this kind of bomb, which is expensive because of the installation of guidance equipment, is absolutely limited in use. Long Xiaotian didn't want to return to Chang'an, and his majesty pointed his nose and scolded him as a "loser".

The ruby precision-guided bomb is another new type of ammunition developed by the base war laboratory after the rapid development of various types of missiles, which solves the problem that some special targets have little strike value and require large-capacity ammunition and precision strikes to destroy.

On the afternoon of 18 January, the British defenses of Sousse and Monastir were the first to be breached because they were caught between the Allies and the front and rear. In particular, the back road was outflanked by the airdrop corps commanded by Ning Shuxin, which seriously affected the morale of the defenders. Under the powerful offensive of the Allied forces, 60,000 Commonwealth defenders walked out of their bunkers and fortifications and surrendered, and 300,000 Allied troops swarmed up and set foot on Tunisian soil. Within a few hours, they attacked from the left and right, conquering Mahdia and Sireyanai respectively, threatening the rear of the defenders of Tuni City.

On 20 July, in the Gulf of Tunis battlefield, which was dominated by naval artillery bombardment and aircraft bombardment, the landing force changed its posture of feint attack for many days and launched a large-scale landing operation in a sea area more than 10 kilometers wide in front of Halegwadi Port, the maritime gateway of Tunis.

Tranquil-class amphibious dock landing ships and Bison air-cushion landing craft have appeared on the sea. The Royal Navy's elite 1st Marine Division and Italy's St. Marco's Division were engaged in a beach-rushing operation with thunder.

The 21st Army Aviation Division of the 7th Guards Army completely collapsed the British beach defense, 300 WZ-40 Haidongqing helicopter gunships and the marines on the landing craft advanced in parallel with the sea and air, and the long-crowned penguin light air-to-ground missiles and honeycomb rocket launch systems equipped with the "Haidongqing" made it difficult for any exposed firepower point on the beach to hold out for three minutes, coupled with the approaching artillery bombardment of a number of dock landing ships, the Canadian Second Motorized Infantry Division stationed in the Gulf of Tunis and the British Army's 10th Army quickly abandoned the plan to hold the coastal position.

The Allied forces that landed in Sousse had already crossed Sireyane, less than a hundred kilometers from the city of Tunis.

Not to mention that the British were simply unable to counterattack the Allied forces that had already established a beach position, and even if they could drive the enemy back into the sea, they would be faced with the fate of being flanked from both sides in a few hours, just like the Cisse defenders.

If there is any merit in the command of the British army, then in a difficult situation, decisive abandonment must be counted as one.

While the Allies had not completely blocked the road to Algeria, the British 10th Army and the Canadian Motorized Infantry Division simply abandoned all positions close to the coastline, alternated cover, and withdrew from the city of Tunisia and retreated to Annaba.

By the evening of the 20th, the General Command of the Allied Mediterranean Theater issued a statement: the city of Tunis was liberated!

But the fighting in Tunisia was not over, and the beaches of Sfax were much bloodier than the other two landing sites. Following the successful landing of the Yanzhou Corps on the first day of the three positions and the repulsion of the defending Indian brigades, the No. 3 position became an important point for repeated contention between the two sides.

Sun Liren's landing plan was to take advantage of the distraction of the Indian army to open a breakthrough in the No. 3 position, and for this reason, he did not hesitate to send the most elite Yanzhou Army in his theater of operations, and the 34th Division of the 12th Army also lived up to his expectations and quickly defeated the Asanmen who lacked fighting spirit. However, the British hoarded heavy troops here, and the Canadian 5th Division and the South African 2nd Division were considered to be strong armies in a hundred battles, and the British 6th Army was even more highly expected by the bigwigs in London, hoping that this army group could replace the 8th Army that surrendered in Benghazi and win back the face of the British Army in the African theater.

The rout of the Indian Brigade and the loss of Position 3 did not lead to the passivity of the Commonwealth army on all fronts, as Sun Liren imagined. The British Longbow Division and the predominantly black South African Division caught the 34th Division of the Yanzhou Army by surprise, and recaptured most of the important areas of Position 3 with a wave of counterattacks. The landing brigade of the 34th division was also pinned down on the beach, unable to form an effective counterattack.

In order to rescue the 34th Division, General Mu Xingchen of the Yanzhou Army successively threw several troops to the beach in front of the No. 3 position. A beach-grabbing landing battle actually fought a positional battle.

The British army also rarely showed strong fighting spirit, and did not hesitate to fight to the last man, and resolutely did not give up the position.

In the end, the Yanzhou Army was still calling the Navy's Brute Dragon attack planes to cut off the British army's reinforcements to the No. 3 position by using air superiority, and only then did it fight the No. 3 position.

However, in the other tidal flat positions, the Nanyang Army and the Turkish Army were responsible for the beach grabbing the area, and the Allies all encountered stubborn resistance from the British army. Although the British suffered heavy casualties under the superior Allied firepower, the battle was still on the beach in the Sfax theater until the evening of the 20th, when the Allied troops had begun to land in the other two theaters.

But it seems that General Mu Xingchen did not show an anxious look, and still poured ammunition on the British army every day, and then entangled with the counterattacking British army near the No. 3 position.

Four days after the landing campaign, the Allied landing ground at Sfax was still less than five square kilometers. This battle was fought...... Even most of the Allied generals found it extremely weird.

"No, isn't the commander of our theater General Sun Liren? Why did you fight Mu Xingchen who was replaced by the Yanzhou Army? There's no order to remove the commander, right? ”

"By the way, General Sun hasn't seen him for a few days? What about the 300,000 nations/armies? Didn't you see them go to war? ”

"You're stupid, aren't you? I didn't see that there were many fewer transport ships in the fleet. It can't be that he was transferred to another place by the commander-in-chief, right? ”

Three days after the start of the war, such talk filled all the troops in the entire Sfax theater of operations. When attacking the East Island and building the headquarters, many people also saw Sun Liren's figure, how could he hit it, but the commander-in-chief was gone?

It wasn't until the morning of the 21st that the news came, and everyone quietly realized. Several Turkish officers gathered together and kept muttering, "The Han people are so cunning that even their own people in the allied army have been deceived by them!" ”

It turned out that in Jiang Yunzhi's "big-eared fox" action plan, the real third landing ground was not Sfax. On the other side of the Gal Ganay Sea, where a large number of elite Commonwealth troops are concentrated, Sfax is definitely the toughest bone to gnaw.

However, Alexandri's deployment of the 6th Army here is to value the important strategic position of Sfax. It could go north to support Sousse and south to rescue Tripoli, and the forces that Eisenhower had left behind in Gudamis and Fort St. would ensure the security of Tripoli's flanks.

After the decisive defeat of the Mediterranean Fleet, the Tunisian defensive strategy deployed by Alexander should be quite good, that is, it took care of the defense of Tunisia, leaving a way back for the African Front of the Multinational Force, and blocking the westward advance of the Allied forces off the coast of Libya, making up for the huge gap left by the African Multinational Force after the surrender of the 8th Army.

It's just that Jiang Yunzhi wondered why Alexander paid attention to the protection of the flanks in the defense of Tripoli, but why didn't he leave enough troops in the interior of Tunisia? As a result, Kairouan became the breakthrough point for the Allied forces to break through the Tunisian coastal defenses.

Didn't Alexander know that the Han Airborne Army was much more powerful than the German paratrooper troops? Did he think that the Guards Airborne Corps was a British paratrooper who could not even parachute out of the side door as long as he fell out of the butt of the fly?

If this is really the case, then General Jiang must seriously consider the plan to parachute into London.

Moreover, Alexander did not expect that Jiang Yunzhi had never thought about storming Tripoli from beginning to end, and Marshal Chiang's ambitions were much greater than General Alexander imagined.

So, in the Gulf of Gabès, halfway between Sfax and Tripoli, the Entente Mediterranean Front left only two divisions of defensive troops. In Admiral Alexander's view, this was a dead end, and the Allies had no choice but to land between the two British armies.

If Kairouan's loophole is that Alexander underestimated the combat capability of the Han Army's Airborne Corps, equated the poor performance of the Han Guards paratroopers with the poor performance of the German paratroopers on Crete, and left a low-level mistake, then Gabes's weak defense was the best gift from the British Army general to Generalissimo Chiang.

A feint attack on Sfax, but unlike the false feints that could no longer be faked in the early stages of the Gulf of Tunisia battlefield, in Sfax it was necessary to show sufficient determination to land and keep the attention of the British 6th Army in the Strait of Gellganai. Then another force was sent to attack Gabès, cutting off the 6th Army from the defenders of Tripoli and creating an opportunity for the rest of the Allied forces to be annihilated.

Of course, the implementation of this plan was equivalent to forming a sandwich on the battlefield in North Africa, where the British army that was divided was two meatloafs, and the Allied troops who captured Gabez were the innermost layer of cabbage.

Either the leaves are crushed by the patty, or the patties are separated by the leaves, and they are very close, but until they are eaten, they never have a chance to meet again.