"There is no bad breed in the Guards Corps, and the Guards Panzer Corps has never dropped the chain, please rest assured, Commander! Our troops will continue to advance in an hour, aiming for Ajdabia! ”

The voice of Dong Zhihua, the commander of the 3rd Guards Armored Army, on the radio made Xiao Guoxing's hanging heart fall. The 3rd Army's more than 3,000 tanks and tracked armored vehicles, with strong logistical support, only had more than 50 "lying on their stomachs" during the rapid march of more than 500 kilometers, and they had not yet arrived at Sehabi Fort.

At present, the 3rd Armored Army and the 4th Infantry Army have sufficient fuel and ammunition, but the personnel are quite tired after a long and rapid march. But in order to seize the fleeting fighters, they had to work the front-line soldiers. The Han Royal Guard, His Majesty's Son of Heaven pro-army, of course, must show more powerful combat effectiveness and willpower.

Ci is not in charge of the army, regardless of money, Xiao Guoxing was ruthless, "Please grit your teeth again the soldiers of the 3rd Army, take Ajdabia, block the British army, I will personally ask for credit to Your Majesty for everyone!" ”

"Commander Xiao, you're all right! The 3rd Guards Army, guaranteed to complete the mission! ”

The Han Royal Guards Legion, no matter which army, is a proud soldier and a fierce general. The supreme sense of honor stimulates them to not fail easily in every battle and every mission.

In Sehabiburg, after a day and night of rapid marching, the armored soldiers, who were tired and simply rested on the tracks, immediately got up and sorted out their equipment the next moment they received the order.

Fifteen minutes later, the "tigers" and cheetahs in the desert moved again, illuminating the night with bright headlights and the rumbling roar of engines, making the slightly desolate desert town of Sehabi Fort lively. Running back and forth and shouting sappers stepped up their final preparations.

The tanks and armored infantry vehicles were silent, and only the communicator came the order of the army commander Dong Zhihua: "Target Ajdabia, go!" ”

The vast desert terrain type made the march of the Panzer Army less restrictive, and the long-lost 242 formation was able to be used again. The so-called 242 means that the whole army is advancing in eight columns, with four tanks in the middle and two tracked armored infantry fighting vehicles on both sides. The new Cheetah-2 infantry fighting vehicle has strong search capabilities, and the use of composite armor allows the Cheetah to reduce its own weight while enhancing its defense against weapons such as bazookas.

For the Guards armored units, which have always attached importance to armored infantry fighting vehicles, such a formation is their best mode of protection for long-distance marches. It's just that in the general terrain, it is difficult to have such a wide road for it to spread.

Now the task is urgent, and the people are sleepy after a long and rapid march, and the most important thing is that the dry riverbed of Falig gives the Panzer Corps room to operate. All the tanks and armored vehicles turned on their dust guards, and the torrent of iron horses ran at full speed through the flat riverbed, kicking up sand and dust like a storm corridor.

The same storm corridor was raging on the desert road two hundred kilometers away from the 3rd Army, and the U.S. 2nd Armored Division and the British 3rd Dragoon Brigade were also on a rapid march, followed by the Canadian 3rd Mechanized Division and the U.S. 27th Motorized Infantry Corps.

Famous, famous!

If there is any common characteristic of these troops from different countries, it must be the eight words above. After reaching an agreement with Eisenhower, Alexander did not hide any secrets and took out several of the strongest mechanized troops in his hands.

These units were in line with the goal of the 3rd Guards Panzer Army: to seize the strategic position of Ajdabia. It's just that one is to meet the retreat of friendly forces, and the other is to plug the last hole in the Benghazi encirclement.

From time to time, the night reconnaissance planes of the Royal Air Force transmitted the positions of the multinational troops on the seaside highway through the Beidou communication and command system, and Dong Zhihua was even more anxious when he heard it. The distance between the two sides and Ajdabia is now about the same, and the 3rd Army seems to be slightly behind.

"Don't care if you fall behind, drag it aside and wait for the rear sappers to rescue, and the other car crews, go at full speed!"

Commander Xiao's voice in the communicator was a little hoarse, he hadn't slept all day and night, and he was still in a highly tense combat state, and Major General Xiao, who was older than the soldiers, was almost at the limit.

With this command, the roar of the engine in the long line of sand and dust became even more dull, and the stirring in Dong Zhihua's heart became even more uneasy. "The 3rd Army is tired of fighting against several times the enemy, and the other side is all mechanized troops, this battle ......" Dong Zhihua's face was full of solemnity, "Raise troops for a thousand days, use it for a while!" It's time for the Guards to fight for their lives! ”

In the communicator, Commander Xiao did not choose to hide the enemy's situation, all the armored troops knew that in the front, in Ajdabia, there would be countless enemies waiting for them, but ...... So what?

From the very beginning of the founding of the country, the Guards have always fought outnumbered. From the Golden City to Perth in Western Australia, from the Great Leap Forward to Adelaide and Melbourne, which World War Guards were not fearless and brave in their charge?

When the communicator sporadically sang the chant of "Song of the Guards", and finally condensed into a chorus of everyone, Dong Zhihua's eyes had changed from nervousness to confidence, and he sang loudly with the soldiers and queens in the roar of the tank:

Come on! Devil! Your presence will add more foreshadowing and wonder to the music of my life! How can miracles happen without you!

Come on! Frustrate! How can I become a dazzling diamond without your training!

Come on! My weakness! If I can't see you, how can I be strong!

Come on! Rival! Without your participation, who am I competing against!

Guards, forward! Guards, charge!

Guided by the fluttering golden dragon battle flag, we are fearless.

We are the proud royal guards of the Han Empire.

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The high will to fight could not shorten the distance of time and space, and when the 3rd Guards Armored Army approached Ajdabia, there was still unfortunate news in Dong Zhihua's headset that the multinational force had already entered the city first.

The sky was already getting brighter, and Commander Dong Zhihua of the 3rd Army, which was less than 30 kilometers away from Ajdabia, was faced with a difficult choice. Obey the command arrangement, which can preserve the strength of the troops and avoid excessive casualties, but will leave more than ten hours for the British army to retreat. Or a strong attack, without the coordinated operation of the infantry army, without the preparation of artillery fire, the armored corps will attack a city alone, and for nearly ten hours, the only possible support is the air force.

Deputy Commander of the Army, Chief of Staff...... Several military commanders gathered around a small sandbag and had a short meeting - the armored units do not need a headquarters, they do not need a conference room, their highest command body is the command tank with the number 03001, if this tank is hung up, then the command will be handed over in turn, 002, 003......

"If we just wait here for the arrival of the follow-up troops, if we sit back and watch the British army break out of the encirclement from thirty kilometers away, it will be a shame that our 3rd Guards Army will never be able to erase it!"

The hoarse voice was low but firm, but Commander Dong's words made several other people nod vigorously.

"Fight, Commander, the Guards can't have a bad seed! Our 3rd Army can't afford to lose that person! ”

"Hit! Commander, I also support fighting. No matter how many casualties we have, as long as we leave the seeds, I believe that Your Majesty will definitely rebuild the 3rd Guards Army! But if we don't fight, we won't have the face to call the Guards anymore! ”

The battle has finally begun!

More than 1,000 Tiger medium tanks of the Third Army were deployed in the desert zone of more than ten kilometers, while the Cheetah 2, which was about the same number, was lined up behind the two wings and the Tiger.

After Commander Dong Zhihua persuaded Vice Admiral Xiao Guoxing with great difficulty to agree to the war, the command immediately coordinated the naval aircraft carrier battle group on the sea north of Crete, and 48 J-37E Sea Dragons and 60 G-41B Brute Dragons would launch an air strike on Ajdabiya forty minutes later.

In such an encounter, no one has the opportunity to build a decent defensive position. At the entrances to the streets, there were American M3 Stuart light tanks and M4 Sherman medium tanks, as well as British Crusader and Cromwell cruiser tanks and armored personnel carriers from various countries.

Because it was a mechanized force breaking through, the first multinational troops to enter the city were all armored vehicles.

Outside the city, a large number of Allied armored forces were massed, and they certainly did not know that the commander of the multinational force in Ajdabia was none other than the famous George Patton, who was promoted to colonial governor in Morocco because he was dissatisfied with Eisenhower's appointment as commander-in-chief of the African multinational force during the Torch Project.

After the formation of the Mediterranean Front, Patton communicated with Marshall in London, bowed his head and admitted his mistakes, and was able to return to the 2nd Armored Division, the fist unit of the American army.

The beginning of the duel between the two ace armored forces was not a tank artillery bombardment. While Patton was still hesitating whether to take the initiative to attack, more than 100 carrier-based planes of the two carrier battle groups of the Northern Fleet took the lead in launching an attack on the multinational forces.

Because they are carrying out ground strike missions, the wings of the Sea Dragon and the Brute Dragon are almost all carried by light counterpart missiles such as Gentleman Penguin and Long-Crowned Penguin.

At Patton and the other multinational force commanders were aware of the threat of aircraft to armored vehicles, but because of the backwardness of communications, carrier-based aircraft formations were able to steal their ears with lightning speed...... In the first round of attacks, dozens of M4 Sherman and British Cromwell cruiser tanks were knocked out on the outer edge of the city.

The long-crested Penguin light ground-to-ground missile, which appeared on the battlefield for the first time, showed its might, and opened a precedent for precision strikes by base weapons by means of radar imaging guidance.

But this was not in the field, and the sophisticated Patton did not give the Royal Navy carrier-based aircraft more opportunities to demonstrate their accuracy, and the tanks assembled on the edge of the city quickly retreated into the middle of the street, and the houses and buildings in the city of Ajdabia became excellent cover for the Multinational Force's ground vehicles.

The Navy's Brute Dragon attack planes shot all eight ground-to-ground missiles on both wings, and had no choice but to climb to altitude and leave with the formation. In addition to the first round of surprise attacks, the air strikes of the carrier-based aircraft formation did not inflict too many losses on the main battle forces of Patton's 2nd Panzer Division and the 3rd British Dragoon Brigade.

However, when later military experts mentioned the Eldabia tank battle, they still regarded the Allied air power as the decisive factor in changing the outcome of the battle.

Because, at the same time that Patton ordered the tanks of the multinational force to disrupt the formation and retreat to the city streets in a free and dispersed manner, Commander Dong Zhihua "The whole army assaulted, and the Guards advanced!" The order was also transmitted over the radio communicator to more than 1,500 Tiger tanks of the 3rd Guards Panzer Army.