When the news of the Allied capture of Gabès reached Algiers, General Alexander, commander-in-chief of the Allied Mediterranean Front, closed his eyes and shook his body, but fortunately the table next to him helped him and did not let his subordinates lose their temper too much.

Gabès can't afford to lose. Alexander deployed the 6th Army, the most effective British army, at Sfax to prevent the Allied landing in central Tunisia and cut off the Mediterranean Front.

Unexpectedly, after the Allies set up a large formation in the Strait of Gellgannay, they turned to attack the weakly defended Gabes.

Two divisions of the British Army surrendered overnight, and the other division was completely disabled in street fighting, or even two small ships had to beg the British Empire, and the Yangtze River was in danger to help the Americans help protect Chiang's troops?

When he was young, Alexander, who had repeatedly flaunted his might on the Yangtze River with the British fleet, could not believe that the army, which was equivalent to waste in his eyes, could be reborn to show such powerful combat power.

This is the Chinese army that was knocked open by thousands of British troops? This is the "two-gun army" that once had a long discernment?

-- "Two-gun army", one rifle, one large smoking gun.

The rigidity of the British lies in this, and Alexander still looks at the Chinese army in the new era from the perspective of the Opium War era, and it is inevitable that he will suffer some hardships.

But even at this time, Britain would not have thought that the 300,000 Chinese Revolutionary Army and the 300,000 Chinese men with their heads held high were the sharpest Tang knives that buried the British Empire!

A hundred years ago, in the age of sails, the British were veritable world hegemons. A hundred years later, the Han people will regain their reach to the top of the world.

With the loss of Sousse, the loss of Tunisia and Bizerte, and the fact that the British 6th Army held Sfax no longer. If you linger here, there is even a danger that the Allies will cut off the back road and be surrounded on the beach.

After confirming that the Allied paratroopers had landed in Kassellin and captured the city of Sbetla, a British logistics base in Tunisia, Alexander finally made up his mind to abandon Tunisia and retreat to Algeria. And with the cities of Annaba, Ain Beida, and Tebeza as strongholds, a new defensive line was constructed to prevent the continuous advance of the Allied forces in northern Tunisia.

The 6th Army in Sfax had lost the opportunity to retreat to Algeria, but there was still a way to survive, which was to take advantage of the fact that Gabez's Allied forces were still unstable, recapture Gabes, join the multinational forces in Tripoli, and fly south to join the African Front of the Multinational Force, which was dominated by U.S. troops under the command of Eisenhower in central Libya.

Looking at the Sfax 6th Army, which was already surrounded by blue arrows representing the Allied forces on the map, Admiral Alexander suddenly had an ominous premonition, "Could it be that the 6th Army will follow the mistakes of the 8th Army?" No, absolutely not, you can't leave all the elite of the Reich's army in Africa. ”

The British 6th Army, which received the order to evacuate Sfax, was on the road under the incessant bombardment of the Allied air force and navy carrier-based aircraft, and Lieutenant General Richard O'Connor reluctantly left the 7th Panzer Division and the Welsh Cumbrian Division in Sfax to cover the 6th Army's smooth withdrawal from the battle.

The 7th Panzer Division was the most elite armored mobile force in the hands of Lieutenant General O'Connor, and played a decisive role in forcing the Italian army to surrender, and was known as the "Desert Rat". It was the British tank pioneer Hobert, who was originally a rabble, 7th Division, trained by "a group of gray voles into strong and agile desert jerboas".

However, in order to be able to resist the mechanized division of the Allied landing force, in order to be able to get the 6th Group out of the encirclement, O'Connor had to reluctantly leave the 7th Panzer Division in Sfax and work with the Cumbrian Division to block the Allied pursuit.

It can be said that O'Connor's tactical arrangement was successful, and it was precisely because of the presence of the British 7th Panzer Division that the landing of the Allies at Sfax was blocked for more than a week. The Yanzhou Army, the Turkish Army and the Nanyang 4th Army Corps, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops were unable to suddenly block the British troops with two divisions.

Jiang Yunzhi once said after the war: "Although the overall performance of the British Army can be called clumsy, and although we are enemies fighting each other, please allow me to salute the 7th Armored Division of the British Army and General Hobert!" ”

- Hobert, a pioneer of British tank warfare, the first commander of the world's first tank brigade. Even the commander of the armored corps of the Han Royal Guards proposed tank group operations, as well as air-ground coordinated operations between tanks and aircraft.

Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, the "father of blitzkrieg" in Germany, once bluntly said, "If Marshal Jiang Yunzhi is my good friend, then the Englishman Hobart is my good teacher." Hobert's experience provided a ready-made template for the formation of German mechanized troops, and the successful experience of the Dahan Guards armored unit strengthened our determination to develop mechanized troops. ”

However, when Hobert's single-handedly created "Desert Rat" dragged hundreds of thousands of Allied troops, including the Yanzhou Army of the 13th Han Army, on the Tunisian plain with flexible armored tactics, Hobert was forced to retire and became a warehouse security guard for some undisclosed reason.

A week later, the 27th Army Division of the 9th Guards Airborne Army in Sicily was transferred to Sfax, and 300 WZ-40s launched a treetop offensive, even carrying long-crowned Penguin light air-to-surface missiles in large quantities to deal with the British 7th Panzer Division.

The fate of the total annihilation of the British blocking forces was inevitable. However, the 7th Panzer Division won the respect of the armies of various countries with its tenacity and excellent performance.

Just as the Turkish army broke through the Cumbrian Division's defenses, the last Churchill-3 infantry tank of the 7th Panzer Division caught fire under the blows of the long-crowned penguin missile, the storekeeper Paresi Hobart was summoned by King George VI.

Subsequently, on the recommendation of the British king, Hobert returned to the military and became the commander of the 11th Armored Division of the British Army stationed on the mainland, becoming the "oldest major general" in the British army.

And these are of no meaning to General Sun Liren, who has already led the Chinese Revolutionary Army to defend in Gabes for a week. He only knew that with the arrival of the second transport fleet yesterday, he had already survived the most difficult moment.

In the past week, the 1st Army of the Expeditionary Force, which had landed in the early stage, had firmly held the city of Gabes firmly in the hands of the Allies at the cost of more than half of the casualties without danger to defend.

With the landing of the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force, the position that seemed to be about to collapse at any moment was re-strengthened, and a group of soldiers of the First Army called Hanako were finally able to retreat to the city to rest and recuperate with their comrades who were not in the line of fire with minor injuries.

Sun Liren gave up the mosque where the headquarters was located to house the wounded!

The generals of the country/army, who have also been sleepless for many days, and even their eye sockets have clearly protruded, are very proud of their soldiers. Although there was the support of the air force, and although the troops did not have to worry about ammunition as they did when they were at home, the officers and men of the First Army were stunned to prevent the British from advancing an inch in the face of the British 6th Army, which was frantically attacking for their lives, and the British Commonwealth Army from Tripoli. The battle lines on both sides remain where they were at the beginning of the war.

No one would have thought that Sfax's allies would be held back for a week, Sun Liren did not expect it, and the commander-in-chief Jiang Yunzhi did not expect it either. When it was discovered that the situation was not good, and the second batch of troops and air force support for the landing of Gabès were hurriedly arranged, it was the fourth day that the "Sandwich Leaves" had fought alone, and the city of Gabès was already in danger.

In the two days that followed, after waiting for reinforcements, of course, after the air force entered the operation, Sun Liren actually put all the reserve forces on hand into the front line, and pushed the battle line back to the state before the war despite huge casualties.

"Your dreams come true by yourself, and you can't let your brother troops pay you back, right?"

"Now, let's go down and rest in peace, right?"

These words of Admiral Sun were greatly recognized by the soldiers of the First Army Corps. "They are all soldiers, since they are on the front line, since they have accepted the orders of the command, then don't mention any difficulties!"

"You can die, you can be wounded, but the mission must be completed!"

When these battlefield quotations were transmitted back to Cairo, the black-faced marshal was finally moved and ordered his staff officers to make these words and the touching deeds of the First Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army Expedition into a pamphlet and circulate it throughout the army.

At the end of the open-ground duel between the 27th Guards Army Division and the British 7th Panzer Division, the Turkish Army was the first to break through the Welsh Division's line and marched for ten hours to reach the small town of Ghibilee only 30 kilometers away from Gabès, cutting off the last door for the British 6th Army to continue its escape.

Five days later, O'Connor received a telegram from London, allowing him to surrender in order to save the lives of the British and other Commonwealth soldiers.

General Mu Xingchen, commander of the Yanzhou Army, took the initiative to give Sun Liren the opportunity to accept the surrender of the British army. In the first battle of Sfax, the Yanzhou Army was ineffective, putting the Chinese Expeditionary Force in a trap and forced to fight hard for more than a week, and the number of casualties of the First Expeditionary Force reached more than 20,000, and the number of wounded was doubled.

Such a hard battle is extremely rare in the combat history of the Han army. As the Han Emperor said after reading the battle report: "Very few modern armies can still persist in fighting even when more than half of the casualties are lost, which can no longer be described as brave and brave!" Proud of my big man, the Chinese Expeditionary Force! ”

The chairman of the CPPCC National Committee in Taichung was preparing for a big war and most of the eyes were focused on North Africa, so he took the opportunity to launch a landing battle to seize Madagascar.

For this landing operation, which was named "Dynasty", the Han Emperor even used the newly added aircraft carrier "Soyuz" in the Kingdom of Judah and the Japanese Yamato Fleet to assist the Navy.

Taiwan's military forces are almost mobilized, leaving the Pacific Ocean to rebuild their homes in the Indian Ocean, much to the heartbeat of many Republican officials who felt that there was little hope left after retreating to the island. In their view, the re-establishment of a Chinese state and the avoidance of military confrontation with the mainland are undoubtedly the best way out for their group.

The chairman of the committee was also very busy, but even more worried, Dai Li came up with a list of some restless people after the defeat and withdrawal from Taiwan. How to deal with these people who harbor evil intentions in times of tribulation is really difficult for the scheming chairman.

Sun Liren's victory in Africa was like a booster that restored the chairman's confidence.

In front of Dai Li, in his stunned expression, he slowly lit the list with a lighter, "Yu Nong, after the defeat, I reflected a lot! One of them, 'The right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life', and we have lost the hearts and minds of the people. In the future, we must also learn from the Han Emperor and use more yang strategies. ”