Patton, after receiving news that the German army in the middle road had halted its advance, decided that his opportunity had come.

At his urging, two American panzer divisions launched a counterattack against the German troops before dusk, and the iron cavalry of the two sides once again scuffled together in the Algerian desert.

After a day's attack, the White Scar Division had lost nearly half of its tanks, and in the face of the overwhelming numerical superiority of the US armored forces, it could only rely on the improvised anti-tank artillery positions to contend with the US troops.

Fortunately, night fell quickly, and although the moon was very bright at night in Algeria, the chariots of both sides did not have the ability to fight at night, so the exchange of fire ended after the sun went down.

However, Patton did not want to give the Germans time to breathe, so while the American armored forces retreated and regrouped, the American infantry launched a night attack on the Germans. The infantry on both sides again sparred in the open terrain. The "high grounds" held by the Germans were actually a few small dirt bags, and the "waist ridge" that the Germans regarded as the core of defense was just a bulging long strip, and the same terrain that could drive the chariots up, so the U.S. chariots did launch an assault on these places during the day, leaving a lot of wreckage. The U.S. infantry attacking at night used the wreckage as cover and exchanged fire with the defending German infantry.

In another time and space, the U.S. military does not like to fight at night, and it always acts as the side that is being fought at night. This was mainly because the American troops in another time and space found that his firepower was more ferocious than every opponent they encountered, so the night battle made him stand on the same running line as his opponent - the poor vision at night was too unfavorable to give full play to the firepower advantage. In contrast, in broad daylight, the U.S. military can teach anyone who dares to challenge the U.S. military with firepower.

The German army has been governed in this way, not to mention how fierce the MG series of the German army is, although the US army does not have the same ferocious machine guns, but everyone has a semi-automatic M1 Garand rifle, and each infantry squad also has a BAR automatic rifle, and the non-commissioned officer also carries Thomson. In addition to individual weapons, the number of machine guns in the US army is not less than that of the German army, and the deterrent power of the M2 heavy machine gun to the troops is not weaker than that of the German MG.

In addition, the artillery of the US army is probably comparable to that of the Soviet army, the Soviet artillery is strong in the number of calibers, and at every turn, several artillery divisions are concentrated together to bombard, and the artillery of the US army is strong in logistics and shooting command, the US army always has sufficient shells, and the so-called simultaneous firing is only played by the US army during World War II.

In short, during World War II, the fierce firepower of the U.S. military basically relied on its own firepower to do things during the day, and rarely took the initiative to conduct night operations. Among his opponents, the Germans were okay, and the firepower disadvantage was not so great, so they often faced each other during the day, while the Japanese troops in the Pacific could basically only attack at night, and they couldn't beat them during the day.

Later, in order to deal with the night attack of the Japanese army, the US army invented a night combat method called firepower time, which was very simple and rude, that is, the firing area of light and heavy machine guns and artillery at all levels was allocated during the day, and at night when there was any movement, all the firepower was fired according to the number set during the day, regardless of whether there was anyone there, so as to form a dense composite fire area and annihilate one enemy in the area. Thus, the problem of vision in night battles was solved - since the enemy could be annihilated without seeing it, the night was naturally useless.

This is the U.S. military in another time and space, and now, the U.S. military is also forced to fight a night war.

During the day, the German firepower was quite fierce, with light and heavy machine guns, mortars, machine guns, and other gadgets, and the infantry also had automatic rifles and good marksmanship. Moreover, the white-scarred armored hunters all used reflective red dot aiming, and the shooting accuracy at medium and close range was quite terrifying, and the infantry of the American army had learned it during the day.

You know, the accuracy of shooting sometimes has a considerable impact on the battle, in the First World War, the German assault group, which was originally like no man's land, was about to outflank the west of Paris, to complete the super-large-scale outflanking operation in Schlieffen's plan, but at this time, the westernmost German army group forward encountered the British elite rifle shooter unit, when the war had just begun, there was no such terrible trench fortifications, and the British shooters lined up at the edge of the woods, and the German infantry was beaten to the back.

Decades later, the British repeated their old tricks in the Korean War, and the Royal Shuanghui Battalion relied on accurate shooting to resist the repeated attacks of the Volunteers when they were surrounded, and although they finally surrendered, they inflicted heavy casualties on the Volunteers.

In short, the elite of the elite infantry is nothing more than these aspects: he is good at finding cover to hide himself, so it is difficult to be eliminated, and at the same time, he has accurate shooting skills and can destroy the enemy more quickly.

At this time, the American army was facing such an opponent, and soon the American soldiers found that even in the night melee, the Germans still had the upper hand. Some experienced non-commissioned officers were keenly aware that some new type of individual equipment used by the Germans might be an important reason for the failure of the guide's night battle: it appeared to be some kind of optical device, worn on the eyes, and the two lenses emitted a faint red light at night.

The faint red light made the German troops look like a demonic queue at night, which made people shudder.

However, Patton did not mind the heavy casualties of his troops, his intention was obvious, it was to exhaust the Germans with non-stop infantry attacks, and his armored troops were constantly arriving, and tomorrow Foxiao would be able to launch a massive counterattack.

Patton, of course, knew that the Germans were also arriving, but he believed that he still had an absolute advantage in terms of strength, and that the German artillery must have been placed in a relatively backward position and could not arrive quickly, so he also had an overwhelming advantage in artillery firepower - and this was also true.

Guderian carefully reviewed the photographs taken by the aerial reconnaissance, and believed that the American army did not build a fortified area that needed heavy artillery to solve, and that it was enough to rely on tank artillery to deal with it, so he put the artillery in the back when arranging the attack sequence, so as to make full use of the only road to transport troops and supplies.

At this time, there were no major mistakes in the judgment of the war situation on both sides, and the approach adopted was correct, and the current US military was not much worse than the German army in terms of communication and intelligence transmission, after all, the US army and the German army of Lin had been at war for some years, and they had been working hard to learn the strong places of the German army, and relying on their strong industrial and scientific and technological strength, the US military students learned very quickly.

Now the US military's specially formed commando team has realized all automatic weapons, but the development of the US army's automatic rifle is a little unsmooth, plus the front-line troops are basically semi-automatic, as long as it is not close to the German army, the disadvantage in individual firepower is actually not big, after all, medium and long-range automatic rifles also have to fire or three short shots, and the difference between the US army's M1 Garand rifle and the carbine with the same number M1 is mainly in the magazine capacity.

Therefore, in terms of individual weapons, the U.S. military did not have automatic rifles as the Germans, but increased the number of BAR and Thomson, and formed a commando team specially used for close combat. More than half of the U.S. military still uses semi-automatic weapons.

Even so, the Germans clearly felt that the American troops on the opposite side should not be underestimated - this was already a consensus among the soldiers of the African Army, and after this offensive operation, the troops on the Eastern Front, who had probably just been transferred, had to admit this.

In the midst of the battle all night, the hour of dawn gradually came.

Artillery clusters of the American army began to bombard.

The ferocious artillery fire fell on the heads of the Germans like a storm, although the Germans on the Eastern Front had felt the artillery fire of the Russian army, but the Russian army would not play "simultaneous bombing", but simply piled up the number of artillery units. The U.S. military is different, not only is the number not inferior to the Russian army in this time and space, but they will also use guò strict firing command to make the shells fired by artillery deployed in different places fall on the enemy's head at the same time.

The German army can also play this hand, but that is because the German army has good communications, and the US army plays this set purely by the level of artillery shooting command officers. If Lin Youde does not cross, the US military will be the country with the best artillery training system in World War II.

Patton concentrated all the mobile artillery fire in his hands and bombarded indiscriminately.

The Germans were bombed to the bitter end, unlike Bastone, which had mountains and woods and could dig anticline fortifications. Now the place where the Germans are defending is the Great Flatland, and there is no time to dig any too complicated fortifications, and most of the fortifications are improvized.

The casualties inflicted on the Germans by this cannon could have been greater than the casualties inflicted in a night battle.

The shelling lasted for three hours, and anyway, the logistics of the United States were good, and there were enough shells, so they could bomb as much as they wanted. At the beginning of the bombardment, the sky was only a little white - or to use a literary word called glazed color, and by the time the bombardment was nearing its end, the sun had climbed up four or five places.

Immediately after that, the armored units of the American army appeared, and Patton put a wide impact front on the north and south sides, and the first row of combat vehicles on the north and south roads combined exceeded 100.

At this time, the White Scar Division and the 17th Armored Division, which arrived last night, had just been blown up, and they were disgraced, and the anti-tank artillery was basically reimbursed, and not many of the combat vehicles that entered the position were blown up, but the armored soldiers who got off the car to replenish fuel and overhaul the vehicles suffered heavy losses, and those who were close to the tank were fine, and it was still guaranteed to drill directly under the vehicle to save their lives, and those who were far away from the tank were unlucky.

And when the cannon comes, there are not many people who can have enough courage to run to the chariot, most people will choose to hide nearby, generally speaking, this decision cannot be wrong, but now the battlefield does not even have a tree, it is all open flat land, and you can only lie on the ground and pick up your head when you hide on the spot.

Now, before the German soldiers could slow down, the American tank shock came.

There was a command on the German position, and all the surviving tanks of the members were mobilized to take the lead in meeting the American troops. At the same time, the officers of the company platoon were busy adjusting the staffing and piecing together the lost crews into a complete crew.

Approximately fifteen minutes after the end of the shelling, the armoured units of both sides exchanged fire again.