While Rommel and Patton's troops were entangled, in the rear of the German front, a group of Italian soldiers were using various machinery and other individual equipment to try to level a field airfield, and the construction scene was in full swing, proving that the scale of this huge construction site was quite huge.

The Italian soldiers did not seem to be very suitable for fighting on the front line, they were weak when they attacked, and when they defended, they were as uneasy as a leaky house, but once they were not allowed to go to war, then these soldiers were full of energy, and the construction was also exquisite and of excellent quality.

So after Rommel drew up this battle plan, he ordered the Italian soldiers of the two armies to secretly build a large number of front-line airfields, and no one knew what these front-line airfields were doing.

"The Germans are just willing to toss, they have to build fortifications, dig trenches, and then scout the terrain everywhere to gather intelligence, as if they can't stop. An Italian soldier used a shovel to level the sand around the runway while complaining to his comrades: "I was grateful that they had brought us here so that we didn't have to fight on the front line, but we got this job, and we were half tired and half dead all day long." ”

His companion replied, "Well, we're lucky, I've heard that the Blackshirts have suffered thousands of casualties. It's a very good job that we can build an airport in such a safe place. If the front-line troops are really insufficient and put us on top, then it will be miserable. ”

No one knows what these temporary front-line airfields of the Germans were used for, these airfields were not pre-set up for air defense, there was no cover, and the most pitiful thing was that there were very few ground crews for repairs, except for some fuel and supply vehicles.

These places may simply be false targets for the adversary air force, or they may be temporary runways for the forced landing of faulty aircraft returning home. As for why so many field airfield runways were built, this is not something that ordinary Italian soldiers can know, anyway, they just build, endless construction.

"You don't see the German cans that the Black Shirts have replenished, that's the real food. "When I complained, I felt that I was being treated unequally. This Italian soldier had seen the supply of the Black Shirts, which was about the same level as the German regular army, which naturally made these second-line Italian soldiers envious.

Originally, the Italian army's food supplies were good, but Rommel did not intend to distribute the supplies provided by his long supply line equally. He ordered the front-line troops to receive 100 percent or more of their supplies, while the second-line troops maintained their supplies at the level of 70 or even 50 percent.

As a result, many of Italy's second-line troops received very poor supplies, and in many places the garrisons even had only two meals a day, while the Black Shirts and the German army's own troops that followed the German army had canned food and fried noodles every day, and sometimes even beef and chocolate candy.

"Is that food eaten casually? If you eat it, you are going to the battlefield, and the British are easy to provoke? That is, the Germans are even more powerful, and if it were us, at this time, the Tunisi would have been lost a long time ago. An Italian veteran sighed and said, "You're new here, you haven't heard of that......"

"What is it?" Apparently a few young Italian soldiers who had just arrived in Africa had not experienced the defeat of Italian troops at the hands of the British, so they were very curious about this kind of thing.

"Alas, when the Germans did not come, our generals did not listen to all of them, and were bent on provoking the British, and as a result we were defeated. I was in the rearguard at the time, and was not surrounded and captured, but I heard that the British report at that time said so when they mentioned the capture of Italian troops. The old Italian soldier sold a pass, and then waited until everyone's curiosity reached its peak before he continued: "The British said: 'We have captured 5 acres of Italian officers and 200 acres of Italian soldiers'......"

"......" now everyone knows why they were stuffed into the German engineering corps to build such front-line field airfields. With the good foundation laid by such a group of seniors, it is estimated that they need more than courage to go to the front.

"We have captured about 5 acres of officers and 200 acres of Anglo-American soldiers!" While a group of Italians lamented the humiliation of their predecessors, a German officer was proudly reporting to Rommel on the results of the German army.

Everyone felt that Patton had not committed to his reserves because of a covert counterattack plan, and there was a smack of intrigue throughout the engagement. The Germans ultimately decided to ignore the traps that Patton might have set and rammed into the heart of Patton's army with their superior armored forces.

Eventually, the Germans found the largest tank force they could organize, including 40 Tiger tanks and 110 Leopard tanks, formed an offensive detachment, and stormed the core positions of Patton's Army, where they destroyed about 40 of America's newest M4 Sherman tanks, and then the entire Patton Army completely collapsed.

The main forces of Patton's Army, which had always been feared and wary, did not appear on the battlefield, and without even a decent counterattack, the entire army group was routed by the Germans. The battlefield turned into a one-sided chase, and many American soldiers were very different from their previous appearances, and they surrendered with a quick gesture, in contrast to the stubborn style of the previous resistance.

Because a terrible rumor spread among them, this rumor was that "Alexandria has changed hands, and the British 9th Army on the flank has collapsed." A large number of German soldiers appeared in the rear of the entire army, and the 8th Army was already surrounded by German troops. Even this rumor was directly corroborated by the fact that the command of the 8th Army had begun to retreat, and every single one of them was defeated.

Sitting in his armored command car, Patton looked tired and depressed, and even his favorite cigar was not in his mouth at this moment. By his side was the 8th Armored Division, the main force that had retreated, which was the "coffin book" in Patton's hand, and all the valuable family money he could now take away.

As for why he left the front-line troops behind and chose to flee in a way that bordered on humiliation. In fact, it has to start a few hours ago, because a few hours ago, Patton's supply line deployed in the area south of Cairo to Alexandria was suddenly cut off, and his rearguard troops were ordered to counterattack, and the information transmitted back shocked everyone.

Intelligence showed that the Germans were on the supply lines and in the rear, and that the number of troops was very large, and as for where this desperate German force came from, Patton really had no clue. All he could do was lead all the American forces he could find, break east, recapture the supply lines, and retreat back to Cairo.

A battle which Patton and Montgomery had painstakingly organized, in a state of sharp deterioration, suddenly collapsed and came to an end, and the Germans had won a complete victory from the stalemate, and soon they would encircle Alexandria from the flanks, or rather they had already encircled Alexandria in a situation.

After that, Rommel's army will drink the Manile River, and the defenders of Cairo will not be able to withstand the devastating footsteps of the German army, and whether they can finally hold the Suez Canal will only depend on the small number of troops that Patton has taken away.

"Bastards, where did these damn Germans come from? Did the British reply? Haven't you heard any news yet?" Patton asked his combat staff officer with a pale face in the shaking armored car.

He had to abandon most of his troops and lead the elite all the way to rout, which was an absolute shame for him, his carefully prepared counterattack plan could not be implemented, and his idea of depleting the German army and dragging the war into a stalemate was smashed by his opponents before it even began.

"There are eyewitnesses who claim to have seen a large number of German planes flying westward, some say they were bombers from Turkey, some say they were bombers from Crete, but no one saw these planes dropping bombs, so it is not yet possible to confirm what happened. The combat staff officer put down the walkie-talkie in his hand and replied to his commander.

"Airplanes, it's airborne troops!" Patton's eyes suddenly lit up, he knew that if he could, it was still possible for him to make a profit and run away in this situation. If the German units behind them were really paratroopers, then they had no way to fight the torrent of their own armor.

"It's the airborne troops! The German airborne troops on Crete! They didn't withdraw to the German mainland, they were in Crete, waiting for this surprise attack! They were the fastest reinforcements, and they were the German troops that could reinforce Rommel as quickly as possible!" In Alexandria, Montgomery banged the table and shouted loudly to his panicked men: "Draw troops from Alexandria and counterattack immediately! Is there any news from General Patton's side? Go and contact me! Quick!"

"General! General Patton's side must be retreating, after all, they don't see the huge fleet of German troops like we do. A staff officer, whose face was as sad as the death of his own mother, saw with his own eyes at least 500 German planes flying over the positions of both sides, and because of the delay in air defense contact, only a dozen German planes were shot down by the time the British anti-aircraft artillery fire was fired. After all, no one expected the Germans to appear from behind them, so when they reacted, part of the anti-aircraft artillery positions had already been bypassed by the Germans.

The war has been 70 years away, but the blood and pain are still worth pondering, forgetting history is betrayal, and self-improvement can stand among the nations of the world!