81_81266Those who are familiar with Rommel also know that he has a famous saying, which can be said to directly express his personality to the extreme. The famous saying goes, "Deceive your opponent whenever you have the chance."

Now that he has one of the best deception trump cards in his hand, he naturally thinks of deceiving his opponent. He was released from the shackles of restricting offense by the Führer, and inadvertently let the opponent confirm that he "will not attack in the short term", plus he himself prefers offense rather than defense, and if he does not take the initiative to attack a wave at this time, it seems that it is too inconsistent with his character.

In sports competitions, the players who really win the world championship have their own passionate side, and the generals on the battlefield often have their own will and tendencies. And a passionate general like Rommel is undoubtedly a hero created by the times.

After the classic intelligence trick that had already been carried out, Rommel once again played his old tricks, ordering his troops to raise sand and dust to cover their positions, and to set up false targets in the dust with wood, bushes and tents, so as to deceive the British reconnaissance planes that were coming at the risk of death.

His efforts soon paid off, as Montgomery was confirmed that the main German armoured forces were still deployed on the front, rather than being withdrawn for new offensive operations.

The second deception was to conceal the true direction of his attack, and he made a bold decision to present his elaborate plan of action to General Frederick: "This time, I have decided to attack according to this plan, how can you see it?"

General Frederick took the plan in Rommel's hand and looked at it, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he put down the text in his hand, raised his head and looked at the general who was a few years younger than him: "General, you want to use the same means to attack on the southern flank of the enemy army by the same means as you did during the Battle of Thornys?"

"Yes, General Frederick, they would never have imagined that I would fight such a repetition of the same tactics, which would increase the suddenness and catch the other side even more off guard. Rommel was confident in his plan, and he was very keen to crush the Anglo-American coalition and achieve his second victory in North Africa.

This is the Desert Fox, a cunning tactician who emphasizes the use of firepower to suppress the opponent as quickly as possible to win. He likes to embroider in the vast desert with his large army, weaving and interspersing in a limited space, leaving all opponents exhausted and powerless to resist his terrible attacks.

This time, Rommel was able to mobilize more tank troops, and if the battle was successful, he would have achieved even greater results, and if he did not manage to defeat the British and American forces in one fell swoop, Tobruk would become a front-line fortress exposed to German firepower.

In another operational headquarters, General Patton was also putting his attack plan on Montgomery's desk. He always smoked his cigar after cigarette, giving people a proud expression that was uncomfortable at first glance. However, this general from the United States of America is indeed a formidable commander, and his combat deployment is wide open and close, and there is a strong flavor contained in it.

If Rommel is following the path of the Loose School, then this Barton can be regarded as the authentic Vajra Demon Exercise of the Shaolin Temple. Montgomery praised the attack plan he came up with this time, and it was a very exciting attack plan.

This plan was born out of Rommel's command of the Battle of the Outer Fortress of Nius, in which Patton reversed Rommel's roundabout offensive and followed almost a detour to cut into the flank of the German and Italian coalition forces and disrupt the German army's operational disposition.

Judging by the intelligence, their tanks had some numerical superiority, and as long as the flank attack was successful, they could make up for the lack of quality of their armor force in a certain distance, and completely defeat the Afrika Korps west of Tobruk. As long as they win this war, India and Southeast Asia, which are about to move, will once again have to succumb to the obscenity of the British Empire, and Britain will really get a respite.

"General Patton, in a detour, I will hand it over to the main force of the 8th Army, which is highly motivated, and you will personally command it, and this time we will give Rommel a real dismount, so that he can see that the war is not how he wants to fight!" Montgomery put down the battle plan that Patton had given him, and said to Patton.

"I will immediately lead my troops south! At dawn on April 22, I will launch a flank attack on time, and ask General Montgomery to cooperate with the American forces at that time!" Patton stood up, walked out of Montgomery's office without looking back, walked outside the tent, got into a jeep with a roaring engine, and drove off into the distance.

In the afternoon of the same day, the British 8th Army began to move its main forces southward, and under the desperate cover of the British Air Force, it hid the eyes of the German reconnaissance planes and embarked on a detour of the German flank.

One by one, the tanks drove out of the concealed camouflage garage, and the new M4 Sherman tanks converged into a torrent of steel and rolled forward with one truck after another full of infantry.

The white five-pointed star is very eye-catching on the front hatch of the car's engine, and some of the edges and corners have been slightly stripped by the wind and sand, making these cold warplanes even more vicissitudes. Patton stood in his car, watched the tank drive past his eyes with the barrel held high, and put the cigar in his mouth in satisfaction.

This time, that Rommel didn't want to escape! I will surely be able to capture him alive as my Patton's honor! General Patton, who squinted his eyes as he watched his troops stretch forward, thought to himself.

On the truck, American GIs held their M1 Garand rifles, chewing gum and humming various hometown tunes, while the trucks on one side were piled with boxes of artillery shells, and these trucks dragged large-caliber 155mm howitzers, and went straight to the battlefield that had been determined in the distance.

They would be ordered to attack the German positions from the flanks, cut into the German lines, destroy the German fortifications, defeat the Germans, and get the commission that had been promised to them - after all, they did not enter the war as American* troops, they were mercenaries, so-called volunteers.

"Let those Germans see how good we Americans are!" an American soldier sat on a tank with its engine trembling and roaring, holding his rifle and shouting, "If I see Accardo, I must let him lick my ass!

At the same moment, Rommel, the German North Africa Headquarters, also happened to be standing in his convertible car, and with a smile handed over the command of the frontal defensive position to General Frederick: "General, I will start the general offensive at dawn on April 22 and completely annihilate the British 8th and 9th armies in front of me. My frontal line of defense is in your command!"

"I wish you a victorious start, General. I will hold the defensive position as best I can until the last second!Long live the Führer!" General Frederick raised his right hand and gave Rommel a German salute in the car.

With an order, a German Leopard tank hidden in the pergola rushed out of its own covert offensive, the commander showed half of his body to salute General Rommel not far away, and soon the second tank also drove out, and the pitch-black iron cross on the tank turret made people shudder.

Several armored vehicles set off at the same time, following the sides of these tanks, the German grenadiers on the armored vehicles had the same cold eyes, they held their long guns and short guns, swaying slightly with the shaking of the armored vehicles, these people had a look of determination written on their faces, they were the most elite and proud Panzergrenadiers of the German army.

Tanks and armoured vehicles looked very small in the yellow sand, and soon more tanks, trucks, and rocket launchers joined the team, and the German battle flag was hung by soldiers on the roofs of cars and tanks, as dozens of fighters who were responsible for covering them whizzed through the sky, flying into the distance to the cheers of the soldiers.

Tank No. 3 also kept up with the pace of the Leopard tank, and Rommel not only had advanced big guys such as the Leopard and Tiger tanks, but also many anti-tank guns modified from the No. 3 tank and even the No. 2 tank, and these armored vehicles constituted a huge tank attack cluster in Rommel's hands, raising a cloud of dust and rushing towards their destination.

In a striking coincidence on the battlefield, the generals on both sides drew up an almost identical battle plan, and then implemented it almost simultaneously. Rommel was now making a detour south with his armoured forces to the Allied lines, while at the same time, Patton was also leading American and British armoured divisions to take out Rommel in one fell swoop.

Soon, the two combat units responsible for the roundabout will collide, and this sudden encounter will become a test of the soldiers of the two armies and the commanders of the two armies, who will win this encounter will be able to shake the opponent's defense line and win the initiative in the North African theater.

At this time, neither Rommel nor Patton expected that they would take the lead in opening the prelude to the decisive battle of the Marine Tank Force, and the first tank battle with a scale of nearly 1,000 vehicles in human history officially began.

Rommel sat in his convertible and Patton sat in the back of his jeep, and both of them thought of the phrase at the same time: "The North African battlefield!