At the same time that Wu Xiaolong and others successfully garrisoned the Suez Canal, Hu Rentian had already taken his tank team and retreated away after pretending to attack Rommel's flank and being targeted by the enemy, and ran away without a trace.

Chauhan immediately contacted General Rommel and reported the situation here, but the latter's order was to ignore him and let Johan lead people to the south to make a sneak attack on the British supply line.

Rommel's tank corps galloped back and forth in the barren and open desert, and when he was not superior in the number of tanks, he combined with the air force and motorcycle mobile units, and the British army could not be taken care of, and there was always an illusion that he was being beaten by the nose.

As long as Rommel got rid of the distractions and went all out, the British side became extremely difficult to handle.

"What the hell are those Dragon Chamber of Commerce people doing? Didn't you say that you should take advantage of the emptiness of the opponent's flank to flank us in front and back? Why haven't you seen them for a long time? ”

"Sir, I just got the news that the German flank was indeed attacked, but after the enemy counterattacked, the private army retreated, and their number of tanks was still too small to play a decisive role in the overall battlefield."

O'Connor heard the report of his subordinates and didn't fight anywhere, this plan was proposed by Hu Rentian, and they had previously said that they would ambush the Germans, and they also borrowed nearly a thousand anti-aircraft guns, although the Germans did not have many planes in the North African battlefield, but they couldn't afford to borrow all the anti-aircraft guns on their side.

As if to confirm General O'Connor's fears, he soon heard the roar of planes in the air.

Rommel, on the basis of the mobile warfare created by his predecessor Guderian, has extended down a lot of mobile and flexible tactics.

At this time, the planes reconnoitred, bomb harassment, maneuvering and detouring, and lightning attacks, all of which were displayed one by one, made the British army tired and in a hurry.

"Gather all our tanks in one place, and I'm going to force Rommel to fight us! Inform the other Austro-New Legions, Indian Legions, and Egyptian armies to join the decisive battle! ”

General O'Connor decided to use his advantage to force the enemy to fight him, and no longer be led by Rommel around the desert.

He was ready to attack directly on the western front, and if Rommel did not fight him head-on, then he would directly pull out the Italian foothold in North Africa, so that the Germans would not sit idly by and let their allies be driven out of the battlefield.

As the so-called persimmon should be picked up and pinched, the Italian army is undoubtedly the soft persimmon.

Planes roared over in the sky, dropping string after string of bombs.

The fully automatic motorcycle unit was fast and maneuverable, and from time to time sneak attacks around the rear caused O'Connor a headache.

On the front, the tank corps commanded by Rommel opened and closed widely, showing great strength at both offensive and defensive ends.

The British commander O'Connor withstood the pressure and focused on attacking westward, wanting to take the Italian garrison in North Africa first, cutting off Rommel's logistical supplies.

"General, the British army seems to want a general attack, and the attitude of westward expansion is very resolute, even if we sneak attack their rear, it seems that they are really in a hurry."

Rommel heard the report of his subordinates and smiled slightly: "It's good to be in a hurry, I'm afraid that he is not in a hurry, people are most likely to make mistakes when they are in a hurry, as long as he dares to make mistakes in front of me, he must be ready to be attacked and continue to investigate!" ”

"Yes!"

On the battlefield in North Africa, the yellow sand obscured the sky and the sun, the sound of artillery fire was endless, and the means of fighting were exhausted, and the battle situation became more and more intense.

If someone can get a bird's-eye view of the battlefield from above at this time, they will find the subtlety of the two commanders' arrangement.

Tanks, armored vehicles, and motorcycles, like neatly arranged ants, twist and turn, encircle and send reinforcements, constantly changing formations.

However, in terms of on-the-spot command and superiority of equipment, the German side was still slightly superior, in order to bluff, Rommel disguised many Ford cars on the battlefield as tanks, and also used trucks to deliberately raise dust in the sky to cover up the truth about the lack of tanks, this method made him repeatedly tried in the North African battlefield.

At the same time that O'Connor was attacking westward like a madman, Rommel ordered the Afrika Army, with the 5th Panzer Regiment as the main force, to launch a successful surprise attack on the British forces in Brega.

In the afternoon of the same day, with the support of the Luftwaffe "Stuka" dive bombers, the Germans completely crushed the resistance of the British troops in Brega and occupied Brega.

The British completely lost their fighting spirit, and the commander of the 2nd Panzer Division ordered a retreat, and this retreat turned into a rout on all fronts, so that O'Connor lost the military towns seized from the Italians one by one to the Germans.

Not only that, Rommel also often commanded the battle in the sky in his Stooch light plane, this new type of command allowed him to see the subtle changes on the battlefield and grasp the opponent's negligence in time.

Compared with Rommel's accurate intelligence and bold command, the British army was loosely arranged, the intelligence was lagging behind, and the battlefield command was slightly indecisive.

Not only that, but the Germans continued to mobilize tanks with stronger firepower, which made the British tanks in service unable to reach in terms of fire suppression alone.

"General, the Second Panzer Division has withdrawn from the battlefield, the German firepower is too fierce, we can no longer blindly attack to the west like this, if we insist on this, even if we hit the headquarters of the Italian army, there will not be much strength left!"

"Hell! How did this battle come to this? ”

O'Connor slammed his fist into the compartment of the armored car and began to reflect on what he had done wrong from the beginning of this war until now.

When he recalls the whole thing, he realizes that the battle has been on the wrong path from the beginning.

He was too gullible to trust the dragon merchants who saved his life, and he shouldn't have lent them anti-aircraft guns, and more importantly, he underestimated Rommel and the cunning desert fox.

"Order all troops to retreat, protect our fragile flanks, and go back to Egypt, we still have fortifications to garrison, as long as Egypt is firmly held, sooner or later the Germans will be driven out of the North African battlefield by us......

"It's the general!"

O'Connor, who finally relented from the precipice, led his troops, and after throwing down nearly 100 tanks and thousands of soldiers, they broke away from the main battlefield and began to retreat in the direction of Egypt.

Rommel saw this scene in a light plane, and took advantage of the opportunity of the British army's full retreat to chase after him, so that the British army hastily abandoned a large amount of gasoline and supplies, greatly reducing the logistical burden of the German army.

The British army, which was invisibly overshadowed by the Hu people, with the poorly trained Australian 9th Division, finally escaped from the Germans along the coastline road, and they temporarily retreated to Tobruk, and the situation was precarious.

As for the Germans, under Rommel's bold and decisive command, they marched four hundred and fifty miles east from El Agra to Tobruk in just twelve days, a result that surprised Berlin, Rome, and even London.

However, Rommel's whirlwind continued, and his army managed to conquer Badia, shelling Tobruk's defenders and ships entering the harbor.

A day later, the first city on the Egyptian border, Salom, fell, and another day later, the Capuso Fort fell, leaving only Tobruk alone there, and in these days of fighting, the German-Italian army suffered only 1,300 casualties, morale was high, and Rommel's prestige in the army was at its peak.

In contrast, the British army originally wanted to rely on land and sea to transport some supplies and support, but found that the major ports of the Suez Canal had been taken over by the Dragon Chamber of Commerce, which made General O'Connor furious, and vowed to command the army to pacify these damned merchants.

But to his despair, the merchants pointed a thousand anti-aircraft guns borrowed from him at him, and even they quietly drove several warships and thousands of soldiers from the sea.

The black hole of the fortress cannon was pointed at his army from afar, and O'Connor could even imagine what kind of damage a fortress cannon of that caliber would do to his soldiers if it were fired.

"Pick me up London...... I want to talk to the Prime Minister! ”