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Starting from the direction of Tobruk, the liberated Italian captives were waiting on both sides of the road, hoping for help from friendly forces.

Behind them, the routing British skirmishers were fighting for their lives to attack Rommel's infantry detachment.

Rommel's infantry detachment was preparing to attack the British army near Baildi at this time, and had already launched a surprise attack in some areas.

The British troops near Baildi were busy retreating, fearing that they would be surrounded and flanked near Baierdi.

The Italian troops, who had been surrounded by Baierdi, were stunned to find that someone outside the city had fought with the British, and the scene was chaotic......

Next to this giant giant burger, as a packet of ketchup, the German Panzers are preparing to join the chaos of the melee.

In the midst of such layers of chaos, the two sides no longer know whether they are surrounded or the enemy is surrounded by themselves.

"The order to attack cannot be canceled!" Rommel put down the binoculars in his hand and instructed the officers beside him.

He observed with his own eyes the British troops attacking him behind him, and he found that these British soldiers were not heavily armed and the attacking organization was not very sophisticated.

In such a situation, it is clear that these British soldiers behind them pose a relatively small threat to Rommel's place.

So he didn't have to waste his precious time for these non-lethal threats behind him.

"Let my guard unit and the two existing companies stand up to the enemy's attack here!" He pointed to the place where fire was being fired in the distance and added.

These forces added up to almost a battalion in strength, and as a defensive side against the scattered British retreating forces, it was almost sufficient.

The rest of the troops, Rommel intended to devote themselves to attacking Bairdi, where he was to defeat the British army, and then return to Egypt.

After arranging the blocking mission behind him, Rommel signaled to his men not to care about the battle that followed.

He turned around, pointed in the direction of Bairdi, and continued to arrange the offensive task of the main force: "The attack to the east must begin immediately!" The armored forces are now in action! ”

"Concentrate all the heavy weapons that can be found and concentrate on bombarding the opposing side's left flank troops...... Fight to defeat them! And then outflank the past! He looked in the direction of his right flank and gave the order to continue the battle.

Soon, five 88-mm cannons in his hand began to fire at the enemy's positions.

"What about the captured Italian guns? Fire too! The officer in charge of artillery fire support looked at the effect of the bombardment and shouted to the people around him.

He didn't know that the tone and content of his shouting just now were really the same as the classic joke of the second battalion commander's Italian artillery.

Along the way, the Germans helped the Italian soldiers recover a lot of weapons and equipment, and many weapons were also thrown directly on the side of the road, because the German soldiers could not look at these rags.

However, there were several old Italian 105-mm field guns with shells and transport trucks, which were taken by the Germans.

Because Rommel was moving forward in a hurry, he didn't carry much heavy fire support.

So when he saw the 7 full sets of Italian artillery guns captured by the British, Rommel ordered his troops to find a way to bring these weapons.

Of course, because of this, Rommel now has 7 more Italian field guns in his hands, and they are infantry-controlled field guns.

You read that right! Yes! It's infantry-operated artillery! Rommel did not have professional artillery in his hands, and because of transportation constraints, the artillery units of the German 15th Panzer Division were still waiting for ships to go to sea in southern Italy.

So when these 105 mm howitzers opened fire, an embarrassing thing arose - these guns could only fire in a daze, acting as a deterrent to the enemy.

As for accurate shooting, then no one counts on it. The only thing that is gratifying is that because the battlefield is already extremely chaotic, no one has carefully analyzed these indiscriminate shells.

Rommel's side began shelling the British positions head-on, and both Admiral Wavell and Lieutenant General O'Connor sensed that their troops were in a very dangerous situation.

Seeing several shells falling on the positions of the British troops, Admiral Wavell decided that the German troops were ready to attack, so he ordered to abandon the plan to attack Baierdi.

If he had ventured a counterattack against Rommel's frontal army at this time, the outcome of the war could have been rewritten by him.

However, Lieutenant General O'Connor, fearing that his troops would suffer another heavy defeat, personally rushed back to Admiral Wavell's headquarters.

"General! We must retreat now, this time if we waste any more time. It is possible to be completely surrounded by the enemy! As soon as he entered the office, he said to Admiral Wavell.

Admiral Wavell also knew that he was in a very bad situation, and if the Germans really fought on both sides, plus the Italian army in Birdine, the British power in North Africa could be wiped out.

So, Admiral Wavell gave up his intention to hold out here and gave an order to help Rommel muddy the situation: "I know! Abandon the baggage ...... Don't pack up, get out of here first! ”

He gave up resistance and had his troops immediately withdraw from the battle, plunging the British forces near Bardy into even more confusion.

The troops that had just been organized, and still had some combat effectiveness, once again collapsed with this order.

The more mobile troops began to leave quickly in cars, leaving behind countless baggage.

After all, the British supplies were much better than the Italians, so the more things were transported to the periphery of Baierdi.

These things were now discarded by the British soldiers, or simply became a roadblock to their retreat.

Because of this, the British soldiers who were now in a hurry to retreat from here left behind a large pile of "broken tents******* which made the Germans look red, piles of tents, trench positions that had been dug up, and some trucks with only a few minor problems, which were abandoned on the side of the road.

Of course, there is also fresh water that smells of gasoline, and there are some gasoline that has been abandoned before it has time to blow up, and the most joyful thing is that there are mountains of food......

When the German infantry stormed the British defensive positions, it was as if it were Christmas.

Admiral Wavell retreated, he ran, and without hesitation, according to his thoughts, he was to repeat his old tricks and retreat to Matru in one go.

In his retreat plan, retreating to Matroux would stretch the enemy's vulnerable supply lines and immediately get support from the Australian 6th Infantry Division, which had already partially arrived.

With this precondition in place, Wavell ordered his troops to begin to retreat, which in fact cannot be said to be a completely wrong approach.

At least before, in the face of the attack of the Italian 10th Army, he sacrificed this trick and did gain the initiative on the battlefield.

But tragically, Wavell forgot that the unit in front of him had already been replaced, and it was not the Italian army, which was not very mobile.

These German troops could pursue all the way from the vicinity of Tobruk to Byrdi, and then it seemed that they would be able to fight from Byrddi to Matroux in one go.

It is not known whether the British troops taken by Admiral Wavell and Lieutenant General O'Connor will succeed in retreating to the Egyptian border and reach Matrouh safely.

But another thing is now very clear - as soon as he retreated, the scattered British troops that Rommel had left behind were now all deprived of their support and logistical supplies.

The British troops, scattered behind Rommel's forces, could not organize an effective counterattack and could not return to the vicinity of Baildi to get their supplies and supplies.

Depleted and disorganized, the British finally decided to give up their resistance, surrendering to any enemy they could find, surrendering their weapons to the Italian captives who did not have a single gun.

Within a day, at least 5,000 British soldiers surrendered to the Axis forces, and Operation Compass, Admiral Wavell's Compass, because of Rommel's early accession, turned into a tragedy of victory and defeat.

Nearly 12,000 British soldiers were killed or captured in the battle, and at least 25,000 of the British captured in Italy were rescued by Rommel's forces.

At this stage of the battle, it could not even be said that Italy had lost, for at least in terms of losses, the losses of the British were sufficient to satisfy the Italians.

Unlike the brutal Eastern Front in history, the battlefields of North Africa are still full of medieval knightly duels: two sides fight, then the loser surrenders, and everyone can even have a polite dinner together......

Rommel decided to leave his armoured forces alone to pursue the retreating British troops, while he himself took the English infantry, who was already slightly tired and had captured enough prisoners, to rest for a day near Bairdi.

He also feared for the safety of his rear transport lines, and the counterattack of the British scattered infantry behind him forced him to think carefully.

It would be bad if he was in a hurry and was cut off from supplies by the other party. After all, although the tank unit is very useful when attacking, it is no different from scrap metal without replenishment of fuel.

Operation Compass, the North African counterattack against the Italian 10th Army Corps, launched by British Admiral Wavell, ended in complete failure because the German Afrika Korps joined.