The first landing force had two regiments. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as they came ashore, they carried out two separate tasks, one regiment advancing rapidly along the main street, and the other regiment following behind to clear out the remnants of the enemy.

The battle went well, and in less than an hour the Zoaf corps captured the entire Grand Port of the Competition.

Unbeknownst to Mr. Zhang, Chinese advisers played a pivotal role in this......

Because compared with those French officers who had hardly fought in battle, the Chinese advisers were all veterans with rich combat experience, so when encountering some kind of emergency, the French officers were often at a loss or blindly commanded the Algerian soldiers to blindly charge.

The Chinese advisers were different, when they encountered a fire point that was difficult to pull out, they were very skillful in calling for artillery support, providing coordinates for the artillery, and sometimes even acting as snipers themselves to suppress the enemy's fire point with one shot per person...... This is nothing in the Chinese army, because after several years of war, the soldiers of the expeditionary force have all been good hands, and if there are no such two hands, I am afraid that the expeditionary force will not survive today.

But these Algerian soldiers were astonished, especially since most of their usual training consisted of digging trenches and building fortifications.

So naturally, the Algerian soldiers formed a consensus on the battlefield: the French soldiers are stupid, and it is right to listen to the Chinese.

This kind of thinking is easy to form on the battlefield of life or death, and once formed, it is still very firm.

As a result, unconsciously, the status of the Chinese advisers in the Zoaf Corps skyrocketed, and later even to the point that without the Chinese advisers, they had no confidence and did not know how to fight.

Immediately after the occupation, the troops of the two regiments built fortifications in the city, while the other regiment followed and landed and unloaded heavy equipment such as artillery and tanks.

This was due to the fact that the Germans were likely to counterattack with armored forces, and heavy equipment was indispensable for anti-tank.

"Good!" General Juan looked at the time, and it was only two hours in total, which was almost half the time originally planned.

"Why didn't the Germans counterattack?" Darlan was a little surprised.

Because it was expected that the Germans should send reinforcements about half an hour after the attack began, this is an inference from the distance between the Marais Line and the Grand Port of the game and the reaction speed of the German mechanized troops...... The Germans have always acted quickly.

But none of this happened.

"What are the Germans doing?" General Zhu An was also a little puzzled: "Don't they know that the big port of the competition is their only port?" ”

Of course the Germans knew, the Arnim knew, Rommel knew, and Hitler knew.

But at this time, for such a big thing, the German army had a rare phenomenon of kicking the ball.

Arnim said: "The Grand Port of the Race is closer to Rommel's troops and should be reinforced by Rommel!" ”

Rommel responded: "The Grand Port of the Race is the defense area of Arnim, and my troops are attacking the British, and the 10th Panzer Regiment has been transferred, and I don't have any extra troops!" ”

Objectively speaking, although Rommel's words are reasonable, they are an excuse after all, because as soon as Dagang is attacked, Rommel's counterattack has become an impossible plan to succeed, so he should go all out to help Dagang in the first place.

But at this time, Rommel was unwilling, he was unwilling to let his plan fail because of Arnim's non-cooperation, especially the transfer of an entire armored division without Rommel ...... Rommel couldn't swallow this breath, so he deliberately wanted to use this incident to make Arnim unable to step down.

In fact, what is more important is that Rommel knows that this battle is hopeless.

Even if you send more troops to the big port of the game, what can you do?

Panzer divisions? Tanks?

Can these fight enemy battleships?

The battleship's cannons could smash the German tanks and armored units to pieces at any moment, and for the fleet it was only a question of how many shells would be spent, and the Allies did not need to worry about shells.

From this point of view, the landing of the French army in the Grand Port of the Competition was unnecessary, because the French only had to use the Toulon fleet to surround the Grand Port of the Competition...... The supply of the German and Italian armies was completely cut off.

However, the landing could hasten the destruction of the German and Italian armies, because after the landing of the Zoaf Corps, a large amount of ammunition and supplies were captured in the warehouses of the Grand Port of the Competition, which were too late to be transported to the front line.

At this time, Rommel only had indescribable depression and indignation in his heart.

Because before that, he made a proposal to the High Command, that is, another plan for fighting a protracted war in Tunisia.

In this proposal, Rommel believed that it would be very difficult for the Germans to hold the Marais Line, and that the eastern and western fronts combined were 650 kilometers, which might be sufficient for the German and Italian forces with a total number of about 200,000 men, but there were not so many supplies to support such a long defensive line.

Rommel's plan was to continue to shrink the front to the big city, that is, to build a defensive line of only 150 kilometers around the big port of the game, so that the consumption and increase of supplies could be equal to the level, so that it was possible to hold on for a long time.

But this suggestion was rejected by the High Command.

It took Rommel a long time to send a telegram to Hitler, which contained only a few words: "Africa is finished, Africa has become hell for the German and Italian troops!" ”

Hitler angrily replied: "This is very different from what you said to me before!" You want to admit defeat, this is absolutely not okay, this negative thinking cannot appear in my generals! ”

The telegram was followed by a table showing the number of troops and equipment established by both the enemy and the enemy, as well as some estimates of combat effectiveness...... This was a common tactic used by Hitler to retort to the front-line commanders, who did not take into account the actual situation on the battlefield at all, but simply believed that if only one German soldier could destroy two enemies, then the war would be won.

Indeed, just like Tunisia at this time, about 200,000 German and Italian troops were surrounded by 400,000 Allied troops, and if a German soldier could destroy two enemies, he would really be able to fight to the death, and even only half of the Allied army would undoubtedly collapse due to a problem of will.

But this is only Hitler's wishful thinking and false method of comparison, which does not take into account the situation and strength of both the enemy and the enemy.

Rommel didn't even bother to respond to this telegram, he just glanced at it and threw it aside.

Because he wanted to use this last bit of time to think about how to write the last letter to his wife, Lucy.