After a moment's pause, Jon said, "I think we should do something!" ”

With that, Jon quickly ran back to the headquarters along the communication trench and sent a telegram to Montgomery: "General, the German fighters are searching for the Chinese armored regiment, if the Germans find the location of the Chinese armored regiment, then everything is over!" I ask for air support! ”

Montgomery took the telegram and looked at it for a while, and then couldn't help frowning: "What do you mean?" ”

Ramsden next to him quickly reacted, and he explained: "General, the Chinese hid the armored regiment somewhere in the desert, which made the Germans dare not attack Maherama!" ”

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Although Montgomery did not agree with Zhang Chi's approach, in fact, he did not agree with Zhang Chi's disobedience to orders and assertiveness. But at the same time, Montgomery also knew that this was not the time to talk about personal grievances, so he immediately ordered the fighters in Port Said to take off to reinforce Maherama.

After sending the telegram, Montgomery did not forget to curse: "Damn, they should have told me earlier, so that at least we would have more time to prepare and cooperate with their actions!" These Chinese just want to be heroes regardless of the overall situation! ”

"General!" Ramsden said: "If they tell you the plan, I think you will veto it!" ”

Montgomery was speechless.

Ramsden was right, Montgomery could not have agreed to such a crazy plan...... As long as the Germans found the Chinese armored regiment, it was "all over" as Jon said, and the Germans did not seem to have a difficult task in finding an armored regiment.

But Montgomery was wrong about this, as were Rommel and Heinz Landau.

Just as Heinz was organizing tank units and anti-tank artillery units while waiting for news from the reconnaissance troops so that they could attack as soon as they discovered the location of the Chinese armored regiment, a series of crisp gunfire were heard all around......

Heinz Landau felt bad when he heard the gunshot, because it was not one by one, but one after another.

Heinz Landau was not afraid to hear the gunfire one after another, because it meant that the reconnaissance force had found the enemy.

But......

If it's one sound after another, it means ......

Heinz Landau quickly understood something, and couldn't help but scold: "Damn it! ”

Sure enough, after a while, the communications corpsmen ran up and reported: "General, we have lost contact with the 2nd reconnaissance unit, and the enemy has placed snipers in the desert!" ”

Heinz took off his white gloves anxiously, took out the map and found the location of the second reconnaissance unit, but before he could give the order, several more gunshots were heard from the other direction, and the gunshots were accompanied by several explosions...... Heinz looked reflexively in the direction where the gunshots came.

Not surprisingly, another communications corpsman reported: "It's the fifth reconnaissance team, and they ...... All sacrificed! ”

Heinz Landau couldn't help asking: "The fifth reconnaissance team, they are equipped with armored reconnaissance vehicles!" ”

"The enemy has bazookas!" The communications officer replied: "And mines!" ”

Heinz Landau couldn't help but be stunned, and then had to order: "Call all the reconnaissance troops back!" ”

"Yes!"

Rommel's side soon got the news.

"Sniper?" Rommel was surprised by this: "It's a good idea, but when did the Chinese have snipers?!" ”

After all, Rommel still underestimated the Chinese troops, or the Chinese expeditionary force.

The difficulty now faced the Germans was that the desert could be full of snipers of the Chinese army, and the Germans could not see anything...... The desert is their best protective color, and these snipers can even bury themselves in sand by lying on the ground while wearing desert camouflage.

Even if they fired, white smoke would soon be blown away by the wind and sand, and this led to the destruction of entire detachments of many German reconnaissance planes, and they did not know where the enemy was hiding.

"Maybe!" Heinz Landau said: "I should send a tank to search!" ”

"You mean a tank in the desert at 20 kilometers per hour?" Rommel asked rhetorically.

Heinz Landau also knew that this was not realistic......

It is obviously not feasible to use tank reconnaissance to search, it is one thing to be too slow, and the tank has a limited external perception and observation range on the other.

Even tank searches need to carry infantry, otherwise it can easily be killed by the enemy from a dead end with grenades or bazookas, and if it carries infantry, it can't dodge snipers......

Heinz Landau would say this because it seemed unrealistic for Rommel to search for the Chinese armored regiment...... Unless the Germans spend a lot of time pulling out those snipers bit by bit.

But the Germans apparently did not have so much time, because they received intelligence that the British armored units were on their way to Maherama for reinforcements.

At this time, another shout came from among the German troops: "General, enemy planes!" ”

Heinz looked in the direction of the sound, and sure enough, he saw more than a dozen "Spitfire" fighters in the sky...... In the past, most of the "Hurricane" and "Tomahawk" fighters used by the British on the battlefield were backward "Hurricane" fighters and "Tomahawk" fighters, and in addition, the traditional backward formation methods of the British made the German army once hold air supremacy over North Africa and the Mediterranean, but since the British Air Force was fully equipped with "Spitfire" fighters this year, the situation has changed fundamentally.

(Note: This is also one of the reasons for Rommel's defeat in North Africa in history, air supremacy is tilted towards the side of the British army, and the advantage of the British army is becoming more and more obvious.) ）

"Air defense preparation!" Rommel shouted.

The German soldiers were ready to shoot anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

However, these Spitfires were not attacking German tank groups, and they quickly dispersed in pairs to search for German reconnaissance planes and bombers on the periphery......

Then there was a battle in the air, and the German reconnaissance planes cleverly flew to the German air defense area in the hope of getting ground support, but helplessly, the performance of the "Spitfire" fighters was much better than theirs, and after a while, one German reconnaissance plane after another fell from the sky with black smoke and flames.

So Heinz knew that it was impossible to continue the search for the Chinese armored regiment, even if he was really willing to send tanks to search for it now......

Because it is obvious that Maherama is closer to the British air base, and at the same time the British fighters are more performant, and the air supremacy is obviously on the side of the British.