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If I had to find any meaning, it might be to reclaim the supplies in the warehouse at the Match Port.

But it was clear that the French were not going to leave these supplies to the Germans, so in the end the Germans got nothing.

The reason why the Germans did this was that they knew they couldn't do it, but in fact it was just a battle of trapped beasts that they were unwilling to admit defeat...... What else can they do?

The German offensive began at nine o'clock that night.

They poured almost all the shells they could bring...... Because even ordinary German soldiers knew that there was no point in saving ammunition at this time, and if they could not recapture the German army in Dagang, there would be only a dead end, in fact, even if it was recaptured, it would be a dead end.

The night sky was lit up by artillery fire in an instant, both German and French.

Dozens of warships of the Toulon fleet soon joined the battle group, although many of them did not know the enemy's location.

The sound of artillery continued for half an hour...... It can also be seen that the German army is desperate for this battle, and the bombing that can last for half an hour is not common for the German army in the African theater.

Then the German tanks made a "rumbling" motor sound and headed for the competition port from several directions.

There was nothing new about the battle, and it could even be said that it was like a trench war in World War I, where both sides used all their strength to fight between trenches, barbed wire, and firepower.

However, it is precisely because there is no novelty that this is in line with the style of the French army...... The conservative French army was most afraid of new ideas, but it was this kind of modest defensive warfare that suited their appetite.

On the contrary, the German army, which had always been surprisingly victorious, was forced to fight an offensive and defensive battle with the French army without any new ideas.

The Germans soon tasted the pain of the Allies in front of the German lines:

Because the mines were planted very densely, half an hour of shelling was not enough to clear the mines in front of the defensive line, so one after another German tanks were paralyzed in front of the positions by the mines, and the infantry fell under the mines one by one, and what was even more tragic was that the mines were all German mines.

Flares burst into the air, illuminating the corpses of German soldiers lying in pools of blood in front of the position.

But the Germans still refused to stop there, and still stepped on the corpses of their own people and attacked forward.

An hour later, their offensive had finally made progress, as they had taken the enemy's first line of defense.

The news pleased the front-line commander, Lieutenant General Olg, who immediately forwarded the information to Arnim.

"Although we have paid a huge number of casualties, we have captured the enemy's first line of defense, and they will soon collapse!" Olg said in the telegram.

But not long after the telegram was sent, Org received a report: "General, behind the enemy's line of defense there is still a minefield!" ”

Olg was as cold as if he had been poured a basin of cold water on him.

Originally, he thought that behind the defensive line there was a smooth road, or into street fighting, and there was no problem for these German troops with superior forces.

But that is clearly not the case now.

"Keep attacking!" Lieutenant General Olg gritted his teeth and ordered.

He had no choice but to attack.

The two Panzer Divisions, with nearly five hundred tanks, used up their last bit of fuel and shells to advance deep into the port of competition again, but in front of them were more mines, and these mines seemed endless...... The German soldiers soon realized that the French were constantly laying mines in the rear while retreating.

The soldiers of the German 15th Panzer Division felt the scene familiar, and they soon remembered that they had followed Rommel all the way from Egypt to Tunisia.

To make matters worse, the enemy had a more novel method of laying mines: they hung them from trees and in the walls of their houses, and the German soldiers advancing in the dark knew nothing about them until they burst overhead.

Two hours later, the German offensive stopped, and they even gave up the first line of defense, which had been the target of French artillery fire.

The Germans stopped the offensive not on the orders of Org and Arnim, but because the middle and lower rank officers refused to carry out the order to attack because of the high casualties among the soldiers.

In their words, it is: "This offensive is meaningless except at the expense of our tanks and soldiers!" ”

"None of us can see the hope of victory!"

"Even if we win the game, what can we do? As soon as the day dawns, their artillery and planes will drop bombs on our heads! ”

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Rommel only let out a long sigh when he heard the news, because he knew that the morale of the German army had been affected, and they had realized that they were going to lose in the end and were unwilling to pay for this meaningless war anymore.

Rommel wrote in a letter to his wife: "I can feel their thoughts, and if I can, I hope that failure will come as soon as possible, because it is already unavoidable, then the process is torture!" I wish this torture would be shorter and I would die on the battlefield like a soldier! ”

But Rommel's wish was not fulfilled.

Soon after, Hitler issued an order appointing the Italian army division of Messer as commander-in-chief of the Afrika Korps, and Rommel was transferred to Italy.

This time, Rommel did not refuse.

On the night of the German attack on the Grand Port, before dawn, Rommel silently boarded the plane to Rome under the farewell of his generals.

Rommel specifically told the pilot that he must fly over the Grand Harbour of the Competition, although the pilot warned him that it was dangerous to do so.

As the plane flew over the skies of the Grand Harbor, Rommel looked down to see the darkness below still filled with bursts of artillery fire and the flames of burning tanks, in which his former glory vanished like a cloud of smoke.

Rommel silently read in his heart:

Don't! This familiar land!

Others! Brave soldiers of the "Afrika Korps"!

The German attack was easily thwarted by the Zoaf Corps, which suffered only more than 600 casualties, while the Germans lost more than 3,000 people, and even more seriously, more than 300 tanks, which can almost be said to be the only remaining home fund of the German army.

However, in Zhang Chi's view, it is not these that the Afrika Korps has suffered the most.

Their biggest loss was that Rommel was transferred and replaced by an Italian marshal...... This was obviously Hitler's attempt to stabilize the hearts and minds of Italy, but Rommel was the soul of the Afrika Korps, without whom the Afrika Korps would not exist.