Rommel at this time can be said to be in high spirits. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because although the 10th Panzer Division was transferred by the Arnims, Rommel's counteroffensive against the British Commonwealth Army still achieved remarkable results: in just three days, the Germans killed more than 300 British soldiers and captured more than 4,000 at the cost of more than 1,000 casualties...... This was characteristic of the war against the Commonwealth Army, whose number of prisoners was always more than ten times higher than the number of dead.

In addition, Rommel destroyed and damaged 200 Commonwealth tanks and captured more than 60 tanks.

The British never learned how to use tanks, so it seemed that all Rommel had to do was to have his armored troops penetrate the rear of the British army to cut off their supply lines, and then the results would be achieved.

To Rommel's delight, the Germans also captured more than a dozen cars loaded with gasoline during the offensive.

"Any idea what that means?" Rommel said to Thomas: "This means that we are not far from the supply lines of the British, and I can guarantee that if we go one step further, we will seize more equipment and petrol!" ”

Rommel was almost impatient, and he felt that another victory awaited him, and it was rare that this victory would come after a major rout.

Immediately afterwards he sent a telegram to Hitler, asking the Berlin direction to hand over the command of the 10th Panzer Division and even more units to him.

Rommel was almost certain that Hitler would agree to his request, because it was also what Hitler dreamed of.

At this time, Rommel also had full confidence, because the facts had also proved that his counteroffensive was correct, and it was time to increase his forces and expand the results of the battle.

However, before Rommel could call back, a piece of news made Rommel fall into an ice cellar.

"General!" A communications soldier reported: "The big port of the game is under attack! ”

"What?" Although the information was short, it sounded like five thunderbolts to Rommel's ears.

"The big port of the game is under attack!" The signal man replied: "It's the fleet of the French, and the planes of the Americans, and I heard that there are Chinese......"

"Chinese, Chinese again!" Rommel sat back in his chair and said, "This must be another idea from the Chinese, they always go ahead of me!" ”

Rommel knew very well that if the game port was attacked, no matter how much he achieved in the east, it would be in vain, because now almost all the supplies of the Afrika Korps can be said to depend on the game port, unless the Afrika Korps can successfully capture the enemy's ammunition and fuel all the way, this battle will not be fought.

After being stunned for a long time, Rommel scolded: "Arnim is a fool, how could he ignore the defense of such an important port!" ”

Rommel's words actually have a prickly flavor.

Because Arnim did not ignore the defense of the game port, in fact, the Arnim began to build the fortifications of the game port after entering Tunisia, but the German army had too little time to prepare and too many fortifications needed to be built...... The entire Marais defence needed to be rebuilt, and with the French predictably more likely to attack from land, it was only natural that the match would be relegated to a secondary position.

But even so, the competition port still built hundreds of anti-aircraft guns and dozens of coastal defense guns.

Arnim's original estimate was that the port of the game was more likely to be attacked by enemy air raids, so the deployment of the port in the port of the game was mainly air defense.

This should be true, because the British Navy was busy escorting supplies to the island of Malta and was simply not capable of attacking the Grand Harbour, which was constantly bombed by British and American fighters.

But the liberation of the Toulon fleet changed this fact, and the fortifications built by the Arnim were not worth mentioning under the large-caliber naval guns of the Toulon fleet, especially since the French were helped by the Tunisians...... As mentioned earlier, the Tunisian forces had reached an agreement with the French to form allies, and they could easily find out the exact location of the German fortifications and send them to the Toulon fleet, and in some places even released smoke to guide the Toulon fleet.

As a result, the artillery fire of the Toulon fleet seemed to have eyes, and the shells accurately covered the German fortifications and blew them to pieces.

Zhang Chi stood on the battleship "Provence" of the Toulon fleet, the largest battleship of the Toulon fleet, it is also known as the "super dreadnought", and it is also the only remaining "Brittany" class battleship in the French fleet.

There were originally two other ships of the same class, namely the lead ship "Brittany" and "Lorraine", but the former was sunk by the British Navy, and the latter was disarmed by the British army.

THE PROVENCE WAS CALLED A "SUPER DREADNOUGHT" BECAUSE IT WAS EQUIPPED WITH 10 TWIN 340MM GUNS (NOTE: THE DUNKIRK AND BATTLESHIPS WERE EIGHT QUADRUPLE 330MM GUNS).

At this time, the 10 large-caliber naval guns were constantly roaring towards the port of Toulon, each cannon sounded like thunder, and the shells that exploded set off a burst of flames and smoke in the port of Toulon, two kilometers away, just like the commander of the fleet, Drabard said, no fortifications could survive under these naval guns.

Zhang Chi couldn't help but think at this moment that these warships, which now looked majestic, should have sunk to the bottom of the port of Toulon and become the residence of fish and shrimp.

The warships were joined by British and American air power.

The British and Americans agreed with the French plan to attack the Grand Port of the Games, and even raised their feet if they could.

Needless to say, the reason was that it was in the interests of Britain and the United States, especially when Rommel launched a counteroffensive and the Commonwealth army was in disarray.

Therefore, the British and American allied forces immediately agreed to independently send an air force of more than 200 fighters and bombers to assist the French army in attacking the big port of the game.

One air force was enough to control the air supremacy of Tunisia, because the French knew from the Tunisians that the Germans had only a hundred warplanes in Tunisia.

At this time, these British and American warplanes roared over Tunisia, they circled over Tunisia like evil dragons in the magical world, and when they found their target, they swooped down and spat out flames to burn them to ashes.

As for the anti-aircraft guns deployed by the Arnim in the Grand Harbor, they were blown up by the Toulon fleet as early as the first time.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen transport ships loaded with infantry and supplies landed in the port of Toulon.

They met with only a few German troops hiding in houses near the port...... The German army's will to fight was still very tenacious, but this obviously could not stop the overwhelming offensive of the Zoaf Corps.