The battle of El Alamein was fought in such an abrupt and somewhat childish state, that Rommel fought desperately, and Cunningham defended it with fear. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On a German SDKFZ251 armored car, a German grenadier carrying a grenade jumped out of the back compartment of the armored car with an order.

Next to them, a modified version of Tank No. 3, destroyed by British anti-tank guns, was burning, and black smoke billowed up, obscuring the nearby land.

The battle was fierce from the outset to the point of surprise to the soldiers on both sides, with the German panzers coming up and committing 20 tanks to the attack, while the British minefields and anti-tank guns opened heavy fire......

On the defensive side, the enemy did not expect the enemy to come so quickly, and threw so many tanks into the attack at the beginning.

The German infantry tore apart an entire British defender's position in an instant, and the tanks rushed into the core of the British defense and wreaked havoc everywhere.

For a few minutes, the German tanks were less than 500 meters away from breaking through the British El Alamein line.

At one point, Cunningham, believing that he had been defeated by the enemy, watched as the German tanks rushed to his left, almost parallel to his headquarters.

The heavy artillery fire allowed Cunningham to overturn his earlier assumption that the Germans lacked supplies, and he suspected that he was wrong, that the Germans had indeed received supplies, and that there were more than he had imagined.

Subsequently, however, the German offensive was delayed, and it seemed that they were hesitating to continue the attack.

The reason is actually very simple, the attacking German side was also frightened by the defensive strength of the British army.

They penetrated more than 700 meters into the enemy's depth, and still did not see the end of the enemy's defenses.

The British defenders opened fire from all sides, and the bullets hit the German tanks from all directions, as if hail had hit the rooftops.

Soon, three No. 3 tanks were destroyed in a sudden British position, and the violent explosions and billowing smoke made the Afrika Korps infantry realize the brutality of war for the first time.

The German offensive was delayed when the 4th tank, which was struggling not so much on the British position, as in the encirclement of the enemy, was pierced by shells and burst into flames.

Lieutenant General Alfred looked distressedly at the front position, the elite German infantry and valuable tanks were fighting the British position, and glanced at Rommel beside him incomprehensibly.

Rommel, who had a general's epaulette on his shoulder, was still looking at the battlefield in the distance with a blank face, and he could feel that he was in a very bad mood.

Frankly speaking, Rommel is a general who loves to laugh, and he has a natural idol temperament to face the camera, always smiling confidently.

When Rommel doesn't laugh like this, it means that he is a little nervous or has something else messy, which makes him so angry that he doesn't smile.

Now, Rommel looked at the position in the distance, his mouth was the same as before the attack, he kept muttering inaudible words, and his eyes looked into the distance without blinking.

Suddenly, the Italian artillery fire came to a halt in the confusion, and the surroundings seemed a little quieter.

Then, less than a second later, the sound of the cannon began to be noisy again, and the brief pause was just a coincidence.

With this brief pause, Lieutenant General Alfred finally understood what Rommel was muttering.

The commander of this Afrika Korps kept chanting a phrase: "Fight back!" Fight back! ”

As the chief of staff of the Afrika Korps, Lieutenant General Alfred naturally knew how much supplies the Afrika Korps was carrying in this offensive, in fact, the entire Afrika Korps now has a pitiful lack of fuel.

From Matroux, the fuel carried by the German tanks was just a little more than the fuel for the round trip between El Alamein and Matroux.

After the attrition of this battle, the German army did not want to be wiped out in El Alamein due to lack of fuel, and it simply did not have the ability to launch a second attack.

In the same way, in order to save fuel and reduce the load of the troops, only a part of the ammunition was carried - just enough to fight a battle on the scale of the immediate scale.

Therefore, although Cunningham did not know, it was impossible for his own man, Lieutenant General Alfred, not to know that this attack by the Afrika Korps was completely an intimidation!

Yes! Intimidate! If you can describe it as playing cards, this is a complete chicken steal! The act of not having a single good card in your hand, but pushing out all your chips!

Rommel's idea was to use a magnificent attack to force the British to retreat on their own initiative.

When the Battle of El Alamein began, the British did not take the initiative to retreat, in fact, Rommel's plan to scare the British away completely failed.

And this attack is the final step of intimidation, and when this step is carried out, and the British are still in their original positions, then they can only return to Matrum in disgrace, without the slightest choice.

When the time comes, the entire Afrika Korps offensive will become a laughing stock for the whole world.

As for Rommel's eloquent counterattack - Lieutenant General Alfred smiled bitterly, how can the Afrika Korps have the strength to fight back in its current state?

If we say that tomorrow, the construction of the port of Matroux will be completed, and the day after tomorrow, the sea transport fleet that is already at sea will arrive.

And then these supplies that came ashore from Matru were able to reach the front line, and it was not bad to talk about the counterattack.

The current situation can only be said to be powerless. Lieutenant General Alfred reluctantly looked away and continued to observe the direction of the battle at the front.

There, the 5th German tank had been destroyed and exploded, and the remaining German tanks were adjusting their direction of attack, and the infantry following behind the tanks were also disorganized under the enemy's attack.

What made Lieutenant General Alfred even more depressed was that Rommel invested German troops at the beginning of the attack, instead of letting the Italians who came with him go up and try the truth.

This style of play is simply the opposite, because the Italian soldiers are still waiting in the trucks, and they have no intention of getting out of the trucks to prepare for the attack.

In fact, Rommel also did not order the Italian army to prepare for the offensive. This relieved General Garibaldi, who was reluctant to follow up because of the order.

Seeing the Germans and the British bleeding on the battlefield without getting involved in it themselves really corresponded to the wishes of the Italian army.

However, for Lieutenant General Alfred, the battle seemed wrong from the start, the wrong time, the wrong place, the wrong order...... Everything is wrong, the wrong is messy, the wrong is broken.

Since both Rommel and Alfred saw that their offensive was blocked, General Cunningham, who most intuitively felt the German attack in the British position, certainly saw the clues.

He seems to have discovered that the momentum of the offensive of the German troops was stopped by his own lines! This is undoubtedly great news for him.

Cunningham lowered his binoculars, and the German tanks were still smoking in front of him. He was in a good mood at the moment, because he seemed to straighten out everything that had happened before in an instant.

This time he finally found an explanation for everything, and a very reasonable one: "It turned out! The Germans really didn't have supplies! They're stealing chickens! ”

The fanfare attack is a weak performance because there are no hole cards! Attacking with the main German forces when you come up is the choice of the final blow of the ship!

"I see! I understand! The Germans are posturing! They actually don't have enough strength to attack El Alamein! Cunningham, who saw the weakness of the German army, laughed happily.

The German grenadiers, who were still fighting on his positions and had exhausted the Australian 6th Infantry Division, seemed to be less terrible at this moment.

After figuring everything out, he couldn't help the ecstasy welling up in his heart, and he couldn't help but almost laugh out loud - a godsend, since the Germans are pretending, they are strong on the outside!

This is God's second chance to act with a compass! As the commander of the British, Cunningham was determined to accomplish what Admiral Wavell had no chance to accomplish!

"Let the 7th Panzer Division fight back! Before it gets dark today, I'm going to crush the Germans' troops! "He gave the order to counterattack, ready to drive the German army at the end of the crossbow out of the El Alamein line!

Following his order, the British armored units, hidden behind the line of defense and had not moved, rushed out of their bunkers under the cover of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division in South Africa.

The British army sounded the horn of a counterattack, and the attacking German units immediately abandoned the attack. The evacuation of the opposing tanks accelerated, and the infantry also withdrew from the lines that had already been occupied.

Less than ten minutes into the counterattack, the British recaptured all defensive positions near El Alamein.

Pursued by the British troops, the Germans began to retreat, throwing away their armor along the way, and even blowing up 10 No. 3 tanks that were paralyzed on the side of the road due to a malfunction.

The Italian troops, who were far behind the German troops, seemed to walk more calmly because they did not get off the truck.

The Italian troops left without hesitation, retreating even three points faster than they could have advanced behind the German army.

Lieutenant General Alfred looked at the somewhat messy retreat scene in front of him, and smiled bitterly in despair: what he had been worrying about had finally happened.

Caught off guard, he saw the smile on the corner of Rommel's mouth, and the confident smile returned to the face of the Afrika Korps commander-in-chief at some point.

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