Zhang Chi didn't ask Montgomery. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In fact, he was not interested in the current war between Britain and Germany...... After all, this war does not have much direct relationship with China, if it were not for the fear that the butterfly effect would affect the entire world pattern, and eventually it would affect the Sino-Japanese war, Zhang Chi would not even bother to pay attention to who lost and who won.

And the reason why Zhang Chi asked Montgomery for battle data and documents was not to understand the battle situation as Zhang Chi said, he wanted to determine what caused the British army to lose this battle.

Colonel Abner quickly handed over the relevant documents to Zhang Chi, perhaps because he saw the sand table in Zhang Chi's headquarters, Abner explained the entire combat process to Zhang Chi with great interest.

"We have invested 200,000 people on the front line!" "Our offensive is divided into four phases: first, the pre-battle build-up and the measures to deceive the enemy," Abner said. The Germans knew we were going to attack, but they didn't know where and when we were going to attack. General Montgomery's order for frequent tank movements at the front caused the Germans to be nervous, and gradually they got used to it, thinking that we were just bluffing. ”

Zhang Chi agreed with this, this is "boiling frogs in warm water", and when the British army really mobilized its forces to prepare for the attack, the Germans thought that this was still a bluff.

"Phase 2!" Abner continued: "On the day of the attack, we concentrated our troops of all arms with the cooperation of the air force to open a gap in the enemy's front and then launched an attack on the enemy's depth! ”

Zhang Chi nodded again, of course it is correct to do this, the British army has a strong advantage in equipment and troops, if you concentrate the superior forces to break through from a point...... This huge gap made it difficult for the Germans to resist.

"Our breakthrough is ...... here," Abner said, pointing to a point in the sand table with his baton, "In the area of Mount Ruwesat, our troops concentrated 408 heavy guns and 48 medium guns for 15 minutes of bombardment, completely suppressing the German artillery, and the Germans only counterattacked every 10 to 22 shells we fired. Five minutes later another 10 minutes of bombardment, inflicting a loss on the Germans who had come out of the trenches......"

Zhang Chi couldn't help but smile, Montgomery is still very good at using some small tactics.

"You know what?" "It was the heaviest bombardment in North Africa, and we used more than 1,000 artillery pieces on the entire front," Abner said...... It was also the heaviest shelling I've ever experienced, and I've never seen anything like it. Then, the 4 infantry divisions of the 30th Army, including the 9th Australian Division, the 1st South African Division, the 51st Highland Division, and the New Zealand Division, launched an attack on a frontal area 15 kilometers wide......"

"Infantry division?" Zhang Chi felt a little strange, he originally thought that the British attack should be the front of the tank to cover the infantry advance, but this attack was obviously not like this.

This may also be the reason why most of the divisions that started the offensive were foreign legions.

"Yes, infantry division!" Abner replied: "The Germans laid a lot of mines in front of the defensive line, and the infantry division attacked to clear the mines, and then the 10th Panzer Division followed up and covered the infantry attack with artillery fire and firepower, while the air force continued to bombard and raid the enemy's front and depth......"

This was the fate of the colonial army that was different from that of the British, and if it was a purely British army, it was clear that they would not have been allowed to walk in front of the tanks.

"So ......" then Zhang Chi asked, "What's the problem?" ”

"We managed to break through the German defenses!" "Then the campaign entered the third phase: distracting the enemy's forces and attention from effectively blocking and counterattacking the breach, and depleting the enemy's reserves," Abner said...... Here's the problem! ”

"What's the problem?"

"The Germans are stronger than we think!" Abner replied: "And mines and artillery fire...... They were actually hiding their strength, and the mines slowed us down, and that's when the German artillery fire came into play, and they continued to bombard the soldiers, vehicles, and tanks who were groping their way through the minefields. You know, there are no obvious geomorphological features in the desert, and the bombing of our army, coupled with the bombing of the Germans, quickly covered the entire sky with sand and dust...... This was something we didn't expect, it was dark all around, and even if we fired a flare, we could only see a few meters ahead, so our attack was blocked. ”

"Why is there no artillery suppression?" Zhang Chi asked.

"We don't have that many shells!" Abner replied: "There were not enough reinforcements from the air force, which turned the tide of the battle against us, and the Germans knew very well the location of their minefields, and their armoured units penetrated through the minefields and attacked the flanks of our attacking troops, and the enemy and us fought in this area for several days...... In the end, the battle did not develop to the fourth stage at all, that is, to carry out the final breakthrough to break the enemy's last line of defense, and the armored forces continued to advance along the opened path! ”

"How so?!" Zhang Chi was surprised by this.

Then Zhang Chi checked the strength of the British army into the battlefield, and then it quickly understood: 809 tanks against the German army, 547 tanks, 610 planes against the German army, 480 aircraft...... Although Britain still has an advantage in equipment, it does not have a clear absolute advantage.

Why?

Zhang Chi knew it in his heart...... The Battle of El Alamein was the time when the Burmese First Expedition failed, and the American Army was gathering a large number of aircraft, tanks, artillery and ammunition to prepare for Burma, but because of the rapid defeat of the first expedition, it turned to the North African battlefield.

But none of this happened, the first expedition to Burma was an offensive, so all these planes, tanks, and so on prepared by the United States were dropped on Burma instead of North Africa......

That's why the battle of El Alamein was fought like this.

Imagine if the British army had enough artillery, aircraft or ammunition during the attack, it could easily suppress the German artillery, so that the German artillery could not play a role on the battlefield, or if the British army had enough tanks...... You must know that it is the American-made "Sherman" tank, although these tanks are nothing for the German "Tiger" tanks, but Rommel also has most of the backward No. 2 and No. 3 tanks in his hands, and only more than 30 No. 4 tanks can fight with the "Sherman", not to mention the old M13 tanks in the hands of the Italian army, whose attack capability is only at the level of the early 30s, and the Italian army itself calls it a "slow-moving coffin".