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The reinforcements were divided into two groups, apparently sent by the Arnims, as they were both from the Marais Line.

The two support armies marched in two directions towards the Grand Port of the Competition...... However, it was obviously too late for the rapid march at this time, and it was delayed for two and a half hours, and in the course of these two and a half hours, the Zoaf Corps had already gained a firm foothold in Dagang under the guidance and leadership of the Chinese advisers, and even completed the deployment and test firing of artillery.

So when the Germans rushed to the port of the game and launched an attack, they were met with fire from three directions: air, sea and land.

At this time, the game port was not only a port, but also a fortress that was combined by the navy, land and air forces to coordinate defense.

Of course, the French army still has many deficiencies in coordination, and it can even be said that it has no experience.

But multi-class coordinated defense is much simpler than coordinated offense.

If it is a coordinated attack, just like the previous French offensive against the Marais Line, there are also navies, air forces and land forces, but they often do not know where to hit or where to bomb, and sometimes they are worried that the cannon or a bomb will fall on their own heads.

But these problems are almost non-existent in coordinated defense...... Before the arrival of the German troops, the army informed the navy, air force, and artillery of the specific location of its defense forces in advance, and also divided some areas that might need artillery support into divisions, and then did not even have to report the coordinates but only the area code.

Even this work was already underway while German reinforcements were still on the way...... The British and American air forces attacked everywhere, bombing and strafing the German reinforcements along the road, and the German reinforcements had already died more than half of them on the road, and by the time they arrived at the big port of the game, there was not much combat power left for the attack.

This is also one of the reasons why Arnim has been slow to send reinforcements, because he knows very well that there is only a dead end for rushing to reinforce the game port without air supremacy.

"What else can we do?" Arnim hung his head and said to the staff officer: "Everything is irreparable! If it weren't for the arrogant Rommel, the French would never have taken away the big port of the game so easily! ”

Arnim was saying that if Rommel had not launched an offensive against the Allies, Tunisia would not have been internally empty.

But this is also a bit unreasonable, because even if Rommel does not attack, he will have to defend the border between Libya and Tunisia, and there will not be many people defending the big port.

"General!" The staff officer said to the Arnims: "Perhaps, we can only choose to raid at night!" ”

Arnim nodded, this suggestion certainly made sense, as the enemy's air and artillery superiority could only be weakened at night, although darkness would also reduce the attack power of German tanks.

After thinking about it, Arnim sent a telegram to Rommel, asking him to cooperate with the attack at night.

Rommel only smiled bitterly when he received this telegram and said to Thomas: "Look, this is the countermeasure of the great General Anim, attacking at night, he has no idea that his opponent is actually Chinese, and the Chinese will let him take the game port back so easily?" ”

But despite this, Rommel agreed to send a mechanized division to attack with the Anim's troops.

Rommel guessed correctly, Zhang Chi had already thought of this, because the Chinese army itself often used the night to attack the enemy when the equipment was weak, and the Japanese also attacked the American army, so now as long as the Germans' heads are still normal, of course, they will not let their troops come up one after another during the day to die.

Zhang Chi's countermeasure is very simple, that is, landmines, a large number of mines...... This move can even be said to be Rommel's defensive method.

The French did not even need to unload mines from transport ships, because there were a large number of mines stored in the few warehouses captured by the French, many of which were hated by the Allied soldiers.

What Zhang Chi had to do was to let the soldiers of the Zoaf Corps learn the methods and precautions for laying mines in advance, and when it was dark, they would go out of the positions in batches and lay mines everywhere.

As I said before, the strategic thinking of the French army is "absolute defense", and their usual training is also defense, defense and defense, if they are allowed to attack, they may be a little powerless, but they are familiar with letting them do defense-related things.

Laying mines is also part of the defense.

In fact, millions of mines were laid in front of the "Maginot Line", and as a member of the French army, the soldiers of the Zoaf Corps did not do this in peacetime, so everything went very smoothly, and the Zoaf Corps spent several hours laying a minefield in front of the position with a depth of one mile, which was like an arc-shaped shell that would explode, and together with the sea, the game harbor was tightly surrounded in the middle.

Of course, this is not enough.

Immediately afterwards, a mile of mines were laid behind the line, leaving only a few passages for the soldiers of the first line of defense to withdraw.

In fact, at this time there were very few soldiers in the first line of defense, one company in each of the three directions, and their role was only to scare the enemy with guns.

Then everyone was waiting for the Germans to attack.

The French generals could not sleep either, and they all gathered in the headquarters to wait for news from the front...... They could have gone to sleep altogether, as most of them had played a role in the battle, such as General Giraud.

The reason why they can't sleep is simply because they haven't had such a big fight in a long time, and the excitement and nervousness make the adrenaline secretion so strong that they can't sleep.

Zhang Chi and General Zhu An observed the situation on the map, which clearly marked the location of the minefield, the boundary, the passage and the location of the German army.

This is the advantage of an alliance with the Tunisian independents, even if it is night, the Germans' every move will not escape the eyes of the French army, because the Tunisian people are full of "spies", and they will tell the Tunisian independence faction information about the German army, and then relay it to the French headquarters on the warship.

"The Germans sent two mechanized divisions and an infantry division!" General Zhu An said with some concern: "And our troops in Tunisia are only one division, can we stop their attack?" ”

"What if you can't stop it?" Zhang Chi asked rhetorically: "Can they resume the operation of the competition port?" ”

Zhang Chi said in a word, in order to resume the operation of the big port of the game, the most fundamental thing is to grasp the air supremacy and drive out the French fleet.