At the same time as the fierce battle at Manim, General Liu Zhaocheng, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, arrived at the battle

Liu Zhaocheng's arrival also means that a large-scale Chinese offensive is about to begin!

Liu Zhaocheng immediately issued an order to let Wang Ding, who arrived at the battlefield first, come to his headquarters. He carefully inquired about the situation on the battlefield, and Wang Ding also reported to him truthfully.

In the report, Wang Ding believed that the strength of the British had been seriously weakened after the fierce blows of the German army, and after the squadron entered Africa, the war situation was tilting in favor of the Chinese.

"Intensify the attack on Manim." After listening to Wang Ding's report, Liu Zhaocheng groaned: "Throw two more regiments of troops into the Manim area, under your unified command, you must end the war in Manim before the end of the month and complete the division with the German army!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Ding's answer was very loud.

With the injection of fresh blood, the attack momentum of the squadron has suddenly strengthened.

A tank battalion with two infantry regiments appeared on the battlefield of Manim and launched the heaviest attack on the besieged Shari'a battery.

At the same time, Liu Zhaocheng once again opened up the Gomba-Sargom front while the front line was fighting fiercely. In order to break through this line and complete the encirclement of the British army in Manim.

An elite armored division was dropped on the "Gangsa battlefield".

This was the first time that the elite Chinese armored division appeared on the battlefield, and the enemy in front of them was the British 120th Infantry Division.

Obviously, the newly opened "Gangsa battlefield" was just caught off guard by the British, and they did not even have time to respond adequately. At present, the Chinese and German armies are joining forces to fight in the African theater, which makes the British army feel that there is a serious shortage of troops.

In order to cope with the Chinese attack, the British command, in addition to requiring the 120th Division to hold out for twenty days, hastily mobilized a brigade of troops to reinforce the Gangsa battlefield.

War broke out here.

It's going to be a decisive battle! The outcome of this battle may determine the outcome of the war in Africa.

No one wants to lose the victory in the battle.

When the Chinese armored division appeared on the battlefield, Lieutenant General Capri, who was in command of the British army, felt a heavy pressure. General Capri is not only under pressure from the Chinese, but also from the commander-in-chief of the 8th Army, Bernard Brown. Toil. On the side of General Montgomery.

Montgomery's prestige soared after thwarting Rommel's offensive, and the confidence of the British army increased like never before. But soon after, the squadron began to officially intervene in Africa, and their excellent performance in the Asian theater, as well as the successive defeats of the British army in the Far East, began to make the British army have a sense of fear of the squadron, and in the hearts of the British officers and soldiers of the unit, the Chinese were even more terrible and difficult to defeat than the Germans.

Montgomery is determined to break the myth of the unbeaten squadron. And his first step is to stop the continuous advance of the Chinese on the battlefield of Gangsa and create a victory here.

But it is clear that the Chinese will not let him get his wish, and the Chinese have also decided to continue their myth of invincibility on the battlefield of Gangsa

Liu Zhaocheng vs. Montgomal!

Now, the showdown has finally begun.

Before the start of the Gangsa offensive battle, when Liu Zhaocheng summoned Wang Ding, he also gave him a secret mission, as for what this mission was, I am afraid that few people can know

The Gonsa offensive began in March 1943.

The squadron on this line of battlefield, they received only one order:

Attack, attack, attack! Use the continuous offensive to resolutely destroy the defense of the opposing British army.

Commanding the front-line troops was Colonel Zhang Lingfu. Although he was only a colonel, he had shown his bravery in all the battles he had fought before. …,

For orders, he has always done it to the letter, without bargaining. And in this order he received, there was only one request: to defeat the British army in front of him by March 16!

From the first day of the outbreak of the battle, Zhang Lingfu did not leave any backup for himself, and he put all the available troops in his hands on the battlefield.

And when his men asked him where his headquarters were, the brave colonel had only one answer:

"Where is the front line, my command is there!"

Zhang Lingfu used his answer to tell his soldiers what they should do, and also told his soldiers that they would fight with them themselves.

He also made good on his promise

In the areas where the fighting is most intense, a colonel with a solemn look can always be seen riding in his jeep, suddenly appearing on the front line, then holding a telescope to carefully observe the situation on the battlefield, a few words of warning, and then hopping into his jeep and rushing to another more fierce battlefield.

This is Zhang Lingfu, a brave commander!

And his soldiers clearly lived up to his expectations, and their performance on the battlefield far exceeded the command's imagination

These brave soldiers, like their commanders, fought the British in every corner of the battlefield under the cover of armored vehicles and artillery, and continued to win one victory after another to gain superiority on the battlefield.

If there is any regret, it is that so far there have been no Chinese planes in the sky.

German planes appeared on the battlefield in time, constantly providing the most direct and effective support to the allies on the ground with bombs and aerial machine guns

This was the first time that the Chinese and German armies fought side by side in a practical sense, and although one was in the sky and the other on the ground, this did not hinder their tacit understanding.

The day after the Gonza offensive began, a battalion of British suffered the worst defeat under a double blow from the air and the ground.

Their battalion commander was killed, and most of the soldiers in their battalion died forever in Africa.

This battalion had done a great job in Montgomery's counterattack against Rommel, but now the Chinese have avenged their German allies

The change in the situation made General Capri worried, and he proposed to Montgomery that if he did not lose at Gonza, he must be reinforced with more than a brigade of chariot troops to resist the dreaded Chinese chariots.

But Montgomery refused his request, not because Montgomery was unwilling, but because he did not have the strength to reinforce his men.

While the Chinese attacked, the silent Rommel also commanded his troops to attack the British to cooperate with the squadron on the frontal battlefield.

Montgomery is in a very passive position, and he has to fight on two fronts to deal with the challenge from both China and Germany.

On March 3, the squadron launched the largest offensive since the outbreak of the Gonza offensive against the British, who were densely packed in the Tambia Valley.

Here, it is the British army who has just been reinforced to the battlefield. Meissen Infantry Brigade.

The British ** team, which had just arrived on the battlefield, had not even had time to catch its breath when it was hit by the most violent and ferocious impact from the squadron.

Saint. The commander of the Meissen infantry brigade, Major General Burke, was somewhat helpless.

The troops were so tired that they had just been drawn from the front after a great battle with the Germans, and were sent to Tambia by Montgomery, who was overstretched.

Major General Burke was not too sure that he would be able to hold here, of course, for the honor of the British Emperor, he still decided to do his best as a British officer. …,

The Chinese offensive began.

As always, the squadron used tanks as a leading force!

It was a time to make the saint. The Meissen Infantry Brigade will never forget the attack.

Supported by tanks, the Chinese soldiers launched a tsunami attack, while the weary British hurried into battle.

One bad news after another came from the front, which made Major General Burke a little uneasy.

In the telescope, he saw a terrifying scene, the flood of Chinese offensives, making Major General Burke very doubtful that his troops would be able to hold out until dark.

The casualties were too great, and the Chinese offensive never seemed to stop.

Under the cover of tanks, they broke through several lines of defense of the British in one go, and now even Major General Berke, who was standing in the temporary command, felt great pressure.

Fortunately, they finally held out until night, and the Chinese attack stopped temporarily, which allowed General Burke and his men to breathe a little easier.

However, it won't be night forever, and day will come soon. After the sky shines again, what kind of offensive will the Chinese launch?

Burke didn't know, and neither did all the Britons.

Montgomery inquired about the battle at the front, and Burke told Montgomery that he and his troops had suffered heavy casualties in the day's fighting, and that he had no idea how long he could hold out here, and that perhaps tomorrow the Chinese would appear outside his headquarters.

Montgomery was deeply sympathetic to his subordinates' plight, but he firmly told his subordinates that no matter how difficult it was, they must be there to slow down the Chinese, which was crucial for the entire war situation.

General Berke reluctantly accepted the order, either himself and his own St. The Meissen Infantry Brigade will all be buried here, who knows?

The situation in Africa, which had been gradually reversed, has now become complicated again with the strongest entry of the squadron.

If the Chinese offensive cannot be defeated here, then for the Allies everything will change the most important and terrible!