Patton was in the headquarters, facing the red flags on the map, and the calm face he had maintained since the beginning of the battle finally showed a "crack".

"Unbelievable! The Germans actually crushed six of our panzer divisions in a head-to-head duel! And they're still on the offensive! What's going on with the numbers on this map? This division, called White Scab, had already encountered our entire armored division, and as a result, it was not even stumped up, and our follow-up troops directly encountered them before they arrived at the original combat launch area, and they were caught off guard! They also routed an anti-tank gun position, and then they were still advancing! Normally, by now they should have stopped to recuperate! ”

No one answered Patton's words, because no one knew what was really happening at the front and how much the German army, which served as the vanguard, had suffered.

Patton continued: "In other places, our counterattacks have been quite successful, we have forced the Germans on the left and right to slow down their advance, but this center is still advancing at the same speed, their current advance speed is simply unbelievable, it is only half a day that he is about to penetrate our predetermined mobile combat area, what is going on with them? If it were the tanks of our army, now they would have accounted for a third of the total number of tanks just by breaking down the roads! ”

"The German vehicles were designed with a special emphasis on reliability over long distances."

"I know!" Patton interrupted the staff officer, "But they're bound to have quite a few cars break down, aren't they?" Coupled with the battle losses, this armored division should not have many troops left, but they are still advancing very fiercely! ”

"The intelligence we have gathered shows that the enemy is equipped with new combat vehicles......"

"A new type of chariot! New tanks! Is the new tank invincible? Unless Germany can get the force field shield used by the war queens on the war queens, is that possible? Is it possible? After two consecutive "maybes," Patton shook his head, "Could it be that the difference in experience between the German troops on the Eastern Front and the Western Front is really so large that it is possible to rely on combat skills to offset our numerical superiority?" ”

"General, this unit has its own name, and it is also a very elite unit in the German army, there are only a dozen such divisions in the entire German army, and their combat skills are indeed much stronger than ordinary German troops."

This time, Patton did not reply immediately, but after pondering for a while, he raised his head and ordered: "Since this is the elite of the German army, if we defeat it, we will definitely be able to severely demoralize the German army." ”

Barton looked at the map and made a compass on it.

"Well, we can use the Ninth and Eleventh Divisions to flank this white scab that has broken into the heart of our army."

"It's a white scar, General."

"Won't the wound scab over?"

Patton asked unhappily, and the staff officer was stunned for a moment, but had to reply, "Yes, General." ”

"That's right, they're all troops to be annihilated by us anyway, and it doesn't matter what their name is. Now listen, I need the 20th Infantry Division deployed here to take advantage of the anti-tank position to lag and wear down the enemy, and then we throw two armored divisions to counterattack from both sides. In addition, the other divisions that were withdrawn this morning have seized the time to reorganize, and the combat vehicles that can still be used are concentrated in divisions with relatively complete structures and officer systems, and we may be able to use them in this situation. ”

**

Guderian's headquarters, the staff officer was reporting to Guderian: "The offensive of our army on the left and right has been blocked, and the pace of advance has been slow, about three to four hours later than the scheduled schedule. However, the direction of our army's main attack is progressing smoothly, and we have already destroyed a number of enemy armored units that counterattacked. ”

"Well, good job." Guderian nodded, and immediately asked, "But the white scars must have lost a lot of their own, and I think they should stop and regroup their troops first." ”

"According to their reports, they still have more than half of their tanks capable of fighting, and the number of losses in infantry combat is less than that of tanks."

"In such a maneuver of troops, all the figures are estimates, and there will be deviations from the actual numbers." Guderian waved his hand, "Anyway, order them to stop, set up anti-tank positions, overhaul the tanks and wait for fuel and ammunition to be replenished, and then continue the attack after our follow-up troops have followed." Where is the second echelon of our mid lane now? ”

Another staff officer immediately reported: "The second echelon forward is about sixty kilometers behind the white scars, and the infantry units are even behind. ”

"That is, there is a force fault dozens of kilometers wide behind the white scar, and it is not good to be discovered by Patton." Although Guderian said this, he didn't seem to be worried at all, because according to the preparation before departure, the fuel carried by the white scar should be able to last for half a day, and if the American troops inserted into the gap behind the white scar, they might be flanked back and forth.

In this part of Algeria, the inhabited area is the long strip by the sea, and if you go to the desert, you will soon enter a relatively sparsely populated area, which is not only sparsely populated, but also the number of vegetation has decreased sharply, basically showing a desert landform. In such an area, what really matters is the perimeter of the road, and it is impossible for any armored unit to leave the road for a long time, even if it is an infantry unit, it is impossible to be too far away from the road, so the battlefield is not as wide as the Eastern Front, and the front is full of defensive troops—it is really impossible to do that without that.

In this battlefield, both sides can only invest troops in a controlled manner, and the consumption of one echelon after another, and it is easy to lie down on the ground by making a large-scale detour from the road. In another time, Rommel had done this in Libya and Egypt, but he often couldn't do it anymore - the supplies really couldn't keep up.

In this part of North Africa, only Luenis is the only one with quite complex terrain, so fighting on the boundaries of Lunice feels similar to that in places like Europe, and North African countries other than Lunius, such as Libya and Algeria, have relatively simple terrain and large open spaces.

So in another space, Montgomery's plan of attack in the middle and late stages of the Battle of El Alamein was very simple, drawing several lines for the armored forces as the goal of each stage of the advance - because there were really no strategic points that seemed to have to be captured, so the lines could only be drawn in this way, and these lines were regarded as the goals of the armored division, and when they reached this line, they stopped to wait for supplies and report on the advance.

Moreover, Montgomery did not arrange any complicated roundabout operations, because North Africa did not need to go around to encircle the enemy, as long as the seashore was occupied, the remaining enemy was no different from being surrounded, and could only retreat backwards, until he could establish contact with the coast.

So Montgomery's counteroffensive plan at El Alamein was like this: the British Commonwealth army would advance quickly along the seashore, and as long as they ran faster than the German army retreated, the German army would be annihilated when it ran out of fuel and supplies.

Tactically, Montgomery did only one thing: he carried out a well-planned deception to make the Germans think he was going to attack to the south (that is, on the side of the Sahara), and then outflanked the Germans by the sea.

In the end, the British did make a breakthrough by the sea, and they routed a large number of the Afrika Army's troops.

But Guderian did not copy Montgomery's plan, he did not choose to attack by the sea.

This is mainly due to the fact that the seaside of Algeria is different from the seaside of the El Alamein region, and there is still a considerable amount of vegetation on the seashore of Algeria, and the terrain is relatively not so flat, which is not suitable for large-scale armored corps attacks.

Guderian immediately took a fancy to the flat terrain in the middle of the battlefield, sandwiched between the real Sahara Desert and the green area of the seaside. He was going to set up a long formation here, wave after wave of armored troops, to cut through the defensive line of the American army.

Now, his handpicked speartip watch is not bad.