Imperial Overlord

The Battle of El Alamein started in such an abrupt and somewhat trivial state. Rommel was desperate, and Cunningham was terrified.

On a German sdkfz251 armored vehicle, the German grenadier with a grenade jumped out of the compartment behind the armored vehicle with an order.

Beside them, an improved No. 3 tank destroyed by British anti-tank artillery was burning, and thick black smoke billowed up, covering the nearby land.

The battle was intense from the very beginning to the point where the soldiers on both sides were taken aback. The German armored forces came up and put 20 tanks to participate in the attack, and the British minefields and anti-tank artillery lines also opened fire fiercely...

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

The German infantry ripped apart an entire British garrison 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 penetrating the British line of Alamein.

At one point, Cunningham thought he had been defeated by the enemy, and he watched as German tanks rushed to his left almost parallel to his command.

The heavy artillery fire allowed Cunningham to disprove his previous inference that the Germans lacked supplies. He suspected that he was wrong. The Germans did get supplies, and more than he thought.

However, then, the Germans' attack slowed down, and they seemed to be hesitating whether to continue the attack.

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

They penetrated the enemy to a depth of more than 700 meters, but still could not see the end of the enemy's defense zone.

The British defenders opened fire from all directions, and bullets hit the German tanks from all directions, as if hailstones hit the roof.

Soon, the three No. 3 tanks in the sudden British army's position were destroyed. The tragic explosion and the billowing smoke made the infantry of the Afrika Corps realize the cruelty of the war for the first time.

The German advance was slowed down when the 4th was not so much rampaging through the British positions as the Panzer 3, which was struggling in the enemy's encirclement, was pierced by shells and burst into flames.

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

Rommel, who had the epaulettes of the admiral on his shoulders, still looked at the battlefield in the distance with a blank expression, and he could feel that he was in a very bad mood.

Frankly speaking, Rommel is a general who loves to laugh. He has a natural idol temperament when facing the camera, and always has a confident smile.

Such Rommel, if he doesn't laugh, means that he is a little nervous or has other messy things, which makes him so angry that he can't smile.

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

Suddenly, the Italian artillery fire stopped in the chaos, and the surroundings seemed to be a little quieter.

Then less than a second later, the sound of the cannons started to be noisy again. The brief pause was just a coincidence.

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

The commander of the Afrika Korps has been talking about a phrase: "Retaliate! Retaliate!"

As the chief of staff of the African Corps, Lieutenant General Alfred naturally knew how much supplies the African Corps was carrying in this attack. In fact, the entire African Corps now has very little fuel.

Starting from Matrouh, the oil carried by the German tanks is the fuel for the journey between El Alamein and Matrouh, just a little more.

After the consumption of this battle, if the German army did not want to be annihilated in El Alamein due to lack of oil, they simply did not have the ability to launch a second attack.

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

Therefore, although Cunningham didn't know it, Lieutenant General Alfred couldn't have been unaware that this attack by the African Legion was a complete intimidation!

Yes! Intimidate! If you use playing cards to describe it, this is a complete chicken steal! There is no good card in hand, but the act of launching all the chips!

Rommel's idea was to use a magnificent attack to force the British to retreat.

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

And this attack is the last step of intimidation. When this step is completed and the British are still in their original positions, they can only return to Matrouh in a daze, with no choice at all.

At that time, the entire Afrika Korps attack will become a laughing stock in the whole world.

As for the counterattack in Rommel's mouth - Lieutenant General Alfred smiled bitterly, how can the African Army look like this, how can it have the strength to fight back?

If the construction of the port of Matrouh is completed tomorrow, the sea transport fleet that is already at sea will arrive the day after tomorrow.

Then the supplies that came ashore from Matrouh can reach the front line, and the counterattack is not bad.

The current situation can only be said to be powerless. Lieutenant General Alfred helplessly averted his gaze and continued to observe the direction of the battle on the front line.

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

What made Lieutenant General Alfred even more depressed was that when Rommel started his attack, he threw himself into the German troops instead of letting the Italians who followed him go up and try the truth.

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

In fact, Rommel also did not order the Italian army to prepare for the attack. This made General Garibaldi, who was reluctant and barely followed by orders, breathed a sigh of relief.

Watching the Germans and the British shed blood on the battlefield, without having to participate in it, was indeed in line with the desire of the Italian army.

However, for Lieutenant General Alfred, this battle seems to have been wrong from the beginning, the wrong time to attack, the wrong place to attack, the wrong order of attack... everything is wrong, wrong is messy, wrong of people crashing.

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

He seems to have found that the momentum of the German attack was stopped by his own defenses! This is undoubtedly great news for him.

Cunningham put down his binoculars and saw the German tanks smoking thickly. He was in a good mood at this moment, because he seemed to straighten out everything that happened before.

This time he finally found an explanation for everything, and it was a very reasonable explanation: "It turns out! The Germans really have no supplies! They are stealing chickens!"

The high-profile attack is the performance of a guilty conscience because there is no trump card! Coming up to attack with the main German troops is the last choice for breaking the boat!

"I understand! I understand! The Germans are pretending! They actually don't have enough strength to attack Alamein!" Cunningham, who saw the German team's guilty conscience, laughed happily.

The German grenadiers, still fighting in his position and keeping the Australian 6th Infantry Division on the defensive, seemed less terrifying at the moment.

After thinking about everything, he couldn't help the ecstasy in his heart, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud - a godsend opportunity, since the Germans are pretending, they are doing what they do!

This is God's second opportunity for the Compass action! As the British commander ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Cunningham decided to complete the ambitions that Admiral Wavell had no chance of accomplishing!

"Let the 7th Armored Division fight back! Before it gets dark today, I will defeat the German troops!" He issued an order to counterattack, preparing to drive the desperate German team out of the Alamein line of defense!

Following his orders, the British armored units, which had been hidden behind the lines and had been silent, rushed out of their bunker under the cover of the 1st Regiment of the 1st South African Infantry Division.

The British team blew the horn for a counterattack, and the attacking German troops immediately gave up the attack. The enemy's tanks expedited their withdrawal, and the infantry also withdrew from the occupied lines.

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

Under the pursuit of the British team, the German team began to retreat, throwing away their armor and armor along the way, and even blew up 10 No. 3 tanks that were paralyzed by the roadside due to malfunctions.

The Italian army, who was far behind the German team, seemed to be walking more calmly because they didn't get off the truck.

These Italian troops left without hesitation, retreating even three points faster than they were advancing behind the German team.

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

Suddenly, he saw the smile on the corner of Rommel's mouth, and that confident smile returned to the commander-in-chief of the African Army at some point.

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