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As long as the enemy's ground troops enter the range and have sufficient military value, the Allied artillery units will fire without hesitation, smashing all enemies who enter the effective range.

Chapter 1353

"Damn, this cunning fox actually played with me like this!"

After figuring out Rommel's offensive routine, Yang Fan only felt a headache!

上次大战后剩下的1000余架战斗机，在加上新到的400余架p-47雷电战斗机和p-51野马战斗机，足足1400架战斗机已经先后全部投入战斗。

It can be said that the Allied Air Force has tried its best, and has conducted more than ten waves of shopping and consumption with the German fighter group.

However, although the Allied Air Force pilots fought bloody battles for several hours, they still had no way to gain the upper hand and firmly grasped the air supremacy of the Matruh Fortress.

This made it impossible for the bomber fleet and the enemy attack fleet to go into battle to support the Allied officers and soldiers who were fighting bloody battles on the front line.

Similarly, the tank and armored units have no way to pull out to fight the German tank units!

The main reason is that, a few days ago, the Luftwaffe also received a reinforcement supplement.

In order to cooperate with Rommel's decisive frontal battle, in order to win the Matruh Fortress as soon as possible, conquer the whole of Egypt, and send troops out of the Middle East to attack the Soviet Caucasus Front on both sides as soon as possible, the head of state also spent a lot of money and ordered to mobilize a team from the Italian mainland. A large number of fighter jets joined the North African battlefield.

In this way, the sharp sword in Rommel's hand became sharper all at once, which could provide enough powerful air cover for the attacking troops.

Just like this, the incomparably powerful German-Italian coalition forces are advancing side by side, using tons and tons of explosives to smash the outer defense line of Matruh Fortress little by little. Reinforced concrete forts, bunker groups, and defensive trenches are rapidly changing. Into piles of ruins.

No way, although there are many hilly areas around the Matru Fortress, it is actually more accurate to call it a strip of soil slopes, and there is no too dangerous terrain to rely on.

Although the Allied forces have spared no effort to strengthen the fortifications these days, they are not the kind of dangerous rocky mountains after all, which can be used to build indestructible mountain fortresses.

Even if the permanent fortifications were blown to pieces, flesh and blood naturally couldn't survive the high-intensity and indiscriminate bombing.

With the continuous bombing and crazy attacks, frontline casualties are rapidly increasing.

"Sure enough, you can break through ten meetings with one force! Damn, how can you break this?"

Yang Fan was in a hurry. The key point at present is that the air force has no crushing advantage and cannot suppress the German fighter group.

The supply line is too long is a big problem. It will take a week for the fastest batch of Mustang fighter jets to reach the African battlefield, but it is obviously a bit late?

According to the current battle situation, even if all the fighters in his hands are exhausted, it may be difficult to control the air supremacy of the Matruh Fortress.

Fighters use less time to hate!

Damn, since Mr. Yang established the air force, he has never been so aggrieved.

Even if you can't drive straight into the border to attack the enemy, when can't you even control the air supremacy on your own territory?

When will your own front-line troops need to fight against the enemy's indiscriminate bombing by aircraft and artillery?

However, it is not like fighting at home. It is backed by an aircraft factory and a large military supply warehouse. You can fish in troubled waters, and you can directly open and hang up fighter jets to supplement the loss of fighter jets at any time. There will be no violation of the system's realization principle.

But for the sake of the frontline officers and soldiers, Yang Fan did not intend to give up the treatment just like this, and immediately communicated with his mind: "Mr. System, are you here, can you just drive a batch of planes over? Even if you pay more!"

The system replied coldly: "The host's money is not everything. The basic laws and principles must be followed, otherwise it will cause an unpredictable butterfly effect!"

"This means that there is no discussion? Are we still a family?"

For this answer, Yang Fan was not surprised at all.

Now I can be regarded as a big celebrity, and everything will be paid attention to, even the smallest details will fall into the eyes of intelligence personnel from various countries.

Fishing in troubled waters is okay, but blatantly creating supernatural events is never allowed.

Who said that his own system is a system with integrity, who said that the current plane is just a historical plane, and the fantasy things like flying into the sky and escaping from the ground, and smashing the galaxy with a sword will not exist!

"..."

Mr. System kept silent very coldly, and did not answer Yang Fan's rhythmic question.

"Well, pretend I didn't say it!"

Yang Fan rolled his eyes helplessly, he couldn't start from this aspect, so he had to think of other ways.

"The situation is not good!"

"Concentrate our strength and attack one point, making it difficult for us to fully play the role of the defensive chain!"

"With such an attack speed, Port Matruh will fall into the hands of the Axis powers within two or three days at most! By then, the remaining defensive positions will be destroyed without attack!"

"Using points to face, turning passive into active, this trick is really difficult to solve!"

In the war room, Stilwell, Auchinleck, Patton and others were also frowning, contemplating on the sand table and thinking about countermeasures.

At present, the German-Italian coalition forces have been attacking for a full four hours, have already conquered an outer line of defense, and are launching a fierce attack on another hilly fortress 5 kilometers to the right of the line of defense.

Although there are as many as four such outer lines of defense on the west coastline of the Matruh Fortress, if it is broken all the way, it will take less than three days for the army to approach the city, posing a direct threat to the port town of Matruh.

The main port town of Matruh is the core of the Matruh fortress system. It not only stores a large amount of strategic materials such as grain, oil, and ammunition, but also has multiple military functions such as a command center, an airport, coastal defense, air defense, and a hospital.

If this core is gone, the consequences can be imagined.

"There are still 8 hours before dark, it's really difficult!"

Yang Fan looked down at his watch, counted the time silently, and couldn't help but sighed secretly.

In the case of not being able to firmly control the air power, night combat is undoubtedly a good option, especially if your own troops are equipped with night vision goggles, you can do something.

In addition, in the urgent situation, you can still take advantage of the night to carry out a surprise attack on the Italian navy that came to the North African battlefield in advance.

The degree of difficulty of attacking the port of Tobruk, which is close at hand, is much smaller than the difficulty of attacking the port of Taranto, the Italian mainland, which is dangerously situated.

As long as the Italian navy dares to spend the night in Tobruk Port tonight, then Yang Fan will have the guts to do something serious.

As long as the Italian navy can be severely damaged, the enemy forces along the way will undoubtedly be resolved, and the defensive pressure on the Matruh Fortress will be greatly reduced, and even turned against the wind in one fell swoop!

While Yang Fan was bowing his head and thinking, Stilwell looked at Yang Fan with a worried face and said, "Yang, what should we do now? Are we going to be eaten up bit by bit like this?"

Chapter 1354

In the past few months, after a long tug-of-war between the Soviet and German armies, they have conquered a large area of ​​land in the North Caucasus and occupied the oil-producing areas of Maykop and Grozny.

However, the German army was not satisfied with this. After a short rest, they went south to attack the Caucasus Mountains in a large scale, trying to break through the southern mountains, join the Turkish army on the Soviet-Turkish border, and go further south to attack the oil field in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan with greater oil production. .

The vast Caucasus region is divided into the North Caucasus and South Caucasus in the north by the Caucasus Mountains. The majestic Caucasus Mountains are known as the backbone of Europe and are a natural obstacle to mechanized troops.

In the North Caucasus, ?Maykop and Grozny produced 15% of the Soviet Union's oil.

In the South Caucasus, the oil fields in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, are even bigger, supplying almost 70% of the Soviet Union's oil, ?Baku can produce 2400 million tons of oil a year, more than three times Germany's pre-war demand.

In addition, Georgia also has the best manganese mine in the world, supplying more than half of the manganese in the Soviet Union.As for food and other materials, they are also extremely abundant, which can be described as a huge treasure house.

Therefore, in order to prevent the Axis troops from breaking through the mountains of the Caucasus, the vacillating Turkey completely fell to the Axis alliance, which triggered a series of chain reactions.

Yang Fan had no choice but to spare more than 20 troops and let Alexander's 18th Army Group go to the Caucasus region to support the Soviet Caucasus Front Army, blocking the German army to the north of the Caucasus Mountains.

As a result, the strength of the Allied forces in the North African theater was reduced to less than 70, and the strength of the relatively strong German and Italian coalition forces was too weak.

The so-called smart woman can't cook without rice, and without enough capital to fight head-on with the African Army, Yang Fan can only adopt the ultimate insignificant defense.

But fortunately, although the division of troops in the Caucasus region made the North African Allied Forces very passive, it played a big role. It was because Alexander's 18th Army Group arrived in time that they suppressed the ready-to-move Turkish army and stabilized the Caucasus. Mountain line.

The arrival of the 18th Army Group announced that Germany will no longer have the opportunity to threaten the South Caucasus this winter.The arrival of winter made the German army's insufficient fuel consumption faster, which made things worse.

"Don't worry, trust our fighters, they will persevere to the end, and victory will definitely belong to us, to the side of justice."

After withdrawing his thoughts, Yang Fan smiled and comforted him, and then said: "It is true that the Allied forces are suffering now, but the same is true for the Axis forces. As long as we can grit our teeth and persist for a few more hours, there will be a turning point." !"

Hearing this, Stilwell seemed to grasp a certain point, and hurriedly asked: "Do you have any good ideas?"

Although everything is clearly laid out on the sand table, and all possible corresponding strategies have been deduced many times by the staff officers, but so far there is no feasible plan at all.

In the final analysis, in such a tough battle with a limit, the fight is hard power. You are not stupid, and the enemy is not stupid. What you can think of, the enemy can also think of. It is difficult to grasp the flaws and weaknesses and kill them with one blow!

"..."

As Stilwell's words fell, Auchinleck, Patton and the others all turned their attention to Yang Fan, hoping that he could come up with some good ideas to change the current extremely unfavorable battle situation as soon as possible.

"I do have some ideas, but the time is not yet ripe, and we still need to get through it."

Launching a night raid is not a new thing, let alone an unexpected conspiracy, so Yang Fan has no need to play tricks and throw out his previous ideas.

"The basic idea is like this. As long as the Italian navy dares to spend the night in the waters near the port of Tobruk tonight, I will definitely wake them up tonight."

After discussing this idea with everyone, Yang Fan said murderously again: "Of course, in order to relieve the pressure on the frontline troops, we have to spend a lot of money. We can't let them attack so smoothly and comfortably!"

……

17 kilometers west of Matruh Port, a hilly position of the 1st Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Army.

Here is the defensive position of the 3th Regiment of the 5th Brigade of the 9rd Division of the Expeditionary Army.

At this moment, on the plains in front of the 9th Regiment's position, and on the gentle slopes hundreds of meters in front of the position, piles of burning and burnt steel wreckage can be seen everywhere, as well as enemy corpses scattered in the mud. There are countless more.

The wanton flow of blood has almost turned the dry muddy land on the slope into a muddy wetland. This is really a river of blood.

The air was filled with the strong smell of gunpowder smoke and blood, filled with the sound of gunfire and explosions that made people's eardrums feedback. At this moment, the extremely fierce life-and-death battle was still going on.

The officers and soldiers of the 9th regiment no longer know how many enemy tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed, how many desperate enemy soldiers were killed, and how many attacks were repelled back and forth.

They only know that I am invincible, as long as the enemy is still attacking, they must fight bloody to the end.

Thousands of anti-tank mines and infantry mines constitute a large mine array, which has long been consumed by the enemy's frenzied bombing and ground attacks.

There are more than 40 88mm anti-aircraft guns, and now there are only pitiful 5 left that can still be used.

Dozens of reinforced concrete forts and bunkers were left behind after the frenzied bombing, and the entire defense system had been severely damaged.

Even the two front trenches have changed hands several times, lost again and again, and the soldiers fought hand-to-hand with the enemy who rushed into the trench several times, driving the enemy out of the position again and again.

Under the wave after wave of frenzied attacks by fierce and powerful enemies, the officers and soldiers of the Huaxia Expeditionary Army have long been insensitive and turned into killing machines, repeating the mechanized shooting and firing movements.

Even if there are planes on their heads, heavy artillery in the distance, and the firepower of tanks and armored vehicles nearby, they are not afraid, leaving no room for the enemy's imagination from beginning to end.

"The Huaxia Expeditionary Army is really a hard bone that cannot be broken or smashed!"

A German colonel commander, standing on a slope in the distance, stared at the fierce battlefield several kilometers away with a telescope, his brows frowning into the word Sichuan.

The German ground troops in charge of the main attack were indeed hard-working. They had been attacking continuously for more than eight hours since dawn, and no less than 5000 people had been killed in the battle, and more than 350 tanks and armored vehicles were damaged.

But in order to win the Matruh Fortress, to conquer Egypt as soon as possible, and to win the final victory, they had to bite the bullet and continue the onslaught, and had to pay for it with their lives.

Chapter 1355 Another Life

"Damn it, come on! I don't believe you won't be killed!"

Long Wenwen lifted the heavy machine gunner who had just been killed, then filled it in himself, pulled the trigger with his hand and continued to fire wildly.

Chi Chi Chi!

A string of metal bullets fell like a torrential rain in an instant, splashing blood flowers on the distant enemy soldiers in an instant, and splashing sparks on the tanks and armored vehicles.

The gauze wrapped around Long Wenwen's head was already soaked with blood seeping out continuously. No matter how strong the hemostatic powder is in stopping bleeding, it couldn't stand the intense tossing.

Although Long Wenwen has long been the leader of the regiment, under normal circumstances there is no need to go to the front line to do shopping, but now, the entire 9th regiment is in a desperate situation. Except for the health workers and correspondents who have not yet been on the front line, everyone It has been a bloody battle for a long time.

The wound on Long Wenwen's forehead was caused by hitting a rock after being blown away by the blast during the shelling.

Fortunately, this guy's life is hard, if he is a little bit unlucky, the fragment that flew past his scalp will cut off his head directly.

Until now, Long Wenwen's head is still dizzy, and even his vision has begun to become blurred. He doesn't know whether it is because of excessive bleeding, a concussion from being hit, or a cerebral hemorrhage.

But obviously, the pain on the body is not the point now, and it is not even the point whether they will bleed too much to death. The point is that the battle cannot be stopped at all. Complete combat missions.

In the trenches on both sides of Long Wenwen, many soldiers have fallen forever, and young lives have been buried forever in foreign countries for the sake of the country and the nation.

The soldiers who are still fighting at this moment are almost all injured, but they can't get off the line of fire with minor injuries. As long as they can persist in fighting, their lives will not stop fighting.

As for those soldiers who were seriously injured, although they could not maintain the fighting state, they could not pick up heavy weapons and persist in fighting, but they did not hide aside and wait for the arrival of the last moment, but endured severe pain to help their comrades around them Load clips and even crawl around trenches delivering ammo.

There is no way, the battle has reached this level, they have no way to retreat, and the enemy will not give them a chance to retreat calmly.

As long as they show timidity, as long as they lose their footing, as long as they run away regardless of their heads, the enemy army that has already filled up their hatred points and has red eyes will pounce on them like a pack of vicious wolves, and tear them to pieces in two or three hits. .

When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. At this time, we can only grit our teeth and fight to the end, defeat the enemy, and scare them, in order to gain a chance!

"Team be careful!"

Just as Long Wenwen was firing wildly, Zhang Milong, who was wearing a bandage on his arm, ran over from nowhere, and threw Long Wenwen, who was already dim-eyed, to the ground.

Whoosh whoosh!

Almost at the moment when Long Wenwen was knocked down, a string of heavy machine gun bullets flew past the earth and rocks beside the trench.