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Vincent's Italian SS Armored Division commanded troops to attack along the coastline, because the Tiger tank was slightly lighter, and another armored division, Fritz, the commander of the Viking Division, was a member of the original "Reaper's Scythe" armored regiment. Chang has been promoted to the commander of the Viking Division because of his military exploits. The armored division commanded by Fritz attacked from the southeast of Alamein, generally in the direction of Egypt.

These two armored divisions are both battle-tested veterans with extremely high combat literacy. At the same time, Zhang Jun also gave them two artifacts. The first is the fa223 helicopter regiment, with a total of 160 and four f223 helicopters. The helicopters of the two brigades helped these armored divisions break through. The German-made six-barreled rocket launcher carried by fa223 was very powerful. The British army was defeated by the three-dimensional firepower of the SS.

Italy was defeated just now, but it changed roles in an instant and became a British wolf chaser. Can people escape helicopters or tanks?Impossible, even the British tanks suffered heavy losses under the full fire coverage of the FA223. The British "Firefly" heavy tank or the American "Sherman heavy tank" were bombarded by dense 150mm rockets How many tanks can be left? Even if it is not blown up, the tank crew will be shocked to death, not to mention there are SS Tiger and copycat Type 99 tanks below.

What Zhang Jun gave the SS army more is the rpg rocket launcher. Although this thing is not as terrifying as the armor-piercing of later generations, the rfg armor-piercing depth of later generations is 400mm. Now it has more than 200 points of vertical penetration, which is half of it. Penetrate deep.It also completely exploded all British and American tanks.Even hat heavy tanks are coming.It's also food delivery.

The troops commanded by Montgomery, Montgomery's tactical accomplishment is still very high, but Montgomery saw Rommel's armored division attacking his defense line, and Montgomery's supplies and ammunition were almost consumed at this time. There was no way to stop Rommel's fierce pincer attack, but Montgomery also had something to rely on, that is, more than 20 American troops followed, just more than 100 kilometers behind him.On the one hand, they came to reinforce Montgomery and on the other hand, they sent supplies to Montgomery.

Montgomery is worthy of being an excellent commander. He quickly ordered his two infantry divisions to carry various anti-tank weapons to hold back the attack of the German SS as much as possible. Montgomery gave the two British infantry divisions The task was to hold down the armored units of the SS for three hours, and Montgomery could use these three hours to withdraw a large number of soldiers from other units, and blow up all the cannons that could not be carried away.

Montgomery is using a broken arm to survive. The British troops commanded by Montgomery have been stationed in the desert and fighting in the desert.He is very familiar with the desert environment, and Rommel's soldier peak is sharp.However, he is very unfamiliar with desert combat. Tanks are also in constant condition in such a harsh environment as the desert. Under such circumstances, Montgomery's two infantry divisions held up Rommel's two armored divisions for four hours. After Rommel surrounded more than 4 British troops, the boy Montgomery ran away with the rest of the troops, and all the heavy weapons that could not be taken away were also blown up by the British troops.

Although Rommel was worried about not being able to annihilate Montgomery, which Britain boasted about, Rommel had another surprise, that is, the more than 20 Italian prisoners were rescued by the German army, and it was impossible for Montgomery to bring the prisoners To escape, they can only be placed in a temporarily delimited "prisoner-of-war camp" without walls and sentries. This prisoner-of-war camp was built by Italian prisoners of war. When Germany goes to the Italian prisoner-of-war camp, let these Italians go back to find their own troops However, to the surprise of the SS, these Italian prisoners of war refused the request of the SS. These Italian prisoners of war said:

"They are prisoners of war of the British army, and the British army needs to come and release them, otherwise they will violate the prisoner of war regulations."

The SS had no choice but to find Vincent of the Italian SS to take away these funny Italian prisoners of war and let them return to the team.

Although Rommel won the battle, Rommel was definitely not an arrogant person. He still sent a large number of reconnaissance planes to take pictures along the way to investigate the situation. Soon the information was sent. There were a large number of British and American coalition forces more than 100 miles away from the Tunisian pass The number of subordinates is 30, while Rommel has only 5 people, including two armored divisions and one infantry division.

Rommel's strength is of course impossible to confront the 30 troops of the Anglo-American Allied Forces. Rommel must defend Tunisia. Rommel intends to severely injure the Anglo-American Allied Forces in the defensive battle in Tunisia. At the same time, he will protect the Tunisian port and wait for Zhang Jun. The army came.In this way, the Tunisian port has become the focus of Rommel's defense, which is the key node of the life and death of Rommel's troops.

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After Montgomery escaped, he soon joined the U.S. troops who came for reinforcements. After a short rest and deployment, the weapons, equipment and ammunition of the British and American coalition forces were quickly restored.

On November 1942, 11, the leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States decided to implement the "Torch" operation plan to attack North Africa, and appointed General Eisenhower as the commander-in-chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force for the "Torch" operation. In late November, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States and Britain confirmed the details of the implementation of the "torch" combat plan in London, and decided that the two armies would land in Algiers, Oran and Casablanca in French North Africa on November 25. Occupy the main coastal ports, and then the Algiers landing force will go east to seize Tunisia, and then wait to cooperate with the British army in North Africa to eliminate the German and Italian troops in North Africa.

A total of 33 divisions and 45 people from the United States and Britain participated in the "torch" operation, and they were organized into three task forces in the west, center and east.The Western Task Force was commanded by Major General Patton of the US Army and landed in Casablanca, Morocco; the Central Task Force and the Eastern Task Force were commanded by Major General Fredendall and Major General Ryder of the US Army respectively, starting from the United Kingdom and landing in Oran and Algeria. Algiers landing.

On November 1942, 11, more than 28 American and British coalition troops landed in Algiers, Oran, and Casablanca on 30 warships and transport ships.The coalition forces were only slightly resisted by the French. On November 1664, the commander-in-chief of the French army and Admiral Darlan, who was inspecting North Africa, announced his separation from the Vichy government, ordered the French army to cease fire, and joined the coalition forces.After the successful landing of the Allied forces, the British 11st Army and the US 11nd Army continued to advance eastward to capture the city of Tunisia and the port of Bizerte.

德军党卫军抢先占了突尼斯。1940年12月1日，张俊将在突尼斯的德国党卫军部队编为“德国党卫军非洲军团”，张俊任命隆美尔上将为司令。 “德意非洲军团”逐渐辖德军2个装甲师、1个摩托化步兵师和13个意大利步兵师的规模。隆美尔在突尼斯的北部山地建立了一条防线，并逐渐向南推进，以对抗英第1集团军和美第2军的推进。

On December 1940, 12, the leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States met in Casablanca and decided to set up a theater in the North African battlefield, with General Eisenhower of the United States as the commander-in-chief and General Alexander of the United Kingdom as the deputy commander-in-chief.The North African Allied Forces were reorganized into the 1th Army Group, which consisted of the British 18st Army under the command of Anderson, the British 1th Army under the command of Montgomery, the US 8nd Army under the command of Fredendall and part of the French Army.Alexander served as the commander of the 2th Army Group, unified command of all ground forces of the Allied forces in North Africa.

Rommel was acutely aware of new fighting opportunities.At that time, the British 8th Army, which was in front of Rommel's troops, had not yet posed a threat to the Maret line of defense. After Montgomery captured Tripoli, he was busy reopening the port of Tripoli. It would take some time to prepare for a new offensive.To the west, Anderson's British 1st Army and Fredendall's U.S. 2nd Army threatened his rear.Rommel was determined to take advantage of his central position between the two enemy armies, first crushing the Allies behind him with a rear outflanking surprise attack, and then turned around to deal with Montgomery.This is an excellent plan, but it encountered difficulties in its implementation. The Italian 5th Panzer Army was not under the command of Rommel, and the cooperation between the Italian army and Rommel was not coordinated.

Rommel also reported the issue of the command to Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun had passed the command of the Italian army earlier, and Hitler agreed. Unfortunately, Mussolini's stupid pig refused to hand over the Italian army. Zhang Jun has nothing to do with command power. Mussolini, a fat pig, should really be hanged.

Rommel's attack plan was reported to Zhang Jun and the high command. Some of the information was cracked by the Allied forces, but they got the German army's main attack location wrong. Both Eisenhower's headquarters and the British First Army headquarters believed that the enemy's attack location It was near Fonduc.To this end, the Allies deployed heavy troops behind Fonduc.

On January 1940, 1, the German and Italian forces launched an offensive code-named "Spring Breeze".In the north, Rommel's 4th Army launched a main attack on the position of the US 5nd Army from Verde Pass. De Wiggin and Vincent Armored Division attacked from both sides, severely damaged the US 2st Armored Division and captured Sidi Bouzid. On the 1th, Rommel's troops in the south also captured Gafsa and advanced towards Firiana. On the 5th, Rommel occupied Firiana.

Rommel planned to move northwest from Firiana to Tebessa, Algeria, in order to cut off the communication line of the British and American allies, so as to develop the tactical victory into a strategic victory.However, although he received the support of the air force in Malta, he could not get the cooperation of the Italian army. Rommel only had more than 5 people, but he dared to launch a counterattack against the 45 British and American coalition forces. It can be seen that Rommel's momentum, but Rommel The troops are too few.

Rommel, who had no choice but to attack Le Cave in the northeast first.In this way, Rommel faced the front of the British and American allies instead of the back.Rommel couldn't help being furious.In his view, this meant that "being as close as possible to the enemy's line would have forced us to attack a strong enemy reserve."

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