Five Hundred and Four Thought of Going Together

People who are familiar with Rommel also know that he has a famous saying, which can be said to directly express his character to the extreme. This famous saying is "deceive your opponent whenever you get the chance".

Now that he had the best deceitful trump card in his hand, he naturally thought of deceiving his opponent. He was lifted from the shackles that restricted the attack by the head of state, and he inadvertently let the opponent confirm that he "will not attack in the short term". In addition, he himself prefers offense to defense. It fits his character.

In sports competitions, the players who are truly world champions have their own passionate side, and the generals on the battlefield often have their own will and tendencies. The kind of mediocre generals without distinctive personalities can defend well, but attack slightly insufficient up. A passionate general like Rommel is undoubtedly a hero created by the times.

After the classic intelligence deception that had already been implemented, Rommel once again played his old tricks. He ordered the troops to raise sand to cover their positions, and arranged them with logs, bushes and tents in the sand. The false target blinded the reconnaissance plane that the British army risked their lives to come.

Soon his efforts paid off, and Montgomery was confirmed that the main German armored forces were still deployed on the front, rather than being drawn out for new offensive operations.

The second deceit was to conceal his true direction of attack, and he made a bold decision to present his carefully laid out plan of action to General Frederick: "This time, I decided to attack according to this plan. , how do you see it?"

General Frederick took a look at the plan in Rommel's hand, and there was a wry smile on the corner of his mouth. He put down the document in his hand, and looked up at the general who was a few years younger than him. : "General, as in the Tunisian battle, you want to use the same method to launch an attack on the same enemy's southern flank?"

"Yes, General Frederick, in this way, they would never have thought that I would fight such a battle with repeated tactics, which increased the suddenness and made the opponent even more unprepared." Rommel was confident in his plan. Full, he very much hoped to defeat the British and American coalition forces in one fell swoop and win his second victory in North Africa.

This is the Desert Fox, this is the cunning tactical master who emphasizes suppressing the opponent with the fastest firepower to win the victory. He likes to use his large army to embroider in the vast desert, weaving and interspersing in a limited space, making all opponents exhausted and unable to resist his terrifying attacks.

This time Rommel can mobilize more tank units, and once the battle is successful, he will gain even greater results. If the frontal British and American coalition forces are to be defeated in one fell swoop, Tobruk will also become an enemy exposed to German firepower. Down the front line fortress.

In another combat command, General Patton was also putting his attack plan on Montgomery's desk.

He was always smoking his cigars one by one, with a proud expression that made people look uncomfortable. However, this general from the United States of America is indeed a formidable commander. His combat deployment is open and closed, and there is a strong taste in it.

If it is said that Rommel took the lost and elegant way of the Xiaoyao School, then this Barton can be regarded as the authentic Shaolin Temple's Vajra Subduing Demon Kungfu. The attack plan he came up with this time won Montgomery's praise, and it can be called a very exciting attack plan.

This plan was born out of Rommel's command of the battle in Tunisia. Patton reversed Rommel's roundabout attack and followed almost the same route to cut into the flanks of the German and Italian coalition forces, disrupting the German army's combat deployment.

Judging from the intelligence, their tanks have some advantages in number. As long as the raid on the flanks is successful, they can make up for the lack of quality of their armored forces to a certain extent, and completely defeat the African army west of Tobruk. As long as they win this battle, India and Southeast Asia, which are ready to move, will once again succumb to the majesty of the British Empire, and Britain will really get a breather.

"General Patton, leave the detour to the main force of the 8th Army with high morale, and you will personally command it. This time we will give Rommel a real blow and let him see that war is not how he wants to fight, but how he fights it. Yes!" Montgomery said to Patton, putting down the battle plan Patton gave him.

"I will lead the troops south immediately! At dawn on April 22, I will launch a flank attack on time. I ask General Montgomery to cooperate with the US military's actions at that time!" Patton stood up and walked out of Montgomery's office without looking back. Outside the tent, I got into a jeep with a roaring engine and drove off into the distance.

That afternoon, the British 8th Army began to move its main force southward. Under the desperate cover of the British Air Force, it escaped the eyes of the German reconnaissance planes and embarked on a road that detoured the German flank.

Tanks drove out of the concealed camouflaged garage one after another, and the new M4 Sherman tanks gathered together into a torrent of steel, rolling forward with trucks full of infantry one after another.

The white five-pointed star is extremely eye-catching on the front engine hatch of the car, and some corners and corners have been slightly stripped off by the wind and sand, making these cold war machines even more vicissitudes. Patton stood on his car, watched the tank pass by with its gun barrel high, and put the cigar into his mouth with satisfaction.

This time, that Rommel would not want to escape! I will be able to capture him alive, as my Barton's honor! General Patton, who narrowed his eyes while watching his troops stretching forward, thought to himself.

On the trucks, GIs held their M1 Garand rifles, chewed gum and hummed various home tunes, while trucks on one side were piled high with crates of shells, and these trucks hauled large-caliber The 155mm howitzer, with a murderous look, went straight to the battlefield that had been determined long ago in the distance.

They will be ordered to attack the German positions from the flanks, cut into the German defense lines and destroy the German fortifications. After defeating the Germans, they will get the commission promised to them—after all, they did not participate in the war as the U.S. Army, They were mercenaries, so-called volunteers.

"Let those Germans see how powerful we Americans are!" An American soldier sat on a tank with a trembling and roaring engine, holding his rifle and shouted loudly: "If I see Akado, I must let him He licks my ass! He's a bastard! Get it? A bum!"

At the same moment, Rommel, the German North African General Headquarters, just happened to be standing in his convertible car, smiling and handing over the command of the frontal defensive position to General Friedrich: "General, I will be on April 22. The general offensive begins at dawn and completely annihilates the two British 8th and 9th armies in front of us. My frontal defense line is fully entrusted to you to command!"

"I wish you victory, General. I will do my best to hold the defensive position until the last second! Long live the Führer!" General Frederick raised his right hand and saluted Rommel in the car. .

With an order, a German Panther tank hidden in the arbor rushed out of its concealed offensive. The commander showed half of his body and saluted General Rommel not far away. Soon the second tank also After driving out, the black iron cross on the tank turret made people shudder.

Several armored vehicles set off at the same time, following the side of these tanks. The German grenadiers on the armored vehicles had the same cold eyes. They held their long guns and short cannons, and swayed slightly with the shaking of the armored vehicles. With a determined look, they are the most elite and most proud Panzergrenadiers in the German army.

Tanks and armored vehicles looked very small in the yellow sand all over the sky, and soon more tanks, trucks, and rocket launchers joined the team. The German army's swastika flag was hung by the soldiers on the roofs of the cars and tanks, because the sky Among them, dozens of fighter jets responsible for covering them roared past, and flew into the distance amidst the cheers of the soldiers.

The No. 3 tank has also kept up with the Leopard tank. Rommel has not only the Leopard and the Tiger tank, but also many advanced anti-tank guns of the No. 3 tank and even the No. 2 tank. , These armored vehicles constituted a huge tank attack group in Rommel's hands, raised dust all over the sky, and rushed towards their destination.

There was an astonishing coincidence on the battlefield. The military generals on both sides drew up an almost identical battle plan, and then implemented the battle plan almost at the same time. Rommel is now leading his armored forces to detour south towards the Allied lines, while Patton is leading American and British armored divisions in an attempt to kill Rommel in one fell swoop.

Soon, the two combat units in charge of roundabouts will collide, and this sudden encounter will become a test for the soldiers and commanders of the two armies. Who will win the encounter? , whoever can shake the opponent's line of defense, and then win the initiative in the North African battlefield.

At this time, neither Rommel nor Patton thought that they would take the lead in kicking off the decisive battle of land tank troops. The first battle of nearly a thousand tanks in human history officially began.

Rommel was sitting in his convertible car, and Patton was sitting in the back of his jeep. Both of them thought of this sentence at the same time: "The North African battlefield! The future victories belong to me only!"