"Sir, the telegram we just deciphered." Under the night, Montgomery walked around in annoyedly in the command of the British Eighth Army at the Alamain Station, and had been walking around countless circles until Chief of Staff De Lagan came in.

"I'll take a look."

"This is a telegram from Guderian to Berlin and Rome, informing the overall war report, but he did not mention the situation of the Italians."

Supreme Command of the National Defense Force: On September 18, 1942, at around 1 pm local time, our African army surrounded the British 24th Armored Brigade (the 10th Armored Division) in Tel Akakir by luring the enemy into depth. After nearly 70 minutes of fierce fighting, our army wiped out all of them with slight losses and captured more than 300 people below the brigade commander; later, our army fought fiercely with the enemy's 10th Armored Division and the 4th Indian Division, who came to rescue.

By the evening, it was defeated. According to incomplete statistics, today, a total of 167 British tanks, more than 1 armored vehicles, and more than 2 artillery of various types were destroyed. Nearly 13 ooo of the enemy were killed, injured, captured nearly 13 ooo of the enemy, and countless materials were seized. After this battle, the enemy's 10th Armored Division basically lost its combat capability, and its Indian division was also severely damaged. Our army plans to counterattack in the direction of Alaman tomorrow. Please provide troops, equipment and material reinforcements as soon as possible...

After Montgomery looked at it, his face suddenly became gloomy and terrifying. He forced anger to squeeze out half of his words from his nose: "Is it reliable?"

"Basically reliable. According to Major General Gathouse's report half an hour ago, the troops he still can still control are currently only the division headquarters and part of the direct troops. The remaining tanks of the 8th Armored Brigade are about equivalent to one tank squadron. No one from the 24th Armored Brigade has returned. In addition, most of the infantry brigade is being reorganized. The artillery, especially the heavy artillery, has basically been lost... However, he insisted that other troops may not be eliminated by the Germans, and the soldiers are likely to be lost in chaos, and they may be able to return to the team tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The situation of the Indian division is also very bad, and the soldiers generally have lost their fighting spirit."

"Bastard! I want to send this bastard to military court. I want to remove him from his post. I want to shoot him..." Montgomery was furious and his anger suddenly burst out. He slapped the table repeatedly, and the roaring sound echoed in the station for a long time...`

The situation is already very clear. Compared with the notification of the 10th Armored Division and combined with the telegram, the results of Guderian's report were not only not exaggerated, but also narrowed a little, because some British officers and soldiers did not contact the chaos - the rigorous Germans did not include it in the results, but now Gatehouse is trying to sloppy Montgomery, which the latter cannot tolerate.

De Lagan was speechless. After the battle today, the 10th Armored Division was basically finished, and the 4th Indian Division was useless. He could understand Montgomery's anger at Gatehouse. Of course, just listen to the anger of shooting or dismissal, not to mention that Montgomery and General Alexander did not have such great authority to deal with a division commander. The situation is very serious now, and Guderian will launch a large-scale attack tomorrow, and the deployment of the overall defense line is still messy now. What's more serious is that this battle completely broke the commander's original deployment.

According to Montgomery's plan, the 1st and 7th Armored Divisions were along the coastal highway, and the 7th Armored Divisions were attacked by three infantry divisions; the direction of Treacherkir was an armored division and two infantry divisions rushed directly to the front, with one division and one brigade respectively; Montgomery led the direct troops of the army and the other three infantry divisions to serve as reserves, and coordinated in the center. But now the attack spearhead in the middle has been crippled. The African army not only jumped out of the encirclement prepared by Montgomery for them, but on the contrary, pointed their armored spearhead at Alahman.

Because the war situation reported by Guderian in the war report was very real and detailed, Montgomery and de Lagan were once again confused by the telegram, and they believed that it was a real telegram. Moreover, judging from the current situation and strength of the African army, the Germans did have reason to do this.

"Do you need to send telegrams to the 1st and 7th Armored Divisions to let them come back?" De Lagan persuaded. "From the current situation we have, it is obvious that the Italians are basically escaping along the coastal highway, and even if there are only a small part of the Germans...???`c?om"

"No, the armored troops on the coastal highway cannot retreat. Instead, they must urge them to eat the enemy as soon as possible." Montgomery gritted his teeth, "it can bring back the three infantry divisions that were originally followed. In addition, the Air Force must strengthen air strikes on the enemy in person tomorrow."

"This is..." De Lagan was a little confused at first, but later he realized that the commander was planning to defend Alaman. As for insisting on sending the armored division to eat the Italians, it was not a military consideration, but more focused on politics. The Germans fought the 10th Armored Division and the Indian Division so badly. If they had not achieved the results of the battle, the London Prime Minister would probably be in a rush again. Now Montgomery does not have much hope for siege and annihilation of Guderian, but they are still full of confidence in defending the Alahman and repelling the African army.

He believed that Guderian had only 30 tanks at most. After today's daytime battle, although the Germans were very secretive about their losses, Montgomery estimated that they would lose at least 50 vehicles, so the Germans had only 250 tanks left. The Alaman Command directly and indirectly controlled the strength of 1 armored division and 3 armored brigades. There were still more than 40 tanks in total, which still had a greater advantage over the Germans. In addition, the infantry units and corresponding artillery forces of the 5 divisions were added. Montgomery believed that he was more active than the Germans, and this time he could be cleverly deployed, allowing the Germans to hit his anti-tank position head-on.

But he didn't know that Guderian had received reinforcements from 96 T-34, nor did he know that the German army seized more than 30 intact British tanks during today's battle. The African army suffered less losses than he thought, and only lost 33 vehicles instead of at least 50 vehicles he estimated. Half of these 33 vehicles were the worst No. 2 tanks. T-34 had been urgently repaired due to mechanical failure and track damage, and only 5 were completely destroyed. In summary, Guderian's tanks were not 250 vehicles but 350 vehicles. In terms of average quality and combat effectiveness, it was even higher than the level before the war began in the morning.

Therefore, the restrained attacks of Heinz and Dessau made the British misjudged it as a test before the German main attack, because the strength they "expressed" was very close to Montgomery's estimate, and the purpose was to find a breakthrough for tomorrow's large-scale attack. Therefore, the Eighth Army fully believed that the German army would attack the direction of Alamein after dawn, and kept implementing targeted defensive deployments. The officers in the General Staff were completely frightened by Montgomery's behavior today. They were busy with specific deployments. No one thought much about other possible attack directions of the African Army.

Guderian was now leading the main force of the 15th and 21st Armored Divisions and the 35th Armored Regiment to attack the left wing with the captive spoils, while the 9o lightweight division retreated from the west of Treachakir - now it has really become an empty city.

"Sir, the reconnaissance results show that the troops in front are the 2nd Brigade of Free France, with average combat effectiveness."

"Free France?"

"Here, it's the French resistance organization led by Charles de Gaulle. They formed an exile government in London and were incompatible with Marshal Betton."

"Charles Charles de Gaulle was a good general in armored warfare back then. He was half my teacher. Now he is involved in politics. I don't know what he is thinking?" Goodrian teased, "Just with his little brain in armored warfare can he beat Churchill's old fox?"

Everyone laughed.

"Which division is he commanding now?" Guderian suddenly said.

"who?"

"Charle de Gaulle."

"Sir! You won't know nothing about this, right?" Westfar teased. "How could he come to North Africa to eat sand if he comes to him and is a brigade general, do you think he is obedient to Lieutenant General Montgomery or Lieutenant General Montgomery obeys the command of the French leader?"

"Uh..." Guderian originally thought that the brigade general must have obeyed the lieutenant general, but he suddenly thought that Yuan's military rank was just a corporal, so he quickly closed his mouth. He was speechless for a while. After a long time, he squeezed out a sentence, "It's better not to come, so as not to cause trouble for us."

"Sir, you shouldn't be afraid that this 'teacher' will cause you trouble."

Goodrian shook his fist and said in a threatening tone: "If he dares to come, I'll give him this..."

Everyone laughed in a ball.

"These French are colonial troops?" Guderian continued.

"No! They are all authentic French... mainly those who fled from Dunkirk to England."

"They?" Guderian curled his lips, "There is such a big name for 'Free France'. I thought they were the warriors from where they came from. I didn't expect that they were all the defeated soldiers who were beaten to flee by us in the French battle. I didn't expect that a few years have passed and they have worked hard for Churchill. Don't they know that all the French colonies in the Middle East have been taken away by the British? They really recognize the thief as their father and have not made any progress at all."

"What if they don't work hard for Churchill? They can rely on what they eat, drink, and use to squeeze out their teeth." Merlinzin said, "Only the British in the world recognize Charles de Gaulle's 'free France', and others are still dealing with Marshal Betton of Vichy."

Guderian laughed and said, "If Marshal Rommel is here, it will be perfect. Today, I can get the venue of the Battle of Aras. But the same is true for me. I will erect my commander's flag and tell them that I, Guderian, are here, and let these shameless French scums get out of here..."

Collingwood looked at him with a smile, and Guderian suddenly realized: "Light up the flag of the 4th Armored Division to me... Tell them that I still have no time to capture the French and let them go, just like the last French battle."
Chapter completed!