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Neither Rommel nor Heinz Landao expected that the one who caused them big trouble in the end was not the Chinese armored troops retreating to Alexandria, but the anti-tank trench they did not take seriously.

Because of fear that Alexandria would be broken by the Chinese army and could not cooperate with the Italian army inside and outside, the German army launched an attack on the Chinese defense line one hour later.

Unlike before, the German army's first attack was not the artillery but the air force.

The first wave of the German army came up with more than fifty bombers. To be precise, it should be the German and Italian Air Force. Because the shadow of the Italian tricolor flag was vaguely seen on Zhang Chi's flying fighter plane... This is normal. If the Italian Air Force is not strong enough, then it does not require much technology to drive a bomb downward. The only difference is whether it hits the target, but it is difficult for others to judge this.

These bombers dived from the air with sharp roars and dropped bombs onto Chinese positions, targeting the trenches of the Chinese army.

However, Zhang Chi believes that this is not their purpose.

It is undoubtedly a huge waste to bomb the enemy's trenches with bombers, and these tasks can be done even by cannons.

Therefore, the purpose of the German and Italian troops is probably to use this to attract British army's fighter jets.

"General!" Major William ran to Zhang Chi with the explosions beside him and asked loudly: "Do you need me to contact air support?"

"No!" Zhang Chi replied: "Let them not come over. This is probably a trap. A large number of German fighter jets may be ambushing above the clouds!"

"Yes, General!" Major William replied, and then sent Zhang Chi's words out through the telegram.

Major William was a liaison officer sent by Montgomery. He was responsible for contacting the British Air Force, and another artillery liaison officer named Afford.

It is obvious that Montgomery had done his best for this battle, because these two liaison officers allowed Zhang Chi to command almost two-thirds of the British army's fighter jets and artillery fire.

"Major Afuli!" Zhang Chi said to the artillery liaison: "I need artillery to be in place!"

"Yes, General!"

Zhang Chi knew that if the British Air Force did not come up as the German army hoped, then the German ground offensive would begin.

Sure enough, more than ten minutes later, the fierce guns began to sound before the fighter planes were removed, and pieces of shells poured towards the defense line. Most of their targets were anti-tank trenches in front of the defense line, while the rest were blown up in a mess in front and behind the defense line... The purpose was to clear the barriers for tanks, and the vibration and explosion of the shells could detonate landmines.

Of course, Zhang Chi would not let the anti-tank trenches he had worked hard to build be destroyed in artillery fire, so he immediately shouted to Major Afuli: "Now, give them some colors!"

"Yes, sir!"

With a command, the sound of cannons in the direction of the British army began to sound.

If the German shells were like raindrops, then the British shells were rainstorms. When the shells crossed the sky above Alexandria, even the sun was eclipsed.

At this point, the British army has sufficient strength. The British army may not be as strong as the German and Italian army in the air force. This is because they mainly deployed the air force on the local area to resist German bombing; perhaps they are not as good as the German army in tanks and armored vehicles. This is because the tactical errors of British tanks have produced a large number of so-called "infantry tanks" that are not suitable; perhaps they are not as good as the German army in infantry, because the British army is complex in composition and does not fight on their own land after all, and the infantry tactics are relatively weak.

However, in artillery, the British army had the advantage.

The reason is that artillery does not require a lot of advanced technology. The British colonies can be produced in large quantities, and this does not require any funds and manpower from Britain... All things, including mining, iron smelting, etc., can be completed in the colonies and utilized the manpower and material resources of the colonies.

As a result, the cannons and shells were almost always transported from all directions, so that the British army could easily organize thousands of artillery pieces with one attack on the North African battlefield.

In fact, this can also be said to be a difference between strategic defense and strategic offense.

The German army emphasized offense in its overall strategy. If it emphasized offense, there would be a problem, that is mobility... This mobility not only refers to tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and artillery.

Therefore, almost all artillery soldiers above the German regiment were mechanized, either self-propelled artillery or towed by cars.

The result of emphasizing maneuverability is that the number of artillery will decrease accordingly and the caliber will be limited: if the number is too large, it is likely that enough towing vehicles will not be provided; if the caliber is too large, it will increase the pressure of logistics supply in stages.

For countries like Britain that emphasize defense strategically, their artillery can be relaxed in terms of quantity and caliber...

There are too many tractors?

It doesn’t matter, at worst, you can go a few more trips to deploy it to the artillery position one by one.

Does the caliber greatly increase the logistics supply pressure?

This is even more not a problem. The logistics supply line of the defense side is much shorter than that of the enemy.

Just like at this moment, as soon as the British army fired, the Germans attacked the Chinese military's defense line significantly fewer shells, and in a few minutes there were even a few sparse shots left.

It is obvious that the German artillery has been successfully suppressed by the British artillery.

But this does not mean that the British artillery is not dangerous... The next second, the German bombers crossed the air in a dark circle and then attacked everywhere. The German army was obviously using air force to suppress the British artillery.

Needless to think, British artillery would use anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons and counterattack against German fighter jets with their own few fighters. It can be imagined that it would be a fierce battle again.

But Zhang Chi didn't care about these things, because at this time, German tanks had slowly driven out in the aperture of his telescope, gunfire smoke and dust.

Needless to think, it is the old opponent, the 21st Armored Division, because Zhang Chi recognized that most of these tanks were No. 4 tanks, and occasionally you can see a little "Tiger" type, but it was quickly surpassed by No. 4 tank and lost its trace... Obviously, the German army wanted to let No. 4 tank explore the way forward first. If the "Tiger" type fails due to a landmine, it would be a big loss.

At the same time, there is no need to drive the "Tiger" type so fast. On the one hand, there is concern that the engine is overheated, and on the other hand, its range is very long and it can fully carry out long-range strikes on the enemy.
Chapter completed!