Just when Rommel and Patton's troops were entangled, a group of Italian soldiers were using various machinery and other individual equipment in the rear of the German front, trying every means to level a field airport and the busy construction scene proved that the scale of this huge construction site was quite large.

Italian soldiers did not seem to be suitable for fighting on the front line. They were weak when attacking, and when defending, they were as uneasy as leaking houses. However, once they were not allowed to go to the battlefield, these soldiers would be more energetic, and the construction process was also given priority and the quality was excellent.

So after this combat plan was drawn up, Rommel ordered the Italian soldiers of the two armies to secretly build a large number of front-line airports. As for what these front-line airports do, no one knows.

"The Germans are just willing to do it. They have to repair fortifications, dig trenches, and then investigate the terrain and collect information everywhere, as if they are unstoppable machines." An Italian soldier complained to his comrades while using a shovel to level the sand around the runway of the plane: "I was very grateful to them for bringing us here without having to participate in the frontline battle, but he got this job for us and was exhausted all day long."

While working, his companion did not raise his head and replied, "Okay, we are lucky. I heard that the Blackshirts have suffered thousands of casualties. It is already a very good job for us to build an airport in such a safe place. If the front line is insufficient and we are overwhelmed, it would be a miserable thing."

No one knows what these Germans' temporary front-line airports are used for. These airports do not have pre-installed air defense positions and have no cover measures. The most pitiful thing is that except for some gas trucks and supply vehicles, there are even few ground crews for maintenance.

These places may just be puzzled by the fake targets of the opponent's Air Force, or they may be temporary runways for the forced landing of the failed planes returning. As for why so many field airport runways were built, this is not something that ordinary Italian soldiers could know. Anyway, they just focus on building and build endlessly.

"You didn't see the canned German food supplemented by those in the Blackshirts. That's the real food." When you complain, you feel that you have been treated unequally. This Italian soldier has seen the supplies of the Blackshirts, which is about the same level as the regular German army, which naturally makes these Italian soldiers on the second line envious.

Originally, the Italian army had good food supplies, but Rommel did not intend to distribute the supplies provided by his long supply line evenly. He ordered the front-line troops to receive supplies to reach or even exceed 100%, while the second-line troops maintained the supplies at a level of 70% or even 50%.

This has led to the very pitiful supply supplies received by many Italian second-tier troops. The garrisons in many places even only have two meals a day. The Blackshirts and German troops, who were advancing with the German team, had canned and fried noodles every day, and sometimes they could even be served with beef and chocolate candy.

"That food is eaten casually? If you eat it, it means you are going to the battlefield. Is the British easy to mess with? That is, the Germans are even more powerful. If it were us, Tunis had been lost at this time." An Italian veteran sighed and said, "You are new and have never heard of that..."

"What's the matter?" Obviously, several young Italian soldiers who came to Africa around had never experienced the defeat of the Italian troops by the British, so they were very curious about this kind of thing.

"Alas, when the Germans did not come, our general did not listen and wanted to provoke the British, but we were defeated. I was in the rear guard at that time and was not surrounded and captured. But I heard that in the report of the British, he said that when the Italian troops were captured, he said that the old Italian soldiers were kept in a silence, and then when everyone's curiosity reached its peak, he continued: "The British said, 'We captured 5 acres of Italian officers and 200 acres of Italian soldiers'..."

"..." Now everyone knows why they were stuffed into the German engineer army to build such frontline field airports. With such a good foundation laid by such a group of predecessors, it is estimated that they need more than courage to go to the frontline.

"We captured about 5 acres of officers and 200 acres of British and American soldiers!" Just as a group of Italians were feeling the embarrassing achievements of their predecessors, a German official was proudly reporting the results of the German army today to Rommel.

Everyone felt that Patton did not join his reserves because of a hidden counterattack plan, and the whole battle was filled with conspiracy. The Germans finally decided to ignore the traps that Patton might have set and used their superior armored troops to crash into the core position of Patton's army.

In the end, the Germans found the largest tank force they could organize, including 40 Tiger tanks and 110 Leopard tanks, formed an offensive team, and attacked the core position of the Patton Army, where they destroyed about 40 of the latest US m4 Sherman tanks, and then the entire Patton Army completely collapsed.

The main force of the Patton Army, who had always been afraid and guarded, did not appear on the battlefield, and did not even have a decent counterattack, and the entire army was defeated by the German army. The battlefield turned into a one-sided pursuit, and many American soldiers performed very differently from their previous performances. They raised their hands quickly, which was completely contrary to the tenacious style of resisting several times.

Because a terrible rumor spread between them, the rumor was "Alexandria has changed hands, and the flanking British 9th Army has collapsed. A large number of German soldiers appeared behind the entire army, and the 8th Army has been surrounded by the German army." Even this rumor was most directly proof that the command of the 8th Army had begun to retreat, and everything was defeated.

Sitting in his armored command car, Patton looked tired and frustrated. Even his favorite cigar was not in his mouth at this moment. Beside him was the main 8th Armored Division retreating backwards. This was the "coffin book" in Patton's hand, and all the valuable assets he could take away now.

As for why he left the front line troops and chose to escape similarly to humiliating, it actually started a few hours ago, because a few hours ago, the supply line deployed by Patton from Cairo to the south of Alexandria was suddenly cut off, and his rear guard troops were ordered to fight back, but the intelligence sent back scared everyone.

Intelligence shows that the German army appeared on the supply line and behind, and its troops were very large. As for where this deadly German unit came from, Patton really couldn't figure it out. All he could do was lead all the American troops he could find, break out to the east, regain the supply line and retreat to Cairo.

A battle organized by Patton and Montgomery took great pains to form, suddenly collapsed and ended in a sharp turn of decline. The German army won a comprehensive victory from the stalemate battlefield, and soon they would surround Alexander from the side, or they had already surrounded Alexander in the situation.

Afterwards, Rommel's army would drink the Manilo River, and Cairo's defenders had no ability to resist the devastating steps of the German army. Whether they could defend the Suez Canal in the end was only the few troops taken away by Patton.

"Bastard! Where did these damn German guys come from? Is there any reply from the British? Is there any news yet?" In the shaking armored vehicle, Patton asked his combat staff with a pale face.

He had to abandon most of his troops and defeat the elite forces all the way, which was definitely a great humiliation for him. His carefully prepared counterattack plan could not be implemented. His idea of ​​consuming the German army's vitality and dragging the war into a stalemate was smashed by his opponent before it even began.

"Witnesses claimed to have seen a large number of German planes flying westwards. Some said they were bombers taken off from Turkey, and some said they were bombers on Crete, but no one saw these planes drop bombs, so it is impossible to confirm what the situation is now." The combat staff put down the walkie-talkie in their hands and replied to their commander.

"Airplane? It's an airborne!" Patton's eyes suddenly lit up. He knew that if he could, he could still get some interest and escape under such circumstances. If the German troops behind him were really paratroopers, then they would have no way to fight against their armor torrents.

"It's the airborne troops! The German airborne troops on Crete! They did not withdraw to Germany, they were in Crete, waiting for this surprise attack! They are the fastest reinforcements, the German troops that can reinforce Rommel at the fastest speed!" In Alexandria, Montgomery slapped the table and shouted loudly at his panicked subordinates: "Draw troops from Alexandria and counterattack immediately! Is there any news from General Patton? Go and contact me! Hurry!"

"General! General Patton must have retreated. After all, they were not like us. They saw the huge German aircraft group like us." A staff officer looked as sad as his mother. He saw at least 500 German aircraft flying over both sides' positions. Due to the delay in air defense communication, only more than a dozen German aircraft were shot down when the British anti-aircraft artillery fire was fired. After all, no one expected the German army to appear behind him, so when he realized that some of the anti-aircraft artillery positions had been bypassed by the German army-
Chapter completed!