I have to say that Montgomery is still very good at organizational capabilities. He arranged most things in an orderly manner, such as the evacuation preparations of various units in Alexandria, storage of ammunition, and burial of supplies, especially the burial of ammunition supplies. If only one or two small materials are buried, it may be easy, but it is the supplies for the army, which can be tens of thousands of tons at all times. Even if it is buried in the desert, it is also a big project, and it cannot be known to others. . The fastest update is

Montgomery's method was to carefully select hundreds of people from the British army to do this, that is, they slept during the day and transport supplies and ammunition trucks out to bury them at night. As for where they were buried, only Montgomery had drawings left.

Moreover, these hundreds of people were "semi-house arrest" for a long time afterwards... After that, they did not go to the battlefield and were kept under supervision by a dedicated person, and could not send letters or call and send telegrams until these supplies were dug out and used.

Needless to say, why did this be done, so that the buried materials and their locations could not be known by the Germans... Montgomery is clear that the components of the Commonwealth Army are too complicated, even the Germans are the same, because this is Africa, and the Arabs living here are neither biased towards Britain nor Germany, so a miracle often appears on the African battlefield: when the warring sides temporarily cease to fight, the Arabs will go to the middle of the front like a market to sell food and drinking water to both ends.

Both the British and Germans were both angry and funny, but they couldn't do anything about it. The only thing they could do was to pay as high as possible to buy as much food and drinking water as possible in the hands of the Arabs to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy. Unexpectedly, this encouraged the Arabs to sell food... Later they knew that selling food at this time could sell at a high price and sell very quickly, so more and more Arabs joined this "dangerous industry" and have become the norm now.

Of course, it has become a normal practice to get spies in this way to spy on enemy intelligence.

From these aspects, it is still right that Churchill said, "Montgomery is good at defense and Zhang Chi is good at attacking, and the two cooperations can definitely defeat Rommel." After all, the organization of the Commonwealth Army and the huge logistics need Montgomery to complete it.

As for Zhang Chi, he was staring at the Xinyi Division at this time.

In Montgomery's detailed plan, after abandoning Alexandria, the New Division was responsible for the task of interspersed and encircled the enemy.

Zhang Chi did not refuse this, and he had no reason to refuse.

Because what you need to intersperse and surround this thing is speed, and at this time, the only one who can truly be called a fast reaction armored division is the new division.

As for the British army's First Armored Division, Tenth Armored Division, etc., then forget it. Infantry tanks such as "Matilda" and the poor performance of these tanks are common in the desert with engine overheating, which makes their marching speed even slower than infantry.

The slow speed is naturally unable to take on the task of interspersed and surrounded, so the New Division has no choice but to do so.

But the unshirkable responsibility does not mean that there is no trouble. Abner couldn't help but say a few words for the Zhong* team at the meeting: "General, this is unfair. The Chinese army only has one division. It is obviously not enough to take on the task of interspersed and encircled in such a small amount of force!"

What Abuna said certainly makes sense, because interspersed and encircled is not just interspersed, but also encircled...

This means that the new division must not only intersperse into designated positions but also be able to keep it.

Interlude may not be difficult for the New First Division, because the New First Division is already a secret weapon in the Commonwealth team at this time. They are different from all the British teams in the impression of the Germans and Italians... The British team is slow to move, while the New First Division has strong maneuverability. Under extreme circumstances, they can advance forward at the maximum speed of "Sheerman" that is, 38 kilometers per hour.

But keep it...

As the saying goes, it is easy to attack the city and it is difficult to defend the city. What’s more, what the New First Division needs to defend is not the city, but the desert that is basically without any dangers.

So it is not difficult to imagine the future battlefield. At that time, the tanks of the New Division will be exposed to the enemy's artillery fire and fighter jets like building blocks.

Therefore, generally speaking, one or two infantry divisions should be assigned to the armored division at this time. The armored division is used to break through the defense line, that is, to attack the city, and the infantry division is used to defend the city.

Of course, Montgomery understood this truth, so he nodded and said to Zhang Chi: "Major General, which army do you think you need to cooperate with you?"

"What troops do I have to choose?" Zhang Chi asked back.

Montgomery was silent for a moment and replied: "New 2nd Division, or the 4th Division of the Indian Division, or the 9th Division of the Australian Division, if necessary, you can also add the Free French Brigade..."

The answer was not unexpected to Zhang Chi. Zhang Chi knew that Montgomery could not have the British infantry division undertake such a dangerous task.

Of course, I don’t care about Zhang Chi, because he visited the military camps, trained and even defended the British army during this period... In fact, Zhang Chi had known about the British army as early as the battlefield in Myanmar. He originally thought that the British army on the African battlefield would be different from the British army in Myanmar. After all, the British army in Myanmar did not want to fight and just retreat from the beginning, but the British army on the African battlefield was not the case, and they had fought here for several years.

But this is not the case.

An atmosphere of passive resistance and failure permeated the British army. Later, Zhang Chi realized that it was not only Africa, but also Britain.

Some people say that this is also the reason why Churchill has so many bad habits, such as smoking and drinking, but he is still elected as the British Prime Minister... Churchill's personality has an advantage, that is, optimism. When the whole of Britain is in the shadow of pessimism, negativity and failure, the British urgently need an optimistic prime minister to lead them.

This made the British troops lack confidence in the upcoming battle. Most of them were satisfied with laying enough mines in front of the positions to try to block the German attack. As for the counterattack... that was something they didn't dare to think about.

This is also one of the reasons why Montgomery has long adopted a strategic defensive position. Of course, Montgomery is also one of the British troops.

For such a force, what can Zhang Chi rely on for them?

If even the British army with decent equipment and training cannot be relied on, can the colonial army with worse combat effectiveness and more difficult to organize still be relied on?
Chapter completed!