Due to the urgent military situation... the German vanguard only arrived at Maherama for 40 minutes. At this time, even German fighter planes were reconnaissance over Maherama, so Zhang Chi did not make any considerations and further formulated detailed plans... If he sticks to the tradition to formulate detailed plans, he is afraid that the German army has arrived at his doorstep before the plan has been formulated, so the plan to take the initiative will become a piece of paper.

Of course, there is a very likely problem on the battlefield without a detailed combat plan, but there is a saying on the battlefield: "The worst plan is better than hesitation!"

What it means is that the battlefield often requires quick decisions. Even if you choose a bad plan and then execute it simply, the result will be much better than missing the opportunity... Seizing the opportunity is sometimes more important than any excellent plan.

So Zhang Chi ordered the troops to leave without even aerial cover... With Zhang Chi's order, eighty-two "Sheerman" tanks, more than one hundred m3 semi-tracked armored vehicles were carrying support infantry, more than eighty various types of cyclones modified from semi-tracked armored vehicles, and more than a hundred cars carrying ammunition, fuel and tow anti-tank guns came out with a burst of motor sounds.

This should be said to be a military taboo, because desert combat is more like marine combat, with empty surroundings, and each tank or truck is like a destroyer, while the tank company or artillery company crosses the desert is like a ship squadron on the sea quietly on the horizon... When encountering an enemy, finding a favorable combat position is almost the same as the situation of two warships in naval battles.

If naval battles do not have air cover, they will almost expose themselves to the attack of the enemy's air force without any power to fight back, and the same is true for desert combat.

Therefore, the expeditionary force's actions almost shocked the commanders of both sides...

When Montgomery learned that the Expeditionary Force had driven out the troops to fight, he almost cried out: "God, they are finished! I knew I shouldn't believe these Chinese people, and they didn't even inform us before they even left! The facts proved that the Chinese general knew nothing about desert warfare!"

Ram Chiden didn't know what to say, because desert combat requires the cover and coordination of air forces. Otherwise, aren't those tanks, armored vehicles and cars full of fuel and ammunition all targets of enemy fighters?

But Zhang Chi naturally had his reasons for doing this.

First, because of the urgent military situation, it is almost certainly not enough time to call British fighter jets to cooperate... It takes about twenty minutes for fighter jets to take off from Alexandria or Port Said to reach over Dama Hailama.

Secondly, Zhang Chi judged that the German fighter jets' response was not enough to pose a threat to the armored forces of the Expeditionary Force... When a large number of German fighter jets and bombers appeared above Maherama, it should be that the German army had set the right time to provide air firepower support for its armored division assault before the general attack, but the German army had not yet arrived at Maherama.

At the same time, the armored troops of the Expeditionary Force and the armored troops of the German army were facing each other. It only takes about twenty minutes to meet forty minutes. Even if the German fighter jets take off in time, it is difficult for them to arrive within twenty minutes. After twenty minutes, the enemy and us will be afraid that they will kill each other, and the power in the space will be difficult to play.

Rommel and Heinz Blue Road on the other side soon got the news... The German reconnaissance planes were reconnaissance over Maherama, so they got information a few minutes after the armored convoy of the Expeditionary Force left.

However, compared with Montgomery and others, Rommel and Heinz Lantra were more caught off guard.

"What's going on?" said Heinz Blue. "Didn't it mean that Maherama has no armored troops? Then where did this armored troops emerge?"

The information Heinz Landao received before was that Maherama had only one battalion of British troops, which was also the reason why Heinz Landao dared to let the columns go straight to Maherama as fast as possible. He hoped to control Maheramani's equipment and supplies as soon as possible so as not to have any other changes in the middle... If he knew that Maherama had an armored unit, he would never dare to do this, because this would separate the armored division's tanks, anti-tank guns, infantry, etc. from each other due to different degrees.

Rommel said almost the same thing, and he slapped the information on the table: "Tell Bowen that his reconnaissance has missed a whole armored regiment! I must shoot this guy ten times!"

"General!" Thomas said: "Maybe Bowen's reconnaissance is not a problem. He also reported reinforcements from a Chinese infantry division!"

"But that infantry division! And it's also Chinese!" Rommel replied.

He didn't take a Chinese infantry division seriously at all, because Germany's ally Japan had long told them that the Chinese team was vulnerable.

"Yes!" Thomas replied: "But this is not an ordinary Chinese infantry division!"

As he said that, Thomas handed Rommel a document.

Rommel took the document and looked through it. He looked up in shock and said, "Chinese Expeditionary Force? American armed forces on the Pacific battlefield?"

Thomas nodded.

So Heinz Landao soon received a telegram: "The enemy is likely to be the Chinese team, the US-armed troops from the Pacific battlefield, and were equipped with Mahelama's equipment!"

Heinz Landao raised his eyebrows and said, "So, are they infantry equipped with tanks?"

Obviously, Heinz Bluedor was wrong about Rommel's telegram... Rommel's original intention was to tell Heinz Bluedor that this Chinese team was probably familiar with the operation of American equipment and had a certain combat effectiveness, but Heinz Bluedor only saw the word "emergency", so he naturally thought that the enemy was "infantry equipped with tanks" in helplessness.

Perhaps it was because of the performance of the British army along the way that Heinz Landao was very relieved... When the German army passed by several British garrisons, the enemy often surrendered with only a few guns. What impressed Heinz Landao the most was that a British officer said when surrendering: "Sir, our bullets are finished!"

But right next to the British officers, there were piles of ammunition, and they didn't even shoot a single shot.

"This is what the British call 'dignity'!" Heinz Landao laughed: "They will try every means to find excuses for decent surrender!"

Of course, Heinz Bluedor couldn't tell whether they were British, Australian or others. Their ingredients were too complicated. Heinz Bluedor didn't want to spend too much time on how to distinguish meaningless things like them.
Chapter completed!