Along the way, Hitler asked Rommel to stick with it until Rommel retreated to Tunisia.

At this time, Hitler no longer expects his "claw attack" to win. He saw a terrible consequence: if North Africa is lost, Italy will lose its barrier, and Italy is a peninsula country, and the entire Italian territory extends into the Mediterranean like a fish hook.

In other words, if the North African battlefield is lost without air and sea control, then Italy will have no capital and the Italian army will not have the will to confront the Allies, so it can be predicted that Italy will withdraw from the Axis powers or surrender immediately.

If Italy stands in the anti-fascist alliance, then the southern part of Germany will be exposed to the muzzle of Allied forces, which is a terrible chain reaction.

So Hitler could only order over and over again: "We must defend Tunisia and pay any price!"

In fact, Hitler did the same. He and Mussolini organized batches of transport ships, either taking the night or taking advantage of the air force to transport supplies to Tunisia during the day. Although these transport ships were more than 50% likely to be sunk into the sea every time they walked, Hitler sent the transport ships without regard for the consequences.

This also made Tunisia finally store a batch of fuel, so Rommel's heart that had been planning to attack was ready to move again.

In fact, Rommel himself can leave Tunisia at this time.

This was because Rommel refused to obey Hitler's orders all the way, which made Hitler a little angry.

On the other hand, Rommel fell ill under strong pressure.

Another point is that at this time, Hitler had no outstanding generals under him. Hitler did not want Rommel, a new general, to fight to the end in North Africa, so he wanted to transfer him away on the grounds that he had asked Rommel to return to Berlin to recuperate.

But what Hitler did not expect was that Rommel once again refused to obey this order.

Rommel is a proud person who is very vanity. He always lives in the admiration and compliments of others, so he is unwilling to be chased by the Allies for thousands of kilometers like he is now and then "escape" back to Berlin in shame.

Just like what he said to Thomas: "I won't make people think I can't handle this situation, so I left this mess and left!"

Of course, Rommel would not say this to the soldiers. His words to the soldiers were: "In this critical moment, I will not leave you alone, I will be with you until the end!"

Rommel was always able to mobilize the soldiers in time, which quickly restored morale to the African army after a brief rest in Tunisia.

On the other hand, the British army... were chasing them carefully because they were too smooth all the way, and they were a little careless until now. Even Montgomery was wondering whether Rommel would retreat further or even take a transport ship to Italy in the dark.

However, at this moment, the German 10th Armored Division and the 21st Armored Division suddenly launched a counterattack along the coastline, while the 15th Armored Division and the 164th Armored Division were interspersed from the southern line, so the Allied troops that were still advancing forward in the middle suddenly fell into the encirclement of the four German armored divisions.

Montgomery was shocked and hurriedly asked the British armored division and anti-tank troops to go to both wings to block the attacking German armored division, so the two armies fought on the eastern front again and were indistinguishable.

The news soon reached Algiers. Dallang immediately held a meeting, and at the meeting he said excitedly: "The opportunity for general is here. Rommel and the Commonwealth Army are fighting in the east. Now is the time for us to attack the Dagang!"

"General!" At this time, Giro made a different opinion: "Why don't we wait anymore? I mean, let the Germans fight with the British for a longer time!"

General Giro's words were soon approved by the French generals, who thought it would be best to wait for Germany and Britain to take action after both sides were both defeated.

Only a few people opposed it, and General Zhu An was one of them. His point was that if he did that, the French army would actually get a bargain, which would not help France's international influence.

General Zhu An was right, because Zhang Chi knew that there would be no loss in this battle.

Rommel's plan was very good. Four armored divisions interspersed from the left and right wings to attack the Commonwealth Army in the middle. Under normal circumstances, the Commonwealth Army could not resist the impact of the German armored division at all.

Then the next battle situation can be imagined. The Commonwealth Army would be in a mess by Rommel's retaliation, and Rommel's armored division would even counterattack Libya.

It is unlikely that there will be too much results. This is determined by the German limited fuel, unless Rommel can seize British fuel all the way.

but……

The command of the African Legion was not in Rommel's own hands.

In fact, the commander-in-chief of the African Army at this time was Von Anime, while Rommel was a general who was about to be transferred back to Berlin by Hitler.

What's worse is that Anime and Rommel are incompatible with each other: After Anime was a noble, he looked down on Rommel, who was born in a middle school principal's family, and Rommel had an instinctive disgust towards generals from a noble family. He believed that those nobles were just a sign of vain, and all they could do on the battlefield was to succeed but not to defeat them.

In this way, the combat staff of the two sides did not interact with each other and secretly competed with each other, which turned into a personnel relationship with unknown command in Tunisia.

This personnel relationship quickly led to a disaster.

When Rommel ordered four armored divisions to penetrate the two wings of the Commonwealth Army, Anim believed that using so many troops to counterattack without supplies was tantamount to seeking death.

As Anim said to the staff officer: "What is Rommel doing? Is he going to use up all the fuel and ammunition we accumulated in a month in one day? What will we use to defend the Mares line when he does this?!"

So Anime transferred the 1st armored division without notifying Rommel at all... The 1st armored division was Anime who brought reinforcements from Italy to Tunisia, and of course he would obey Anime's orders.

This left only the 21st Panzer Division on the Northern Line, and the 21st Panzer Division suffered heavy losses in the previous battles and only had more than twenty tanks in their hands.

"Attack, gentlemen!" Zhang Chi suggested: "A fatal blow to the Germans. If it is too late, the victory of this battle has nothing to do with France!"
Chapter completed!