Montgomery's psychology is not just jealousy. To be precise, it is a challenge to Montgomery's traditional habits and even the tradition of the British team... The British army attaches great importance to the hierarchy and believes that subordinates cannot challenge the command and command of superiors.

Strictly speaking, an army should be like this. If the army does not have unified command, it will form a mess of sand to fight each other.

But the problem is that this hierarchy cannot be stipulated too much. The supreme commander can demand strategic direction. However, it is best not to interfere too much when not understanding the specific situation. Frontline commanders should fully consider the opinions of frontline commanders. Sometimes when conflicts occur, they even have to let the frontline commanders command.

This is the reason why "the general will not accept foreign military orders" in Chinese military art, because the situation understood by the front line commanders and the judgments made are often much more accurate than the commanders behind the rear who sit far away in the central tent.

This is also the reason why Principal Jiang often issued orders that violate common sense or even military common sense when commanding the army in front remotely... This cannot be said that Principal Jiang is stupid, but that he was misled without understanding the specific situation.

Britain, a country that maintains tradition, also has such characteristics. Montgomery is of course no exception as a general promoted under this system.

This is also the reason why Montgomery missed the chance to encircle and annihilate Rommel's African Legion several times in history... Montgomery was too step-by-step. If the British army had not had the absolute advantage in equipment and troop strength and Rommel went alone and was almost in a desperate situation of supply, Montgomery would have been difficult to defeat Rommel.

Of course, a general like Montgomery did not like any subordinate who dared to challenge his command. What made him even more unhappy was that this challenge even achieved great victory.

Of course, Zhang Chi was not as "crazy" as Montgomery said, nor was he being blinded by last night's victory as Montgomery guessed.

In fact, Zhang Chi knew very well the strength of the Germans. Last night, the enemy was just underestimating the enemy and he gained the advantage of quality and equipment, so he won.

The reason why Zhang Chi took the armored troops out of Maherama again before the early morning was because he knew... the most important thing for the armored troops was maneuver. If he placed it on three sides, facing the German Maherama, it would be a dead end.

The Germans only needed to swing the anti-tank into the gap, and the "Sheerman" tank could only be trapped in Mahairamalito as a bunker. What's worse is that there is no danger in the desert. At that time, the German army could easily destroy the armored forces of the Expeditionary Force with the Air Force and the Tank.

Even the Germans did not need to dispatch the air force...

The German anti-tank guns contained 88mm anti-aircraft guns, which can be one mile (1,600 meters) away... To be precise, they can blow the front armor of the British "Matilda" tank into a hole as big as a blue ball at a distance of 1,800 meters.

It is said that after being captured, a famous British colonel asked to see what weapons the Germans used to destroy the "Matilda" tank, and then the Germans showed him 88mm anti-aircraft cannons.

After seeing this, the British colonel said angrily: "This is so unfair. How can you use anti-aircraft guns to deal with aircraft to attack tanks?!"

This shows the tradition of the British... They were so rigid that they thought anti-aircraft guns could only shoot planes.

So it is no wonder that the British were frightened by the German armored division.

The Germans used anti-aircraft guns to hit British tanks, and then used tanks to hit British infantry... The British tanks were killed by 88mm anti-aircraft guns before they even entered the effective range, so the German tanks could walk sideways on the battlefield... No matter whether these tanks have good or poor performance, they were basically facing British infantry, and even the worst performance was the natural enemy of the infantry.

If Zhang Chi used the tanks for defense according to the British's ideas, the same was true, because the "Sheerman" tank was difficult to hit the German anti-aircraft guns 1,800 meters away, but the anti-aircraft guns could be used as targets to attack "Sheerman".

Zhang Chi could even imagine the next tactics of the Germans, who could use several light tanks to feint the attack in the front and the 88mm anti-aircraft guns to cover the back.

At this time, should the Expeditionary Force face the battle or not?

Let's face it, drive "Sheerman" up... What I heard soon was the sound of German anti-aircraft guns.

If you don't have to fight, you can only watch the German army break through the defense line under the cover of tanks and enter Mahelama.

However, it would be different if the tank was transferred out of Mahe Lama, and the Expeditionary Force could take the initiative with this armored regiment.

Zhang Chi had to do only one thing, that was to hide the armored regiment in the desert to avoid the eyes of the German reconnaissance planes.

It is not difficult to do this... The British are very experienced in this regard. In fact, the Expeditionary Force has used it before, which is to cover tanks, cars, cannons and other equipment with canvas of similar colors to the desert.

Sometimes you can directly spread a huge canvas on the tank like an umbrella... Such camouflage is ineffective for ground reconnaissance. You can see from the ground that the tank is enjoying the cool under the canvas umbrella, but when you look down from the reconnaissance plane in the air, you can't see anything.

As for Zhang Chi not telling Montgomery why he did this and the specific location, he actually had to do it.

The reason why he didn't tell Montgomery was because Zhang Chi knew that Montgomery would not agree to this plan. At that time, Montgomery was even suspected that the Zhong* team was lying about military merits.

Don’t tell him the specific location... This is not that Zhang Chi is so arrogant that he does not need air support. In fact, armored troops are inseparable from air support when fighting in the desert.

However, the armored troops are hidden in the desert. If there are several British planes patrolling above their heads, wouldn’t it be “no silver here without three hundred taels”?

What's more, Zhang Chi believes that the Germans have already installed spylines in the British army... Otherwise, how did the Germans know that the unbuilt base of Mahelama had supplies and equipment and did not hesitate to dispatch a German armored division to attack from a long distance?!

It is actually not difficult for the Germans to install eyeliners, because on this battlefield, the Germans and the British have a common colonial army... that is, the African troops.

Egypt is a British colony, and Libya is an Italian colony. Just as the British army has the Egyptian colonial army, Italy also has the Libyan colonial army.

Then, when the British army was beaten and fled from Libya, the German army could easily obtain information from the British army as long as they allowed the Libyans or bought Africans to sneak into the British army.
Chapter completed!