The news stunned Major General Ritchie.

"How did they find supplies?" Major General Ritchie said.

"I don't know how they found it, but they did!" General Ochinlek replied: "So obviously, we should have another plan now!"

After thinking about it, Major General Rich said: "We have two choices. One is to rely on the Gabushali defense line and attack the German Halfaya defense line!"

General Ochinlek shook his head and said, "What will this do?"

"The German army encircled and annihilated Halfaya Pass and forced the 21st German Armored Division to return to the rescue!" Major General Rich replied.

"No, they won't do what you want!" General Ochinlek pointed to the map and said: "If it were before this, the German army in Halfagaya might be held on, and the 21st Armored Division might be forced to return to the rescue, because only in this way can their 21st Armored Division have a way to survive. But now the 21st Armored Division has received enough supplies..."

As he said that, General Ochinlek pointed at the Halfagaya line and continued: "Then the Halfagaya line has no meaning to the Germans to defend the dead, because we have crossed the flank, and it cannot block our offense, nor can it block the attack of the 13th Army in the front. Why do they still have to guard this line of defense that cannot play any role?"

"The general means..."

"Yes!" General Ochinlek nodded, "They will undoubtedly give up the Halfat Guard Line, they will withdraw the Tobrook garrison, where there are more supplies and stronger fortifications, and the tanks from the Americans in our hands are not enough to break through this line of defense!"

General Ochinlek was telling the truth. The Tobrook line was built by the British, and of course they knew how powerful this line was... Its dense bunker group and the Germans got the new PAK38 anti-tank gun, and it was simply a dream to use the "Stuart" tank to break it.

The advantages of the "Stuart" tank are maneuverability and fire suppression on infantry, and attacking and fighting tanks are not their strengths.

"In this way!" General Ochinlek continued: "The German army will form a defense center with Tobrook as the defense center and the 21st Armored Division as the offensive support. These two parts work together to flexibly attack our army's logistics supplies or insert a knife behind us at any time!"

General Ochinlek guessed correctly, because before he finished speaking, a staff officer reported excitedly with a telegram: "General, Lieutenant General Austin calls, the German army has retreated under their offensive, and they have successfully broken through the Halfa gate!"

Lieutenant General Austin is the commander of the 13th Army, responsible for commanding the attack on the Halfaya line.

Obviously, Lieutenant General Austin did not know that this was actually a strategic contraction of the German army's active retreat, or Austin knew it, but beautified it into the result of British heroic combat.

General Ochinlek and Major General Rich only smiled bitterly when they heard the news.

"Then there is only another option!" Major General Richie said: "We will return to Sideoma to fight the enemy in a decisive battle!"

General Ochinlek nodded, which was what he thought.

At this time, the 21st Armored Division of the German Army was like a thorn in the eyes of the British army. It would be difficult for the British army to be peaceful if they were removed... This is mainly because the 21st Armored Division received a large amount of supplies, which allowed the 21st Armored Division to reach everything they wanted to reach and attack everything they wanted to attack.

Without supplies, anyone knows that the German 21st Armored Division is not far away, but now, they can even attack Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and even occupy the Suez Canal... At this time, the main force of the British army had been fully engaged in the front line of Khalfargas, and the empty interior was completely open in front of the German 21st Armored Division.

On the other hand, even if the 21st Panzer Division did not attack Cairo, they could not get supplies to the British 13th Army and the 30th Army or only get a small amount of supplies.

Therefore, the British army must drag or annihilate the 21st Panzer Division, otherwise everything will be done.

"The Germans have a weakness!" said General Ochinlek. "They don't have enough cars!"

Major General Rich nodded in agreement.

This doesn't seem to be a big deal at first glance. What's more important about desert combat is tanks. What's the matter without enough cars?

But things are not as simple as they seem.

Almost everything in the mechanized troops is installed in cars, infantry, supplies, fuel, ammunition, etc. Only in this way can the infantry keep up with the tanks.

General Ochinlek's point is not this.

In some ways, the German 21st Armored Division certainly had enough cars, otherwise they would not have been able to quickly maneuver to Sidioma.

The problem is... the German army found a large number of supplies in Sideoma.

What General Ochinlek said about "there are not enough cars" means that the German army could not take all these supplies away. They could only carry water and oil for at most three days... This was decided by the 21st Armored Division hurriedly walking to the front line.

So, what will the German 21st Armored Division do?

Give up Sidioma's supply and only bring the amount of oil for three days, and leave the amount of water?

General Ochinlek believed that the German army would choose to stay... so this was actually a good thing for the British army. Sidioma's supplies would drag the footsteps of the uncertain German army.

General Ochinlek guessed correctly, and the Germans were indeed facing such a choice.

In fact, before General Ochinlek decided to let the British army set off, he had already sent air forces to reconnaise and bomb Sideoma... General Ochinlek held a glimmer of hope, hoping that the bombers could blow up the supplies that fell into the hands of the Germans.

But this is obviously a luxury. The British army considered this factor when burying these supplies underground, so they were buried very deeply and safely. With the cover of wind and sand, British bombers could not even determine the location of the supplies and even the German army.

While British fighter planes were flying in the air, General Streck even soaked coffee in the command car of "Mmmar"...

General Streck looked in a good mood. He handed the brewed coffee cups to the officers such as Colonel Slein, including Qin Chuan.

"Thank you, General!" Qin Chuan was just a sergeant and should not have such an honor.

"No, this is what you deserve!" General Streak said: "And I will fulfill my promise, but not now. You know, I can't bring out so many chickens now!"

Qin Chuan knew this was a joke. Although the joke was not funny, he still laughed with General Streck and other officers.

"Boom" a bomb exploded nearby, and the vibration caused some dust to fall from the top of the command vehicle.
Chapter completed!