Of course, the British army knew that the Germans were already growing crops, and they could easily reconnaissance this... Not to mention spies scattered among the people, even if the reconnaissance plane looked down from the air, they could see the green areas outside of the city of Matru, Alahman, and Alexandria.

Of course, this is only one aspect, and the other part of the reason is that Montgomery can't withstand internal pressure... Part of this pressure even comes from the Egyptian African Army.

The Egyptian African Army has always been a colonial army subordinate to the British army. Many of them were people who were changing their ruthlessness or making a living. At this time, the German and British armies confronted each other and it seemed that the German army had the upper hand... The German army fought from Tripoli to Alexander, and at this time they used sniping tactics and guerrilla tactics to make the British army embarrassed. In addition, under the propaganda of the guerrillas, the people turned to the German army one after another... This is a very important part of the work of the guerrillas, which is what Qin Chuan said to make full use of the power of the masses.

This job is not even difficult to do, because the British colonial rule over Egypt for decades, controlling, manipulating and even suppressing independence movements, has long aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Egyptian people. The emergence of the German army seemed to be a good time to overthrow the British rule.

Coupled with the German army's various "good deeds" in Egypt, the propaganda of guerrillas quickly spread among the Egyptian people. Many people believed that the German army was oppressed by Britain like Egypt and launched this war in order to resist. So the people supported the German army, and even many people from the British-controlled area fled to the German-controlled area and hoped to fight for Egypt's independence with the German army.

Under this situation, many Egyptians, including African soldiers, have small plans in their minds... What if the British were driven out? Should we surrender to the German army now and make some plans for the future!

Therefore, Montgomery needs to use a victory to tell these Egyptians that the British army has always been the most powerful military force in Africa, and the British army will achieve the final victory, and only by standing on the side of the British army can we have a future.

The German army soon received news... Because of the help of the guerrillas, the German army had many more sources of intelligence, and they even knew how many tanks the British army had. For the guerrillas, only a few people needed to stare at the Port of Seid to unload the goods.

So Qin Chuan was summoned to Rommel's command center for a meeting.

"Although we have achieved good results during this period!" Rommel glanced at Qin Chuan and continued: "In fact, these results were completely beyond my expectations. I believe we have done everything we can do!"

After pausing, Rommel made a turn: "But our supply line is not optimistic. Just as we were trying our best to change all this, the Italians were afraid to face the British's air superiority because of cowardice and slackness. This made us receive only twenty tanks and a small amount of equipment in the past month. In the same period, the British have added more than two hundred tanks. We estimate... Now the British have at least two hundred and fifty General Grant tanks and one hundred and fifty Stuart tanks. If we add 'Matilda' and 'Valentine', they may have 500 tanks!"

This number is quite amazing.

These tanks might not be anything before, because the German army could basically fight one or two, which was more than two hundred tanks that could match the British army's five hundred tanks.

But now... the German army has only managed to get a hundred tanks, including the "Stuart" and "Matilda" seized from the British army... At this time, the German army was mainly defending, and with the lack of tanks, "Matilda" had to be used.

It was just that the German army did not have spare parts for "Matilda" and the failure rate of the "Matilda" tank was very high, so this batch of tanks was not favored.

"General, are the British planning to attack, right?" Qin Chuan asked, he had heard something from Rommel's tone.

"Yes!" said Rommel. "We just got the news that the British were going to launch an attack before our harvest!"

As soon as Rommel finished speaking, the officers in the command center were talking a lot because they knew the current situation of the German army... The German army lacked not only tanks, but also gasoline, ammunition, soldiers, etc. Even the 90th Light Equipment Division and its equipment were already in Italy, but they just couldn't transport it.

"They didn't break through our defense so easily!" Colonel Slain stood up and said, "Just like we attacked them before, there were several miles of deep minefields in front of the defense, barbed wire and anti-tank trenches, which would cause them a lot of trouble!"

"Yes!" said Colonel Albridge. "I agree with Colonel Slain, and we have found the weakness of the General Grant tank, and it is very bulky, so be careful if you attack!"

Colonel Albridge is an expert in commanding tank operations. Of course, he knows the difficulties of tanks in fighting in the desert... The "No. 3" tank weighing only 20 tons needs to be paid attention to whether it will be trapped in the desert and cannot move, let alone the 27.7 tons "General Grant" tank.

Moreover, Colonel Albridge had defeated the exponential "General Grant" style with twenty-four "No. 3", so he was inevitably underestimated.

"Gentlemen!" said Rommel: "I am pleased with your fearlessness, but at the same time we must see our shortcomings!"

Rommel turned his eyes to Colonel Slein and continued: "Mines, roadblocks, etc. are indeed a big trouble, but the British are different from us. They have ammunition to use shells, grenades to clear mines, or... they can also imitate us to produce a batch of minesweeping tanks!"

What Rommel said is indeed that minesweeping tanks are not high-tech things, they only require simple modifications.

Then Rommel looked at Colonel Albridge and said, "Maybe our tanks have better performance than the British, and our tank crews are also more qualified and combat experience. But the problem is... we defend this battle, completely defending. The cost of defense is that we don't know which point the British will attack, so any point may be attacked, that is, every point must be defended, which forces us to disperse limited tanks and anti-tank equipment onto the 66-kilometer-long defense line, which will make us vulnerable!"

Colonel Albridge was speechless.
Chapter completed!