Everyone thought that if the US army continued to rush like this, it would soon tear open the German defense line and quickly occupy the entire Enna Heights, including General Patton, who thought so.

But the situation was beyond everyone's expectations...

Before the US military could break out, it was strongly blocked by the German army.

There was a burst of dense gunfire, and bullets poured towards the charge of the US soldiers like raindrops, sweeping them into pieces like harvesting rice; shells hit the US soldiers one by one on the charge, blowing the US soldiers into the sky; grenades were thrown one by one at the feet of the US soldiers, blowing them all up all over their bodies...

Bullets were flying, blood and soil splattering everywhere in the air. After a while, an infantry company charged down on the charge line on the backscene. After the sound of gunfire stopped, only the screams of the wounded soldiers and the sounds of a few frightened soldiers lying on the ground and cried. They didn't even have the courage to get up and crawl back. All they could hear was crying and scolding.

"Bang!" Several gunshots made Major Jones, who was stunned, retract his head.

Major General Allen's cry came from the rifle gun: "What's the situation? Have you occupied the high ground? Why don't the follow-up troops go up?"

"No, General!" Major Jones replied weakly: "They are all dead!"

"What?"

"They are all dead!" Major Jones shouted to the microphone with some hysterical hystericality: "I say they are all dead, German bullets and shells are waiting for them, and none of them can come back alive!"

Major General Alan was stunned when he heard this. He didn't understand why the US military had such a thing even though he occupied the commanding heights; he didn't understand that the Germans had such combat power under the repeated bombings of the US military; he didn't understand why a company soldier was eliminated so quickly...

In fact, let alone Major General Allen doesn't understand, Major Jones, who was on the front line, didn't understand it either. What he didn't understand the most was how the German grenade suddenly threw it at the feet of the US army for charge.

After thinking about it, he remembered the "pit fortifications" that Eisenhower had reminded the US military before. Major Jones seemed to understand the problem.

"General!" Major Jones picked up the phone and said, "I think what we encountered was the tunnel defense that General Eisenhower said!"

"Did you see their tunnel?" asked Major General Allen.

"No, no!"

"The tunnel fortifications are not like this!" Major General Allen replied: "At least what we hear is not like this! The British said that they can occupy superficial positions, and what they need to worry more about is their sneak attack at night!"

Major Jones was stunned for a moment and replied, "What if they were intentionally allowed to take over by the British?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean... the Germans did not play the full role of tunnel defense on the Gabes defense line!" Major Jones said: "But we encountered it!"

Major General Allen wanted to say something, General Patton interrupted from the side, "Let him come down and report the situation in detail!"

"Yes, General!" Major General Alan then ordered: "Major, give the command to Captain Walter, come down and give a detailed report!"

"Yes, General!"

More than twenty minutes later, Major Jones, who was covered in blood and dirt all over his body, got off the battlefield.

Patton handed the kettle to Jones, and asked, "Major, tell me what you think!"

Jones took a few sips of water and gasped and said, "I need a pen!"

The staff officer quickly handed over a pen and a notebook.

"This is the highland!" Major Jones explained while drawing on his notebook: "As we heard, the Germans used tunnel tactics, and their tunnels were everywhere on the highlands. I guess their tunnels were connected to the trenches, so that when we fired and bombed, they hid in the tunnels to avoid shells, and when we charged... they came out of the tunnel and entered the trenches and put guns on. So our fire preparations would not work!"

Patton nodded when he heard this.

"What's worse is that our charge team will be attacked by grenades!" Jones continued: "They can't throw the grenades so far. I mean...their defense line is at least one hundred meters away from us, and they are at low places, but I clearly see grenades smoking under the feet of soldiers!"

"What do you think this is going on?" General Patton asked.

"Tunnel, General!" Major Jones replied: "Tunnel is everywhere, and there may even be at our feet, and there is also a position close to the top of the mountain..."

As he said that, Jones marked a few dots on the sketch.

"That is, there are tunnels only a few meters away from us, and there are tunnels more than ten meters away!" Major Jones said: "The Germans are hiding inside, but we didn't find them because their tunnel entrances are facing their own defense line in the blind spots of our sight. So... When we charge down, do you know what will happen? We thought our enemies were in the defense line a hundred meters away, but in fact it was not just the defense line. We shine our backs in front of these tunnel entrances. The Germans hid in the tunnel and threw grenades at us, and even used submachine guns or machine guns to strafuse us!"

General Patton nodded when he heard this: "Excellent analysis, Major! Therefore, the British's understanding of tunnel fortifications is just the tip of the iceberg!"

"Maybe they intentionally didn't tell us this, General!" Major Jones said without a break: "You know, the British hope that we will suffer casualties and failures, so that they will appear stronger than us! They are just a bunch of bastards!"

Patton refused to comment on this because as a general was not suitable to say such things, although he also gritted his teeth with hatred from the British.

"There is another possibility, Major!" After thinking about it, Patton replied: "That's what you said before, the Germans were intentionally occupied by the British... The situation of the Gabes defense line was a little different. The British had already entered Gafsa. They attacked the tunnel fortifications from the other side to the Germans, so it was normal for them to not encounter our situation!"

Major Jones gritted his teeth and refused to speak. Although he felt that Patton was right, he still counted the casualties of his subordinates and comrades on the British in his heart.

"So, how can we break through their defense?" Major General Allen asked.

"I think..." General Patton said: "We can't!"

"What?"
Chapter completed!