Qin Chuan would know this because this kind of "mobile defense" is a trick that the Germans often play.

This can also be said to be forced out: after World War I, the German Wehrmacht was limited to 100,000 people. In order to cope with the threat of superior enemy troops on the Western Front, they developed a different model from positional defense...mobile defense.

Its characteristic is that when the number of troops on our side is insufficient, we form superior forces in local movement to defeat the enemy. The key requirement is our side's "mobile ability". (Note: Many people think this is a tactic invented by the Germans. In fact, many "mobile defense" war examples appeared in ancient China, such as the combat methods of Mongolian cavalry and the way that the famous general of the Song Dynasty Meng Gong fought against Mongolian cavalry)

Facts proved that this pioneering tactic was correct. In World War II, the German army's troops and equipment were often not as strong as their opponents, but they could rely on fast maneuvers to intersperse back and forth like "lightning", which not only could attack the enemy's weaknesses, but also exert the combat effectiveness of the troops as quickly as possible and as much as possible.

On the contrary, the British army seemed to have sufficient troops due to the slow tank speed and few mechanized troops, but in fact, there were not many troops invested in the battlefield at the same time... Many troops had not arrived at the battlefield until the war was completed, and these unfunctional troops actually did not exist.

Qin Chuan guessed correctly. The British army did disperse their troops across the entire line of defense to attack Tobrook. Their purpose was to disperse the German army as much as possible as Werner said.

But as a veteran from World War I, Colonel Slain knew that he could not disperse his defense, otherwise he could only allocate 33 soldiers per mile, which means only two soldiers a hundred meters... This almost means that there are loopholes everywhere.

Colonel Slein's response was to use Tobrook's inexhaustible ammunition as much as possible... He had only one battalion of troops on the defense line. The German machine gunners in this battalion had all been replaced with British Bren machine guns and Vicks heavy machine guns, which allowed them to shoot a large number of bullets at any suspicious points in the bunker, and then there were anti-tank guns in the bunker, and combined with trenches, barbed wire, and mines... From time to time, several flares would hit the air. The British army could say that they could not move at any point.

Colonel Slein personally led the Third Battalion as a mobile force within the Blue Line. The mobile force was distributed in three directions of the defense line in units of companies, with a distance of about twelve kilometers between companies, and the three companies divided the 30 miles (48 kilometers) defense line into four sections evenly.

These mobile units are equipped with a large number of armored vehicles and cars. The car compartments are loaded with ammunition and some are towed howitzers seized from British warehouses. As long as there is an emergency in any section of the defense line, for example, the British attack under the cover of tanks, one or two mobile units will soon arrive at the corresponding position to counterattack the German army.

But even so, the mobile troops were still very busy under the attack of the British army, because the British army launched an attack from this direction and then another attack from that direction, which made Colonel Slein a little tired.

In fact, Colonel Slain and even Qin Chuan underestimated Major General Evans, the commander of the 15th Armored Division of the British Army.

All the British army did was a feint attack, and its real offensive force was actually located in a passage in the southwest... When engineers lay mines, they would always build such a passage so that their withdrawn troops could pass quickly and safely and enter the defense line, and then the engineers would fill the passage with landmines and barbed wire.

Moreover, in order for the troops to be blocked by fire when they pass by, they are not reconnaissed by the enemy and blocked by fire, such passages are often built in relatively hidden and difficult to discover.

There is also such a passage in the Tobrook line, but when the engineers stationed there hurriedly filled some landmines on the passage when they knew that the Germans were coming, not the British, but this did not affect Major General Evans' plan.

"This passage is in the low-lying area of ​​this part!" Major General Evans pointed to the map and said to the staff officer: "There is a small sand dune on each side... In fact, they can only be said to be a small landblock, but the more this happens, the less it will attract the attention of the Germans!"

The staff's eyes couldn't help but lit up: "Great! We can use the frontal attack to attract the enemy's attention, cover up the sound of tanks with the sound of cannons, and then send an army to break through the enemy's defense line along the passage to defeat it from the inside!"

Major General Evans shook his head: "We can't do this, Barritt!"

"What?" The staff officer was puzzled when he heard this. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defeat the German army, but Major General Evans said, "You can't do this."

"Think about it, what will happen next if we defeat this German army?" As he said that, Major General Evans turned and walked to the simple table built with a shell box to make himself a cup of coffee.

"They will run away!" said the staff officer.

"What else?"

At Major General Evans' reminder, the staff officer couldn't help but say "Oh": "They will escape back to Tobrook Harbor and then fight street battles with us, which will cause us a lot of trouble..."

Evans almost sprayed out the coffee in his mouth. He looked at the staff officer with an incredible look and asked, "Barritt, how did you become a staff officer and get the rank of colonel?"

The staff officer couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed because a large part of the reason he did get to this point through family relations.

"Is there any problem? General!" the staff member asked with a blushing face.

"Barritt!" Major General Evans asked replies without answering: "What do we need most?"

The staff officer suddenly realized: "Supply! You mean the supplies located in Tobrook Harbour!"

"Yes!" Major General Evans nodded: "If we just defeated the German army... all we can get is a meaningless line of defense, a pile of corpses and a piece of ruins. The Germans have enough time to blow up those supplies. Without supplies, do you think we can deal with the next battle? The main force of the Germans is still in Mechile, and they will not let us go!"

The staff officer nodded when he heard this.

You should know that the British army has a total force of more than 100,000, which is not the auxiliary personnel. All of these people need 1,500 tons of water in just one day, let alone fuel, ammunition, etc.

Thinking of this, the staff's face became solemn. He realized that the German army might only need to burn a match to defeat the British army.
Chapter completed!