On a quiet night, the Germans inside the El Alamein Line did not feel that there would be any great battle tonight, for in front of them was Rommel's elaborate garden of the devil. To stop the Construction of the El Alamein Line by the British. However, the sleeping Germans were awakened by the sound of artillery fire, and the defensive line that was considered to be extremely strong was broken by the British little by little, and gradually a large gap was torn open. Although there was a desperate resistance to the British army, the tanks were cut off one by one into scrap iron when supplies were cut off. It ended in the victory of the British army. This is known as the Second Battle of El Alamein.
The name Montgomery has also gone down in history, but Montgomery's victory was laid by another man. He was the famous commander of the British Army, "Auchinleck", who graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst and had repeatedly turned the tide in North Africa. Rommel said that the best general of the British army. The battle plan adopted by Montgomery at the Battle of Alam Halaf was developed by Auchinlake. And at that time Montgomery had received very sufficient supplies, which were incomparable to the British generals in front of him. There is no doubt that if Oginlake had commanded the Battle of Mount Alam Halafah at that time, it would have been also victorious.
So why would Montgomery replace O'Kinleck, which is a joke made by Heaven. Churchill was anxious to launch an offensive in North Africa to defeat Rommel early, and Auchinleck believed that it was not easy to take an offensive at this time, and the British army was in urgent need of reorganization. Churchill had no choice but to remove him and replace him with a general with a new strategy. Why was Churchill in such a hurry? Because Operation Torch was his coaxing and deception plus threat to fool the U.S. troops into landing operations in North Africa. If the British army loses here or does nothing, where will his face go and how will he account to the American leaders?
Churchill had been replaced by the "Gott", known as the Rat of the Desert, and his plane was accidentally shot down by a German fighter. In the end, Montgomery could only be appointed, and Gort might not be able to turn Montgomery if he did not die, and Montgomery's luck was really not generally good. And Auchin lakerck seems to be an outcast abandoned by fate. Ironically, the newly appointed Montgomery took longer to launch an offensive than Oginlake. Did Churchill continue to make substitutions? There may be no one available. Perhaps Churchill had regretted by then that he should not have replaced Oginlake. It was Aukinlake who had solved one crisis after another.
The Rommel Legion, which had been in full swing, was stopped by Auchinleck at the first Battle of El Alamein, and even chased after the Germans. If it were not for the Fact that the Germans occupied the large British warehouses on the border between Marmarika and Egypt, they would not have been able to sustain it at that time. Before the First Battle of El Alamein, the British generals believed that They should stick to Shamathru. Auchinleck disagreed that Shamatru could not hold on, and That Shamatru was by no means the throat of the British. Auchinleck's decision saved the British, and if the British lost at Shamatroux, Alamein would not be able to defend.
Throughout North Africa, Auchinlake surprised Rommel again and again. During the Crusade, Auchinleck ordered the British to attack the Germans along two secret routes. Rommel was shocked when he was raided, but did not take it seriously, believing that it was just a British reconnaissance operation. If it were not for his subordinate Cruwell reminding him, I am afraid that this time Rommel would have suffered a lot of losses. It was only then that Rommel realized that this time his opponent was not ordinary. During this campaign, when Rommel besieged Tobruk, Auchinleck ordered the British to detour to the rear of the German army, and the German army in Adem called for help, and Rommel had to abandon the attack. This was Rommel's best two-wing tactic, including tactics, and Auchinlake was the only one in the British army who dared to use this tactic.
Although Rommel suffered a great loss this time, Rommel still lost the British army again at Belle Hamad, the British generals said that they should retreat, and Auchinleck correctly judged that although the German army won the victory, he also suffered heavy losses. The 4th Indian Division and the British 7th Panzer Division were ordered to encircle Rommel from both flanks, cutting off his supply lines and retreats. The Germans were forced to retreat towards Jazara. The Germans who remained on the Egyptian border were all captured.
It can be said that Auchinleck was Rommel's most troubled opponent on the battlefield in North Africa, and Rommel also spoke highly of him: "General Auchinleck, after the personal takeover of command in El Alamein, had considerable skill in the use of troops, and he seemed to maintain an absolutely calm view of the situation, because no matter how we acted, he never lost his mind and took some inferior solutions."
Rommel's evaluation of Montgomery was not very friendly, and during the Alamein retreat, Rommel said dismissively: "If I have enough gasoline, it will be Montgomery who will escape now" There is a passage in Rommel's wartime document: "Because the predecessor had many painful and valuable experiences, Montgomery sat back and enjoyed it, and Montgomery had a much greater material advantage than his predecessors." In terms of performance, Montgomery should have been a strategist, not a tactician, and commanding a force in a mobile battle was not very good for him, but it is difficult for me to say that Montgomery once made a serious strategic mistake. “
Indeed, Montgomery not only has a wealth of material advantages, but also possesses super secrets. German cipher machine deciphered by the British army in World War II. At the Second Battle of El Alamein, the British also sank all the supplies that should have been shipped north to Rommel because the British army cracked the German telegrams. As Rommel commented, Montgomery was more of a strategist, and the tactically apparent O'Kinleck was superior.