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On the yellow desert, countless vehicles and tanks retreated.

Rommel lay on the command car and listened to the constant roar of the car and the sound of bombs. His face was sallow, and his eyes were covered with a dark halo. After only a week back in North Africa, he had aged a lot.

The battle was very bad for the Germans, the Italian Litrio division was out of control, everyone was fleeing in a hurry, and the delhiaste mechanized division was already in ruins. There are less than 30 tanks left in the entire African Army.

The only way to do this is to speed up the retreat, the faster the better.

Forced by the situation, Rommel categorically ordered a retreat at 3:30 pm on the 4th. In this way, Rommel led his troops to a difficult retreat, and the Germans took all the freshwater reserves and cars of the 4 Italian divisions with them. The next morning, Hitler received an order to retreat, but it was too late, the Fucqua Line could no longer be held, and the Germans had to continue to retreat westward.

On September 2, Rommel began the first phase of the retreat, and on the 3rd accelerated the retreat of Qiqing. An important reason for forcing Rommel to retreat was that the desert air force bombed Tobrujenjuk, the rear base that Rommel used to launch the attack, so that the possibility of his supply disappeared.

Rommel led his army to withdraw from the Battle of El Alamein and head west. On the desert road, burning vehicles spew flames and burst into the sky.

In the early hours of 5 November, Rommel himself arrived at Fuquet and established his headquarters there, as did most of the Afrika Korps, the 90th Light Panzer Division and several Italian motorized units. Rommel had intended to stay at Fouquet for a while in order to get the marching infantry out of trouble, but he soon realized that there was no hope of staying. That night, he ordered the mobile forces to retreat to the port of Matru, ignoring the Italian infantry division.

On 7 November, Rommel abandoned the port of Matrux and withdrew to the Brega line.

Montgomery tried to outflank Rommel from both flanks, but every time the British arrived, the Germans slipped away one step ahead. In addition, he had always been cautious and did not want his troops to pursue him quickly, lest he fall into Rommel's ambush. In fact, Montgomery had no need to worry, because at this time the main German army had only about 4,000 men left, only 11 tanks and a small number of field guns and anti-tank guns, and they could not carry out a counterattack against the British army.

On 8 November, as Rommel had just escaped from British pursuit and was catching his breath, news came of the Allied landings in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers.

When Rommel heard the news, he shouted "It's over" in despair. Montgomery's British army had exhausted him from fleeing, and he had hoped to retreat westward, where he could gain a foothold and wait for an opportunity to counterattack. Now that Eisenhower's forces had landed behind him and flanked him, he felt that he had no foothold left and that the best option was to withdraw from Africa.

He wrote a letter to Hitler, telling him that the Afrika Korps could no longer hold Cyrenaica, and asked the Führer to immediately send submarines, boats, and planes to transport this group of battle-hardened German soldiers back to Europe at night and put them into other battlefields.

But Hitler did not agree, he did not want to give up North Africa. The landing of British and American troops in North Africa was completely unexpected, and the day before the landing, the intelligence officer told him that a British convoy had sailed into the Mediterranean, and at that time he thought it was bound for Malta and therefore did not care. The day after the landing of the Allies, he decided to take full possession of France and create a bridgehead in Tunisia.