More nonsense by the British from 20 November 1941 onwards

As we mentioned, General Freyberg had offered the services of the New Zealand division to the 4th Armoured Brigade, but Brigadier Gatehouse was not interested. The New Zealand division had its complete complement of artillery, plus had a battalion of infantry tanks, besides. General Cunningham knew that the German armored divisions had concentrated and planned to attack the 4th Armoured  Brigade. He ordered the 22nd Armoured Brigade to join the 4th, but that did not happen until "late afternoon". The XIIIth Corps commander had approved the participation by the New Zealand division, but didn't want to have infantry involved.
The Germans were only able to bring one armored division to attack the 4th Armoured Brigade and the attack started at about 4:30pm. The battle continued until night ended the fight. The 22nd Armoured Brigade had arrived during the battle. The Germans were left in possession of the battlefield, where they were free to recover and repair their knocked out tanks. The 4th Armoured Brigade had lost 67 tanks since they had moved into Libya.
Rommel considered the 4th Armoured Brigade as being eliminated, so he ordered his two armored divisions to Sidi Rezegh. The BBC had helpfully informed the Germans about the objective of the Crusader Operation.
The Tobruk garrison got the message with the code word for them to sortie the next morning. If the British and German plans had both been executed, the Tobruk sortie would have encountered the two German armored divisions at Ed Duda.
The German infantry division, zbV, established a defensive position toward the south when they learned about the British attack from the Egyptian frontier. Because of the length of the line, they had to settle for a set of defensive spaced out over a large distance. The 361st Infantry Regiment was to the east of Sidi Rezegh, which had an airfield. They were on the escarpment, where they looked down on the Trigh Capuzzo to the north. The 153rd Regiment was to the southwest on a different escarpment. They could look down on the airfield at Sidi Rezegh. Another group, consisting of artillery with a battalion of the Bologna Division was located on escarpments near Belhamed. They were able to fire on the British all day on 20 November.
General Gott had visited Sidi Rezegh earlier in the day. After that visit had had requested that the South Africans send an infantry brigade to Sidi Rezegh. They did not arrive on the 20th and had stopped at night. They were wanted at Sidi Rezegh by 7am. The one medium artillery regiment from XXXth Corps was left at El Gubi. The South African brigade was also near El Gubi. They were now ordered to "screen" the Ariete Division. This is based on the account in Vol.III of the Australian Official History.