I have now Italian infantryin my back, they gathered around the flags in Gela and the flag at the eastern coast. At the later I am lucky that I have kept one platoon of infantry from the last battle as reserve, but Gela has to be occupied a second time by my reinforcments.
I think I should have kept the core forces from battle one and two in the town without attacking north.
The AI only counterattacks very late in each battle, most of its units are concentrated around the victory locations to the north. Also most of the tanks.
The advanced elements (several ranger companies) are now directly in contact from the start with not much ammo left (e.g. the AT-guns), and I cannot reposition them in the blue setup zones. Because of this, some units, which had been to near to other ones in the last battle, are now unprotected in the open.
I will restart from the end of the first battle...