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Robert Anthony Eden, the foreign minister and a key figure in the Conservative Party, understood Brooke's intentions and whispered to Attlee: "If General Montgomery retreats first, the entire Eighth Army will be in disarray, and the troops will not be able to hold back and delay Guderian - that will destroy the whole plan, and the situation will require us to make sacrifices, even if it is a lieutenant general." ”

Even so, Attlee could not bear to sacrifice a lieutenant general for nothing, hoping that Montgomery would be transferred out at the last critical moment to avoid the tragedy of Lieutenant General Harwood, and everyone agreed on this.

"In addition, both Alexander and General Ted informed me that the war situation is very unsatisfactory, and the balance of air power is particularly unbalanced, since the beginning of the war in early December, the desert air force and the Egyptian air force have lost more than half of their more than 2,000 aircraft, and today alone has lost more than 300 planes." Brooke frowned and said, "The front-line commanders reported that the Hurricane, Tomahawk, and handsome soldiers could not defeat the enemy's Fw-190, and the number of Spitfire 9s with excellent performance was too small, so that we repeatedly suffered losses in the struggle for air supremacy. ”

"Plane to them!" Churchill gritted his teeth and shouted, "Concentrate all the planes from Iran, Iraq, Syria and other Middle East regions in Egypt, and even if they are all exhausted, the enemy must be intercepted west of the canal. ”

"This ......," Attlee reminded euphemistically. Is it to prepare for the destruction of the Persian oil field facilities? ”

"Nope! You can't do that! Hearing this, Churchill jumped up in rage like a raging lion, "The enemy has not yet hit this far." You just want to destroy the oil fields, what a bad psychological hint will this bring to the troops? We have to tell the front that we will be able to hold Egypt. ”

Everyone looked at each other and resolutely stopped talking.

"Also." Churchill turned to Aiden and said, "Please communicate with Commander-in-Chief Stalin immediately through diplomatic channels, and be sure to ask the Red Army to launch a fierce offensive on the Eastern Front to help us contain and attract German forces." Even if it is good to attract one more plane, one more soldier. ”

"Good!"

At about the same time, the German side also received the news that all the main British warships in the Mediterranean had been sunk, and the provisional high command on the island of Crete was jubilant. Now apart from Montgomery's 200,000 exhausted and deprived troops, and more than 50,000 frightened and panicked troops in the direction of Egypt, the British had no strength left to resist the Germans, and the main force of the Italian fleet was rapidly approaching, and it was expected that the evening afternoon would be ready for battle. The Axis has an advantage not only in the army, the air force, but also in the navy.

The landing fleet has successfully returned home. Although there was a slight mistake along the way - two transports were sunk by a submarine belonging to the island of Malta, the daring British submarine was also quickly sunk by the destroyer acting as a escort, a loss that the Germans could afford.

"Hahahaha!" At dinnertime, the dining room was full of laughter, and the senior officers wishing each other well, Hoffmann was in a good mood to have the bottle of Bordeaux red wine opened, and a glass was poured for each of his henchmen, and Major General Gauss was not present at the command headquarters. Considering that there was still a command task, Rommel took a sip and put down his glass.

Keitel raised her glass. "After the capture of Egypt and the canal," he said, "the British link from India to the mainland will have to be changed to the Cape of Good Hope, and will be completely exposed to our flank attacks, and in order to commemorate this historic occasion, I propose that a statue of the Führer be erected around the famous Sphinx, larger than theirs, in the future, to inform the world of the Führer's great deeds." ”

"This ......" The other people did not know how to take it over, and always thought that this matter sounded strange, but when it came to the Führer, it was inconvenient for them to openly oppose it.

Hoffman knew that Keitel had made another mistake with his penchant for sycophancy, and he said lightly on the spot: "I am afraid that this is not appropriate, people will think that it is a statue of the conqueror - this is not conducive to strengthening our position, we have come to break the colonial system of the British Empire, and we must be accepted by the local people." ”

"That's right, that's right." Keitel smiled awkwardly.

"But after the victory, it is possible to make a statue to commemorate the great work of the German nation in helping the Arab nation to defeat the enslavement of the British Empire and to free them from colonial oppression." "In addition, after the end of the war against Egypt, we will quickly launch the Middle East campaign, and the High Command will have a plan for the next step of the war, and at the same time look for personnel to contact the local political forces, and if they are willing to establish an independent state and cut off ties with the British, we can recognize their interests in order to stabilize the situation as soon as possible, and we also need to have our own Lawrence in this regard." ”

"Understood!" Yodel took over the task.

"Now wait for tomorrow the fleet and the Italian fleet to arrive, and then send the second wave of the landing force up......," said Hoffmann, with great ambition, "Egypt, here we come!" ”

While Churchill was sad, Comrade Stalin was not in a good mood - after the bloody battle at the meanders of the Don, he thought that he could ask Britain and the United States for a large quantity of supplies and equipment, but the two countries told him with great distress that the equipment was still at sea and would not arrive until at least a month. Although he didn't get his hands on the things, the attitude of the two countries was still very positive, which made him feel a little warm, but what happened next made him very uncomfortable.

After communicating about the supplies to the Soviet Union, the British representative asked the Russians about the new German tank in horror, and took out a photo of the Tiger taken from the air, Zhukov thought at first that the unlucky Montgomery had been taught a lesson by the T-34s again, and his face was not very natural, but the other party did not entangle the bad debts of the T-34 this time, but painted the appearance of the "super tank" vividly, and the more Zhukov and Vasilevsky listened to it, the more frowning their brows were.

Stalin saw that something was wrong with the two subordinates and asked suspiciously: "......What is this?"

"Comrade Stalin, this kind of tank that the British side said, our comrades have also reflected, and now it seems to be true, the equipment on the photo is very similar to the report we received, this tank has an 88mm gun, strong defense, more flexible than our KV-1 \ KV-2, and its combat effectiveness is very amazing."

"Amazing? What does it mean exactly......"

"Our tanks, neither the KV-1, KV-2 nor the T-34, including other anti-tank guns, pose a threat to them, and the new German tanks can penetrate the frontal armor of the T-34 effortlessly even from 1,500 meters away...... The day before yesterday, one of our brigades fought with a company of new tanks of the enemy, and we used up all kinds of weapons, and the enemy was unscathed, but we lost 27 tanks, including KV, T-34, and other models, and finally the enemy left. ”

"27?" Stalin gasped, he was a little annoyed that Zhukov exposed his family ugliness in front of outsiders, but he didn't expect the British to nod frequently like chickens pecking rice, and said while nodding: "Yes! Right! That's it, this super tank is really terrible, all our current tanks and anti-tank guns are not opponents, so far only more than 10 have been destroyed, most of which is the credit of the Air Force, and even the wreckage was not available after the war. ”

At first, Stalin thought that there were not many such tanks, but when he heard from the tone of the British that there were 100-200 tanks on the North African front and 50-80 on the Don front, he took it to heart, and as soon as the British left, they immediately said to Zhukov and Vasilevsky: "This is not a rare weapon, it is a precursor to the enemy's imminent large-scale equipment, and it is necessary to quickly find a way to deal with it, otherwise the loss of 27 vehicles and the helplessness of the enemy will greatly dampen morale, So we can't delay the start of the development of a new tank any longer. ”

Vasilevsky said bitterly: "What kind of indicators should be set? We weren't even able to seize one to verify. ”

Comrade Stalin, who was no less enthusiastic about developing new equipment and weapons than Hoffman, thought for a while and said: "I think that the level of defense of the Churchill tank can be used as a benchmark, and the new tank is required to be able to penetrate the frontal armor of the Churchill tank at a distance of at least 1,200 meters. By the way, the Germans used their famous 88 gun, and we can move our 85mm anti-aircraft gun to the tank - I think the T-34 can be modified to accommodate this anti-aircraft gun. ”

"But the T-34's armor is too thin, and he will be killed before he hits the enemy." Zhukov said worriedly.

"That's just a contingency plan, and we should develop a new tank that is slightly superior to the enemy in terms of firepower, defense, speed, etc. -- we can't count on Britain and the Americans, they are inferior to us."

Both agreed that in fact the Red Army had technical reserves for the next generation of heavy tanks, which should have been developed and launched long ago, but the outbreak of war changed everything, and the development of new tanks was repeatedly delayed in order to equip the front line with heavy losses, and the production of old models was constantly simplified - simplified is simplified, and the quality has decreased considerably. Originally, the T-34/76 had an advantage over German tanks, but with the entry into service of the G and H models of the new No. 4, this advantage no longer existed.

After asking about the situation of the tanks, Stalin changed his mind and became concerned about the situation at the front. Both Zhukov and Vasilevsky were not optimistic about the recent situation on the battlefield, and although the German fleet retreated from the Black Sea and the forces that threatened to land in the Caucasus were also reduced back to Rostov-on-Don, the Red Army was still fighting in the Don region.

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