Many book lovers have mentioned that updates are slow, and this is true. But I hope you understand that the so-called beginning of everything is difficult, and the beginning of a new book is no exception, and you have also seen that the plot like a soldier is very brain-burning, and the current situation is that it is good to be able to write a thousand words an hour, which is not counting the time to consult the information, and it will be updated faster after a while, I hope that the book friends will bear with me!

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According to preliminary statistics, the Germans captured enough 30,000 men in the port of Tobruk to supply and 10,000 tons of fuel for the previous quarter.

The seized supplies were so abundant and so tempting that Rommel could not believe it when he received the telegram.

"What you say is true? Captain! Rommel asked in the telegram: "Why didn't those stupid Britons blow them up but leave them to us?" ”

"I don't know, General!" Colonel Slane replied: "I was also curious about this question, and I even asked a few prisoners, and their answer was that they were not the soldiers guarding the warehouse, and they did not receive the order to blow up the warehouse, so it was none of their business!" ”

"Incredible!" Rommel replied.

After a pause, Rommel continued: "You must defend Tobruk, understand?" Only then will those supplies truly belong to us! ”

"Understood, General!" Colonel Slane replied, and after a moment's thought, he added: "General, but we are undermanned, the defensive line is 30 miles long, and we only have a severely attritional infantry regiment!" ”

"I will try to drag the British with the main forces!" Rommel said: "On the other hand, I will send troops to reinforce you at once, they will arrive in a day, and until then, you will hold Tobruk at all costs, at all costs!" ”

"Yes, General!" Hearing this, Colonel Slane couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

The First Infantry Corps was indeed underarmed, but it had the advantage of having almost no ammunition to fight, and the British had not been able to reach Tobruk until now...... Then it shouldn't be a big deal to wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Colonel Slain's estimate was correct, for the British army was in a state of chaos.

The first is the disappearance of two important British commanders, General Nimes and General O'Connor...... The British did not know that they had been captured by the Germans, and the British thought that the two generals might have been lost in the desert or that the radio had been damaged or something, so they never appointed a new commander, and only the commander of the British 13th Army, Lieutenant General Greenhill, took command.

Lieutenant General Greenhill was stunned when he heard that Tobruk had fallen.

"What the fuck!" After a long while, Lieutenant General Greenhill scolded: "Those Germans only have more than a thousand people, and there are no artillery and no tanks, I wonder how they broke through the Tobruk line of defense with our 5,000 men and the assistance of the air force?!" ”

"General!" The staff officer replied: "The problem may be in our Air Force......"

"What did you say?" Lieutenant General Greenhill couldn't help but be stunned.

"We received a telegram from the defenders of Tobruk......" the staff officer replied: "They complained that the Air Force dropped bombs on their heads, which led directly to the Germans breaking through their lines!" ”

Lieutenant General Greenhill blushed with anger when he heard this, but the gentlemanly demeanor of the Englishman made him try to control himself, and finally he only gritted his teeth and spat out a few words: "Very good...... The Air Force really helped a lot, and I will discuss this with them in a court-martial! ”

"General!" The staff officer said: "I have contacted the Air Force, and from the information they have...... It is likely that this was not an ordinary accidental bombing, but a misdirection by the Germans. Other words...... They were actually deceived by the Germans, and we can't send them to court-martials for this! ”

"Deception?" Lieutenant General Greenhill was a little incredulous: "What kind of deception can make the Air Force drop bombs on our own heads?" It's more of an excuse! ”

"General!" The staff officer handed Lieutenant General Greenhill a document and said: "The Air Force's 'Mosquito' reconnaissance plane filmed the whole process, and the Germans drove the car into our line of defense, and the moment the bomber flew over it, the pilot took it for granted that it was the enemy's position, so he ......."

Lieutenant General Greenhill didn't know what to say anymore, he couldn't imagine such a thing on the battlefield......

However, this does not seem surprising, because the battle has been repeated from the beginning to surprise everyone:

The Germans were supposed to be exterminated at Tengeten, but without them they fought a good battle there; The Germans had stayed in Tengeener, but the next morning when the British army attacked, they found that it was an empty city; The Germans attacked Tobruk, which was supposed to be a moth to a fire, but they easily captured this important port and stole all the supplies that originally belonged to the British army.

The British do not like this uncertainty very much, it is not at all like a war for them, but a gamble!

"Where is the 15th Panzer Division?" Lieutenant General Greenhill asked angrily.

The staff officer found a location on the map and replied: "Just past Lukadai, seventy kilometers from Tobruk!" ”

"God, there are still seventy kilometers left!" Lieutenant General Greenhill angrily ordered: "Ask General Evans, are they marching with their ass?!" ”

"Yes, General!" The staff officer replied: "I will let them get to Tobruk as soon as possible and attack!" ”

In fact, the 15th Panzer Division is not to blame at all, you must know that they are equipped with "Matilda" and "Valentine" infantry tanks...... These infantry tanks can only travel at 24 kilometers per hour on the road, which is still the maximum speed in the best conditions, and in fact no one dares to drive them above 10 kilometers per hour in the desert heat, because that means that these bulky guys will quickly break down due to engine overheating.

Worse still...... The Germans also planted mines and traps on the roads.

Mines may be easy to deal with, and British scouts can use mine detectors in front of them, but traps can be overwhelming.

The reason is that it is too easy to dig a trap against a tank in the desert...... The Germans would dig a pit in the middle of the road, fill it with soft sand, and cover it with the same sand as the other roads to camouflage it as if it were the same as the other roads, and they would even use cars to compact it, so that people and cars would not have any problems walking on it, but the 26-ton Matilda tank was stuck in it as soon as it was driven and could not move.

This caused the tankers of the 15th Panzer Division to use other tanks again and again to drag out the tanks that had been trapped in the pit...... It then turned out that this was not a good idea, as more tanks would break down due to towing in the process.

To put it simply, it is possible to break two tanks by dragging out one tank.

What made them even more helpless was that they had to move forward with these "stupid guys", otherwise, they wouldn't know how to attack that line when they reached Tobruk.