"The Italians should have a taste of the whip, and it is a great shame that six British tanks surrounded and annihilated a whole battalion. This damned people should all be shot, and we have to fight for them now! I really feel sorry for the commander-in-chief having to fight with such a force. ”

The curse was issued by Rommel's new translator, Lieutenant Albrutt. The lieutenant, who had just been transferred to North Africa, was very unfortunate to encounter an embarrassing and humiliating scene for the Italians.

It was an unplanned war.

As Rommel and Bérante discussed the next course of action with the Italian officers, one of Garibaldi's Italian division commanders felt disgraced by the Italian Army.

Although Garibaldi himself did not feel any shame, after all, there is a gap between people's abilities, and Garibaldi is good at accepting the existence of this gap.

However, Garibaldi's division commander could not sit still, and he decided to bypass the German and French armies and rely only on the Italian troops in his hands to make a final attack on the British lines.

In the opinion of this division commander, the British had already been defeated, and it was only a matter of time before they collapsed. And the Italian Army was brutalized by the British army in Africa during this time, and it was simply a shame. If they did not take advantage of this opportunity to regain face, and when the Germans and the French won the war, what prestige would the Italian army have within the Allies in the future?

As a result, the Italian division commander quickly organized the Ariti Division and the Semi-Motorized Infantry Division under his command.

Because this is a rare powerful mobile force in the Italian army in North Africa, it has been kept by Garibaldi as a strategic reserve of the high command of the Italian army in Africa.

The menacing Italian Ariti Semi-Motorized Rifle Division rushed to Montgomery in one go, becoming the first training stone of Montgomery's reorganized Egyptian new army.

The commander of the Italian division who launched this offensive was already a rare nationalist in the upper echelons of the Italian army in North Africa. Moreover, this division commander also carried the opportunistic ideas that were popular in Mussolini's time, and liked to fight speculative warfare.

Unfortunately, this Italian major general, who had a commendable ambition but average level, happened to encounter Montgomery, a famous British general with some means, and the surprise attack he organized was quickly stopped by Montgomery using the heavy artillery fire deployed on the defensive line.

At the same time, the Italian army even began to show signs of collapse under the indiscriminate bombardment of Montgomery's concentrated artillery and warplanes.

On the other hand, Montgomery threw in all 3 battalions of Australian troops at once to counterattack the Italian Ariti division, and the Italian army suffered heavy losses, capturing about 400 people, and the rest fled.

The crushing defeat of the Italian army and the three-nation alliance of the African allies brought the originally overwhelming battlefield situation to an abrupt end, and Rommel had to order the whole army to stop the offensive and temporarily maintain the defense.

Because in the entire Allied armies in Africa, except for the French army in Belante, which relied on France's own transport forces to undertake supplies, Rommel's German army almost all relied on the Italian transport fleet to supply all kinds of materials and ammunition, that is to say, Rommel's army was only German personnel and equipment, and then all Italians raised them.

Needless to say, Germany's own logistics department does not have to worry about arranging transportation capacity for the supply of the African army, and only needs to regularly transport some of the necessary German parts and equipment from the north to Italy, and then the Italian logistics department will be fully responsible for the subsequent transportation arrangements.

Easy is easy, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the key logistics of Rommel's army are handed over to the unreliable Italians.

For example, this time, an Italian division commander launched an offensive on his own initiative, and as a result, he brought with him a large amount of war materials that the Italian army was responsible for guarding and keeping.

However, Montgomery used a little force, using only six tanks taken over from Wavell, and the strong Australian infantry outside, and routed the Italian Ariti division.

It doesn't matter if he just defeats an Italian division, what matters is that Montgomery even captured a large amount of war materials transported by the logistics troops of Aliti's division!

This was originally the key material that Rommel needed to launch the next round of general offensive, although it was only partially captured, but it was enough to make Rommel feel pain.

The Ajeti division can be said to be one of the most well-established Italian divisions in Africa today, and this division took with it enough supplies to theoretically reinforce the division.

The loss of such a large part of the material made Rommel's next combat risk much more abundant.

The offensive can still be launched, and it is expected that the ammunition and supplies needed will fill part of the German stockpile that Rommel had asked his logistics officer to take with the Germans, and it will also be able to support the entire planned offensive process.

But in this case, the German-Italian forces in North Africa will not be able to have a little extra material reserves. In the unlikely event of any unexpected event, the German-Italian forces will not be able to come up with any emergency reserves.

Rommel patted the indignant interpreter lieutenant on the shoulder, comforting him, and then turned to his adjutant and instructed: "Let our 15th Panzer Division withdraw from the sortie position." ”

Now that the Italian pig teammates have already sent their heads and equipment, they can only accept the facts now and continue to prepare for the next action on this basis.

After all, Rommel couldn't find Garibaldi and ask him to call the Italian division commander who gave away his head to beat him, right?

As for such a thing as sending the Italian division commander to a military tribunal, Rommel, as a German general, could not handle it.

What he could do now was to withdraw the tired German Panzer Divisions, which had just experienced Operation Tomahawk from the British Army, from the front line and replace them with infantry to defend the established positions.

Of course, these infantry were basically Italian soldiers.

This gave the German tankers time to take a breather and at the same time refuel and ammunition the tanks. The German infantry could also be replaced by the Italian infantry and have a good rest.

While waiting for the next wave of supplies to arrive, it is not a bad decision to rest the troops that have just finished a major war. Although, this was not Rommel's intention.

As for what to do if the Italian pig teammates are too tired to contact for military missions? That wasn't something Rommel had to think about.

Anyway, after using up the Italian troops this time, in addition to the three Italian divisions under the German-Italian army, Rommel didn't bother to drag these Italian crane tail troops to Cairo.

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