In fact, Wavell was really wronged by Churchill, and he played really well in Africa.

And after receiving Commonwealth troops transferred from India and Australia, Wavell has already begun to embark on a new offensive.

With a new defeat in East Africa and a stalemate in North Africa, Britain really desperately needed a victory to stabilize the morale of the military.

Coupled with Churchill's "complaints" about him in London, General Wavell felt the importance of victory even more urgently.

Although Churchill informed him in advance, he was acting for Reinhardt to show him, telling him not to care and to prepare for the war in North Africa wholeheartedly.

But Churchill's swearing, which Wavell saw in the newspaper, looked like an improvisation, and it was all from the heart.

However, after all, the prime minister still comforted himself, and he trusted himself, and Wavell believed that he could not live up to the trust of the prime minister and the country.

So, he began to plan a new offensive against Benghazi, Libya, with all his might.

And the Italian governor of Libya, General Garibaldi, was still as dead as ever, huddled within the fortifications of Benghazi.

Wavell knew that if he wanted to defeat the Italian army, which was several times his size, he had to lure the Italian army out of the fortifications and encircle and annihilate it, rather than relying on storming its defensive positions.

He pondered and discussed with the operational staff officers their plans for the battle in Benghazi.

"Our immediate priority now is to lure the Benghazi defenders out, if they keep huddled in their positions and drag us down, the East African side will not be able to hold up and we will have to be doomed."

An operations staff officer said he was not optimistic about the current situation in the North African theater.

"And the difficult thing is that General Garibaldi of the Italian army on the other side is a stubborn temper, we scolded and scolded him, and beat him, but he just didn't come out to fight."

The staff officer continued, and it was obvious that he had lost faith in Wavell's appearance.

"They don't come out because they don't think they have the confidence to win us, and we might as well think about it from another angle, if they think they can defeat our British army, will they come out to fight?"

Wavell reminded the crowd that he was still confident in the battle and that victory was only a matter of time before he saw victory.

"It's easy to say, but this group of Italians has been beaten by us, and they won't come out easily." The other staff officer shook his head.

Indeed, it was no less difficult for the Italians in front of them to come out to fight than to win World War II.

"Therefore, here today is for everyone to express their opinions to discuss strategies to defeat the enemy, and everyone should speak freely and do not take anything into account." General Wavell said to everyone, a faint smile on his face.

A keenly observing general caught General Wavell's smile, and he said with a smile: "I'm afraid General Wavell has already made up his mind, in this case, it is better to share it with everyone, and let us have a bottom and not have to worry." ”

General Wavell still smiled and did not speak, waiting for everyone's answer.

After a while, seeing that everyone did not speak, General Wavell said slowly: "The Italians are afraid of our armored forces, if we talk about the transfer of all the tanks, then will they dare to fight?" ”

"What? Transferred? So what are we going to do to fight the Italian army? Everyone was amazed and talked about this seemingly crazy decision.

"Of course it's not really transferred, we just let the Germans think we're transferred." General Wavell added.

However, everyone was even more stunned when they heard this, and they all stared at each other speechless for a while, waiting for Wavell's further explanation.

"We use a magician-like approach to say that our tanks are gone." General Wavell said.

General Wavell had in mind the performance of a magician, and the so-called magician's performance was actually a small trick to deceive the Italian army, diverting the enemy's attention elsewhere, and thus draining the enemy's energy.

Wavell divided the army into several small detachments dedicated to defrauding the Italian army.

General Wavell ordered them to artificially create a large army, hundreds of inflatable tanks made of rubber, field guns with biscuit boxes, and "two-ton" trucks.

In order to further deceive the Italian army, the British pretended to build roads on the roads, "printed" tank track prints on the roads, and they were deeply involved in Zhang Fei's strategy, using camels to drag rakes and gallop in the desert, creating a large amount of smoke and dust.

And they let this unit move back and forth to the south without stopping, and every time they walked hundreds of kilometers and turned back to continue to advance south from the base camp, the flow never stopped.

And this move will inevitably make the Italian army think that the tank force far outnumbered their British army and began to support the East African theater.

Therefore, General Garibaldi, the commander of the Italian army, must have decided that the time had come and began to plan a counteroffensive against the British army.

Unless he dares to wait for the British army to defeat the Italian army in East Africa, and transfer the tanks back to the opponent's Italian army in North Africa. Otherwise, Garibaldi would not have sat idly by.

And it was precisely because of General Wavell's sophisticated plan of darkness that General Garibaldi, who had always been cautious, was also fooled.

And the current Italian army, in fact, has long missed the best time to attack, and the current British army has become more powerful after receiving more support from the armies of the British Commonwealth.

Two days later, General Garibaldi finally couldn't sit still, and he ordered the Italian troops in the position to launch a surprise counterattack against the British troops in the early hours of the morning.

I thought that the British army would be taken by surprise, but the British army had actually expected that the Italian army would counterattack.

The British tank troops lying in ambush on the back suddenly rushed out, and Wavell ordered to cooperate with them and the lightly armed army to attack the Italian army.

In the following period, the British captured 130,000 Italian soldiers, 400 tanks and 1,290 artillery pieces.

Garibaldi himself fled to western Libya in a disgraced car, arriving on the Algerian-Libyan border with the French army in Belante.

From then on, the Italian army in North Africa was no longer able to compete with the British army.

The dark trick used by General Wavell in it looked like a childhood game of hide and seek, but it lured the Italians into attacking him, and at the same time won his own troops a valuable opportunity to attack.

But what General Wavell used was not child's play, but a stratagem. It was this ploy that enabled the British army to achieve a phased victory, and was able to turn back and deal with the Italian army in East Africa.