When Li Le was inexplicably sleeping in the same bed for himself and Eva, history had unconsciously been rewritten by his previous efforts. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Italy's Mussolini, under the good news of the discovery of Libyan oil fields, finally made up his mind to launch an expansion campaign against Egypt.

This time the Italians did not rush into attack in July of '40, but waited until mid-August.

In the process, the Italian army mobilized the main division composed of two Blackshirts, making the Italian power in North Africa even stronger.

The Italian navy, which is transporting strategic supplies and personnel to Benghazi day and night, has made the Italian troops stationed on the border between Libya and Egypt frighteningly strong.

Historically, the first stage of Italian expansion in North Africa was a process of victory and then defeat, and the originally superior Italian army was finally defeated by the British expeditionary force in Egypt and lost a large amount of land.

The familiar place names, such as Benghazi and Tobruk, where Rommel would later shine, were in fact the territories that the Italians had lost to the British Expeditionary Force.

And Rommel was always recovering lost territory for the Italians, and in the end, he only went to El Alamein in Egypt.

If Rommel could take over the war in North Africa in the Egyptian border area, it might be possible that the Afrika Korps would really be able to enter Cairo and rewrite history.

Sadly, Rommel lost El Alamein and the Third Reich lost the Second World War, which could have risen.

But now, Italy is more prepared, so no one knows if they will suffer another defeat this time and lose the border between Libya and Egypt.

"Boom!" With the loud sound of Italian artillery fire, the Italian invasion of Egypt began.

The shell is pushed out of the muzzle by the expansion of the gas after the combustion of the propellant, and it is squeezed and rotated by the rifling while it is inside the barrel, and it flies over a distance of several kilometers and flies along a predetermined trajectory to the target.

On the position, the Italian soldiers held their weapons and looked at the horizon where the enemy was in the distance, and instantly rose black plumes of smoke.

The offensive began, and for the Italian soldiers in North Africa, their war began, and the once calm desert became no longer peaceful.

No one would have thought that they could lose the war, and in order to defeat the British on the opposite side, they had gathered an unprecedented number of forces.

Although the British had often shelled and provoked before, the Italian command was not really prepared for war.

It wasn't until Mussolini knew that there was oil in Libya and enjoyed the dividends of the oil fields that he really began to prepare for war in North Africa.

No matter how idiotic the Italian intelligence services were, they could be sure that the Libyan oil fields were within range of the British Air Force.

This was an intolerable situation for Italy, which relied on the Libyan oil fields, where the Germans could still get some oil from Romania, while Italy had been left with some soup......

Mussolini's intention to develop Libya's oil fields was an important step in consolidating his dominance and revitalizing Italy.

So he had to ensure the absolute safety of the Libyan oil fields: once discovered, it seemed to determine that the future Axis strategy would inevitably revolve around it.

"In order to secure the Libyan oil fields behind us, we must attack Egypt!" An Italian officer at a hidden observation post in a trench said to his adjutant with a steel helmet on his head.

He held the binoculars and didn't mean to put them down, but his mouth kept complaining: "These distant officials don't know how devastating it is to fight a war in such a place. ”

On the border between Libya and Egypt, there are basically no valuable cities, only yellow sand, and even the coastal areas, there is almost no green.

Truth be told, it's a worthless place, and if you have to fight for it, it's because what's behind the sand is so important to both Italy and England.

On this side of the sands, Italy and Germany discovered Libyan oil fields, which could be an important turning point in salvaging the energy crisis of the Axis powers.

On the other side of the desert is the wealthy area of Cairo, Egypt, which Britain has long run, and the vital Suez Canal behind Cairo.

If you count Alexandria, there is also the Mediterranean Fleet...... This is probably the UK's most important transport hub outside of mainland China.

Therefore, although it is a piece of yellow sand here, both sides are ready to fight such a fateful war with the determination not to give up an inch of land.

For Britain, the war had another important purpose: to win the victory over Italy and to boost the morale of the homeland against the German invasion!

"I was woken up yesterday by a bug in the desert...... It's really a scary place to be. The adjutant seemed to dislike the sandy place even more.

When he woke up in the morning, he found a small scorpion coiled next to his shoe...... It's really a nightmare to think about this environment.

"Sir! Each cannon has already fired two shells...... Do you want to continue shelling? An officer walked into the command and asked his commander.

The war here is not as tragic as expected, and there is a style of low-intensity conflict in the west in the yellow sand.

Because it is very difficult to transport supplies, the weapons and ammunition in the hands of both sides are very valuable.

Every attack must be cautious about consuming one's own ammunition, and excessive waste of one's own ammunition will put the soldier in a situation where he runs out of ammunition and food.

The supply situation in the desert is changing rapidly, and a single mistake can lead to a rout, losing tens or even hundreds of kilometers of deep territory.

Of course, this is also the reason why a legendary figure like Rommel was born in the Battle of the Desert, a victory can go hundreds of kilometers, and a long distance can be outflanked in a large area without being limited by the terrain......

In the Tang Dynasty, where ancient Chinese poetry culture was the most splendid, there were poets of different genres on the pastoral side, and hundreds of years ago, when the ancients looked at the Huangsha battlefield from afar, they gave birth to the famous sentence "The desert is lonely and the smoke is straight, and the sun sets on the long river".

And now, the dust raised by the tanks in the desert, along with the fighter jets in the sky and the roaring cannons on the ground, make for another spectacular picture.

"Let the tank troops come forward! Cover the infantry center breakthrough! Get your feet wet! The Italian officer put down his binoculars and gave the order to attack the officers behind him.

"Long live the Kingdom of Italy! Soldiers! Offensive! "Inside the trenches, the Italian servicemen, who heard the order, shouted from the trenches to attack.

Much like in the First World War, with no noticeable change in tactics, the Italians climbed out of their trenches and took their own steps in the direction of the British army.

One by one, they left their bunkers, their rifles, and little by little they approached the line of the British.

Soon, beside them, the M11 tank passed by quickly, and the dust raised made everyone involuntarily squint their eyes.

Throughout World War II, Italian tanks, like Japanese tanks, were relatively backward because of the armor plate structure that had been fixed with rivets.

Although in 1940, the British on the opposite side were also using tanks covered in rivets, but this was not a good design after all.

Compared to its British counterpart, the Italian M11 tank was desperate in terms of quantity and quality.

First of all, the main gun of this tank was fixed to the hull of the tank, and only machine guns were used on the turret to deal with infantry.

Strictly speaking, this thing is more rubbish than the rags of the Stalkers, which have been criticized by German engineers.

Moreover, this tank uses rivets to fix the structure, which is actually not a disadvantage for this type of tank......

The reason why the rivet fixing structure was abandoned was because the armor strength was greater than the rivet itself, so that after being hit by enemy artillery, the armor may not be penetrated, but the rivet was broken, which seriously affected the bulletproof level.

However, the thickest armor of the M11 is only 30 mm, so the rivet structure is still a very good option......

In addition to these two flawing shortcomings, the M11 tank has a fatal problem, which is also common to many Italian tanks - this tank has only 3 members!

God forbid, in the case of the German tanks generally using 5 and in extreme cases only 4 crew members, 3 tank crews seems a little too few.

Although the M11 tank had reserved a radio position, it was not equipped with a radio, and a cannon plus a machine gun turret had already left the three people in the car busy, not to mention the remote coordination and linkage.

I have to say that after 40 years of insisting on using such cheating equipment, the reason why the Italian Army is not ready for war seems to be really correct.

As for more advanced weapons and equipment, Italy is not absent, but at this time the more advanced M13 has just begun production and cannot be transported to North Africa.

However, the M13 is only at the level of the German No. 3 tank, and it is not a life-changing artifact.

It's a pity that the Italian tank production plant is even second-rate with technology and equipment, and Li Le, a traverser, is not even in the mood to transform these backward factories.

He wanted to provide Italy with something like the Stalker without a technological gap, but he was afraid of technical leaks...... So Li Le could only ignore it for the time being.