How is the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet going to escape? In fact, they had a plan for a long time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

First they had to quickly retreat back to Egypt, and then they had to replenish fresh water and oil in Port Said. Then the fleet was to be divided into two parts, the main forces broke through to Gibraltar to the west, and the destroyer and cruiser detachments, which would remain to continue the battle.

How long will the fight last? Fought until the Germans occupied the military port of Said. The remaining warships will no longer risk retreating westward, but will pass through the Suez Canal and retreat into the Indian Ocean.

On the one hand, this arrangement was intended to interfere as much as possible with the Mediterranean shipping routes between Germany and Italy and to put pressure on the Italian navy.

On the other hand, it is to avoid problems when breaking through, losing too many troops, and having the effect of diversifying risks.

Finally, of course, Britain is actually planning to strengthen its naval forces in the Indian Ocean.

The reason for the last reason, which is also intriguing, is to stabilize India, an important British colony, and use it as a backing to continue the war against Germany in the Middle East.

The second reason is that Britain feels the huge pressure of Japan on its colonies in the Asia-Pacific region, so it can only demonstrate against Japan and see the effect.

It's just that only God and the Japanese know how much deterrence the fleet, which was driven by the German Army like a lost dog, to the Far East.

"Homecoming! The attack may have been discovered by enemy submarines, don't be careless, and be extra careful when you go back! General Cunningham saw that nothing could be done, and immediately left the scene of the crime.

His philosophy is that as long as there is no good thing, immediately stop and leave, and do not do half of it.

This time he didn't think about leaking, because in his opinion, the Italians had detected the British fleet in advance and then evacuated the warships in the harbor, which made more sense.

Why? Because Cunningham thought differently, he felt that if he had received the offensive information of the British Navy in advance, he would definitely stop the British fleet halfway.

Unfortunately, he guessed wrong. Italy, under the reminder of Germany, had long known that the British fleet was coming, so it had more intensive reconnaissance and an emergency plan for the evacuation of the warships.

Li Le's original plan was to use the information he knew to annihilate the British Mediterranean fleet in the Mediterranean, but the information in his hand was not accurate.

On the one hand, the historical Battle of Taranto took place in November of the 40th year, but it can't be so late now!

Rommel's tanks have now entered Alexandria, and if the British don't get through, by November 40, their Mediterranean fleet will have no Mediterranean ports at all!

Therefore, if the British wanted to continue to contain the Italian fleet, they had to attack in advance. This one is in advance, and the timing of the attack of the British fleet is uncertain!

It is precisely because of this that Li Le's so-called shadow of the intelligence department, when the time of the attack cannot be determined, does not dare to determine the offensive route of the British Navy!

Because of this, although German intelligence alerted the Italian navy that the British would definitely attack Taranto, they could not give a definite time and route.

In this case, it has become an impossible task to encircle and annihilate the British Mediterranean Fleet in advance!

The ignorance of the German intelligence services made the Italian Navy willing to fight, and there were no conditions for it to go to war - in the end, what they could do was to avoid losses as much as possible.

Therefore, the Italian fleet was still in the port, so the Italian fleet was temporarily retreating, not organizing a counterattack.

After all, this is the Italian fleet, not the German fleet - the gap in strength and determination makes it impossible for this fleet to really become a force that Li Le can command, so the combat effectiveness is greatly reduced.

However, only Li Le himself knew that in the Battle of Taranto in history, the battleships of the Italian fleet were killed and wounded, and the losses were quite large.

Being able to avoid such a loss is already a good harvest for Li Le, at least the Italian fleet can maintain its presence and continue to threaten the British Gibraltar fleet.

The historically significant Battle of Taranto ended in this way, and the British showed their presence in Taranto at the cost of losing 10 aircraft.

Because one plane crashed into the sea on the way back, and another plane was damaged by a mistake and could not take off, the actual loss of the British Navy was 10 aircraft, but only 18 pilots were lost.

The Italian fleet was busy all night, and during the day, when its fighter unit flew over its own port, it was convinced that the British fleet was gone.

In the night's fierce fighting, Italy shot down 8 British planes and captured 12 British pilots - the remaining 4 unlucky ones became the only casualties of the air raid.

In any case, this time the battle of Taranto ended in a complete Italian victory, and in the afternoon of the same day, 10 transports sailed to Alexandria under the escort of several Italian destroyers.

Supplies can be quickly transported to Alexandria, but to be on the safe side, the closest point to the front line is Matroux.

The powerful British Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet is still there, and at this time, the rash opening of the route to Alexandria is to be taught by the other party how to behave.

However, because of the diversion of various supplies, the transportation of supplies from Italy to North Africa began to increase exponentially.

In the last days of September, with the support of floating terminals, the total number of sea freight in September was a full double that of August!

Yes, the Axis powers transported almost three times as much supplies to North Africa as last month! This amount not only scared Rommel, but also everyone who knew about Africa's capacity.

With so much supplies, it was actually enough to feed more troops, but the Germans still did not massively increase their combat forces in North Africa.

Instead, much of the increased capacity has been focused on the development of Libya's oil fields, with large quantities of supplies being transported directly to Sirte and then a little further south along the pipeline that is nearing completion.

Along the pipeline, German engineers directed the Italians to build a nearby road that accompanied the pipeline, and also built telephone poles along the road.

Although he resisted Japan in his bones, Li Le still used some things that the Japanese had played in the process of building Libya.

Because in North Africa, there was also a lack of support weapons such as heavy artillery, so along this important oil pipeline, the Germans and Italians also built turrets.

The old turret is very simple to build, and it provides shelter and has enough lookout height, which is really a good thing for good value for money.

The main reason why Europeans don't play this thing is that the firepower of both sides is very strong, so the survivability of the turret cannot be guaranteed.

However, in terms of preventing the destruction of guerrillas and British special forces, the advantage of turrets over light weapons and equipment has been infinitely magnified.

Although the project is not small, with the help of the locals and the Italian army, the progress of the project is still very good.

At the same time, it is also being perfected little by little, and there is also construction in the oil field area! That's the main part of the play.

With the help of German engineers, a thermal power station was first built here, and a thermal generator with considerable power was transported, which solved the power supply problem in the vicinity at once.

On the other hand, with the continuous construction of pipelines, the desalinated seawater will soon be sent to this water-scarce place, and the cooling water and domestic water will be solved.

The most frightening thing is that while these infrastructure constructions are being built, the exploitation of oil fields has not slowed down even the slightest.

The German garrison here is helping with construction, more than a dozen oil wells have been erected, and the oil produced has already made everyone laugh from ear to ear.

Although most of the oil cannot be shipped, plants have been built to process gasoline and diesel on-site.

Velvetschneft has opened a sizable gasoline production site here, which has not yet been built, but there are no problems at all in producing finished gasoline.

Seventy kilometers away from the oil base, an unattended gasoline reserve base is already being built.

It is said to be a gasoline reserve base, which is to build a small cabin on the edge of an oasis, station a company of soldiers, and then use cars to transport the produced gasoline here at any cost.

Barrels of gasoline were quickly transported here and piled up as high as a hill. And the reason why I chose this place is completely because of overcapacity, and it is just to build a forward base.

The car is filled with a tank of gas, then transported here with petrol and returned empty, which was a serious waste in the previous transport process.

Under normal circumstances, the Afrika Korps car transport must avoid the return of empty vehicles. Wasting gasoline is an absolutely shameful act and should be dealt with seriously.

Such a thing, now at the front, that is, in Alexandria, is still one of the codes of conduct for the German transport support forces.

However, in Libya's oil fields, in order to transport the gasoline and diesel produced as quickly as possible, this waste is allowed and very normal.

In order to build this gasoline supply depot 70 kilometers away, the Germans used cars, horse-drawn wagons and even camels to transport gasoline and diesel fuel to the area.

A large number of gasoline and diesel barrels were piled up, and most of them did not even have time to lay camouflage nets in deserted places.