"It just so happens that you can command the reinforcements of those three Australian infantry battalions, and they were not originally included in my battle plan." Wavell said dryly.

As long as Montgomery doesn't continue to disagree here, Wavell doesn't mind putting those monkeys from Australia under his command.

For one thing, Wavell really didn't like this kind of flawed subordinates. In fact, no leader would like a subordinate who is always giving advice. Since Montgomery himself proposed to lead troops to the rear, Weber would not mind giving him three Australian infantry battalions that had originally planned to stay in Egypt.

It is also important to note that Montgomery was the general whom Lord Gott personally sent to Africa. Although he is only a lieutenant general, to give him face is to give face to Gott. For the sake of Lord Gott's face, Wavell was also reluctant to embarrass Montgomery.

Using three Australian troops, which were only slightly better than the indigenous army and still nominally bearing the name of the Commonwealth army, to gag Montgomery's mouth and give Lord Gort a face, it was already a good deal for Wavell.

"Thank you, Commander." Montgomery got cheap, and of course he had to sell it right away.

By the way, Montgomery simply took this opportunity to make a further request: "In that case, can you also give me command of the three infantry divisions recruited by Egypt?" ”

"Egyptian troops? What do you want their command for? "Wavell was very curious about Montgomery's request to command these 3 divisions.

"Only three Australian infantry battalions are not conducive to arranging defensive deployments. If I could command three Egyptian infantry divisions at the same time, I would be able to deploy defensive positions more coherently. Montgomery reasoned with it.

"That's okay, it just so happens that you are also a lieutenant general, and it is also appropriate to command a unit of this size. After the meeting, I will arrange for you to transfer command and dispatch authority for the three Egyptian infantry divisions. ”

Anyway, Wavell himself doesn't look down on the combat effectiveness of the three Egyptian divisions that are barely integrated, so it's better for the good guys to do it to the end, and leave it to Montgomery. In this way, it also seems that he is very generous.

To outsiders, Wavell gave a thorn-like general, a full 3 divisions of troops, which looks like a symbol of Wavell's extraordinary generosity.

Only Wavell himself and his internal generals who knew the situation knew what level those three Egyptian divisions were.

The establishment is chaotic, the equipment is poor, and the training is not in place......

Wavell himself was never willing to command such troops, because he feared that they would be used to fight, and more likely, after the defeat of these troops, they would in turn break up the formation of the main forces of the Commonwealth. For such a long time since he came to Africa, even in the most critical moments, Wavell has only asked these Egyptian troops to do auxiliary tasks.

At most, let them help transport ammunition, help build fortified positions on the Egyptian border, that's all.

As Britain's supreme commander in North Africa, Wavell was reluctant to even approve ammunition for the local Egyptian army. In his opinion, giving these so-called army ammunition is a great waste.

It was only after Wavell had seized enough weapons and ammunition from the Italian army to equip 300,000 troops that he became generous and distributed ammunition to the Egyptian troops and replaced them with Italian weapons.

"Lieutenant General Montgomery, you will do your job well as the regional commander in charge of Egypt's defense. As for a head-on war with the Allies, it will be up to me and my generals to carry it out. Wavell preached with a hint of sarcasm.

However, Montgomery didn't seem to see it, and he stood up and saluted: "Yes, I received the order!" ”

After finally solving Montgomery's thorn in the back, Wavell returned to the previous topic.

He waved his hand and motioned for Montgomery to stop talking. Then he straightened his collar and announced: "Try to concentrate the main forces at the spearhead and strive to end the breakthrough in a short time." We had to guard against the return of the Allied forces besieging Tobruk, so we had to keep the campaign to a minimum. ”

"Reduce the defenses on the flanks and concentrate on attacking Sidioma near Bardia. At the same time, the flank forces on the Kapso trail and the Halfaya valley were reduced to a minimum to ensure that the forces of the offensive spearhead were sufficient. ”

Wavell almost completely ignored Montgomery's previous advice to pay attention to the flanks of the Kapso trail, and went the other way to further reduce the flanks in all directions of attack.

Concentrate on charging, and any of the 3 spearheads can achieve a breakthrough and succeed?

Montgomery was kept of Wavell's wishful opposite. However, he was no longer in a hurry to dissuade him.

Anyway, all my previous suggestions have been ignored, and I guess anything else will not have an effect.

However, his goal has been achieved, and he has won the command of 3 Egyptian divisions and 3 Australian battalions.

Montgomery was almost categorically convinced that Wavell would lose, and he even wondered how Wavell had managed to win so many battles before.

But this has nothing to do with him, what he has to do now is to frantically expand the 3 Egyptian divisions that are going to be there into reinforced divisions.

Taking advantage of the ease of recruitment in Egypt, coupled with the large amount of Italian Army equipment and ammunition captured, it was not difficult to complete this expansion.

Montgomery's current plan was to expand the three reinforced divisions with six integrated divisions before Wavell's defeat.

After all, he really didn't like to command too few troops to fight the enemy. Deep down, Montgomery wanted to be the type of general who commanded a large number of troops and won the victory by fighting steadily.

Looking at the current situation, it is unlikely that Wavell will give himself too many Commonwealth troops, and if he wants to command a large army, he can only fight for the Egyptian army that no one wants. No matter how low the combat effectiveness is, you can still use the tactics of the sea of people to resist a wave, right?

As for Wavell's favored three-way attack, it was a joke in Montgomery's eyes. Wavell thought he only needed to succeed all the way to advance in its entirety, but he made the mistake of fighting on three fronts and dispersing his forces and not taking care of each other. At that time, Rommel only needs to concentrate on breaking them one by one, and Wavell's plan will be completely defeated......

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"This is a weapon that the Führer came up with concept drawings 20 years ago, and now it is perfectly suited for us to use against the British!"

Rommel's headquarters was in a completely different situation from Wavell's headquarters at the moment.