Chapter 34: The Oasis of Mses
Bolger's body lay on the side of the road, his hands tied behind his back, his legs bent from the pain he had before he died, his head turned to one side, and a sharp bloody hole on the right part, still bleeding outward.
No one buried it, not that the Germans were not sympathetic, but that they were ordered not to bury Berg. To be precise, it was not permissible to be buried too early, and Berg's body had to be displayed in front of the entire team so that everyone knew what had happened to his comrades.
This is indeed necessary as an army, because unity and trust are important to the army, and only with these two points can the soldiers succeed on the battlefield as a whole.
Therefore, the force commander needs to use this means to shock others to achieve the purpose of increasing cohesion.
But personally, Qin Chuan still felt that this was a bit excessive, especially since many German soldiers spit in the direction of the corpse when they passed by Bolge's corpse.
It wasn't until the troops were almost at the end that Kuhn waved his hand at Qin Chuan and the others before he began to bury Berg.
The burial method was very simple, digging a pit in the sand next to the sapper shovel, and the two of them carried the body to the pit one after the other, covered it with sand, and then planted Berg's sapper shovel in front of the grave as a tombstone, and one soldier also put Berg's helmet on the tombstone.
After Qin Chuan and the others left, there was only a lone helmet left in the wind and sand under the sunset, and a few vultures appeared in the sky, they had already smelled the smell of blood and were waiting to come down and have a full meal.
The next day, the troops reached the Oasis of Mses without incident.
The Oasis of Mses is not really an oasis as it seems, it is actually a small pond of several hundred square meters, surrounded by some weeds that have been yellowed by the sun, and you can only see a little green when you are close to the pond or in the pond.
But this was enough to excite the people walking in the desert, and the soldiers ran excitedly to the oasis to drink greedily, and some even jumped into the pond to cheer loudly.
Of course, Qin Chuan could understand their feelings, because Qin Chuan himself could hardly suppress his longing for the pond in front of him...... If it were at any other time, Qin Chuan wouldn't have taken a second look at this unremarkable pond, but now, this pond is like a kind of magic, which makes Qin Chuan have the idea of "just stay here and never go anywhere".
However, this was only an extravagant hope, as the order was soon handed down: "Rest for fifteen minutes!" ”
Fifteen minutes...... At this point, the soldiers who jumped directly into the pond regretted it, because they had to go on the road in soaked clothes.
"Do you know why you're in such a hurry?" Werner was well-informed, and after going out for a spin, he came back and said: "Because our troops are almost reaching Mechichi, we must get to Tengeterl as soon as possible, otherwise the enemy will escape from our encirclement!" ”
"God!" The baker couldn't help but exclaim: "Our troops have already hit Mechile, what you said is true?" ”
"Of course it's true!" Werner replied confidently.
The baker took out the map from his pocket, looked at it for a moment, and said, "It was a journey of more than 700 kilometers, and it only took them ten days, so didn't the British resist at all?" ”
"What else can we expect from the British?" Werner squeezed his eyes.
Werner's words provoked a burst of laughter from the German soldiers around him, all of whom were extremely proud of the British army's vulnerability in front of the Germans.
The baker didn't understand what was going on, but Qin Chuan did.
The combat effectiveness of the British army was actually not as bad as it appeared, and the problem lay in the judgment of the commander-in-chief of the British army, Wivier.
Weveler had always believed that Rommel would not attack again, so there was no defense or effective planning and deployment of a counteroffensive.
In fact, this is not to blame for Weyer, because at this time the British army had "super secrets."
The so-called "super secret" refers to an intelligence organization located in the British Bletch Manor, to be precise, it is the first rudimentary computer made by British intelligence officers, which can mechanically brute-force the German code...... It's a bit like using permutations and combinations to guess someone else's password.
Originally, it took more than ten years to decipher the code in this way...... This is obviously not practical, because by the time the code is deciphered, the war is over.
However, the German army always added the words "Long live Hitler" at the end of the code, and after the British intelligence officers entered these words into "super secret", the decipherment time was shortened in stages.
Finally, in May 1940, the British army successfully deciphered the first code with "super secret". From then on, the content of the German telegram was almost naked in front of the British army.
The reason why Weveler judged that the German army would not attack was because he obtained from the "super secret" that Hitler had given Rommel one order after another, all of which were to stop attacking and stay in place.
So Wevier believed that Rommel was only engaged in offensive patrol warfare, not in the true sense of the word.
However, who would have thought that Rommel would completely ignore Hitler's orders and launch again and again "offensive battles in the true sense of the word" against the British defense lines that Wevier thought would not happen.
This left the British on the back again and again in battle.
As a result, the regiments that Rommel threw into the front advanced more than 700 kilometers in just ten days...... This speed was beyond even Rommel himself's imagination.
And this is the result of the sandstorm that the troops have been hit......
Known locally as the "kibli wind", the dust storm swept through most of Cyrenaica and raised the temperature in the region to 54 degrees Celsius.
The sandstorm caused minimal damage to Qin Chuan's regiment...... Only a little more than 100 people in the first regiment were missing, and more than 50 were confirmed dead. The main reason for this was the concentration and preparedness of the regiment's troops.
Other regiments, such as the 2nd Regiment, were scattered in pursuit of the British when the sandstorm came, so they did not know where they were when the storm passed, nor whether they were on the opposite side or on the side of the Germans.
What's more, even Rommel couldn't find his troops...... At this time, Rommel himself was only ten kilometers away from Mechile, and he wanted to gather troops to attack Mechile, but only a few dozen soldiers could be found around him.
Among them, especially the 5th Panzer Regiment, which had the most tanks, could not be contacted at all, as if it had disappeared entirely.
It was later discovered that this was due to the fact that their radio stations were all malfunctioning under the wind and sand.