"No, we can't go any further!" Major General Stryker refused to carry out Rommel's orders.

"It's crazy, General!" Rear Admiral Stryk said: "Fifteen tanks, and there is no cover from the air force, it is already a miracle to be able to take Tobruk, and it would be suicide to advance further......"

"Don't show me off with Tobruk!" As soon as Rommel heard this, he became angry: "It's not your credit to take Tobruk, the First Steps Corps independently completed this almost impossible task, and they didn't use it to bargain with me like you!" ”

"It's not fair!" Major General Stryk retorted: "At that time I was commanding the troops to fight in May! ”

"On your armored command vehicle?" Rommel raised his head at the command car outside the door, and said mockingly: "When your soldiers were bleeding and dying, when they were looking for water and bullets from the corpses of their comrades, you were tasting red wine in the captured armored vehicles?" ”

"It's not what you think!" Major General Stryk looked at Rommel angrily: "General, I don't want to argue with you, I think we should now consolidate the positions we have been given, and wait for reinforcements to arrive before attacking the enemy." Otherwise, there is a high chance that we will lose everything! ”

Objectively speaking, in fact, what Major General Stryk said is reasonable, the German army is too weak, there is only one division in all, although there are still Italian troops, but they can only be regarded as heads and cannot be counted as combat effectiveness.

Especially at this time, the German army did not have air cover, so if the loss in the process of pursuit was too great, the British army would be killed by the British army if they were not careful, and once the German army was defeated, then all the occupied important places and strongholds would lose their meaning...... The Italians couldn't hold them.

But Rommel also had his own ideas, and he knew one thing from the First World War, the taboo of war was that the enemy and us fought a positional war and a war of attrition, and if it developed to that point, the German army, which did not have numerical superiority, would inevitably fail.

In order to avoid this, Rommel had to take the initiative so that the British army could not stop at a certain place and build a defensive line with confidence, otherwise it would be difficult for the German army to achieve such a big result at a very small cost.

That is, Major General Stryk saw reality and his own crisis, while Rommel saw warplanes.

After some arguments, both men compromised, and Major General Stryk agreed to send troops in pursuit of the British, but only to occupy strategic points along the Libyan border, thirty kilometers away.

Rommel was clearly not satisfied with this compromise, but he was helpless, because at this time he only had the 5th Light Division at his disposal, and there was no one to replace Major General Stryker.

This also made Rommel secretly determined to drive this disobedient subordinate out of his ranks.

Perhaps because of the merit of the First Advance Corps in capturing Tobruk, the First Tier Corps continued to garrison Tobruk.

This was a clear misfortune, as the soldiers were able to swim in the sea while they were resting, and then return to the beach to enjoy the supplies brought out of the British warehouses...... Although the supplies in the warehouse had been handed over to the troops as trophies, the 1st Regiments received an additional week's worth of rations for the entire regiment as a reward for the capture of Tobruk.

"extra", so soldiers can eat canned corned beef in different ways under the envious gaze of other troops, such as roasting it in the fire, or boiling a pot of beef soup......

Qin Chuan is better at this, because compared to the cooking skills of Chinese and foreigners, they can be regarded as primary school students, and the Italians are not satisfactory in this regard, after all, they care more about pasta than war. But picking any of China's eight major cuisines can kill Italian cuisine, not to mention other countries that only have hamburgers and sandwiches.

Qin Chuan asked Alfredo to go to the Italian army to get some chili peppers and spices, and then cooked a pot of hot and sour beef soup with canned corned beef.

Originally, the German soldiers were still full of suspicion, they didn't believe that the cooked food could be eaten, but after tasting it, they called it amazing.

"God, this is the most delicious thing I've ever eaten!" Werner looked at Qin Chuan with an incredulous expression: "How did you do it?" ”

"You saw me do it!" Qin Chuan replied: "It's simple, isn't it?" ”

"You know what?" The baker drank greedily and said, "After the war, we should cooperate to open a restaurant, what do you call me when you make bread...... Hot and sour soup, we will definitely be rich by then! ”

"It's delicious!" Even Alfredo, an Italian who was very picky about food, praised: "If I had this kind of food every day, I wouldn't be afraid of war!" ”

The soldiers couldn't help but laugh.

However, this enjoyment of the First Infantry Corps was still quite far from that of the Italian army......

During this time, Italian transports docked at the port one after another and unloaded supplies, both German and Italian.

German specialties included ammunition as well as a number of cars, side tricycles, and occasionally a few No. 3 tanks...... After such great success in Rommel, Hitler and Mussolini finally believed that they could defeat the British and drive them out to sea with a little more effort.

Therefore, they also accelerated the reinforcement of Rommel, which, in addition to sending the 15th Panzer Division, replenished the tanks and armored vehicles lost in the battle for the 5th Panzer Division.

Of course, this is just the beginning, and then there will be air power and sea power (mainly submarines).

However, there are two sides to everything, and it is precisely because Rommel achieved great success with only a small number of troops that Hitler thought that the war in North Africa would end soon, so he did not pay attention to the island of Malta, which lies in the middle of the Mediterranean...... He believed that the German and Italian armies did not need to capture the island of Malta at all, but only needed to suppress it with their air forces and wait for the victory in North Africa.

But this idea turned out to be extremely wrong, as the island of Malta is in the middle of the shipping route from Italy to Libya...... Historically, it was the British who used this island to constantly attack the supply lines of the German and Italian armies, which eventually led to the final defeat of the Afrika Korps.

That's an afterword.

There are more supplies on the Italian side, jeeps, tanks, soldiers, food, etc., and the most unexpected thing is to dress up in a flashy way.