What was Rommel waiting for? Or rather, which force was he waiting for reinforcements? That was the remnants of the German 15th Panzer Division, which had already left for Africa. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After the careful expansion of Li Le, the fake Führer, the current 15th Armored Division of the Wehrmacht is not the armored division in history that is not fully staffed.

It was armed with a full 300 modified and powerful No. 3 tanks. Already, 120 of these tanks have been sent to the North African theater.

In the counterattack against the Compass Plan, more than 100 No. 3 tanks commanded by Rommel proved their strength with exaggerated victories.

It is precisely because they have proven their good performance that they are the hegemon of the land of North Africa, so the importance of these No. 3 tanks is highlighted.

Compared with the A9 and A10 cruiser tanks that the British are now generally equipped with, the German army's armor advantage is very obvious.

Even compared to the more advanced British A13 cruisers, the No. 3 modification had a definite performance advantage.

Although 13 tanks had been lost, most of the remaining 190 tanks were now in the Mediterranean, and Rommel would soon be able to get support from them.

On the other hand, not only the 15th Panzer Division, but also a lightly armed infantry regiment was on its way to transport.

This infantry regiment was drawn from the Waffen-SS by Le, and the ships hired for transport were of French nationality.

In other words, this regiment was not deployed by the army at all, and belonged to the troops that Li Le, the fake Führer, had privately reinforced to Rommel.

The Waffen-SS regiment was lightly armed, but carried 10 75mm howitzers of the French calibre that had just been produced to provide the necessary fire support for Rommel's troops.

As a result, Rommel's forces had almost doubled, with the shelf of an infantry division and a real armored division......

The force was so expanded, Rommel, who advocated fighting in the middle of the movement and was willing to defend by attack, naturally began to plan a new round of attacks.

As the de facto supreme commander of North Africa, Rommel, in line with his idea that "if you don't attack, you will do your best, and if you attack, you will use all your strength," Rommel decided to pull Italy into a joint attack.

"In order to cooperate with our operations, the marshal needs to make some preparations." Rommel did not simply leave the matter of resting and gathering troops to Marshal Graziani, and ignored it.

What he wants is allies who can really keep up with him and can fight tough battles, not the kind of garbage that drags his feet and drops the chain at a critical moment.

So he made his own request: "To concentrate trucks and armored vehicles, if you can bring some tanks, it would be better." ”

After thinking about it, he opened his mouth and added: "Carry as much fuel and ammunition as possible, and the more artillery you have, the better!" ”

Graziani also knew the combat style of the German army, and he had seen what blitzkrieg was in the past few days, and he could be regarded as having truly experienced what it meant to come and go like the wind.

The German army had been on the outskirts of Bairdi a few hours earlier, and had already approached Selum after him in his car all the way, and had barely caught up with the attacking German troops all the way to the Nira Cuisine in West Dubai.

With such a quick attack, it is no wonder that the enemy could not organize defenses and counterattacks...... Because it was impossible to figure out the specific location of the German army, and in many cases it was even possible to be a prisoner in a daze.

Suddenly, Graziani, who thought of this, suddenly realized that Admiral Wavell and Lieutenant General O'Connor were not all blocked like this and inexplicably became prisoners?

"I will do my best to concentrate my weapons and strengthen the firepower of these 10,000 Italian troops...... Strive for, strive to be strengthened to the same extent as the German army! Thinking of this, Marshal Graziani replied.

Before he knew it, Italy's supreme commander in North Africa had already followed Rommel's lead.

In such a battle, North Africa, which Italy had operated for many years, and the German guests who had come from afar, were transposed.

"That's good! By the way, the field airfield near Baierdi should be repaired quickly, and when it comes to attacking, we will use more air force. Rommel said this and ended the meeting.

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The dilapidated streets of London, England.

A newsboy was frantically waving the newspaper in his palm, taking advantage of the good time when he saw the German bomber in the sky, and selling the newspaper in his hand.

The roads were littered with rubble from the collapse of buildings, and some civilians who had joined in the defense were picking up the pieces in the streets.

German bombing destroyed a large number of buildings, and the citizens of London were confined to bomb shelters and underground stations for a while.

In such a miserable environment, they had to go to work to try to maintain production, help maintain order, and salvage the remaining buildings that were crumbling.

There were also armed soldiers scurrying through the streets, patrolling and keeping London on the verge of anarchy.

The bombing of German planes had caused unlimited damage to the city, and the British royal family had taken refuge in Liverpool because of necessity.

Many of Britain's high commands, as well as senior military and government officials, have also moved to the safer north to continue their work.

It turns out that there are many small handicraft factories and enterprises here, after all, London is a famous and important industrial city in the United Kingdom.

Today, there is only one rubble here, and countless ruined lathes and industrial equipment are buried in the rubble.

Because of the large-scale bombing by Germany, the industrial production capacity of London, England was almost paralyzed, and the production of Britain's most important fighter jet was almost completely paralyzed.

On the last day of August 1940, August 31, the British Air Force received only one newly produced Spitfire.

Compared with the same moment in history, we can know how completely the German bombing of the industrial system was destroyed under the precise coordinates provided by Li Le.

If it weren't for the fact that the German Navy was too rubbish, Li Le would have even felt that he could carry out the "Sea Lion Plan" and land in the UK to pull out this thorn in his side.

"Look at the newspaper! Newspaper! Germany joins the North African battlefield! There was a fierce battle between our army and it on the outskirts of Baierdi! The newsboy shouted loudly as he waved the newspaper in his hand.

After all, he had to sell newspapers to subsidize his family's livelihood, and the war had skyrocketed the price of any subsistence items, and now a loaf of bread was almost 10 times more expensive than before.

Although the civilians of the British Empire still supported their homeland and still believed that their war would be won, the difficulties they had to face were increasing.

For example, their supplies of life have begun to run short - because more transport ships have sunk, they have to compress the ships that transport food and other supplies to replenish the carriers of industrial raw materials.

In order to prevent the British war machine from being completely paralyzed, Britain has begun to frantically buy ships from the United States to subsidize its own transport ships that were sunk by the German Navy's submarine wolf pack.

Nevertheless, the sea in 1940 was a haven for German U-boat wolf pack tactics.

In the space of a month, Germany replenished itself with a full 10 ocean-going U-boats, while the British sank only one smaller German U-boat.

Under these circumstances, the only pastime for the slightly numb British civilians, who had been devastated by the war, was to take a newspaper and read the news of the victory to comfort themselves.

They told themselves again and again that such difficult days would eventually pass, and victory on the battlefield would change their current living conditions in the next few days.

There is only such hope that they will persist in London, which is no different from the ruins, and insist on facing the bombs dropped by the Germans with a brave heart.

"Today, the German bombers haven't come yet, have they?" A citizen who filled the broken bricks in a sack and threw them into the huge crater next to him asked his comrades who were wiping their sweat.

Both of them were citizens of London who had participated in the defense. Both of them had been working middle-class people, but the Germans had destroyed their houses and turned them into homeless and miserable people.

"Isn't it! They usually come at least once in the morning, but it's noon, and they haven't come yet! The man wiping the sweat also realized this strange problem.

"Hey! Sell newspapers! That kid! Come here! Aware of this strange problem, he was in a good mood and beckoned to the little boy who sold the newspaper.

"The plane celebrating the Germans did not come this morning! I'll buy you a newspaper! He smiled and took out a penny, threw it to the little boy who ran over, and took the newspaper that he had also thrown over.

"The Germans fought back in North Africa? Isn't that bad? The civilian who threw the sack first leaned over and glanced at the news above.

"......" looked at the specific contents, and the civilian who bought the newspaper smiled and replied: "The newspaper said that our army fought valiantly and stabilized the defense line near the Egyptian border. ”

"The other day I said that I was going to lay down Tobruk...... I said, "Is Tobruk far from Baierdi?" Obviously, the other party, who had no knowledge of geography, opened his mouth and asked again.

"I don't know exactly where...... But it's good to be able to hold Egypt...... Haven't you heard? The Germans also went to Africa to help Italy fight us. "The man with the newspaper was clearly relieved that his country's army could keep the other side out of the territory.

"God, let those Germans die!" The other man nodded, and continued to throw some of the broken bricks in his hand into the huge crater beside him.

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