In order to give himself the greatest hope of winning, Li Le decided to change some of the so-called programs that caused him trouble. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He had been stockpiling up his strength, and had recently met frequently with senior SS cadres in order to be more confident in the showdown with Himmler today.

In fact, the destructive waste of Jewish human resources in Germany has also been criticized by many capitalist plutocrats.

Although Germany has been nationalizing in recent years, only God knows how much of the core has been moved.

Even if you don't forget about big companies like Porsche Farben and Krupp, many of them are operating in the name of nationalization.

Many business owners, or behind-the-scenes bosses, want to get more cheap workers so they don't mind if they're Jews or Germans.

In the past few days, Germany has opened a full 30 factories for these companies, which are predominantly Jewish workers.

Some of these factories produce quilts, some produce leather goods, some produce weapons and ammunition, and even a civilian automobile factory is in preparation.

For the sake of these factories, Li Le can be regarded as selling out his face as a head of state. While persuading the investing companies to open branches in the Polish occupation zone, they persuaded the SS to improve their labor camps.

Under the circumstance of both soft and hard, Li Lecai built the current framework, which may be the biggest thing he has done in the past two and a half months.

"......" glanced at Himmler, even if he knew that he would continue to do some persecution of Jews, Li Le could only do so temporarily.

He had already placed Eva to oversee him, and had promoted a few more men who were nominally loyal to him, to watch Himmler and his men as much as they could, and let them do what they wanted.

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North Africa, West Dubai Nila, Rommel on the city's only street, watching his own rumbling armored units, and the cars interspersed in between.

In order to carry large quantities of supplies, Rommel's army was probably the most mechanized in the entire German army.

This is not an environment that can be improvised, in this barren desert, every drop of water and oil comes from a distant supply station.

Due to the constraints, horses and other livestock could not be used as a substitute for transportation, so the cost was even greater than in places such as the Eastern Front.

"Sir! The supplies consumed are just too large! Attacking Matroux consumes more resources than we calculated. A logistical officer, complained to Rommel.

Just now, Rommel's 30,000-strong army occupied West Dubai Nira almost bloodlessly, but because of the consumption along the way, the daily supplies he brought with him also consumed a lot.

In fact, although it appears that the German occupation of Malta and the many ports in North Africa along the way from Libya to Egypt, the reality is not as rosy as it seems.

First of all, the largest port of the Axis powers in North Africa is Tripoli, the capital of Libya, which has a capacity of about 50,000 tons, and is desperately far from Rommel.

Then, Sirte, an important port that Germany had been building like crazy, was now desperately low as a future oil port.

German engineers designed and used a lot of the newly developed floating port technology – and the throughput here is less than 10,000 tons.

Don't underestimate the total amount of 10,000 tons, which is already 20 times the throughput of the original small port of Sirte.

Because of the need to attack Egypt, Italy focused on operating ports of Benghazi and Tobruk.

These two ports are now unable to meet the daily needs of the German and Italian coalitions – Benghazi, after being fortified, will handle about 5,000 tons, and Tobruk will have even less, only about 2,000 tons.

Not to mention Bairdi, after the devastation of the war and a long period of neglect, the throughput here is almost in the double digits.

In such an environment, the logistical supply of Rommel's armored forces was actually very costly.

Rommel, who has almost 300 tanks of various types, as well as thousands of armored vehicles, now consumes a total of about 50,000 tons.

So, this is almost the limit of the capacity of the Axis powers in North Africa. Thousands of supplies are consumed on the road every day, and anyone who has ever read the consumption report will feel a pain in the flesh.

If one-third of the supplies transported by the supply convoy every day are fuel, then by the front line in West Dubai Nira, Rommel will only be able to get half of the supply fuel.

Counting food and drink, this consumption loss is even greater. Originally, in North Africa, it was who attacked and who was unlucky, and this was determined by the port's supply capacity.

Although the discovery of Libyan oil fields has made the situation of ports in Libya better than in history, there has been no fundamental change.

Rommel had just been in his car, glanced at the records of the consumption of supplies, and felt that his attack on Egypt was a loss-making deal until he captured Alexander.

At least at the material level, the resources that he consumes now are almost on par with the group army.

However, you know, the army group is larger than the Afrika Korps - at least about 100,000 men, right?

In fact, Rommel pinned his hopes on improving his logistical supplies on the capture of the port of Matru.

After the capture of Matruh, although it was still unable to meet the daily consumption of supplies by the Afrika Korps, it was able to reach the front line more or less.

No matter how you calculate the destruction of Matroux by the British army, it can also leave tens or even hundreds of tons of throughput for the Afrika Korps.

With this throughput, it is possible to transport small boats at sea, which can save some fuel consumption.

If you don't take into account the strategy of protecting Libya's oil fields, you can't take into account the advantage that defeating Britain in Egypt will be able to control the Mediterranean and open up the situation for the navy.

Well, attacking Matrouh, or rather, Egypt, is not a cost-effective decision anyway.

An Sdkfz222 armored car, with yellow soot, rushed near the place where Rommel's convertible car was parked. Then an officer jumped out of the car and walked to where Rommel was.

He gave a casual military salute, and then reported, "Sir...... It is expected that we will be able to advance to the outskirts of Matru tomorrow, and the news from the reconnaissance force is still that the fox has run away! ”

"Excellent! Since the British haven't made any moves yet, we'll go to Matruo tomorrow! Rommel squinted at the Italian Army truck, dragging artillery past his eyes.

To say that the current German-Italian coalition army, the weapons and equipment are quite sophisticated, with the supplement of Italian artillery, the last shortcoming of Rommel's troops in the offensive has also been filled.

Now his army is very combative, at least much higher than the inferior Australian 6th Infantry Division.

It was an asymmetrical battle, with Rommel having many more troops than the British troops on the other side – a figure that has often been reversed historically.

"It was a quick battle, and the British army did not block the perimeter of Matru, although it avoided a rout, and it also saved us time." Rommel analyzed.

Supplies are not a child's play, and a little late for a day will cause a decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops.

In order to allow his troops to maintain their combat effectiveness in the event of an attack on Malta, Rommel reduced some of his carry-on capacity and increased fresh water and food supplies.

As a result, a lot of ammunition is consumed on the road, and it is necessary to be forced to stop. But the British were too cautious and allowed Germany to avoid attrition on the road.

Because of this, Rommel captured Selum and captured the West Dubai Nira with almost no shots...... Once again, the front line was pushed to the periphery of Matroux.

Time was saved, there were no large-scale battles, everything was guessed by Rommel before he set out, which also made his troops go from being unprepared to being well-prepared.

Although they reduced the amount of ammunition they carried, they could fight here under the resistance of the British army, and the amount of ammunition consumed was not much worse than that.

For the attackers, this time was at least better prepared than the last time they came to Matrou, and the pressure on the enemy was greater.

Faced with Rommel's troops, which came and went, General Cunningham, the British general who took over the command of Army Group Nile, adopted a strategy of passive resistance.

He abandoned the perimeter of Matrou and planted bombs on the port of Matrou, intending to destroy this place that could be used for supplies.

"General!" A British officer walked into General Cunningham's office and handed him a letter that made him laugh and cry.

Cunningham was ready to abandon Matroux and retreat his defenses to El Alamein, but this telegram from Churchill ordered him to hold on to Matroux and not to take a step back.

"What the hell! In this case, let me use less than 20,000 troops to face twice as many enemies? Cunningham threw the message on the table and complained.

He had already planted explosives on the dock and was ready to run away, and now he was told not to let him run.

"Did Prime Minister Churchill ever think about what El Alamein would defend if we were surrounded in Matruh?" Cunningham glanced at the officer who sent the telegram, and of course knew that the other party could not have such an answer.

Apparently, he also did not intend for the officer to answer his own questions, and immediately continued: "Send a telegram to Churchill and tell him that we cannot carry out the order and have retreated to El Alamein. ”