When the British troops saw the vanguard of Rommel's attack, they sensibly abandoned their defensive positions.

If their defensive positions were buffer defenses along the Euphrates, the Italian troops opposite them were large enough to line up and directly encircle these short defensive outposts from both flanks.

In the face of a tenfold or even a hundredfold enemy, not all soldiers had the courage of the Spartans. Moreover, the top-notch terrain of Onsenseki is not everywhere.

At least near the Euphrates, the British had no barrier to use other than the fortifications they had dug themselves.

So, before the start of the general offensive of the Italians, the British abandoned their first-line defensive positions and retreated to the lower reaches of the Euphrates.

Without much effort, Rommel's combat troops captured Gussebay in one fell swoop. And by occupying it, the Germans could drive straight into Baghdad.

This scene may never be seen again: Italian armored forces driving Soviet-made T-26 tanks against cities garrisoned by British people driving American tanks......

Along the way, there were Italian tanks paralyzed on the side of the road waiting to be repaired, and British tanks destroyed on the road burning, looking like a mess.

Immediately after breaking through the British lines, Rommel led his large army to attack Laveux, and then fought from Laver to Hadisay in one go, less than two days away from Hit.

The pace of the German offensive in Iraq terrified the British government-in-exile in India. If Montgomery collapses, their lives will definitely not be easy.

Without the desert barrier, the Germans could quickly gather their forces and then resupply through the Indian Ocean and invade the Indian region.

Where can India stand alone against Rommel's Middle East Army, which is an elite force with thousands of tanks, and the situation is likely to become out of control.

If Hitt were to be lost again, then the Axis forces would not be far from Ramadi, the gateway to Baghdad.

After the capture of Ramadi, the Germans could appear on the periphery of Baghdad at any time, and at that time, Baghdad would certainly not be able to hold it.

British reinforcements are now advancing inside Iran, including one Iranian division, two Pakistani divisions, as well as two Indian divisions, one Australian division, and one British division of their own.

This can be said to be the unit of a multinational force, which lacks the ability to cooperate in combat, and does not have many heavy weapons and equipment, and it is completely cobbled together.

Even so, such a force allowed the British government-in-exile in India to pour everything out, and it can be said that this cluster was the last hope of the British government-in-exile.

The reinforcements from the American side could not quench the thirst of the near, and it was impossible to expect the Americans in Australia to help much, in fact, it was almost the same as expecting the Germans to retreat themselves.

And at this time, in early November, the navy of the British government-in-exile actually made a great victory in the Indian Ocean that shocked the world!

Yes, Admiral Phillips commanded two battleships and an aircraft carrier to intercept the Japanese assault fleet, and exchanged fire with two Japanese battleships, achieving a brilliant victory.

The flagship of the Japanese assault fleet, the Nagato, was wounded and fled, and the battleship Mutsu, which arrived in the Indian Ocean with the Nagato, was sunk by the British!

The Japanese navy, which had suffered heavy losses, almost completely lost its naval supremacy in the Indian Ocean, and Phillips's fleet had no ability to pursue the victory, so he had to return to the harbor to recuperate.

The outcome of the naval battle in the Indian Ocean was not something that the Axis could have predicted, nor was the rout of the Japanese army that the Axis top brass could have predicted.

On November 2, General Kanda Masasa committed suicide on the island of New Guinea, destroying the Japanese 6th Division and occupying New Guinea.

After losing almost 40,000 men, the U.S. forces forcibly captured New Guinea, preserving the bustling eastern part of Australia and the access of submarine forces to the sea.

The Japanese Navy, having lost the battleship Mutsu, retreated to the Philippines. Isoroku Yamamoto led the newly reinvigorated Combined Fleet, where he waited for news of the American attack on the Hawaiian Islands.

According to Yamamoto's battle plan, as long as the U.S. forces attacked the Hawaiian Islands, his fleet would be dispatched to meet them and fight to the death with the U.S. fleet there.

After all, in Hawaii, the U.S. fleet does not have the cover of U.S. Army aviation like Cape York, but the Japanese Navy can receive support from land-based aviation.

Therefore, in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands, the Japanese fleet was superior, and there was no pressure to meet the landing operation covered by the US Navy fleet.

On November 4, the day of the German contribution to Hit, Montgomery had just waited for his first reinforcements, and by this time he could no longer hold Baghdad.

Three days later, Rommel successfully invaded Baghdad and took control of several roads and railways in Iraq, and the British had to retreat without blowing up most of the oil fields due to local obstruction and interference.

After obtaining the smelter and other industrial facilities, Rommel's troops attacked faster, hitting the cities of Sheila, Kut, and Bagubai in one go, before stopping the attack.

It was not possible to stop it, because at the end of the winter campaign, the Supreme High Command and the General Headquarters issued an order at the same time for the generals who had been promoted to marshal to rush back to Berlin from the front to receive their own marshal scepter.

Among them were the commander-in-chief of the Waffen-SS, General Dietrich, the commander-in-chief of the Middle East Corps, Rommel, the commander-in-chief of Army Group B, Guderian, and the commander-in-chief of the reserve group, Manstein.

Although Dietrich was unknown and never remarkable, he took part in the attack on Leningrad, led his troops into Murmansk, and had accumulated a lot of military exploits in England earlier, and was regarded as highly respected in the SS.

The main reason for Manstein's promotion was that his troops were the first to attack Moscow, and they have always performed well in street battles, which can be regarded as the greatest contributor to the capture of Moscow.

Coupled with Guderian and Rommel, two well-deserved generals, this promotion to marshal is much higher than the time when he defeated France in 1940 and was promoted to marshal.

The Germans stopped their advance, and the British government-in-exile could not hold on any longer.

If Iran's oil fields are lost in the next battle, then the whole of India will lose the material base to continue to resist.

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