There is endless desert everywhere, and as soon as I got off the boat, a heat wave hit my face.

Standing on the yellow sand, a handsome German officer, his mood suddenly brightened.

North Africa, I'm coming!

Rommel said to himself in his heart.

A long time ago, Rommel received an order that his destiny was in North Africa! He was very satisfied with this arrangement.

After all, there are too many excellent German generals, Guderian, Manstein, are outstanding representatives, continue in Europe, Rommel can continue to win one victory after another, however, he will always be a supporting role.

And in Africa, it's different! Here, he is the supreme commander of Germany, he leads two armored divisions, and his task is to completely occupy North Africa!

Originally, in coordination with Italy, Germany was responsible for dealing with the French army, and Italy was responsible for dealing with the British army, but now, the situation has changed a lot.

France had already surrendered, and the French colonies, according to reason, should have obeyed the orders of Marshal Petain and surrendered to Germany, then, in North Africa to the west, the French colonies, there was nothing to fight for.

At the same time, their east, Egyptian, Italian's advances, were rather unsmooth.

Since the start of the war, the combat effectiveness of the Italian army is obvious to all, Italy originally wanted to fight the south of France, but was beaten to the nose and swollen face, and then France surrendered, Germany generously helped the Italians, and ceded the territory of southeastern France to Italy, Mussolini can be regarded as some face.

However, in North Africa, the Italian army is still at a loss, and the Italian army of 250,000 people has not made any progress after fighting for so long!

This endless desert area was the stage for Rommel to display his military talents!

"General, it's a pleasure to meet you." Just in the harbor, waiting for the armored car to unload the ship, a voice came from Rommel's side.

After learning of the arrival of his own troops, Neuer, the head of the Libyan base, personally came to the port to greet him.

"Neuer, hard work." Rommel looked at Neuer's tanned face and couldn't help but say.

"It's not hard, it's just that our strength is too weak, and the Italians always lose battles, but fortunately the British are now on the defensive, and if the British attack on a large scale, our bases are probably in danger." Neuer said: "Now that our large army is here, I am relieved. ”

According to the original agreement, the base in Libya belonged to Germany, and Germany deployed some fighters here, but it was still too small to cope with a large-scale war.

It wasn't until Rommel arrived that they were relieved and finally didn't have to worry!

"Has this place always been so desolate?" Rommel said to Neuer.

In the future, Rommel would become the governor of North Africa and the Middle East, and he was a little disturbed at the thought that his wife and children would come here to suffer with him.

Rommel is the German god of war, and he is a person who dotes on his wife.

"Not exactly, this is our oil export pipeline, we haven't been building here for a long time, and now, our base has become an oasis in the desert."

Over the years, Libya's oil base has been under construction, and continuous afforestation has made the oil base initially show the beauty of an oasis.

Anyway, the oil here has been extracted on a large scale, in the base, there are refineries, there will be no shortage of energy, in addition to using oil as power, there are also nuclear power reactors running, providing a steady stream of electricity, can pump groundwater, the ecology of the base has long been much better than before.

"General, come with us to the base first." Neuer said: "The environment on the base is better. ”

Rommel was promoted to two levels after the end of the French War, and now in addition to the 7th Panzer Division, which he directly commanded, the 5th Panzer Division also followed, and it took several days to unload the equipment.

The off-road vehicle was speeding through the desert, and soon, Rommel saw the high kowtowing machine, the newly built oil refinery near the oil field, and the tenacious growth of trees.

The Libyan base, which Shirek has been developing for more than ten years!

"Our oil refinery here is still relatively small, but in addition to the use of our base, it is still more than enough for our armored division." "The biggest problem is food, and hopefully our supplies can keep up," Neuer said. ”

Historically, Rommel lacked fuel the most, but now, there is no need to worry about fuel, there are tens of thousands more, and they need enough food to do it.

Rommel smiled: "Don't worry about food, the food we transported this time is enough for us to eat for half a month." ”

Hearing Rommel's words, Neuer turned his head to look at him: "It's only been half a month?" ”

"Yes, half a month later, we have already fought to Egypt, and the grain stored by the British army is enough for us to eat." Rommel was immensely confident.

The desert area is the most suitable for high-speed impact of armored troops, and when you think of the difficult advance in the mud pit of Dunkirk, this is simply a battlefield tailored for him!

Half a month, solve the Egyptian problem!

"Crunch." The car stopped at the entrance of one of the buildings at the base, and Neuer looked at several Italian military vehicles listening outside the door, and said, "The Italians are coming." ”

The Italians are coming! They got the news too late and didn't have time to go to the port to greet them, so they came to the oil base and waited here.

Italo Garibaldi, the new commander of the Italian Tenth Army, had just been killed by the bombing, and now, after taking over the command of the Tenth Army, his troops were still in a state of flux.

The Tenth Army was stationed on the border of Egypt, so their troops, who also suffered the heaviest losses, were chased and beaten by the British!

Now, hearing that the German troops were finally coming up, he threw them down and ran over to ask for help.

"General, welcome to North Africa." At this time, seeing Rommel get out of the car, Italo still maintained a trace of composure: "We, the Italian army, are looking forward to your arrival." ”

"I need to take over the command of the Italian army." After seeing the commander of the other party, Rommel was not outside, and immediately stretched out his hand to ask for command: "Where is your supreme commander here?" ”

Rommel had only two panzer divisions in his hands, and he could charge into battle, but he was not worried about these Italians, if they did not follow quickly, his own forward would be in danger.

"Marshal Italo Balbo, arriving by plane, may be there in an hour." Italo said.