The whole battle of Malta Island ended inexplicably, as for the task of defending Malta Island, Li Mo definitely did not dare to let the Italians garrison, although the Italian island of Sicily is ninety kilometers away from the island of Malta, Li Mo still did not dare to hand over this Mediterranean throat to the super cute and funny Italians, the German Wehrmacht is the best object for Li Mo, a German army division can be stationed, by the way, a flight regiment is stationed there, a flight regiment is equipped with 164 aircraft, As long as more than eighty ju87 dive bombers are equipped. ——

All kinds of materials plundered by the British army from other colonies cannot take the nearest route of the Mediterranean, and must detour to the coast of Africa, which requires a detour of 10,000 nautical miles, almost a month more shipping time, and at the same time the fuel consumed by all the ships, combined, is absolutely an astronomical amount, and now the island of Malta is the fishbone in the throat of the British army, and the British army wants to seize the island of Malta, it needs to face a division of the Wehrmacht, and a flying regiment, as for the British fleet, before the destruction of the German JU87 aircraft, Or don't go to death.

When the telegram from Li Mo asking the Wehrmacht to send troops to garrison Malta Island reached Keitel, this old thing stopped scolding Li Mo and accepted Li Mo's gift with peace of mind. Keitel knew that Li Mo did not want to defend Malta Island, and the 15th Panzer Army had more than 120,000 people, which could not be used indiscriminately, and the Wehrmacht had more than 5 million people, and if they didn't want them to defend it, should the 15th Panzer Army be divided into an elite division there? Of course, Li Mo would not do such a stupid thing.

As for how much credit can be made on the island of Malta, Li Mo doesn't care about that at all. After the Battle of Malta Island was fought, Li Mo did not write his name on the merit request form at all, because Li Mo also knew that Hitler was unhappy with his face slap this time, and the great and sacred Führer said that "the era of paratroopers has passed", and you Li Mo immediately began to use paratroopers on a large scale, and also achieved a huge victory, in this case, Li Mo consciously did not write his name on the list of merit. Li Mo is still wearing an oak-leaf knight's iron cross.

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After taking the island of Malta, Limer immediately organized personnel to prepare to support Africa, because the Italian army was almost unable to hold on.

Li Mo took the lead in bringing two armored divisions and one light infantry division. Board the ship at the Romanian port of Sok. Then cross the Black Sea and enter the Mediterranean, landing directly in the port of Tunisia after crossing the Mediterranean.

In this way, Limer could land in North Africa in the shortest possible time, since Germany had basically no transport capacity in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. and combat ships. The transports were also captured by the Soviet Union. When transporting Limer's fleet into the Mediterranean, the Italian Navy would take on the task of escorting the fleet, and the fleet would be as close to the Italian coast as possible. to avoid being targeted by British and French submarines.

One of Limer's two armor was Vincent's armored division of Italy, Vincent's armored corps suffered heavy losses after being forced into the Greek campaign, and the tanks of the armored divisions of the two armored regiments were left with more than 100 units, which happened to be reorganized into an armored regiment.

Originally, Li Mo didn't plan to let Vincent go to the war now, but Vincent, who couldn't be idle, how could he not go to North Africa and resolutely asked to participate in the war, Li Mo had no choice but to agree that Vincent would lead the remaining armored division and go with Li Mo by boat.

Li Mo's other armored division is the Seventh Armored Division drawn by Li Mo, the troops that Li Mo led at the earliest time are very familiar with and trust each other, that infantry division is randomly transferred, and now any infantry division of the 15th Group Army can be said to be the elite of the elite when pulled out.

On July 19, 1940, Li Mo took three divisions and more than 50,000 people to set off from Soke and quietly went straight to the port of Tunisia. Now the matter of troop transfer is pressed on Flender and others, for these old brothers, Li Mo is to give complete trust, these German troops will go straight to Catania, Italy by train, and then arrive in Sicily, Italy on a ferry to assemble, at this time, Italy, Greece, Ukraine, Spain and other countries transport ships will be concentrated to help Germany transport troops, the navies of these countries, will also provide escort tasks for the transport fleet.

After losing the island of Malta, Britain lost the ability to cut off the route from Italy to North Africa, but also needed to prevent a sneak attack by their submarines, which would cause Germany to suffer some unnecessary losses. Even if it is a little loss, if it is not very serious, Li Mo is still acceptable.

Of course, Li Mo is not easy, since the implementation of the Soviet Union's French campaign, Germany's weapons and equipment have suffered a very large loss, and basically Germany's own production capacity can not meet the replenishment situation, in this case, Germany's weapons and equipment production must also be integrated, as much as possible to make use of the production capacity of other EU countries, even if it leaks some not the most advanced technology.

Fortunately, Germany has deregulated, and they can cooperate with factories in any EU country to produce, and these German first-class firearms dealers can completely outsource some parts that are not core technology to other factories in the EU for production, so that the production speed of Germany's weapons and equipment can be increased by at least three times, and the economies of EU countries will also prosper because of the boom in arms production.

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In fact, the North African battlefield was the first to be fought by Italy, and Italy saw the huge military victory achieved by Germany, and Mussolini once again could not resist his manic heart, and ordered the Italian army in North Africa to start attacking British Egypt, so that he could occupy Egypt's oil fields and the Suez Canal.

(June 13 – September 8, 1940) – Italian attack. Two Italian field armies under the unified command of Marshal Balbo (Marshal Graziani from August) were deployed in Libya: the 10th Army (commanded by General Berti) on the border of Libya and Egypt, and the 5th Army (commanded by General Garibaldi) in front of Tunisia. On June 13, the 10th Army, with 5 divisions, 1 regimental group, and 6 tank battalions (there were 9 Italian divisions in eastern Libya), began to attack the British Army "Nile" (2 divisions and 2 brigades, with a total of 66,000 men and 168 aircraft in Egypt, including those stationed in Palestine) under the command of General Wavell. The British Army Group had only 1 deployed division on the borders of Egypt and Libya. The Italians advanced 90 kilometers and advanced on 16 June in western Dubai Rani, but the subsequent offensive had to be halted due to a failure of command and supply disruptions. The British, on the other hand, continued to retreat until they had established a pre-constructed position near Port Matruo. A "vacuum" of up to 130 kilometers wide has been formed between the opposing sides.

…… (To be continued.) )u