Chapter 136: Ammunition Explosion
If Rommel had given up that infantry regiment so easily, what would his men think of him? Everyone would think that he was a general who did not care about the lives of his soldiers for the sake of victory.
Rommel would never do such a stupid thing, because it is related to the soldier's trust and recognition of the commander, Rommel is an invincible general, and he will definitely win one victory after another, but Rommel's reckless disregard for the soldier's life for the sake of victory will also become a dead knot in the soldier's heart.
And how does the American military do it? As long as an American soldier falls behind enemy lines, no matter how much it costs, the American army will send a rescue force, even if it is a greater sacrifice so far.
Rommel was confident that he would do a better job than the American army, wouldn't it be to rescue his soldiers?
"Lao Tzu even rescued more than 10,000 British troops this time, and Lao Tzu also handed over 10,000 British troops to Spain."
Why Rommel planned to hand over the British army to Spain, he must have had a plan to trap Spain, and Spain had to join the Axis because of the capture of the British army, and this is a later story.
Rommel figured out the reasoning and immediately asked Wald, the adjutant next to him:
"Wald, how's the Gibraltar fortress, there's a report over there?"
Wald opened the folder in his hand, looked at it for a moment, and replied:
"Report to the general, just now the helicopter leader reported that our infantry regiment has escaped from the top of the Gibraltar hill, but there are a lot of British troops who have escaped from the Gibraltar fortress, so they are mixed up."
In fact, Rommel had already seen these situations with his "eyes of God", but he still had to pretend to ask, so as not to make people think that his orders were so abrupt.
"Order all the cars to set off at once to pick up our soldiers, and those British soldiers who have escaped!"
"General, isn't that going to send more than eight hundred trucks from the Seventh Panzer Division?"
"Send them all out! The ammunition stored inside the Gibraltar Fortress may explode at any time, and you have all the trucks moving as fast as they can. ”
"Okay, I'll immediately deliver orders to the transport units."
All the trucks of the 7th Panzer Division soon roared out of the various positions. The 7th Panzer Division, which claimed to be a unit on wheels, was by no means an empty slogan, and there were more than 800 trucks in the division, which were constantly heading towards the Gibraltar fortress under Rommel's orders.
When Rommel sent the trucks out, he actually didn't have any bottom in his heart, there were more than 50 kilometers from here to Gibraltar, and even if these trucks ran at the fastest speed, it would be half an hour later, and when the ammunition stored in Gibraltar would be destroyed, no one knows!
If the ammunition had exploded just as the trucks had arrived, wouldn't all of them have to be buried, and the loss of 800 trucks at one time would have been a huge loss, but Rommel couldn't care so much about saving his soldiers.
In fact, Rommel doesn't have to worry, those soldiers who escaped from the fortress of Gibraltar can run at least ten kilometers in half an hour, and the running distance of more than ten kilometers should not be much of a problem for soldiers.
Rommel was already very tired because he had been following the Battle of Gibraltar with the "Eye of God", but at such a critical juncture, Rommel could only grit his teeth and persevere.
Minute by minute, Rommel's "Eye of God" kept an eye on the convoy and the fleeing stream.
Ten minutes passed.
Twenty minutes passed.
Thirty minutes passed.
There was no mass bombing at the fortress of Gibraltar, and the trucks were already beginning to pick up the fleeing German and British soldiers, and a truck full of 100 million immediately returned to one, each of which was crowded with at least seventy or eighty people.
The reason why the ammunition in Gibraltar has not been destroyed so far is actually related to its design, the general ammunition warehouse of the Gibraltar fortress is on the lowest floor, and in order to ensure the safety of the ammunition depot, the British army has set up several strong iron gates.
These iron doors are so tight that they are airtight, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are airtight, and the gasoline does not flow into the ammunition depot at all, and the only thing that can detonate the ammunition is the high temperature.
It took at least an hour to raise the temperature in the sealed ammunition depot to 600 degrees, so the ammunition in the Gibraltar fortress had not been exploded until now.
Within an hour, all the British troops who had escaped from the Gibraltar fortress had entered the prisoner-of-war camp of the 7th Panzer Division, including the commander of the Gibraltar fortress, Charles, and his chief of staff.
An hour and a half later, an earth-shattering explosion was heard in the direction of the Gibraltar Fortress, and then a huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky.
The dark night sky was suddenly illuminated like day by a huge mushroom cloud rising from the sky, this light was so dazzling that everyone's eyes hurt like pins and needles after seeing this flashing super bright light.
Rommel never imagined that a single munition detonation could achieve the effect of a nuclear bomb, because his eyes were particularly keen, so the sting was even more intense.
This time Rommel attacked Gibraltar, two unexpected things happened in succession, one was that Rommel did not expect that the setting fire to the Gibraltar fortress would cause such a big chain reaction, and the other was that the explosion of this Gibraltar ammunition was comparable to a nuclear explosion.
Rommel, like everyone else, hurriedly covered his eyes, but the pain is not something that can be alleviated by covering your eyes, and at the moment when all your eyes were covered, suddenly there was a violent shaking on the ground, and people couldn't stand at all, and everyone fell down one after another.
Rommel was slightly better, and several adjutants and staff officers who were with him came up to help Rommel despite their stinging eyes, and the result was that everyone fell together.
After the tremor, there was a deafening sound, which was mixed with the sweeping wind, and the wind was mixed with the sand, and it hurt and hurt in the face.
Everyone closed their eyes in horror and lay on the ground in panic, staggering as the ground shook in shock, and the howl of the wind overhead made people desperate, and the deafening sound lasted for a long time.
Is this the end of the world? It's so terrifying, all the people are lying on the ground waiting for the moment when the world is about to be destroyed, even if they die, they don't want to open their eyes, the sand flying in the sky, whoever opens their eyes is stupid.
After a long time, a long time, perhaps a century, the wind ceased, the shaking disappeared, but the smoke grew thicker and thicker, because Gibraltar was by the sea, and the smoke and water vapor began to combine at this time, forming a thick fog that could not be seen.
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