Chapter 212: Tactical Adjustments
This kind of code cannot be deciphered even in the 21st century, and the German High Command has Rommel this code, but when they call back to Bismarck, they use the Engel code, and the Germans still think that no one can decipher their Engel code.
In fact, Britain deciphered the Engel code when it was in the "Sea Lion Project", and the Germans are still self-righteous.
Germany's strategic mistakes in the latter part of World War II were largely due to the decipherment of the Engel code.
Mika's boss hurriedly took the message drawn up by Churchill and quickly returned to the telecommunications room, and then asked Mika to send a report according to the message:
"Now that Rommel has been detected, Rommel is in Tobruk, and your troops must capture Rommel alive at all costs...... William? Lieutenant General Goth, as my special envoy, will take a transport plane to your headquarters at 12 o'clock today to supervise the ......."
After reading the message, Mika immediately sent a report according to the content of the message, and the content of the message, Mika had silently memorized it in his heart, and his neighbor must have liked this information very much, and the reward of hundreds of thousands of dollars was in hand again.
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The siege of Tobruk lasted only one morning, and the British took a third of the city, and the British army fought smoothly, and undoubtedly gave the British army a confidence that the battle would be won.
At noon, the British army halted its attack, because it was time to eat, and all the British GIs were given sweet and delicious American cans.
All the supplies of the British army in Africa, including weapons and ammunition, were brought from the United States, thousands of miles away, and since the British lost the Strait of Gibraltar, the British army could not transport supplies to North Africa.
If Britain wants to transport supplies from the mainland to North Africa, it can only go around the Cape of Good Hope, which is more than 20,000 nautical miles, and it is better to buy it in the United States.
The British were eating lunch and temporarily halted their assault on Tobruk, which finally gave the Libyan militia in Tobruk a brief respite.
The German front-line commander Harold, who was really anxious like an ant on a hot pot at this time, expected to use the Libyan militia division to drag the British troops in Tobruk City for seven days, and then use the Tobruk fortress to hold the British troops for a week.
At that time, German reinforcements should have reached Tobruk, but to Harold's great surprise, the British army took one-third of Tobruk's city in half a day's attack.
At this pace of the British attack, Tobrukcheng's Libyans would not hold out until sunset tomorrow.
"What to do? What should I do......"
Harold was so anxious that he circled around the command post, but he couldn't find a way to deal with this crisis, and it was absolutely unrealistic to transfer the German paratroopers from the fortress of Tobruk to the city.
The Germans had 5,000 troops in the fortress of Tobruk, and this number of troops could not be transferred at all, otherwise the fortress of Tobruk would not be able to hold on.
Even if Harold transferred the troops in the fortress to the city, these thousands of German elite paratroopers would soon be exhausted under the British rotational attack.
Rommel was no longer dozing off at this time, but continued to drink tea leisurely, and Harold, who really had no choice, could only walk up to Rommel dejectedly, and said in frustration:
"Commander-in-chief, it's all Harold's incompetence, I can't deal with the crisis in Tobruk, please ask the commander-in-chief to instruct his subordinates what to do."
Harold made a good move in forming the Libyan militia division, but he pulled out the militia division, which had just been formed, to fight street battles with the British army, which had an absolute advantage in all aspects.
This tactic is absolutely undesirable, and if you continue to fight like this, the little people of the Libyan militia division will soon be finished.
How to fight this street fight, Rommel can now tell Harold that the growth of a general must be bought by the lives of countless soldiers, so after Harold has eaten a trench, Rommel taught Harold how to deal with the British army that is superior in all aspects.
Rommel looked at the anxious Harold and said in a very peaceful tone:
"The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase"
Rommel uttered sixteen words, but Harold stared at Rommel blankly, and he couldn't understand the meaning of the sixteen words.
"The enemy advances and I retreat, but where can we retreat? The sea is right behind us! ”
Harold's mind was imprisoned, and it seemed that he could only tell him bluntly, this was Taizu's famous military theory, how could a German Yanke understand.
"The enemy advances and we retreat - that is, the Libyan militia division will completely abandon the surface positions in the city of Tobruk and go underground.
Tobruk City has a well-developed sewer system, and it is so intricate that we can make use of the sewers in Tobruk City, and then come out at the right time to attack the British in unexpected places for the enemy.
This prevented us from engaging in head-to-head street battles with the British troops, and we also took back the initiative in the campaign, and it was up to us to decide when and where to fight.
The enemy is stationed and disturbs us, the enemy is tired and we fight, and the enemy retreats and we pursue, which is the continuation of the above tactical thinking.
The basic spirit of this tactic is to proceed from the basic characteristics of the enemy being large and small, and the enemy being strong and weak, and taking advantage of the favorable situation in the Tobruk sewers, flexibly using forces and changing tactics, pursuing advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and exploiting strong points and attacking weak points.
As a result, a state of affairs will be formed in local areas in which the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the situation of fighting more or less or attacking suddenly will gradually change the situation in which the enemy is strong and we are weak, and win the war.
Now do you understand? ”
After listening to Rommel's words, Harold suddenly patted himself on the head and replied loudly:
"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, I understand, the Libyan militia is familiar with the sewer system, they can come out of the sewers at any time and anywhere, hit and run, and the British are in pursuit."
Rommel nodded approvingly to the adoring Harold, who hurriedly trotted over to the radio intercom to give the order for the Libyan militia to drill into the sewers.
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It is said that Bismarck completely defeated the British army at Mersa Pass in just one day, and Raphael immediately ordered the Mersa Pass to be abandoned when he could not turn the tide of the battle, which made Raphael not completely annihilated Bismarck.
Rafael fled to Dabia with seven or eight thousand remnants of the British army, which was originally defended by a brigade of British troops.
With this amount of strength in Rafael's hands, and without the heavy weapons of tanks, he could not fight the 7th Panzer Division and the Wansheng Division, which were followed by five Italian divisions.
Rafael had already suffered a big loss in positional warfare, and Rafael, who had good command skills, definitely didn't want to make a second mistake, so Rafael took the British brigade and began a strategic retreat.
Since Rafael does not want to fight a positional war with the superior German army, he can only fight guerrilla warfare, and the territory of Libya is vast, and Rafael really has the basis and conditions for fighting guerrilla warfare, but it depends on how Rafael uses guerrilla tactics.
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