Yes, even the island of Malta, a strategic stronghold, must also be taken in order to ensure the safety of the oil passage in the future, even if Rommel delays the landing in Africa for this reason.

On the morning of January 20, 1941, thirty-eight military trains rumbled out of Paris, and soon a telegram of Rommel sending troops to Africa was on Churchill's desk.

Britain placed a lot of spies in France, and there is no doubt about this, Rommel set off for Italy with two divisions, which cannot be concealed at all.

Churchill immediately convened an emergency military meeting, which was the commander-in-chief and chief of the general staff of the three armed services of Great Britain. Because the level of secrecy of this meeting is very high, no one is allowed to approach 100 meters around the war room of the Prime Minister's Office.

The meeting lasted all day, and no one knew what Churchill was going to do except those who attended.

When the meeting was over, the Undersecretary of the Sea, Andrew ? Cunningham immediately flew to Alexandria, and it seemed that Cunningham's trip was on a secret mission, but no one knew what Cunningham was going to do.

It is certain that Cunningham's trip to Alexandria must have something to do with Rommel's dispatch of troops to Africa, and this was Churchill's response to Rommel's dispatch of troops to Africa, but no one knows what kind of strategic and tactical arrangements Churchill was going to make.

(Brothers, what do you say Churchill sent Cunningham to Alexandria for?) Guess the right book review message. ）

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Rommel's train is still running on the road! The two divisions went to Italy by train, which seemed to be a simple and easy matter, but in fact, the work behind the scenes was so heavy that it was unimaginable.

The first is the security of the railways in France, the 500,000 German troops stationed in France, in addition to Rommel's Seventh Panzer Army, there are more than 400,000, Hitler has transferred more than 100,000 people to defend the railways in France, and there are more than 100,000 French troops of the Vesy government.

Although Rommel's efforts to restore the French economy greatly reduced the number of French people who participated in the guerrillas, it did not mean that there were no guerrillas in France, and there were some scattered French guerrillas in the mountains.

One-third of the 500,000 German troops in France were fighting these guerrillas in the mountains, but they could not completely wipe out the French guerrillas.

Rommel, the French governor-general, could only manage the administration of France, and he could not command half a million German troops in France.

Rommel, the French governor-general, could only command his Afrika Korps, and even if Rommel was Hitler's confidant, Hitler also took military power very seriously.

If Hitler handed over the command of 500,000 German troops in France to Rommel, Rommel would have been able to use the "Eye of God", an anti-heaven artifact, with the FA223 helicopter that could quickly transport troops.

Rommel can say with certainty that none of the partisans in France can escape encirclement, but Hitler did not give Rommel such a chance.

Rommel could only stare dryly, he didn't dare to ask Hitler for the command of the 500,000 troops, and the power of the army is the thing that the dictator values the most.

Besides, Rommel did not want to strangle the guerrillas at all, it is an indisputable fact that Germany invaded France, and it is normal for the French people to resist aggression.

Because these French partisans can throw away their weapons at any time and at any time, these French civilians are guerrillas when they take up arms, and civilians when they throw away their weapons.

For these civilians, whether you kill them or not, killing these civilians is against the way of heaven, and if you don't kill the French guerrillas, you will never be able to exterminate them, which is definitely a big headache.

Since Hitler did not give Rommel such a chance, he just did not have to bear the notoriety of being an executioner and a butcher, and throughout the history of the world, it is difficult for people who kill too many people to have a good death, and if they violate the peace of heaven, they will be punished by heaven, there is no doubt.

In such a situation, a small number of French partisans would occasionally come out, such as digging a section of road one day, attacking a German patrol the next, and blowing up a section of railroad the day after tomorrow.

Fortunately, Rommel's efforts to restore the French economy allowed many French people to have jobs and bread, and thus greatly reduced the number of partisan participants.

Historically, it was because of the continuous resistance and sabotage of the French partisans that Germany did not use French industry and minerals at all.

It was these small partisans that Germany had to mobilize so many forces to maintain the safety of the railways and ensure the smooth flow of transport lines.

Then there is Italy, there are no guerrillas in Italy, but there are British spies in Italy!

Britain has always planted spies in European countries for a long time, because Britain does not want to see a united Europe, which is not in the interests of the British Empire at all, so Britain has been planting spies in European countries for hundreds of years, and it has never stopped for hundreds of years.

Germany swept through European countries on the battlefield in World War II, but Germany's intelligence system was almost unsuccessful, why? It's not that Germany is stupid, it's that the intelligence system of the British is so perfect that they have infiltrated many key departments in various countries.

For example, in history, when Rommel began to arrive in Africa, because there were very few troops and supplies, he sent a telegram to Hitler in Engel code, in which Rommel truthfully reported to Hitler about his troops and ammunition.

This telegram appeared on Churchill's desk an hour after Hitler received it, and the British judged that Rommel was incapable of launching an offensive in Africa.

But Rommel, the general, is very special, he is the kind of person who has the conditions to attack, and if there are no conditions, he must also create conditions to attack, and as a result, the British army was caught off guard by Rommel and collapsed.

From this, we can see how powerful the British intelligence system is, to the point of pervasiveness, and there are also a large number of British spies in Italy.

In order to prevent these spies from sabotaging the railway system, Rommel had to ask Mussolini to send more than 100,000 troops to protect the railways in Italy.

Finally, there was the cover of the air force, but fortunately, Hitler handed over the 10th Air Army to Rommel's command, so that Rommel did not have to worry about British planes coming to bomb the trains on which his troops were riding.

It can be seen from this that the German blitzkrieg still has many flaws, and the ideal attack distance of the German blitzkrieg is 600 kilometers from its own homeland, and once this distance is exceeded, the German blitzkrieg will be greatly limited.

On this issue, Hitler did not think, even Manstein, who invented the blitzkrieg, did not think that Rommel did not communicate with Manstein and Guderian, but both of them were just ordinary generals, and they could not change Hitler's perception of the blitzkrieg at all.

Since Rommel could not change any of Hitler's decisions, Rommel could only start by changing the African battlefield, and the rolling desert of Africa was where Rommel's hope lay and where Germany's hope was.

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