However, Rommel used only shore-based aircraft to inflict heavy damage on the British Mediterranean Fleet in the Battle of Gibraltar, which was an extremely huge blow to Britain in the international arena, because this battle showed that the British Navy was not invincible.

Britain was able to dominate the world for hundreds of years, relying on what they relied on, relying on their invincible navy, and as a result, this myth was easily shattered by Rommel with a plane.

After the Battle of Gibraltar, Churchill and the King of England were always thinking about how to restore the invincible image of the British Navy, and the brilliant victory in the Battle of Taranto is the best example.

In the afternoon, newspapers and radio stations throughout Britain reported on the glorious victory of the Battle of Taranto, and many people and troops were called to the streets to participate in various celebrations.

In fact, the newspapers and radio stations were ordered by the British government to devote a lot of space and time to reporting the battle of Taranto, otherwise they would all be seized.

Anything is useless in front of the wartime cabinet, it is the ruler's trick to fool the common people, it can't be taken seriously, at least in the early days of World War II.

Among those who took to the streets to celebrate, all the military and plainclothes police were in childcare arranged by the British government.

People are all herd mentality, and the British people, who were already depressed, will unconsciously participate in the carnival after seeing someone reveling, and the scene of the British carnival for the Battle of Taranto was created in this way.

In order to cooperate with this grand propaganda campaign, even the British royal family participated in the parade, and the British royal family used its influence on the British people to mobilize the whole British passion.

But the British national revelry did not change their defeat in Greece, and the British Army's tradition was to flee by sea if they could not win the battle.

This was the case in Dunkirk, and it was the same in this Greek campaign, where Cunningham immediately led an aircraft carrier formation to Greece to join the main fleet after the successful sneak attack on Taranto.

The British Mediterranean Fleet, in the name of reinforcing Greece, was actually to withdraw British troops from the sea when the war could not be won.

Cunningham now did not have to worry about them being attacked by the Italian fleet as they retreated, and several of the main battleships of the Italian Navy were either sunk or damaged.

Without the remnants of aircraft carriers, the Italian Navy could not threaten the British Mediterranean Fleet at all, and Cunningham could have calmly withdrawn the British troops fighting in Greece by sea.

But Britain could not give up Greece so easily, and the last time Chamberlain gave up Poland, his British allies were chilled.

If Britain wants to escape again at this time, then Britain will completely lose the trust of its allies, and the end of the British Empire is really not far away.

The battle of Greece was now that the British were able to flee calmly, but they could not escape, and they were not pretentious, they had to fight several bloody battles with the Germans, and after heavy casualties, they could not retreat by sea if they could not defeat the Germans.

This is a typical case of war subordinating to politics, and Cunningham knew that doing so would lead to the blood of countless British troops, but he must obey the national interests of Britain.

The British Mediterranean Fleet was temporarily stationed in Greece, and while they were helping the British troops fighting in Greece to transport troops and supplies, they also had a secret mission, that is, to withdraw tens of thousands of British troops from Greece when the British army could not withstand the German army.

At this time, the Mediterranean Sea was already a battlefield for several parties, and the situation was extremely complicated, with various forces crisscrossing each other.

Britain inflicted heavy damage on the Italian fleet by sneak attack, so that the Italian fleet no longer had the strength to challenge the British Mediterranean Fleet, but the British Mediterranean Fleet was dragged to Greece again.

This invisibly created a very advantageous situation for Rommel, and Britain, Germany, and Italy all focused on Greece and ignored Rommel and his Afrika Korps.

It is not a good thing to be ignored in reality, but on the battlefield, if one side ignores an elite armored army of the enemy, then his fate will definitely not be better.

Rommel arrived at the port of Reggio on the morning of 20 January, where Italian Admiral Lefere and Field Marshal Guerra had been waiting for several days.

Although Mussolini did not hand over the Italian navy to Rommel's command, he nevertheless ordered Lefel, the marshal, to fully cooperate with Rommel in all combat operations.

The port of Reggoka is very large, this port now gathers a lot of transport ships, the warships are mainly destroyers, not even cruisers, but there are three military airfields not far from the port, there are many anti-aircraft guns around the port, and there are many balloons over the port.

Because there was no such thing as a battleship in this port, the British did not focus on it at all, at least the port of Reggoka was not the primary target of the British.

So far, the port of Reggio has not been attacked in any way, and before the British attacked Taranto, Reggioca's defensive knights were very lax.

Ever since the British attacked Taranto, the port of Reggio has been fortified in case the British repeat their old tactics.

Because Reggoka was a port city, its railway station was built next to the port, and as soon as Rommel and his troops from the two divisions arrived at the reggoka railway station, they could go directly to the port to prepare for boarding.

In order to welcome the arrival of the German army, Italy has emptied the port of Reggioca, and the square where materials were stacked before has now been set up one by one, and the German army can move in as soon as it arrives, and Italy's logistics work is really good.

The two marshals Lefeel and Guerra personally came to the railway station to pick up the train, and it stands to reason that this time it was Italian Prime Minister Mussolini who asked Germany to send troops for assistance, so Mussolini should come to greet Rommel.

As a result, Mussolini did not come, so he sent Lefel, the naval marshal, along with the Italian Afrika Korps commander Marshal Gra, who should now be called the deputy commander of the German-Italian Afrika Korps.

Rommel had already negotiated with Mussolini that all Italian troops in Africa would be placed under the command of the German-Italian Afrika Kops.

Italy spread out two army groups on the continent, one in Northeast Africa (300,000 men) and one in North Africa (236,000 men), with British troops of 32,500 and 66,000 respectively.

In Northeast Africa, the Italian army began its offensive from Ethiopia to the hinterland of Sudan, Kenya and British Somalia from July to August 1940, seizing many areas.

However, stubborn resistance by Sudanese and Kenyan troops and a guerrilla campaign in Ethiopia forced the Italian army to go on the defensive.

The British High Command took the opportunity to expand its army groups in Sudan and Kenya (mostly colonial troops) to 150,000 men, and launched an offensive in Northeast Africa in January 1941.

The British army in North Africa also increased to more than 130,000 men, including four British divisions and two brigades, and the remaining four divisions were colonial divisions drawn from various colonies, namely two Indian divisions, one Australian division, and one Canadian division.

More than 200,000 British men attacked the Italian Afrika Korps from two directions at the same time, and after a few battles, more than 100,000 Italian soldiers were captured, and the remaining 530,000 Italian troops were about to be driven into the sea, and as a result, the Greek campaign broke out.

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