Chapter 246: British Ships Attack
How is this possible? Could it be that there were spies in the British army? Montgomery, however, did not find any other telecommunications models in his army.
This means that even if there are German spies in their own troops, they will not be able to send the information out, so Montgomery was really blinded by Rommel.
"What to do? …… Calm down...... Calm ......"
Montgomery, who was so anxious to go around the headquarters, forced himself to calm down and think about it countless times.
Montgomery's idea was not to catch spies, but to break the strategic situation, and the current situation was too passive for Montgomery, but Montgomery was worthy of being a famous general, and he quickly thought of a way.
Rommel seized tens of thousands of tons of British supplies, and Montgomery also used spies to send back the news.
Montgomery sent the air force to attack Tobruck in order to blow up the tens of thousands of tons of supplies, and as a result, Montgomery's air force lost more than half of the air force.
Since he couldn't destroy Rommel's supplies, Montgomery planned to attack Rommel's other weakness.
What was one of Rommel's weaknesses? That is the sea route, Rommel has tens of thousands of tons of supplies in his hands, but this is the edge of the Libyan desert, and most of the fresh water consumed by the British and German sides needs to be transported from the rear.
The British could draw water from the Nile, more than 100 kilometers from the Egyptian line, and most of the fresh water Rommel needed was brought from Sicily, Italy.
There was a voyage of more than a thousand kilometers from Italian Sicily to the port of Tobruk, and it was the Italian fleet that escorted it, and the Italian escort fleet was another weak point of Rommel.
As long as Rommel's fresh water supply line was cut off from the sea, it was more effective than cutting off Rommel's material supply, and the German army without fresh water supply would not hold out for three days before retreating, and Montgomery would be able to cover up behind the troops.
When Montgomery thought of this, he suddenly felt that he was in front of him, and he immediately called Corningham, commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet.
Montgomery and Cunningham discussed on the phone for half an hour, and the two conspired to come up with a perfect plan to annihilate the Italian fleet.
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Since Rommel was promoted to army general, his "Eye of God" has undergone another upgrade, and now Rommel's "Eye of God" has reached a detection range of 200 kilometers and a detection radius of 120 kilometers.
This is equivalent to Rommel being able to see everything within a radius of 320 kilometers around him, and such a detection distance is enough for a campaign commander like Rommel.
Since the tentative offensive of the Egyptian defense began, Rommel did not dare to slack off at all, because his opponent was a famous player like Montgomery!
The slightest negligence against a famous player like Montgomery would end up being defeated and captured, and Rommel didn't want to go to London to be paraded by Churchill.
When the British Mediterranean fleet quietly sailed out of Alexandria, Rommel's "Eye of God" spotted the huge British fleet that had sneaked out of port.
Rommel could have imagined even with his toes that the British Mediterranean fleet must be coming for its own sea transport lines.
The Afrika Korps had 130,000 German troops, and hundreds of thousands of Italian troops laid out in front of the Egyptian defensive line, and the amount of fresh water consumed by so many people every day was astronomical.
Even if Rommel could repair some of the wells, most of the fresh water consumed by the Afrika Korps would have been brought from mainland Italy, thousands of miles away.
In the desert operation, this fresh water is more important than anything else, sufficient fresh water guarantee is the basis of all operations, Rommel's sea fresh water transportation line is equivalent to the lifeline of the German Afrika Korps.
Montgomery's move is really poisonous, he can't make a plan, and he has another plan, such an opponent deserves attention and must be taken seriously.
The British Mediterranean Fleet has always been a trouble for Rommel, since the British Mediterranean Fleet took the initiative to attack, then take advantage of the situation to annihilate the main force of the British Mediterranean Fleet, and the remnants of the Italian fleet are the best bait.
It's not that Rommel doesn't treat allies as allies, in order to protect his supply lines, Rommel must let the Italian Navy meet the British Mediterranean Fleet, and the Italian fleet is certainly not the opponent of the British Mediterranean Fleet, since it can't be beaten, use it as bait!
The British Mediterranean Fleet has two aircraft carriers, and Rommel's aircraft losses are very large, and if you want to annihilate the British Mediterranean Fleet, you must first deal with the two British aircraft carriers.
At this time, Rommel also had a new weapon developed by the German army -- a six-barrel rocket launcher. (Many people only know about Katyusha rocket artillery and forget about German rocket artillery.) )
TYPE 41 150MM ROCKET LAUNCHER, IS THE STANDARD ROCKET ARTILLERY OF THE GERMAN ARMY IN WORLD WAR II, WHICH HAS BEEN EQUIPPED WITH THE ROCKET ARTILLERY BATTALION OF THE GERMAN ARMY SINCE 1941 AND HAS BEEN USED UNTIL THE END OF WORLD WAR II.
The Type 41 150-mm rocket launcher is a 6-company rocket launcher, with 6 launch tubes arranged in a 6-angular shape, assembled together and mounted on a towable two-wheeled trolley.
THE LENGTH OF THE ROCKET LAUNCH TUBE IS 1.3 METERS, THE OUTER DIAMETER IS 160 MM, THE LAUNCH TUBE IS NOT RIFLED, AND IN ORDER TO KEEP THE ROCKET STABLE IN THE LAUNCH TUBE, THERE ARE THREE 17 MM GUIDES IN THE LAUNCH TUBE.
The two-wheeled traction trolley has an inverted bracket, which should be lowered and fixed when firing, which plays a stabilizing role, and the total combat weight of the whole system is 536 kg.
There are two types of shells, grenades and smoke grenades, the total weight of the grenade is 31.5 kg, the smoke screen is 35.5 kg, and the range is 7062 meters (grenade) and 6900 meters (smoke screen).
Rommel immediately ordered special changes to the BF109, first of all, the German-made "six-barrel rocket launcher" was removed from the brackets and tires, and only six launch tubes were retained.
The total weight of such a set of "six-barreled rocket launchers" is only more than 120 kilograms, and the external capacity of the "BF109" is more than 500 kilograms, and it can just hang two six-barreled rocket launchers under its two wings.
The British army has aircraft carriers, so Rommel has to modify the BF109 and let the BF109 destroy the flight deck of the British aircraft carrier with rockets, so as to ensure the safe bombing of the JU87.
Each rocket weighs 31 kilograms and has a range of 8 kilometers, and each rocket is as powerful as a 203 mm artillery shell.
With such a powerful rocket, it is barely enough to hit destroyers and cruisers, and it is scratching and useless to fight battleships.
These rockets were not used to sink warships, but were specially designed to deal with the superstructure of British warships, such as the command room, telecommunications room, anti-aircraft artillery, etc., as well as the flight deck of aircraft carriers.
The British army has aircraft carriers, so Rommel has to modify the BF109 and let the BF109 destroy the flight deck of the British aircraft carrier with rockets, so as to ensure the safe bombing of the JU87.
When the aircraft carriers of the British Mediterranean Fleet were beaten to the point that they could not take off and land aircraft, the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower suffered heavy losses, which provided an excellent opportunity for the JU87 dive bombers to attack!
The use of JU87 to bomb warships is really good, Rommel has already tested it in Gibraltar.
With a range of 150 rockets of 8 km, the "BF109" only needs to dive into a British warship to a distance of 5 six kilometers before it can be launched.
It is difficult for the anti-aircraft weapons on the warship to threaten the "BF109" at such a distance, although the power of the German 150 rockets is only equivalent to a 203 mm caliber shell.
In addition to the side armor of the battleship, the British warships could not blow out the holes, and the warships below the cruiser were rockets that could not withstand this power.
However, unlike artillery shells, rockets can only explode after penetrating armor, and can only explode on contact, so they can only pose a lethal threat to the deck or superstructure of British warships.
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