Rommel took a commander from a staff officer, pointed to the island of Malta and said:

"Brothers, this is the island of Malta, this island is just on our route to Africa, if we don't take advantage of the opportunity of the British Mediterranean fleet being dragged in Greece to pull it out now, the British army on this island will cut off our supply lines of the German-Italian Afrika Korps at any time, thus causing us endless trouble.

Therefore, our battle to land in Africa began on the island of Malta, and the time for us to attack the island of Malta without interference was only seven days, and these seven days were the key to this campaign.

If the brothers do their best, we won't be able to win it in less than seven days. ”

"Commander, you can rest assured, when have a few of our brothers been strained, in a word, under the command of the great General Rommel, the soldiers are invincible."

"Absolutely, with our invincible and invincible commander, the island of Malta is not yet captured."

"Bang Bang" Rommel knocked on the frame of the sand table with the command rod, Rommel's subordinates were active, and there was no such strict hierarchy as other German troops.

"Don't think that you are invincible in the world after a few victories, I tell you, arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and strategically despise the enemy, but you must pay attention to the enemy tactically, everyone has remembered it for me."

Once Rommel became serious, he would be murderous, and a general who commanded hundreds of thousands of troops would not be able to do without murderous spirit.

"Understood."

A few subordinates who were still laughing just now immediately put away their playful thoughts and began to listen carefully to Rommel's explanation:

"There are 14,000 British troops on the island of Malta and three military airfields. The British placed two squadrons of Spitfires here. Two squadrons of bombers.

And we have the 10th Air Army to fight together. We have more than 800 planes of various types, while the British army has only 48 planes.

Our landing troops have the 7th Armored Division and the 22nd Parachute Division, with a total of more than 28,000 troops and more than 200 tanks.

In any way, we are in an absolute advantage, and according to my personal judgment, there should be no pressure on us to take the island of Malta this time.

Specific tactical arrangements. Hans, Chief of Staff, will explain to you. ”

Hans, the chief of staff, first distributed the drawn battle plan to several people present, including Harold, the commander of the 22nd Parachute Division.

Rommel was no longer in charge of the specific tactical arrangements, and the staff officers of the headquarters had already drawn up a very complete operational plan in accordance with Rommel's general operational outline.

Hans followed Rommel's example, took the command rod and began to explain to the sand table:

"Campaign objective: the island of Malta.

Objective: To capture the island of Malta......

Tomorrow morning at 6:15 a.m., the 5th and 6th Panzer Regiments of the 7th Panzer Division will board ships in the port of Reggyoka......

At 7:30 a.m., the bomber regiment and the dive bomber regiment began to take off, and the bomber regiment attacked three military airfields. The target of the dive bombers was the beachhead in the north of the island of Malta......"

Hans's chief of staff explained the battle plan of the campaign and was completely based on the script. Meticulous, word for word, a good value.

The Germans were like this, and several of Crommel's brothers listened with relish, but the two Italian marshals yawned a lot, and it seemed that the two of them had tossed too much last night.

Rommel was not paying attention to Hans's explanation, and after asking the orderlies to make him a cup of tea, he began to close his eyes and recuperate.

In fact, Rommel closed his eyes and let go of the "Eye of God", and since Rommel became the governor of France, his "Eye of God" has been upgraded again.

Now Rommel's "Eye of God" can fly away to a distance of 120 kilometers from Rommel, and the detection radius is still 60 kilometers.

Rommel has figured out the rules for the promotion of the "Eye of God" in administrative positions, the distance between the "Eye of God" and the rank upgrade detection range.

The port of Reggio is located more than 150 kilometers from the island of Malta, and Rommel's "Eye of God" just had an unobstructed view of the island.

In the blue sea, the "Eye of God" soon found the oval-shaped island of Malta, which was shrouded in large trees and looked like a ball of green grass from a distance.

Rommel fixed his eyes on the island of Malta, and then gradually zoomed in, and to the south of the island, mountains rose from the ground, like towering buildings.

The mountain is covered with evergreen pine trees, and at the foot of the mountain is a large field full of carrots, which rabbits love to eat.

The continuous mountains snake on the island until they merge into the clear sky, the clouds and mountains are vast, and the peaks are gently shrouded in mist, like a shy girl wrapped in a white scarf.

To the north of the island, the terrain is gentle, with rows of coconut trees growing on the beach, and the terrain of Malta Island is exactly the same as on the sand table.

Rommel was carefully using the "Eye of God" to check the armament and deployment of the British troops on the island, the number of tanks and planes had not changed, and there were trenches on the island, but there were no British troops stationed in the trenches at all.

It seems that these British troops did not know that they were going to attack the island of Malta, otherwise their defense would not be so lax, which gave them another chance of successfully taking the island of Malta.

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On January 20, 1941, at 6:30 a.m., the 5th and 6th Panzer Regiments of the 7th Panzer Division began to board the ships, and the two Panzer Regiments had a total of more than 400 tanks, which was almost the entire armored force of the 7th Panzer Division.

This time, Italy was still relatively strong, and they mobilized a total of more than 300 transport ships of various types for Rommel.

The entire port of Reggoka was brightly lit, all kinds of passwords were coming and going, tank engines roared, and the air was filled with the smell of oil smoke, and countless heavily armed German soldiers began to board the ship in an orderly manner.

The airfields in several cities around Reggoka were also brightly lit, and the crews of various planes were nervously preparing, and the paratroopers who were ready to land were ready to go, and they checked their parachutes over and over again.

At 6:40, more than 100 horizontal bombers and more than 100 BF109 fighters began to take off, and the modern war must have begun from the air.

After the three red flares lifted off into the air at once, the more than 300 planes began to taxi towards the runway, and then began to accelerate, and when the planes gained enough lift, they took off.

There were dozens of planes at each airfield, and after taking off, these planes first circled in the designated space, and when all the planes involved in the war had arrived, they then flew straight to the island of Malta in formation.

Horizontal bombers bombed three airfields on the island of Malta, and the escort battles were mainly fought against the island's twenty-four Spitfires.

The German BF109 fighter and the British Spitfire have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the tactical performance is about the same in general, but Rommel sent more than 160 BF109 fighters at one time, while the British army only had 24 Spitfires.

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