After thinking about it, Rafael had to send a regiment to the last line of defense on the front, and how long could the front lines of defense hold on to the pass!

A retreat was absolutely impossible, Churchill would not have spared Rafael in the first place, and now the British were preparing to lay siege to Tobruk.

As soon as Rafael retreated, it was equivalent to opening the door to Libya and scattering tens of thousands of British troops deployed in Libya to resist the torrent of German steel.

At a time like this, the best thing to do is to transfer all the scattered Libyan forces back to besiege Tobruk.

The more than 20,000 British troops at the Mersha Pass were given up as outcasts, which was the only correct tactic, but unfortunately Churchill and Wavell were reluctant to give up Libya in their mouths.

Churchill did not know that today's retreat was to attack better tomorrow, because Churchill was reluctant to give up Libya, which put Britain in an unprecedented passive position in Africa.

"If you lose your land, you will lose your land; Save people and lose land, people and land survive"

Churchill could not have the strategic vision of Taizu, which also doomed Churchill and Wavell to be beaten everywhere in North Africa, and Rommel fully grasped the strategic initiative from the very beginning.

As long as Rommel can successfully annihilate tens of thousands of British troops in Libya, then Rommel will establish sufficient strategic superiority in Africa and lay a firm foundation for completely driving the British army out of Africa.

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As the ground battle at Mersa Pass began, Taylor and the company commander found some broken sandbags and continued to build sandbag fortifications, which were not very well defended, but were better than nothing.

There was a muffled roar of tanks from the front, a fierce sound of gunfire, and the sound of violent explosions, and the slight tremor of the ground never stopped.

Now the shaking of the ground, unlike the shock caused by the previous bombing, Taylor knew that it was caused by tanks, and there were quite a few tanks.

The British troops at the Merscha Pass knew that it was the German 7th Panzer Division that was attacking.

The German 7th Panzer Division was Rommel and the most elite of the German army.

Taylor and the others are not afraid, everyone is eager to face to face with the German 7th Panzer Division, Taylor wants to see if the 7th Panzer Division is really as powerful as in the movie.

The company commander was also a little excited at this time, and while checking the situation of his subordinates, he cheered everyone up:

"Brothers, on the opposite side is the German Seventh Panzer Division, which is Germany's most powerful trump card unit, are you afraid?"

"I'm afraid of an egg."

"People are dead, and twenty years old man is still a good man."

"Cut...... Twenty years later, you're still a skeleton. ”

"Company commander, we are not afraid, today Lao Tzu will kill a few Germans with his own hands to play."

The company commander was very satisfied with the spirit of the troops, everyone released nervousness in laughter and scolding, the company commander turned a deaf ear to the artillery fire and explosions on the front line, he beckoned Taylor to his side and said:

"Boy, take out Lao Tzu's cigarette and give the brothers a walk."

Taylor was originally a company commander's signal soldier, and some of the company commander's small daily necessities were kept by Taylor, and Taylor hurriedly took out the company commander's cigarette from his jacket pocket.

Taylor took out a shriveled cigarette case, and on one side lay a crumpled cigarette, and Taylor said in embarrassment:

"Company commander, it's just a cigarette, what should I do!"

"****, I don't know this, let's just take a sip...... Give it to Lao Tzu. ”

The company commander took the crumpled cigarette from Taylor's hand and put it in his mouth, Taylor quickly took out a match to help the company commander light the cigarette.

The company commander took two puffs of his cigarette, took two puffs of his cigarette, and then held his head high comfortably, held his head high, and sprayed a smoke ring into the air with satisfaction.

The company commander just said that each person took one puff, but he took two puffs, probably because he was the company commander, Taylor thought.

"Cool...... Come on, Taylor, it's your boy. ”

Taylor didn't know how to smoke, but he didn't want to disobey the company commander, so he could only reach out and take the cigarette from the company commander.

Taylor hesitated, but the British army next to him coaxed:

"Chicken, you're really not a man, you can't even smoke a pipe."

"Since we are brothers, we should smoke a cigarette together and share a foxhole."

"That's right, this is a brother, let's smoke!"

Taylor did not hesitate, put the cigarette to his lips and took a careful puff:

"Ahem...... Ahem......"

Taylor was choked with cigarettes and tears came out, and his face was red, Taylor is really a handsome guy, if in peacetime, he is a little boy at the level of a male god, but this is a time of war, handsome and ugly have no meaning.

"Haha, this kid is such a."

"Look at me."

The cigarettes were taken by the other British soldiers, and then circulated around the hands of each of the British soldiers, and each of them took a comfortable puff.

This is the brothers, this is the comrades-in-arms of life and death, smoking a cigarette together, sharing a foxhole, facing the test of life and death together, which does not distinguish between the German army or the British army, nor who is righteous and evil, in fact, who is defeated and who is evil, this is beyond doubt.

The gunfire from the front line is getting more and more intense, and the gunfire is getting closer and closer, Taylor and the others are not joking, but each looking for this battle position.

After a while, some British soldiers retreated, and after these British troops arrived at Taylor's company, they did not retreat, but took the initiative to join Taylor's company.

Soon Taylor's company contained fifty-six defeated soldiers, who were covered in blood but still had the will to fight.

More than 20 minutes later, the German tanks had appeared in Taylor's sight, there were so many German tanks that they could not be counted, and the yellow sand brought up by the tanks covered the sky.

As soon as the company commander saw the German tank charge formation, he fell into deep thought, and on the frontal defense, with Taylor's two 37-mm anti-tank guns of their company, seventy or eighty men, they could not hold the position at all.

What to do? The company commander was thinking about countermeasures quickly, and after a while, the company commander made up his mind as soon as he gritted his teeth, and the passive defense could only wait for death, so it was better to take the initiative to attack.

"Come to a squad and follow me to the front flank, our task is to disconnect the German tanks from the infantry, and the fraternal organization on the front is a death squad, using explosives bags against the German tanks, understood."

"Understood, we're not bad seeds."

"Company commander, you are optimistic, our brothers who stay in the front, everyone is a death squad."

The company commander looked at the brother in front of him, just nodded silently, and then waved to a squad next to him, and took the lead to run to the position on the side of the front.

The squad led by the company commander had a water-cooled heavy machine gun, and the whole squad consisted of 12 soldiers.

[War for politicians and interests and power struggle, but for soldiers, it is to complete their mission and oath, there is no difference between justice and evil, I hope you brothers can like these chapters written by the fallen leaves, and accept the people-oriented feelings of the fallen leaves. (To be continued.) )