Chapter 116: Casino Participation

The more people who buy Rommel to win, the more the casino will earn, there are so few connections that Rommel loses, and they lose very little, and the casino's abacus is very fine!

What will be the outcome, then you can only know if you have played it, this bet, anyway, no one should want to cheat, because Gibraltar is related to the national strategic interests of Germany and Britain, and the commanders of both sides cannot buy it even if they give more money.

The American people overwhelmingly supported Rommel, and several major casinos in Alaska received a total bet of nearly a billion dollars, of which 900 million were bought by Rommel, and the other 100 million was bet by rational old gamblers.

The result of this bet made several major casinos in Alaska very happy, because they had carefully rehearsed the Battle of Gibraltar with several American generals, and Rommel had no chance of victory.

The owners of Alaska's casinos will soon find out whether they make a lot of money or lose everything.

Even US President Roosevelt asked his secretary to secretly buy a 100-dollar Rommel win, not to mention other US government and military officials, who were all fans of Rommel, and all of them bought Rommel victories without hesitation.

The United States, which is free and developed, and gambling is prevalent, is now lively, they don't watch football, they don't go to bet on horses, and they only focus on the Battle of Gibraltar now.

And the major media are even more fueling, all kinds of data analysis are overwhelming, all kinds of strategic and tactical bricks have appeared on the stage, and more and more Americans are making bets.

The total bet has rocketed upward, reaching a staggering $10 billion, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the annual GDP of the United States, and this bet is already related to the economic development of the United States in the next few years.

The major casinos in Alaska can't afford such a big piece of cake because they don't have enough margins! Alaska's major casinos are looking for several major consortia and financial institutions in the United States.

Well, because of the Battle of Gibraltar, even several major American consortia and financial institutions participated in the bidding. For example, the Morgan consortium, the Citigroup consortium and so on.

These consortia and financial institutions are not stupid, they will also analyze, they think that the more the American people buy Rommel, the more they will earn, so they do not hesitate to go to the ground...... Whether the major American consortia and financial institutions laughed or not, in the end, the Battle of Gibraltar will tell them the answer.

The world's attention to the Battle of Gibraltar was unprecedented, and Rommel's fame was at an all-time high due to the Rothschilds' covert use of the media and newspapers they controlled.

People all over the world can not know who the president of the United States is, they can not know who the British prime minister is, but they definitely do not know who Rommel is.

Hitler was alarmed, the German propaganda apparatus was alarmed, and after the propaganda genius Goebbels communicated with Hitler, he was authorized by Hitler to go all out to promote Rommel positively in Germany.

Goebbels knew that the Führer had planned to train Rommel as his successor, and Goebbels, who had followed Hitler for decades, knew Hitler better than anyone else, and Goebbels knew what to do.

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Rommel entered Spain on 12 November 40, and Andorra, the capital of Spain's border province, established a temporary command in an estate on the outskirts of Andorra.

There are too many things that need to be done in a campaign, such as the deployment of various personnel and the transportation of various materials, all of which are extremely cumbersome. While this is a tedious task, there is no room for error.

The reason why the German Army is strong, everyone thinks that Germany has advanced weapons and good quality soldiers. In fact, there is another important reason for the strength of the German army, they have a very good group of staff officers.

These staff officers not only analyze the battle situation for commanders, but they also have an important function, that is, to coordinate the material deployment and transportation of various units so that there is sufficient ammunition and material supply at the front.

These excellent staff groups in the German army, although they are unknown, their role is crucial.

Rommel has always attached importance to the building of his own staff group, and it is not that Rommel wants to be lazy, because people's energy is limited after all, and Rommel alone cannot do everything himself.

Even if Rommel is tired to death, he can't be busy, Rommel, a traverser, will not do such a stupid thing, and when it is time to delegate power, he must not hesitate to delegate power.

Rommel's chief of staff, Hans, has a lot of power in the allocation of materials, and almost all of the logistics are in charge of Hans, and Rommel only looks at the results and never goes and never interferes in the logistics that Hans is responsible for.

What if Hans embezzled? Rommel's army had a separate accounting department, which would carry out independent and undisturbed accounting of all kinds of materials, and it would be difficult for Hans to embezzle.

This is the independent accounting department that Rommel created by learning the lessons of later generations, using the system to manage people, so that those who want to be corrupt have no chance to do it.

On 13 November, the day after Rommel arrived in Andorra, he summoned Andrew, commander of the 4th Air Division, to the war room.

This was also Rommel's habit, and during the war, Rommel dealt with anything other than personal matters, usually in the war room.

This war room is not a small area, it used to be the living room of this manor, but now it has been converted into a war room, with two sand tables, one large and one small, and several maps hanging on the wall.

As soon as Andrew of the 4th Air Division walked into the war room, he was attracted by the two sand tables in front of him, the large one was the sand table of the whole of Gibraltar, and the small one was the sand table of the Gibraltar fortress.

The two sand tables are very realistic, and it seems that General Rommel has not worked hard, which makes Andrew more confident in this mission.

The fort of Gibraltar is world-renowned, and when Andrew received the task of cooperating with Rommel in attacking the fort of Gibraltar, he really had no idea what to expect.

Rommel saw Andrew walking into the war room, and immediately greeted him affectionately:

"General Andrew, didn't you expect you to come so quickly and need a cup of coffee?"

Rommel's attitude towards his subordinates has always been very easy-going, and Rommel after the crossing does not have the unsmiling face he had before.

Will Rommel's majesty diminish because of his affinity for his subordinates? No, not at all, Rommel was even more loved by his soldiers.

A general who can lead them from victory to victory, there is no soldier who does not like. An army is a monster that must be constantly fed with victory, and an army that has been defeated repeatedly has no will to fight, and an army that has won many battles has a morale like a rainbow, there is no doubt about this.

After saluting the amiable superior, Andrew replied with a smile:

"Thank you, General."

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