The British royal family also made public bets, and the British royal family wanted to show that Tobruk would win, but they ignored the role of the royal family.

At this time, the passion of the entire British people was completely ignited, and most of the British people took out all their savings, bought, and bought Rommel defeated.

In just a few days, bets in the UK totalled a staggering $58 billion, more than all bets placed in the US.

By the end of the bet, there were more than $120 billion in the world that bought Rommel and more than $60 billion in Rommel, a gap of about $50 billion.

With this betting ratio, the opening bookmaker still has a profit of more than 50 billion yuan, provided that Rommel loses, and if Rommel wins, they will lose more than 50 billion dollars.

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The British forces in Tobruk City found more than a thousand sewer entrances, all of which were not suitable for pouring gasoline, and all the holes that were not suitable for pouring gasoline were blown up by the British troops.

The British left more than 400 holes, which were of various sizes, but without exception they were vertical vertical holes, which were convenient for pouring gasoline and burning those Libyan "rats".

Since the British army began to carry gasoline to Tobruk City, Rommel's "Eye of God" has discovered the actions of the British army, and of course Rommel also knows what the British army is doing, and the British army wants to learn to burn the sewers with gasoline themselves.

Rommel sent a telegram directly to Zafika, asking him to build a sandbag wall near the holes in the sewers, leaving only a small door in the sandbag wall for people to enter and exit.

As soon as the British find out which hole they are pouring gasoline into, they immediately stake the small door with sandbags and build several layers of separation walls, then the British army's plan to set fire will have no effect.

Rommel was able to set fire to the Gibraltar Fortress, mainly because there was no sand inside the Gibraltar Fortress, and the Tobruk sewers were full of sand.

Moreover, Libyans can dig up and down several layers of passages in the sewers, but there are 300,000 Libyans hidden in the sewers, and there is no shortage of labor.

The vents in the sewers, in addition to these exits, there were spare vents inside the fortress of Tobruk, where several large blowers supplied air to the sewers.

Was Rommel afraid of tunnel warfare? Of course not afraid, Rommel before the crossing did not know how many tunnel battles he had watched, Rommel had a way to deal with the British army, and he also had to annihilate some British troops without interruption.

The power of tunnel warfare, Rommel has already made the British army suffer a lot, more and bigger suffering is still to come, if the tunnel war is coupled with mine warfare, I don't know if the British army will be fascinated by Rommel in the city of Tobruk.

Let the British set fire to it now! There are more than 300,000 Libyans in the sewers, and three people dig one sandbag, which is 100,000 sandbags.

With so many sandbags, no matter how much gasoline the British poured into the sewers, they were doomed to be useless.

The British began pouring gasoline into the sewers in the afternoon, and the British discovered more than 400 holes in Tobruk, while the British only transported more than 20,000 barrels of gasoline in the morning.

A hundred liters of gasoline per barrel, which is also two million liters of gasoline! The transport capacity of the British army was already strong.

Each hole was divided equally among 500 barrels of gasoline, and the British army spent an afternoon with tens of thousands of people working together to pour this gasoline into the sewers.

By evening, the British began to set fires, and hundreds of pillars of fire rose in the city of Tobruk.

The tens of thousands of British troops who participated in the arson were rejoiced, forming battle formations and lying in ambush in all corners of the city, waiting for the Libyans to be burned.

An hour passed, and nothing happened in the sewers, and then two hours, three hours, and a whole night, until the next morning, the gasoline in the holes was not burned.

But the Libyans in the sewers were still not burned out, and the British troops in Tobruk City had no choice now, even if they wanted to dig into the sewers.

You have to wait until the flames are all extinguished, and the temperature around the cave entrance has to drop down, not for two or three days, and you don't even think about it.

Wavell was forced to retreat the British army, which had been tossed all night, and Wavell had no rotation of troops in his hands, and the rest of the British army was all sent by Wavell to Merkili.

The British army was exhausted after a long night, and Wavell had to give his men a good rest for a day, while waiting for all the gasoline in the holes to burn, which was two million liters of gasoline, and burning for two days and two nights was the minimum.

Tobruk is a desert city, the temperature is already very high, hundreds of pillars of fire are burning in the not too big city, and the temperature of the whole city is so hot that people dare not approach.

Even if Wavell was in a hurry, he could not carry out any other operation in Tobruk City, and the flames must be extinguished before the British army could proceed to the next move.

What two precious days! It was these two days that made this battle a turning point.

First of all, the firing range of the six fortress guns on the Tobruk fortress has been transformed, and these six 280-mm fortress guns, the city of Tobruk and its surroundings for tens of kilometers, are all shrouded in their firing range.

On the morning of February 2, 1941, it was already the third morning of the British army's fire.

The fiery red sun finally broke free from the entanglement of the white clouds, revealing half a smiling face, and a few small white clouds in the sky, like jasmine flowers with gold edges, rushed out of the cracks in the clouds.

Gradually, the morning veil shattered, swirled, swirled, and rose like wisps of light smoke, casting golden sunlight on the fortress of Tobruk and on the faces of the fortress gunners.

The smiles on the faces of these fortress artillerymen were stamped with a layer of gold, and the other day they could only be beaten by the British, and could not fight back.

Now the great General Rommel finally ordered them to fight back. Each 280 mm fortress gun was supposed to have twelve gunners and twelve bomblosers, but Rommel equipped them with a company of bombardiers, which increased the rate of fire from two rounds a minute to one a minute.

A 280-mm fortress gun weighs 200 kg in ****** and 217 kg in warhead, and if a shell goes down, within fifty meters in diameter, there will be no one alive.

The absolute killing radius of the 280 mm caliber fortress gun is at least twenty-five meters, and whether it is standing or lying down, it will all be shocked to death, and there are absolutely no exceptions.

By this time, the British army had already sounded the rallying call, because the flames in Tobruk had begun to be extinguished, and General Wavell would use an excavator to dig out the Libyans from the sewers today.

The British troops outside Tobruk began to assemble at the sound of loud bugles, and after two days of rest, they were in good spirits.

Like General Wavell, they vowed to dig those Libyan rats out of the sewers today, and then get rid of these pesky rats one by one.

The 280-mm cannon on the Tobruk Fortress was adjusting its high muzzle according to the firing elements given by Rommel Rommel, and the swarthy cannon pierced the sky.

And the British army did not know the sky, and they were still gathering outside the city of Tobruk......

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