Chapter 201: Tobruk's Hope
The company commander didn't want to live anymore, so he gave up the water-cooled heavy machine gun that had run out of bullets, and then hung a dozen grenades that Taylor had collected earlier, and then fell on his back and pretended to be dead.
"Brothers! Lao Tzu is here to accompany you! Wait, brother, me. ”
More than a dozen German troops slowly surrounded it, and the company commander immediately and quietly pulled off the fuses of the two grenades.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
The company commander led a squad and a water-cooled heavy machine gun to shoot more than 50 Germans, and when more than a dozen Germans came to check the situation, the company commander pulled a cluster grenade and died with the enemy, killing more than a dozen Germans again.
Germany, Britain - Justice? Is it evil? Is it a hero? Is it a criminal?
North Africa does not belong to Great Britain and does not belong to Germany, but these two countries are fighting here, what are they for?
It's not simple, it's all about the various mineral resources of North Africa, as well as the control of the Suez Canal.
It's like two robbers coming to your house and claiming that this is my territory, and the two robbers won't give in to each other, and in the end they will fight a duel by force, and the winner will take possession of your house, and the loser will either die or get out of your house.
These two robbers, who is righteous? Who is evil? Who are the heroes? Who are the criminals? Leave it to the brothers!
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As soon as Rommel left the command post, he boarded a helicopter parked at the command post, accompanied by Wald, along with five other staff officers.
The FA223 helicopter could have carried 20 people, but because Rommel needed to detour from the Mediterranean Sea to Tobruk this time, they had to add auxiliary fuel tanks to the helicopter, so that the helicopter could not carry too many people.
Soon Rommel left the former enemy command post in a helicopter, which flew at an altitude of five thousand meters before the helicopter reached the Mediterranean.
The British army did not have a radar in Libya, and Rommel did not have to worry about the British radar discovering his landline, and when the helicopter flew over the Mediterranean, the helicopter began to reduce its altitude and flew almost close to the surface of the sea.
Rommel is a traverser, of course he knows the many weaknesses of the radar, the radar of later generations is so advanced, it cannot eliminate the impact of ground effect, not to mention the original radar of World War II, which could not detect helicopters flying with seafood at all.
Although Rommel knew the effect of ground effects on radar, they still did not dare to let down their vigilance, his "Eye of God" had been observing the situation around him for more than 100 kilometers, and Rommel did not want to be shot down by British planes unknowingly.
The detour from the Mersa Pass to the Mediterranean Sea to Tobruk is almost 800 kilometers, and it takes the helicopter two or three hours.
Although the process was boring, Rommel really did not dare to relax, and when the plane flew a hundred kilometers from Tobruk, Rommel was even more so, and his "Eye of God" kept his eyes on the surrounding area of Tobruk.
At this time, there were already a large number of British troops outside the city of Tobruk, and they had surrounded Tobruk from three sides, but there were not too many of these British troops, about three divisions.
The three British divisions were all infantry divisions, and the British deployed 7th Panzer Division in North Africa had not yet reached Tobruk.
This reassured Rommel, it seemed that the British army was not moving quickly, and it would take at least two or three days for the British army outside Tobruk to attack, and every day that the British army delayed the attack, he would have one more chance of victory for Rommel.
There were no British planes in the sky above Tobruk, and they didn't know what the British were doing, so they didn't take the lead in launching an air attack on Tobruk, but waited until all the people were ready to launch an air attack.
Rommel began to poke his nose at the commander of the British army, Wavell, who used a sandstorm to attack Tobruk, and Wavell did not expect that there would be forgiveness.
But now, in such a critical situation, he is still so slow to dispatch troops, does Wavell treat the German army as a funny Italian army?
Since the British army was so lax, Rommel didn't have to worry about anything, and directly let the helicopter continue to fly close to the sea and head towards Tobruk.
When the helicopter was more than ten kilometers away from Tobruk, Rommel radioed the German troops in Tobruk.
Rommel's plane must maintain radio silence in the sky, so as not to let the British army find out the clue, if the British army knows that Rommel is flying to Tobruk, then the British Air Force will not come out!
Rommel soon contacted Harold, commander of the German paratrooper division in Tobruk:
"I'm number one, what's going on now?"
Harold had been in the command room inside the Tobruk Fortress all the time, and when he received a radio call from Rommel, he couldn't believe it.
Since the communication distance of the on-board radio is only one or two hundred kilometers, this call indicates that Commander-in-Chief Rommel has arrived not far from Tobruk.
"Report One, I'm a dragonfly, please give me instructions."
"I'm about to arrive at you, please prepare for the relevant air defense."
Harold immediately asked in surprise:
"Please don't come to Tobruk, now there is about to be a tragic siege here, Tobruk has become a Jedi, please No. 1 don't come to Tobruk."
"Dragonfly, I know what you say, and I have a word for you now, no matter how dangerous Tobruk is, I will be with my soldiers."
Dozens of German commanders and staff officers at all levels in the headquarters could clearly hear Rommel's words.
When they heard Rommel's voice, the staff officers and officers were very excited, which showed that the commander-in-chief remembered them and did not give them up as outcasts.
This undoubtedly gave a shot in the arm to the German troops besieged in Tobruk, and as long as Commander-in-Chief Rommel did not forget them and did not treat them as outcasts, they would have the hope and courage to continue fighting.
This hope was too important for the German army trapped in the isolated city. But now Commander-in-Chief Rommel not only remembered them, but was also preparing to come to Tobruk.
The commander-in-chief said that he wanted to be with his soldiers, knowing that Tobruk was now in danger, and a tragic siege battle would break out at any time, and the gap between the German and British forces was very large, and it was likely that Tobruk would not be able to hold it.
But the Commander-in-Chief still wanted to come to Tobruk without hesitation, and what a great feeling, the Commander-in-Chief simply said:
"I'm going to be with my own soldiers."
All the German soldiers felt that it was an honor, a blessing, and a gift from God that they could come to Tobruk to fight with the commander-in-chief.
Even if they die on the battlefield, they feel that they have no regrets in this life, and following such a commander who cares about soldiers is definitely the happiest thing for a soldier.
On the contrary, following the stupid commander of Wavell's kind, Wavell now has to treat the more than 20,000 British troops at the Mersa Pass as outcasts, isn't this the greatest tragedy of the more than 20,000 soldiers?
…… (To be continued.) )