Rommel's third telegram was sent to Bismarck, who ordered Bismarck to immediately attack Benghazi with the German 7th Panzer Division and two Italian divisions. Luxembourg continued to advance along the original route with the Wansheng Volunteer Division and three Italian divisions, capturing Bensals.

Benghazi was a seaport city, and the British troops there had not yet retreated from Benghazi. If the British army could not hold Benghazi, they could have retreated from the sea, so those British troops are still stationed in Benghazi.

The German Afrika Korps could take a boat directly from southern Italy to Benghazi, and all Rommel supplies would also take this route in the future, and this supply line would save at least half of the time.

Then there is the large military airport in Benghazi, which is just over 240 kilometers from Tobruk and more than 160 kilometers from Merkili.

The situation of Germany without air support will change from the capture of Benghazi, even if the British army blows up the airport and docks in Benghazi while fleeing, Rommel can transport a large number of building materials from Italy to repair it.

Benghazi's importance at this time suddenly became important, the British had only a few thousand men here, and they could not hold off the attack of the 7th Panzer Division and the two Italian divisions.

It is not possible for the Italian army to fight against the wind, but if it fights against the wind, it is still possible, and the Italian army is just rushing and fleeing.

There was also an airfield in Bangsas, which had been completely destroyed by the British army during the retreat, and if it was repaired, it might take some time, as long as there were building materials, manpower was not a problem.

Rommel's idea was to first capture the major cities in central Libya, where to garrison them, and then wait for the successors of the German Afrika Korps.

The only unpredictable place is how long the fortress of Tobruk can be held, and when it can't be held, Rommel can take Harold and several of his main commanders to run away in a helicopter, Rommel only lost a few thousand paratroopers, and of course, the Libyan militia division.

Unable to hold Tobruk was the worst outcome, for Rommel it was the loss of half a paratrooper division, and the British had already lost tens of thousands of men in the previous battle of Tobruk.

If the British army were to completely take the Tobruk sewers and fortresses, they would have to pay at least tens of thousands of people, and in any case, Rommel's tactical arrangement was a success, just to earn more and earn less.

If Rommel could hold Tobruk and block the road outside Tobruk with fortress artillery, the British army would be miserable, and the British army deployed in Merkili would be divided again.

Those British troops will be completely surrounded by the German army in the Merkili area, and they will only surrender or be annihilated, and there will be absolutely no third way to go.

Both Rommel and Wavell were following their own intentions, ordering their troops to carry it out. The British were preparing to burn the Libyans in the sewers with gasoline in Tobruk, while Rommel ordered his follow-up troops to rush to Benghazi as soon as possible to prepare for a big siege tactic.

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Hitler simply did not have time to care about Rommel and the African theater of operations, because Rommel suggested that Hitler should bring forward the offensive to mid-April, and it was already the end of January.

Hitler had just over two months to prepare and mobilize his forces for an attack on the Soviet Union, which was a movement of several million troops, plus some troops from the German Allies, which numbered more than 5.5 million.

With such a huge number of troops, all the personnel of the German High Command and the Ministry of Defense are all working around the "Barbarossa Plan", and they still have time to care about this small local battlefield in Africa!

Only the German media occasionally has some news about Rommel, but the space is not large, and the tastes of the German people have been nurtured by the victory, not the great victory that annihilated tens of thousands of people, and the German people are not interested in caring about it.

It's different in the United States, a country of immigrants that has always worshipped heroes, and Rommel has a lot of fans in the United States.

Especially after the release of the Hollywood movie "Rommel", it made Rommel's reputation rise in the United States, and even US President Roosevelt was not as famous as Rommel.

Because isolationism is now rife in the United States, and those capitalists only want to sell arms all over the world to make money, they are not like asking the United States to participate in the war in Europe.

These isolationists had enormous influence in Congress and Congress, and they were in the majority, and even if Roosevelt wanted to go to war, he would not be able to pass it in Congress.

Since the United States could not enter the war, he could not launch a blockade against Rommel, which made Rommel's fans spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and Hollywood stars were dwarfed in front of Rommel.

The news that Rommel was trapped in Tobruk reached the United States, and the media and people in the United States directly blew up the pot, because Rommel was well-known in the United States, and the media joined in the coverage of Rommel in order to vote for the people's favor.

The New York Daily News published a column to report on Rommel's dispatch of airborne troops to raid Tobruk, and the New York Journal compared Rommel's airborne operation to a stroke of genius.

The American newspaper "Independent" reported on why Rommel was in Tobruk.

The Independent first reported the fact that Rommel was now besieged by British troops in Tobruk, and then began to analyze why Rommel, the commander-in-chief of the German-Italian Afrika Korps, was besieged in the isolated city of Tobruk.

The Independent analysed in detail this phrase that Rommel often said:

"I'm going to be with my soldiers."

According to the analysis of "The Independent", the German army was besieged by the British army after Tobruk was captured, and Rommel was definitely not the kind of general who was indifferent when he saw his soldiers being surrounded, and Rommel would definitely try his best to go to Tobruk.

This is why Rommel is now besieged in Tobruk, and the situation analyzed by The Independent is largely accurate.

Rommel's great spirit of disregarding his own safety for the sake of his soldiers touched the American people at one time.

The American volunteers, who also participated in the North African war, are now advancing inside Libya, and the American people are overwhelmingly supporting Rommel.

Rommel has become a place of absolute justice, and Britain has become the evil side, Britain fought several battles with the United States when the United States was independent, Britain has been the world hegemon for hundreds of years, and there is a lot of suppression of the United States, so the American people have long been dissatisfied with those British who override the world and the United States.

Now that Rommel, a great general, has come to teach Rommel a lesson, the American people can't ask for it, and of course the United States also has selfish motives, they feel that the United States, which has the largest GDP in the world, should replace Britain as the new world hegemon.

Among the Americans, there are also people who support the British, but those numbers are very small, and for the above reasons, the British are really unpopular in the eyes of the American people

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