The EU army is 2.5 million, the EU SS has now grown to more than 4 million, and the Russian SS alone has nearly 3 million troops, and they will be a powerful supplement to the Wehrmacht.

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Rommel and Moder and several of the original commanders of the SS are now busy mobilizing troops, Italy's Prime Minister Mussolini, after the British and American landings, urgently asked Germany for help, thanks to Mussolini's self-knowledge, knowing that his troops are definitely not opponents, in the first time just like Germany sent a message asking for help, which gave Germany more time to react, and Rommel is also an efficient person, quickly organized troops to North Africa.

Because the British and American reinforcements landed earlier than the Germans, but the British and American troops were transported over long distances, and the German SS forces were scattered everywhere, the British garrison in Egypt had already begun a small-scale attack on the Italian-occupied Libya, and the Italian troops were only under the small blows of the British army, and they were all crushed and retreated from Libya to Tunisia.

Tunisia is Italy's last stronghold in North Africa, behind the retreat is the sea, the British army did not think of such a smooth attack, only a small-scale attack, and when it came to Tunisia, the Italian army of 500,000 Afrika Kops, there were more than 200,000, and the British army attacking was only more than 100,000, but the supply line of these British troops was transported from Cairo to Tunisia, through Libya, Egypt's wide desert more than 800 kilometers, the lack of supplies of the British army temporarily stopped the offensive, waiting for the follow-up troops and supplies to deliver, Only then did he launch the most violent blow to Tunisia, the last stronghold of Italy, and drove all the Italian troops into the sea to feed the sharks.

It is a pity that the British suspended attack also gave Italy and Germany the opportunity, and after discussion, Rommel and Zhang Jun decided to let Rommel take the lead in two armored divisions and one light infantry division, board the ship at the port of Sokko in Baku, and then cross the Black Sea, enter the Mediterranean, and land directly in the port of Tunisia after crossing the Mediterranean.

In this way, Rommel could land in North Africa in the shortest possible time, because Germany basically had no transport capacity in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, and combat ships, these transport ships were still captured by the Soviet Union, and when Rommel and their convoy were transported into the Mediterranean, the Italian Navy would serve as an escort for the fleet, and the fleet would also go as close to the Italian coast as possible to avoid being targeted by British and French submarines.

In the early Balkan campaign, Zhang Jun used paratroopers to seize the island of Malta in the Mediterranean, which made Britain lose the complete severance of the Italian navy from North Africa, and of course brought great trouble to the future strategy of Britain and the United States.

One of Rommel's two armored divisions is Vincent's armored division in Italy, Vincent's armored corps suffered heavy losses in Orsk, and more than a hundred tanks of the three armored divisions remained, which happened to be reorganized into an armored division, and Vincent's remaining two armored divisions only waited for Zhang Jun's weapons to be replenished, and Zhang Jun had to replenish two full tank divisions for Vincent, otherwise they would be sorry for Vincent to fight in Orsk.

Originally, Zhang Jun didn't plan to let Vincent go to war now, but Vincent, who couldn't be idle, how could he not go to North Africa and insisted on participating in the war, Zhang Jun and Rommel had no choice but to agree that Vincent would lead a remnant of the armored division and go with Rommel by boat.

Rommel's other armored division is the Viking division in the Viking Army that Rommel transferred, and the troops that Rommel first led were very familiar with and trusted each other, and that infantry division was transferred at will, and now any infantry division of the German SS can be said to be the elite of the elite.

On November 19, 1940, Rommel with three divisions, more than 50,000 people, set off from Soko, quietly went straight to the port of Tunis, and now the matter of troop transfer is pressed on Moder and Ike, Paul and others, for these old brothers, Zhang Jun is to give complete trust, these SS troops will go straight to Catania, Italy by train, and then arrive in Sicily, Italy on a ferry to assemble, at this time, Italy, Greece, Ukraine, Spain and other countries transport ships will be concentrated, To help Germany transport troops, the navies of these countries will also provide escort missions for the transport fleet.

After losing the island of Malta, Britain lost the ability to cut off the route from Italy to North Africa, but also needed to prevent a sneak attack by their submarines, which would cause Germany to suffer some unnecessary losses. Even if it is a little loss, if it is not very serious, Zhang Jun is still acceptable.

Zhang Jun is of course not easy, since the implementation of the Soviet Union's "Barbarossa Plan", Germany's weapons and equipment loss is very large, basically has reached the situation that Germany's own production capacity can not meet the supplement, in this case, Germany's weapons and equipment production, it is necessary to integrate, as much as possible to use the production capacity of other countries in the European Union, even if some is not the most advanced technology, Zhang Jun also began a vigorous integration plan without hesitation.

As soon as Zhang Jun's order was issued, a large number of purchase orders were issued, and those arms manufacturers in Germany could not produce such huge quantities at all, but fortunately, Zhang Jun had deregulated, and they could cooperate with factories in any EU country to produce, that is, these German first-class fire dealers could completely outsource some parts that were not core technologies to other factories in the European Union, so that the production speed of weapons and equipment in Germany could be increased by at least three times. And the economies of the EU countries will also prosper because of the boom in arms production.

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In fact, the North African battlefield was the first to be fought by Italy, and Italy saw the huge military victory achieved by Germany, and Mussolini once again could not resist his manic heart, and ordered the Italian army in North Africa to start attacking British Egypt, so that he could occupy Egypt's oil fields and the Suez Canal.

(13 June – 8 September 1940) - Italian attack. Two Italian field armies under the unified command of Marshal Balbo (Marshal Graziani from August) were deployed in Libya: the 10th Army (commanded by General Berti) on the border of Libya and Egypt, and the 5th Army (commanded by General Garibaldi) in front of Tunisia. On 13 June, the 10th Army, with 5 divisions, 1 regimental group, and 6 tank battalions (9 Italian divisions in eastern Libya), began attacking the British Army Group "Nile" (2 divisions and 2 separate brigades, with a total of 66,000 men and 168 aircraft in Egypt, including Palestinian aircraft) under the command of General Wavell. The British Army Group had only 1 deployed division on the borders of Egypt and Libya. The Italians advanced 90 kilometers and advanced on 16 June in western Dubai Rani, but the subsequent offensive had to be halted due to a failure of command and supply disruptions. The British, on the other hand, continued to retreat until they had established a pre-constructed position near Port Matruo. A "vacuum" of up to 130 kilometers wide has been formed between the opposing sides.

In September 1940, the British North African Army Group (4 divisions and 2 brigades) switched to a counteroffensive, routed the Italian army, and advanced more than 800 kilometers in more than a month. By 16 November, the British army had reached the front line east of Argeyla and Malada and moved into defense. So that the victory did not develop. The British government decided to wait for supplies and American troops to arrive, and then wipe out the more than 200,000 beleaguered Italian troops in Tunisia in one fell swoop.

If the British army could launch a fierce attack on Italy from the 16th, Rommel's reinforcements would have rushed to Africa, and it would take three days to board the ship and sail thousands of kilometers from the 19th, and it would take one day to land, and it would be impossible for these frightened Italian troops to block the 8-day onslaught of more than 100,000 British troops, even if Rommel felt that North Africa would have no place to stand, but unfortunately the British themselves gave up the victory in hand, giving Rommel a chance to become famous all over the world. (The most classic battle in North Africa is still to let Long Shuai fight!! In memory of this great marshal like a knight. ）

When the opportunity comes, everyone makes mistakes in the war, Hitler will make mistakes, and the British commander Montgomery will make mistakes, depending on whether your opponent can seize the opportunity of your mistakes, the historical Dunkirk retreat, that is, Britain and France seized Hitler's mistakes and successfully retreated 330,000 troops, and now Rommel has also seized this golden opportunity.

On November 22, 1940, Rommel arrived at the port of Tunisia and began to land, at this time the British troops on the outskirts of Tunisia also found reinforcements of the German SS.

Montgomery, the commander-in-chief of the British army, realized his mistake and hurriedly ordered his more than 100,000 British troops to launch a fierce attack on Tunisia, which was defended by Italy, and when German reinforcements arrived, more than 13 Italian troops of more than 200,000 troops surrendered to the British ** team inexplicably, and on the evening of the 22nd, Rommel basically transported all his troops to the land of Tunisia.

As soon as Rommel landed, he left one infantry division to defend the port of Tunis, and the other two armored divisions immediately launched a pincer offensive, and Rommel chose the direction of attack to face the Egyptian defense line, as long as Rommel ate the British army on this front, all the British troops attacking Tunisia would be surrounded around Tunisia, and they could not break through Rommel's armored division defense, and of course they could not escape Rommel's annihilation.

As soon as the attack began, Rommel called German planes on the island of Malta to support the Panzer Division, while the British planes were far away in El Alamein, more than 800 kilometers from Tunisia, and it was basically impossible to participate in the war in a short time, and the Tunisian airfield had already been destroyed by the British army, and the Italian air force could not help. (To be continued.) )