Chapter 523: The African Campaign (I)

Jiang Cheng at home was typing the code quickly, Yu Yishan looked at the rows of mysterious symbols that appeared on the screen curiously, fed Jiang Cheng a mouthful of fruit from time to time, and asked, "Brother Cheng, this computer... Will it really be that big in the future? ”

Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "That's it, don't look at those university professors who are so powerful, just say that compared to calculations, those people can't compare with my computer, I will teach you when I have time in the future, but you pay attention, you have to keep this computer secret, I am also in a hurry, otherwise I will not use this at home." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½β€

Yu Yishan nodded a hundred times willingly, she wished she could help Jiang Cheng more. At this time, there was a knock on the bedroom door, Jiang Cheng glanced at it, closed the computer screen and asked, "Who is it?" ”

Li Qian replied, "It's me, the owner, Chen Nan has sent news from Germany." ”

Yu Yishan got up and opened the door to let Li Qian in, Jiang Cheng asked, "What's the news?" Show me. ”

Li Qian handed it to Jiang Cheng and said, "Look, owner." ”

Jiang Cheng opened it and looked at it, one is the news of the secret talks between the four countries, after the Soviet Union proposed to Bulgaria and Turkey, it suddenly fell into a stalemate, the four sides talked several times and did not divide the sphere of influence in the West, but the sphere of influence in the East was drawn quickly, in the secret talks, the Soviet Union divided a piece of Xinjiang, which Germany hoped to exchange Xinjiang for Turkey, but the Soviet Union said that Xinjiang I want! Turkey! I want it too! insisted on not letting go, Chen Nan estimated that looking at this, I am afraid that I will not be able to talk about it for more than half a year.

Jiang Cheng suddenly smiled happily, this feeling is good, the black material of the Soviet Union is another piece not to mention, Jiang Cheng also basically figured out the routine between the four countries, it seems that the Soviet Union and Germany do have the idea of an alliance, but they have no determination to form an alliance, this Bulgaria is indeed pro-German, Turkey is a grass on the wall in history, barely neutral to the end, and this meat has not yet reached the pot, let alone cooked or something, the Soviet Union and Germany are about to quarrel, it seems that the Soviet-German war is still inevitable.

Jiang Cheng opened the second piece of information, but it was a war report, which said that Britain had won a great victory in Africa, and 200,000 Italian troops were beaten all over the ground by the 20,000 British troops who were waiting for work in Egypt, and they were driven all the way to Libya by the British army along the Italian road, because there was also a German army deployed near the oil field in Libya to guard the oil field, Italy hurriedly asked the German army for help, and Germany had mobilized African troops to rush to the border, and it was not known what the war situation was at this time.

German troops in Africa? Jiang Cheng clasped his hands and thought about it, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, we have a force that is also in Africa, this time our troops will not also go into battle, in addition, the second young master of the Jiang family is also in Africa, this is interesting, I don't know what the current African battlefield looks like."

The night in China, the day in Africa, the African battlefield at this time was like a dream for the British, and the British finally ushered in a long-awaited victory, defeating the 200,000 menacing Italian army with less than 500 killed and 1,500 wounded, such a battle loss ratio is enough to make this battle go down in history. And the Italian commander Guerra . Xenia still hasn't quite figured out how she lost.

In fact, it is no wonder that he couldn't understand that the British commander on the opposite side was actually frightened himself, he used countless balloon tanks and aircraft models to arrange suspicious soldiers, and then let the sappers create fake road and tank track tracks, all the way to the south of Sidney Lani near the Italian army.

The Arabs, with herds of camels and horses, were also allowed to move in the desert with rake-type devices in tow, kicking up clouds of dust from the air, which looked like huge columns of tanks in motion.

This illusion completely made Xenia confused, he firmly believed that there was an extremely powerful British reinforcement on his right flank, and immediately frightened his troops to stand still, defending on the spot, and when the British troops moved to his flank and began to attack, he was preconceived that it was the British reinforcements who arrived, and immediately retreated, but the British were depressed to find that they had captured more weapons than they had, and even had a debate about whether to use Italian weapons or British weapons, because at this time, It may be more cost-effective to use captured weapons to feed the war.

Xenia retreated all the way to Tobruk, the main port city in the northwest of Libya, and hurriedly gathered the remnants of the defeated army to defend the place, and at the same time reported to the country and the German army not far away for help as soon as possible.

The first to come to the rescue was not the German army, but the French navy, since the last British naval raid on the French navy, the Vichy French navy has completely formed a feud with the British navy, that is called a meeting on the pinch, look at the German army next to it is stunned, straight out of the Napoleonic period of the two countries to the taste of the two countries, and the French army is much worse in comparison, the British combat enthusiasm is not high, this no, just got the Italian distress, said that the British fleet is afraid of the British fleet to copy the back road, The French navy that had cruised to Algeria immediately rushed to Tobruk with full firepower, and just had an encounter with the British navy that had transported two or three thousand people and wanted to carry out a surprise attack.

This retreat of the British Navy relieved the Italian army, and the problem of flanking on both sides was finally solved, but it was solved at sea, and on land, until now, Xenia thought that it was an extremely powerful British army unit that was chasing him.

In the headquarters, phone calls came in and out, and Xenia was full of bitterness, the British army had already crossed the border and was about to reach Campot, which was less than a hundred miles from Tobruk, and his troops had not yet set up defensive positions.

"Click" A unique sound of the track came, Xenia raised his head and looked outside, only to see a German tank parked outside the headquarters, Xenia suddenly overjoyed, "Reinforcements have arrived!" ”

There was a knock on the door, and an Italian officer said with a happy face, "Report to the general, the German general Rommel has arrived." ”

As he spoke, Rommel, who had resolute eyes, walked in and saluted Zinia, "General Zenia, I have come to preside over the front-line war in the name of my FΓΌhrer Hitler, and this is the order of the leader of your country. ”

"What?" Xenia was taken aback, took the order and looked at it, but it was his own dismissal order, Xenia had actually guessed that he had fought such a big defeat, it was impossible not to take responsibility, but he didn't expect that the dawn of victory had just arrived, and he was leaving, which was not reconciled!

Xenia's eyes rolled sharply, and he said to Rommel, "General Rommel, I hope you can send a message to my leader with me, now is the critical moment of the war, after all, I am familiar with the situation of the enemy and me, please allow me to act as your deputy and fight for the glory of Italy until the last moment!" ”

Rommel looked at Xenia, he thought to himself, this is also true, Xenia is old enough in the Italian army anyway, and the use of people is not good, now Xenia has made such a big mistake, he will definitely actively cooperate with his own deployment to fight, which is much better than transferring a random person.

Rommel smiled and said, "Good! I'm willing to help you with this, Caesar of the Roman Empire was also defeated in the past, let alone us, but time is urgent, please deploy a few of my orders immediately. ”

Xenia gave up his seat and let Rommel sit down, Rommel pointed to the map on the table and said, "I have asked your soldiers on the way here, they have not encountered many enemy troops in this retreat, I seriously suspect that your intelligence is wrong, the number of enemies is probably not the few armored divisions you reported, and through my calculations, Britain only had more than 30,000 people in Egypt at the beginning, and British Churchill in order to protect the homeland, that is to constantly mobilize British troops from all over the world to retreat to the British Isles, so I judge, I'm afraid that the real veterans in Egypt are less than 20,000 people, and more of them are a group of recruits who have just picked up guns, and these recruits, if you don't count the weapons you gave them, I'm afraid they won't exceed 10,000! ”

Xenia suddenly said urgently: "This is impossible! Our Air Force took a lot of pictures of the British army, which were all tanks and other mechanical units! ”

Rommel smiled and said, "General Xenia, if you have time, you should take a look at the war history of other countries, in distant China there is an idiom called the strategy of suspicious soldiers, infantry they may be secretly transferred from other places, how can mechanized troops be smuggled?" I'm afraid they were all wooden tanks, I ask you, have you encountered a large number of enemy mechanized troops chasing you along the way to retreat? ”

Xenia shook her head and said, "Not really. ”

Rommel snorted, "In the past when the French campaign was in place, in order to pursue the retreating Anglo-French army, Guderian's mechanized troops were always in pursuit, and the British suffered such a big loss in Dunkirk, wouldn't they have a long memory?" Won't follow suit? The only reason they don't do it is that they can't! They don't have so many tanks and armored vehicles in their hands! ”

When Xenia heard it, it wasn't it, and he slapped his thigh angrily and scolded, "I'm fooled!" ”

Rommel shook his head and said, "Don't be afraid, it's good to be fooled, now the British still think we don't know, our navy is victorious, but the navy can't come to the shore, so the British army will not stop his attack, I am in a hurry this time, I only brought a tank training regiment, a reconnaissance battalion and a combat defense artillery battalion, how many troops can you prepare for field combat in 10 hours?" ”

"Fighting in the field?" Xenia hurriedly said, "I said, General Rommel, since there are not many British troops, we just have to defend to the death, this is too risky to fight a field battle, right?" ”

Rommel smiled and said, "Don't worry, everything is under my command, you say, how many?" ”

Xenia thought for a while and said, "Now that all the departments have been dispersed, there are probably less than two regiments that can gather to fight in the field now, and they are all my guards regiments, so the combat effectiveness can still be guaranteed." ”

Rommel narrowed his eyes and said, "This will not work, the morale of our troops is too low, so it is now three o'clock in the afternoon, we will set off immediately, my troops will be the main attack, your two guards regiments will be feints, and you will let all the troops just attack in the direction of Egypt after dark, until they are assembled in Salum!" ”

Xenia hurriedly said, "Wait, General Rommel, are you wrong?" This Selum is in the hands of the British. ”

Rommel smiled and said, "That's right, tomorrow, it's ours, besides, all your air forces are under our command, and our air forces will cover our attack." ”

Thanks to the development of Libya's oil fields and Jiang Cheng's request for Germany to help him train his troops, Germany and Italy built a number of military bases in the central part of Libya's oil fields, and naturally there were air bases, which enabled Rommel's rapid counterattack plan to be realized.

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"Roger! Hurry up! It's time to go! Jiang Weiguo looked at Roger who was lifting his pants next to him and waved his hand.

"I'm coming! I said what are you in a hurry, Jiang Dashao! This person has three urgency, is there nothing to do, the order has come down? How to go? Roger said as he belted his belt.

Jiang Weiguo pointed to the east and said, "Follow the big army, the general said, this time there will be a surprise attack, so you have to hide first, don't you see that the brothers have installed camouflage nets on the tanks, let's go!" ”

Roger climbed into the tank neatly, sat down with Jiang Weiguo and said, "I said, Jiang Dashao, this time we are really going to fight, not a family, if you are injured with fine skin and tender meat, your family must not cry to death, and your distant relatives of the chairman of the committee may write it in a diary to pay tribute to you." ”

"Bah, what's not to say, say this!" Jiang Weiguo rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "But our group is really interesting, all Chinese, we are probably the only ones in such a group." ”

In order to hide people's eyes, all the people who were trained in Germany were given the identity of a German overseas Chinese or overseas Chinese from other countries by Jiang Cheng, of course, they were also required to learn foreign languages quickly, in fact, people are really forced out, under the death order, even the slowest person, it took half a year to become proficient in German or English, French and the like, as for writing.... Can't write is common in Europe, it's not a problem at all, Jiang Weiguo and Roger met in 1939, they studied at a military school together, and went to a tank class together, and then Jiang Weiguo was promoted to platoon commander, Roger is the deputy platoon commander, and he has always been focused on Meng, Meng is not out of focus, in the French campaign, Jiang Weiguo was sick, and it was Roger who took his platoon to the battlefield, this incident made Roger not laugh at Jiang Weiguo, after the war, Roger became a company commander, Jiang Weiguo became a deputy company commander, and was transferred to Africa, Because of Roger's preconceived impression, Jiang Weiguo felt that it was not a big deal to see overseas Chinese in the German army, of course, he was still a little surprised when he saw the troops composed of all Chinese, but this is actually a common thing in European armies, and European armies often train troops according to race, which is also to facilitate command.

All in all, Jiang Weiguo has come to this day unaware of a group of secret soldiers of the Red Party. (To be continued.) )